Ch. 13 APUSH

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Andrew Jackson's veto of the recharter bill for the Bank of the United States was

A major expansion of presidential power

Americans moved into Texas

After an agreement was concluded between Mexican authorities and Stephen Austin to permit the Texan settlers to bring into Texas 300 families who were to properly become Mexicanized

The government of Mexico and the Americans who settled in Mexican-controlled Texas clashed over all of the following issues except

Allegiance to Spain

The Anti-Masonic party of 1832 appealed to

American suspicions of secret societies

One major reason for the Anglo-Texan rebellion against Mexican rule was that the

Anglo-Texans objected the Mexican government's establishment of evangelical Protestantism as Texas's official religion

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

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 political system that emerged in the 1830's and 1840's

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

Despite his suspicions of the federal government, Andrew Jackson's Democratic political party

Created the spoils system in the federal government

The South Carolina state legislature, after the election of 1832

Declared the existing tariff null and void in South Carolina

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

Hatred of Andrew Jackson and his aggrandizement of executive power at the expense of the states and Congress

Texas gained its independence with

Help from the Americans

The person most responsible for diffusing 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

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 to force its recharter

John Quincy Adams's weaknesses as president included all of the following except

His personal coldness and tactlessness with people

Andrew Jackson and his supporters dislike the Bank of the Unites States for all of the following reasons except

It put public service first, not profits

One of the positive aspects of the Bank of the Unites States was

Its function as a source of credit and stability, promoting the nation's expanding economy

By the 1840's, voter participation in the presidential election reached

Nearly 80 percent

Andrew Jackson's inauguration as president symbolized the

Newly won ascendacy of the masses

The House of Representative decided the 1824 presidential election when

No candidate received a majority of the vote in the Electoral College

Supporters of the Whig party included all of the following except

Opponents of public education

All of the following were characteristics of Henry Clay's election campaign of 1832 except

Overconfidence of his campaign and the National Republicans

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

Portrayed by his supporters as a poor western farmer in an effort to make a deceptive contrast with his aristocratic opponent, Democratic incumbent President Martin Van Buren

John Quincy Adams can be described as

Possessing almost none of the arts of the politician

The force Bill of 1833 provided that the

President could use the army and navy to collect federal tariff duties

People in the west tended to prefer Andrew Jackson and the 1824 election because he

Promised to uphold the needs of free labor

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

In the 1820's and 1830's, the public's attitude regarding political parties

Reflected growing acceptance on the wild contentiousness of political life

Texans won their independence as a result of the victory over Mexican armies at the Battle of

San Jacinto

Most of the very early American settlers in Texas, dubbed the "Old Three Hundred," were _______ who came from the ______

Scots-Irish, South

In the 1820's and 1830's, the two issues that greatly raised the political stakes were

Slavery and economic distress

John C. Calhoun's South Carolina exposition was an argument for

States' rights

The Panic of 1837 was caused by all of the following except

Taking the country off the gold standard

The spoils system under Andrew Jackson resulted in

The appointment of many corrupt and incompetent officials to federal jobs

On the forced march from their Georgia homeland to Oklahoma known as the Trail of Tears, the Cherokees experienced all of the following except

The rampant sexual abuse of wives and daughters by U.S. Soldiers

Spanish authorities allowed Moses Austin to settle in Texas because

They believed that Austin and his settlers might be able to "civilize the territory," which was heavily populated by Indians

Southerners feared the Tariff of 1828 because

This same use of the power of the federal government could be used to suppress slavery

The purpose behind the spoils system was

To reward political supporters with public office

Innovations in the election of 1832 included

Adoption of written party platforms

Despite president Adams's discomfort, his political supporters in the election of 1828 used all of the following dirty tactics against his rival andrew Jackson except

Assailing Jackson for his deadly conflicts and uncompromising relations with Indian nations

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, President Andrew Jackson

Dispatched naval and military forces to the state while denouncing nullification

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

Forced removal of their traditional lands

The Whigs hoped to win the 1836 election by

Forcing the election into the House of Representatives

The nullification crisis of 1833 resulted in a clear-cut victory for

Neither Andrew Jackson or the nullifiers

In an effort to assimilate themselves into white society, the Cherokees did all of the following except

Refuse to own slaves

The Nullification Crisis of 1832-1833 erupted directly over

Tariff policy

Andrew Jackson made all of the following charges against the Bank of the United states except that

The bank was autocratic and tyrannical

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

Writing about his observations of america and Americans as he traveled across the United States, the Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville was most struck by

The general equality of social and economic conditions among Americans

Opposing the Tariff of 1828, Southerners labeled it a "Yankee Tariff' because

The tariff protected New England manufacturing at their economic expense

The Tippecanoe in the Whigs' 1840 presidential campaign slogan was

WIlliam Harrison

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 of the election of a president who failed to win a majority of the electoral vote from the state electors

Both the Democratic and the Whig party

Were mass-based political parties

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

Whites wanted the Indians' land

Which of the following interest group(s) supported the exceptionally high rates of the Tariff of 1828

Wool and textile manufacturers from New England


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