Mod 10 Find & Define

Question 1

Nominating conventions

Answer 1

party members choose the party candidates instead of the party leaders

Question 2

Jacksonian Democracy

Answer 2

the period of expanding democracy in the 1820’s and 1830’s

Question 3

Democratic Party

Answer 3

to support Jackson’s candidacy

Question 4

John C. Calhoun

Answer 4

Jackson chose him as his vice presidential running mate.

Question 5

Spoils system

Answer 5

the practice of giving government jobs back to political backers

Question 6

Martine Van Buren

Answer 6

one of jackson’s strongest allies in his official cabinet

Question 7

Kitchen Cabinet

Answer 7

an informal group of trusted advisers

Question 8

Tariff of Abominations

Answer 8

congress placed a high tariff on imports

Question 9

States’ right doctrine

Answer 9

state power should be greater than federal power

Question 10

Nullification crisis

Answer 10

conflict between the supporters and the opponents of nullification

Question 11

Daniel Webster

Answer 11

argued that the united states was one nation

Question 12

McCulloch v. Maryland

Answer 12

the court decision was that the national bank was constitutional

Question 13

Whig Party

Answer 13

favored an idea of a weak president and a strong congress

Question 14

Panic of 1837

Answer 14

a severe economic depression

Question 15

William Henry Harrison

Answer 15

an army general

Question 16

Indian Removal Act

Answer 16

authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived east of Mississippi River

Question 17

Indian Territory

Answer 17

U.S land in what is now Oklahoma

Question 18

Bureau of Indian Affairs

Answer 18

a new government agency

Question 19

Sequoya

Answer 19

a cherokee who used 86 characters to represent the Cherokee syllables to create a writing system

Question 20

Worcester v. Georgia

Answer 20

the court that rules the Cherokee nation

Question 21

Trail of Tears

Answer 21

the Cherokees 800-mile forced march

Question 22

Black Hawk

Answer 22

a leader of the Fox and Sauk Indians

Question 23

Osceola

Answer 23

called people to resist with force and the Second Seminole War began