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  • What term describes a president between the time of the last election and the new inauguration?
    lame duck
  • Who had the shortest presidential term?
    William Henry Harrison
  • What state did John Tyler add to the Union?
    Texas
  • What system set a bad example for giving out government jobs?
    spoils system
  • Which president was cold, aloof, and unexciting?
    John Quincy Adams
  • Who became secretary of state in 1824?
    Henry Clay
  • Who was the so-called "corrupt bargain" between?
    John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay
  • What area of the country was disadvantaged by the high protective tariff? Why?
    the South, It caused prices to go up for goods they bought and slaves and cotton.
  • What did the Ordinance of Nullification say?
    South Carolina considered the federal government's high protective tariff to be unconstitutional. In SC, no tariff would be collected.
  • Which president enforced the Indian Removal Act?
    Andrew Jackson
  • What Indian warred with Americans in Wisconsin and met a tragic end?
    Black Hawk
  • What was the nickname for Jackson's buddies who advised him?
    the Kitchen Cabinet
  • What issue was nullification about during Jackson's presidency?
    high protective tariffs
  • What missionary to the Cherokees got in trouble with the government?
    Samuel Worcester
  • Who were the candidates of 1824?
    John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, William Crawford
  • What Henry Clay's idea for internal improvements?
    the American System
  • Who ran with "Old Tippecanoe" for Vice President?
    John Tyler (Tippecanoe and Tyler too!)
  • What was Andrew Jackson's view of nullification?
    He was determined to enforce federal laws; he did not agree with the idea of nullification.
  • Which president was kicked out of his own party (the Whig Party)?
    John Tyler
  • What is the name of the Cherokees' journey from Georgia to Oklahoma?
    The Trail of Tears
  • What area of the country did high protective tariffs benefit? Why?
    the North, because it caused the South to buy goods from northern industries
  • What kind of job did Andrew Jackson have before he was president?
    ~
  • Which president proposed an independent treasury system?
    Martin Van Buren
  • Who did Andrew Jackson handpick to be the next president?
    Martin Van Buren
  • What set the boundary between America and Canada?
    the Webster-Ashburton Treaty
  • Who was "Old Hickory"?
    Andrew Jackson
  • Which President bitterly opposed the National Bank?
    Andrew Jackson
  • Who resigned from being VP to serve in South Carolina's Congress during the nullification issue?
    John C. Calhoun
  • Who brought up the renewal of the National Bank early because he hoped it would help him be elected as president?
    Henry Clay
  • What kind of religious people generally joined the Whig Party?
    Protestants (Methodist, Prebyterian, etc.)
  • What was Jackson's idea to slow down inflation?
    the Specie Circular
  • Which President lost the support of the people as he tried to promote art, literature, and science through the government?
    John Quincy Adams
  • What legislation gradually lowered tariff duties?
    The Compromise of 1833
  • Who was the first president elected from a state that was not one of the original 13 colonies?
    Andrew Jackson
  • What is nullification?
    the idea that a state can declare a federal law unconstitutional
  • Who was the president of the National Bank?
    Nicholas Biddle
  • What president continued to serve in Congress after he was no longer president?
    John Quincy Adams
  • How was the disagreement about nullification between Jackson and South Carolina resolved?
    The Compromise of 1833 gradually lowered the protective tariff.
  • What did southerners call the tariff of 1828?
    tariff of abominations
  • What state issued the Ordinance of Nullification?
    South Carolina
  • What was different about the election of 1828?
    new Democrat party, banners, barbecues, parades, mudslinging
  • Who called himself the "champion of the common man"?
    Andrew Jackson
  • Who was the new Chief Justice after John Marshall?
    Roger B. Taney
  • What is it called when a state withdraws from the Union?
    secession
  • What was one reason the Cherokees were moved West?
    ~
  • How did the Whigs of 1836 try to win the election?
    They nominated several candidates because they were hoping none would get a majority and the House of Representative would decide the election.
  • What is "making malicious statements about political enemies"?
    mudslinging
  • How did the protective tariff affect the prices of manufactured goods?
    It raised them.
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