these were the four candidates from the 1824 election
Who are John Quincy Adams (son of former president John Adams), Henry Clay (Speaker of the House of Representatives), William Crawford, and Andrew Jackson?
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because he grew up from poor beginnings and was a self-made man, he had the support of the common man across the nation and won the elections of 1828 and 1832
Who is Andrew Jackson?
100
a term - a legal document that grants an organization the right to organize or exist
What is a charter?
100
this man resigned from his position as Vice-President because he disliked the tariff of 1832 and disagreed with Andrew Jackson who supported the tariff
Who is John C. Calhoun?
100
a term - the right to vote
What is suffrage?
200
this was the result of the voting
What is Andrew Jackson won the most votes but no candidate had a majority (at least 51%) of the vote?
200
Andrew Jackson and others in the 1820s were able to grant more people the right to vote by eliminating many restrictions on this requirement to vote
What is they eliminated the requirement that voters be property owners (or own a certain amount of wealth)?
200
this is why Andrew Jackson opposed renewing the charter for the National Bank
What is he felt that it only helped the wealthy, and also that it was unconstitutional because the Constitution did not specifically give Congress the power to create the bank?
200
this state passed the Nullification Act
What is South Carolina?
200
a term - to cancel (as in cancelling a law)
What is nullify?
300
According to the rules at the time, this body had the right to determine the outcome of the 1824 election and decide who would become the next president
What is the House of Representatives?
300
even though more people were able to vote in the 1820s these three groups of Americans still were not granted suffrage
What is women, African Americans, and Native Americans (Indians)?
300
this man (a leader in the Whig Party) made renewing the charter for the National Bank a big issue in the 1832 election because he thought that Americans would vote against Jackson if they knew he did not like the bank
Who is Henry Clay?
300
the Nullification Act said this
What is that states had the right to nullify (cancel) any federal law that they felt was unconstitutional - since South Carolina believed the tariff was unconstitutional it nullified it and refused to charge the tariff on foreign goods coming into the state?
300
even though he came from a wealthy background the Whigs used this campaign symbol in the 1840 election to make it look as if William Henry Harrison was a common man
What is the log cabin? (it worked because most common men in the nation voted for Harrison and he won the election)
400
according to the House of Representatives vote, this man was chosen president in the 1824 election
Who is John Quincy Adams?
400
a term - the practice of rewarding your supporters with government jobs / Andrew Jackson did this when he won the election of 1828
What is the spoils system?
400
when he won the election of 1832 Andrew Jackson took this action against the National Bank
What is he refused to fund the bank (refused to put money into the bank that would allow it to run and stay open) and he vetoed the charter to renew the National Bank?
400
Andrew Jackson vowed that he would do this to anyone caught violating the Tariff of 1832
What is hang them / execute them? (this included John C. Calhoun who had moved to South Carolina and was a vocal opponent of the tariff)
400
during the 1840 election Harrison also used a catchy phrase to refer to his status as a war hero during the battles against Tecumseh's Indian resistance in the early 1800s - it went: "______ and Tyler too!" (Tyler was John Tyler and was his running mate - a hint on the blank is that it was the site where Harrison and the U.S. Army won a key victory that broke apart Tecumseh's Indian resistance)
What is "Tippecanoe and Tyler too!"
500
this is why Andrew Jackson was angry about the House decision and believed there had been a "corrupt bargain"
What is Clay used his influence as House Speaker to urge Congressmen to vote for John Quincy Adams and in return Adams named Clay to be his Secretary of State?
500
because President Jackson did not trust the decision-making of his official cabinet, he often met with this unofficial group of advisers in the basement of the White House to discuss important issues
What is the "Kitchen Cabinet"?
500
finish this quote form Andrew Jackson after serving two terms as president - "I have only two regrets; that I _______ and I _______"
What is "I have only two regrets; that I did not shoot Henry Clay and I did not hang John C. Calhoun." (remember that they did things against him and Jackson was a guy who did not mess around!!!!)
500
when South Carolina passed the Nullification Act, Andrew Jackson had Congress pass this
What is the Force Act - this act allowed Jackson to use his power as Commander-In-Chief of the military to use the army to force SC to honor the tariff? (SC then repealed the Nullification Act and began to obey the tariff)
500
this is how John Tyler became president
What is Harrison caught pneumonia during his inauguration ceremony and did just 28 days into his presidency - Tyler was the Vice-President so he assumed the role of president?