Age of Jackson Vocabulary

Spoils System

• Forced relocation of some 15,000 Cherokee from Georgia to Oklahoma

• When your younger sibling always gets what they want from your parents

• the practice of public officials given jobs or favors to supporters

• Tax on imports

The Trail of Tears

• The British march back to England after losing the Revolution

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

• The trail taken by families looking for gold out west

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  Forced relocation of some 15,000 Cherokee from Georgia to Oklahoma

Indian Removal Act

• allowed the president to pay Native Americans to move west

• the practice of public officials given jobs or favors to supporters

• Made it illegal for settlers go west past the Appalachian Mountains

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  Tax on imports

Tariff

• the idea that states can refuse to follow federal laws

  Suffrage

• Tax on an imported good

• An argument between state and federal government

• Tax on personal income

States' Rights

• the right to vote

• The shared powers between the federal and state governments

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

• a tax on an exported good

Nullification

• Tax on imports

• A check the president has on the legislative branch

• the right to vote

• the idea that states can refuse to follow federal laws

Suffrage

• the right to vote

• Having to suffer through a history class lesson

• a tax on business income

• the idea that states can refuse to follow federal laws