Question 1
What theme was evident in this map as shown by the number of popular and electoral votes cast in the 1824 presidential election?
A) an appeal to the economic interests of working men
B) a desire to return to the republican values of the Founding Fathers
C) an apparent rejection of the elite in favor of the common man as a leader
D) the supremacy of propertied interests
Question 2
Because he won the popular vote but lost his bid to be president, Andrew Jackson called the election of 1824 a corrupt bargain due to the fact that __________.
A) the House of Representatives chose Henry Clay as president
B) he would have won the election if property requirements for voting were still in place
C) William Crawford won the Electoral College despite Jackson's higher numbers in the popular
vote
D) former candidate Henry Clay threw his support to Adams in exchange for an appointment as
secretary of state
Question 3
This political broadside used in the election of 1824 showed presidential candidate John Quincy Adams's belief that the federal government should support greater economic development through __________.
A) elimination of the property-owning requirement for voting
B) increased trade with Britain
C) Henry Clay's American System
D) the abolition of slavery