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14 Cards in this Set
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Andrew Jackson |
Military hero and seventh president |
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Democratic Republican Party |
Party started by Jackson’s followers |
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spoils system |
System in which incoming political parties throw out former government workers and replace them with their own friends |
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Indian Removal Act |
Law that forced Native Americans to move west |
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Trail of Tears |
Path the Cherokee were forced to travel from Georgia to Indian Territory |
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John C. Calhoun |
Vice-President and congressional leader from South Carolina |
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Tariff of Abominations |
Henry Clay’s name for an 1828 tariff increase |
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Daniel Webster |
A Senate leader from Massachusetts |
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Bank of the United States |
National bank established by Congress first in 1791 and then in 1816 |
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Whig Party |
Political party formed in 1834 to oppose policies of Andrew Jackson |
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Martin Van Buren |
Eighth president |
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panic of 1837 |
A series of financial failures that led to an economic depression |
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William Henry Harrison |
ninth president |
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John Tyler |
Tenth president |