Chapter 13 Focus Questions:
Essay question: Compare and contrast Calhoun’s South Carolina Exposition to the Kentucky and Virignia resolutions
with regard to the doctrine of secession. Why did Calhoun put forward this view of constitutional propriety? Evaluate
the strengths and weaknesses of Calhoun’s constitutional argument.
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What two issues greatly raised the political stakes in the 1820s and 1830s?
Describe the changes in America that occurred during the 1820s and 1830s regarding political parties.
Who were the candidates in the 1824 election and which one had the largest number of popular votes?
How was the election decided?
What does the term “minority president” mean and who was that after the election of 1824?
By 1840s voter participation in presidential election reached what percentage of possible voters?
What was the “corrupt bargain” (this should be a LONG answer to explain it all)?
Why did people in the West prefer Andrew Jackson in the 1824 election?
Why was John Quincy Adams considered one of the least successful presidents in American History?
What dirty tactics did Adams’s supporters use and say against Jackson (3)?
When President Jackson was inaugurated he opened the White House to the masses – why?
What was the purpose behind the spoils system?
What resulted from Andrew Jackson’s adoption of the system?
What interest group(s) supported the exceptionally high rates of the Tariff of 1828?
Southerners feared the tariff of 1828 because they were worried this same use of power of ht federal government could be
used to suppress ______________.
Why did Southerners label the Tariff of 1828 a “Yankee Tariff”?
Who wrote the South Carolina Exposition and what was the point of the document?
How did the state of South Carolina react to the Tariff of 1832?
What did Andrew Jackson do in response to South Carolina’s nullification issue?
Who created the compromise Tariff of 1833 to end the nullification crisis how did it differ from the 1832 tariff?
What was the Force Bill and what action did South Carolina take regarding it?
Why did the Jackson administration support the removal of Native Americans from the eastern states?
In their treatment of Native Americans – what all did white Americans do to them (3)?
What had eastern Native American tribes (Cherokee) done in their effort to assimilate themselves into white society?
What was the Jackson removal policy called and what happened to the Indians on that march (3)?
Why did Jackson and his supporters dislike the Second Bank of the US?
What were the specific charges that Jackson made against the bank (3)?
What was a positive contributions made by the Bank of the US?
Why did Andrew Jackson veto the recharter for the Bank of the US?
What was the Anti-Masonic party?
What is a party platform?
Describe in detail Henry Clay’s election campaign of 1832. (3)
After the 1832 election Andrew Jackson decided to weaken the Bank of the US because he was scared that Biddle would do
what?
What groups combined to form the Whig party for the 1836 election and why did they choose that particular name?
How did the Whigs hope to defeat Jackson’s hand-picked successor, Martin Van Buren, in the 1836 election and why did
they fail?
What caused the Panic of 1837 (3)?
The Whigs offered several proposals for the remedies of economic ills facing America in 1837 – like what (3)?
Who was Stephen Austin and what deal did he strike with the government of Mexico?
Why did the Spanish allow “Moses Austin to settle in Texas?
40) What were the issues that caused the American settlers (mostly from the South and Southwest) in Texas to clash with the
Mexican government (3)?
41) In which battle did the Texans win their independence and what country helped them?
42) Why did Presidents Jackson and Van Buren hesitate to annex Texas following its war for independence?
43) Who was Tippecanoe in the Whigs’ 1840 presidential campaign slogan?
44) How did the Whigs portray their presidential candidate in 1840? Why?