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Jackson’s Term Vocabulary
Ancestor
A person from
whom one is
descended
Dependent
to rely on someone or something else
Descendants
a person whose descent can be traced to a particular individual; the offspring of an individual
Depression
A severe economic slump
Industrialist
a person involved in
the ownership
and management
of industry
Jacksonian Democracy
the idea of spreading political power to all the people, thereby ensuring majority rule
Nullification
states’ rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or enforce a federal law
Ordinance
a law or regulation
Policy
a proposed principle or plan of action of a person or a group of people
Regulate
to control or supervise
Resettlement
the transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement after an upheaval of some kind
Sectionalism
the placing of the interests of one’s own region ahead of the interests of the nation as a whole
Spoils System
the practice of winning candidates giving government jobs to political backers or supporters
Suffrage
the right to vote
Trail of Tearsthe tragic journey of the
Cherokee people from their homeland to Indian Territory