Chapter 11 Vocabulary

Indian removal act, nullification crisis, "Old Hickory," first southern/ western president, President for the "common man," spoils system, trail of tears

Jackson led a battle that occurred when British troops attacked U.S. soldiers in New Orleans on January 8, 1815; the War of 1812 had officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent in December, 1814, but word had not yet reached the U.S.

Jackson's presidency was the called this. He felt that democracy should be based on self-sufficient middle class with ideas formed by liberal education and a free press.

United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states

the idea that the common people should control the government

law passed in 1830 that forced many Native American nations to move west of the Mississippi River

Georgia cannot enforce American laws on Indian tribes

A system of public employment based on rewarding party loyalists and friends.

the forced removal of Cherokees and their transportation to Oklahoma

In 1828, he lead the fight against protective tariffs which hurt the south economically. Created the doctrine of nullification which said that a state could decide if a law was constitutional. This situation became known as the Nullification Crisis.

Argument between South Carolina and the federal government regarding the role of national government

It was a new tariff proposed by Henry Clay and John Calhoun that gradually lowered the tariff to the level of the tariff of 1816 This compromise avoided civil war and prolonged the union for another 30 years.

A period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700s

Invented the cotton gin

produced in large numbers, cheaply in a factory