| A | B |
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| revenue tarriffs | provided income for the federal government |
| protective tariff | taxing imports to drive up their prices to protect American manufacturers |
| Era of Good Feelings | time after the War of 1812 & the Monroe presidency |
| John Marshall | Chief Justice of Supreme Court that made rulings in support of federal government over state governments |
| John C. Calhoun | introduced bill for 2nd Bank of US & Vice Pres. under Jackson during his 1st term |
| Kinache | Seminole leader that warned US general to stay out of Florida |
| Adams-Onis Treaty | treaty where US bought Florida from Spain for $5 million |
| Quadruple Alliance | formed to suppress movements against monarchies in Europe |
| favorite sons | men who enjoyed the support of leaders from their own state and region |
| mudslinging | candidates criticized each other's personalities and morals |
| Missouri Compromise | passed in 1820-pairing the admission of free and slave states together to quiet the dispute over the expansion of slavery(slavery prohibited north of latitude 36 degrees 30') |
| Henry Clay | Western politician(Kentucky) who came up with the economic plan-American System & managed the Missouri Compromise |
| William Crawford | Southern candidate(Georgia) in the election of 1824 who dropped out of the election |
| American System | Theory of having high protective tariffs and federally funded internal improvements to tie the country together |
| Democratic-Republicans | Political party founded by Andrew Jackson |
| spoils system | system of rewarding political supporters with government jobs |
| caucus system | members of a political party meet to choose their party's candidate for president or decide policy |
| secede | to leave or withdrawel membership from the Union |
| nullification | states had the right to declare a federal law invalid |
| Tariff of Abominations | Congress levied this new tariff on goods bought from England |
| John C. Calhoun | vice-president of US & resident of South Carolina |
| Daniel Webster | Senator from Massachusetts that debated his disagreement with nullification with Robert Hayne |
| Force Bill | authorizes the president to use the military to enforce acts of Congress |
| Indian Removal Act | provided money for relocating Native Americans and forced the Cherokee tribe to relocate to Oklahoma |
| Trail of Tears | Cherokee removed from their homes and forced to march to Oklahoma |
| Panic of 1837 | Shortly after Van Buren took office, many banks & businesses failed, thousands of farmers lost their land, and unemployment soared among eastern factory workers |
| gradualism | belief that slavery had to be ended gradually |
| abolition | the movement to end slavery in the United States immediately |
| emancipation | freeing of all enslaved people |
| American Antislavery Society | founded in 1833 and believed slavery was immoral and slaveholders were evil |
| Frederick Douglass | escaped slave who became educated & an abolitionist-wrote his "autobiography" giving a firsthand account of slavery |
| William Lloyd Garrison | an abolitionist & began American Antislavery Society in 1830's |
| American Antislavery Society | founded in 1833 and believed slavery was immoral and slaveholders were evil |
| Corrupt bargain | Andrew Jackson's supporters claimed Adams and Clay came to an agreement in order to win the Presidency |
| Monroe Doctrine | US foreign policy that US would not interfere in European affairs and European countries would not interfere in the Western Hemisphere |
| Nat Turner | enslaved minister that lead his followers to attack & kill white Southerners to free slaves, convicted & hanged |
| Frederick Douglass | escaped slave who became educated and spoke to groups advocating to do away with slavery |
| Webster-Ashburton Treaty | established a firm boundary between USA and Canada from Maine to Minnesota |
| national nominating convention | delegates from the states gathered to decide on the party's presidential nominee |
| David Walker | free African American who advocated violence and rebellion as the only way to end slavery |
| Liberator | abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison |
