1. Ch. 11 vocabulary review

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

3. majority
More than half

4. plurality
Largest single share

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

6. landslide
An overwhelming victory

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

8. Spoils system
The practice of replacing government employees with the winning candidate’s supporters

9. Nominating convention
The system in which delegates from the states selected the party’s presidential candidate

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

11. relocate
To move someone to another place to live

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

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

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

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

16. Republic of Texas
The nation formed after Texas gained independence from Mexico

17. Abolitionists
People who actively worked to abolish or get rid of slavery

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

19. Suffrage
The right to vote

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

21. nullify
Cancel

22. Secede
To break away

23. tariff
Fee paid by merchants who imported goods

24. veto
To reject a bill

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. Suffrage
The right to vote