Across
- 2. To reject a bill and prevent it from becoming law
- 3. Cherokee chief who, after devoting his life to resisting U.S. seizure of his people's lands in Georgia
- 5. A general and national hero in the United States Army from the time of the Mexican-American War and the War of 1812
- 7. A financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major depression, which lasted until the mid-1840s
- 8. A part of government in which specialized tasks are carried out by appointed officials rather than by elected ones
- 10. all the land lying west of the Mississippi
- 13. the action of a state impeding or attempting to prevent the operation and enforcement within its territory of a law of the U.S.
- 14. President of united states 1829 to 1837
- 15. Practice of handling out government jobs to supporters replacing government employees with the winning candidate's supporters
- 17. A senator, Speaker of the House, and secretary of state
- 18. a remarkable political philosopher
- 19. A method in election campaigns that uses gossip and lies to make an opponent look bad
Down
- 1. A meeting in which representative members of a political party choose candidates to run for important elected offices
- 4. To move to another place
- 6. A candidate for national office who has support mostly from his home state
- 9. A word or object that stands for something else
- 11. the United States government forcibly removed the southeastern Native Americans from their homelands and relocated them on lands in Indian Territory
- 12. The largest number of something, but less than a majority
- 16. Greater then half of a total number of something
- 18. was the tenth president of the United
