A document giving permission from the government to run a bank.
What is a Charter?
100
This party could not decide on their own policies and in the end...simply disbanded. The Republican party began after they disbanded.
What was the Whig Party?
100
The closure of the 2nd National Bank of the USA caused this to happen.
What was It started the Panic of 1837 which led to a depression?
100
President Van Buren's response to the economic panic after the 2nd National Bank closure
What was he decided to ignore it and do nothing to help the nation at that time?
200
Jackson did this to make sure the charter on the Second National Bank expired.
What was he vetoed the new bill that would have given the Nation Bank a new charter?
200
The outcome of Harrison's long inaugural address in Washington D.C.
What was he got pneumonia and died 32 days later?
200
When a nation has economic problems, many people lose their jobs and farmers lose their land, it's called this.
What is a "depression?"
200
When the banks started printing banknotes, the federal government made the people use this to buy land.
What was gold or silver?
300
The reason Congress set up the 2nd National Bank in the first place.
What was they needed a place to hold government's money (taxes) and to control the nation's money supply?
300
The Whigs portrayed Van Buren as this during the election.
What was they portrayed Van Buren as a wealthy snob with perfumed whiskers?
300
Van Buren created this as the depository for government money. The money was controlled by the government not private banks.
What is the federal treasury?
300
Two senators that supported the 2nd National Bank and did NOT want Jackson to win a second term.
Who were Henry Clay and Daniel Webster?
400
He was the president of the Second National Bank. He and Jackson did not like each other.
Who was Nicholas Biddle?
400
The campaign slogan used by Harrison and Tyler during their campaign.
What was "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too?"
400
The only thing that was a success during Tyler's presidency.
What was he settled the dispute over the Canadian and United States border?
400
This person's popularity with the people helped Martin Van Buren win the Presidency in 1836.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
500
The reasons Jackson did NOT like the Bank.
What was
1) He thought the bank favored wealthy Easterners?
2) He thought the bank made if too difficult for western people to borrow money to run their farms?
500
The reason the Whigs made William Henry Harrison out to be a frontiersmen during his campaign for President?
What was he needed the votes of the farmers and laborers?
500
The reason John Tyler was kicked out of the Whig party?
What is
1) He disagreed with the Whigs policies?
2) He vetoed many of the Whigs bills?
3) He wasn't loyal to his own political party?
500
The name of the treaty that solved the US/Canada border dispute.