Jackson’s Term Vocabulary

Ancestor

A person from

whom one is

descended

Dependent

to rely on someone or something else

Descendants

a person whose descent can be traced to a particular individual; the offspring of an individual

Depression

A severe economic slump

Industrialist

a person involved in

the ownership

and management

of industry

Jacksonian Democracy

the idea of spreading political power to all the people, thereby ensuring majority rule

Nullification

states’ rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or enforce a federal law

Ordinance

a law or regulation

Policy

a proposed principle or plan of action of a person or a group of people

Regulate

to control or supervise

Resettlement

the transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement after an upheaval of some kind

Sectionalism

the placing of the interests of one’s own region ahead of the interests of the nation as a whole

Spoils System

the practice of winning candidates giving government jobs to political backers or supporters

Suffrage

the right to vote

Trail of Tearsthe tragic journey of the

Cherokee people from their homeland to Indian Territory

between 1838 and 1839; thousands of Cherokee died