Chapter 7 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 6. authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders
  2. 11. served as the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829
  3. 12. a national economic plan by Henry Clay and the Whig party throughout the first half of the 19th century
  4. 13. Jackson's Vice President of South Carolina
  5. 16. sought to protect northern and western agricultural products from competition with foreign imports
  6. 17. the first federally funded road in U.S. history
  7. 18. practice in which the political party winning an election rewards its campaign workers and other active supporters by appointment to government posts and with other favours
  8. 19. a law that tried to address growing sectional tensions over the issue of slavery
  9. 24. parts that are exactly alike
  10. 27. house speaker who represented Kentucky
  11. 28. An American political party formed in the 1830s to oppose President Andrew Jackson and the Democrats
Down
  1. 1. seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837, seeking to act as the direct representative of the common man
  2. 2. a financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major depression, which lasted until the mid-1840s
  3. 3. "The Big Ditch" stretched 363 miles and linked the Hudson River to Lake Erie and connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean
  4. 4. established in 1791 by Alexander Hamilton to serve as a repository for federal funds and as the government's fiscal agent
  5. 5. eighth President of the United States
  6. 7. invented the cotton gin and the first musketmade of interchangeable parts
  7. 8. an American military officer and politician, was the ninth President of the United States (1841), the oldest President to be elected at the time
  8. 9. warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs
  9. 10. short for "cotton engine"
  10. 14. social and economic reorganization that took place as machines replaced hand tools and large-scale factory production developed
  11. 15. an American political party formed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in 1791-93 to oppose the centralizing policies of the new Federalist Party run by Alexander Hamilton
  12. 19. The court decided that the Federal Government had the right and power to set up a Federal bank and that states did not have the power to tax the Federal Government
  13. 20. the production of goods in large quantities
  14. 21. the United States and Spain defined the western limits of the Louisiana Purchase and Spain surrendered its claims to the Pacific Northwest
  15. 22. the belief that national interests should be placed ahead of regional concerns or the interests of other countries
  16. 23. the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma
  17. 25. James Madison proposed this tax provided the federal government with money to loan to industrialists
  18. 26. the tenth president of the United States, serving from 1841 to 1845, after briefly holding office as the tenth vice president in 1841