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9 Cards in this Set
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Henry Clay |
known for his efforts to keep the United States one nation despite sharp controversy among Americans over slavery |
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American System |
the policy of promoting industry in the U.S. by adoption of a high protective tariff and of developing internal improvements by the federal government |
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John C. Calhoun |
The leading southern politician of the early nineteenth century; he served as vice president under both John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson |
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Missouri Compromise |
A settlement of a dispute between slave and free states, contained in several laws passed during 1820 and 1821. Northern legislators had tried to prohibit slavery in Missouri, which was then applying for statehood |
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Andrew Jackson |
An American statesman who served as the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837 |
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John Quincy Adams |
An American statesman who served as the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829. He also served as a diplomat, a Senator and member of the House of Representatives |
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Jacksonian Democracy |
The political movement during the Second Party System toward greater democracy for the common man symbolized by American politician Andrew Jackson and his supporters |
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Trail of Tears |
The route along which the United States government forced several tribes of Native Americans, including the Cherokees, Seminoles, Chickasaws, Choctaws, and Creeks, to migrate to reservations west of the Mississippi River |
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John Tyler |
The tenth President of the United States (1841–45). He was also, briefly, the tenth vice president (1841), elected to that office on the 1840 Whig ticket with William Henry Harrison. |
