The Jacksonian Era

Question 1

Election of 1824- Results

Answer 1

Andrew Jackson won popular and electoral, but not a majority. House decided winner, JQA won

Question 2

Election of 1824- Henry clay

Answer 2

Clay was out since he got the lowest votes, only top 3 went to house, supported JQA

Question 3

Corrupt bargain

Answer 3

JQA made clay Secretary of State Jackson thought there was a corrupt bargain between the 2

Question 4

Democratic republicans

Answer 4

Party split after 1824 into national republicans and democrats

Question 5

Democrats

Answer 5

Jackson supporters

Question 6

National republicans

Answer 6

JQA supporters

Question 7

Election of 1828- candidates

Answer 7

JQA

Jackson

Question 8

Mudslinging

Answer 8

Personal attacks

Question 9

Difference between caucus and nominating convention

Answer 9

Caucus- meetings of political party leaders

Nominating convention-mass meetings

Question 10

Suffrage

Answer 10

Right to vote in election

Question 11

Election of 1828- Results

Answer 11

Jackson won

Question 12

Old hickory

Answer 12

Jackson’s nickname used as a campaign

Question 13

Spoils system

Answer 13

Rewarding supporters with jobs

Question 14

Civil servant

Answer 14

Works for gov’t

Question 15

Kitchen cabinet

Answer 15

Jackson didn’t rely on cabinet for advice, relied on friends, we’re called kitchen cabinet

Question 16

Nullify

Answer 16

Amounting to nothing or having no value

Question 17

Tariff of 1832

Answer 17

Tariff- tax on imported goods
North supported
South didn’t

Question 18

Secession

Answer 18

South Carolina threatened to secede from us

Question 19

States rights

Answer 19

Jackson thought tariffs violated states rights

Question 20

John c Calhoun

Answer 20

Was jackson’s vp in first term, said that South Carolina would secede

Question 21

Force bill

Answer 21

Jackson was allowed to use army to collect tariffs

Question 22

Henry Clay Compromise Tariff

Answer 22

Passed a bill that lowered tariffs a lot

Question 23

Bank of the U.S.

Answer 23

Partly owned by federal gov’t, they had monopoly

Question 24

Nicholas Biddle

Answer 24

Ran federal bank, Jackson hated him

Question 25

State banks

Answer 25

Jackson depleted money in federal bank and put them into state banks, he put money into the banks that supported him

Question 26

Whigs

Answer 26

Party founded by supporters for states rights

Question 27

Henry Clay- Election of 1832

Answer 27

Made the bank’s charter get renewed early to put pressure on Jackson

Question 28

Martin van Buren

Answer 28

VP of 2nd term of Jackson

Question 29

Panic of 1837

Answer 29

Speculators purchased western land through loans provided by state banks
Banks made loans to people using paper money not backed by gold or silver = no value

Question 30

Depression

Answer 30

Speculators couldn’t pay back loans, banks closed, no economic growth

Question 31

Trail of tears

Answer 31

The removal of Cherokee Indians from Georgia to Indian Territory
in 1838 and 1839

Question 32

Five civilized tribes

Answer 32

Creeks
Choctaws
Chickasaws
Seminoles
Cherokees

Question 33

Indian removal act

Answer 33

allowed the president to make treaties in which American Indians in the East traded their lands for new territory on the Great Plains

Question 34

Seminoles/Osceola

Answer 34

Hid in Florida swamps after Indian removal act

Question 35

Court decision on Cherokees

Answer 35

Their treaty rights had been violated

Question 36

Chief Justice John Marshall

Answer 36

Judge of Cherokee court case

Question 37

Election of 1824- Candidates

Answer 37

Henry Clay
JQA
William Crawford