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1
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Group that chose John Quincy Adams for President instead of Andrew Jackson

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The House of Representatives

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2
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Indian woman who was a guide and interpreter for Louis and Clark

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Sacajawea

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Loser of the election of 1824 but he had more popular and electoral votes

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Andrew Jackson

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Chief Justice who sided with the Indians in Worcester vs. Georgia

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John Marshall

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In 1819, applied to be the first state carved out of the Louisiana Purchase territory

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Missouri

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6
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Vice Presidential candidate in 1840 who joined the party because he hated Jackson

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John Tyler

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Postmaster General who had loyal local postmen discard anti-slavery tracts from the mail

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Amos Kendall

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State where the controversy over the sale of Indian lands were centered

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Georgia

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9
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Successfully lead a campaign in the senate to censure Andrew Jackson

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Henry Clay

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10
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President of the Second BUS

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Nicholas Biddle

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Author of the pro-nullification tract Exposition and Protest

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John C. Calhoun

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Made huge gains in the mid-term elections of 1838

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The Whig Party

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Bill that authorized federal troops in South Carolina to arrest anyone that violates federal law

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Force Bill

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14
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System that allowed winners of elections to promote supporters to high office

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Spoils System

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15
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Increased the number of banks holding federal funds and provided funding to states for internal improvements

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Deposit Act

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Her marriage to the Secretary of War caused a national scandal that disrupted the Jackson Administration

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Peggy Eaton

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Van Buren’s plan to separate government from banking

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Sub-Treasury

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18
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Acquired Florida for the United States

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Adams-Onis Treaty

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Candidate in the 1840’s election who ran the Log Cabin campaign

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William Henry Harrison

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Document released during the 1828 campaign that criticized Jackson for his murder of militiamen

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Coffin Handbill

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21
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The driving force behind the Democratic Party

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Martin Van Buren

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Congressional attempt to silence any anti-slavery debate

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Gag Rule

23
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Jackson’s Secretary of Treasury that removed federal deposits from the BUS

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Roger B. Taney

24
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Author of the Monroe Doctrine

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John Quincy Adams

25
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Required that large tracts of government land be purchased with hard money

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Specie Circular Act

26
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Southern states opposed the tariff of 1828 because it

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Benefited northern and western farmers at the expense of export-driven southern producers

27
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Andrew Jackson’s popularity was

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Based in part on his image as a forceful and exciting military hero

28
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The Democratic Party

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Supported both agrarian democratic principles and the continuation of southern slavery

29
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Jacksonian Democrats viewed the “American System” as

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An unconstitutional violation of local, state, and citizen rights

30
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John Quincy Adam’s ambitious program for national development called for which of the following

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Federal money for roads and canals, federal money for a national university, a high tariff, and a national astronomical observatory

31
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Who of the following was not a Whig candidate for president in 1836

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Henry Clay

32
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The issue that led to the final and complete break between Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun was

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The Peggy Eaton affair

33
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Voter turnout in the election of 1840 was ___ percent of the eligible voters

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78

34
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Senator _________ proposed an amendment to Missouri’s application for statehood that forbade slavery in the state

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James Tallmadge

35
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Which of the following did Andrew Jackson hate most

A

The second BUS

36
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The so-called Thomas Proviso stated that

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Slavery would be outlawed in territories north of a line extending from the southern border of Missouri to Spanish territory

37
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The free state admitted to the Union as part of the Missouri Compromise was

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Maine

38
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The election of 1828 was

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Marred by a smear campaign that turned Andrew Jackson’s private life into a public issue

39
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The Indian Removal Act of 1830 stated the Native Americans

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Needed to be removed to west of the Mississippi River

40
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The political party system that emerged in 1840 included

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Increased public interest in politics as indicated by extremely higher voter turnout

41
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The author of the Monroe Doctrine was

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John Quincy Adams

42
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The Monroe Doctrine stated that

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The United States was opposed to any further European attempt at colonization in the Americas

43
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Andrew Jackson’s Indian policy

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Openly violated Supreme Court rulings by allowing stage governments to encroach on Indian land

44
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Martin Van Buren’s plan to develop an independent financial system to avoid the federal government’s dependence on banks was known as

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The “Subtreasury”

45
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The victor of the 1828 presidential election was JQA

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False

46
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Slaveholding Missouri was the first new state carved out of the Louisiana Territory

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True

47
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Voting on the Tallmadge amendments was starkly sectional

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True

48
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By 1820, many Republicans were calling for a Jeffersonian revival that would limit government power and guarantee southern rights within the Union

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True

49
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Many northerners opposed the admission if Missouri to the Union because they feared it would increase the power of the slave states in Congress

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True

50
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South Carolina opposed the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 but never attempted to nullify the,

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False

51
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Jackson’s veto message surprised the BUS’s supporters

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False

52
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An important component of Andrew Jackson’s vision was for America was to use federal money to build large transportation systems throughout the US

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False

53
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Jacksonian democracy can be best understood as the inheritance of the old Hamiltonian emphasis on federal power

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False

54
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Democrats feared that an activist federal government might threaten the slave holding South

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True

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