Ch. 12 Questions Directions: Host will ask questions and contestants will write their answers on the whiteboard. Host will give contestants a moment to write their response. Host will keep track and points and tell Mr. Holmes the winner.

Round 1 1.What is the practice of rewarding political backers called? 2.The Webster-Hayne debate was about what GENERAL issue? 3.How did the Native Americans try to fight the Indian Removal Act? 4.This political party was created as an insult to President Jackson? 5.This man ran the 2 nd National Bank.

Round 1 Answers 1.Spoils System 2.State Rights/ Power between federal & state gov. 3.Take the government to court 4.Whig Party 5.Nicholas Biddle

Round 2 1.The “corrupt bargain” was between what two men? 2.This man was in favor of state rights and created nullification laws. 3.In this famous Senate debate, this man argued for a strong federal government. 4.What famous quote did Jackson make about John Marshall’s ruling? 5.Why was the North in favor of higher tariffs?

Round 2 Answers 1.Clay and Adams 2.John C. Calhoun 3.Daniel Webster 4.”John Marshall has made his decision…now let him enforce it.” 5.Made importing goods more expensive.

Round 3 1.Why did Southerners oppose the high tariffs? 2.Give a principle of Jacksonian democracy. 3.Who was the Massachusetts political leader who was a strong nationalist? 4.Seminole warrior who used guerrilla tactics 5.This man was the winner of the 1824 election.

Round 3 Answers 1.Any of the following: Seen as helping the North; Hurt the Southern imports; Made the South lower the price of cotton 2.Any of the following: 1.Government by the people 2.Democracy in social, economic, and political life 3.Limited Government but with a strong president 4.Championed the cause of the farmer and the laborer in an agricultural and industrial society 3.Daniel Webster 4.Osceola 5.John QUINCY Adams (If they wrote John Adams, it is WRONG!)

Round 4 1.This state attacked the Cherokees after the Supreme Court ruling. 2.These states were part of the Indian Territory. (Give all 3.) 3.This president broke the tradition of having wealthy, ivy-league educated presidents. 4.How was the South Carolina secession issue resolved? 5.The idea of spreading political power to the people and ensuring majority rule was a characteristic of what?

Answers Round 4 1.Georgia 2.Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska 3.Andrew Jackson 4.Henry Clay came up with compromise tariff. 5.Jacksonian democracy

Round 5 1.True or False: The long journey west that the Cherokee people were forced to make in the winter of 1838/1839 is known as the Trail of Tears. 2.True or False: A band of Seminoles led by Sequoya hid in the Everglades and used guerrilla tactics to defeat the U.S. Army. 3.True or False: In 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act to authorize the government to negotiate treaties that would force Native Americans to move west. 4.Who was the candidate whose military record helped him to be elected president in This major event happened as a result of bad economic policy

Answers – Round 5 1.True 2.False 3.True 4.William Henry Harrison 5.Panic of 1837

Questions Round 6 1.What political party did Jackson supporters become? 2.What did South Carolina threaten to do because of the Tariff of Abominations? 3.Why did Andrew Jackson dislike the national bank? 4.After the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Cherokees, Jackson said, “ John Marshall has made his decision…Now let him enforce it.” What did he mean? 5.Tell me an action that is considered an act of genocide

Answers – Round 6 1.Democratic Party 2.Secede 3.He thought the bank’s policies favored the wealthy over average people 4.That Jackson was not going to carry out the Court’s ruling 5.Transfer children, Death of a certain group, Prevent births, Inflict physical/mental harm to a group, Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.

Questions – Round 7 1.This man was offered a job in exchange for helping Quincy Adams win the presidency. 2.The Cherokees were moved to this modern-day state 3.In the 1824 election, what candidate would have had strong support in the northeast. 4.Who said the following quote about nullification: “The Union, next to our liberty, most dear.”? 5.Which Native American tribe took the Jackson administration to the U.S. Supreme Court?

Answers – Round 7 1.Clay 2.OK. 3.Q. Adams 4.John C Calhoun 5.Cherokee

Questions - Round 8 1.This tragedy hit Jackson right before his inauguration as president. 2.This was the scandal that the Quincy Adams people used against Jackson and his wife. 3.Jackson’s opponents said he used this power too much when declining bills 4.True or False: Jackson’s vice-president John Calhoun was against nullification like his boss. 5.What was discovered in the Cherokee territory that led to the Trail of Tears?

Round 8 Answers 1.The death of his wife 2.That she was married to another man while being married to him 3.Veto 4.False 5.Gold

Round 9 - Questions 1.This Native American tribe was involved in the Trail of Tears. 2.This man is the first to die while serving as president. 3.This policy required gold/silver payment for land. 4.This man perfected a writing system for the Cherokee. 5.This term means: Increase of money supply; decrease in value of money

Round 9 - Answers 1.Cherokee 2.William Henry Harrison 3.Specie Circular 4.Sequoya 5.Inflation

Round 10 - Questions 1.This was the first state to threaten secession. 2.This was the vice-president who becomes president due to the former president’s popularity 3.This was the vice-president who becomes president when the popular war-hero president died in office 4.Which political party did Clay, Webster, and other opponents of Jackson form? 5.Why was the doctrine of nullification a danger to the United States?

Round 10 - Answers 1.South Carolina 2.Martin van Buren 3.John Tyler 4.Whig Party 5.Gave states too much power

Round 11 - Questions 1.In the famous cartoon of Andrew Jackson fighting the hydra, what does the hydra represent? 2.Which of the following would NOT be a member of the Jackson Coalition? A) Bankers B) Immigrants C) State politicians D) Farmers E) Frontiersman

Round 11 - Answers 1.The Bank/N. Biddle (either answer is fine) 2.A