Chapter 12 Study Guide

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 the votes

Question 3

Who was involved in the Corrupt Bargain?

Answer 3

Henry clay and John Adams

Question 4

Who won the Election of 1824?

Answer 4

John 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 the other runners reputation with insults

Question 7

What is a landslide victory?

Answer 7

Overwhelming victory

Question 8

What was Andrew Jackson’s nickname?

Answer 8

Old Hickory

Question 9

What changed politics in Washington DC?

Answer 9

Andrew Jacksons popularity with common men

Question 10

What is suffrage?

Answer 10

The right to vote

Question 11

What is the spoils system?

Answer 11

Practice of replacing gov’t 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

Wouldn’t pay illegal taxes

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

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

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 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

National 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

William Henry Harrison died a month later due to pneumonia from giving a 2 hour speech outside