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 a candidate doesn’t receive the majority of the electoral votes

Question 3

Who was involved in the Corrupt Bargain?

Answer 3

Henry clay and john Adams

Question 4

Who won the Election of 1824?

Answer 4

John Adams

Question 5

Who were the candidates of the Election of 1828?

Answer 5

Jackson and john Quincy Adams

Question 6

What is mudslinging?

Answer 6

Attempts to ruin their opponents relationship with insults

Question 7

What is a landslide victory?

Answer 7

An overwhelming victory

Question 8

What was Andrew Jackson’s nickname

Answer 8

Old hickory

Question 9

What changed politics in Washington DC?

Answer 9

Jackson popularity

Question 10

What is suffrage?

Answer 10

The right to vote

Question 11

What is the spoils system?

Answer 11

The practice of replacing the government employees with 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’s act that states they would not pay the “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 to a new location

Question 16

Where was the Indian Territory?

Answer 16

Oklahoma

Question 17

Who is most famous for creating the written Cherokee language?

Answer 17

Seqouyah

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

Worechester v Georgia

Question 20

What was Jackson’s response to that court case?

Answer 20

Ignored it and made all of the Native Americans leave

Question 21

What was the Trail of Tears?

Answer 21

Relocation and movement of Cherokee from Georgia to Oklahoma

Question 22

Who led federal troops in moving the Cherokee?

Answer 22

General Winfield Scott

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Chief Osceola

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 Harris

Question 27

How did John Tyler become President?

Answer 27

He was Harrison vise president and was elected when WHH died