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  1. 4. Crisis A dispute led by John C. Calhoun that said that states could ignore federal laws if they believed those laws violated the Constitution
  2. 7. Destiny A belief shared by many Americans in the mid- 1800s that the United States should expand across the continent to the Pacific Ocean.
  3. 9. members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  4. 11. Trail a 2,000-mile trail stretching through the Great Plains from western Missouri to the Oregon Territory
  5. 12. F. Austin American colonizer in Texas, he was imprisoned for urging Texas statehood after Santa Anna suspended Mexico's constitution. After helping Texas win independence from Mexico, he became secretary of state for the Texas Republic
  6. 14. of Tears (1838-1839) an 800-mile forced march made by the Cherokee from their homeland in Georgia to Indian Territory; resulted in the death of almost one fourth of the Cherokee people.
  7. 15. to search for gold
Down
  1. 1. Mexican cowboys in the West who tended cattle and horses
  2. 2. v. Maryland (1819) U.S. Supreme Court case that declared the Second Bank of the United States was constitutional and that Maryland could not interfere with it.
  3. 3. Rights Doctrine the belief that the power of the states should be greater than the power of the federal government
  4. 5. Cabinet President Andrew Jackson's group of informal advisers; so called because they often met in the White House kitchen.
  5. 6. Trail the trail that started in Nauvoo, Illinois and led all the way to present day Salt Lake City, Utah; this is the route that Brigham Young led his followers on to seek an area free from persecution.
  6. 8. of Abominations (1828) the nickname given to a tariff by southerners who opposed it.
  7. 10. v. Georgia (1832) the Supreme Court ruling that stated that the Cherokee nation was a distinct territory over which only the federal government had authority; ignored by both President Andrew Jackson and the state of Georgia.
  8. 12. System a politicians' practice of giving government jobs to his or her supporters.
  9. 13. Fe Trail an important trade route going between Independence, Missouri and Santa Fe, New mexico used from about 1821 to 1880
  10. 14. of Guadalupe Hidalgo Treaty that ended the Mexican War and gave the United States much of Mexico's northern territory.