Chp 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 the president doesn’t get a magority of electoral votes

Question 3

Who was involved in the Corrupt Bargain?

Answer 3

Henry clay ,John Quincy

Question 4

Who won the Election of 1824?

Answer 4

John Quincy

Question 5

Who were the candidates of the Election of 1828?

Answer 5

Jackson, John Quincy

Question 6

What is mudslinging?

Answer 6

An attempt to ruin opponents reputation

Question 7

What is a landslide victory?

Answer 7

When the president wins with a blow out

Question 8

What was Andrew Jackson’s nickname?

Answer 8

Old hickory

Question 9

What changed politics in Washington DC?

Answer 9

His relationship with the common man

Question 10

What is suffrage?

Answer 10

Right to vote

Question 11

What is the spoils system?

Answer 11

The practice of replacing govt employees with favorites of the president

Question 12

What does it mean to secede?

Answer 12

To leave

Question 13

What was the Nullification Crisis?

Answer 13

That South Carolina would not 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

To move

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

Seqwoyah

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

He took solider to the Cherokee and told them to leave

Question 21

What was the Trail of Tears?

Answer 21

The relocation of solders 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

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

Henry Harrison

Question 27

How did John Tyler become President?

Answer 27

He was the vp when Harrison died