U. S. History Early 1600 Chapter 12 Vocabulary

Question 1

Majority

Answer 1

1. More than half

2. The greater number.

Question 2

bureaucracy

Answer 2

A system in which non-elected officials carry out laws

Question 3

Spoils System

Answer 3

The practice of replacing current government with supporters of the winner

Question 4

Nominating Conventions

Answer 4

Where delegates from the states choose the party’s presidential candidate

Question 5

Tariff

Answer 5

A tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports

Question 6

Nullify

Answer 6

1. To make of no use or value; cancel out

2. To make legally null and void; invalidate

Question 7

Indian Removal Act

Answer 7

Allowed the Federal Government to pay Native Americans to move west

Question 8

Trail of Tears

Answer 8

The forced relocation of about 15000 Cherokee where about a quarter of them died from illness and starvation

Question 9

Veto

Answer 9

A rejection of a law

Question 10

Panic of 1837

Answer 10

A financial crisis that lead to a recession that lasted until the 1840s where profits, prices, and wages went down and unemployment went up