Unit 7- Jacksonian Democracy Vocabulary Terms

________________________ was the 7th president of the United States (1829-1837)

• Daniel Webster

• Andrew Jackson

• William Henry Harrison

• Henry Clay

A __________________ is a legal document giving certain rights to a person or company

• charter

• tariff

• spoils system

• levy

A _________________________ works for a government

• Slave

• civil engineer

• civil servant

• civilian

_________________________ argued in the debate surrounding the Nullification Crisis that the U.S. was one nation, not a pact among independent states and that the welfare of the nation should override that of individual states.

• Martin Van Buren

• William Henry Harrison

• Daniel Webster

• John C. Calhoun

The __________________________ was a political party formed by supporters of Andrew Jackson after the presidential election of 1824.

• Republican Party

• Democratic Party

• Tea Party

• Federalist Party

__________________________ was a U.S. politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states.

• Henry Clay

• John C. Calhoun

• Martin Van Buren

• Andrew Jackson

The ______________________________ is the idea that the common people should control the government

• spoils system

• nullification crisis

• Democratic Party

• Jacksonian Democracy

____________________________ was Jackson's Vice President who called on southern to declare the tariffs on imported goods "null and void" or illegal and not to be honored.

• John C. Calhoun

• Daniel Webster

• William Henry Harrison

• Martin Van Buren

___________________________ was the case in which the Supreme Court ruled that the national bank was constitutional.

• Georgia v Wocester

• Marbury v Madison

• McCullough v Maryland

• Dred Scott v Sandford

The _____________________________ was the dispute between supporters and opponents of nullification ( belief that states had the right to nullify, or reject, any federal law they judged to be unconstitutional)

• spoils system

• Nullification Crisis

• Tariff of Abominations

• charter