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| 5448493224 | T/F: The last election based on the old elitist political system was the four-way presidential campaign of 1824 involving Jackson, Clay, Crawford, and John Quincy Adams | True | 0 | |
| 5448497468 | T/F: Henry Clay disproved the charge of a corrupt bargain between himself and President Adams by refusing to accept any favors from the new administration | False, he was made the secretary of state | 1 | |
| 5448502810 | T/F: President Adams lost public support by promoting strong nationalistic principles in a time of growuing support for sectionalism and states' rights | True | 2 | |
| 5448507209 | T/F: Andrew Jackson became a great popular hero as president because he continued to live the same life of frontier toughness and simplicity as his followers | False, he became a wealthy aristocrat | 3 | |
| 5448515080 | T/F: The election campaign of 1828 was notable for the well-formulated debates between Andrew Jackson and President Adams on the issues of the tariff and removal of the barriers to political equality and democracy | False, it was market by mudslinging and personal attacks | 4 | |
| 5448526932 | T/F: Jackson's victory in 1828 represented the triumph of the West and the common people over the older elitist political system | True | 5 | |
| 5448531557 | T/F: The Jacksonians practiced their belief that because all citizens were equal, anyone could hold public positions without particular qualification | True | 6 | |
| 5448535172 | T/F: South Carolina's fierce opposition to the Tariff of Abominations reflected an underlying fear that enhanced federal power might be turned against the institution of slavery | True | 7 | |
| 5448538930 | T/F: Andrew Jackson used mediation and compromise rather than threats of force to persuade South Carolina to back away from its nullification of the tariff laws | False, he forced them to and threatened to hang the nullies | 8 | |
| 5448546266 | T/F: The powerful Cherokees of the southeastern United States fiercely resisted white efforts to alter their traditional culture and way of life | True | 9 | |
| 5448553302 | T/F: When the Supreme Court ruled against the state of Georgia and in favor of southeastern Indians' rights, Jackson defied the Supreme Court's rulings and ordered the Cherokees and other southeastern tribes forcibly removed to Oklahoma | True | 10 | |
| 5448556766 | T/F: Jackson successfully used his veto of the bill to recharter the wealthy Bank of the United States to politically mobilize the common people of the West against the financial elite of the East | True | 11 | |
| 5448561934 | T/F: The Whig party was united by its principles of states' rights, western expansionism, and opposition to the role of evangelical Christianity in politics | False, that describes the Democrats, not Whigs | 12 | |
| 5448568602 | T/F: A primary source of tension between settlers in Texas and the Mexican government was Mexico's abolition of slavery and prohibition of slave importation | True | 13 | |
| 5448573407 | T/F: William Henry Harrison's background as an ordinary frontiersman born in a log cabin enabled Whigs to match and exceed the Democrats' appeal to the common man in the campaign of 1840 | False, he was an aristocrat born in a large mansion, not a log cabin | 14 | |
| 5448578633 | The Jacksonian charge that JQA won the presidency through a corrupt bargain arose because | after Henry Clay threw his support to Adams, he was appointed secretary of state | 15 | |
| 5448591776 | Which of the following was not among the factors that made JQA's presidency of a political failure? a. Adams' attempts to treat Indians faily b. Adams' involvement with corrupt machine deals and politicals c. Adams' stubborn and prickly personality d. Adams' support for national roads, a national university, and an astronomical observatory e. Adams' hostility to western land speculation and unlimited expansionism | b | 16 | |
| 5448593418 | Andrew Jackson's strong appeal to the common people arose partly because | he had risen from the masses and reflected many of their prejudices in his personal attitudes and outlook | 17 | |
| 5448607455 | One political development that demonsrated the power of the new popular democratic movement in politics was | the use of party loyalty as the primary qualification for appointing people to public office | 18 | |
| 5448612180 | Andrew Jackson's fundamental approach during the South Carolina nullification crisis was to | mobilize a sizable military force and threaten to hand the nullifiers | 19 | |
| 5448617009 | Under the surface of the South's strong opposition to the Tariff of Abominations was | a fear of growing federal power that might interfeere with slavery | 20 | |
| 5448621022 | Some southeastern Indian tribes like the Cherokees were notable for their | development of effective agricultural, educational, and political institutions | 21 | |
| 5448624022 | In promoting his policy of Indian removal, President Andrew Jackson | defied rulings of the US Supreme Court that favored the Cherokees | 22 | |
| 5448630733 | Jackson's veto of the Bank of the United States recharter bill represented a | bold assertion of presidential power on behalf of western farmers and other debtors | 23 | |
| 5448634209 | One important result of President Jackson's destruction of the Bank of the United States was | the lack of a stable banking system to finance the era of rapid indistrualization | 24 | |
| 5448639267 | Among the political innovations that first appeared in the election of 1832 were | third-party campaigning, national conventions, and party platforms | 25 | |
| 5448644640 | In the immediate aftermath of the successful Texas Revolution | Texas petitioned to join the United States but was refused admission | 26 | |
| 5448648808 | The Panic of 1837 and the subsequent severe depression were caused primarily by | overspeculation and Jackson's hard-money financial policies | 27 | |
| 5448653097 | Prominent leaders of the Whig party included | Henry Clay and Daniel Webster | 28 | |
| 5448656429 | The real significance of William Henry Harrison's victory in the election of 1840 was that it | showed that the Whigs could practice the new mass democratic politics as successfully as the Democrats | 29 |
