Andrew Jackson Quiz Review

Once he became president, Jackson fired many federal employees and replaced them with his political supporters and friends.

• True
• False

Replacing government positions with your political supporters and friends is known as:

• Federalism
• spoils system

John C. Calhoun believed that individual states had the right to nullify federal laws.

• True
• False

Andrew Jackson was the 8th president of the United States. 

• True
• False

"The Cherokees are nearly all prisoners. They have been dragged from their homes and encamped at the forts and military places, all over the nation.... The propert[ies] of many [have] been taken and sold before their eyes for almost nothing."This quotation from an eyewitness on the "Trial of Tears" describes events resulting from the---

• Intolerable Acts
• Lewis and Clark Expedition
• Quartering Act
• Indian removal Act

What was President Jackson's response to the nullification crisis?

• He admitted that the Union was a "compact" of the states
• He offered to raise tariffs to keep South Carolina in the Union
• He conceded South Carolina's right to secede
• He threatened to use force against South Carolina if it did not repeal its nullification policies

Nullification means:

• Cancelling of a federal law (refusal to follow it)
• Belief that a federal law must be followed

During Andrew Jackson's Presidency, the "spoils system" resulted in --

• federal laws being nullified by the states
• the expansion of the right to vote to all free males
• an end to political corruption in the federal government
• rewarding supporters of elected officials with government jobs

Which Congressional leader proposed the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise Tariff of 1833, and helped to resolve the disputed election of 1824?

• John Quincy Adams
• Henry Clay
• Daniel Webster
• John C. Calhoun

“John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it.” —Andrew JacksonWhich government body is President Andrew Jackson referring to in this quote?

• the First National Bank
• the Second National Bank
• the Supreme Court
• the White House bureaucracy