history chapter 10 Flashcards
where party members choose the parties candidates
Nominating Conventions
Period of expanding democracy in the 1820 period
Jacksonian Democracy
political party formed by supporters of Andrew Jackson after the presidental election of 1824
Democratic Party
Andrew Jacksons choice of his vice presidental running mate
John C. Calhoun
practice of giving government jobs to political backers
spoils system
One of Jacksons strongest allies in his his official cabiinet
Martin Van Buren
Before Andrew Jackson took office, Congress placed a high tariff on imports, causing angry southerners
tariff of Abominations
Court ruled that the national bank was constitutional
McCulloch v. Maryland
favored the idea of weak president and strong Congress
Whig party
Severe economic depression
panic of 1837
Army General
William Henry Harrison
In 1830, authorizing the removal of Native Americans who lived in east of the Mississippi River to lands in the West
Indian Removal Act
Us land in what is now Oklahoma where Native Americans were moved to
Indian Territory
informal group of trusted advisors who sometimes met in the whitehouse kitchen
kitchen cabinet
stated that since the states had formed the national gov, state power should be greater federal power
states rights doctrine