Vocabulary Age of Jackson

The idea that a state can refuse to follow federal laws

• nullification

• suffrage

• resettlement

• tariff

the practice of public officials given jobs or favors to supporters

• nullification

• suffrage

• spoils system

• policy

the right to vote

• spoils system

• suffrage

• nullification

• tariff

powers given to the states as interpreted in the U.S. Constitution, generally seen as a check to federal powers

• nullification

• resettlement

• states' rights

• suffrage

a tax on imported or exported goods

• resettlement

• nullification

• suffrage

• tariff

The average citizen, a person who holds no title such as laborers, farmers and average Americans

• elite man

• common man

• rich man

• suffrage

money or property which is used as a guarantee that someone will repay a loan

• national bank

• suffrage

• collateral

• nullification

one of the two major political parties in the U.S.: it emerged in the late 1820s from a split in the Democratic-Republican Party. Followers of Andrew Jackson were part of this party.

• Republican Party

• Federalist Party

• Whig Party

• Democratic Party

Political Party that opposed Andrew Jackson and his Democratic Party, led by Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams

• Democratic Party

• Republican Party

• Whig Party

• Federalist Party

independent country and not under the authority of any other country

• dependent nation

• dictatorship

• sovereign nation

• Colony