Andrew Jackson

4. A part of government in which specialized tasks are carried out by appointed officials rather than by elected ones
6. was the tenth president of the United
7. A candidate for national office who has support mostly from his home state
10. A financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major depression, which lasted until the mid-1840s
12. To reject a bill and prevent it from becoming law
13. A method in election campaigns that uses gossip and lies to make an opponent look bad
14. A senator, Speaker of the House, and secretary of state
15. To move to another place
16. Greater then half of a total number of something
18. Practice of handling out government jobs to supporters replacing government employees with the winning candidate's supporters
19. all the land lying west of the Mississippi
20. A general and national hero in the United States Army from the time of the Mexican-American War and the War of 1812

1. A meeting in which representative members of a political party choose candidates to run for important elected offices
2. the United States government forcibly removed the southeastern Native Americans from their homelands and relocated them on lands in Indian Territory
3. a remarkable political philosopher
5. A word or object that stands for something else
8. the action of a state impeding or attempting to prevent the operation and enforcement within its territory of a law of the U.S.
9. President of united states 1829 to 1837
11. Cherokee chief who, after devoting his life to resisting U.S. seizure of his people's lands in Georgia
17. The largest number of something, but less than a majority