How Did Adams Relationship With Congress Affect His Presidency

Question: Who were the presidential candidates in 1824?

Answer: They were Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, William H. Crawford, and John Quincy Adams.

Question: Why did Andrew Jackson not win the election of 1824?

Answer: He didn't win because Clay and Adams used the influence as speaker to defeat him.

Question: Which other candidate agreed to help Adams become president?

Answer: Clay agreed to help Adams

Question: How did Adams's relationship with Congress affect his presidency?

Answer: President Adams was expected by, not just the Congress but also the people of United States to be the best just like Washington.

Question: What was the main issue that divided the National Republicans and the Democrats in 1828?

Answer: Some people believed Adams and Clay cheated and they wanted to defend him while others believed he was innocent.

Question: .What kind of campaign tactics were used in the election of 1828?

Answer: Mudslinging was used in the campaign

Question: What do you think made Jackson so popular?

Answer: Adam's vice president sided with Jackson.

Question: TRUE OR FALSE People disliked Jackson because he seemed too common and ordinary to be president.

Answer: FALSE

Question: TRUE OR FALSE Jackson believed in democracy and equality for all Americans.

Answer: TRUE

Question: TRUE OR FALSE By 1828, many of the states allowed voters, not the state legislators, to choose presidential electors.

Answer: TRUE

Question: TRUE OR FALSE The caucus system of choosing candidates for office allows more people to participate in the selection of candidates.

Answer: FALSE

Question: TRUE OR FALSE .Jackson believed that he had the right to replace federal workers with people who had supported him

Answer: TRUE

Question: TRUE OR FALSE The Second Bank of the United States was a national bank run by federal officials.

Answer: TRUE

Question: TRUE OR FALSE Farmers needed state banks to loan them money to run their farms.

Answer: TRUE

Question: TRUE OR FALSE Senators Daniel Webster and Henry Clay thought that most Americans supported the Bank of the United States.

Answer: TRUE

Question: TRUE OR FALSE In 1832 President Jackson signed a bill renewing the Bank's charter.

Answer: FALSE

Question: TRUE OR FALSE The Supreme Court had ruled that the Bank was constitutional in 1819 in its McCulloch v. Maryland decision.

Answer: FALSE

Question: TRUE OR FALSE Andrew Jackson's vice president, Martin Van Buren, won the presidential election of 1836.

Answer: TRUE

Question: TRUE OR FALSE The Panic of 1837 was partly caused by Jackson's order that the government's money remain in the Bank of the United States.

Answer: TRUE

Question: TRUE OR FALSE The federal government stopped accepting banknotes issued by state banks as payment for buying public land.

Answer: TRUE

Question: President Van Buren believed that the federal government should play a major role in controlling the nation's economy.

Answer: FALSE

Question: President Van Buren supported a new system—an independent federal treasury—to prevent private banks from using government money to back the banknotes they issued.

Answer: TRUE

Question: What name was given to the Native American tribes that still live in the east? Why were they given this name?

Answer: They were called the "Five Civilized Tribes" because they knew how to farm and had communities that were like American ones.

Question: Why did many Americans, including Andrew Jackson, support moving the remaining eastern Native American tribes to the Great Plains?

Answer: They wanted their land and wanted to get rid of the conflicts with the Native Americans

Question: What was the purpose of the Indian Removal Act (hereafter referred to as the IRA) and how would this be accomplished?

Answer: Allowed Congress to pay To take their land

Question: What was the ruling in the case Worcester v Georgia and what was Jackson's response?

Answer: Georgia had no right to remove the Cherokee, but Jaxson let them against what the Supreme Court ruled

Question: How were the Cherokee split over how to respond to the IRA?

Answer: Some wanted to get the Americans to buy their land and leave, while others wanted to stay

Question: What objections did the Cherokee Chief John Ross and some Senators have to the Treaty of New Echota?

Answer: A few Cherokee that actually signed didn't speak for the whole race

Question: Describe the process of removing the Cherokee from their lands.

Answer: Before leaving, the rounded up Indians caught a sickness and many dies. After having left they realized they were unprepared and didn't have enough food or water

Question: Who was the leader of the Seminole resistance to the IRA?

Answer: Osceola

Question: How did the Seminoles and Black Seminoles resist removal?

Answer: They fought back with surprise attacks from swamps and forests

Question: What was life like for the Five Civilized Tribes after their removal to the West.

Answer: $68 million 32 million acres of landShared land with Plains TribesGroups divided on distributes that occurred during removal