Andrew Jackson did not win more than half of the electoral votes during the 1824 election. He needed a ________ vote of the electoral votes to win.
What is majority
100
More ____ were eligible to vote because of Jacksonian Democracy
What is Men
100
This act forced many Native Americans to move west
What is Indian Removal Act
100
What former Penn State football coach recently died
Who is Joe Paterno
200
I was one of the four candidates of the election of 1824, and i'm from Massachusetts
Who is John Quincy Adams
200
A private meeting between the most powerful party members to chose a presidential candidate
What is Caucus
200
In the 1830s America went away from using the Caucus system to this ________________ ________________, which gave more democracy towards nominating a president.
What is nominating conventions
200
Chief Osceola led this native american group to resist removal
What is Seminole
200
Name a republican presidential candidate
Many answers could be taken
300
I'm a supreme court justice who believed that Native Americans had the right to stay on their land
Who is John Marshall
300
Andrew Jackson met with unoffical advisors(non-cabinet members) in the White House. They were known as the _______ cabinet
What is Kitchen
300
The spoils system was
What is Giving regular people government jobs because they helped get you into office
300
What happened in the election of 1824?
What is John Quincy Adams became president. Andrew Jackson won the popular vote but not the majority of electoral votes. Adams won. A "corrupt bargain" occured between Adams and Henry Clay
300
Name the current vice president of the United States
Who is Joe Biden
400
I stayed in the rain too long during my inaguration address and died 32 days into office
Who is William Henry Harrison
400
Attacking an opponent's reputation, like the Whigs and Democrats did was called
What is Mudslinging
400
What is suffrage and name 3 groups of people that did not benefit from this
What is The right to vote. African Americans, women, and Native Americans
400
Why was John Tyler a failure as president?
What is he came into office upon the death of William Henry Harrsion and he had opposed the ideas of the Whig party, especially for rechartering the Bank of the United States.
400
Name 3 cast members from The Jersey Shore
Answers Vary
500
I created a written alphabet for the Cherokee
Who is Sequoyah
500
If a state did not want to follow federal law that would be ________ that law.
What is nullifying/nullifcation
500
Name one Andrew Jackson's nicknames, and name two reasons why he was voted into office
What is "Old Hickory", "Hero of New Orleans", "King Andrew". He was voted in because he was a leader, military hero, "a common man", man of his word.
500
Name the 1832 court case about indian removal. Who did Andrew Jackson favor in the case and why?
What is Worcester v. Georgia and Jackson favored state rights saying that the federal government could not stop Georgia from extending its authority over Cherokee territory.
500
Who were the starting 2 quarterbacks for the Super Bowl and where did they go to college?
What is Eli manning(Mississippi) and Tom Brady(Michigan)