Question 1

Most Whigs were states' rights advocates.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

All of the following were presidential candidates in 1836 EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

A)  Daniel Webster 
B)  Martin Van Buren 
C)  Hugh Lawson White 
D)  William Henry Harrison 
E)  Andrew Jackson 
A)  Daniel Webster 
B)  Martin Van Buren 
C)  Hugh Lawson White 
D)  William Henry Harrison 
E)  Andrew Jackson

Question 3

Least likely to become Whigs would be:

Accepted Answer

A)  admirers of Henry Clay 
B)  economic nationalists 
C)  social reformers, such as abolitionists 
D)  southern planters 
E)  German and Irish Catholics 
A)  admirers of Henry Clay 
B)  economic nationalists 
C)  social reformers, such as abolitionists 
D)  southern planters 
E)  German and Irish Catholics

Question 4

President Jackson's attitude toward the Supreme Court's decision in Worcester v. Georgia was:

Accepted Answer

A)  elation 
B)  sadness 
C)  acquiescence 
D)  defiance 
E)  nonconcern 
A)  elation 
B)  sadness 
C)  acquiescence 
D)  defiance 
E)  nonconcern

Question 5

Trace the rift between Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun. Be sure to include both policy and personal differences that strained their relationship.

Accepted Answer

Policy differences between Andrew Jackso

Question 6

Henry Clay was Andrew Jackson's second vice president.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

MATCHING
Match each description with the item below.
-Nicholas Biddle

Accepted Answer

A) offered as a toast at a Jefferson Day dinner: "Our Union-It must be preserved!" 
B) was the husband of the woman snubbed by wives of cabinet members 
C) called the "Little Magician" 
D) was the director of the Bank of the United States 
E) resigned the vice presidency in 1832
F)was Jackson's opponent for president in 1832
G)won the presidency with his "Log Cabin and Hard Cider" campaign
H)as a Massachusetts senator, said "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable"
I)was a presidential candidate for the Anti-Masonic party in 1832
J)was the 1840 Whig vice presidential candidate 
A) offered as a toast at a Jefferson Day dinner: "Our Union-It must be preserved!" 
B) was the husband of the woman snubbed by wives of cabinet members 
C) called the "Little Magician" 
D) was the director of the Bank of the United States 
E) resigned the vice presidency in 1832
F)was Jackson's opponent for president in 1832
G)won the presidency with his "Log Cabin and Hard Cider" campaign
H)as a Massachusetts senator, said "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable"
I)was a presidential candidate for the Anti-Masonic party in 1832
J)was the 1840 Whig vice presidential candidate

Question 8

Jackson's inauguration was so raucous that he was spirited away from the festivities for his own safety.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

William Henry Harrison:

Accepted Answer

A)  was a leader of the states' rights wing of the Whigs 
B)  was known as the "Little Magician" 
C)  had defeated the Shawnees at Tippecanoe 
D)  directed the Bank of the United States until Jackson destroyed it 
E)  like Jackson, was born in frontier poverty 
A)  was a leader of the states' rights wing of the Whigs 
B)  was known as the "Little Magician" 
C)  had defeated the Shawnees at Tippecanoe 
D)  directed the Bank of the United States until Jackson destroyed it 
E)  like Jackson, was born in frontier poverty

Question 10

Alexis de Tocqueville, a Frenchman traveling through the United States in the 1830s, claimed that "the only pleasure an American knows" was:

Accepted Answer

A)  business 
B)  alcohol 
C)  money 
D)  politics 
E)  boxing 
A)  business 
B)  alcohol 
C)  money 
D)  politics 
E)  boxing

Exam 10: The Jacksonian Era, 1828-1840

Most Whigs were states' rights advocates.

All of the following were presidential candidates in 1836 EXCEPT:

Least likely to become Whigs would be:

President Jackson's attitude toward the Supreme Court's decision in Worcester v. Georgia was:

Trace the rift between Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun. Be sure to include both policy and personal differences that strained their relationship.

Henry Clay was Andrew Jackson's second vice president.

MATCHING Match each description with the item below. -Nicholas Biddle

Jackson's inauguration was so raucous that he was spirited away from the festivities for his own safety.

William Henry Harrison:

Alexis de Tocqueville, a Frenchman traveling through the United States in the 1830s, claimed that "the only pleasure an American knows" was:

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Nationalism and Sectionalism, 1815-1828

The South, Slavery, and King Cotton, 1800-1860

Religion, Romanticism, and Reform, 1800-1860

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America and the Great War, 1914-1920

A Clash of Cultures, 1920-1929

The Reactionary Twenties

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