Module 10 Vocabulary

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  1. 2. American politician. He served as the governor of Indian Territory and fought Tecumseh in the Battle of Tippecanoe. He was the ninth president of the U.S.
  2. 3. The nickname given to a tariff by southerners who opposed it.
  3. 6. American politician and secretary of state under Andrew Jackson. He later became the eighth president of the United States.
  4. 9. President Andrew Jackson's group of informal advisors; so called because they often met in the White House kitchen.
  5. 10. American politician and supporter of slavery and state's rights. He served as vice-president to Andrew Jackson and was instrumental in the South Carolina nullification crisis.
  6. 11. Florida Seminole leader. He resisted removal by the U.S. government despite an earlier treaty that Seminole leaders had been forced to sign. He was eventually captured and died in prison.
  7. 12. The supreme court ruling that stated that the Cherokee nation was a distinct territory over which only the federal government had authority; ignored by both President Andrew Jackson and the state of Georgia.
  8. 15. A dispute led by John C. Calhoun that said that states could ignore federal laws if they believed those laws violated the constitution.
  9. 16. U.S. supreme court case that declared the Second Bank of the United States was constitutional and that Maryland could not interfere with it.
  10. 17. A politician's practice of giving government jobs to his own their supporters.
  11. 18. An expansion of voting rights during the popular Andrew Jackson administration.
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  1. 1. An 800-mile forced march made by the Cherokee from their homeland in Georgia to Indian Territory; resulted in the deaths of almost one-fourth of the Cherokee people.
  2. 4. A political party formed by supporters of Andrew Jackson after the presidential election of 1824
  3. 5. A meeting at which a political party selects its presidential and vice presidential candidates; first held in the 1820s.
  4. 7. Native American leader of Fox and Sack Indians. He resisted the U.S.-ordered removal of Indian nations from Illinois and raided settlements and fought the U.S. Army.
  5. 8. The belief that the power of the states should be greater than the power of the federal government.
  6. 13. A congressional act that authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River.
  7. 14. A political party formed in 1834 by opponents of Andrew Jackson and who supported a strong legislature.