Jacksonian Era Vocab

A catchy phrase meant to attract and keep attention

• hey you!

• slogan

• agrarian

• treason

The laws that tell who can vote and when; the civil right to vote

• an amendment

• slogan laws

• voting laws

• suffrage movement

A political movement that celebrated the common man and defended the will of the people

• Jackson Five

• the elite movement

• Jacksonian Democracy

• the People for Jackson movement

CHOOSE TWO

The practice of rewarding political backers with government jobs

• patronage

• payback

• the spoils system

• merit system

Related to agriculture or farming

• agrarian

• urban

• metropolitcan

• industrial

The term used by southerners to refer to the Tariff of 1828 because it stirred feelings of disgust and hatred

• the spoiling tariffs

• agrarian tariffs

• treasonous tariffs

• Tariff of Abomination

A principle or set of beliefs accepted by a group of people

• a great idea!

• doctrine

• doctor

• dr pepper

A doctrine that said a state could nullify, or reject, a federal law they felt was unconstitutional, held by some southern politicians before the Civil War

• Don't tell me how to live my life!

• policy of nulls

• doctrine of nullification

• treason

The act of formally withdrawing from an organization, a nation, or any other group in order to be independent

• boycot

• secession

• succession

• quit like a loser

The crime of aiding the enemy of one’s nation, or plotting to overthrow one’s nation; the act of being disloyal to one’s nation

• felony

• misdemeanor

• treason

• reason