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Vocab/MI
100
more than half
What is majority?
100
an overwhelming victory
What is landslide?
100
to force a person or group of people to move
What is relocate?
100
Where were the Native Americans force to move too? (West of?)
What is Mississippi River?
200
to reject a bill and prevent it from becoming a law
What is veto?
200
a period of low economic activity and widespread unemployment
What is depression?
200
to cancel or make ineffective
What is nullify?
200
What was the 12th Amendment?
What is if a presidential candidate doesn't win the majority of the electoral votes, the House of Representatives elects the president?
300
the right to vote
What is suffrage?
300
referring to surprise attacks or raids rather than organized warfare
What is guerrilla tactics?
300
attempt to ruin an opponent's reputation with insults
What is mudslinging?
300
Describe the significance of President William Harrison and his vice president John Tyler.
What is John Tyler became first vice president to take over as president following the death of Harrison?
400
to leave or withdraw
What is secede?
400
a tax on imports or exports
What is tariff?
400
candidate that receives the backing of his home state rather than of the national party
What is favorite son?
400
system in which delegates from the states selected the party's presidential candidate
What is nominating convention?
500
policy that government should interfere as little as possible in the nation's economy
What is laissez-faire?
500
practice of handing out government jobs to supporters
What is spoils system?
500
system in which nonelected officials carry out laws and policies
What is bureaucracy?
500
meeting held by a political party to choose their party's candidate for president or decide policy
What is caucus?