Chapter 12✏️

Question 0

When does the House of Representatives determine the President?

Answer 0

When no electoral candidate gets the majority of electoral votes

Question 1

Who received the most electoral votes in the Election of 1824?

Answer 1

Jackson

Question 2

Who was involved in the Corrupt Bargain?

Answer 2

Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams

Question 3

Who won the Election of 1824?

Answer 3

John Quincy Adams

Question 4

Who were the candidates of the Election of 1828?

Answer 4

Jackson vs. Quincy Adams

Question 5

What is mudslinging?

Answer 5

Attempts to ruin your opponent’s reputation with insults

Question 6

What is a landslide victory?

Answer 6

An overwhelming victory

Question 7

What was Andrew Jackson’s nickname?

Answer 7

Old Hickory

Question 8

What changed politics in Washington DC?

Answer 8

Jackson’s popularity with the common man

Question 9

What is suffrage?

Answer 9

Right to vote

Question 10

What is the spoils system?

Answer 10

Practice of replacing government employees with the winning candidate’s supporters

Question 11

What does it mean to secede?

Answer 11

Break away

Question 12

What was the Nullification Crisis?

Answer 12

South Carolina passed this act stating that they would not pay these “illegal” taxes

Question 13

What was the act passed by Congress to relocate Native Americans?

Answer 13

Indian removal act

Question 14

What does relocation mean?

Answer 14

Move to a new place

Question 15

Where was the Indian Territory?

Answer 15

Oklahoma

Question 16

Who is most famous for creating the written Cherokee language?

Answer 16

Sequoyah

Question 17

What group did not comply with the Indian Removal Act?

Answer 17

The Cherokee

Question 18

What court case held that the Cherokee were entitled to federal protection?

Answer 18

Worcester vs. Georgia

Question 19

What was Jackson’s response to that court case?

Answer 19

Ignored the ruling and said “John Marshall has made this decision and now let him in force it.”

Question 20

What was the Trail of Tears?

Answer 20

Relocation and movement of the Cherokee from Georgia to Oklahoma

Question 21

Who led federal troops in moving the Cherokee?

Answer 21

General Winfield Scott

Question 22

What leader went to war with federal troops and resisted removal?

Answer 22

Chief Osceola

Question 23

What institution did Jackson try to kill?

Answer 23

The national bank

Question 24

What President was inaugurated in 1837?

Answer 24

Martin Van Buren

Question 25

Who had the shortest Presidency in US History?

Answer 25

William Henry Harrison

Question 26

How did John Tyler become President?

Answer 26

William Henry Harrison got pneumonia and died 32 days into his presidency