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| 15498424476 | franchise | The right to vote | 0 | |
| 15498424477 | notables | Wealthy, northern landlords, slave-owning planters and seaport merchants. Where able to dominate the political system in the new republic. "Those who own the country are the most fit persons to participate in the government of it. | 1 | |
| 15498424478 | political machines | nick name of new political parties because they efficiently wove together the interests of diverse social and economic groups | 2 | |
| 15498424479 | spoils system | The practice of a successful political party giving public office to its supporters | 3 | |
| 15498424480 | caucus | A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform. | 4 | |
| 15498424481 | American System | Economic program advanced by Henry Clay that included support for a national bank, high tariffs, and internal improvements; emphasized strong role for federal government in the economy. | 5 | |
| 15498424482 | internal improvements | This included the construction of better roads and canals. It was a part of Clay's American System | 6 | |
| 15498424483 | corrupt bargain | A political scandal that arose when the Speaker of the House, Henry Clay, allegedly met with John Quincy Adams before the House election to break a deadlock. Adams was elected president against the popular vote and Clay was named Secretary of State. |  | 7 |
| 15498424484 | consolidated government | In 1824, Martin Van Buren likewise declared his allegiance to constitutional "doctrines of the Jefferson school" and his opposition to this idea of a powerful and potentially oppressive national administration. Now a member of the U.S. Senate, Van Buren helped to defeat most of Adams' proposed subsidies for roads and canals. | 8 | |
| 15498424485 | Tariff of Abominations | 1828 - Also called Tariff of 1828, it raised the tariff on imported manufactured goods. The tariff protected the North but harmed the South; South said that the tariff was economically discriminatory and unconstitutional because it violated state's rights. |  | 9 |
| 15498424486 | nullification | a state attempting to declare federal laws unconsitutional if such laws were seen to overstep Congressional powers |  | 10 |
| 15498424487 | states' rights | the idea that a state convention could declare a law to be void within the state's border | 11 | |
| 15498424488 | Second Bank of the United States | Congress had established the bank in 1816, giving it a 20 year charter, was privately managed and operated The purpose of the bank was to stabilize the nation's money supply. Went out of existence during Jackson's presidency. | 12 | |
| 15498424489 | Trail of Tears | Forced westward journey of the Cherokees from land in Georgia to Oklahoma in 1838 under Jackson's Indian Removal Act on 1830. 3,000 died along the way. | 13 | |
| 15498424490 | Indian Removal Act of 1830 | Passed by Congress under the Jackson administration; this act removed all Indians east of the Mississippi to an "Indian Territory" where they would be "permanently" housed. | 14 | |
| 15498424491 | laissez-faire | The principle that the less government does, the better, particularly in reference to the economy. |  | 15 |
| 15498424492 | Whigs | Second national party, against Jackson | 16 | |
| 15498424495 | ethnocultural politics | Refers to the fact that the political allegiance of many American voters was determined less by party policy than by their membership in a specific ethnic or religious group. | 17 | |
| 15498424494 | Panic of 1837 | The second major economic crisis o the U. S. , 1837-1843 When Jackson was president, many state banks received government money that had been withdrawn from the Bank of the U.S. These banks issued paper money and financed wild speculation, especially in federal lands. Jackson issued the Specie Circular to force the payment for federal lands with gold or silver. Many state banks collapsed as a result. A panic ensued (1837). Bank of the U.S. failed, cotton prices fell, businesses went bankrupt, and there was widespread unemployment and distress. | 18 | |
| 15498476931 | Specie Circular | Executive order that required payment in gold/silver in order to buy land since paper money was inflating. This signified the growing economic problems which would result in the panic of 1837. | 19 |
