U.S. History Chapter 11 Test

Increased cost of European goods?

• tarrif

• taxes

• mudslinging

• plurality

To have a majority means to have

• largest single share

• plurality

• more than half

• none of the above

Plurality means to

• have the largest single share

• more than half

• take control

• to reform

Who was "Old Hickory"?

• Samuel Slator

• John Adams

• Henry Clay

• Andrew Jackson

Supported the Federal Bank

• Democratic-Republicans

• The Whig Party

• National Republicans

• Democrats

Presidential candidates who receive the backing of their home states rather than that of the national part are called?

• home state candidates.

• national party candidates.

• favorite son candidates.

• state party candidates.

Introduced in the 1828 campaign, what became a permanent part of American political life?

• mudslinging

• political cartoons

• campaign contributions

• plurality

Andrew Jackson's supporters replaced caucuses with

• selection meetings

• state conventions.

• delegate conventions.

• nominating conventions.

The only Americans allowed to vote in 1824 and 1828 were

• African Americans

• white men.

• white women.

• all of the above.

What law allowed the president to use the United States military to enforce acts of Congress?

• Military Act

• Presidential Act

• Congressional Bill

• Force Bill