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In the 1820's and 1830's, the two issues that greatly raised the political stakes were

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Slavery and economic distress

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The new two-party political system that emerged in the 1830's and 1840's

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Became an important part of the nation's checks and balances

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In the 1820's and 1830's, the public's attitude regarding political parties

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Reflected growing acceptance on the wild contentiousness of political life

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The presidential election of 1824

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Was the first one of the election of a president who failed to win a majority of the electoral vote from the state electors

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The House of Representative decided the 1824 presidential election when

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No candidate received a majority of the vote in the Electoral College

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People in the west tended to prefer Andrew Jackson and the 1824 election because he

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Promised to uphold the needs of free labor

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John Quincy Adams, elected president in 1825, was charged by his political opponents with having struck a "corrupt bargain" when he appointed _________ to become ________

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Henry Clay, Secretary of State

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By the 1840's, voter participation in the presidential election reached

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Nearly 80 percent

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As president, John Quincy Adams

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Was one of the least successful presidents in American history

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John Quincy Adams can be described as

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Possessing almost none of the arts of the politician

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John Quincy Adams's weaknesses as president included all of the following except

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His personal coldness and tactlessness with people

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Despite president Adams's discomfort, his political supporters in the election of 1828 used all of the following dirty tactics against his rival andrew Jackson except

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Assailing Jackson for his deadly conflicts and uncompromising relations with Indian nations

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Despite his suspicions of the federal government, Andrew Jackson's Democratic political party

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Created the spoils system in the federal government

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Andrew Jackson's inauguration as president symbolized the

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Newly won ascendacy of the masses

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The purpose behind the spoils system was

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To reward political supporters with public office

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The spoils system under Andrew Jackson resulted in

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The appointment of many corrupt and incompetent officials to federal jobs

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Writing about his observations of america and Americans as he traveled across the United States, the Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville was most struck by

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The general equality of social and economic conditions among Americans

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Which of the following interest group(s) supported the exceptionally high rates of the Tariff of 1828

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Wool and textile manufacturers from New England

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Southerners feared the Tariff of 1828 because

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This same use of the power of the federal government could be used to suppress slavery

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Opposing the Tariff of 1828, Southerners labeled it a "Yankee Tariff' because

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The tariff protected New England manufacturing at their economic expense

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John C. Calhoun's South Carolina exposition was an argument for

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States' rights

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The Nullification Crisis of 1832-1833 erupted directly over

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Tariff policy

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The South Carolina state legislature, after the election of 1832

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Declared the existing tariff null and void in South Carolina

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The force Bill of 1833 provided that the

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President could use the army and navy to collect federal tariff duties

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The person most responsible for diffusing the tariff controversy that began in 1828 was

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Henry Clay

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The nullification crisis of 1833 resulted in a clear-cut victory for

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Neither Andrew Jackson or the nullifiers

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In response to South Carolina's nullification of the Tariff of 1828, President Andrew Jackson

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Dispatched naval and military forces to the state while denouncing nullification

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The nullification crisis started by South Carolina over the Tariff of 1828 ended when

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Congress passed the Compromise Tariff of 1833

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Andrew Jackson's administration supported the removal of Native Americans for the eastern states because

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Whites wanted the Indians' land

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In their treatment of Native Americans, white americans did all of the following except

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Argue that Indians could not be assimilated into the larger society

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In an effort to assimilate themselves into white society, the Cherokees did all of the following except

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Refuse to own slaves

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The policy of the Jackson administration toward the eastern Indian tribes involved

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Forced removal of their traditional lands

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On the forced march from their Georgia homeland to Oklahoma known as the Trail of Tears, the Cherokees experienced all of the following except

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The rampant sexual abuse of wives and daughters by U.S. Soldiers

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Andrew Jackson and his supporters dislike the Bank of the Unites States for all of the following reasons except

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It put public service first, not profits

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Andrew Jackson made all of the following charges against the Bank of the United states except that

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The bank was autocratic and tyrannical

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One of the positive aspects of the Bank of the Unites States was

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Its function as a source of credit and stability, promoting the nation's expanding economy

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While in existence, the Second Bank of the United States

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Was the depository of the funds of the national government

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Andrew Jackson's veto of the recharter bill for the Bank of the United States was

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A major expansion of presidential power

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Andrew Jackson based his veto of the recharter bill for the Bank of the United States on

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The fact that he found the bill harmful to the nation as well as unconstitutional

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The Anti-Masonic party of 1832 appealed to

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American suspicions of secret societies

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Innovations in the election of 1832 included

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Adoption of written party platforms

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All of the following were characteristics of Henry Clay's election campaign of 1832 except

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Overconfidence of his campaign and the National Republicans

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One of the main reasons andrew Jackson decided to weaken the Bank of the United States after the 1832 election was

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His fear the Nicholas Biddle might try to manipulate the bank to force its recharter

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Supporters of the Whig party included all of the following except

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Opponents of public education

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The cement that held the whig party together in its formative days was

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Hatred of Andrew Jackson and his aggrandizement of executive power at the expense of the states and Congress

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The Whigs hoped to win the 1836 election by

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Forcing the election into the House of Representatives

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The Panic of 1837 was caused by all of the following except

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Taking the country off the gold standard

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The Whigs offered all of the following proposals for the remedies of the economic ills facing America in 1837 except

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Proposal of the Divorce Bill

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Americans moved into Texas

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After an agreement was concluded between Mexican authorities and Stephen Austin to permit the Texan settlers to bring into Texas 300 families who were to properly become Mexicanized

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The government of Mexico and the Americans who settled in Mexican-controlled Texas clashed over all of the following issues except

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Allegiance to Spain

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Texans won their independence as a result of the victory over Mexican armies at the Battle of

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San Jacinto

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Texas gained its independence with

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Help from the Americans

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Spanish authorities allowed Moses Austin to settle in Texas because

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They believed that Austin and his settlers might be able to "civilize the territory," which was heavily populated by Indians

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One major reason for the Anglo-Texan rebellion against Mexican rule was that the

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Anglo-Texans objected the Mexican government's establishment of evangelical Protestantism as Texas's official religion

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President Jackson and Van Buren hesitated to extend recognition to and to annex the new Texas Republic because

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Antislavery groups in the United States opposed the expansion of slavery

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Most of the very early American settlers in Texas, dubbed the "Old Three Hundred," were _______ who came from the ______

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Scots-Irish, South

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The Tippecanoe in the Whigs' 1840 presidential campaign slogan was

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WIlliam Harrison

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William Henry Harrison, the Whig party's presidential candidate in 1840, was

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Portrayed by his supporters as a poor western farmer in an effort to make a deceptive contrast with his aristocratic opponent, Democratic incumbent President Martin Van Buren

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Both the Democratic and the Whig party

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Were mass-based political parties

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