Ch.11 Age of the Common Man and Jackson Section 1

​Ch. 11

Multiple Choice

Spoils System

• Election in which the Democratic candidate Andrew Jackson defeated the National Republican candidate Henry Clay.
• Debate, of 1830, in which Daniel Webster of Massachusetts argued that federal law was supreme over state law while South Carolina Senator Robert Hayne argued that states have the right to declare federal laws null and void.
• In this election the Democratic candidate Martin Van Buren defeated Whig candidate William Henry Harrison.
• System used by Andrew Jackson and others to reward campaign workers and loyal party members with government jobs.

Multiple Choice

Who won the popular vote in 1824?

• Andrew Jackson

• Henry Clay

• John Quincy Adams

• William Crawford

Multiple Choice

"Corrupt Bargain"

• War between the Seminoles who lived in Florida and the U.S. government. As a result of the war many Seminoles were forced to move to the Indian Territory west of the Mississippi.
• Term used to describe a series of events associated with the 1824 election in which Henry Clay supported John Quincy Adams for president in the House of Representatives and became secretary of state in the Adams administration.
• The man who won a majority of the popular vote in the 1824 election but not a majority of the electoral college vote. He did go on to win the 1828 and 1832 presidential elections.
• System used by Andrew Jackson and others to reward campaign workers and loyal party members with government jobs.

Multiple Choice

Jackson called John Q. Adam's "election victory" a what?

• Corrupt Bargain

• Stolen Victory

• Defeated Downfall

• Spoils System

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John Quincy Adams was related former President ​​

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