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- 1. System the practice of a successful political party giving public office to its supporters
- 5. Nullification is the act of cancelling something
- 6. The Trail of Tears was a series of forced relocations of Native Americans in the United States from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States
- 8. The Panic of 1837 was a financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s.
- 9. a member of a North American people originally of the southeastern US, now living on reservations in Oklahoma and North Carolina.
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- 2. the rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government.
- 3. When the 1824 election ended without any candidate receiving a majority in the electoral college, the House of Representatives awarded the election to John Quincy Adams.
- 4. OLD HICKORY. During the War of 1812, General Andrew Jackson's endurance and strength inspired his soldiers to give him the nickname "Old Hickory."
- 7. Suffrage is the right to vote in public elections. Universal suffrage means everyone gets to vote
- 8. banks Pet banks is a derogatory term for state banks selected by the U.S. Department of Treasury to receive surplus Treasury funds in 1833.