Age of Jackson and etc.

Question 1

What happened in 1824 with the election?

Answer 1

John Quincy Adams was elected president
contested election
(he ran against Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, William Crawford)

Question 2

In 1824 John Quincy Adams became president, who would be his Secretary of State?

Answer 2

Henry Clay would be his Secretary of State

Question 3

What did Andrew Jackson feel about the election in 1824?

Answer 3

Andrew Jackson was bitter about losing, claimed Adams and Clay were corrupt

Question 4

What was Jackson the first president of? And what was he a symbol of?

Answer 4

Jackson – first president who is not an “elite”
raised to a poor family, in Kentucky, orphaned young, rose up through the military
Jackson was a popular figure, and became a symbol of the American Dream

Question 5

What happened in 1828?

Answer 5

Jackson ran against Quincy Adams, this time he won, began first of 2 terms as president

Question 6

What did the Jacksonian Democracy depend a lot on? What did he want? And what did he do to make a “spoils system”?

Answer 6

Jacksonian Democracy - depends a lot on his personality
He wanted more power for the president, but smaller federal government
Spoils System - appointed people to his cabinet just because they were his friends

Question 7

Sectionalism problems

Answer 7

West vs. North. vs. South

Question 8

What did Westerners want?

Answer 8

Westerners really wanted land from the Indians, and wanted public land at cheap prices

Question 9

What were Southerners against in the 1820s?

Answer 9

Southerners were against tariffs (taxes on imports) – helped the north, hurt the south

Question 10

In 1828, what was the Nullification Crisis?

Answer 10

In South Carolina, senator John Calhoun disagreed with a tariff, so he claimed states could Nullify (ignore) a law they felt was unconstitutional

Question 11

From the Nullification Crisis, what did South Carolina threaten to do?

Answer 11

South Carolin threatened to secede (leave the union) if the tariff was not repealed

Question 12

What did Jackson not support?

Answer 12

Jackson did not support nullification or state’s rights if they conflicted with federal law – he wanted union preserved

Question 13

Jackson vs. Native Americans - What happened?

Answer 13

Jackson vs. Native Americans

Indian Removal Policy was meant to move many eastern tribes off land white folds wanted and putting them in Oklahoma
Tribes: Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Seminole, and others from Ohio valley

Question 14

What happened in 1838? How many marched and how many died?

Answer 14

Culminates in the Trail of Tears 1838 army marched 16,000 Cherokee to Oklahoma, About 4,000 died along the way

Question 15

What did Georgia want to do? What did the Supreme Court say? What did Jackson do?

Answer 15

Georgia wanted to seize Indian land, Supreme Court said only U.S. government can do that – Jackson ignored court ruling saying “Marshall made his decision, let him enforce it.”

Question 16

Jackson’s War on the Bank, what happened?

Answer 16

Andrew Jackson opposed a national bank, and in 1832 did not renew its charter

Question 17

What did Jackson vetoe?

Answer 17

Congress voted to renew the charter

Question 18

What did Supreme Court rule?

Answer 18

Supreme Court ruled that a national bank IS constitutional

Question 19

Jackson felt it was corrupt, and so what did he do?

Answer 19

He took federal funds out of the bank – put $ in state banks

Question 20

What did state banks do that started to shut them down?

Answer 20

State banks loaned out too much paper money, w/out backing it with gold or silver

Question 21

When the banks loaned out too much money, this caused _______ – so many banks went _______, in _____ factories ______, people were _______, _______, and _________.

Answer 21

This caused bank panics – so many banks went bankrupt, in 1837 factories closed, people were jobless homeless hungry

Question 22

When Jackson left office what happened?

Answer 22

When Jackson left office and Van Buren was left to clean up the mess

Question 23

Whigs have __ presidents, then they _______

Answer 23

Whigs have 4 presidents, then they disband

Question 24

What did mountain men open? What type of men/ what did they do?

Answer 24

Mountain men open the American west – single men, trapping/trading, not changing Indian way of life

Question 25

Soon after, settlers head west for various reasons, What were those reasons?

Answer 25

cheap land, gold/silver, farms, developers

Question 26

1821 Santa Fe Trail, what was that?

Answer 26

Land in Mexico was offered to settlers as a buffer with Indians – many Americans settled in Mexico, especially Texas

Question 27

Texas wants to be an independent nation of their own as of ____ – And what battle happened?

Answer 27

And Texas wanted to be an independent nation of their own as of 1836 – Battle of the Alamo in San Antonio (Sam Houston, Daniel Boone, Jim Bridger)

Question 28

What did American settlers claim Texas to be? And what does Mexico say to that?

Answer 28

American settlers claim Texas to be an independent country (from Mexico) – Mexico says no, send army led by Santa Anna February 23, 1836

Question 29

Alamo is defended by about ___ Texans, against _____ Mexicans – hold out for __ days, but in the end, nearly all ______ are _______

Answer 29

Alamo is defended by about 300 Texans, against 1,800 Mexicans – hold out for 13 days, but in the end, nearly all Texans are killed

Question 30

What was Goliad? What happened to the Texans taken by Mexicans?

Answer 30

Goliad, was another Texas fort, Texans were taken prisoner by the Mexican army, marched away from the fort, lined up at a small creek, and executed

Question 31

What happened in 1847?

Answer 31

1847, hundreds, and then thousands settled in Utah