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 elector 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

Attempting to ruin your 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 replacing gov’t employees with the winning candidate’s supporters.

Question 12

What does it mean to secede?

Answer 12

To break away.

Question 13

What was the Nullification Crisis?

Answer 13

An Act passed by South Carolina that declared that it would not pay tariffs.

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

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 Tribe

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Worcester v.s Georgia

Question 20

What was Jackson’s response to that court case?

Answer 20

He ignored it and stated that, “John Marshall had made his decision…” and to 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 Winfield 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

Federal Bank

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

He was the Vice President when William Henry Harrison died.