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