Chapter 12

Question 1

When does the House of Representatives determine the President?

Answer 1

When no electoral condidates get a majority of electoral votes

Question 2

Who was involved in the Corrupt Bargain?

Answer 2

The Speaker of the House, 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 their opponents 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

Andrew Jackson’s popularity with the common man

Question 9

What is suffrage?

Answer 9

Right to vote

Question 10

What is the spoils system?

Answer 10

The practice of replacing gov’t employees with the winning candidate’s supporters

Question 11

What does it mean to secede?

Answer 11

Leave

Question 12

What was the Nullification Crisis?

Answer 12

S.C. Passed the Nulification Act declaring that it would not pay fruse “illegal” 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

Move to a new 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

The Cherokee

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Worchester 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 enforce it.”

Question 20

What was the Trail of Tears?

Answer 20

Relocation and movement of Cherokee from Georgia to Oklahoma

Question 21

Who led federal troops in moving the Cherokee?

Answer 21

General Winfield Scott and an army of 7,000 federal troops

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Chief Osceola

Question 23

What institution did Jackson try to kill?

Answer 23

The National 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

He was VP of Harrison and when Harrison died, he became president.

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Andrew Jackson