Age of Jackson Key Terms

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

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

The idea of spreading political power to all people and not just wealthy land owners

• Jacksonian Democracy

• Spoils System

• Bank War

• corrupt bargain

The formal action of giving up of rights, property, or territory

• cede

• common man

• annexation

• abomination

The state's rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce federal law passed by the United States Congress

• Abomination

• Nullification

• Annexation

• Ratification

The average American

• Common Man

• Annexation

• Jefferson

• Pop See KO

to void or cancel 

• nullify
• veto
• secede
• nominating 

to break away or quit being a part of

• secede
• mudslinging
• nullfiy
• bargain

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

• states' rights

• suffrage

• policy

• tariff

the right to vote

• suffrage

• common man

• nullification

• resettlement