History Soars at Pheonix  

Democracy in the Age of Jackson Powerpoint 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)

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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)

 

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

 

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

 

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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? (Slide 16, Andrew Jackson in the man standing to the left of the cartoon)

 

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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)

 

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41. What percent of the factories closed? (Slide 30)

 

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42. What did President Van Buren fail to correct?  (Slide 30)

 

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43. Who became the new President after Van Buren?  (Slide 32)

 

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44. What is mudslinging?      (Slide 32)

 

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45. What disease did Harrison die from?  (Slide 32)

 

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46. Who became the new President when Harrison died? (Slide 32)

 

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