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| Nominating Conventions | a meeting at which a political party selects its presidential and vice presidential candidate; first held in the 1820s |
| Jacksonian democracy | An expansion of voting rights during the popular Andrew Jackson administration. |
| Democratic Party | A political party formed by supporters of Andrew Jackson after the presidential election of 1824 |
| spoils system | A politicians’ practice of giving government jobs to his or her supporters |
| Kitchen Cabinet | President Andrew Jackson’s group of informal advisers; so called because they often met in the White House kitchen |
| Tariff of Abominations | The nickname given to a tariff by southerners who opposed it. |
| State’s rights doctrine | The belief that the power of the states should be greater than the power of the federal government |
| Nullification crisis | A dispute led by John C. Callhoun that said that states could ignore federal laws if they believed those laws violated the Constitution |
| McCulloch v. Maryland | U.S. Supreme Court case that declared the Second Bank of the United States was unconstitutional and that Maryland could not interfere with it. |
| Whig Party | A political party formed in 1834 by opponents of Andrew Jackson and who supported a strong legislature |
| Panic of 1837 | A financial crisis in the United States that led to an economic depression. |
| Indian Removal Act | A congressional act that authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River |
| Indian Territory | An area covering most of present-day Oklahoma to which most Native Americans in the Southeast were forced to move in the 1830s |
| Bureau of Indian Affairs | A government agency created in the 1800s to oversee federal policy toward Native Americans |
| Worcester v. Georgia | The Supreme Court ruling that stated that the Cherokee nation was a distinct territory over which only the federal government had authority; ignored by both President Andrew Jackson and the state of Georgia |
| Trails of Tears | An 800-mile forced march made by the Cherokee from their homeland in Georgia to Indian territory; resulted in the deaths of almost one-fourth of the Cherokee people. |
