Andrew jackson

Question 0

Who won the 1824 election?

Answer 0

John Quincy Adams

Question 1

Who got the most electoral votes in the 1824 election?

Answer 1

Andrew Jackson

Question 2

Who did Henry Clay support in the three candidate run-off and what did that result in?

Answer 2

JQA, and he was thought to have used his popularity in the House of Representatives to get them to vote for Adams in the run-off. Jackson’s supporters thought there was a corrupt bargain, and when Clay got the house to vote for Adams, JQA let Clay be his Secretary of State.

Question 3

What happened to the political party of the democratic republicans?

Answer 3

JQA’s party became the national republicans and Jackson’s party became the Democrats

Question 4

Who were the top candidates in the election of 1828?

Answer 4

Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams

Question 5

What were the campaigning strategies?

Answer 5

Mudslinging, where the campaign was based on insulting the opposing candidate

Question 6

Was the presidential candidates chosen by a caucus (meeting held by political party members) or a nominating convention (larger conventions with more people that nominated the candidates)?

Answer 6

Nominating convention

Question 7

By the election of 1828, what new thing could the common do?

Answer 7

Vote

Question 8

Why was Jackson called Old hickory?

Answer 8

Because he was a very tough man, like a hickory tree

Question 9

Who did Jackson want to make life better for, the rich and well born or the common man?

Answer 9

Common man

Question 10

What was the kitchen cabinet?

Answer 10

A group like the governmental cabinet who were made up of Jackson’s most trusted friends who gave him advice

Question 11

What was the spoils system?

Answer 11

The spoils system was when Jackson took civil servants out of their “permanent” jobs to give new politicians a chance. People thought the “new politicians” were more like normal people who weren’t as educated, so the rich and well born became mad.

Question 12

What is nullification?

Answer 12

To make something amount to nothing or have no value

Question 13

What is a tariff?

Answer 13

A tax imposed by the government on goods imported from another country

Question 14

What region supported the tariff law and why?

Answer 14

The north, because people had factories and were able to pay the tax but still get lots of money from their job

Question 15

What region didn’t support the tariff law?

Answer 15

The south, because people wouldn’t get as much money back from what they paid, since they had no factories

Question 16

Which people were mad about the tariff law?

Answer 16

States’ rights believers

Question 17

What did South Carolina threaten to do if the tariff law wasn’t nullified?

Answer 17

Secede from the United States of America

Question 18

Who led the south in trying to nullify the law?

Answer 18

Vice President john C. Calhoun

Question 19

What did Jackson do when South Carolina threatened to secede?

Answer 19

He lowered the tariff and created a force bill where if people didn’t pay the lowered tax, the army would come collect the taxes. If the people still didn’t pay, Jackson said he would hang them on the highest trees in the state.

Question 20

Did the force bill stop South Carolina’s threat?

Answer 20

Yes, but there was now tension between the north and south

Question 21

Why did Henry Clay force Jackson to make a decision about the bank contract?

Answer 21

Clay would run against Jackson in the 1832 election, and both decisions Jackson could make took away votes for him

Question 22

Why did Jackson not like the Bank of the United States?

Answer 22

It had a monopoly on all federal deposits

Question 23

What did Jackson think of Nicholas bridle, the president of the bank?

Answer 23

He distrusted Biddle

Question 24

What did Jackson do after he vetoed the bank contract?

Answer 24

He took all the money out if the bank and moved it to individual state banks, called pet banks. It was called starving the national bank, because it eventually ran out of money and shut down.

Question 25

What was the Whig party?

Answer 25

A party created by states’ rights believers who opposed Jackson having too much power, and that he was more of a king than a president.

Question 26

Who was Martin Van Buren?

Answer 26

Jackson’s Vice President during the battle of the bank, and became president in 1837

Question 27

What was the panic of 1837?

Answer 27

A time period when speculators couldn’t pay back loans to a bank, so banks closed, and an economical depression began

Question 28

What was the trail of tears?

Answer 28

An event where Jackson forced the Cherokee Indians in Georgia to move west so settlers could move into Georgia. Many died in one of the most brutal orders in the history of America.

Question 29

What were the five civilized tribes like?

Answer 29

Similar to Americans, having their own language, constitution, newspaper, and more.

Question 30

Who were the five civilized tribes?

Answer 30

Creek, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole

Question 31

What did Osceola and the Seminoles do for 10 years?

Answer 31

Fought removal

Question 32

In 1931, what did Supreme Court justice John Marshall and the Supreme Court decide?

Answer 32

The Indians had a right to their lands

Question 33

What was the Indian removal act of 1831?

Answer 33

An act that allowed the president to make treaties with the Indians to have them move west