Which of the following statements concerning the Bank of the United States is true?
A. In the 1820s and 1830s it was mismanaged, unresponsive to the nation's needs, and unsuccessful in stabilizing the currency.
B. Andrew Jackson hated it because he thought it was an agent of special privilege, and he vetoed the bill to recharter it.
C. It was the critical issue in the 1824 election that threw the election into the House of Representatives.
D. The Supreme Court ruled the bank unconstitutional.
Answer: B
You might also like to view...
During the Great Depression several hundred thousand African Americans left the South to try to find better times in the industrial cities of the North.
a. true b. false
The papacies of John XXIII and John Paul II followed policies that were _______
A. roughly similar B. strongly opposed C. identical D. both radical departures
Alexander Hamilton's proposed Bank of the United States was
a. rejected by the House of Representatives. b. supported by Thomas Jefferson. c. enthusiastically supported by George Washington. d. based on the "necessary and proper," or "elastic," clause in the Constitution. e. to be owned and operated by the Treasury Department.
The Northwest Ordinance established which of the following as the border between free and slave states?
A) Rocky Mountains B) Appalachian Mountains C) Mississippi River D) Ohio River