Q 01/05

What did Andrew Jackson's supporters call the alleged deal that made John Quincy Adams president in 1825?

A) The Midnight Deal

B) The Corrupt Bargain

C) The Great Betrayal

D) The Stolen Election

Answer · why

B) The Corrupt Bargain

The Corrupt Bargain was the charge that Henry Clay had traded his support in the House for a Cabinet seat. Jacksonians campaigned on it for the next f...

Q 02/05

Andrew Jackson branded Henry Clay which biblical figure "of the West" after losing the 1825 House vote?

A) Judas

B) Cain

C) Goliath

D) Pharaoh

Answer · why

A) Judas

Judas was Jackson's name for Clay, whom he accused of selling out the voters' choice for a place in the Cabinet. Clay spent years denying that any dea...

Q 03/05

On which object did John Quincy Adams place his hand to take the presidential oath in 1825, instead of a Bible?

A) A hymn book

B) A book of poetry

C) A book of law

D) A history of Rome

Answer · why

C) A book of law

A book of law, not a Bible, lay under Adams's hand as he recited the oath, by his own later account. He also swapped the knee breeches of earlier pres...

Q 04/05

What struck William H. Crawford in 1823, leaving a leading contender for president gravely ill throughout the campaign?

A) Yellow fever

B) A duelling wound

C) Tuberculosis

D) A stroke

Answer · why

D) A stroke

A stroke felled Crawford in 1823, yet he stayed in the race and still finished third in the electoral vote. A physician's prescription of the herb lob...

Q 05/05

Louisa Adams threw a grand 1824 ball for Andrew Jackson on the anniversary of which battle that made him famous?

A) Horseshoe Bend

B) New Orleans

C) Tippecanoe

D) Fort McHenry

Answer · why

B) New Orleans

New Orleans, Jackson's 1815 rout of the British, was toasted at the Adams home nine years on. John Quincy Adams hoped the general would settle for bei...