Chapter 12Democracy in the Age of Jackson

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Chapter 12Democracy in the Age of Jackson

Powerpoint Questions

Instructions:

Use the Powerpoint presentation,American Nation textbookpages 358-375 and your class notesto answer these questions.

1. What were Americans unhappy with? (Slide 2)

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2. What did American servants want? (Slide 2)

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3. What is suffrage? (Slide 3)

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4. Who chose the new President? (Slide 3)

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5. Who became the new President? (Slide 3)

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6. What did John Quincy Adams spend money on? (Slide 4)

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7. Who won the election in 1824? (Slide 4)

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8. What was a corrupt bargain? (Slide 4)

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9. Who did not have the right to vote? (Slide6)

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10. What was the name of the two political parities that emerged in the 1930’s? (Slide7)

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11. What section of the country did Adams have the most support? (Slide 8, is it the Western or Northern part of the U.S.A.)

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12. What did the Whigs want? (Slide 9)

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13. What did the Democrats want? (Slide 9) ______

14. What is a caucus?(Slide 10)

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15. What happened at a nominating convention? (Slide 10)

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16. What does the picture tell you about what kind of man Andrew Jackson was? Andrew Jackson is the man holding the stick and wearing the hat. (Slide 11)

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17. What happened to Andrew Jackson’s face at the age of 13? (Slide 12) ______

18.Why was Jackson called “Old Hickory”? (Slide 13) ______

19. What was the spoils system? (Slide 14) ______

20. Who waged war on Bank of the United States? (Slide 15)

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21. What did Andrew Jackson feel the banks were doing? (Slide 15)

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22. What was Andrew Jackson holding in his hands?

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23. Who did Andrew Jackson defeat in the election of 1832?

(Slide 17)

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24. What did Andrew Jackson hate? (Slide 18, see the cartoon)

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25. Who were fierce opponents over states rights? (Slide 19)

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26. What was the Tariff of Abominations? (Slide 20)

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27. Who led the fight against the Tariff of Abominations? (Slide 20)

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28. Define the term, nullification. (Slide 20)

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29. Who resigned from office? (Slide 21)

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30. Who became the new Vice-president? (Slide 21)

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31. What were the white settlers doing to the Native Americans? (Slide 22)

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32. Which two Native American leaders were unsuccessful in stopping the invasions? (Slide 22)

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33. What did the Native Americans stand in the way of? (Slide 21)

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34. What did the Indian Removal Act force Native Americans to do? (Slide 24)

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35. What was the Trail of Tears? (Slide 24)

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36. Who did the Indians fight in the Seminole War? (Slide 26)

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37. At the end of the Seminole War what were the Indians forced to do? (Slide 26)

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38. Who was elected the new President of the United States in 1837? (Slide 27)

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39. What happened in the Panic of 1837? (Slide 29)

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40. What happened to the price of cotton as a result of the Panic of 1837? (Slide 29) ______