VU American History Unit 3 Test Comprehensive Exam Questions With 100% Verified Answers.
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Andrew Jackson - correct answer Andrew Jackson was born in 1767 in a log cabin in Tennessee. To the people, he was portrayed as a common person that was a lawyer/landowner (rich). Jackson was also a hero of the Battle of New Orleans of 1812. In 1824, Jackson cre...
Andrew Jackson - correct answer Andrew Jackson was born in 1767 in a log cabin in
Tennessee. To the people, he was portrayed as a common person that was a lawyer/landowner (rich).
Jackson was also a hero of the Battle of New Orleans of 1812. In 1824, Jackson created a new political
party because of the election of 1824, machine politics were born. Due to Jackson winning the popular
vote in the 1824 election but not the electoral vote, he lost to John Quincy Adams. However, in the
election of 1828 Jackson was elected president through campaigning, the creation of the Democratic
Party, and a 100% turnout through popular vote. Jackson changed the idea of presidency by starting the
spoils system, which is a policy to hire your friends to government positions; wanting a small and
inactive federal government, vetoing more proposed laws than the six presidents before him combined,
and Jackson being a very active president. In addition, Jackson changed the idea of presidency by doing
whatever he wanted and no one could stop him, changing campaigning by voters judging character, and
his massive expansion in power. Jackson's expansion in presidency is significant because it is the cause
of the bank crisis, him ignoring the checks and balances, and the trail of tears.
Nullification - correct answer - In 1828, Congress passed a revised tariff that came
to be known as the Tariff of Abominations. South Carolina suffered greatly from this tax as prices for
cotton had declined and the fall off shipping. A group of SC positions headed by John C Calhoun
advances a doctrine called nullification, the right of a state to make a federal void.
- Year later, Jackson ignored the SC nullification and shutout Calhoun which he resigned. SC leaders
declared federal tariffs null and void, then Jackson responded by sending armed ships to Charleston
harbor and threatened federal troops would be sent to collect tariff. Later, Jackson passed the forced bill
and South Carolina backs down its nullification.
Significance: The nullification crisis lead to the civil was because it raised issues of sectionalism between
the divide of the North and South. In addition, an implied threat behind nullification was secession, and
many southern threated to secede every time a policy was perceived opposing the Slaveholding south.
Manifest Destiny - correct answer In 1845 John O' Sullivan coined the Manifest
Destiny term to describe the ideology of continental expansionism that included the inherit superiority
of white Americans, as well as the conviction that God given right to over spread North America.
However, the Indians were not considered people and the ideology justified extreme measures to clear
the native population from the land including forced removal. The destiny includes the 1783 Treat of
Paris (American Revolution), 1803 Louisiana Purchase, 1819 Florida, 1845 Texas Annexation, 1848
Mexican War, and the 1853 Gadsden Purchase. The manifest destiny is important because this lead to
more resources such as money, wood, silver, gold, furs, farmland, and bison. In addition, the Native
Americans suffered, fought a war with Mexico, constitutional questions and ethnocentrism that expands
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