ch. 11 vocabulary review. favorite son candidate who received the backing of his home state rather...
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Ch. 11 vocabulary review
Favorite son
Candidate who received the backing of his home state rather than that of the national party
majority
More than half
plurality
Largest single share
mudslinging
Attempts to ruin an opponent’s reputation with insults
landslide
An overwhelming victory
bureaucracy
A system in which nonelected officials carry out laws
Spoils system
The practice of replacing government employees with the winning candidate’s supporters
Nominating convention
The system in which delegates from the states selected the party’s presidential candidate
States’ rights
The idea that the states have many rights and powers that are independent of the federal government
relocate
To move someone to another place to live
Guerrilla (tactics)
Type of war tactics in which fighting forces make surprise attacks and then retreat into hiding
Log cabin campaign
An attempt to show presidential candidate William Henry Harrison as a “man of the people”
Jacksonian Democracy
The era of American politics when Andrew Jackson was in charge
Nullification Crisis
South Carolina nullified a federal tariff law & threatened to secede from the Union / Jackson threatened to send in troops
Republic of Texas
The nation formed after Texas gained independence from Mexico
Abolitionists
People who actively worked to abolish or get rid of slavery
Trail of Tears
Route the Cherokees took to Indian Territory after being forced from their land in the East (4,000 died)
Suffrage
The right to vote
Caucus
System where major political candidates are chosen by committee members of Congress
nullify
Cancel
Secede
To break away
tariff
Fee paid by merchants who imported goods
veto
To reject a bill
Laissez-faire
The government should interfere as little as possible in the nation’s economy
depression
A period in which business and employment fall to a very low level
Suffrage
The right to vote