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| nominating conventions | a meeting at which a political party selects its presidential and vice presidential candidate; first held in the1820s |
| Jacksonian Democracy | an expansion of voting rights during the popular Andrew Jackson administration |
| Democratic Party | a political party formed by supporters of Andrew Jackson after the presidential election of 1824 |
| John C.Calhoum | vice presidential running mate |
| spoils system | a politician's practice of giving government jobs to his or her suporters |
| Martin Van Buren | Secretary of State |
| Kitchen Cabinet | President Andrew Jackson's group of informal advisers so called because they often met in the White House kitchen |
| Tariff of Abominations | (1828)the nickname given to a tariff by southerness who opposed it |
| state's rights doctrine | the believe that the power of the states should be greater than the power of the federal government |
| nullification crisis | a dispute led by John C.Calhoum that said that state could ignore federal laws if they believed those laws violated the Constitution |
| Daniel Webster | of Massachusetts |
| McCulloch v.Maryland | went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court |
| Whig Party | a political party formed in 1834 by opponents of Andrew Jackson and who supported a strong legislature |
| Panic of 1837 | a financial crisis in the United States led to an economic depression |
| William Henry Harrison | an army general |
| Indian Removal Act | (1830) a congressional act that authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River |
| Indian Territory | an area covering most of present-day Oklahoma to which most Native Americans in the Southeast were forced to move in the 1830s |
| Bureau of Indian Affairs | a government agency created in the 1800s to oversee federal policy toward Native Americans |
| Sequoya | to avoid removal by adopting the contemporary culture |
| Worcester v.Georgia | the laws of Georgia had no force |
| Trail of Tears | (1838-39)an 800-mile forced march made by the Cherokee from their homeland in Georgia to Indian Territory;resulted in the deaths of almost one fourth of the Cherokee people |
| Black Hawk | a leader of Fox and Sauk Indians |
| Osceola | a leader call upon his people to resist with force |
