1. Ch. 11 Review
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2. Favorite son
Candidate who received the backing of his home state rather than that of the national party

3. J.Q. Adams, Henry Clay & Andrew Jackson
Who were the favorite son candidates in the 1824 election?

4. majority
More than half

5. plurality
Largest single share

6. Jackson
In the election of 1824, which candidate received the MOST electoral votes (plurality) AND popular votes – but he did NOT win the election?

7. mudslinging
Attempts to ruin an opponent’s reputation with insults

8. House of Representatives
According to the 12th Amendment, because no candidate received the majority of electoral college votes, the 1824 presidential election was decided by the ?

9. John Quincy Adams
Who won the 1824 presidential election because of a “corrupt bargain?

10. Nominating convention
The system in which delegates from the states selected the party’s presidential candidate (replaced caucuses)

11. landslide
An overwhelming victory

12. bureaucracy
A system in which nonelected officials carry out laws

13. Spoils system
The practice of replacing government employees with the winning candidate’s supporters (“to the victors belong the spoils of war…”)

14. States’ rights
The idea that the states have many rights and powers that are independent of the federal government

15. Guerrilla (tactics)
Type of war tactics in which fighting forces make surprise attacks and then retreat into hiding

16. Jacksonian Democracy
The era of American politics when Andrew Jackson was in charge

17. relocate
To move someone to another place to live

18. Trail of Tears
Route the Cherokees took to Indian Territory after being forced from their land in the East (4,000 died)

19. Georgia, Oklahoma The Cherokee Trail of Tears began in which state?
and ended in which state?

20. The Supreme Court (John Marshall)
Jackson went against ????? when he forcibly removed the Cherokee from their home lands?

21. Andrew Jackson
Which president's popularity with the "common man" changed politics?

22. Suffrage
The right to vote

23. White men
Which American citizens had the right to vote in the elections of 1824 and 1828?

24. Caucus
System where major political candidates are chosen by committee members of Congress

25. Laissez-faire
The government should interfere as little as possible in the nation’s economy

26. depression
A period in which business and employment fall to a very low level

27. Emigrant
Someone who left the United States to go to Oregon country

28. Annex
To take control of a territory

29. Cede
To give up control of a territory

30. Secede
To break away

31. tariff
Fee paid by merchants who imported goods

32. American Businesses (made in the USA)
According to Henry Clay, the protective tariff was put in place in order to support what?

33. nullify
Cancel

34. Nullification Crisis
South Carolina nullified a federal tariff law & threatened to secede from the Union / Jackson threatened to send in troops

35. Force Bill
What law sent the message that the federal government would not allow a state to go its own way without a fight?

36. Secede from the Union
Due to concern over tariffs and belief in states’ rights, some Southerners wanted to?

37. Jackson
Under which president’s administration was the Indian Removal Act passed?

38. The Indian Removal Act
What act did Congress pass in order to relocate Native Americans?

39. Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw & Seminole
What were the Five Civilized Tribes who were relocated to Indian Territory?

40. Osceola
Who was the Seminole leader who went to war against the United States in an effort to keep his nation's land?

41. Winfield Scott
Who, along with federal troops, led the Cherokee west on the Trail of Tears?

42. veto
To reject a bill

43. He felt ordinary citizens had no control over it (It was run by the wealthy and served the wealthy)
Why did Jackson oppose the Bank of the United States?

44. 22nd Amendment
Because the ???? Amendment had not been added to the Constitution - - Jackson could have run for a third term – but he chose not to.

45. Panic of 1837
President Van Buren's belief in the principle of laissez-faire prolonged the ?????

46. Laborers, small farmers
To win the election of 1840, William Henry Harrison needed the support of which Americans. (log cabin campaign)

47. Log cabin campaign
An attempt to show presidential candidate William Henry Harrison as a “man of the people”

48. President Harrison died of pneumonia (25th)
John Tyler became president because?
Which Amendment deals with Presidential succession today?

49. Joint occupation
The possession and settling of an area shared by two or more countries

50. Manifest Destiny
The idea that the United States was intended to extend its boundaries to the Pacific Ocean