Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-"log cabin and hard cider" campaign

Accepted Answer

The "log cabin and hard cider" campaign

Question 2

What did South Carolina threaten to do if the federal government attempted to collect the taxes imposed by the Tariff of 1828?

Accepted Answer

A)  Take up arms against customs officers and the United States. 
B)  Close all government offices within the state. 
C)  Secede from the United States. 
D)  Sell off public lands within its borders. 
E)  Boycott all products made or imported by New England firms. 
A)  Take up arms against customs officers and the United States. 
B)  Close all government offices within the state. 
C)  Secede from the United States. 
D)  Sell off public lands within its borders. 
E)  Boycott all products made or imported by New England firms.

Question 3

How did politicking change by the 1840s?

Accepted Answer

A)  Debates between candidates became standard. 
B)  Politicians routinely toured the country to get out the vote. 
C)  Presidential candidates now hired a full staff to run their campaigns. 
D)  Politicians made an effort to appeal to women and minority voters. 
E)  Candidates increasingly used parades, banners, and barbecues to rally voters. 
A)  Debates between candidates became standard. 
B)  Politicians routinely toured the country to get out the vote. 
C)  Presidential candidates now hired a full staff to run their campaigns. 
D)  Politicians made an effort to appeal to women and minority voters. 
E)  Candidates increasingly used parades, banners, and barbecues to rally voters.

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

A)  publicly threatened to hang the nullifiers. 
B)  dispatched naval and military forces to the state while denouncing nullification. 
C)  worked quietly to defuse the confrontation. 
D)  mobilized the other southern states to oppose nullification. 
E)  sought a Supreme Court ruling declaring nullification invalid. 
A)  publicly threatened to hang the nullifiers. 
B)  dispatched naval and military forces to the state while denouncing nullification. 
C)  worked quietly to defuse the confrontation. 
D)  mobilized the other southern states to oppose nullification. 
E)  sought a Supreme Court ruling declaring nullification invalid.

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Santa Anna

Accepted Answer

Antonio López de Santa Anna (1794–1876)

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-annexation

Accepted Answer

Annexation is the political process by w

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Denmark Vesey

Accepted Answer

Denmark Vesey was an African American ma

Question 8

Both the Democratic party and the Whig party

Accepted Answer

A)  favored a third Bank of the United States. 
B)  opposed substantial federal involvement in economic and social affairs. 
C)  grew out of a shared heritage of Jeffersonian Republicanism. 
D)  promoted states' rights policies. 
E)  were essentially sectional parties. 
A)  favored a third Bank of the United States. 
B)  opposed substantial federal involvement in economic and social affairs. 
C)  grew out of a shared heritage of Jeffersonian Republicanism. 
D)  promoted states' rights policies. 
E)  were essentially sectional parties.

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-"Five Civilized Tribes"

Accepted Answer

The "Five Civilized Tribes" refers to fi

Question 10

Under the Indian Removal Act of 1830,where were Native Americans relocated?

Accepted Answer

A)  Georgia 
B)  Florida 
C)  Oklahoma 
D)  South Carolina 
E)  Montana 
A)  Georgia 
B)  Florida 
C)  Oklahoma 
D)  South Carolina 
E)  Montana

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Nullification Crisis

Accepted Answer

The Nullification Crisis was a significa

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-San Jacinto

Accepted Answer

The answer of Identify and state the historical significance of...

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-hard,or metallic,money

Accepted Answer

Hard money, also known as metallic money

Question 14

Most Americans today would reject the blatant political favoritism and frequent corruption of the spoils system.But were there any real benefits to democracy that came from Jackson's theory that any decent citizen could hold government offices? Did machine politics actually keep ordinary people connected to politics in ways they might not be today?

Accepted Answer

The spoils system, which was popularized

Question 15

By the 1840s voter participation in presidential elections reached

Accepted Answer

A)  nearly 50 percent. 
B)  25 percent. 
C)  40 percent. 
D)  15 percent. 
E)  nearly 80 percent. 
A)  nearly 50 percent. 
B)  25 percent. 
C)  40 percent. 
D)  15 percent. 
E)  nearly 80 percent.

Question 16

Is it fair to say that in 1840 the Whigs gave the Democrats a taste of their own political medicine? What specific methods and tactics did the Whigs borrow from the Jacksonian Democrats?

Accepted Answer

Yes, it is fair to say that in the 1840

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-John Tyler

Accepted Answer

John Tyler was the tenth President of th

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Twelfth Amendment

Accepted Answer

The Twelfth Amendment to the United Stat

Question 19

Why were Jackson's supporters so bitter about the "corrupt bargain" of 1824? Was it only that their man did not win,or did they see Adams's victory as a subversion of the new ideal of democratic equality?

Accepted Answer

Jackson's supporters were bitter about t

Question 20

What did the Whigs propose to end the panic of 1837?

Accepted Answer

A)  Contraction of bank credit 
B)  Lower tariffs 
C)  Subsidies for internal improvements 
D)  Temporarily closing the banks 
E)  The Specie Circular 
A)  Contraction of bank credit 
B)  Lower tariffs 
C)  Subsidies for internal improvements 
D)  Temporarily closing the banks 
E)  The Specie Circular

Exam 13: The Rise of a Mass Democracy 1824-1840

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -"log cabin and hard cider" campaign

What did South Carolina threaten to do if the federal government attempted to collect the taxes imposed by the Tariff of 1828?

How did politicking change by the 1840s?

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

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Santa Anna

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -annexation

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Denmark Vesey

Both the Democratic party and the Whig party

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -"Five Civilized Tribes"

Under the Indian Removal Act of 1830,where were Native Americans relocated?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Nullification Crisis

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -San Jacinto

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -hard,or metallic,money

By the 1840s voter participation in presidential elections reached

Is it fair to say that in 1840 the Whigs gave the Democrats a taste of their own political medicine? What specific methods and tactics did the Whigs borrow from the Jacksonian Democrats?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -John Tyler

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Twelfth Amendment

Why were Jackson's supporters so bitter about the "corrupt bargain" of 1824? Was it only that their man did not win,or did they see Adams's victory as a subversion of the new ideal of democratic equality?

What did the Whigs propose to end the panic of 1837?

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