Deck 13: The Rise of a Mass Democracy, 1824-1840

Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Andrew Jackson

Answer 1

Student answers will vary.

Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Daniel Webster

Answer 2

Student answers will vary.

Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
William Harrison

Answer 3

Student answers will vary.

Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Nullification Crisis

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John C. Calhoun

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Santa Anna

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
spoils system

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Black Hawk

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John Quincy Adams

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Sam Houston

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John Tyler

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
William Crawford

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Alexis de Tocqueville

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Stephen Austin

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Martin Van Buren

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"favorite son"

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Nicholas Biddle

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Henry Clay

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
minority president

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Denmark Vesey

Question 21

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Force Bill

Question 22

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
speculation

Question 23

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
antislavery crusaders and Texas​

Question 24

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Twelfth Amendment

Question 25

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
annexation

Question 26

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"King Mob"

Question 27

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Unionists

Question 28

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
rotation in office

Question 29

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"slavocracy"

Question 30

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"corrupt bargain"

Question 31

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Specie Circular

Question 32

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Tariff of 1832

Question 33

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
National Republicans

Question 34

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Democratic party

Question 35

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Tariff of Abominations

Question 36

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
South Carolina Exposition

Question 37

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Anti-Masonic party

Question 38

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
common man

Question 39

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
compromise Tariff of 1833

Question 40

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Nullifiers

Question 41

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
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The Texas Revolution, Indian Territory, and Florida Territory, c. 1836
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____ Goliad

Question 42

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Bank War

Question 43

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"Trail of Tears"

Question 44

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Alamo

Question 45

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Indian Removal Act (1830)

Question 46

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"Five Civilized Tribes"

Question 47

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

A)westward expansion and Indian removal.
B)the end of property qualifications for voting and political conventions.
C)the admission of Texas and Oregon to the Union.
D)hard money and banking regulation.
E)slavery and economic distress.

Question 48

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Battle of San Jacinto​

Question 49

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
independent treasury

Question 50

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​
The Texas Revolution, Indian Territory, and Florida Territory, c. 1836
​

____ ​Louisiana

Question 51

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Panic of 1837

Question 52

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​
The Texas Revolution, Indian Territory, and Florida Territory, c. 1836
​

____ Everglades

Question 53

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Whig party

Question 54

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​
The Texas Revolution, Indian Territory, and Florida Territory, c. 1836
​

____ San Jacinto

Question 55

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Seminole Indians

Question 56

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​
The Texas Revolution, Indian Territory, and Florida Territory, c. 1836
​

____ Indian Territory

Question 57

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Goliad

Question 58

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​
The Texas Revolution, Indian Territory, and Florida Territory, c. 1836
​

____ Texas

Question 59

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​
The Texas Revolution, Indian Territory, and Florida Territory, c. 1836
​

____ Alamo

Question 60

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Anti-Masonic party

Question 61

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

A)was uniformly hostile to all political parties, regardless of the party or the region of the country.
B)was deeply ambivalent.
C)was more positive in the North than in the South.
D)reflected growing acceptance of the wild contentiousness of political life.
E)was that they were the best expressions of political ideologies.

Question 62

As president, John Quincy Adams

A)was more successful than as secretary of state.
B)was impeached by the House of Representatives, but he was acquitted by the Senate.
C)was one of the least successful presidents in American history.
D)put many of his supporters on the federal payroll.
E)was successful in getting most of his programs enacted into law.

Question 63

The purpose behind the spoils system was

A)to press those with experience into governmental service.
B)to make politics a sideline and not a full-time business.
C)to reward political supporters with public office.
D)to reverse the trend of rotation in office.
E)the widespread encouragement of a bureaucratic office-holding class.

Question 64

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

A)was less inclined to engage in wars with Indian nations than to seek fair negotiated treaties with Native Americans to resolve territorial disputes.
B)campaigned against the forces of corruption and privilege in government.
C)promised to uphold the needs of free labor.
D)had embraced the American System.
E)None of these choices are correct.

Question 65

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

A)the tariff protected New England manufacturing at their economic expense.
B)it charged a tax on Southern manufactured goods, making it difficult for the South to compete in the world market.
C)it imposed a high tax on Southern-grown cotton.
D)it placed a substantially lower tax on European manufactured goods imported into the New England and middle states than it did on similar European gods imported into states in the South.
E)None of these choices are correct.

