Ch. 13

The Anti-Masonic party of 1832 appealed to

American suspicions of secret societies

The cement that held the Whig party together in its formative days was

hatred of Andrew Jackson

The presidential election of 1824

was the first one to see the election of a minority president

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

whites wanted the Indians' lands

The person most responsible for defusing the tariff controversy that began in 1828 was

Daniel Webster

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

The "Tippecanoe" in the Whigs' 1840 campaign slogan was

William Harrison

Andrew Jackson's veto of the recharter bill for the Bank of the US 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

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

The new two-party political system that emerged in the 1830s and the 1840s

became an important part of the nation's checks and balances

The nullification crisis started by South Carolina over the Tariff of 1828 ended when

congress passed the compromise Tariff of 1833

The South Carolina state legislature, after the election of 1832

declared the existing tariff null and void in SC

The policy of the Jackson administration toward the eastern Indian tribes was

forced removal

The Whigs hoped to win the 1836 election by

forcing the election into the House of Representatives

Texas gained its independence with

help from Americans

One of the main reasons Andrew Jackson decided to weaken the Bank of the US after the 1832 election was

his fear that Nicholas Biddle might try to manipulate the bank to force its recharter

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

made to look like a poor western farmer

Andrew Jackson's inauguration as president symbolized the

newly won ascendancy of the masses

The nullification crisis of 1832-1833 erupted over

tariff policy

The strong regional support of the Tariff of 1833 came from

the South

Most of the early American settlers in Texas came from

the South and Southwest

Southerners feared the Tariff of 1828 because

this same power could be used to suppress slavery

The purpose behind the spoils system was

to reward political supporters with public office

The election of 1824 ended in a deadlock (i.e,. no candidate received a majority of votes in the Electoral College), as directed by the ___ amendment, the House of Representatives had to choose among the top three candidates

twelfth

As president, John Quincy Adams

was one of the least successful presidents in American History