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U.S. History CH 12
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Social Studies
8th Grade
03/07/2018

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Term
Spoil System
Definition
Andrew Jackson's practice of winning candidates by giving government jobs to political backers or supporters
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John C. Calhoun
Definition
Southern leader supported nullification
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the Jacksonian democracy
Definition
the idea of spreading political power to all the people, thereby ensuring majority rule
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Trial of Tears
Definition
Journey made by the Cherokee
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Indian Territory
Definition
An area to which Native Americans were moved covering what is now Oklahoma and parts of Kansas and Nebraska.The Choctaws and the Southeastern tribes were relocated to this territory.
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Indian Removal Act
Definition
an 1830 act that called for the government to negotiate treaties that would require Natice Americans to relocate west
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Depression
Definition
Resulted from failure of the nation's money system
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inflation
Definition
Resulted from increase in the money supply and decrease in the value of money
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Panic of 1837
Definition
a financial crisis in which banks closed and the credit system collapsed
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Osceola
Definition
leader of the Seminoles
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Sequoya
Definition
Invented a writing system for the Cherokee language.
Term
Why did President Jackson oppose the Bank of the United States?
Definition
He believed it was too powerful.
He believed it was used primarily to benefit the rich
He believed states should be the only ones to charter banks.

c. He believed it
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