Chapter 11

2. to adopt the culture or way of life of the nation in which one currently lives; to become absorbed in a culture or country
5. the widespread fear of a failing economy that caused the beginning of a U.S. economic recession that lasted until 1840
6. the decrease in the value of money that causes an increase in the price of goods and services
7. The practice of rewarding political backers with government jobs
9. to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders
10. the first president to be born a citizen of the United States and not a British subject.
13. the creation of the national forest reserves through an amendment to the Land Revision Act of 1891.
15. relating to cultivated land or the cultivation of land.
16. the crime of betraying one's country, especially by attempting to kill the sovereign or overthrow the government.
19. Scottish explorer who led Arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the Northwest Passage
20. The law that tell who can vote and when; the civil right to vote.

1. A movement for more democracy in American government in the 1830s.
3. a member of a North American people of the Creek confederacy, noted for resistance in the 19th century to encroachment on the
4. held the rank of general in three wars and was the unsuccessful Whig candidate for president in 1852.
8. US land west of the Mississippi River to which native North American people were forced to move in the 19th century.
11. being the first president to serve without being elected to office.
12. an agreement to stop fighting
14. the forced relocation of approximately 100,000 Native Americans in the 1830s, in which thousands of Indigenous people lost t
17. Founder of the democratic party
18. a major political party active in the period 1834–54 in the U.S.