Chapter 13 True and False

True

A primary source of tension between settlers in Texas and the Mexican government was Mexico's abolition of slavery and prohibition of slave importation.

False

Andrew Jackson became a great popular hero as president because he continued to live the same life of frontier toughness and simplicity as his followers.

False

Andrew Jackson used midiation and compromise rather than threats of force to persuade South Carolina to back away from its nullification of the tariff laws.

False

Henry Clay disproved the charge of a corrupt bargain between himself and President Adams by refusing to accept any favors from the new administration.

True

Jackson successfully used his veto of the bill to recharter the wealthy Bank of the United States to politically mobilize the common people of the West against the financial elite of the East.

True

Jackson's victory in 1828 represented the triumph of the West and the common people over the older elitist political system.

True

President Adams lost public support by promoting strong nationalistic principles in a time of growing support for sectionalism and states' rights.

True

South Carolina's fierce opposition to the Tariff of Abominations reflected an underlying fear that enhanced federal power might be turned against the institution of slavery.

True

The Jacksonians practiced their belief that because all citizens were equal, anyone could hold public positions without particular qualifications.

False

The Whig party was united by its principles of states' rights, western expansionism, and opposition to the role of evangelical Christianity in politics.

False

The election campaign of 1828 was notable for the well-formulated debates between Andrew Jackson and President Adams on the issues of the tariff and removal of the barriers to political equality and democracy.

True

The last election based on the old elitist system was the four-way presidential campaign of 1824 involving Jackson, Clay, Crawford, and John Quincy Adams.

True

The powerful Cherokees of the southeastern United States fiercely resisted white efforts to alter their traditional culture and way of life.

True

When the Supreme Court ruled against the state of Georgia and in favor of southeastern Indians' rights, Jackson defied the Supreme Court's rulings and ordered the Cherokees and other southeastern tribes forcibly removed to Oklahoma.

False

William Henry Harrison's background as an ordinary frontiersman born in a log cabin enabled Whigs to match and exceed the Democrats' appeal to the common man in the campaign of 1840.