| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Nolification Crisis | The dispute between states and government where states had the right to cancel and unpopular tariff. Jackson was against Nolification. Congress lowered tariffs over the years. |
| Tariff of Abomination | Tariff with very high rates on goods imported from other countries. Northerners wanted tariff to promote own industry-Southerners had no protection. |
| Indian Removal Act | Relocating Indians in Southeast to Indian reservation in Oklahoma. |
| Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek | Gave 1.5 million acres of land to Mississippi. |
| Second Great Awakening | The newest interest in religion that spread to N.England to the Appalation and to the South-meetings where woman and African Americans converted to Christianity-Charles Finney became leader of 2nd Great Awakening. |
| Nat Turner | Slave from VA that led group of slaves to kill their slaves holders abd familes. Turner caught and executed on Nov.11, 1831. Slave states stricker control on slave population. |
| William Lyod Garrison | Started publishing the abolionist newspaper, "The Liberator". Helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society called for immediate emmancipation and racial equallity for African Americans. |
| General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna | President of Mexico. |
| Opponets of Jackson. | Whig party. |
| Cumberland Rd. | Road extened from VA to OH. |
| Texas Revolution | Texas forms a temporary government. |
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