Jackson Facts
Who was Jacksons vice president from 1829–1832?
John C. Calhoun (Pg,272)
Jackson tried to establish a direct connection between the president and the people, directly challenging whos status as the national government’s principal branch of representation.
Congress(Pg,330)
This invention caused the Cotton industry to boom and the slave population to double.
The cotton gin(275)
What was the name of the Henry Clay program to recharter the Second Bank of the United States, enact a protective tariff, and foster internal improvements?
The American Plan(pg 357)
Upon leaving the presidency, Jackson said he had two regrets what were they?
That he "had been unable to shoot Henry Clay or to hang John C. Calhoun". Clay was a political rival while Calhoun was his first vice president who proved disloyal to Jackson.
What event lead to Jackson becoming the first president since George Washington to be chosen in a contest that did not involve Congress?
The collapses of the congressional nominating caucus in 1824(Pg,354)
What crisis did Van Buren face immediately after he was inaugurated?
The economy took a steep downward spiral (Pg,300)
What were the purchases in 1803 and 1819 that added millions of acres to the United States but also afforded greater influence to many Americans who previously had stood outside the regular channels of political power?
Louisiana and Florida (Pg, 273)
The doctrine of nullification held that a state had the right to do what?
Declare any federal law that it deemed unconstitutional to be inapplicable within its borders. (Pg,350)
In eight years how many successful vetos did Jackson have and what special veto did Jackson use for the first time.
(Daily Double)
1)twelve
2) the pocket veto
In the general election, Jackson defeated Adams by 178–83 in the Electoral College and won 56 percent of the popular vote, a figure unsurpassed by any presidential candidate until what president in 1904?
Theodore Roosevelt (Pg, 355)
The Whig campaign of 1840 was the first time this symbol was used in presidential politics
The Log Cabin(Pg, 304)
Jackson issued a Treasury order, the so-called Specie Circular what did the order state?
The Specie Circular order Requiried that gold or silver (specie) be used to pay for all federal lands(Pg, 300)
What is the "Spoils System"?
Andrew Jackson's appointments of government jobs to his supporter. (Pg,298)
From 1828 until 1856 Democratic control of the presidency was interrupted only by the election of two Whig generals, who are the two men?
William Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor (Pg, 345)
South Carolina’s legislature summoned a state convention on November 24 what did the convention declare?
South Carolina’s legislature summoned a state convention on November 24, 1832, to declare that the new 1832 tariff law was “null and void"(Pg,350)
In 1831 for the first and only time in American history, the president forced an entire cabinet to resign. What drove Jackson to this decision?
Jackson issued the resignation order in frustration over his inability to resolve the so-called Petticoat Affair.” (Pg, 366)
Andrew J. Donelson
William B. Lewis
Van Buren
Amos Kendall
Francis P. Blair
(pg, 368)
Adams carried nearly all the states his father had in winning the 1796 election but lost all the states that had been added since then. What were the new states he lost?
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana (Pg, 355)
What was the supreme court ruling in Worcester v. Georgia (1832) and what was the court's reasoning?
The Supreme Court struck down a Georgia law banishing the Cherokee Indians from the state’s western territories on the ground that the law violated a federal treaty with the tribe. (Pg, 372)
This Secretary of the Treasury rejected the president’s request to transfer the deposits from the national bank to the state banks what was his name.
Louis McLane(Pg, 343)