Ch. 13 APUSH
Andrew Jackson's veto of the recharter bill for the Bank of the United States was
A major expansion of presidential power
Americans moved into Texas
After an agreement was concluded between Mexican authorities and Stephen Austin to permit the Texan settlers to bring into Texas 300 families who were to properly become Mexicanized
The government of Mexico and the Americans who settled in Mexican-controlled Texas clashed over all of the following issues except
Allegiance to Spain
The Anti-Masonic party of 1832 appealed to
American suspicions of secret societies
One major reason for the Anglo-Texan rebellion against Mexican rule was that the
Anglo-Texans objected the Mexican government's establishment of evangelical Protestantism as Texas's official religion
President 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
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 new two-party political system that emerged in the 1830's and 1840's
Became an important part of the nation's checks and balances
Despite his suspicions of the federal government, Andrew Jackson's Democratic political party
Created the spoils system in the federal government
The South Carolina state legislature, after the election of 1832
Declared the existing tariff null and void in South Carolina
The cement that held the whig party together in its formative days was
Hatred of Andrew Jackson and his aggrandizement of executive power at the expense of the states and Congress
Texas gained its independence with
Help from the Americans
The person most responsible for diffusing 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
One of the main reasons andrew Jackson decided to weaken the Bank of the United States after the 1832 election was
His fear the Nicholas Biddle might try to manipulate the bank to force its recharter
John Quincy Adams's weaknesses as president included all of the following except
His personal coldness and tactlessness with people
Andrew Jackson and his supporters dislike the Bank of the Unites States for all of the following reasons except
It put public service first, not profits
One of the positive aspects of the Bank of the Unites States was
Its function as a source of credit and stability, promoting the nation's expanding economy
By the 1840's, voter participation in the presidential election reached
Nearly 80 percent
Andrew Jackson's inauguration as president symbolized the
Newly won ascendacy of the masses
The House of Representative decided the 1824 presidential election when
No candidate received a majority of the vote in the Electoral College
Supporters of the Whig party included all of the following except
Opponents of public education
All of the following were characteristics of Henry Clay's election campaign of 1832 except
Overconfidence of his campaign and the National Republicans
William Henry Harrison, the Whig party's presidential candidate in 1840, was
Portrayed by his supporters as a poor western farmer in an effort to make a deceptive contrast with his aristocratic opponent, Democratic incumbent President Martin Van Buren
John Quincy Adams can be described as
Possessing almost none of the arts of the politician
The force Bill of 1833 provided that the
President could use the army and navy to collect federal tariff duties
People in the west tended to prefer Andrew Jackson and the 1824 election because he
Promised to uphold the needs of free labor
The Whigs offered all of the following proposals for the remedies of the economic ills facing America in 1837 except
Proposal of the Divorce Bill
In the 1820's and 1830's, the public's attitude regarding political parties
Reflected growing acceptance on the wild contentiousness of political life
Texans won their independence as a result of the victory over Mexican armies at the Battle of
San Jacinto
Most of the very early American settlers in Texas, dubbed the "Old Three Hundred," were _______ who came from the ______
Scots-Irish, South
In the 1820's and 1830's, the two issues that greatly raised the political stakes were
Slavery and economic distress
John C. Calhoun's South Carolina exposition was an argument for
States' rights
The Panic of 1837 was caused by all of the following except
Taking the country off the gold standard
The spoils system under Andrew Jackson resulted in
The appointment of many corrupt and incompetent officials to federal jobs
On the forced march from their Georgia homeland to Oklahoma known as the Trail of Tears, the Cherokees experienced all of the following except
The rampant sexual abuse of wives and daughters by U.S. Soldiers
Spanish authorities allowed Moses Austin to settle in Texas because
They believed that Austin and his settlers might be able to "civilize the territory," which was heavily populated by Indians
Southerners feared the Tariff of 1828 because
This same use of the power of the federal government could be used to suppress slavery
The purpose behind the spoils system was
To reward political supporters with public office
Innovations in the election of 1832 included
Adoption of written party platforms
Despite president Adams's discomfort, his political supporters in the election of 1828 used all of the following dirty tactics against his rival andrew Jackson except
Assailing Jackson for his deadly conflicts and uncompromising relations with Indian nations
The nullification crisis started by South Carolina over the Tariff of 1828 ended when
Congress passed the Compromise Tariff of 1833
In response to South Carolina's nullification of the Tariff of 1828, President Andrew Jackson
Dispatched naval and military forces to the state while denouncing nullification
The policy of the Jackson administration toward the eastern Indian tribes involved
Forced removal of their traditional lands
The Whigs hoped to win the 1836 election by
Forcing the election into the House of Representatives
The nullification crisis of 1833 resulted in a clear-cut victory for
Neither Andrew Jackson or the nullifiers
In an effort to assimilate themselves into white society, the Cherokees did all of the following except
Refuse to own slaves
The Nullification Crisis of 1832-1833 erupted directly over
Tariff policy
Andrew Jackson made all of the following charges against the Bank of the United states except that
The bank was autocratic and tyrannical
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 as well as unconstitutional
Writing about his observations of america and Americans as he traveled across the United States, the Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville was most struck by
The general equality of social and economic conditions among Americans
Opposing the Tariff of 1828, Southerners labeled it a "Yankee Tariff' because
The tariff protected New England manufacturing at their economic expense
The Tippecanoe in the Whigs' 1840 presidential campaign slogan was
WIlliam Harrison
As president, John Quincy Adams
Was one of the least successful presidents in American history
While in existence, the Second Bank of the United States
Was the depository of the funds of the national government
The presidential election of 1824
Was the first one of the election of a president who failed to win a majority of the electoral vote from the state electors
Both the Democratic and the Whig party
Were mass-based political parties
Andrew Jackson's administration supported the removal of Native Americans for the eastern states because
Whites wanted the Indians' land
Which of the following interest group(s) supported the exceptionally high rates of the Tariff of 1828
Wool and textile manufacturers from New England