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 candidate gets a majority of the electoral votes

Question 3

Who was involved in the Corrupt Bargain?

Answer 3

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 & John Quincy Adams

Question 6

What is mudslinging?

Answer 6

Attempts to ruin their opponents 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

Right to vote

Question 11

What is the spoils system?

Answer 11

The practice of replacing government employees with the winning candidates supporters

Question 12

What does it mean to secede?

Answer 12

Break away from the union

Question 13

What was the Nullification Crisis?

Answer 13

When SC passed the nullification act, saying that they would not pay for illegal taxes.

Question 14

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

Answer 14

The IRA act of 1830

Question 15

What does relocation mean?

Answer 15

Move to a new place

Question 16

Where was the Indian Territory?

Answer 16

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 ignored the ruling and said “ John Marshall has made his decision and now let him enforce it”.

Question 21

What was the Trail of Tears?

Answer 21

Relocation and movement of Cherokee from Georgia to Oklahoma

Question 22

Who led federal troops in moving the Cherokee?

Answer 22

General Wilfred Scott

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Chief Osceola

Question 24

What institution did Jackson try to kill?

Answer 24

The banks

Question 25

What President was inaugurated in 1837?

Answer 25

Martin Van Buren

Question 26

Who had the shortest Presidency in US History?

Answer 26

William Henry Harrison

Question 27

How did John Tyler become President?

Answer 27

VP of Harrison and he took over after WHH died