Power point 09 Review Flashcards
The election of 1824 featured _____.
William Crawford (Sec. of Treasury) John Q. Adams (Sec. of State) Henry Clay (Speaker of the House) Andrew Jackson (President)
All were Republicans
What was the “Corrupt Bargain” that surrounded the election of 1824?
Adams selecting Clay as his Secretary of State.
What most accurately describes John Quincy Adam’s term as president?
Never able to overcome his “corrupt bargain” of the 1824 election; Congress who were still outraged about the “corrupt bargain” opposed most of his initiatives.
What led to the formation of the Democratic Party between 1824 and 1828?
Van Buren felt that there was an ongoing effort to revive the Hamiltonian doctrines and have the national government lead the nation’s economy.
a. Legislation
b. Favoring particular businesses
c. Moving 1/2 a million men off the farm and into industry.
What did John C. Calhoun do as the Vice President early in the Adams administration’s term, of office that so infuriated the President and his followers?
He exercised his authority appointing opponents of Adams to the major committees.
In his inauguration speech, John Quincy Adams endorsed ____.
The old American System of Hamilton:
- High tariffs
- Nationally funded internal improvements
- A national bank
What was one of the biggest differences between the two candidates of the election of 1828?
Adams was one of the best-educated and qualified men who held office and Jackson was a moron.
What were considered priorities of the Jackson administration?
- Removal of the Indians from the white population
- Put a stop to the abuses of the powers of the Federal Government in regard to internal improvements.
- To oppose as well the re-incorporation of the existing National Bank, as the establishment of any other equally unauthorized by the Federal Constitution.
- Arrest as far as possible the abuses that had crept into the legislation of Congress upon the subject of protecting duties and restore it to the footing upon which it was placed at the commencement of the Government by imposing no duties beyond what was necessary for revenue and by assessing those in a way adapted to encourage our own labor.
What step did Jackson take concerning the national bank?
He vetoed Clay’s rechartering request.
What did the first six presidents consider the purpose of the presidential veto to be?
To enforce constitutional limitations on congressional authority, not for political purposes.
When Jackson ordered all US funds transferred from the national bank his first two Secretaries of the Treasury informed Jackson _____.
that it was illegal for him to take the money out of the bank of the US despite the fact that he agreed with Jackson.
What led to the economic downturn at the end of Jackson’s administration?
The Specie Circular
Only allowed for specie to be accepted by the national government in payment for western lands.
What was the overall effect of the protective tariffs?
Drove up the price on ALL consumer goods, especially farmers.
The industries protected by the tariffs which largely located in the North and since the South paid a vast majority of the tariff, the tariff was nothing more than a way for the North, though legislative tariffs, ____.
to transfer the wealth of the south to the northern protected industries.
What did Calhoun believe was the proper procedure to be followed if a state decided to consider nullification of central government law?
If the national government adopted a policy that was unconstitutional and dangerous a state could call a convention of the same kind that had been used to ratify the constitution;
a. Statewide
b. Delegates were to be elected to the convention by popular vote
c. The convention would be the representation of the sovereign people; like the ratifying conventions
d. The sovereign people of the state acting as the sovereign would then have a right to say what the Constitution meant
e. It could say that authoritatively because as one of the creators of the Constitution it had a right to determine what was meant.
