Unit 11

Question 1

What was unique about the election of 1824

Answer 1

1. Jackson lost to john Quincy Adams even though he had more votes
2. all four candidates in the election were from the Republican Party
3. none of the four candidates won the majority of Electoral Votes and so the election was
   decided in the House of Representatives

Question 2

Jackson claimed that a “corrupt bargain” was made after this person became the Secretary of
State under the new Adams Administration

Answer 2

Henry clay

Question 3

As President, John Q. Adams attempted to “bring the people together” by encouraging the
passage of programs geared at expanding on which two programs

Answer 3

arts and sciences and internal improvements

Question 4

The Republicans after the Election of 1824 split into these two major factions

Answer 4

Democrats and Whigs

Question 5

This man’s election in 1828 was a major victory for the “common man”

Answer 5

Andrew jackson

Question 6

Hamiltonianism is to Jeffersonianism as

Answer 6

Whigs is to Democrats

Question 7

What about American democracy impressed or shocked European travelers

Answer 7

lower class people were treated as equal to those in the upper class

Question 8

Suffrage is the right of a person to do what

Answer 8

Vote

Question 9

What Frenchman wrote about the spread of the American values of equality and freedom in his
book Democracy in America

Answer 9

Alexis de Tocqueville

Question 10

The decline in which of the following voting requirement allowed more and more people in
America to participate in the electoral process

Answer 10

Property

Question 11

The only group that could vote in America was

Answer 11

White males

Question 12

Which of the following expresses a unique truth about American democracy in the 1830s

Answer 12

An American commoner (someone born in the lower class) could become someone of
significance

Question 13

Nominating conventions replaced this former method of choosing presidential candidates in which candidates were selected in a private meeting of powerful members of the party

Answer 13

Caucus

Question 14

The term Jacksonian democracy refers to the spread of what in America

Answer 14

Equal rights to all

Question 15

The political practice of rewarding governmental jobs to loyal party supporters

Answer 15

Spoils system

Question 16

Andrew Jackson has been referred to as the self-made man because

Answer 16

he came from very humble beginnings and had to work hard to overcome many obstacles

Question 17

Which section of the country opposed the protective tariff because they believed it was passed to
benefit one section over another:

Answer 17

South

Question 18

Who secretly wrote the South Carolina Exposition in which he carefully outlined his Doctrine of
Nullification

Answer 18

John C. Calhoun

Question 19

Which of the following did South Carolina not do during the nullification crisis

Answer 19

attacked Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor

Question 20

During the nullification crisis, the passage of this bill by Congress would have given Jackson the
authority to send the U.S. Army into South Carolina

Answer 20

Force

Question 21

Whose compromise helped to bring the nullification crisis to an end by reducing the rate of the
protective tariff

Answer 21

Henry clay

Question 22

Why did South Carolina back down and rescind (take away) its Nullification Ordinance:

Answer 22

no other Southern State came to their aid

Question 23

Who was President of the 2nd Bank of the United States

Answer 23

Nicholas Biddle

Question 24

For which reason did Jackson veto the Bank’s renewed charter

Answer 24

he believed it was undemocratic and unconstitutional and only benefited the rich

Question 25

Who lost to Jackson in the Presidential Election of 1832 because the American people supported Jackson’s veto of the Bank’s charter

Answer 25

Henry Clay

Question 26

This Secretary of the Treasury was ordered by President Jackson to stop depositing government funds into the BUS and instead into state or “pet banks” (which led to the Panic of 1837)

Answer 26

Roger B. Taney

Question 27

What did white settlers want the U.S. Government to do with the Native Americans living in the South, a policy heavily supported by President Jackson

Answer 27

remove them to Indian Territory

Question 28

Which highly civilized Indian nation fought hard to keep their land through the legal process but in the end failed and were forced to travel the “Trail of Tears”

Answer 28

Cheroke

Question 29

President Jackson and most Americans believed that removal was the best policy primarily because they believed in this notion that American culture was far superior to Indian culture and that whites and Indians, because of their differences, could not coexist peacefully

Answer 29

Ethnocentrism

Question 30

What Cherokee Chief fought hard to convince Congress that the Treaty of New Echota did not represent the 17,000 Cherokee who refused to sign i

Answer 30

Chief John Ross

Question 31

Which of the following tribes resisted removal by waging a bloody war with the United States

Answer 31

Seminole

Question 32

Which of the following tribes resisted removal by waging a bloody war with the United States

Answer 32

Seminole

Question 33

What Sauk Chief led the Sauk and Fox raids in Illinois that nearly resulted in the total slaughter of his people by state and federal troops

Answer 33

Black hawk

Question 34

In this Supreme Court Case John Marshall ruled that the State of Georgia was unconstitutional in their attempt to force the Cherokee Nation to abide by state law

Answer 34

Worcester v. Georgia

Question 35

Which of the following was not one of the “five civilized tribes” of the South

Answer 35

Miami

Question 36

List the three choices Native Americans had to make when whites encroached on their land (these were the same choices Indians had to make since the colonial period when whites first came to America)

Answer 36

1. Assimilation 2. Relocation 3. Annihlation

Question 37

What Act forced Indians off their land in 1830

Answer 37

Indian removal act of 1830

Question 38

How many or what percentage of Cherokee signed the Treaty of New Echota that gave up Cherokee lands to the United States

Answer 38

2%

Question 39

What U.S. major was ambushed and slaughtered by Seminole and ex-slaves in Florida

Answer 39

Francis dade

Question 40

What was the name of the police force created by Native Americans while living on reservations in Indian Territory

Answer 40

Lightorsemen

Question 41

Why did white settlers want Native American land in the Southeastern United States

Answer 41

To grow cotton

Question 42

Which of the following was not one of the causes of the Panic of 1837

Answer 42

issuing paper money backed by gold & silver

Question 43

Which of the following was one of three the Whig candidates who lost the election of 1836

Answer 43

Daniel Webster

Question 44

Who was blamed by the American people for the Panic of 1837

Answer 44

Martin Van Buren

Question 45

President Van Buren created this federal institution that stored government money and regulated the practices of state banks

Answer 45

Federal treasury

Question 46

What President used the slogan of “O.K.” in his bid for re-election

Answer 46

Martin Van Buren

Question 47

The digging of dirt on a political opponent is often referred to as

Answer 47

Mudslinging

Question 48

Who won the Presidential Election of 1840 on the slogan “Tippecanoe and Tyler too!”

Answer 48

William Henry harrison

Question 49

What “accidental” President was kicked out of the Whig Party when he vetoed a bill to charter the 3rd Bank of the United States

Answer 49

John Tyler

Question 50

Critics of President Van Buren’s economic policies often referred to him as Martin Van what

Answer 50

Martin van ruin

Question 50

Critics of President Van Buren’s economic policies often referred to him as Martin Van what

Answer 50

Martin van ruin

Question 51

What killed newly elected President William Henry Harrison

Answer 51

Pneumonia

Question 52

List the 4 reasons Jackson hated the monster bank

Answer 52

1. Too powerful 2. Ran by Nicholas biddle 3. Undemocratic 4. Unconstitutional

Question 53

Winner and loser of 1824

Answer 53

Winner: john quincey Adams Loser: Andrew Jackson

Question 54

Winner and loser of 1828

Answer 54

Winner: Andrew Jackson Loser: john Quincy Adams

Question 55

Winner and loser 1832

Answer 55

Winner: Andrew jackson Loser: Henry clay

Question 56

Winner and loser of 1836

Answer 56

Winner: van buren Loser: Webster

Question 57

Winner and loser of 1840

Answer 57

Winner: Harrison Loser: van buren