Nicholas Biddle

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Nicholas Biddle

• President of the Bank of the United States

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Reservations

• Eventually faced intrusion by white settlers

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Tariff

• A fee paid by merchants who imported goods

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John Quincy Adams

• House of Representatives selected him as
  president in 1824

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mudslinging

• Attempt to ruin an opponents reputation with
  insults

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Spoils system

• Practice of replacing government employees with
  the winning candidates supporters

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Nullification Act

• A law passed by South Carolina declaring tariffs
  illegal

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Whigs

• New political party that influenced the election
  of 1836

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Democratic-Republicans

• Favored states rights and limited central
  government

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Worcester v. Georgia

• Ruled that Georgia had no right to interfere with
  the Cherokee Nation

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Presidential campaigns

• Transformed into slogans, rallies, buttons, and
  mudslinging by 1828

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landslide

• Winning by a large margin

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John Quincy Adams

• Favored a strong military and federal government
  direction of the economy

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Trail of Tears

• Long, forced march of Cherokee from their homes
  to the west

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Bank of the U.S.

• Held and controlled the money supply of the U.S.

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Federal treasury

• Separated government finances from private banks

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Osceola

• Led attacks by the Seminoles on U.S. forts

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John C. Calhoun

• Believed states had the power to decide I federal
  laws were constitutional

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corrupt bargain

• Made between Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams

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Indian Removal Act

• Authorized the federal government to pay Native
  Americans to move west