| A | B |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| caucus | a closed, political meeting |
| nominating convention | a meeting where delegates from each state cast their votes for political/Presidential candidates |
| King Caucus | a caucus where only political party leaders met to nominate their Presidential candidate |
| Corrupt Bargain | an accusation that John Quincy Adams made a deal with Henry Clay to get the votes needed in the House of Represenatives to become President and in Return Henry Clay would become Secretary of State |
| spoils system | practice of dismissing government job holders affiliated with a defeated party and replacing them with supporters of the winning party |
| ktichen cabinet | a group of personal advisers to President Andrew Jackson |
| pet bank | a state bank where Jackson had Roger Taney (the Secretary of Treasury) put the governements money |
| Bank of the United States | The bank that was in charge of the national governments money durring Jacksons Presidency |
| tariff | a tax on imported goods |
| sovereign | to become independent |
| states' rights | the belief that an individual state may restrict or limit federal laws |
| nullification | the rights of states to declare a federal law illegal |
| secede | to withdraw from a country or large political body |
| Trail of Tears | a long journey made by the Cherokee to present-day Arkansas and Oklahoma after being forced from their land |
| Tariff of Abomination | A tariff that was placed on foreign imports that was hated by the southern states because it made it more exspensive to buy goods from England |
| Nullification Act | a move by South Carolina to threaten to leave the United States, if they could not nullify the Tariff of Abominations |
| Indian Removal Act of 1830 | An act by congress, which provided funds to remove Native Americans from the eastern United States |
| Cherokee Phoenix | a newspaper in english published by the Cherokee Indian nation |
| specie | money in the form of gold and silver |
| Specie Circular | an act that required any land must be purchased with gold or silver |
| Panic of 1837 | an event where many banks closed and went out of business, and people who had money in the banks lost it |