Vocab for Chapter 9
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 nominating conventions | when party members choose the partys candidates |
| jackson democracy | the increase of voting rights by lowering property requirements |
| democratic party | a party of Jackson supporters |
| spoils system | the practice of giving government jobs to political backers |
| Kitchen Cabinet | an informal group of trusted advisors who sometimes met in the White House Kitchen |
| Tariff off ambitions | Congress placed a high teriff on imports, causing angry southerners |
| states' rights doctrine | state power should be greater than federal power |
| nullification crisis | a conflict between the supporters and the opponents of nullification deppened |
| McCulloch vs. Maryland | ruled that the national bank is unconstitutional |
| Whig Party | favored the idea of a weak president and a strong congress |
| Panic of 1837 | a severe economic depression |
| Indian Removal Act | authorization to remove the indians who lived east of the mississippi river to lands west |
| Indian Teretory | U.S. land in what is now Oklahoma where native americans were moved to |
| Bureau of Indian Affairs | to manage indian removal to western lands, congress approved the creation od a new government agency |
| Worcester vs. Georgia | the court ruled that the charokee nation was a district community in which the laws of georga did not inforce |
| Trail of Tears | cherokees 800 mile walk |
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