Question 66

The presidential election of 1824

A)was the first to use the electoral college.
B)was the first one to see the election of a president who failed to win a majority of the electoral vote from the state electors.
C)saw a record high voter turn-out show up at the polls.
D)saw the formulation of well-organized political parties.
E)was decided by the U.S.Supreme Court.

Question 67

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

A)secession.
B)protective tariffs.
C)majority rule.
D)states' rights.
E)trade with England.

Question 68

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

A)offered support of a strong central government directing economic affairs.
B)advocated strongly for the enactment of Henry Clay's "American System."
C)favored using the U.S.Army to restrict westward and southern American settlement into Indian areas.
D)created the spoils system in the federal government.
E)asserted conviction of the need for "the best and the brightest" in government.

Question 69

Andrew Jackson's inauguration as president symbolized the

A)return of Jeffersonian simplicity.
B)newly won ascendancy of the masses.
C)supremacy of states' rights over federal power.
D)reemergence of a dominant Federalist ethic of government and Federalist economic policies.
E)All of these choices are correct.

Question 70

Southerners feared the Tariff of 1828 because

A)it would hurt their growing manufacturing sector.
B)this same use of the power of the federal government could be used to suppress slavery.
C)it might hurt Andrew Jackson's political career.
D)they were convinced that it would destroy the American woolen industry.
E)it could damage the chances of the American System's success.

Question 71

The new two-party political system that emerged in the 1830s and 1840s

A)significantly reduced sectional political divisions in the country.
B)was seen at the time as a weakening of democracy.
C)resulted in the Civil War.
D)fulfilled the wishes of the founding fathers.
E)became an important part of the nation's checks and balances.

Question 72

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

A)the comparative wealth of Americans versus Europeans.
B)the general equality of social and economic conditions among Americans.
C)the low voter participation.
D)the ugliness of political campaigns.
E)None of these choices are correct.

Question 73

John Quincy Adams could be described as

A)a politician who enjoyed engaging in political bargaining and "horse-trading" with political colleagues and adversaries.
B)a man who sought popular support.
C)a politician with great tact.
D)possessing almost none of the arts of the politician.
E)a man of limited intelligence.

Question 74

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

A)nearly 50 percent.
B)25 percent.
C)40 percent.
D)15 percent.
E)nearly 80 percent.

Question 75

The Nullification Crisis of 1832-1833 erupted directly over

A)banking policy.
B)internal improvements.
C)tariff policy.
D)extension of slavery into the western territories.
E)Indian policy.

Question 76

The House of Representatives decided the 1824 presidential election when

A)no candidate received a majority of the vote in the Electoral College.
B)William Crawford suffered a stroke and was forced to drop out of the race.
C)the House was forced to do so by "King Caucus."
D)the Supreme Court declined to hear a case brought by Andrew Jackson contesting the electoral results.
E)widespread voter fraud was discovered.

Question 77

The spoils system under Andrew Jackson resulted in

A)a superior class of intelligent, competent federal job holders than under previous presidential administrations.
B)the replacement of insecurity by security in employment.
C)the destruction of the personalized political machine.
D)the appointment of many corrupt and incompetent officials to federal jobs.
E)the same public policies as those taken by John Quincy Adams.

Question 78

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

A)his strong nationalistic ideology.
B)his support for elitist proposals like a national university.
C)his personal coldness and tactlessness with people.
D)the charges of "corrupt bargain" hanging over his presidency.
E)his encouragement of his supporters to "sling mud" at Jackson.

Question 79

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

A)Western backcountry farmers, shopkeepers, artisans, and laborers who thought the tariff would revive a stagnant American economy
B)Abolitionists who saw it as the opening wedge for the use of federal power against slavery
C)Wool and textile manufacturers from New England
D)Supporters of Henry Clay's American System
E)Southern plantation owners who wanted to prevent dumping of Egyptian cotton in America

Question 80

John Quincy Adams, elected president in 1825, was charged by his political opponents with having struck a "corrupt bargain" when he appointed ____ to become ____.

A)John C.Calhoun, vice president
B)William Crawford, chief justice of the United States
C)Henry Clay, secretary of state
D)Daniel Webster, secretary of state
E)John Eaton, secretary of the navy