Apush 3.1 Check Your Understanding

The Anti-Masonic Party of 1832 appealed to:

American suspicions of secret societies.

In response to the "nullification crisis" with South Carolina, Andrew Jackson:

Dispatched military forces to South Carolina.

The Missouri Compromise caused many white southerners to:

Fear additional federal aggression against state's rights.

The "glue" that held the Whig party together in is early days was:

Hatred of Andrew Jackson.

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.

At the core of the New Democracy was the belief that government should be:

In the hands of the common people.

Andrew Jackson's election to the presidency in 1828 can be considered the "Revolution of 1828" for all of the following reasons except that:

John Quincy Adams suffered a crushing defeat in the popular vote.

The property qualification to vote became almost meaningless in the West because:

Land was so easily obtained.

John Quincy Adams could be described as:

Possessing almost none of the arts of a politician.

Texans won their independence as a result of the victory over Mexican armies at the Battle of _____________

San Jacinto.

Andrew Jackson's veto of the Maysville Road Bill was an example of his:

State's rightism.

John C. Calhoun's "South Carolina Exposition" was an argument for:

States' rights.

The section of the United States that was most hurt by the Tariff of 1828 was:

The South.

The spoils system under Andrew Jackson resulted in:

The appointment of many corrupt and incompetent officials to federal jobs.

Andrew Jackson's veto of the recharter bill for the Bank of the United States was:

a major expansion of presidential power.

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.

The New Democracy was based on the idea that the right to vote should be extended to:

all adult white males.

The government of Mexico and the Americans who settled in Mexican-controlled Texas clashed over all of the following issues except:

allegiance to Spain.

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 policy of the Jackson administration towards the eastern Indian tribes was:

forced removal.

Andrew Jackson's political philosophy was based on his:

his suspicion of the federal government.

William Henry Harrison, the Whig Party's presidential candidate in 1840, was:

made to look like a poor Western farmer.

The House of Representatives decided the 1824 presidential election when:

no candidate received a majority of the vote in the Electoral College.

The Webster-Hayne debate of 1830 centered on the subject of

state nullification of federal laws.

The "nullification crisis" of 1832-1833 erupted over:

tariff policy

The purpose behind the spoils system was to:

to reward political supporters with public office

While in existence, the second Bank of the United States:

was the depository of the funds of the national government.

Andrew Jackson's administration supported the removal of Native Americans from the eastern states because:

whites wanted the Indians' lands.