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Who is Daniel Webster?
He attaked the idea of Nullification.
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What is the Spoils System?
The practice of giving government jobs to supporters.
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What is the right to vote called?
Suffrage
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What is to break away from a union?
Secede
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Who is President Van Buren?
He thought government should not interfere with business during the panic of 1837.
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What is The Kitchen Cabinet?
The name given to President Jackson's supporters.
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What were the supporters of John Quincy Adams called?
Whigs
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What is the power to refuse a federal law, deemed unconstitutional?
Nullification
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Who is John C. Calhoun?
He argued for the right for states to nullify federal law.
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Who are the Democrats?
The party that backed Andrew Jackson.
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What are nominating conventions?
Replaced caucuses as a more democratic way of choosing presidential candidates.
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What are examples of the growth of political democracy in the early 1800's?
Expanded suffrage and nominating conventions
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Who is Sequoyah?
He lead his people in the Seminole War.
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What supreme court rulling did President Jackson ignore?
Chief Justice Marshall's ruling granting the Cherokee people rights to keep their land.
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What Whigs did to win votes from common people.
Portrayed William Henry Harrison as a simple farmer.
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What is an effect of high tariffs?
Goods became more expensive.
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Who is Sequoyah?
He created a written Alphabet of the Cherokee language.
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What did Jackson do to slow down land speculation?
President Jackson made people buy land with silver and gold only.
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What are the reasons President Jackson opposed the Bank of the United States?
Too powerful, used to profit the rich, was a states right.
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How did State banks contribute to the Panis of 1837?
Printing too much paper money.
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