chapter 13

Match each individual below with the correct description. A. Andrew Jackson 1. finished third in the electoral vote in the presidential election of 1824 but was eliminated by illness B. Henry Clay 2. was elected president by the House of Representatives despite his weak popular appeal C. John Quincy Adams 3. threw his political support to the presidential candidate elected by the House of Representatives, inspiring charges of a "corrupt bargain" D. William Crawford 4. finished first in the popular vote in the election of 1824 but lost in the House of Representatives

A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1

One major reason for the Anglo-Texan rebellion against Mexican rule was that the

Anglo-Texans wanted to break away from a government that had grown too authoritarian.

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

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

San Jacinto.

Innovations in the election of 1832 included

adoption of written party platforms.

John Quincy Adams's weaknesses as president included all of the following except

his encouragement of his supporters to "sling mud" at Jackson.

Andrew Jackson's inauguration as president symbolized the

newly won ascendancy of the masses.

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

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.

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 Nullification Crisis of 1832-1833 erupted directly over

tariff policy.

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.

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.

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

As president, John Quincy Adams

was one of the least successful presidents in American history.

The presidential election of 1824

was the first one to see the election of a president who failed to win a majority of the electoral vote from the state electors.

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

whites wanted the Indians' lands.