the political opposition offered multiple candidates. Which statement about the 1842 Webster-Ashburton Treaty is FALSE? It included a British pledge not to interfere with American ships.
Calhoun, who opposed the federal imposition of the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 and argued that the U.S. Constitution gave states the right to block the enforcement of a federal law. In November 1832 South Carolina adopted the Ordinance of Nullification, declaring the tariffs null, void, and nonbinding in the state.
Which statement regarding the American electorate during the 1820s is true? The right to vote was expanded to include many more white males.
John C. Calhoun championed states' rights and slavery and was a symbol of the Old South. He spent the last 20 years of his life in the U.S. Senate working to unite the South against the abolitionist attack on slavery. His efforts included opposing the admittance of Oregon and California to the Union as free states.
As a prominent leader of the war hawk faction, Calhoun strongly supported the War of 1812. He served as Secretary of War under President James Monroe and, in that position, reorganized and modernized the War Department.
Reduction of property ownership requirements for voting, In the 1820s and 1830s, many states weakened or ended requirements to own property to be eligible to vote, leading to an expansion of participatory democracy, particularly during the presidency of Andrew Jackson.
The electorate expanded during the Jacksonian Era because most states dropped property-holding requirements for voting. Since the nation's founding, voting had been tied to property ownership.
Expanded suffrage – The Jacksonians believed that voting rights should be extended to all white men. By the end of the 1820s, attitudes and state laws had shifted in favor of universal white male suffrage and by 1856 all requirements to own property and nearly all requirements to pay taxes had been dropped.