Chapter 12

Question 1

Who was involved in the Corrupt Bargain?

Answer 1

Henry Clay and Adams

Question 2

What was Andrew Jackson’s nickname?

Answer 2

Old Hickory

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 and Quincy Adams

Question 5

What is mudslinging?

Answer 5

Attempts to ruin their opponents reputation with insults

Question 6

What is a landslide victory?

Answer 6

Blowout

Question 7

What changed politics in Washington DC?

Answer 7

Jacksons popularity with common man

Question 8

When does the House of Representatives determine the President?

Answer 8

When no electoral candidate gets a majority of electoral votes

Question 9

What is suffrage?

Answer 9

Right to vote

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Andrew Jackson

Question 11

What is the spoils system?

Answer 11

Practice of replacing gov’t employees with the winning candidates supporters

Question 12

What does it mean to secede?

Answer 12

Break away

Question 13

What was the Nullification Crisis?

Answer 13

South Carolina passed this declaring that they wouldn’t pay these “illegal” taxes

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Indian removal Act

Question 15

What does relocation mean?

Answer 15

Move away

Question 16

Where was the Indian Territory?

Answer 16

Modern day Oklahoma

Question 17

Who is most famous for creating the written Cherokee language?

Answer 17

Sequoyah

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Chief Osceola

Question 19

What was Jackson’s response to that court case?

Answer 19

Ignored the ruling and said “John Marshall has made his decision and now let him enforce it.”

Question 20

What was the Trail of Tears?

Answer 20

Relocation and movement of Cherokee from Georgia to Oklahoma

Question 21

How did John Tyler become President?

Answer 21

Harrison’s VP

Question 22

What group did not comply with the Indian Removal Act?

Answer 22

Cherokee

Question 23

What institution did Jackson try to kill?

Answer 23

National bank

Question 24

Who led federal troops in moving the Cherokee?

Answer 24

General Winfield Scott

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Worcester v. Georgia

Question 27

What President was inaugurated in 1837?

Answer 27

Martin van buren

Question 27

Who had the shortest Presidency in US History?

Answer 27

William Henry Harrison