Exam 9: Jacksonian America

For what reasons did Andrew Jackson oppose the doctrine of nullification and the Bank of the United States? What were the consequences of his successful defeat of the doctrine and the Bank?

Although a political opponent and a supporter of the Bank of the United states,Henry Clay benefitted politically from President Jackson's veto of the 1932 bill that would recharter the bank.

During the Jacksonian era,free blacks could not vote at all in the South,and could hardly vote anywhere in the North.

As Andrew Jackson's vice president,JohnC.Calhoun became a strong Jackson opponent.

In 1836,President Andrew Jackson's "specie circular"

JohnC.Calhoun's most powerful rival within the Jackson administration was ________.

Calhoun's defense of his doctrine of nullification was directed primarily at the issue of tariffs.

By the 1830s,political parties were generally regarded as

The Democrats were more likely than Whigs to favor territorial expansion.

The political philosophy of Whigs

In 1832,Henry Clay sought to use the debate over the Bank of the United States primarily to

Jacksonian democracy included a weak challenge to the institution of slavery.

In the years after the War of 1812,the "Bucktail" philosophy that favored political parties argued that

In 1830,President Andrew Jackson vetoed a federal subsidy to the proposed Maysville Road,because

The policy most favored by white westerners during the early 1800s was to

Which of the following statements regarding the Bank of the United States is FALSE?

According to Andrew Jackson's theory of democracy,

In the 1830 Daniel Webster-Robert Hayne debate,Webster considered Hayne's arguments to be an attack on

During the Tyler administration,the United States established diplomatic relations with China.

The results of the election of 1832 could be interpreted as a defeat for both Henry Clay and Nicholas Biddle.