Unit 11 Flashcards
What was unique about the election of 1824
- Jackson lost to john Quincy Adams even though he had more votes
- all four candidates in the election were from the Republican Party
- none of the four candidates won the majority of Electoral Votes and so the election was
decided in the House of Representatives
Jackson claimed that a “corrupt bargain” was made after this person became the Secretary of
State under the new Adams Administration
Henry clay
As President, John Q. Adams attempted to “bring the people together” by encouraging the
passage of programs geared at expanding on which two programs
arts and sciences and internal improvements
The Republicans after the Election of 1824 split into these two major factions
Democrats and Whigs
This man’s election in 1828 was a major victory for the “common man”
Andrew jackson
Hamiltonianism is to Jeffersonianism as
Whigs is to Democrats
What about American democracy impressed or shocked European travelers
lower class people were treated as equal to those in the upper class
Suffrage is the right of a person to do what
Vote
What Frenchman wrote about the spread of the American values of equality and freedom in his
book Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville
The decline in which of the following voting requirement allowed more and more people in
America to participate in the electoral process
Property
The only group that could vote in America was
White males
Which of the following expresses a unique truth about American democracy in the 1830s
An American commoner (someone born in the lower class) could become someone of
significance
Nominating conventions replaced this former method of choosing presidential candidates in which candidates were selected in a private meeting of powerful members of the party
Caucus
The term Jacksonian democracy refers to the spread of what in America
Equal rights to all
The political practice of rewarding governmental jobs to loyal party supporters
Spoils system
Andrew Jackson has been referred to as the self-made man because
he came from very humble beginnings and had to work hard to overcome many obstacles
Which section of the country opposed the protective tariff because they believed it was passed to
benefit one section over another:
South
Who secretly wrote the South Carolina Exposition in which he carefully outlined his Doctrine of
Nullification
John C. Calhoun
Which of the following did South Carolina not do during the nullification crisis
attacked Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor
During the nullification crisis, the passage of this bill by Congress would have given Jackson the
authority to send the U.S. Army into South Carolina
Force
Whose compromise helped to bring the nullification crisis to an end by reducing the rate of the
protective tariff
Henry clay
Why did South Carolina back down and rescind (take away) its Nullification Ordinance:
no other Southern State came to their aid
Who was President of the 2nd Bank of the United States
Nicholas Biddle
