Ch. 7:4 States' Rights & the National Bank
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sroper_teacher on February 21, 2009
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Daniel Webster | lawyer, congressman, Nationalist, known as a great speaker |
| John C. Calhoun | secretary of state for Monroe; vice president for John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson; wrote a theory of nullification, Sectionalist |
| Tariff of Abominations | John C. Calhoun's name for an 1828 tariff increase that seemed to Southerners to be enriching the North at their expense |
| Bank of the United States | either of the two national banks, funded by the federal government and private investors, established by Congress, the first in 1791 and the second in 1816 |
| Whig Party | the political party formed in 1834 to oppose the policies of Andrew Jackson |
| Martin van Buren | 8th president of the US; inherited problems of the national banking system; created an independent treasury using only gold and silver |
| panic of 1873 | a series of financial failures that triggered a five year depression in the US |
| William Henry Harrison | Whig party candidate, 9th President; died after a month after inauguration |
| John Tyler | became 10th President after Harrison's death; didn't support many of the Whig party's policies; referred to as "his accidency" |
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