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a. The right to vote.b.

More than half.

c. Members of John Quincy Adamsformer National Republican party.

d. Supporters of Andrew Jackson;included frontier farmers and

factory workers.

e. Private meeting; often a politicalmeeting.

f. Meeting at which a political partychooses a candidate.

g. Practice of rewarding supporterswith government jobs.

h. Group of unofficial advisors toAndrew Jackson who met with him

in the White House kitchen.

i. The right of states to limit thepower of the federal government.

j. Idea that a state has the right tonullify, or cancel, a federal law that

the state leaders consider to be

constitutional.

k. Act passed by South Carolina thatdeclared the 1832 tariff illegal.

l. Law passed in the 1930s that gaveNative America nations greater

control over their own affairs.

m. Forced journey of the CherokeeIndians from Georgia to a region

west of the Mississippi during

which thousands of Cherokees

died.

n. Conflict that began in Florida in1817 when the Seminoles resisted

removal.

o. Period when business activityslows, prices and wages fall, and

unemployment rises.

p. The use of insults to attack anopponents reputation.

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Chapter 12: Word Bank

Caucus e.

Democrats d.

Depression o.

Indian Removal Act l.

Kitchen Cabinet h.

Majority b.

Mudslinging p.

Nominating Conventions f.

Nullification j.

Nullification Act k.

Seminole War n.

Spoils Systems g.

States Rights i.

Suffrage a.

Trail of Tears m.

Whigs c.

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Chapter 12: Questions & Answers

11. How was the winner selected in the election of 1824?

No clear winner emerged from the elections of 1824. Jackson won the popular vote,

but no candidate won a majority (more than half) of the electoral votes. As a result,

the House of Representatives had to choose the President from among the top three

candidates.

12. What role did Nicholas Biddle, Henry Clay, and Andrew Jackson play in the

struggle over the Bank of the United States?

Pres. Andrew Jackson believed that the leader of the Federal Bank was giving money

to the rich. His name was Nicholas Biddle and he was very vain and arrogant. 2

other Whigs worried that the president would destroy the Bank (Clay and Webster),

so, they persuaded Biddle to apply for renewal of the Bank's charter. They figured

that Jackson would veto it and that Americans would be mad at him for that and not

elect him for a second term. His opponent in the next election would be Henry Clay.

When Jackson heard of the charter, he vetoed it and got the approval of the

Americans and he got reelected. Without the charter, the Bank closed in 1836.

13. What were the causes of the Panic of 1837?

Gamblers in the west borrowed money from the US bank. They tried to make

investments to pay back the bank; their investments flopped.American banks

collapsed, prices and wages fell, business activity slowed, and sales of public lands

dropped. Factories closed down and unemployment rised.