Nicholas Biddle

President of the Bank of the United States

Reservations

Eventually faced intrusion by white

settlers

Tariff

A fee paid by merchants who imported goods

John Quincy Adams

House of Representatives selected him as

president in 1824

mudslinging

Attempt to ruin an opponent’s reputation

with insults

Spoils system

Practice of replacing government

employees with the winning candidate’s

supporters

Nullification Act

A law passed by South Carolina declaring

tariffs illegal

Whigs

New political party that influenced the election

of 1836

Democratic-Republicans

Favored states’ rights and limited central

government

Worcester v. Georgia

Ruled that Georgia had no right to interfere with the Cherokee

Nation

Presidential campaigns

Transformed into slogans, rallies,

buttons, and mudslinging by 1828

landslide

Winning by a large margin

John Quincy Adams

Favored a strong military and federal government direction of the economy

Trail of Tears

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

Bank of the U.S.

Held and controlled the money supply of the

U.S.

Federal treasury

Separated government finances from private

banks

Osceola

Led attacks by the Seminoles on U.S.

forts

John C. Calhoun

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

“corrupt bargain”

Made between Henry Clay and John Quincy

Adams

Indian Removal Act

Authorized the federal government to pay

Native Americans to move west