Jackson

Question 1

Who were the candidates for 1824?

Answer 1

Clay, Crawford, Jackson, and Adams.

Question 2

What were the results of the election of 1824?

Answer 2

Jackson had the most votes, but not over 50%.

Question 3

What did Henry Clay do in the election of 1824?

Answer 3

When the House was voting, Clay told his supporters to vote for Adams. Adams won.

Question 4

What was the “Corrupt Bargain?”

Answer 4

The corrupt bargain was the name of what happened when Clay told his supporters to vote for Adams, and Adams put Clay in the Cabinet. This corrupted the election, hence corrupt bargain.

Question 5

What happened to the Democratic Republicans?

Answer 5

They broke up to form the Democrats and National Republicans.

Question 6

Who were the Democrats?

Answer 6

The supporters of Jackson.

Question 7

Who were the National Republicans?

Answer 7

The supporters of Adams.

Question 8

Who were the candidates for the election of 1828?

Answer 8

They were Jackson and Adams.

Question 9

What was “mudslinging” in the election of 1828?

Answer 9

Mudslinging was when the Democrats and National Republicans would through insults at each other just to boost their party.

Question 10

What is the difference between a caucus and a nominating convention?

Answer 10

A nomination convention is a convention to elect a president. A caucus is where votes are cast for the president.

Question 11

What was the suffrage of the election of 1828?

Answer 11

Jackson’s wife died.

Question 12

What were the results of the election of 1828?

Answer 12

Jackson won.

Question 13

What was Jackson’s nickname?

Answer 13

Old hickory

Question 14

Who were the rich and well born supporting?

Answer 14

They supported National Republicans.

Question 15

Who was the common man supporting?

Answer 15

The democrats.

Question 16

What was the spoils system?

Answer 16

Jackson’s way of rewarding his government workers.

Question 17

What was a civil servant?

Answer 17

Someone who had made their life in the US government.

Question 18

What was the “Kitchen Cabinet?”

Answer 18

Jackson’s friend who he listened to instead of the Cabinet. They met in the kitchen, hence kitchen cabinet.

Question 19

What does nullification mean?

Answer 19

To nullify means to ignore, or render useless.

Question 20

What was the tariff of 1832?

Answer 20

A law that stated that all imported goods would be slightly more expensive than US goods.

Question 21

Who supported the tariff? Who did not support the tariff?

Answer 21

The north supported it, the south did not.

Question 22

Which state wanted to secede?

Answer 22

South Carolina did.

Question 23

Why did South Carolina want to secede?

Answer 23

They were against the tariff, and they were arguing for their state rights.

Question 24

What are states rights?

Answer 24

The right that a state can declare their own laws or nullify a law.

Question 25

What was John C. Calhoun’s reaction to South Carolina’s secession movement?

Answer 25

He led the movement, saying it should be nullified.

Question 26

What was the Force Bill?

Answer 26

A bill that stated that Jackson could use the army to enforce the tariff.

Question 27

What was the compromise tariff?

Answer 27

Created by Clay, the compromise tariff lowered the tariffs.

Question 28

What was the problem with the Bank of the US?

Answer 28

It corrupted the elections and anything else that could be skewed with money.

Question 29

Who was Nicholas Biddle?

Answer 29

He was the President of the US Bank.

Question 30

What were the pet banks?

Answer 30

The banks of the states, controlled by Nicholas Biddle. They were called pet banks because they did what Biddle wanted, skewing everything even more.

Question 31

Who were the Whigs?

Answer 31

The supporters of the bank.

Question 32

What did Henry Clay do to the election of 1832?

Answer 32

He proposed a bill that would extend the Bank of the US’s lifetime by 4 years.

Question 33

How did the Whigs try to defeat Jackson?

Answer 33

If Jackson vetoed the bank extension bill, the upperclass would be angry. If he didn’t, the common people would be angry. Jackson vetoed, knowing there were less upperclass than common. Jackson won the election, and the bank was defeated.

Question 34

What did Martin Van Buren do after the bank was destroyed?

Answer 34

He tried to fix the economical problems that the bank held together.

Question 35

What was the panic of 1837?

Answer 35

After the bank was gone, all the people rushed to get their money out as fast as possible. They failed.

Question 36

What was the Depression?

Answer 36

The economy had a major depression due to the loss of money resulting from the bank’s destruction.

Question 37

What was the Trail of Tears?

Answer 37

The Trail of Tears was the path that the Indians walked after being forced out of their homes.

Question 38

Why were the 5 Civilized Tribes called that?

Answer 38

They had adopted “white customs,” and were considered modern.

Question 39

What was the Indian Removal Act?

Answer 39

An act that removed the Indians from their homes in the US.

Question 40

What did the Seminoles and Osceola do during the Indian Removal Act?

Answer 40

They fought eviction for 10 years.

Question 41

What was the Supreme Court’s decision on the Cherokees?

Answer 41

It was ruled that they can stay.

Question 42

What did Chief Justice John Marshal do?

Answer 42

He stated that the Indians had a right to their land.