| A | B |
|---|
| majority | more than half |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| caucus | private meeting where party leaders nominate candidates |
| nominating convention | place where delegates meet from all states to chose the party's candidates |
| John Quincy Adams | winner of the presidential election of 1824 |
| corrupt bargain | phrase used by Andrew Jackson's supporters to refer to the election of 1824 |
| House of Representatives | part of Congress who chose the president in 1824 |
| Henry Clay | man who became Sec. of State in return for getting his supporters to vote for John Q, Adams for president |
| Whig Party | new political party formed in 1830s to oppose Andrew Jackson |
| Democratic Party | party led by Andrew Jackson |
| Alexis de Tocqueville | French visitor to America in 1830s who commented on America |
| "Reign of King Mob" | refers to the presidency of Andrew Jackson |
| Old Hickory | nickname for Andrew Jackson |
| Spoils system | idea of giving jobs and other benefits to supporters |
| Kitchen Cabinet | informal advisors of Andrew Jackson |
| Nicholas Biddle | president of the National Bank during Jackson's presidency |
| Andrew Jackson | president to abolished the National Bank |
| Pet banks | state banks into which U.S. money was deposited after the National Bank was ended |
| nullification | the right to cancel a federal law |
| states' rights | teh right of states to limit the power of the federal government |
| Tariff of Abominations | high tariff passed in 1828 |
| secede | to withdraw from |
| South Carolina | state that nullifed the Tariff of 1828 |
| Trail of Tears | path of forced movement by Indians from the Southeast U.S. |
| John Calhoun | Jackson's Vice-President who resigned over the tariff issue in 1828 |
| Sequoyah | Cherokee leader who created a written alphabet |
| John Marshall | chief justice of Supreme Court in early 1800s |
| Indian Removal Act | Congressional law that forced Indians to move west from the Southeast |
| Osceola | Seminole Indian chief who led his people in war against the U.S. government |
| South Carolina | state that John Calhoun was from |
| speculator | people who are willing to take a risky venture in hopes of making a profit |
| depression | period when business declines and many people lose their jobs |
| laissez faire | the idea that government should play as small a role as possible in the nation's economic affairs |
| William H. Harrison | president who was elected in 1840 |
| mudslinging | the use of insults to attack an opponent's reputation |
| John Tyler | man who became president after William H. Harrison died in office |
| Martin Van Buren | Democratic candidate for president who lost in 1840 |
| Panic of 1837 | economic depression that occured while Van Buren was president |
| Seminoles | Indian tribe who lived in north Florida who lost in war vs. U.S. government in 1840s |
| Cherokees | Indian tribe in north Georgia and North Carolina who had a constitution and a written language |
