Andrew Jackson Notes

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best explains the cause of the emergence of new Political parties in the early nineteenth century?

• Continued debates over the proper role of the federal government

• Growing agreement regarding the issue of slavery

• Declining support for westward territorial expansion

• Persistent concern over the impressment of soldiers

Multiple Choice

In the first half of the 1800s, what was the impact of westward expansion on democracy?

• The importance of the Electoral College decreased
• Limitations were placed on the power of the Supreme Court
• Many states reduced or eliminated qualifications for voting
• Most states extended the right to vote to women and African Americans

Multiple Choice

What theme did Jackson use for the election of 1828?

• Nullification Crisis
• Tippecanoe and Tyler too
• Common Man
• Corrupt Bargain

Multiple Choice

What is Jacksonian Democracy?

• the idea that the common people should control their government
• the political party that supported Jackson in the election of 1828
• the notion that the rich and upper class should have the most power
• the nickname Andrew Jackson earned in the War of 1812

Multiple Choice

Which document was used to justify the South Carolina Nullification Crisis of 1832?

• Magna Carta

• Common Sense

• The Federalist Papers

• Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions

Multiple Choice

What was the South's main objection to the protective tariffs established by Henry Clay's American System?

• Protective tariffs eventually affected the price of both imports and exports.

• Protective tariffs established social welfare programs to aid poor immigrants.

• Protective tariffs supported legislation outlawing most monopolies.

• Protective tariffs required industry to provide safe working conditions for employees.

Multiple Choice

An important consequence of the “tariff of abominations” (1828) is that it led to the

• taxation of consumer items

• Alliance of Southern planters and Western farmers

• expansion of the New England textile industry

• Voicing of the doctrine of nullification

Multiple Choice

The ideas expressed in the excerpt emerged most directly from a larger intellectual debate over the

• the balance between individual freedom and public order

• relationship between the federal government and the state

• Expansion of slavery into the new territories

• Rights of Native Americans

Multiple Choice

In the 1830s, why did President Andrew Jackson support the Indian Removal policy? 

• Native Americans were attacking southern cities. 
• White settlers desired the land on which Native Americans lived
•  Jackson wanted to punish Native Americans for their political opposition.

Multiple Choice

As Americans took over more and more land, what happened to Native Americans?

• They agreed to give up their land.
• They were given their choice of where to live.
• They were forced to live in reservations.
• They voluntarily moved to Canada and Mexico.

Multiple Choice

Name the law which forced the removal of all Indians to lands west of the Mississippi?

• Worchester v. Georgia
• Trail of Tears
• Indian Removal Act
• Corrupt Bargain

Multiple Choice

Jackson and other government supporters of the policy of "removal" believed that

• Native Americans and whites could never live together

• Native Americans had a right to their land

• Native Americans should adopt white cultural practices

• Native Americans were citizens of the states they lived in

Multiple Select

Can it be cruel in this government…to purchase his [Indian] lands, give him a new and extensive territory, and support him a year in his new abode? How many of our own people would gladly embrace the opportunity of removing to the west on such conditions! What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute, occupied by more than 12,000,000 happy people, and filled with all the blessings of liberty, civilization, and religion?....

Andrew Jackson, (1830)

Based on this excerpt, why did Jackson support the Indian Removal Act? Select all that apply.

• The Supreme Court declared the Indian Removal Act constitutional, so Jackson was obligated to uphold it.

• Any rational person would prefer a developed, industrialized society to relatively empty forests or people living off the land.

• Native Americans would be better off leaving because Congress would pay to support them for one year

• Native Americans were so successful at becoming "civilized" they were starting to take away opportunities from white Americans

Multiple Choice

According to the Supreme Court in Worcester v. Georgia,

• The Cherokees had no right to remain on the lands in the southeast

• Native Americans were foreign citizens and had no right to bring a case to the Supreme Court

• The Cherokees were a sovereign people who were in control of their national borders

• The Cherokees had been wronged by the government and were owed compensation

Multiple Choice

The issues involved in the case Worcester v. Georgia centered around

• Whether Georgia had followed proper procedure in passing the Indian Removal Bill

• Whether federal treaties with the Cherokees trumped Georgia state law

• Whether the Cherokees had the power to elect their own representatives

• Whether Andrew Jackson had the constitutional authority to enforce the Indian Removal Bill

Multiple Choice

Some constitutional scholars argue Jackson's refusal to enforce the decision in Worcester v. Georgia violated the idea of a separation of powers because

• The Judicial branch interpreted the law, and the Executive branch is supposed to enforce the law

• Jackson's term in office was about to expire, so it should be left to the next president, Martin Van Buren to carry out

• The Army should was used inside of a state, but it should only be used in foreign countries

• The majority of American citizens did not support the Supreme Court's decision

Multiple Choice

The Trail of Tears

• Failed to remove Cherokees from the Southeastern U.S.

• Was required by the Supreme Court in Worcester v. Georgia

• Was opposed by Andrew Jackson

• Was the forced march of the Cherokees from Georgia to Oklahoma