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What is true about the election of 1824?
The candidate with the most popular votes lost.
100
What practice became known as the "spoils system"?
elected officials rewarding political backers with government jobs
100
The long journey west that the Cherokee people were forced to make in the winter of 1838 and 1839 is known as the _________________.
Trail of Tears
100
What was the issue in the Webster-Hayne debate?
whether the federal government or a state had more power
100
__________________ resulted from a widespread concern about the nation's economic health.
The Panic of 1837
200
Which candidate was elected president as a result of what some Americans believed to be a corrupt political deal?
John Quincy Adams
200
In 1821, the brilliant Cherokee ________________ perfected a writing system that allowed his people to write and read their own language.
Sequoya
200
A band of Seminoles led by _______________ hid in the Everglades and used guerrilla tactics to defeat the U.S. Army.
Osceola
200
What did South Carolina threaten to do because of the Tariff of Abominations?
secede from the Union
200
_______________ resulted from the failure of the nation's money system.
A depression
300
What political party did Jackson supporters become?
Democratic Party
300
Why were the Cherokee forced to move west?
Gold was discovered on their land and President Jackson ignored a Supreme Court ruling in their favor.
300
Why was the tariff passed in 1828 was called the Tariff of Abominations?
Southerners were outraged because they felt they were being forced to pay for the North's prosperity.
300
Why did Andrew Jackson dislike the national bank?
He thought the bank's policies favored the wealthy over average people.
300
Which political party did Clay, Webster, and other opponents of Jackson form?
Whig Party
400
The idea of spreading political power to the people and ensuring majority rule was characteristic of what?
Jacksonian democracy
400
The region that was once known as the _______________covers what is now Oklahoma and parts of Kansas and Nebraska.
Indian Territory
400
What political leader from South Carolina was a strong nationalist before becoming a champion of states' rights?
John C. Calhoun
400
________________ resulted from an increase in the money supply and a decrease in the value of money.
inflation
400
________________ was the candidate whose military record helped him to be elected president in 1840.
William Henry Harrison
500
Which president's election was seen as ending control of the government by an educated elite?
Andrew Jackson
500
In 1830, Congress passed the ________________ to authorize the government to negotiate treaties that would force Native Americans to move west.
Indian Removal Act
500
Who was the Massachusetts political leader who was one of the strongest nationalists in the U.S. Senate?
Daniel Webster
500
__________________ was the vice-president who became president because of the former president's great popularity.
Martin Van Buren
500
__________________ was the vice-president who became president when the popular war-hero president died in office.
John Tyler