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

Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
annexation

Answer 1

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Question 2

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

Answer 2

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Question 3

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

Answer 3

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Question 4

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

Question 5

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

Question 6

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

Question 7

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

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Goliad

Question 9

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

Question 10

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

Question 11

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

Question 12

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

Question 13

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

Question 14

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

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Osceola

Question 16

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

Question 17

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

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Alamo

Question 19

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

Question 20

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

Question 21

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Texas Revolution

Question 22

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Hickoryites

Question 23

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

Question 24

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

Question 25

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

Question 26

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
slavocracy

Question 27

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

Question 28

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

Question 29

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"Little Magician"

Question 30

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

Question 31

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
divine right

Question 32

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

Question 33

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Cherokees

Question 34

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

Question 35

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

Question 36

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
machine politicians

Question 37

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
usurpation

Question 38

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

Question 39

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

Question 40

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
populist

Question 41

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
pet banks

Question 42

What was significant about the new two-party political system that emerged in the 1830s and 1840s?

A) It increased sectional divisions.
B) It maintained "deference" toward elite political leadership.
C) It brought talented people into politics and government.
D) It was a byproduct of the ideals of the founding fathers.
E) It became an important part of the nation's checks and balances.

Question 43

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

Question 44

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

Question 45

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

Question 46

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

Question 47

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
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:
Bank of the United States

Question 49

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

Question 50

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

Question 51

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

Question 52

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

Question 53

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"Divorce Bill"

Question 54

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
mudslinging

Question 55

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
hard,or metallic,money

Question 56

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"log cabin and hard cider" campaign

Question 57

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Humbug Glory Bank

Question 58

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

Question 59

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

Question 60

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Lone Star

Question 61

Why did Jacksonites promote passage of a high tariff bill in 1828?

A) They wanted the win the votes of New England merchants who favored tariffs.
B) They wanted to manufacture a false crisis that Andrew Jackson could easily resolve and win voters by doing so.
C) They wanted to tarnish John Quincy Adams image.
D) They were supporters of Henry Clay's "American System."
E) They hoped to help southern plantation owners by erecting barriers to cheap cotton imports.

Question 62

Which leader proved incapable of developing public support for his policies?

A) William Henry Harrison
B) John C. Calhoun
C) John Quincy Adams
D) Andrew Jackson
E) Henry Clay

Question 63

Andrew Jackson's strongest supporters in the election of 1828 came from

A) New England.
B) the Middle Atlantic states.
C) the Southwest and Northeast.
D) the West and the South.
E) New England and the Middle Atlantic states.

Question 64

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 top two candidates tied in the electoral vote.
D) New England threatened to secede if Jackson were elected.
E) the vote was too close to call in Florida.

Question 65

The spoils system under Andrew Jackson resulted in

A) a clean sweep of federal job holders.
B) the replacement of insecurity by security in employment.
C) the weakening of the political machines in American elections.
D) the appointment of many corrupt and incompetent officials to federal jobs.
E) the recruitment of many talented people from the working classes.

Question 66

How did most of the general public respond to the rise of political parties in the 1820s and 1830s?

A) People resisted the party system.
B) People were deeply ambivalent.
C) People in the Northern states were more accepting of parties than those in the South.
D) People accepted them as part of the wild contentiousness of political life.
E) People thought parties were the best expressions of political ideologies.

Question 67

Who argued in the "South Carolina Exposition" that states possessed the right to nullify federal laws within their borders?

A) Henry Clay
B) John Quincy Adams
C) Andrew Jackson
D) John C. Calhoun
E) Martin Van Buren

Question 68

What did South Carolina threaten to do if the federal government attempted to collect the taxes imposed by the Tariff of 1828?

A) Take up arms against customs officers and the United States.
B) Close all government offices within the state.
C) Secede from the United States.
D) Sell off public lands within its borders.
E) Boycott all products made or imported by New England firms.

Question 69

The purpose behind the spoils system was to

A) press those with experience into governmental service.
B) turn politics from an amateur to a professional pursuit.
C) reward political supporters with public office.
D) reverse the trend of rotation in office.
E) prevent corruption from spoiling the democratic system.

Question 70

Aside from the issue of duties,what was behind southerners' fears of the Tariff of 1828?

A) They worried that it would crush their nascent manufacturing sector.
B) They saw it as an extension of federal power that might also be used to end slavery.
C) They thought Andrew Jackson overstepped the constitutional role of president.
D) They feared it would make cotton production unprofitable.
E) They believed it would encourage retaliation by Britain and other European countries.

Question 71

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 Supreme Court
C) Henry Clay; secretary of state
D) Daniel Webster; secretary of state
E) Nicholas Biddle; president of the Bank of the United States

Question 72

Match each candidate in the election of 1824 with the correct description.

A) A-2, B-3, C-1, D-4
B) A-4, B-1, C-3, D-2
C) A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1
D) A-3, B-4, C-2, D-1
E) A-1, B-2, C-4, D-3

Question 73

The section of the United States most hurt by the Tariff of 1828 was

A) New England.
B) the Great Lakes states.
C) the Southwest.
D) the South.
E) the Middle Atlantic states.

Question 74

By the 1840s voter participation in presidential elections reached

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

Question 75

What was one of John Quincy Adams's major weaknesses as president?

A) His inflexible code of honor
B) His widespread use of patronage and the spoils system
C) His status as a member of the Adams political dynasty
D) His warmth and sentimentality
E) His strong adherence to nationalistic ideas

Question 76

Andrew Jackson's inauguration as president symbolized the

A) return of Jeffersonian simplicity.
B) newly won ascendancy of the masses.
C) dignity and decorum with which Jackson ran the White House.
D) aloofness with which Jackson treated his supporters.
E) growing evangelical temperance movement in American society.

Question 77

The South Carolina state legislature,after the election of 1832,

A) voted to abolish all federal legislation, with regard to tariffs, as unconstitutional.
B) declared the existing tariff constitutional and part of South Carolina law.
C) was taken over by a majority of Federalists.
D) voted to secede from the union.
E) declared the existing tariff null and void in South Carolina.

Question 78

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 ____,the House of Representatives had to choose among the top three candidates.

A) Ninth Amendment
B) Tenth Amendment
C) Eleventh Amendment
D) Twelfth Amendment
E) Thirteenth Amendment

Question 79

John Quincy Adams could be described as

A) a clever behind-the-scenes operator.
B) a great mind with a morally flawed character.
C) a person with great tact and love for people.
D) a politician without a politician's skills.
E) a man of limited intelligence.

Question 80

How did politicking change by the 1840s?

A) Debates between candidates became standard.
B) Politicians routinely toured the country to get out the vote.
C) Presidential candidates now hired a full staff to run their campaigns.
D) Politicians made an effort to appeal to women and minority voters.
E) Candidates increasingly used parades, banners, and barbecues to rally voters.