Cultures-Chapter 13
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- SUFFRAGE
- The right to vote.
- CAUCUS
- A closed political meeting.
- NOMINATING CONVENTION
- A meeting where delegates from each state cast their votes for politcal candidates.
- SPOILS SYSTEM
- Handing out politcal jobs to your supporters-even if they might not be the best people for the job.
- KITCHEN CABINET
- The personal advisors of Andrew Jackson.
- PET BANK
- Certain state banks that federal money was put into instead of the Bank of the United States. (Think pet as in favorite)
- NICHOLAS BIDDLE
- President of the Bank of the United States and someone whom Andrew Jackson hated because he felt Biddle was a representative of the wealthy Easterners.
- ROGER TANEY
- Secretary of the Treasury. He did what Jackson told him to do.
- TARIFF
- A tax of some sort. Usually placed on imported goods. (That means money you pay as a tax on things made in other countries.)
- SOVEREIGN
- Independent States
- STATES' RIGHTS
- The belief that an individual state may restrict federal authority. (A state can say the federal government is butting in too much).
- NULLIFICATION
- The right of states to declare federal laws illegal.
- SECEDE
- To leave the Union of the United States.
- TRAIL OF TEARS
- The forced march of the Cherokee Indians from their homelands. This was forced by the government. Many Indians died during this march to Indian Territory.
- JOHN C. CALHOUN
- President Andrew Jackson's vice-president.
- DANIEL WEBSTER
- A senator from Massachusetts who delivered a big speech attacking states' rights. He was challenging a speech made by another senator.
- SEQUOYA
- A leader of the Cherokee who made a written alphabet for the Cherokee Indians that allowed them to read and write.
- OSCEOLA
- A Seminole Indian leader from Florida who refused to listen to soldiers who wanted the Seminole to give up their land.
- ROBERT HAYNE
- A senator from South Carolina who had given a speech for states' rights. He defended nullification (the right of states to declare federal laws illegal). He was opposite Daniel Webster.
- SPECIE
- Hard cash in the form of gold or silver.