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 of electoral votes.

Question 3

Who was involved in the Corrupt Bargain?

Answer 3

Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams

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

Attempts to ruin their 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, he was as tough as a hickory stick.

Question 9

What changed politics in Washington DC?

Answer 9

Jackson’s popularity with the common man.

Question 10

What does it mean to secede?

Answer 10

Break away from the union.

Question 11

What was the Nullification Crisis?

Answer 11

South Carolina passed the Nullification Act, declaring that it would not pay tariffs.

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Indian Removal Act

Question 13

What does relocation mean?

Answer 13

Move to a new place.

Question 14

Where was the Indian Territory?

Answer 14

Modern day Oklahoma

Question 15

Who is most famous for creating the written Cherokee language?

Answer 15

Sequoyah

Question 16

What group did not comply with the Indian Removal Act?

Answer 16

The Cherokee

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Worcester vs. Georgia

Question 18

What was Jackson’s response to that court case?

Answer 18

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

Question 19

What was the Trail of Tears?

Answer 19

The relocation and movement of Cherokee from Georgia to Oklahoma.

Question 20

Who led federal troops in moving the Cherokee?

Answer 20

General Winfeld Scott

Question 21

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

Answer 21

The Seminole

Question 22

What institution did Jackson try to kill?

Answer 22

The federal bank.

Question 23

What President was inaugurated in 1837?

Answer 23

Martin Van Buren

Question 24

Who had the shortest Presidency in US History?

Answer 24

William Henry Harrison

Question 25

How did John Tyler become President?

Answer 25

William Henry Harrison died of pneumonia.

Question 26

What is suffrage?

Answer 26

The right to vote.

Question 27

What is the spoils system?

Answer 27

The practice of replacing government employees with winning candidate’s supporters.