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The Whigs hoped to win the 1836 election by |
forcing the election into the House of Representatives. |
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Andrew Jackson’s Democratic political philosophy was based on his |
suspicion of the federal government. |
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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. |
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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. |
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The House of Representatives decided the 1824 presidential election when |
no candidate received a mojority of the vote in the Electoral College. |
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The Panic of 1837 was cause by all of the following except |
taking the country off the gold standard. |
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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. |
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Andrew Jackson’s inauguration as president symbolized the |
newly won ascendancy of the masses. |
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John Quincy Adams could be best described as |
possessing almost none of the arts of the politician. |
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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. |
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Americans moved into Texas |
after an agreement was concluded between Mexican authorities and Stephen Austin. |
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The presidential election of 1824 |
was the first one to see the election of a minority president. |
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Innovations in the election of 1832 included |
adoption of written party platforms. |
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Andrew Jackson’s administration supported the removal of Native Americans from the eastern states because |
whites wanted the Indian’s land. |
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The South Carolina state legislature, after the election of 1832 |
declared the existing tariff null and viod in South Carolina. |
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The section of the United States most hurt by the Tariff of 1828 was |
the South. |
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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. |
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The "Tippecanoe" in the Whigs’ 1840 campaign slogan was |
William Harrison. |
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Match each indivitual below with the correct description. 1. Finished third in the electoral vote but was eliminated by illness. |
Answer: A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1. |
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The Anti-Masonic party of 1832 appealed to |
people who opposed to the growing political power of evangelical Protestants. |
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Supporters of the Whig party included all of the following except |
opponents of public education. |
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In an effort to assimilate themselves into white society, the Cherokees did all of the following except |
refuse to own slaves. |
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The cement that help the Whig party together in its formative days was |
hatred of Andrew Jackson. |
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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. |
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The purpose behind the spoils system was |
to reward political supporters with public office. |
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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. |
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William Henry Harrison, the Whig party’s presidential candidate in 1840, was |
made to look like a poor western farmer. |
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The strong regional support of the Tariff of 1833 came from |
the South. |
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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. |
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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 |
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Most of the early American settlers in Texas came from |
the South and Southwest. |
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The nullification crisis of 1832-1833 erupted over |
tariff policy. |
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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. |
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The government of Mexico and the Americans who settled in Mexican-controlled Texas clashed over all the following issues except |
immigration. |
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As president, John Quincy Adams |
was one of the least successful presidents in American history. |
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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. |
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John Quincy Adams’s weaknesses as president inculded all of the following except |
his encouragement of his supporters to "sling mud" at Jackson. |
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The nullification crisis started by South Carolina over the Tariff of 1828 ended when |
Congress passed the compromise Tariff of 1833. |
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The new two-party systen that emerged in the 1830s and the 1840s |
became an important part of the nation’s chacks and balances. |
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Texas gained its independence with |
help from Americans. |
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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. |
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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. |
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The policy of the Jackson administration toward the eastern Indian tribes was |
forced removal. |
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Southerners feared the Tariff of 1828 because |
this same power could be used to suppress slavery. |
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The person most responsible for defusing the tariff controversy that began in 1828 was |
Henry Clay. |
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While in existence, the second Bank of the United States |
was the depository of the funds of the national government. |
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The nullification crisis of 1833 resulted in a clear-cut victory for |
neither Andrew Jackson nor the nullifiers. |
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