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
For which reason did Jackson veto the Bank’s renewed charter
he believed it was undemocratic and unconstitutional and only benefited the rich
Who lost to Jackson in the Presidential Election of 1832 because the American people supported
Jackson’s veto of the Bank’s charter
Henry Clay
This Secretary of the Treasury was ordered by President Jackson to stop depositing government
funds into the BUS and instead into state or “pet banks” (which led to the Panic of 1837)
Roger B. Taney
What did white settlers want the U.S. Government to do with the Native Americans living in the
South, a policy heavily supported by President Jackson
remove them to Indian Territory
Which highly civilized Indian nation fought hard to keep their land through the legal process but
in the end failed and were forced to travel the “Trail of Tears”
Cheroke
President Jackson and most Americans believed that removal was the best policy primarily
because they believed in this notion that American culture was far superior to Indian culture and
that whites and Indians, because of their differences, could not coexist peacefully
Ethnocentrism
What Cherokee Chief fought hard to convince Congress that the Treaty of New Echota did not
represent the 17,000 Cherokee who refused to sign i
Chief John Ross
Which of the following tribes resisted removal by waging a bloody war with the United States
Seminole
Which of the following tribes resisted removal by waging a bloody war with the United States
Seminole
What Sauk Chief led the Sauk and Fox raids in Illinois that nearly resulted in the total slaughter
of his people by state and federal troops
Black hawk
In this Supreme Court Case John Marshall ruled that the State of Georgia was unconstitutional in
their attempt to force the Cherokee Nation to abide by state law
Worcester v. Georgia
Which of the following was not one of the “five civilized tribes” of the South
Miami
List the three choices Native Americans had to make when whites encroached on their land
(these were the same choices Indians had to make since the colonial period when whites first
came to America)
- Assimilation
- Relocation
- Annihlation
What Act forced Indians off their land in 1830
Indian removal act of 1830
How many or what percentage of Cherokee signed
the Treaty of New Echota that gave up Cherokee
lands to the United States
2%
What U.S. major was ambushed and slaughtered
by Seminole and ex-slaves in Florida
Francis dade
What was the name of the police force created by
Native Americans while living on reservations
in Indian Territory
Lightorsemen
Why did white settlers want Native American land
in the Southeastern United States
To grow cotton
Which of the following was not one of the causes of the Panic of 1837
issuing paper money backed by gold & silver
Which of the following was one of three the Whig candidates who lost the election of 1836
Daniel Webster
Who was blamed by the American people for the Panic of 1837
Martin Van Buren
President Van Buren created this federal institution that stored government money and regulated
the practices of state banks
Federal treasury
What President used the slogan of “O.K.” in his bid for re-election
Martin Van Buren
The digging of dirt on a political opponent is often referred to as
Mudslinging
Who won the Presidential Election of 1840 on the slogan “Tippecanoe and Tyler too!”
William Henry harrison
What “accidental” President was kicked out of the Whig Party when he vetoed a bill to charter
the 3rd Bank of the United States
John Tyler
Critics of President Van Buren’s economic policies
often referred to him as Martin Van what
Martin van ruin
Critics of President Van Buren’s economic policies
often referred to him as Martin Van what
Martin van ruin
What killed newly elected President
William Henry Harrison
Pneumonia
List the 4 reasons Jackson hated the monster bank
- Too powerful
- Ran by Nicholas biddle
- Undemocratic
- Unconstitutional
Winner and loser of 1824
Winner: john quincey Adams
Loser: Andrew Jackson
Winner and loser of 1828
Winner: Andrew Jackson
Loser: john Quincy Adams
Winner and loser 1832
Winner: Andrew jackson
Loser: Henry clay
Winner and loser of 1836
Winner: van buren
Loser: Webster
Winner and loser of 1840
Winner: Harrison
Loser: van buren
