US VA History UNIT FIVE STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS

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What qualifications was removed from the presidential election of 1828 for males to vote?

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Owning property

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How did Andrew Jackson use the “spoils system” to his benefit?

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By appointing his supporters to government positions

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How were political campaigns now conducted by political candidates?

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Speak to the masses in towns

Front

How often would a national convention occur?

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Every four years

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Why was the Whig political party called?

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To directly challenge Andrew Jackson

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The Whig political party got its support from which of the following groups? Southern plantation owners, Northern industrialists and merchants, Western frontier settlers, Urban working class

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Northern industrialists and merchants

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Which ethnicities bothered the Know-Nothing Party?

Back

Irish and German

Front

The Northern part of the country supported high protective tariffs because:

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They aimed to protect their growing industries from foreign competition.

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Why did the Southern part of the country oppose high tariffs?

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No manufacturing in the South and made imports more expensive to buy

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If a state enters the Union as a slave state, the next state to enter the Union would be what and why?

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A free state, to maintain the balance between slave and free states.