social studies
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- spoils system
- the practice of giving government jobs to political backers
- missouri compromise
- act in 1812 admitting missouri as a slave state, maine as a free state, and forbidding slavery north of the parallel
- indian removal act
- the 1830 law that authorized the president
- relocate
- to move to another location
- jacksonian democrocy
- the emerging decromatic spirit in the us after andrew jacksons election as president in 1828
- credit
- an arrangment to make a delayed on a payment or loan
- doctrine of nullfication
- the theiry that a state could declare a federal law null and void whithin its borders
- trail of tears
- the forced journy of american indians
- secede
- to withdraw from the union
- inflation
- a rise in prises
- literacy
- the ability to read and write
- depression
- a period of deep economic hardship
- panic
- an economic crisis
- sectionalism
- loyalty to local interests