Chapter 13

Question 1

election of 1824. last of the old-style politics. big winner of this transformation was the common man.

Answer 1

Corrupt Bargain

Question 2

all white men could vote

Answer 2

universal white manhood suffrage

Question 3

Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, William H Crawford, and John Q. Adams.

Answer 3

the four (not two) republican candidates for the election of 1824

Question 4

who won the election?

Answer 4

Adams because everyone else dropped out (except for Jackson). Adams had the most support from fellow candidates.

Question 5

Why was it called the Corrupt Bargain?

Answer 5

When Adams gave the position of House Speaker to Clay, people thought this looked very suspicious.

Question 6

Adams pushed nationalist programs to build….

Answer 6

a) roads and canals
b) a national university
c) a national observatory

Question 7

who was Rachel Jackson?

Answer 7

during the election of 1828, Adams’ supporters accused her of being an adulteress to get at Jackson. Jackson still won the election (he had the south and the west. Adams only had the north)

Question 8

what did old hickory personify?

Answer 8

the rising “New Democracy”

Question 9

who was old hickory

Answer 9

Andrew Jackson

Question 10

Rewarded political party workers with government jobs

Answer 10

Spoils System

Question 11

Ran off to England with his accounts being $1 million short

Answer 11

Samuel Swartwout

Question 12

tax on imports. new England favored this because it protected manufacturers. southerners and westerners hated this because it drove prices up

Answer 12

Tariff of Abominations

Question 13

North’s main spokesperson for the tariffs

Answer 13

Daniel Webster

Question 14

south’s main spokesperson for the tariffs

Answer 14

John C Calhoun

Question 15

free slave who led a (unsuccessful) slave rebellion in 1822

Answer 15

Denmark Vesey

Question 16

by John C Calhoun. said that the sates could nullify or declare void the tariff

Answer 16

South Carolina Exposition

Question 17

removed the worst parts of the tariff of 1828

Answer 17

Tariff of 1832

Question 18

a) proposed that the tariff rate would decrease 10% over the next 8 years
b) authorizing the president to use force if necessary t collect the tariff

Answer 18

Henry Clay

Question 19

attempts to assimilate Indians into white society

Answer 19

society for progating the gospel among the Indians (est. 1787)

Question 20

tribe that became farmers

Answer 20

Cherokee

Question 21

tribe that developed an alphabet for themselves

Answer 21

Sequoyah

Question 22

Cherokee, along with the Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole were called…

Answer 22

Five Civilized Tribes

Question 23

Indians were to be removed from the rest

Answer 23

Jackson’s policy on Indians

Question 24

indian territory

Answer 24

Oklahoma

Question 25

Cherokee were forced to walk from Georgia to Oklahoma (4000 out of 15000 died)

Answer 25

Trail of Tears

Question 26

the wealthy preferred it since it gave the economy stability

Answer 26

hard money

Question 27

preferred by farmers. made loans easier to pay off

Answer 27

soft money

Question 28

the person who carried out bank policies of coining hard money and cracking down on loans.

Answer 28

Nicholas Biddle

Question 29

Jackson vetoed this because he thought he bank was trying to "kill him"

Answer 29

B.U.S

Question 30

emergence of a third political party. disliked the masons and Jackson

Answer 30

Anti- Masonic Party

Question 31

people of each party nominated their candidates

Answer 31

national nominating conventions

Question 32

printed their positions on current issues

Answer 32

party platform

Question 33

Jackson starting withdrawing money from the B.U.S and started depositing it into...

Answer 33

pet banks or wildcat banks

Question 34

overall, there was bank chaos and foreclosure

Answer 34

result of pet banks (the B.U.S. was also to blame)

Question 35

second political party. America now had a two party system

Answer 35

Whig Party

Question 36

next president in 1836

Answer 36

Martin Van Buren

Question 37

a) over speculation in land was the main cause. b) Jackson's back policies and resultant chaos c) specie circular- all debts were to be paid in gold or silver d) failure of crops e) failure of banks in England.

Answer 37

Panic of 1837

Question 38

the government should divorce itself from backing altogether

Answer 38

Divorce Bill

Question 39

a) must become Mexican citizens b) must become Catholic c) no slavery was allowed

Answer 39

Stephen Austin's conditions for entering Texas

Question 40

lone star republic

Answer 40

Texas in 1836

Question 41

6000 soldiers. destroyed 200 Texans including William Travis, Davy Crockett, and Jim Bowie. (Santa Anna had a similar victory at Goliad)

Answer 41

Battle of the Alamo

Question 42

slavery would delay Texas' statehood. a supposed conspiracy to gain a slave state

Answer 42

Slavocracy

Question 43

democratic nomination for president in 1840

Answer 43

Martin Van Buren

Question 44

Whigs nomination for president in 1840

Answer 44

William Henry Harrison

Question 45

top characteristic was the universal white manhood suffrage (all white men could vote)

Answer 45

New Democracy

Question 46

a) this system had reached maturity b) democrats- common man's party c) whigs- upper class's party

Answer 46

Two-Party system