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Vocabulary
Vocabulary 2
Indian Removal Act
Elections
Misc.
100
fee paid by merchants who imported goods
What is a tariff?
100
attempt to ruin an oponent's reputation with insults
What is mudslinging?
100
Land set aside for Native Americans to live on
What is reservations?
100
Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, and John Quincy Adams
What is favorite sons?
100
William Harrison was (Political Party)
What is a whig?
200
to win an election by a large margin
What is a landslide?
200
right to vote
What is suffrage?
200
long, forced march of Cherokee from their homes to the west
What is Trail of Tears?
200
House of Representatives selected him as president in 1824
Who is John Quincy Adams?
200
John Quincy Adams was (political party)
What is National Republican?
300
surprise attacks and then retreat
What is guerilla tactics?
300
system in which nonelected officials carry out laws
What is bureaucracy?
300
only Native Americans who successfully resisted removal
What is Seminole?
300
Group that favored states' rights and limited central government
What is Democratic-Republicans/Democrats?
300
Andrew Jackson was (political party)
What is a Democrat?
400
Practice of replacing government employees with the winning candidate's supporters
What is spoils system?
400
period in which business and employment fall to a very low level
What is depression?
400
This authorized federal government to pay Native Americans to move west
What is Indian Removal Act?
400
made between Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams in order to defeat Jackson for the presidency
What is a corrupt bargain?
400
party favored a strong military and federal government direction of the economy
What is National Republicans?
500
Law that allowed South Carolina to declare tariffs illegal
What is Nullification Act?
500
belief that government should interfere as little as possible in the nation's economy
What is laissez-faire?
500
he led attacks by the Seminoles on U.S. forts
Who is Osceola?
500
party that believed states had the power to decide if federal laws were constitutional
What is Democrats?
500
President of the Bank of the United States
Who is Nicholas Biddle?