Chapter 10 - Jacksonian America

Question 1

What was Andrew Jackson’s campaign slogan for the election of 1824?

Answer 1

“Old Hickory, the Nation’s Hero, and the People’s Friend.”

Question 2

What were the complications of the election of 1824?

Answer 2

Jackson won more votes than anyone else, but did not get the majority. Clay had to choose who he would want to win, and he chose Adams.

Question 3

What was the “corrupt bargain” of 1824?

Answer 3

When Adams won the election because of Clay, he chose Clay (against Monroe’s advice) to be his secretary of state. All of Jackson’s followers thought of this as a corrupt bargain.

Question 4

Who suggested the American system?

Answer 4

Henry Clay

Question 5

Who fought for his people’s freedom in 1832?

Answer 5

Black Hawk

Question 6

What was the decision ordering the release of the missionaries who had been ministering to the Indians?

Answer 6

Worcester v. Georgia

Question 7

What was the decision that gave lands west of the Mississippi to the eastern Indian tribes?

Answer 7

Indian Removal Act

Question 8

True or False? The Trail of Sorrows was when Cherokee Indians were forcibly moved to the newly created Indian Territory in modern-day Oklahoma.

Answer 8

False

Question 9

True or False? Southerners threatened to leave the Union over the “tariff of abominations.”

Answer 9

True

Question 10

Dirt-slinging is the term for making malicious statements about political opponents.

Answer 10

False

Question 11

The act of handing out government jobs to loyal followers is known as the _______________ system.

Answer 11

spoils

Question 12

President Jackson’s close friends became known as his “_________________ Cabinet.”

Answer 12

Kitchen

Question 13

Why was John Quincy Adams criticized during his presidency?

Answer 13

He seemed cold, aloof, and unexciting. He did a lot of things behind the scenes. He had many ideas about promoting art, literature, and science (“lighthouses in the sky”)

Question 14

What were the new techniques of mass campaigning that were introduced in the election of 1828?

Answer 14

Broadsides (posters), banners, editorials, and testimonials. There was also barbecues, banquets, and torchlight parades. Mudslinging was also introduced.

Question 15

Why was Andrew Jackson unique as president?

Answer 15

Some thought of him as a murderer (he killed someone in a duel), some accused him of adultery. He grew up in a log cabin. He was a lawyer, judge, land speculator, politician, Indian fighter, and planter. He was the first president from a state west of the original thirteen states and was the first president from a poor family.

Question 16

What were Andrew Jackson’s views on the Indians and their land?

Answer 16

He paid attention to the needs of Georgia even though the Cherokees were no threat.

Question 17

What was Worcester v. Georgia and Andrew Jackson’s response?

Answer 17

John Marshall decided to let the missionaries go free and take all the prospectors out of Indian lands. Jackson ignored him and invaded anyway.

Question 18

Why did the South resent high tariffs?

Answer 18

The South resented high tariffs because it made them buy American-made products.

Question 19

What was Andrew Jackson’s view of the National Bank?

Answer 19

Jackson sabotaged the National Bank by putting the money into his “pet banks” and it spiraled out of control.

Question 20

What was Henry Clay’s strategy for winning the election of 1832 and the election’s result?

Answer 20

He made the bank a campaign issue.

Question 21

What was Jackson’s effort to curb inflation?

Answer 21

specie circular

Question 22

What describes the withdrawal of a state from the Union?

Answer 22

secession

Question 23

What describes a president who is serving during the period of time between the election and the inauguration of a new president?

Answer 23

lame duck

Question 24

What did southerners call the tariff that was passed in 1828?

Answer 24

tariff of abominations

Question 25

What gradually lowered tariff duties?

Answer 25

Compromise of 1833

Question 26

What settled the Canadian boundary question?

Answer 26

Webster-Asburton Treaty

Question 27

True or False? North Carolina issued an Ordinance of Nullification.

Answer 27

False

Question 28

True or False? The state of New Mexico was added to the Union during the presidency of John Tyler.

Answer 28

False

Question 29

True or False? Martin Van Buren proposed an independent treasury system to separate the government from private banking.

Answer 29

True

Question 30

True or False? Andrew Jackson was a crude frontiersman at the time of his election to the presidency.

Answer 30

False

Question 31

True or False? John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and Andrew Jackson were all candidates in the 1824 presidential election.

Answer 31

True

Question 32

True or False? The South dislike protective tariffs because they forced the South to buy American-made products.

Answer 32

True

Question 33

True or False? The supposed “corrupt bargain” was between Adams and Clay.

Answer 33

True

Question 34

True or False? Andrew Jackson was determined to enforce federal laws.

Answer 34

True

Question 35

True or False? The election of 1828 involved the emergence of the Democratic Party.

Answer 35

True

Question 36

True or False? In 1836 the Whig strategy for winning the presidency included offering Martin Van Buren as its candidate.

Answer 36

False

Question 37

Who was the running mate of “Tippecanoe?”

Answer 37

John Tyler

Question 38

Who served in Congress after he was president?

Answer 38

John Quincy Adams

Question 39

Who ran into trouble with Georgia over his mission work in Indian lands?

Answer 39

Samuel Worcester

Question 40

What was found on Cherokee land which led to Georgia removing them and sending them west?

Answer 40

Gold

Question 41

Who created the “lighthouses in the sky?”

Answer 41

John Quincy Adams