Adding something. For our purposes – adding territory.

A phase in the business cycle in which the GNP increases. During an expansion, economic recovery occurs, and both employment and wages increase.

General who won the Battle of New Orleans. 7 th President. Associated with the common people, the spoils system, and pet banks.

Period in the 1840’s when the United States was expanding to the Pacific Ocean. People felt that the U.S. had the God- given right to extend to the Pacific. James K. Polk was associated with Manifest Destiny.

War with Mexico from In the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo the U.S. acquired the Mexican Cession which included California and 3 more southwest states.

The refusal of a state to enforce a U.S. law within its borders.

After Andrew Jackson vetoed the re-charter of the Bank of the U.S. in 1832 he put government money into state banks.

11 th President of the U.S. Associated with Manifest Destiny.

Written in 1828 by John C,. Calhoun, it protested the “Tariff of Abominations.”

The awarding of government jobs based up support rather than qualifications. Associated with Andrew Jackson.

The idea that states could limit the power of the national government by declaring a law “null and void.”

A tax on goods entering a country.

A high protective tariff by John Quincy Adams designed to protect northern factories but attacked by Southerners as the Tariff of Abominations

Southern name for the Tariff of John C. Calhoun resigned from the Vice-Presidency over this issue.

Forced movement of 15,000 Cherokee Indians at gunpoint from Georgia to Oklahoma. Many died, hence the name, the Trail of Tears. Associated with Andrew Jackson.

Movement west of people for farming, mining and adventure. Highpoint was during Manifest Destiny during the 1840’s.