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    AP US History Quiz Ch10

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    CHOICE. MULTIPLE Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) By the 1830s‚ which of the following groups was NOT denied suffrage? 1) __D____ A) women B) blacks C) indentured servants D) white males E) Native Americans 2) In the 1820s‚ a two-party system was fostered by 2) _E_____ A) an increasing concern about foreign policy issues. B) the burgeoning population of the trans-Appalachian West. C) changes in the Constitution regarding the party

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    presidency: John Quincy Adams‚ Andrew Jackson‚ Henry Clay‚ and William Crawford. Andrew Jackson had the most electoral votes‚ but it was not a majority‚ so the voting went to the House of Representatives. John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay made a deal that came to be known as the Corrupt Bargain. Henry Clay being the speaker of the house knew he would have an opportunity to sway the votes. He promised to help Adams if‚ when elected he made Clay the Secretary of State. John Quincy Adams was elected

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    1824 election‚ Andrew Jackson lost the presidency to John Quincy Adams despite winning the popular vote because no candidate had won an electoral majority. The election was decided in the House of Representatives and John Quincy Adams was named president‚ thanks to the help of Henry Clay‚ in what Jackson and his followers would term the “corrupt bargain”. Angered but undeterred‚ Jackson ran for election again in 1828. This time‚ he beat Adams‚ largely as a result of increased voter participation

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    the Election of 1824 Andrew Jackson was competing with Henry Clay‚ John Quincy Adams‚ and William Crawford. Andrew Jackson won the most popular votes but not the most Electoral College votes. The selection was made from the top three vote getters. Henry Clay came in fourth so he was out of the election. People said that the election between Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams was the fiercest election there ever was. John Quincy Adams had won this election but Andrew Jackson thought that Adam’s victory

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    campaign of 1824 involving Jackson‚ Clay‚ Crawford‚ and John Quincy Adams ___ 2. Henry Clay disproved the charge of a "corrupt bargain" between himself and President Adams by refusing to accept any favors from the administration. He accepted the position of secretary of state ___ 3. President Adams attempted to

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    spoke for the west. Although he was a sectional leader‚ Clay has been called one of the most nationalistic leaders in America ’s history. Clay had always tried to improve national unity‚ but unfortunately‚ many of his ideas never went into effect. John C. Calhoun was the sectional representative for the south. He was an opinionated man‚ and believed the states should have more power than the federal government. Calhoun also

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    Henry Clay’s American System 1832 Background: Following the War of 1812‚ Henry Clay‚ John C. Calhoun‚ and John Quincy Adams helped form a new political agenda‚ which promised to meet the needs of America. It was a new nationalist United States. Henry Clay’s "American System" was a neofederalist program of a national bank‚ a tariff to promote and protect industry’s‚ and financial improvements. Parties Involved: Henry Clays started as lawyer In Richmond‚ Virginia. In 1797 he quickly acquired

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    APUSH 12 and 13

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    1. 601. Federalists opposed the acquisition of Canada because A) there were too many French there. B) Canadian business would prove too competitive. C) it was too agrarian and would give more votes to the Democratic-Republicans. D) they believed that the Canadians could never become Americanized. E) too many Indians lived there. C 2. 602. During the War of 1812‚ the New England states A) supported the United States’ war effort. B) lent more money and sent more food to the British army than

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    The presidential victory of Thomas Jefferson of the Democratic-Republican Party over the Federalist Party incumbent John Adams in the election of 1800 caused Adams to attempt to secure Federalist judicial control in his ultimate days in office. To do this‚ Adams appointed a bevy of justices of peace for the District of Columbia. The commissions for these justices were approved‚ signed‚ and sealed‚ however the commissions were not all delivered before President Jefferson took office. Once sworn in

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    Age of the Common Man

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    Unit 7 Study Guide Chapter 11 Age of the Common Man period from Jackson’s inauguration as president up to the Civil War is known as the Jacksonian Era or the Era of the Rise of the Common Man. This period constituted great change and issues warranting debate‚ such as slavery‚ Indians‚ westward mobility‚ and balance of power between the executive and the legislative branches of government. The United States had no strict class system. Most Americans identified themselves into the middle class.

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