APUSH Chapter 13
Match each individual below with the correct description. A. Andrew Jackson B. Henry Clay C. John C. Calhoun D. William Crawford 1. was vice president on the ticket of two presidential candidates in 1824 2. received more popular votes than any other candidate in 1824 3. was eliminated as a candidate when the election of 1824 was thrown into the House of Representatives
A-2, B-3, C-1
In the 1820s and 1830s the public's attitude regarding political parties
Accepted the sometimes wild contentiousness of political life
The Anti-Masonic party of 1832 appealed to
American suspicions of secret societies
The people who opposed the exceptionally high rates of the Tariff of 1828 were
Ardent supporters of Andrew Jackson
The new two party political system that emerged in the 1830s and 1840s
Became an important part of the nations checks and balances
The nullification crisis started by South Carolina over the Tariff of 1828 ended when
Congress passed the compromise tariff of 1833
In response to South Carolina's nullification of the Tariff of 1828, Andrew Jackson
Dispatched military forces to South Carolina
The Whigs hoped to win the election of 1836 by
Forcing the election into the House of Representatives
Texas gained its independence with
Help from Americans
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
One of the main reasons Andrew Jackson decided to weaken the Bank of the United States after the 1832 election was
His fear that Nicholas Biddle might try to manipulate the bank before its recharter
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 majority of the vote in the electoral college
John Quincy Adams could be described as
Possessing almost none of the arts of a politician
John C. Calhoun's "South Carolina exposition" was an argument for
States' rights
One reason for the Anglo-texan rebellion was that
The anglo-texans wanted to break away from a government that had grown too authoritarian
The spoils system under Andrew Jackson resulted in
The appointment of many corrupt and incompetent officials to federal jobs
The Force Bill of 1833 provided that
The president could use the army and navy to collect federal tax dues
The purpose behind the spoils system was
To reward political supporters with public office
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.
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 two political parties of the Jacksonian era tended to
be socially and geographically diverse
The policy of the Jackson administration toward the eastern Indian tribes was
forced removal
The cement that held the Whig party together in its formative days was
hatred of andrew Jackson
John Quincy Adams's weaknesses as president inculded all of the following except
his encouragement of his supporters to "sling mud" at Jackson
Andrew Jackson's political philosophy was based on
his suspicion of the federal government.
Andrew Jackson made all of the following charges against the bank of the United States except that
it refused to lend money to politicians
By the 1840s voter participation in the presidential election reached
nearly 80 percent
The nullification crisis of 1833 resulted in a clear-cut victory for
neither Andrew Jackson nor the nullifiers
Supporters of the Whig party included all of the following except
opponents of public education
Andrew Jackson and his supporters disliked 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
The panic of 1837 was caused by all of the following problems except
taking the country off the gold standard
The nullification crisis of 1832-1833 erupted over
tariff policy
The section of the US most hurt by the tariff of 1828 was
the South
The strong regional support of the Tariff of 1833 came from
the South
Spanish authorities allowed Moses Austin to settle in Texas because
they believed austin and his settlers might be able to civilize the territory
Andrew Jackson's administration supported the removal of Native Americans from the eastern states because
whites wanted the Indian's land