The Election
of 1824
of 1824
This person won the election of 1824 and became President.
Who was John Quincy Adams?
This person won the election of the 1828 and became president.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
This was a practice of giving government jobs to loyal supporters.
What was the Spoils System?
A leading transcendentalist with works like The American Scholar.
Who was Ralph Waldo Emerson?
William Lloyd Garrison founded this abolitionist news paper demanding emancipation.
What was the Liberator?
This person won the popular vote and had the most electoral votes.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
The election win solidified the rise of this new political party.
What was the Democratic Party?
Andrew Jackson used this presidential power more than all of his former presidents combined.
What was the Veto
This transcendentalist author wrote Walden to find spiritual meaning.
This escaped slave wrote an influential autobiography and was a leading abolitionist.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
This body decided the winner of the election.
What was the House of Representatives?
Jackson's campaign appealed to this group of people.
Who were the "common people" or "common men"?
Van Buren, Lewis, and more were members of this specifically named team of advisors.
What was the "Kitchen Cabinet"?
Resisting unjust laws through peaceful noncompliance
This secret network of safe houses helped enslaved people flee to free states and Canada.
What was the underground railroad?
This agreement helped Adams win the presidency with Henry Clay's help.
What was the "corrupt bargain"?
This term was used when a campaign used aggressive personal attacks.
What was Mudslinging?
This was a name for the tragic forced migration of eastern native nations.
What was the Trail of Tears?
The experiment that attempted to combine intellectual work with manual labor
What was the book farm?
Angelina and Sarah Grimké argued that women have a moral duty to speak out helping link abolitionism to this broader movement.
What was women's rights movement?
The candidates were John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, William Crawford, and this former secretary of state.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
This shift in voting requirements expanded the voter show-out.
What was dropping property requirements?
What was rotation in office?
This universal spiritual force that connected all people and nature.
What was the "oversoul"?
Southerners pushed for this rule in 1836 tabling anti-slavery petitions without discussion.
What was the gag rule?