A | B |
Monroe Doctrine | declared that North and South America were off limits to future colonization by any foreign power |
Missouri Compromise | agreement in which Missouri would enter the Union as a slave state while Maine joined as a free state |
American System | The plan for using high tariffs to pay for internal improvements |
tariff | tax on imported goods |
John Quincy Adams | won the presidential election of 1824 |
Andrew Jackson | won the most popular votes in the election of 1824. |
Old Hickory | nickname for Andrew Jackson implying that he was tough |
John C. Calhoun | vice-president who resigned under Jackson |
spoils system | a practice where supporters are rewarded with governmental jobs |
Democratic Party | party started by Andrew Jackson |
John C. Calhoun | strong supporter of states rights |
kitchen cabinet | informal group of trusted advisors to President Jackson |
kitchen cabinet | informal group of trusted advisors to President Jackson |
states rights | belief that state power should be greater than federal power. |
nullification | idea that staes had the right to disobey federal laws |
Panic of 1837 | financial crisis that occurec shortly after Van Buren took office which led to a servere economic depression |
House of Representatives | finally decided the election of 1824 |
farmers and workers | people who supported Jackson in the election of 1824 |
South Carolina | threatened to secede from union over high tariffs |
nullify | to declare a law not in force or to cancel |
Monroe Doctrine | official document that said the U.S. would stay out of European affairs out of |
Martin Van Buren | became vice-president under Jackson after Calhoun resigned |
Andrew Jackson | started the Democratic party |
Tippicanoe and Tyler too | slogan for the election of 1840 |
Indian Removal Act | said Native Americans had to move west of the Mississipi River |
only states had rights to charter banks | reason why Jackson said that the Bank of U.S. was unconstitutional |
People stood behind Jackson's veto of the bank | what election of 1832 showed |