In the election of 1824, Andrew Jackson won more electoral votes than any other candidate but did not become president.
Correct Answer
True
True. Jackson won 99 electoral votes, more than any rival, but lacked an electoral majority. The House of Representatives chose John Quincy Adams instead.
Category: Elections and Parties
Question 2
The leading candidates in the 1824 presidential election represented rival political parties.
Correct Answer
False
False. All of the leading candidates in 1824 were Democratic-Republicans, because the Federalist Party had stopped running presidential candidates. The contest turned on personalities and regions rather than parties.
Category: Elections and Parties
Question 3
Jackson's supporters in 1828 organized Hickory Clubs, rallies, and parades to bring new voters to the polls.
Correct Answer
True
True. Local Democratic clubs, named for Jackson's nickname Old Hickory, and partisan newspapers presented him as the common man's champion. This kind of mass organizing marked a new political style.
Category: Expanding Democracy
Question 4
By the 1820s, most states had added new property requirements for voting.
Correct Answer
False
False. The trend ran the other way. New western states and reforming eastern states dropped property requirements so that most White men could vote.
Category: Expanding Democracy
Question 5
As property requirements fell, several northern states restricted or barred voting by free Black men.
Correct Answer
True
True. Race replaced property as the dividing line for voting. New York, for example, ended property tests for White men in 1821 but kept a high property requirement for Black men.
Category: Expanding Democracy
Question 6
John C. Calhoun remained one of Jackson's closest allies throughout Jackson's presidency.
Correct Answer
False
False. Calhoun broke with Jackson, in part over the Petticoat affair, in which Calhoun's wife snubbed Peggy Eaton, and above all over nullification. Calhoun resigned the vice presidency in 1832.
Category: Tariffs and Nullification
Question 7
Jackson's Nullification Proclamation declared that a state had no power to void a federal law.
Correct Answer
True
True. In December 1832 Jackson issued the proclamation in response to South Carolina's Ordinance of Nullification. He insisted that the Union was perpetual and that federal law bound every state.
Category: Tariffs and Nullification
Question 8
Several southern states joined South Carolina in nullifying the federal tariff in 1832.
Correct Answer
False
False. South Carolina acted alone. Other southern states disliked the tariff but rejected nullification as too extreme.
Category: Tariffs and Nullification
Question 9
The Force Bill of 1833 authorized the president to use the military to enforce federal law in South Carolina.
Correct Answer
True
True. Congress passed the Force Bill to back up Jackson's stand against nullification. It was paired with a compromise tariff that let South Carolina back down.
Category: Tariffs and Nullification
Question 10
Andrew Jackson preferred paper money to gold and silver coin.
Correct Answer
False
False. Jackson distrusted paper money and favored hard currency, meaning gold and silver. His Specie Circular required gold or silver for purchases of public land.
Category: The Bank War
Question 11
Jackson moved federal deposits out of the Second Bank of the United States and into state banks.
Correct Answer
True
True. Beginning in 1833, Jackson had federal funds placed in selected state banks, which critics called pet banks. The move weakened the national bank years before its charter ran out in 1836.
Category: The Bank War
Question 12
The Whig Party favored a weak federal government that stayed out of economic development.
Correct Answer
False
False. The Whigs wanted an active federal government that supported a national bank, protective tariffs, and internal improvements. It was the Democrats who favored a smaller national government.
Category: Elections and Parties
Question 13
Andrew Jackson won reelection in 1832 after vetoing the bank recharter bill, defeating Henry Clay.
Correct Answer
True
True. Jackson presented the veto as a defense of ordinary people against a privileged elite. He won the 1832 election easily over Clay, who had pushed the recharter bill.
Category: The Bank War
Question 14
In Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831), the Supreme Court ruled that the Cherokee were a foreign nation.
Correct Answer
False
False. The Court ruled that the Cherokee were not a foreign nation and so could not bring that suit. Chief Justice John Marshall described them instead as a domestic dependent nation.
Category: Indian Removal
Question 15
The Cherokee published a newspaper, the Cherokee Phoenix, in both English and the Cherokee language.
Correct Answer
True
True. The Cherokee Phoenix began in 1828. It reflected how far the Cherokee had adopted Anglo-American institutions, which still did not protect them from removal.
Category: Indian Removal
Question 16
Jackson enforced Worcester v. Georgia by sending federal troops to protect the Cherokee.
Correct Answer
False
False. Jackson did not enforce the ruling, and the Court had no power of its own to do so. Federal troops were later used to force the Cherokee west, not to protect them.
Category: Indian Removal
Question 17
In the Black Hawk War of 1832, Sauk and Fox people tried to reclaim homelands in Illinois, east of the Mississippi River.
Correct Answer
True
True. Black Hawk led his followers back across the Mississippi, and militia and federal troops crushed them within a few months. At the Bad Axe Massacre, troops killed men, women, and children trying to escape.
Category: Indian Removal
Question 18
The French government sent Alexis de Tocqueville to the United States to study American banking.
Correct Answer
False
False. Tocqueville was sent to study American prisons and prison reform. His travels led to Democracy in America, a classic study of the nation's society and politics.
Category: Majority Rule and 1840
Question 19
Voter turnout in the 1840 presidential election was far higher than in the presidential elections of the 1820s.
Correct Answer
True
True. Rallies, songs, slogans, and emotional appeals drew close to 80 percent of eligible voters in 1840. Many historians see it as the first modern presidential campaign.
Category: Majority Rule and 1840
Question 20
William Henry Harrison ran in 1840 as the Democratic Party's candidate.
Correct Answer
False
False. Harrison was the Whig candidate, with John Tyler as his running mate. He defeated the Democratic incumbent, Martin Van Buren.
Category: Majority Rule and 1840