The Age of Jackson - Chapter 12
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- Jacksonian Democracy
- the spreading of political power
- Indian Territory
- the region that is now Oklahoma and parts of Kansas and Nebraska
- Trail of Tears
- the Cherokee journey to Indian Territory
- doctrine of nullification
- the idea that states can reject federal laws
- John C. Calhoun
- a nationalist who later defended sectionalism
- secession
- the act of withdrawing from the union
- John Quincy Adams
- the man the House of Representatives selected as president
- Osceola
- a seminole leader in Florida
- depression
- a severe economic slump
- Sequoya
- a Cherokee who made a writing system
- Panic of 1837
- An economic disaster that sent the United States into a depression
- Worcester v. Georgia
- Supreme Court ruling that the Cherokee Nation was a distinct territory over which only the federal government had authority. Ignored by both Andrew Jackson and the state of Georgia
- John Ross
- The chief of the Cherokee Nation.
- Martin Van Buren
- Became president in 1836
- William Henry Harrison
- Governor of the Indiana territory. Became president in 1841
- Whig Party
- The party of William Henry Harrison. Oppossed to Jackson.