Chapter 12 Study Guide

Question 1

Who received the most electoral votes in the Election of 1824?

Answer 1

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 ,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

Jackson and Quincy Adams

Question 6

What is mudslinging?

Answer 6

Attempts to ruin their opponents reputation

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 government employees with the winning candidates supporters

Question 12

What does it mean to secede?

Answer 12

To break away from the union

Question 13

What was the Nullification Crisis?

Answer 13

When South Carolina passed the Nullification Act ,declaring that it would not pay these “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

To 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

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

He ignored the ruling

and said the famous quote,” John Marshall has made his decision and now let him enforce it.”

Question 21

What was the Trail of Tears?

Answer 21

It was the relocation of the Cherokee from Georgia to Oklahoma

Question 22

Who led federal troops in moving the Cherokee?

Answer 22

General Winfeild 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

The 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

Became president when Harrison died (because vp)