Jacksonian Democracy - Quick Time - True or False

John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson were the presidential candidates in 1828.

• True

• False

During 1828 campaign, candidates talked trash about each other, a practice known as “Fake News.”

• True

• False

Jackson was mostly supported by rich and upper class people.

• True

• False

When Jackson was a boy his family was rich.

• True

• False

Between the presidential elections of 1824 and 1828, Jackson split away from the Republican Party to join a new political party, the Democratic Party.

• True

• False

Jacksonian Democracy is the idea that common people should control their government.

• True

• False

In the 1820s suffrage was expanded to include white men who were not property owners.

• True

• False

In the 1828 election, over a million people voted for president, which is twice as many as voted in 1824.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

It was actually 3 times the amount....

The “spoils system” is the practice of replacing government employees with the winning candidate’s supporters.

• True

• False

In “The Tory Mill” political cartoon, the cartoonist thinks that Jackson is a bad person.

• True

• False