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| favorite son | a candidate for national office who has support mostly from his home state |
| plurality | the largest number of something but less than a majority |
| majority | greater than half of a total number of something |
| mudslinging | a method in election campaigns that uses gossip and lies to make an opponent look bad |
| bureaucracy | a system of government in which specialized tasks are carried out by government officials rather than by elected ones |
| spoils system | practice of handing out government jobs to supporters; replacing government employees with the winning candidate's supporters |
| nominating convention | a meeting in which representative members of a political party choose candidates to run for important elected offices |
| relocate | move to another place |
| veto | to reject a bill and stop it from becoming law |
| nullification | a state could nullify, or declare legally invalid, a federal act within the state's boundaries |
| depression | when a country is dealing with a serious financial downfall, or economic downturn |
| states' rights | the rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government |
| monopoly | complete control over a service or product within a given area |
| national bank | a bank or system of banks owned and operated by a government |
| panic | a financial crisis that causes people to lose confidence in the economy |
| banknote | paper money |
| tariff | a tax on imported goods |
| Trail of Tears | the forced relocation during the 1830s of Indigenous peoples of the Southeast region of the United States |
| factory | a building or group of buildings where goods are manufactured or assembled |
| Whig Party | Alongside the slightly larger Democratic Party, it was one of the two major parties in the United States between the late 1830s and the early 1850s |
| slogan | a short and striking or memorable phrase used in advertising |
| Indian Removal Act | The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was signed into law on May 28, 1830, by United States President Andrew Jackson. The law, as described by Congress, provided "for an exchange of lands with the Indians residing in any of the states or territories, and for their removal west of the river Mississippi" |
| Black Seminole | a group of free blacks and runaway enslaved people who joined forces with the Seminole Indians in Florida |
| charter | a written grant by a country's legislative or sovereign power, by which a body such as a company, college, or city is founded and its rights and privileges defined |
| intrastate | existing or occurring within a state |
| Worcester v. Georgia | Supreme Court ruling that held that the Georgia criminal statute that prohibited non-Native Americans from being present on Native American lands without a license from the state was unconstitutional |
| First Seminole War | conflict between U.S. armed forces and the Seminole Indians of Florida that is generally dated to 1817–18 and that led Spain to cede Florida to the United States |
| indigenous | inhabiting or existing in a land from the earliest times or from before the arrival of colonists. "she wants |
