The Jackson Era

Question 0

What were the results of the election of 1824?

Answer 0

John Quincy Adams Won.

Question 1

Who were the candidates in the election of 1824?

Answer 1

Jackson, Clay, Adams, and Crawford.

Question 2

Henry Clay - Election of 1824

What did Clay and Adams get accused of?

Answer 2

Henry Clay urged his supporters in the House to vote Adams. Adams got enough votes to be president and elected Clay to be his Secretary of State. Jacksons supporters accused Adams and Clay of making a corrupt bargain.

Question 3

Who were Democrats?

Answer 3

The party Jackson’s supporters created.

Question 4

Who were National Republicans?

Answer 4

A party controlled by the upper class.

Question 5

Who were the candidates in the election of 1828?

Answer 5

Adams, and Jackson.

Question 6

What were the results of the election of 1828?

Answer 6

Andrew Jackson won.

Question 7

What is Mudsliding?

Answer 7

When the candidates try to make the other one look bad.

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Caucus - Small groups of elites.

Nominating Convention - A larger population choosing the candidates.

Question 9

What is “Old Hickory?”

Answer 9

Jackson’s defense on the city during the war of 1812 made him “Old Hickory.”

Question 10

How does Jackson relate to the rich and well-born and the common man?

Answer 10

Jackson was for the common man, not the rich and well-born.

Question 11

What was the “spoils system?”

Answer 11

The practice of rewarding political supporters with government jobs.

Question 12

What is a civil servant?

Answer 12

An employee of the government.

Question 13

What was the Kitchen Cabinet?

Answer 13

A group of Jackson’s trusted friends and political supporters who helped him make decisions.

Question 14

What is nullification?

Answer 14

The act of canceling something.

Question 15

Tariff of 1832:

Which section supported it, and which section did not?

Answer 15

Northern states favored it, Southern states did not.

Question 16

What is secession?

Answer 16

To withdraw from an organization or alliance.

Question 17

What are States’ rights?

Answer 17

The rights of power held by individual US states rather than federal government.

Question 18

What did South Carolina have to do with the Nullification Crisis?

Answer 18

They threatened to secede if the national government tried to enforce the tariff laws.

Question 19

What did John C. Calhoun do?

Answer 19

He proclaimed South Carolina’s right to nullify, or reject both tariff laws.

Question 20

What did the Force Bill do?

Answer 20

Allowed Jackson to use the federal army to collect tariffs if needed.

Question 21

Henry Clay - The Compromise Bill

Answer 21

A bill that lowered tariffs even further.

Question 22

Who was Nicholas Biddle?

Answer 22

The Bank of the US’ president.

Question 23

What were state or “pet” banks?

Answer 23

Smaller banks located in each state so more people could access the banks.

Question 24

Who were the Whigs and what did they feel?

Answer 24

The Whigs were a group that felt like Jackson had too much power and wanted to states to have more.

Question 25

Henry Clay - Election of 1832

Answer 25

Henry Clay wanted to become president next term so he forced the issue and pushed the bill to renew the National Bank four years early.

Question 26

Who was Martin Van Buren?

Answer 26

Jacksons VP during battle with banks.

Question 27

What was the Panic of 1837?

Answer 27

Speculators could not pay back their loans to the banks, so banks closed.

Question 28

What was depression?

Answer 28

A period when the economy declines and people lose jobs.

Question 29

What was the Trail of Tears?

Answer 29

When the Cherokee were herded west from their Georgia home.

Question 30

Who were the Five Civilized Tribes?

Why were they called “civilized?”

Answer 30

• Creek
• Cherokee
• Chickasaw
• Choctaw
• Seminole

They were called “civilized” because they had adapted many of the “white ways.”

Question 31

What was the Indian Removal Act?

Answer 31

Allowed the president to make treaties with Native Americans in the East. The act did not say they had a right to be removed by force.

Question 32

Who was Osceola?

Answer 32

The Seminole chief in Florida who lead the resistance against Indian removal for 10 years.

Question 33

Who was Chief Justice John Marshall?

Answer 33

The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who ruled that natives could not be removed by force. Jackson ignored his ruling.