Jacksonian Vocabulary Fast and Curious

a tax on imported goods

• nationalism

• tariff

• taxes

• Monroe Doctrine

Jacksonian Democracy

• a type of coordinated republic

• everyone can vote

• government where common people are considered and given a "say" in government

• similar to a dictatorship

Spoils System

• a procedure used to keep produce from rotting or "spoiling"

• practice of a new official filling public jobs with their supporters

• procedure where anyone who is blamed for losing an election is fired from their position

• practice of electing only candidates who are expected to not spoil the current system when they win

nullify

• to begin

• to cancel or end

• to notice

• to reduce

secede

• to declare something unfit

• to join a particular group or organization

• to find success in one's chosen field

• to formally withdraw from membership

sectionalism

• to find pride in one's own country/nation

• to divide a state into parts

• the act of dividing anything

• having loyalty to one's particular region rather than the country as a whole

Indian Removal Act

• grants permitted to allow native people to move from reserved lands

• a government authorized exchange for lands west of the Mississippi for native lands in the southeast

• Trail of Tears

• decision to remove native tribes from the Americas

Trail of Tears

• a journey of discovery in the Northwest Territories

• the trail explored by Lewis and Clark

• forced removal of native people from their lands in the southeast to reserved lands in modern day Oklahoma resulting in many deaths

• native formal ceremony