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| Antebellum Period | time just before Civil War |
| “Cotton Kingdom” | name given to the southern states that grew cotton as their cash crop |
| Slave Codes | a series of laws restricting slave behaviors |
| Sectionalism | an exaggerated devotion to the interest of a region of the U.S. |
| Missouri Compromise | set it up so that Maine joined as a free state and Missouri joined as a slave state. 36,30 parallel free state above, slave state below. |
| Election of 1824/”Corrupt Bargain” | no candidate for President wins the majority of the electoral college, the House led by Speaker Clay throw their support behind John Quincy Adams, later Clay was made Secretary of State. |
| Democratic Party | emerged in stages out of the largely personal following that had elected Andrew Jackson President in 1828 |
| Whig Party | organized in 1834, bringing together a loose coalition of groups united in their opposition to what party members viewed as the executive tyranny of “King Andrew” Jackson. |
| Election of 1828 | a rematch between John Quincy Adams, now incumbent President, and Andrew Jackson. Most states ended property requirement for voting (Universal male suffrage) Jackson wins election |
| Martin Van Buren | 1st President to be born a U.S. citizen. V.P. under Andrew Jackson. Rose to Political prominence in NY politics. |
| Spoils System | the practice of a successful political party giving public office to its supporters. |
| Jacksonian Democracy | movement championed greater rights for the common man and was opposed to any signs of aristocracy in the nation. |
| Indian Removal Act | signed into law on May 28, 1830 by President Andrew Jackson. The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Native American tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for white settlement of their ancestral lands. |
| Trail of Tears | The route along which the United States government forced several tribes of Native Americans, including the Cherokees, Seminoles, Chickasaws, Choctaws, and Creeks, to migrate to reservations west of the Mississippi River |
| Tariff of Abominations | Tariff of 1828 was a protective tariff passed by the Congress of the United States on May 19, 1828, designed to protect industry in the northern United States. It was labeled the Tariff of Abominations by its southern detractors because of the effects it had on the antebellum Southern economy. |
| John C. Calhoun | Former member of the House and Senate. Served as V.P. under John Quincy Adams & Andrew Jackson. Championed Nullification and spokesman for the slave-plantation system of the antebellum South. |
| Nullification | a legal theory that a state has the right to invalidate, any federal law which that state has deemed unconstitutional with respect to the United States Constitution |
| Webster-Hayne Debate | a series of debates on the topic of protectionist tariffs |
| Pet Banks | State banks where Andrew Jackson placed deposits removed from the federal National Bank in an effort to destroy the bank. |
