A | B |
bonds | paper notes promising to repay money after a certain length of time with interest |
enumerated powers | powers specifically mentioned in the Constitution |
implied powers | powers not explicitly listed in the Constitution but are necessary for the government to do its job |
judicial review | power to decide whether laws passed by Congress were constitutional |
nationalism | feelings of strong patriotism |
John Marshall | Chief Justice of Supreme Court that made rulings in support of federal government over state governments |
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') |
Monroe Doctrine | US foreign policy that US would not interfere in European affairs and European countries would not interfere in the Western Hemisphere |
Corrupt bargain | Andrew Jackson's supporters claimed Adams and Clay came to an agreement in order to win the Presidency |
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 |
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 |
impressments | British practice of taking American sailors off of American ships caliming they were British deserters-legal kidnapping |