Exam 3 - Chapter 10 HIST

President Jackson's attitude toward the Supreme Court's decision in Worcester v. Georgia was:

defiance

Jackson's opponents called themselves Whigs to:

denounce what they saw as Jackson's tyrannical qualities

In the 1840 campaign, the Whigs:

depended on a catchy campaign slogan

The Jacksonian concept of equality was a belief that:

everyone should have an equal chance to succeed

In 1840, the Whigs:

feared splitting their party and hence had no platform

After the panic of 1837, working-class Americans could expect all of the following EXCEPT:

government assistance

In regard to banks and banking policy, Jackson, like other southerners:

much preferred hard money to paper currency

How many states joined South Carolina in repudiating the tariff acts of 1828 and 1832?

none

Andrew Jackson

offered as toast at Jefferson Day dinner: "Our Union—It must be preserved!"

In response to South Carolina's tariff nullification, Jackson:

privately threatened to hang Calhoun

The Indian Removal Act of 1830:

proposed moving Indian tribes to areas west of the Mississippi River

President Jackson's policy toward Indians could best be described as one of:

removal

The Specie Circular:

required gold or silver payment for public lands

John C. Calhoun

resigned vice presidency, 1832

Martin Van Buren was known as the "Little Magician" due to his:

skill as a professional politician

Pet banks were:

state banks that received federal government deposits

After his reelection, Jackson moved to destroy the Bank of the United States by:

withdrawing its federal deposits

All of the following were presidential candidates in 1836 EXCEPT:

Andrew Jackson

The one thing that united all members of the new Whig party was opposition to:

Andrew Jackson

Which of the following figures opposed federal funding of internal improvements?

Andrew Jackson

The Indian chief who resisted federal policy in Illinois and Wisconsin was:

Black Hawk

By the 1832 election, the Jacksonians had become known as the:

Democrats

Henry Clay was Andrew Jackson's second vice president.

False

Jacksonian democracy involved the extension of voting rights to blacks, Indians, and women.

False

Martin Van Buren opposed the establishment of an independent Treasury.

False

Martin Van Buren was a native of North Carolina and had served two terms as that state's governor.

False

Most Whigs were states' rights advocates.

False

President Jackson's response to the nullification crisis was to ask Congress to raise the tariff.

False

The Distribution Act provided for each veteran of the War of 1812 to receive 360 acres of land in the West.

False

The Whig presidential candidate in 1840, William Henry Harrison, was born in a log cabin.

False

Least likely to become Whigs would be:

German and Irish Catholics

The compromise tariff that ended the nullification crisis was authored by:

Henry Clay

When Congress rechartered the Bank of the United States in 1832:

Jackson vetoed the recharter

All of the following were prominent Whig politicians EXCEPT:

Martin Van Buren

John Eaton

was the husband of a woman snubbed by wives of cabinet members

During Jackson's presidency, the national debt grew smaller until it was paid off entirely in 1835.

True

In the midst of the nullification crisis, John C. Calhoun resigned as vice president.

True

Jacksonians believed in equality of opportunity rather than equality of result.

True

John C. Calhoun was born in South Carolina.

True

Osceola led the Seminole resistance to their removal from their lands.

True

The Cherokee Indians were forced westward on the route that came to be known as the Trail of Tears.

True

The Tariff of 1828 was also known as the "tariff of abominations."

True

The Webster-Hayne debate is best remembered for:

Webster's eloquent defense of the union

The Independent Treasury Act provoked opposition from:

Whigs and conservative Democrats

Jackson viewed the Bank of the United States as:

a "monster" that served the interests of a wealthy few

All of the following characterized the United States by the time of Andrew Jackson's election EXCEPT:

a dynamic economy absent of panics or depressions

Calhoun's South Carolina Exposition and Protest:

argued that states could nullify federal legislation

Nicholas Biddle

was the director of the Bank of the United States

Daniel Webster

as the Massachusetts senator, said "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable"

As a result of Jackson's bank policies:

banks printed new bank notes with abandon

Andrew Jackson was a true Jeffersonian in his:

belief in limited government

Jackson's veto of the Maysville Road bill demonstrated his:

belief that the federal government should not fund purely local projects

As a result of the Eaton affair:

both John Eaton and Martin Van Buren left the cabinet

Martin Van Buren

called the Little Magician

William Henry Harrison:

had defeated the Shawnees at Tippecanoe

The irony of Jackson's political philosophy is that:

his laissez-faire rationale for republican simplicity became the justification for the unregulated growth of centers of economic power

The Anti-Masonic party was the first to:

hold a national nomination convention

Jackson declared his opposition to nullification:

in his toast at a Jefferson Day dinner

According to "progressive" historians, Jackson:

led a vast democratic movement against the abuses of the "Monster" bank

Tariffs passed by Congress in 1830 and 1832:

lowered duties on some items

All of the following factors contributed to the panic of 1837 EXCEPT the:

tariff of 1835, which had lowered duties to dangerous levels

In the Webster-Hayne Debate, Robert Y. Hayne argued that:

the Union was created by a compact of the states

The Trail of Tears resulted in:

the death of thousands of Indians

The Peggy Eaton affair revealed:

the destructive gossip of the Washington social scene

One undebatable fact about the Jacksonian era is:

the dramatic increase in voter participation by 1840

In Worcester v. Georgia, the Marshall court:

took the side of the Cherokees

Thomas Jefferson considered Andrew Jackson unfit for the presidency due to his:

violent temperament

Henry Clay

was Jackson's opponent for president in 1832

William Wirt

was a presidential candidate for Anti-Masonic party, 1832

John Tyler

was the 1840 Whig vice-presidential candidate

William Henry Harrison

won the presidency with his "Log Cabin and Hard Cider" campaign

The proposed Maysville Road:

would be entirely in Kentucky