Chapter 7 Vocabulary
Across
- 6. authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders
- 11. served as the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829
- 12. a national economic plan by Henry Clay and the Whig party throughout the first half of the 19th century
- 13. Jackson's Vice President of South Carolina
- 16. sought to protect northern and western agricultural products from competition with foreign imports
- 17. the first federally funded road in U.S. history
- 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
- 19. a law that tried to address growing sectional tensions over the issue of slavery
- 24. parts that are exactly alike
- 27. house speaker who represented Kentucky
- 28. An American political party formed in the 1830s to oppose President Andrew Jackson and the Democrats
Down
- 1. seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837, seeking to act as the direct representative of the common man
- 2. a financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major depression, which lasted until the mid-1840s
- 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. established in 1791 by Alexander Hamilton to serve as a repository for federal funds and as the government's fiscal agent
- 5. eighth President of the United States
- 7. invented the cotton gin and the first musketmade of interchangeable parts
- 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
- 9. warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs
- 10. short for "cotton engine"
- 14. social and economic reorganization that took place as machines replaced hand tools and large-scale factory production developed
- 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
- 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
- 20. the production of goods in large quantities
- 21. the United States and Spain defined the western limits of the Louisiana Purchase and Spain surrendered its claims to the Pacific Northwest
- 22. the belief that national interests should be placed ahead of regional concerns or the interests of other countries
- 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
- 25. James Madison proposed this tax provided the federal government with money to loan to industrialists
- 26. the tenth president of the United States, serving from 1841 to 1845, after briefly holding office as the tenth vice president in 1841