Chapter 12

Question 1

When does the House of Representatives determine the President?

Answer 1

When no electoral candidate gets a majority of electorial votes

Question 2

Who was involved in the Corrupt Bargain?

Answer 2

Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams

Question 3

Who won the Election of 1824?

Answer 3

John Quincy Adams

Question 4

Who were the candidates of the Election of 1828?

Answer 4

Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams

Question 5

What is mudslinging?

Answer 5

Attempts to ruin your opponent’s reputation with insults

Question 6

What is a landslide victory?

Answer 6

An overwhelming victory

Question 7

What was Andrew Jackson’s nickname?

Answer 7

Old Hickory

Question 8

What changed politics in Washington DC?

Answer 8

Jackson’s popularity with the common Man

Question 9

What is suffrage?

Answer 9

The right to vote

Question 10

What is the spoils system?

Answer 10

Practice of replacing gov’t employees w/ the winning of candidates supporters

Question 11

What does it mean to secede?

Answer 11

To break away

Question 12

What was the Nullification Crisis?

Answer 12

When SC passed nullifacation Act, Declareing it wouldn’t pay these “ illeagal” taxes

Question 13

What was the act passed by Congress to relocate Native Americans?

Answer 13

Indian removal act

Question 14

What does relocation mean?

Answer 14

To move to another place

Question 15

Where was the Indian Territory?

Answer 15

Modern day Oklahoma

Question 16

Who is most famous for creating the written Cherokee language?

Answer 16

Sequoyah

Question 17

What group did not comply with the Indian Removal Act?

Answer 17

Cherokee

Question 18

What court case held that the Cherokee were entitled to federal protection?

Answer 18

Worcester v. Georgia

Question 19

What was Jackson’s response to that court case?

Answer 19

” John Marshall has made his decision and now let him enfource it

Question 20

What was the Trail of Tears?

Answer 20

Relocation of cherokee from Georgia to Oklahoma

Question 21

Who led federal troops in moving the Cherokee?

Answer 21

General Whnfield Scott

Question 22

What leader went to war with federal troops and resisted removal?

Answer 22

Chief Oceola

Question 23

What institution did Jackson try to kill?

Answer 23

The bank

Question 24

What President was inaugurated in 1837?

Answer 24

Martin Van Buren

Question 25

Who had the shortest Presidency in US History?

Answer 25

William Henry Harrison

Question 26

How did John Tyler become President?

Answer 26

WHH died

Question 27

Who received the most electoral votes in the Election of 1824?

Answer 27

Jackson