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Glossary
I have nothing personal.
The states favorite son won the
election.
people they won’t vote for
They received backings from their
home state rather than the national
government.
Favorite Son
If they didn’t have their states behind
them they would lose the election
Wanted in office
Antonym- Secondary
Personally I love majority, it rules,
because it satisfies the most people.
Majority
In Congress the majority of the votes,
if ⅔ or more wins.
Synonym- Superiority
More than half, or greater
number.
Yes, people will be mad
about what the majority
says because not
everybody said yes or no
but most of the people,
depending on what they
picked, will get what they
want it they are in the
majority and not minority.
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I learned that it isn’t by a bunch of
votes, but by some.
Bob won the election by winning a
plurality of their votes.
least
a number of votes that is
more than the number of
votes for any other
candidate or party but that
is not more than half of the
total number of votes
Plurality
It shows who won, but not my a lot of
votes
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During presidential elections, I
usually participate in mudslinging.
The British were
mudslinging the
Americans to bring in
more British soldiers to
fight.
Complementing
Mudslinging
Trash Talking
The use of insults and
accusations, esp. unjust
ones, with the aim of
damaging the reputation
of an opponent..
Mudslinging is used to make the
other team or group look worse in
order to make your’s look better.
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Close
My family saw a landslide.
There was a landslide at the football
sweep
game.
An overwhelming victory
Landslide
You won by a huge gap
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Personal: The women's suffrage
made it so women could vote.
The women's suffrage was a fiet to
vote for public election.
Disagreement
Suffrage
Petition
The right to vote gained
through the democratic
process.
They changed the US by making it
so women could vote.
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Personal
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Bureaucracy
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arned about the spoils
l.
nt uses the spoils system
the constitution
Merit System- The system of Employing
And Promoting Civil Servants on the
Basis of ability.
Spoils System
Plunder.
The Practice of a Successful Political
Party giving public office to its
supporters.
Importance: There is many important
things about the spoils system it helps
the government a lot.
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A caucus system wouldn’t be a bad
government.
The United States had once used a
caucus system.
Dictator
Caucus
Democracy
Major political candidates were chose
by committees made up of members
Congress.
It was a system not supported by
citizens.
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Nominating Convention
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Free
Personal: It means that were going
o be paying higher prices on
everything.
Tariff
The United States imports cars from
Koreas and they put tariffs.
Duty
A tax on imports and exports.
Importance: It helps the United
States or the manufacture than
across because they can get it
cheaper here.
Repeal
Personal: I cancel events a lot.
We are going to nullify the meeting.
Nullify
negate
To cancel or make ineffective
Importance: so that you can cancel
things.
join
to leave or
withdraw
When we went on our trip into the
deep south, I learned a lot about the
Civil War and how the South tried to
eave the Union.
Secede
Secede means leaving, so when you
leave, you are seceding and most
likely not coming back.
The Confederacy
tried to secede
from the Union.
resign
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relocated to West Union when I
moved
The settlers
relocated in the
West.
Stay
Relocate
Move
Move to a new place
and establish one's
home or business there.
Some things must be
moved to someplace else.
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Personal: This helped
me understand how we
won the war against
Britain.
During the march from
Concord to Lexington,
we used Guerilla Tactics
to defeat and shoot the
Redcoats.
Organized Warfare
Referring to surprise
attacks or raids rather
than organized warfare.
Guerrilla Tactics
These tactics helped us
win the war against the
British.
Surprised Attack
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Personal: I learned that Andrew
Jackson vetoed the bill to renew
the Bank’s charter.
People voted to
veto the new bill.
Approve
Veto
Forbid
To reject a bill
and prevent it
from becoming a
law.
Importance: It gives people
the chance to refuse
something they don’t like.
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learned that the U.S. went through
many periods of depression to make
his country independent.
The captain was in serious
depression after losing money.
bad economy
Depression
Rise in economy
severe despondency and dejection,
typically felt over a period of time and
accompanied by feelings of
hopelessness and inadequacy
Without depression everyone would
be greedy.
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have a pretty laissez-faire attitude,
and let people do what they want.
The country with the most laissezaire economy is Hong Kong
Dictatorship (like North Korea)
The policy that government should
interfere as little as possible in the
nation’s economy. It is French,
means “allow to do” or “Let it be”
Laissez-Faire
Many people thought they should
have a laissez-faire government that
allowed them more freedom.
Nonintervention
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We learned about the Log Cabin
Campaign in Social Studies.
Many people took part in the Log
Cabin Campaign.
Inaction
It saw President Martin Van Buren
Fight for re-election during a time of
economic depression against a Whig
Party unified for the first time behind
war hero William Henry Harrison and
his log cabin campaign.
Log Cabin Campaign
It was to get him to be nominated for
president.
Presidential Campaign
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First president to assume command
with his power to veto.
A twenty dollar bill has Andrew
Jackson’s face on it.
John Quincy Adams
7th President of the U.S.
Andrew Jackson
He was the seventh president of the
United States.
Nickname is Old Hickory
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Daniel Webster
He was responsible for the Missouri
Compromise between the free states
and the slave states.
Without Henry Clay, Maine could
have become a slave state and
Missouri, a free state.
Henry Clay
He was the one who came up with
the greatest compromises.
Henry Clay is famous for his
compromises.
John C. Calhoun
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Reponsible for establishing the
second bank of the United States.
John C. Calhoun was a famous
politician in South Carolina.
Andrew Jackson
One of the leading war hawks in the
war in Great Britain in 1812.
John C. Calhoun
Former United States representative.
Henry Clay
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A law passed by Congress on
May 28, 1830, during the
presidency of Andrew Jackson. It
authorized the president to
People who are in favor of letting the
negotiate with Indians tribes in
Indians keep their land.
the Southern United States for
their removal to federal territory
west of the Mississippi River in
exchange for their homelands.
Personal: I learned that the Indian
Removal Act ended up having many
indians die.
Indian Removal Act
When The Indian Removal Act
many Indians died or got sick.
U.S. Government
The importance of The Indian
Removal Act is that it gave our
settlers land to live on.
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The Indians allowed to
stay in their home
through national
reserves.
have never been forced to leave my
home because of my race.
Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears is now Indians being forced out
a national trail.
of their homes and land.
The Trail of Tears is a name
given to the ethnic cleansing and
forced relocation of Native
American nations from
southeastern parts of the United
States following the Indian
Removal Act of 1830.
It was the unjust treatment of
Indians.
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Personal
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General Winfield Scott
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Warrior
Chief of Sauk Indians.
He died on Oct. 3,1838 in
Davis County Iowa.
Black Hawk
He led the force of the Sauk
and Fox back to Illinois.
Black Hawk was the Chief of
the Sauk Indians.
President
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have never met a Whig.
The big whigs are cheating us.
Liberal party
Whigs
British reforming and
constitutional party.
A member of the British
reforming and constitutional
party that sought the
supremacy of Parliament and
was eventually succeeded in
the 19th century by the
Liberal Party..
The whigs tried to control the British
legislature.
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Personal
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Martin Van Buren
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William Henry Harrison
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