chapter 13
Match each indivitual below with the correct description. A. Andrew Jackson B. Henry Clay C. John Quincy Adams D. William Crawford 1. Finished third in the electoral vote but was eliminated by illness. 2. Was elecrted president by the House of Representatives despite his weak popular appeal. 3. Threw his support to the winning candidate, inspiring charges of a "corrupt bargain." 4. Finished first in the popular vote but lost in the House of Representatives.
Answer: A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1.
The nullification crisis started by South Carolina over the Tariff of 1828 ended when
Congress passed the compromise Tariff of 1833.
The person most responsible for defusing the tariff controversy that began in 1828 was
Henry Clay.
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 so-called Era of Good Feelings was never entirely tranquil, but even the illusion of national consensus was shattered by the
Panic of 1819 and the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
The election of 1824 ended in a deadlock as directed by the _____ amendment, the House of Representatives had to choose among the three top candidates.
Twelfth
The "Tippecanoe" in the Whigs' 1840 campaign slogan was
William Harrison.
Andrew Jackson's veto of the recharter bill for the Bank of the United States 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.
Presidents Jackson and Van Buren hesitated to extend national recognition to and to annex the new Texas Republic because
antislavery groups in the United States opposed the expansion of slavery.
The people who opposed the exceptionally high rates of the Tariff of 1828 were
ardent supporters of Andrew Jackson who actually hoped it would be defeated.
In their treatment of Native Americans, white Americans did all of the following except
argue that Indians could not be assimilated into the larger society.
The new two-party systen that emerged in the 1830s and the 1840s
became an important part of the nation's chacks and balances.
One of the positive aspects of the Bank of the United States was its
being a source of credit and stability, promoting the nation's expanding economy.
The South Carolina state legislature, after the election of 1832
declared the existing tariff null and viod in South Carolina.
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.
The cement that help the Whig party together in its formative days was
hatred of Andrew Jackson.
Texas gained its independence with
help from Americans.
John Quincy Adams's weaknesses as president inculded all of the following except
his encouragement of his supporters to "sling mud" at Jackson.
One of the main reasons Andrew Jackson decided to weaken the Bank of the United States after the 1832 election was
his fear the Nicholas Biddle might try to manipulate the bank before its recharter.
The government of Mexico and the Americans who settled in Mexican-controlled Texas clashed over all the following issues except
immigration.
William Henry Harrison, the Whig party's presidential candidate in 1840, was
made to look like a poor western farmer.
The nullification crisis of 1833 resulted in a clear-cut victory for
neither Andrew Jackson nor the nullifiers.
Andrew Jackson's inauguration as president symbolized the
newly won ascendancy of the masses.
The House of Representatives decided the 1824 presidential election when
no candidate received a mojority of the vote in the Electoral College.
Supporters of the Whig party included all of the following except
opponents of public education.
The Anti-Masonic party of 1832 appealed to
people who opposed to the growing political power of evangelical Protestants.
John Quincy Adams could be best described as
possessing almost none of the arts of the politician.
The Whigs offered all of the following proposals for the remedies of the economic ills facing America in 1837 except
proposal of the Divorce Bill.
Andrew Jackson and his supporters dislike the Bank of the Untied 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.
Andrew Jackson's Democratic political philosophy was based on his
suspicion of the federal government.
The Panic of 1837 was cause by all of the following except
taking the country off the gold standard.
The nullification crisis of 1832-1833 erupted over
tariff policy.
Most of the early American settlers in Texas came from
the South and Southwest.
The section of the United States most hurt by the Tariff of 1828 was
the South.
The strong regional support of the Tariff of 1833 came from
the South.
Andrew Jackson made all of the following charges against the Bank of the United States except that
the bank was beholden to British financial intrests.
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.
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.
As president, John Quincy Adams
was one of the least successful presidents in American history.
While in existence, the second Bank of the United States
was the depository of the funds of the national government.
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 Indian's land.
