Transcript Guided Reading Activity 11-3

Guided Reading Activity
11-3
1. Why did President Jackson
attack the Bank of the United
States?

He thought it was run by the wealthy
Easterners and ordinary citizens had
no control
2. Who was the president of the
Bank?

Nicholas Biddle
3. What did Jackson do when the
bill to renew the Bank’s charter
came to him to sign?

He vetoed it
4. How did Jackson “kill” the Bank
once he was reelected?

He ordered the withdrawal of all
government deposits from the Bank
and placed the funds in smaller state
banks
5. Whom did the Democrats select
to succeed Jackson as president in
1836?

Martin Van Buren
6. What new political party
participated in the election of 1836?

The Whigs
7. When did the following occur:
land values fell, investments
declined, banks failed, and people
lost confidence in the economic
system
The Panic of 1837
8. What principle did the president
believe in that caused the
depression to worsen?

laissez-faire
9. Whom did the Whigs nominate
for president and vice-president in
the election of 1840?

William Henry Harrison

John Tyler
10. What was the Whigs’ campaign
slogan?

‘Tippecanoe and Tyler, too”
11. What campaign symbol did the
Whigs use?

A log cabin
12. Why did the Whigs use this
symbol?

To prove that Harrison was a “man of
the people”
13. How did the Whigs ridicule
Martin Van Buren?

They called him “King Martin”, a
wealthy snob who had spent the
people’s money on fancy furniture for
the White House
14. What happened four weeks
after the inauguration in 1841?

Harrison died from pneumonia
15. Why were the Whigs outraged
with John Tyler?

When he became President after
Harrison’s death. Tyler lacked party
loyalty. He vetoed several bills
sponsored by the Whigs in Congress.