APUSH Chapter 13
The nullification crisis started by South Carolina over the Tariff of 1828 ended when
Congress passed the compromise Tariff of 1833
The person most responsible for defusing the tariff controversy that began in 1828 was
Henry Clay
John Quincy Adams, elected president in 1825, was charged by his political opponents with having struck a "corrupt bargain" when he appointed _______________ to become__________ .
Henry Clay, Secretary of State
The Force Bill of 1833 provided that
President could use the army and navy to collect federal tariff duties
Texans won their independence as a result of the victory over Mexican armies at the Battle of
San Jacinto
The "Tippecanoe" in the Whigs' 1840 campaign slogan was
William Harrison
Innovations in the election of 1832 included
adoption of written party platforms
Americans moved into Texas
after an agreement was concluded between Mexican authorities and Stephen Austin.
Presidents Jackson and Van Buren hesitated to extend recognition to and to annex the new Texas Republic because
antislavery groups in the United States opposed the expansion of slavery
The people who proposed the exceptionally high rates of the Tariff of 1828 were
ardent supporters of Andrew Jackson
In their treatment of Native Americans, white Americans did all of the following except
argue that Indians could not be assimilated into the larger society
The two political parties of the Jacksonian era tended to
be socially and geographically diverse
The new two party political system that emerged in the 1830s and 1840s
became an important part of the nation's checks and balances.
The "cement" that held the Whig party together in its formative days was
hatred of Andrew Jackson.
Texas gained its independence with
help from Americans
One of the main reasons Andrew Jackson decided to weaken the Bank of the United States after the 1832 election was
his fear that Nicholas Biddle might try to manipulate the bank to force its recharter
Andrew Jackson made all of the following charges against the Bank of the United States except that
it refused to lend money to politicians
One of the positive aspects of the Bank of the United States was
its promotion of economic expansion by making credit abundant
William Henry Harrison, the Whig party's presidential candidate in 1840, was
made to look like a poor western farmer.
By the 1840s voter participation in the presidential election reached
nearly 80%
Andrew Jackson's inauguration as president symbolized the
newly won ascendancy of the masses
The House of Representatives decided the 1824 presidential election when
no candidate received a majority of the vote in the Electoral College.
John Quincy Adams could be described as
possessing almost none of the arts of the politician
Andrew Jackson and his supporters disliked the Bank of the United States for all of the following reasons except it
put public service first, not profits
In an effort to assimilate themselves into white society, the Cherokees did all of the following except
refuse to own slaves
In the 1820s and 1830s one issue that greatly raised the political stakes was
slavery
John C. Calhoun's "South Carolina Exposition" was an argument for
states' rights
Andrew Jackson's political philosophy was based on his
suspicion of the federal government
The Panic of 1837 was caused by all of the following except
taking the country off the gold standard
The "nullification crisis" of 1832-1833 erupted over
tariff policy
Most of the early American settlers in Texas came from
the South and the Southwest
The spoils system under Andrew Jackson resulted in
the appointment of many corrupt and incompetent officials to federal jobs
Andrew Jackson based his veto of the recharter bill for the Bank of the United States on
the fact that he found the bill harmful to the nation.
The section of the United States most hurt by the Tariff of 1828 was
the south
Spanish authorities allowed Moses Austin to settle in Texas because
they believed that Austin and his settlers might be able to civilize the territory.
The purpose behind the spoils system was
to reward political supporters with public office
As president, John Quincy Adams
was one of the least successful presidents in American history
Andrew Jackson's administration supported the removal of Native Americans from the eastern states because
whites wanted the Indians' lands.