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Related to agriculture or farming.
Agrian
The practice of rewarding political breakers with government jobs
Spoils System
A law that ended the U.S. government's earlier policy of respecting the rights of Native Americans to remain on their land.
Indian Removal Act
A decrease in the value of money that causes an increase in the price of goods and services.
A doctrine that said a state could nullify, or reject, a federal law they felt was unconstitutional, held by some southern politicians before the CIvil War.
Doctrine of Nullification
The term used by southerners to refer to the Tariff of 1928 because it stirred feelings of disgust and hatred.
Tariff of Abominations
The area of land in present-day Oklahoma and parts of Kansas and Nebraska to which Native Americans were forced to migrate.
Indian Territory
The widespread fear of a failing economy that caused the beginning of a U.S. recession that lasted until 1840.
Panic of 1837
A political movement that celebrated the common man and defended the will of people, named for President Andrew Jackson.
Jacksonian Democracy
The crime of aiding the enemy of one’s nation or plotting to overthrow one’s nation; the act of being disloyal to one’s nation.
Treason
The route the Cherokees and other Native Americans took during their forced migration from the southeast United States to Oklahoma.
Trail of Tears
To formally reject a decision or proposal made by a legislator.
Veto
The act of formally withdrawing from an organization, a nation, or any other group in order to become independent.
The laws that can tell who to vote and when; the civil right to vote.
Voting Rights
An agreement to stop fighting.
Truce
A political part formed to oppose the policies of Andrew Jackson, who the party believed had exceeded his power as president.
Whig Party
A phase meant to attract and keep attention.
Slogan
To adopt a culture or way of life of the nation in which one currently lives’ to become absorbed in a culture of a country.
Assimilate
A period of slow economic activity when many people are without work.
Depression
Colin's Jeopardy