In The First Half Of The Nineteenth Century Paper Money

Question: The nullification crisis:

Answer: involved the fears of some slaveholders that the federal government might take action against slavery.

Question: By the time of Jackson’s presidency, politics:

Answer: often emphasized individual politicians with mass followings and popular nicknames.

Question: In his Cherokee Nation v. Georgia opinion, Chief Justice John Marshall stated that:

Answer: Indians were wards of the federal government.

Question: The nullification crisis ended:

Answer: with a compromise tariff.

Question: Both Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams suggested that the Missouri controversy of 1820-1821:

Answer: revealed a sectional divide that potentially threatened the Union.

Question: The Panic of 1837:

Answer: was caused, in part, by a decline in British demand for American cotton.

Question: Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820:

Answer: the remaining Louisiana Purchase territory was divided into slave and free zones.

Question: Which is NOT true about the Whigs?.

Answer: Their strongest support came from the lower Northwest and the southern backcountry.

Question: In the presidential election of 1840:

Answer: the Whigs employed political tactics pioneered by Democrats.

Question: Andrew Jackson’s inauguration was:

Answer: a large, rowdy event.

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