| A | B |
|---|
| sectionalism | growing loyalty to ones region of the country rather than to the whole country |
| Henry Clay | Western congressional leader who favored tariffs |
| Daniel Webster | Northern congressional leader who favored tariffs |
| John C. Calhoun | Southern congressional leader who opposed tariffs; eventually became Jackson's vice president |
| John Quincy Adams | Elected president in 1824; accused of making a "corrupt bargain" with Henry Clay to win election |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| kitchen cabinet | informal group of advisors to Andrew Jackson |
| secede | to withdraw |
| states' rights | idea that individual states can limit the power of the federal government |
| Spoils System | appointing political supporters jobs |
| caucus | private meeting of political party leaders to choose a candidate |
| Whigs | political supporters of John Quincy Adams who included eastern busnessmen and southern planters |
| Democrats | supporters of Andrew Jackson who included poor western farmers and eastern factory workers |
| nominating convention | meeting where political party members select their candidate for president |
| nullification | the belief that a state can declare a federal law unconstitutional |
| Nullification Crisis | South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if their efforts to nullify the Tariff of Abominations was challenged |
| Tariff of Abominations | 1828 tax on imported goods |
| Trail of Tears | forced march of Native Americans to lands in the West |
| Panic of 1837 | economic depression caused by state banks printing too much money and land speculation |
| Indian Removal Act | law that forced Native Americans to move west |
| Seminole War | conflict between Native Americans in Florida and the government of the U.S. |
| Andrew Jackson | nicknamed "Old Hickory"; elected president in 1828 |
| John Tyler | disagreed with his political party on many issues and was later thrown out |
| Martin Van Buren | President during the Panic of 1837; did little to ease its impact because he believed that the government should not interfere with business |
| John Marshall | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who ruled that Georgia did not have the right to take Native American land |
| William Henry Harrison | easily won the election of 1840; died a few weeks after taking office as President |
