| A | B |
|---|
| Trail of Tears | long tortous path that the Cherokee |
| Indian Removal Act | policy created by Andrew Jackson that stated that all Native Americans had to move west of the Mississippi River |
| Andrew Jackson | Champion of the common man who defeaed Adams to become president t |
| John Quincy Adams | Man who cut a deal to become president |
| Seccession | idea that a state could leave the Union |
| John C Calhoun | The Vice President to Jackson who proposed the doctrine of Nullification |
| Doctrine of Nullification | idea that a state does not have to follow a federal law |
| Spoils System | system of giving political jobs to friends of a winning candidate |
| Tariff of Abominations | steep tax that outraged Southerners |
| Jacksonian Democracy | principle that calls for the government to be ran by all the people and majority rule |
| Panic of 1837 | economic event in which hundreds of thousands of people died and businesses closed |
| Nicholas Biddle | President of the 2nd National Bank |
| Gold and Land | Two reasons why the United States wanted to move the Native Americans off their land |
| Osceola | Seminole chief who led his tribe in battle against the US |
| Cherokee | Indian Tribe who moved from Georgia to the Indian Territory |
| Sequoya | Cherokee chief who invented a writing system |
| Indian Territory | area that the Cherokee were moved to because of the Indian Removal Act |
| Martin Van Buren | Democrat who replaced Jackson as the President |
| Henry Clay | Senator who was known for cutting deals and lost to Jackson |
