| A | B |
|---|
| John Quincy Adams | 6th pres. |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| Whigs | a political party, suported Adams |
| caucus | private meeting |
| Andrew Jackson | nick name = Old Hickory, 7th president |
| spoils system | practice of rewarding supporters with gov. jobs |
| Tariff of Abominations | name southerners gave the tariff passed in 1828 |
| nullification | idea that a state had the right to cancel a federal law it considerd unconstitutional |
| Seminole War | lasted from 1835 to 1842, over Indian Lands |
| Trail of Tears | cherokee's long sorrowful jorney west |
| Martin Van buren | vice. pres of Jackson, and 8th pres |
| speculators | barrowed money from the state banks |
| laissez faire | idea that the government should play as small of a role as possible in the nation's economic affairs |
| William Henery Harrison | 9th pres. hero of the battle of Tippecano |
| mudslinging | use of insults to attack an oppont's reputation |
| John Tyler | first vice pres. to succeed a president who died in office |
