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Chapter 9
Jacksonian Democracy
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08/20/2012

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Part of the "democratizing" of politics during the age of Jackson was the...
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elimination of property qualifications for voting and holding office.
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Prior to the "democratizing" of politics during the age of Jackson, presidential candidates were usually chosen by a...
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congressional caucus.
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During John Quincy Adams' presidency, the politician who prepared for the next election by relying on his military reputation and portraying himself as losing the presidency in 1824 due to the "corrupt bargain" was...
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Andrew Jackson.
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In the election of 1828,
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Andrew Jackson defeated John Quincy Adams in a contest disgraced by character assassination on both sides.
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Who does the text describe as "the symbol for a new democratically oriented generation"?
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Andrew Jackson
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The basic concept underlying the "spoils system" was that...
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party workers must be rewarded with political office after a successful campaign.
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One of the "fundamental tenets of Jacksonian Democracy" was that...
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ordinary Americans could do anyhting.
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Jackson's advisers who did not hold regular cabinet appointments were called the...
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Kitchen Cabinet.
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Jackson's view of the presidency differed from predecessor's primarily in his belief that the...
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president was the direct representative of all the people and the embodiment of national power.
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Jackson's popularity and success were primarily the result of his...
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personality and leadership.
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The 1830 debate between Senators Daniel Webster and Robert Hayne focused on...
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the doctrine of states' rights as opposed to national power.
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In response to the espousal of the states' rights doctrine on the Senate floor by South Carolinian Robert Hayne, which of the following argued that the Constitution was a compact of the people and that the Union was indissoluble?
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Daniel Webster
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Daniel Webster's "Second Reply to Hayne"...
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helped to prevent the formation of a West-South alliance.
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Other than Jackson's personal popularity, the main campaign issue in the presidential election of 1832 was...
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the Bank of the United States.
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Nicholas Biddle realized that he could use the Second National Bank as a...
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rudimentary central bank.
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________ was a leading enemy of the Second National Bank of the United States.
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Andrew Jackson
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The senator who pushed for renewal of the Bank of the United States charter in 1832 to provide himself a campaign issue against Jackson was...
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Henry Clay.
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Jackson defended his veto of the charter of the Second National bank on the grounds that it was...
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unconstitutional, despite the Supreme Court.
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Of the second Bank of the United States, who believed that it was making "the rich richer and the potent more powerful"?
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Andrew Jackson
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Jackson's most powerful weapon against the Bank of the United States was the...
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ability to withdraw government revenues from the Bank.
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Jackson's attitude toward nullification was to...
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oppose it because of his devotion to the Union.
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The conflict between Jackson and Calhoun was sharpened by their strong disagreement over the...
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Peggy Eaton controversy.
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Like fellow Westerners, President Jackson...
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preferred that local projects be left to the states.
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Jackson's policy toward the Native Americans was to...
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remove them to lands west of the Mississippi.
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About the removal of tribes, who wrote in Democracy in America about "the frightful sufferings that attend these forced migrations"?
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Alexis de Tocqueville
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