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Unit 5 Vocabulary

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Andrew Jackson
President who made the common man more involved in politics
Spoils System
Giving government jobs for political support
Alexis de Tocqueville
Wrote "Democracy in America"
Nullification Crisis
South Carolina threatened to leave the union over a tariff they hated, said union was nullified
Secession
Leaving a union
Webster-Hayne Debates
Senators debated the issue of nullification in Congress
Force Bill
Authorized the president to use the military to enforce laws
Indian Removal Act
Authorized the relocation of natives to the Great Plains
Worchester v. Georgia
Cherokee sewed to stay on their Georgian land, and the SCOTUS sided with them
The "Bank War"
Jackson "killed" the BUS by taking money from it and giving it to state banks
Nativism
Feeling hostility towards immigrants
Know-Nothing Party
An anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic party
Second Great Awakening
Religious revival that emphasized PERSONAL salvation through an INDIVIDUAL'S relationship with God
Joseph Smith
The founder of the Mormon church who claimed that God told HIM to restore the true church
Brigham Young
Took over after Smith was killed by a mob
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