Chapter 12 The Age of Jackson

He was elected president in controversial fashion in 1824 thanks to Henry Clay. 

• James Monroe
• Alexander Hamilton
• John Quincy Adams
• John C. Calhoun

He won the popular vote in 1824 but lost the presidential election to John Quincy Adams as a result of something that became known as the corrupt bargain. 

• James Monroe
• Alexander Hamilton
• Henry Clay
• Andrew Jackson

The idea of spreading political power to all people and ensuring majority rule is known as: 

• Jacksonian democracy
• republicanism
• representative democracy
• universal suffrage

He was known as the people's president. 

• John Quincy Adams
• James Monroe 
• James Buchanan
• Andrew Jackson

The spoils system describes the practice of giving government jobs to political backers. 

• true
• false

This person is known for inventing a writing system for the Cherokee language. 

• Shoshone
• Sequoya
• Sacagawea
• Wilma Mankiller

What act, passed in 1830 by Congress, called for the government to negotiate treaties that would require Native Americans to relocate west. 

• Intolerable Act
• Abomination Act 
• Indian Removal Act
• Oklahoma Land Act

Oklahoma and parts of Kansas and Nebraska became known as this:

• Indian Territory
• The Northwest Territory
• Indian Wilderness
• Sooner Nation

Native American resistance during the Seminole War was led by______ , who successfully used surprise attacks to defeat the US Army in many battles. 

• Sequoya
• Tsali
• Osceola
• Potawatomi

Congress passed at bill at the end of John Quincy Adams' presidency that significantly raised the tariffs on raw materials and manufactured goods which outraged the South. This became known as

• the Tariff of Secession
• the Intolerable Tariff
• the Southern Tariff
• the Tariff of Abominations