APUSH CH. 9 TERMS

Jacksonian democracy

19th-century political philosophy in the United States that expanded suffrage to most white men over the age of 21, and restructured a number of federal institutions

Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

book about U.S. politics, daily life, cultures, visions of democracy (social mobility & limited democracy)

Spoils system

the system of employing and promoting civil servants who are friends and supporters of the group in power

John C. Calhoun

advocated for states' rights, limited federal govt., nullifcation, war hawk

Nullification

Calhoun's theory, the constitutional theory that individual states can invalidate federal laws or judicial decisions they deem unconstitutional

Peggy Eaton Affair

a political scandal involving members of President Andrew Jackson's Cabinet and their wives, from 1829 to 1831, led to wedge between Calhoun and Jackson

Webster–Hayne debate

the debaters argued about slavery, the economy, protection tariffs, and western land, but the real implication was the meaning of the United States Constitution

Indian Removal Act

authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders, introduced by Jackson

Trail of Tears

1000 Cherokees fled to reservation, but forced to trek back to Indian Territory, many perished on the way

Taney Court

the first to rule that corporations could operate outside the state in which they were chartered

Log Cabin campaign

Whig party, put the slogan “Log Cabin and Hard Cider” on a wide range of campaign paraphernalia to portray the aristocratic Harrison as a man of the people