Chapter 10

Question 0

Who is Martin Van Buren?

Answer 0

-New York Senator, who helped organize the Democratic effort and urged Jackson to avoid monitoring devising issues

Question 1

Who is John Quincy Adams?

Answer 1

-son of the former president ,and Monroe’s secretary of state

Question 2

Who is Andrew Jackson?

Answer 2

• The hero of the 1820’s to the 1840’s. Was inaugurated in 1829.
• aka Old Hickory

Question 3

Who is Henry Clay?

Answer 3

The chief advocate of this economic nationalism in congress. Created the American System.

Question 4

What are the three parts of the American System?

Answer 4

1. Protective Tariffs
2. Renewal of the National Bank
3. Internal Improvements

Question 5

What is a tariff?

Answer 5

A tax on imported goods

Question 6

What is the Tariff of 1816?

Answer 6

America’s first protectionist legislation. It encouraged some economic growth, and discouraged competition p, which meant higher consumer prices.

Question 7

What are internal improvements?

Answer 7

Funding for roads, canals, and harbor developments that would bolster commerce and communication. They were the least successful aspect of the American System.

Question 8

What is a caucus?

Answer 8

A closed meeting of party leaders

Question 9

What is the “Corrupt Bargain”?

Answer 9

An underhanded deal to give Adams the presidency in return for making Henry Clay secretary.

Question 10

Who is John C Calhoun?

Answer 10

-Of South Carolina, beat Jackson by a landslide.

Question 11

What is the Spoils System?

Answer 11

A patronage that would endure for half a century, taking on a highway partisan political character. Basically rotation in the office.

Question 12

What is the Tariff of Abominations?

Answer 12

• Dubbed this by the South; in 1828 Congress passed a new higher protective tariff with rates of up to 50% on some imports.
• the north favored it
• the south opposed it

Question 13

What is nullification?

Answer 13

Whereby states could nullify or reject congressional acts they deemed unconstitutional

Question 14

What is a Force Bill?

Answer 14

Gave the president war powers against South Carolina

Question 15

What is the Compromise of 1833?

Answer 15

• Reduced the Tariff of 1832, making it acceptable to South Carolina.
• proposed by Henry Clay
• passed on March 1

Question 16

What is the third party?

Answer 16

• Aka Anti-Masonic Party; arose shortly before the election, stimulated by the questionable activities of the Masonic Lodge and other secret societies.
• opposed Catholic immigration and supported federal funding for internal improvements.

Question 17

What is a platform?

Answer 17

A written statement describing where the party stood on various issues

Question 18

What is National Convention?

Answer 18

Where state delegates gathered to nominate the party’s presidential and vice presidential candidates.

Question 19

What is the Specific Circular of 1836?

Answer 19

• It ordered the prohibition of the use of anything except gold or silver coins or “hard money” for the purchase of public land.
• no one could use paper money to buy land
• made by Andrew Jackson

Question 20

What is the Trail of Tears?

Answer 20

The Cherokees and the other Civilized Tribes were forcibly moved west to what is today Oklahoma. The hard journey from their homes resulted in the deaths of many Indians.

Question 21

Who is William Henry Harrison?

Answer 21

• An old Indian Fighter, who was nominated by the Whigs to be president in 1840
• the hero of the Battle of Tippecanoe
• he was one of the oldest presidents
• died only a month after his election from pneumonia

Question 22

Who is John Tyler?

Answer 22

• A states rights Virginian, friend of Henry Clay, and Harrison’s running mate (Vice President).
• took office after Harrison’s death

Question 23

What is the Panic of 1819?

Answer 23

The collapse of cotton and the 2nd national bank

Question 24

Who is Sequoyah?

Answer 24

Cherokee who developed a written Cherokee alphabet, allowing the Indians to publish newspapers and the Bible in their langauge

Question 25

What is the Panic of 1837?

Answer 25

-The depression that occurred after Van Buren took office and the economy collapsed.

Question 26

What caused the Panic of 1837?

Answer 26

• Jackson’s economic policies and his failing malpractice
• irresponsible practices of the states bank
• wheat crop failure
• cotton prices

Question 27

What is the Independent Treasury?

Answer 27

• Was to have only federal funds deposited in it, and only government employes were to manage it
• aka “sub treasury system”