Chapter 12

Question 1

Who received the most electoral votes in the Election of 1824

Answer 1

Andrew Jackson

Question 2

When does the House of Representatives determine the President?

Answer 2

When no electoral Candidate gets a majority

Question 3

Who was involved in the Corrupt Bargain?

Answer 3

John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay

Question 4

Who won the Election of 1824?

Answer 4

John Quincy Adams

Question 5

Who were the candidates of the Election of 1828?

Answer 5

Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams

Question 6

What is mudslinging?

Answer 6

A attempt to ruin the opponent’s reputation with insults

Question 7

What is a landslide victory?

Answer 7

An overwhelming victory

Question 8

What was Andrew Jackson’s nickname?

Answer 8

“Old Hickory”

Question 9

What changed politics in Washington DC?

Answer 9

Jackson’s popularity with the common man

Question 10

What is suffrage?

Answer 10

The right to vote

Question 11

What is the spoils system?

Answer 11

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

Question 12

What does it mean to secede?

Answer 12

Threatening to break away from the union

Question 13

What was the Nullification Crisis?

Answer 13

An act declaring that South Carolina won’t pay for these “illegal” taxes

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Indian Removal Act

Question 15

What does relocation mean?

Answer 15

Move to a new place

Question 16

Where was the Indian Territory?

Answer 16

In modern day Oklahoma

Question 17

Who is most famous for creating the written Cherokee language?

Answer 17

Sequoyah

Question 18

What group did not comply with the Indian Removal Act?

Answer 18

The Cherokee

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Worcester V. Georgia

Question 20

What was Jackson’s response to that court case?

Answer 20

He didn’t care and ran them out any way

Question 21

What was the Trail of Tears?

Answer 21

The relocation and movement of the Cherokee from Georgia to Oklahoma

Question 22

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

Answer 22

The Seminole people

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 became president due to the death of William Henry Harrison