Chapter 12 Pretest

According to the chart, on which major issues did the two parties agree?

• All of them major issues listed were agreed by both parties.

• None of the major issues listed were agreed by both parties.

• States rights

• banking

According to the chart, when the Democratic Republicans split into two separate parties, where did most Republicans live?

• Michigan

• North and East

• South and West

• Texas

The Cherokee's forced journey west to the Indian Territory is known as the

• Trail of Tears.

• Oregon Trail.

• Relocation March.

• Trail of Terrors.

Why did Andrew Jackson lose the election of 1824?

• Jackson did not belong to a political party.

• Jackson did not win a majority (more than half) of the votes,

• Jackson was disqualified because of a political scandal.

• Jackson had less popular votes than John Quincy Adams.

The practice of replacing government employees with the winning candidate's supporters became known as

• mudslinging.

• the spoils system.

• bureaucracy.

• suffrage.

The 1824 presidential election, in which no candidate received majority, was decided by

• popular vote.

• the House of Representatives.

• the Electoral College.

• the political parties.

Commonly known as "Old Hickory", which president's popularity with the "common man" changed politics?

• Martin van Buren

• Andrew Jackson

• John Quincy Adams

• William Henry Harrison

According to the chart, which party feared the idea of the federal government passing unconstitutional laws?

• Republicans

• Democrats

The cartoon is criticizing the policies of which of the following presidents? 

• Jackson
• Madison
• Van Buren
• Tyler

The Indian Territory created in 1824 is in most of what is today

• Oklahoma

• Texas

• Mississippi

• Arkansas