Chapter 12

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Andrew Jackson

Question 2

When does the House of Representatives determine the President?

Answer 2

When their is no majority reached

Question 3

Who was involved in the Corrupt Bargain?

Answer 3

John Quincy Adams and Clay

Question 4

Who won the Election of 1824?

Answer 4

John Quincy Adams

Question 5

Who were the candidates of the Election of 1828?

Answer 5

Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams

Question 6

What is mudslinging?

Answer 6

Saying bad stuff bout other politicians

Question 7

What is a landslide victory?

Answer 7

When a president wins a large amount of the votes over majority

Question 8

What was Andrew Jackson’s nickname?

Answer 8

Old Hickory

Question 9

What changed politics in Washington DC?

Answer 9

The Spoil System

Question 10

What is suffrage?

Answer 10

The Right to Vote.

Question 11

What is the spoils system?

Answer 11

The act of replacing government positions with people who supported you.

Question 12

What does it mean to secede?

Answer 12

To break away from.

Question 13

What was the Nullification Crisis?

Answer 13

When South Carolina said certain tariffs were unfair and threatened to secede.

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

To forcefully move someone from one place to the other.

Question 16

Where was the Indian Territory?

Answer 16

In Georgia

Question 17

Who is most famous for creating the written Cherokee language?

Answer 17

Sequoyah

Question 18

What group did not comply with the Indian Removal Act?

Answer 18

The Cherokee

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Georgia V. Cherokee Nation

Question 20

What was Jackson’s response to that court case?

Answer 20

He invaded anyway

Question 21

What was the Trail of Tears?

Answer 21

The trail Indians walked to the reservations

Question 22

Who led federal troops in moving the Cherokee?

Answer 22

?

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Seminole Wars

Question 24

What institution did Jackson try to kill?

Answer 24

The National Bank

Question 25

What President was inaugurated in 1837?

Answer 25

Martin Van Buren

Question 26

Who had the shortest Presidency in US History?

Answer 26

William Henry Harrison

Question 27

How did John Tyler become President?

Answer 27

He was Vice President and the main president died