John Quincy Adams's weaknesses as president included all of the following except
his firing good office holders to appoint his own people
Supporters of the Whig Party included all of the following except
opponents of public education
Andrew Jackson made all of the following charges against the Bank of the United States except that
it refused to lend money to politicians
Andrew Jackson's veto of the re-charter bill for the Bank of the United States was
a major expansion of presidential power
Americans moved into Texas
after an agreement was concluded between Mexican authorities and Stephen Austin
The "cement" that held the Whig Party together in its formative days was
hatred of Andrew Jackson
Both the Democratic party and the Whig party
were mass-based political parties
John Quincy Adams, elected president in 1825, was charged by his political opponents with having struck a "corrupt bargain" when he appointed ______to become______
Henry Clay, secretary of state
The two political parties of the Jacksonian era tended to
be socially and geographically diverse
The Force Bill of 1833 provided that
the President could use the army and navy to collect federal tariff duties
Andrew Jackson's inauguration as president symbolized the
newly won ascendancy of the masses
John C. Calhoun's "South Carolina Exposition" was an argument for
states rights
Innovations in the election of 1832 included
adoption of written party platforms
One of the positive aspects of the Bank of the United States was
its promotion of economic expansion by making credit abundant
Presidents Jackson and Van Buren hesitated to extend recognition to Texas, and to annex the new Texas Republic, because
antislavery groups in the United States opposed the expansion of slavery
In an effort to assimilate themselves into white society, the Cherokees did all of the following except
refuse to own slaves
Andrew Jackson's political philosophy was based on his
suspicion of the federal government
In response to South Carolina's nullification of the Tariff of 1828, Andrew Jackson
dispatched modest naval and military forces to the state while preparing a larger army
The people who proposed the exceptionally high rates of the Tariff of 1828 were
ardent supporters of Andrew Jackson
The "nullification crisis" of 1832-1833 erupted over.
tariff policy
The Panic of 1837 was caused by all of the following except
taking the country off the gold standard
William Henry Harrison, the Whig party's presidential candidate in 1840, was
made to look like a poor western farmer
The spoils system under Andrew Jackson resulted in
the appointment of many corrupt and incompetent officials to federal jobs
Andrew Jackson's administration supported the removal of Native Americans from the eastern states because
whites settlers wanted the Native Americans' lands
The Whigs hoped to win the 1836 election by
forcing the election into the House of Representatives
Andrew Jackson based his veto of the re-charter bill for the Bank of the United States on
the fact that he found the bill harmful to the nation
The person most responsible for defusing the tariff controversy that began in 1828 was
Henry Clay
The House of Representatives decided the 1824 presidential election when
no candidate received a majority of the vote in the Electoral College
The nullification crisis started by South Carolina over the Tariff of 1828 ended when
Congress passed the compromise Tariff of 1833
The government of Mexico and the Americans who settled Mexican-controlled Texas clashed over all of the following issues except
allegiance to Spain
Texans won their independence as a result of the victory over Mexican armies at the Battle of
San Jacinto
The Anti-Masonic Party of 1832 appealed to
American suspicions of secret societies
The new two-party political system that emerged in the 1830s and 1840s
became an important part of the nation's checks and balances
Southerners feared the Tariff of 1828 because
they believed that the federal power this bill represented could be used to suppress slavery
One reason for the Anglo-Texan rebellion against Mexican rule was that
the Anglo-Texans wanted to break away from a government that had grown too authoritarian