Social Studies Vocabulary Week 23

2. mission to enhance the quality of life, to promote economic opportunity, and to carry out the responsibility to protect and improve the trust assets of American Indians, Indian tribes, and Alaska Natives
6. authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders
9. An American political party formed in the 1830s to oppose President Andrew Jackson and the Democrats
13. all of that part of the United States west of the Mississippi, and not within the States of Missouri and Louisiana
14. the forced westward migration of American Indian tribes from the South and Southeast

1. the political party that is more liberal
3. the practice of appointing political friends and firing enemies in any federal posts
4. a political convention held every four years in the United States by most of the political parties who will be fielding nominees in the upcoming U.S. presidential election
5. sought to protect northern and western agricultural products from competition with foreign imports
7. confrontation between the state of South Carolina and the federal government in 1832–33
8. A movement for more democracy in American government in the 1830s, led by president Andrew Jackson.
10. the rights and powers generally conceded to the states, or all those powers claimed for the states under some interpretations of the Constitution
11. a financial crisis in the United States that triggered a multi-year economic depression
12. one of the first and most important Supreme Court cases on federal power