apush 299-310

indian removal act of 1830

act that directed the mandatory relocation of eastern tribes to territory west of the Mississippi

trail of tears

forced westward journey of cherokees from their lands in georgia to present-day oklahoma 

Classical liberalism (laissez-faire)

the political ideology which is a “let alone” policy in which government does as little as policy to regulate the economy 

Whig party

party identified itself with the pre-revolutionary American and British parties that opposed the arbitrary actions of British monarchs 

panic of 1873

triggered by a sharp reduction in English capital and credit flowing into the US, the cash shortage caused a panic while the collapse of credit led to a depression 

specie cercular

an executive order that required the treasury department to accept only gold and silver in payment for lands in the national domain