Chapter 13

Question 1

canidates for the election of 1824

Answer 1

JQA, henry clay, william h. crawford, AJ

Question 2

election of 1824

Answer 2

AJ won pop vote and most of electoral votes
House had to choose among top 3 canidates (adams, AJ, Crawford)
adams won
corrupt bargain

Question 3

corrupt bargain

Answer 3

alleged deal made b/w clay and adams
Clay was speaker and had position to throw the vote
no crawford: stroke
no AJ: hated him
Adams: had much in common
Clay became secretary of state

Question 4

unpopularity of JQA

Answer 4

stubborn
nationalistic views against growing sectionalism
1st minority president
tried to deal w/ NAI fairly
tariff of abominations

Question 5

political parties

Answer 5

republicans split into 2 parties: national republicans vs jacksonian democrats

Question 6

campaigning for jackson in 1828

Answer 6

used hickory poles (tough hero)
presented as a champion of the common man
denounced JQA as a corrupt aristocrat

Question 7

campaigning for jqa in 1828

Answer 7

used oak (independence)
described AJ’s mom as a prostitute and wife as a cheater

Question 8

election of 1828

Answer 8

hyperboles
mudslinging
large voter turnout
aj support from W and S
JQA from N eng
Aj won 178-83

Question 9

ajs life

Answer 9

moved to tennesse where he became a judge and congressmen
involved in brawls, duels, and stabbings
war hero
frontier aristocrat: owned slaves. owned a mansion
1st pres from W

Question 10

the spoils system

Answer 10

rewarding political supporters w/ public office
party vs country
bought posts for caimpaign contribution
unqualiied and corrupt took office

Question 11

tariff of abominations (tariff of 1828)

Answer 11

needed to protect A industry
s believed it discriminated against them
-everywhere else was growing
nervous abt sectional balance
s caro lwd protests

Question 12

the south carolina exposition

Answer 12

newspaper that called to nullify the tariff in the states

Question 13

nullification crisis

Answer 13

s caro got 2/3 vote in state legislature to declare the tariffs null and void
threatened to secede from the union
aj dispatched navy and military to s caro

Question 14

end of the nullification crisis

Answer 14

clay proposed a compromise bill
reduced the tariff of 1832 by 10% over 8 yrs
force bill

Question 15

force bill

Answer 15

authorized the pres to use army and navy to collect federal tariffs

Question 16

aj and the nai

Answer 16

expansion = confrontation
1828: georgia declared cherokee triabal council illegal and asserted its juristdiction
Supreme court overturned this decision but aj wouldn’t enforce it
proposed the removal of tribes beyond the mississippi
uprooted more than 1000000 nai

Question 17

indian removal act of 1830

Answer 17

transplantatoin of nai e of mississippi r

Question 18

trail of tears

Answer 18

trail the nai trabeled to get to oklahoma

Question 19

five civilized tribes

Answer 19

creek, Chickasaw, cherokee, seminole, Choctaw
had legal codes, schools, setteled socities, alphabet

Question 20

blackhawk war

Answer 20

sauk and fox from illinois and wisconsin resisted eviction
lost

Question 21

nicholas biddle

Answer 21

president of BUS
called ‘czar nicholar” due to his unconstitutional powerq

Question 22

bank war (1832)

Answer 22

daniel webster and clay presented congress w/ bill to renew BUS charter
clay’s plan: of Aj signed, hw would lose his followers, if he didint, he would lose support from the wealthy (failed)
aj vetoed BUS and declared it unconst

Question 23

election of 1832

Answer 23

for the 1st time, a 3rd party entered: anti-masonic party
national nominating conventions to name canidate

Question 24

anti-masonic party

Answer 24

opposed influence of Masonic order
anti-jackson
became popular in NY, N eng, and mid atlantic
appealed ti A suspicions of secret socities
support from evangelical protestsnts

Question 25

wnding the BUS

Answer 25

aj decided to end bus before its expiration date
proposed no nore depoisiting and shrinking existing deposits

Question 26

death of BUS

Answer 26

left vacuum in economy
surplus funds were fed into pet banks
flooded USA w/ paper money
specie circular

Question 27

pet banks

Answer 27

banks chosen for pro-aj views

Question 28

specie circular

Answer 28

required all public lands to be purchased w/ metal money

Question 29

birth of the whigs

Answer 29

former national republican party
hated aj
formed when clay, calhoun, and webster got together to censure aj for his removal of the BUS

Question 30

election of 1836

Answer 30

aj wanted his vp (martin van buren) to take over and sstill rule through him
rigged nominating convention
whigs nominated several in the hopes no one would win and vote would go to house
buren still won

Question 31

panic of 1837 causes

Answer 31

rampet speculation
galmblers in w borrowed capital
aj’s finance (specie circular and bank war)
failure of wheat crops
financial stingency in eng

Question 32

effects of the panic of 1837

Answer 32

banks collapsed
commodity prices dropped
factories closed
van buren tried to create an indpendent treasury

Question 33

texas

Answer 33

1823: land to moses austin to bring 300 a families to become catholic and mexicanized (ignored stipulations)
friction b/w mexicans and texans over slavery, local rights, and immigration
1830: prohibited further importations of slaves and further colonization of As
texans refused to honor the decrees
-dacy crokket, davy bowies, and sam houston

Question 34

lone star rebellion

Answer 34

1836: texans declared their independence
santa anna invaded texas
the alamo
houston beat santa anna
santa withdrew troops and recongnized texas
a wouldn’t have texas due to slavery issue
independent nation

Question 35

election of 1840

Answer 35

van buren renominated by dems
whigs nominanted william henry harrison
log cabins and hard cider as symbols
Harrison won

Question 36

democrats

Answer 36

liberty of the individual
against “privlege” into gov
states’ rights
federal restraint in the economy
working class
expansionism
pro-slavery
S and W
AJ, Van buren

Question 37

whigs

Answer 37

value of community
against leaders that appealed to self-interest, classes, or sections
American System
strong federal gov
mixed on slavery
N eng and N
schools, moral reforms
upper and middle class professionals
henry clay, daniel webster

Question 38

“Old hickory” in office

Answer 38

rise of “common man”
= opportunity of white men
universal white male suffrage
vetoed more bills than all predecessors
“kitchen cabinet”

Question 39

liberty party

Answer 39

abolitionist party

Question 40

free soil pary

Answer 40

prevent expansion of slavery