Chapter 13 Quiz
People in the West tended to prefer Andrew Jackson in the 1824 election because he...
campaigned against the forces of corruption and privilege in government.
Despite his suspicions of the federal government, Andrew Jackson's Democratic political party...
created the spoils system in the federal government.
The Whigs hoped to win the 1836 election by...
forcing the election into the House of Representatives.
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.
John Quincy Adams's weaknesses as president included all of the following except...
his encouragement of his supporters to "sling mud" at Jackson.
The nullification crisis of 1833 resulted in a clear-cut victory for...
neither Andrew Jackson nor the nullifiers.
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.
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.
Both the Democratic party and the Whig party...
were mass-based political parties.
Andrew Jackson's administration supported the removal of Native Americans from the eastern states because...
whites wanted the Indians' lands.
Texans won their independence as a result of the victory over Mexican armies at the Battle of...
San Jacinto.
Which of the following interest group(s) supported the exceptionally high rates of the Tariff of 1828?
Wool and textile manufacturers from New England
Innovations in the election of 1832 included...
adoption of written party platforms.
The new two-party political system that emerged in the 1830s and 1840s...
became an important part of the nation's checks and balances.