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20 Cards in this Set
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nominating convention |
party members choose the party's candidates |
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Jacksonian Democracy |
increase of voting rights by lowering property requirements |
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spoils system |
the practice of giving government jobs to political backers |
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Martin Van Buren |
Jackson's strongest allies in his official cabinet |
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Kitchen Cabinet |
an informational group of trusted advisers who sometimes met in the White House Kitchen |
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Tariff of Abomination |
Congress placed a high tariffs on imports, causing angry southerners to call it--- |
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nullification crisis |
conflict between the supporters and the opponents of nullification deepened |
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Daniel Webster |
argued that the US was one nation, not a pact among independent states |
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McCulloch vs Maryland |
the court ruled that the national bank was constitutional |
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Whig Party |
favored the idea of a weak president and a strong congress |
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Panic of 1837 |
a severe economic depression |
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William Henry Harrison |
an army general |
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Indian Removal Act |
1830- authorizing the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the M. river to lands in the west |
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Indian Territory |
US land in what is now Oklahoma where Native Americans were moved to |
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Bureau of Indian Affairs |
to manage Indian removal to western lands, Congress approved the creation of a new government agency |
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Sequoya |
a Cherokee Indian who used 86 characters to represent Cherokee syllables to create a writing system for their own complex language |
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Worcester vs Georgia |
the Court ruled that the Cherokee nation was a distinct community in which the laws of Georgia had no force |
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Trail of Tears |
Cherokee's 800 mile forced march |
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Black Hawk |
leader of Fox and Souk Indians, who decided to fight to stay in Illinois |
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Osceola |
called his followers to resist with force, and the second Seminole War began |
