Unit 8 Vocabulary

A political party organized by Henry Clay; they believed the federal government should help the economy and promote business

• Whig Party

• Democratic Party

• Spoils System

• Suffrage

A U.S. political party that, at the time, encouraged the Populist movement of that era and the expansionist movement west that followed.

• Democratic Party

• Whig Party

• Spoils System

• Suffrage

The practice of giving supporters government jobs 

• Spoils System

• Nullification Act

• Self Sufficient

• Allocation

An act passed by South Carolina that declared that the Tariff of 1832 was unconstitutional 

• Nullification Act

• Indian Removal Act

• Mexican Cession

• Manifest Destiny

A law passed by Congress in 1830 setting up territories west of the Mississippi River where American Indians living in existing states could be relocated. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy.

• Indian Removal Act

• Nullification Act

• Manifest Destiny

• Spoils System

The forced migration by the Cherokee and other American Indian groups from their southeastern homelands to territories west of the Mississippi River 

• Trail of Tears

• Indian Removal Act

• Mexican Cession

• Manifest Destiny

An 1832 Supreme Court ruling that proclaimed state laws do not apply within American Indian territory 

• Worcester v. Georgia

• Nullification Act

• Spoils System

• Indian Removal Act

Money, especially money collected by a government for public use 

• Revenue

• Allocation

• Caucus

• Siege

the idea that the United States is destined—by God, its advocates believed—to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent

• Manifest Destiny

• Oregon Trail

• Indian Removal Act

• Mexican Cession

a 2,170-mile east–west, large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail in the United States that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon Territory

• Oregon Trail

• Trail of Tears

• Manifest Destiny

• Mexican Cession