Age of Jackson Vocab

money

• Ross's Landing
• Hugh Lawson White
• William Carroll
• currency

associated with or tending to cause increases in inflation

• William Carroll
• Qualla Reservation
• internal improvements
• inflationary

a prison for people convicted of serious crimes

• William Carroll
• Edward Ward
• majority
• penitentiary

federal projects, such as canals and roads, to develop the nation's transportation system

• Ancestral Lands
• Qualla Reservation
• internal improvements
• John Ross

to take the right to vote away from an individual or group

• John Ross
• disfranchise
• Andrew Jackson
• inflationary

The candidate or party that wins more than half the votes cast in an election.

• Ancestral Lands
• internal improvements
• majority
• Qualla Reservation

A government tax on imports or exports

• Spoils System
• disfranchise
• Indian Removal Act
• Tariff

Political party formed in 1834 to oppose policies of Andrew Jackson

• Whig Party
• Hugh Lawson White
• inflationary
• Ross's Landing

inability to read or write

• Trail of Tears
• illiteracy
• Davy Crockett
• John Ross

Lands that had belonged to their families, tribes or ancestors.

• Qualla Reservation
• Ancestral Lands
• Tariff
• Edward Ward