Chapter 12 & 13

Question 0

Tejanos

Answer 0

Mexicans who claimed Texas as their home

Question 1

Boom town

Answer 1

Fast growing community

Question 2

Laissez-faire

Answer 2

A policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without letting government interfere.

Question 3

Spoils system

Answer 3

Practice of rewarding government jobs to political supporters.

Question 4

Mudslinging

Answer 4

Attempts to ruin opponents reputation with insults.

Question 5

Give a key fact about Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

Answer 5

Spanish General who fought the Texans during their independence.

Question 6

Give a key fact about Zachary Taylor

Answer 6

Lash Whig president who died in office.

Question 7

Give a key fact about John Tyler.

Answer 7

President who vetoed a charter to reopen the national bank twice and was expelled from the Whig party.

Question 8

Key fact about William Henry Harrison

Answer 8

President who was in office for 32 days

Question 9

Martin Van Buren

Answer 9

Resident who allowed the Panic of 1836 to occur and refused to step in.

Question 10

Give three good facts about Sam Houston

Answer 10

Leader of Texas Independence, 1st president to Lone Star State Republic, sent delegation to US to annex Texas.

Question 11

Give three good facts about Compromise of 1859

Answer 11

California entered Union as a free state, Texas got 10 million dollars after loosing a border dispute with New Mexico, and stronger fugitive slave act.

Question 12

Give three good facts about the Whigs

Answer 12

Political party that developed from the National Republicans, opponents of Jackson, destroyed by the issue of slavery.

Question 13

Give three good facts about the Tariff Debate

Answer 13

Southerns hated the tariff since it was hurting heir economy, Calhoun and South Carolina passed the Nullification Act, Jackson passed the Force Act in response.

Question 14

Give 3 good facts about Henry Clay

Answer 14

Speaker of House of Representatives, leading Whig, ran for president many times.

Question 15

Give 3 good facts about the War on Bank.

Answer 15

Jackson saw it as an institute of the wealthy, Clay and Webster forced the issue of election in 1832, Jackson won and destroyed the bank by removing all the federal funds.

Question 16

Give 3 good facts about Worcester v. Georgia

Answer 16

Georgia passed series of laws to restrict Native Americans, squired people living on Cherokee land to have a special license, a group of missionaries refused and they were jailed.

Question 17

Give 3 good facts about Cherokee Nation v. Georgia

Answer 17

Georgia passed a series of laws to restrict Native Americans, Cherokee Nation deemed a foreign entity not a foreign nation, Chief Justice John Marshall said they could not get involved, since not a foreign nation.

Question 18

Give 3 good facts about Lone Star Republic

Answer 18

1st president was Sam Houston, started during the flight of Alamo, immediately wanted to be annexed by the US.

Question 19

Give 3 good facts about the Panic of 1836

Answer 19

Started in part by War on the Bank, inflation increased and people stopped by returning bank notes, people stopped spending money which lead to a depression.