Chapter 12

Question 1

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

Answer 1

The House of Representatives

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Sacajawea

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Andrew Jackson

Question 4

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

Answer 4

John Marshall

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Missouri

Question 6

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

Answer 6

John Tyler

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Amos Kendall

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Georgia

Question 9

Successfully lead a campaign in the senate to censure Andrew Jackson

Answer 9

Henry Clay

Question 10

President of the Second BUS

Answer 10

Nicholas Biddle

Question 11

Author of the pro-nullification tract Exposition and Protest

Answer 11

John C. Calhoun

Question 12

Made huge gains in the mid-term elections of 1838

Answer 12

The Whig Party

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Force Bill

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Spoils System

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Deposit Act

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Peggy Eaton

Question 17

Van Buren’s plan to separate government from banking

Answer 17

Sub-Treasury

Question 18

Acquired Florida for the United States

Answer 18

Adams-Onis Treaty

Question 19

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

Answer 19

William Henry Harrison

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Coffin Handbill

Question 21

The driving force behind the Democratic Party

Answer 21

Martin Van Buren

Question 22

Congressional attempt to silence any anti-slavery debate

Answer 22

Gag Rule

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Roger B. Taney

Question 24

Author of the Monroe Doctrine

Answer 24

John Quincy Adams

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Specie Circular Act

Question 26

Southern states opposed the tariff of 1828 because it

Answer 26

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

Question 27

Andrew Jackson's popularity was

Answer 27

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

Question 28

The Democratic Party

Answer 28

Supported both agrarian democratic principles and the continuation of southern slavery

Question 29

Jacksonian Democrats viewed the "American System" as

Answer 29

An unconstitutional violation of local, state, and citizen rights

Question 30

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

Answer 30

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

Question 31

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

Answer 31

Henry Clay

Question 32

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

Answer 32

The Peggy Eaton affair

Question 33

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

Answer 33

78

Question 34

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

Answer 34

James Tallmadge

Question 35

Which of the following did Andrew Jackson hate most

Answer 35

The second BUS

Question 36

The so-called Thomas Proviso stated that

Answer 36

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

Question 37

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

Answer 37

Maine

Question 38

The election of 1828 was

Answer 38

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

Question 39

The Indian Removal Act of 1830 stated the Native Americans

Answer 39

Needed to be removed to west of the Mississippi River

Question 40

The political party system that emerged in 1840 included

Answer 40

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

Question 41

The author of the Monroe Doctrine was

Answer 41

John Quincy Adams

Question 42

The Monroe Doctrine stated that

Answer 42

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

Question 43

Andrew Jackson's Indian policy

Answer 43

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

Question 44

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

Answer 44

The "Subtreasury"

Question 45

The victor of the 1828 presidential election was JQA

Answer 45

False

Question 46

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

Answer 46

True

Question 47

Voting on the Tallmadge amendments was starkly sectional

Answer 47

True

Question 48

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

Answer 48

True

Question 49

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

Answer 49

True

Question 50

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

Answer 50

False

Question 51

Jackson's veto message surprised the BUS's supporters

Answer 51

False

Question 52

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

Answer 52

False

Question 53

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

Answer 53

False

Question 54

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

Answer 54

True