7th SS Chapter 6.1 - 6.4 Key Terms Flashcards
American politician during the time when they supported expanding Democrats rights.
Andrew Jackson
The right to vote
Suffrage
Sixth president of the United States
John Quincy Adams
He ran for president in 1824 but lost to Jackson.
Henry Clay
Party formed by Clay
Whig party
Jacksons supporters who opposed tariffs.
Democrats
To cancel
Nullification
A period when business slows prices fall and unemployment rises
Depression
Private meeting often a political meeting
Caucus
When delegates from the states choose the president
Nominations Conventions
Led the United States into the 5 year depression
Martin Van Buren
Whig party choose him as president from Ohio
William Henry Harrison
Vice President from Virginia in Harrison’s Presidency.
John Tyler
He resigned from the office in Jacksons presidency because he believed in nullifacation when Jackson didn’t.
John c Calhoun
Senator from Massachusetts who dissagreed with the nullifacation act. He wanted to make the bank an issue in the 1832 election.
Daniel Webster
A Cherokee man
Sequoyah
The court case that decided that Georgia had no right to enforce laws within the Cherokee.
Worcester vs. Georgia
The act that made the Indians leave their lands.
Indian Removal Act
The land the Indians owned
Indian Territory
Boat with a flat bottom used for transporting heavy materials.
Flatboats
The path that the Cherokee Indians took when American took their lands.
Trail of Tears
Road built by a private company
Turnpike
Road made of logs
Corday roads
The roads around the nation that the government owns
National Roads
Fulton’s steamboat
Clermont
A canal linking the Mohawk and Hudson rivers
Erie canal
