Chapter 14 Identifications/Matching
William Henry Harrison
"Old Tippecanoe," who was portrayed by Whig propagandists as a hard-drinking common man of the frontier
Whigs
Anti-Jackson political party that generally stood for national community and an activist government
Sequoyah
Cherokee leader who devised an alphabet for his people
Submission Men
Contemptuous title nullifiers gave to the Unionist minority who advocated compromise and tried to block nullification.
Seminoles
Florida Indians that refused to accept removal and waged a bitter war against the American Army from 1825 to 1837
Sam Houston
Former Tennessee governor whose victory at San Jacinto in 1836 won Texas its independence
John C Calhoun
Former vice president, leader of South Carolina nullifiers, and bitter enemy of Andrew Jackson
Black Hawk
Illinois-Wisconsin area Sauk leader who was defeated by American regulars and militia in 1832
Specie Circular
Jackson's Treasury Department decree that required all public lands to be purchased with hard money (coins)
Henry Clay
Jackson's rival for the presidency in 1832, who failed to save the Bank of the United States
Force Bill
Legislation, called the "bloody bill" by radical nullifiers, which authorized the president to use the army and navy to collect tariffs
Santa Anna
Mexican general and dictator whose large army failed to defeat Texas rebels
Whigs
Political party that favored a more activist government, high tariffs, internal improvements, and moral reforms
Democrats
Political party that generally stressed individual liberty, the rights of the common people, and hostility to privilege
Evangelical Protest
Religious believers, originally attracted to the Anti-Masonic party and then to the Whigs, who sought to use political power for moral and religious reform
Masons
Ritualistic secret societies that became the target of a momentarily powerful third party in 1832
Osceola
Seminole leader whose warriors killed fifteen hundred American soldiers in years of guerrilla warfare
South Carolina
State where a radical Convention "nullified" the "Tariff of Abominations" and provoked Jackson to military action
Statehood
Status sought from the United States by Texas in 1837 but refused by Jackson because of the slavery issue
independent treasuries
System of keeping government funds separate vaults, established by Van Buren's "Divorce bill" in 1940
Nicholas Biddle
Talented but high-handed bank president who fought a bitter losing battle with the president of the United States
Bank of US
The "moneyed monster" that Clay tried to preserve and that Jackson killed with his veto in 1832
Martin Van Buren
The "wizard of Albany," whose economically troubled presidency was served in the shadow of Jackson
Mexico
The nation from which Texas won its independence from in 1836
Trail of Tears
The sorrowful path along which thousands of southeastern Indians were removed from Oklahoma
Seminoles and Cherokee
Two of the Southeastern Indian people who were removed to Oklahoma
Log Cabin
popular symbols of the somewhat bogus but effective campaign the Whigs used to elect "poor-boy" William Henry Harrison in 1840