| A | B |
|---|
| John Quincy Adams | sixth president of the United States |
| Andrew Jackson | military hero and seventh president |
| Jacksonian democracy | a political philosophy that puts faith in the common people |
| spoils system | the practice of giving government jobs to political supporters. |
| Sequoya | A Cherokee who invented a writing system for the Cherokee Nation |
| Indian Removal Act | Law thatrequired Native Americans to move west |
| Indian Territory | area that is now Oklahoma and parts of Kansas and Nebraska to which Native Americans were moved |
| Trail of Tears | the route the Cherokees were forced to travel from Georgia to Indian territory |
| Osceola | a Seminole who was an important leader in Florida's Second Seminole War |
| Tariff of Abominations | the hated tariff of 1828 |
| John C.Calhoun | Vice-president and congressional leader from South Carolina |
| doctrine of nullification | the belief that states could ignore federal laws that they did not like |
| Daniel Webster | a Senate leader from Massachusetts |
| secession | withdrawal from the Union |
| inflation | an increase in prices and a decrease in the value of the money |
| Martin Van Buren | eighth president during bad economic times called the Panic of 1837 |
| Whig Party | party formed by opponents of President Jackson |
| William Henry Harrison | ninth president whose term of office lasted only one month |
| John Tyler | tenth president |
