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| Monroe's secretary of state, was New England's choice. |
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| A former military hero from Tennessee. |
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| the idea of spreading political power to all the people, and ensuring majority rule. |
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| practice of giving government jobs to political backers or supporters. |
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| Thought the Cherokees to talk on paper like the white man. |
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| this 1830 act called for the government to negotiate treaties that would require Native Americans to relocate west. |
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| present-day Oklahoma and parts of Kansas and Nebraska to which Native Americans were moved under the Indian Removal Act. |
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| the tragic journey of the Cherokee people from their homeland to Indian territory between 1838 and 1839; thousands of Cherokees died. |
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| One of the most important leaders of wars. Osceola led the Seminoles in their fight against removal. |
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| was hailed as "one of the master-spirits who stamp their name upon the age in which they live. |
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| an 1828 law that raised the tariff as raw materials and manufactured goods; it upset Southerners who left that economic interests of the northeast were dominating natural economic policy. |
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| Doctrine of Nullification |
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| a right of a state to reject a federal law that it considers unconstitutional. |
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| an 1830 debate between Daniel Webster and Robert Hayne over the doctrine of nullification. |
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| a senator from Massachusetts and the most powerful speaker of his time. |
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