8th Grade US History Unit 6 Review

Practice of rewarding government jobs  to political supporters; replacing government employees with the winning candidate's supporters.

• Bureaucracy
• Mudslinging
• Spoil System
• Plurality

What was a major reason for the federal government’s involvement in the relocations depicted on this map? 

• A To persuade American Indians to become farmers
•    To gain access to important rivers 
• To punish American Indians who were allies of the British
• To acquire valuable agriculture land and natural resources

How did Andrew Jackson make the American political system more democratic?

• By expanding voting rights to all white men.
• By allowing Native Americans to move back east.
• By telling citizens how to vote
• By allowing slaves to vote

Jackson wanted more land in order for the US, and to avoid conflicts he removed 

• Native Americans
• Whites 
• Immigrants 
• Animals

The idea that the common people should control the government

• Spoils system
• Corrupt Bargain
• American system
• Jacksonian Democracy

Northern Industrialists favored tariffs or taxes on imported goods to reduce

• Foreign Competition 
• Exports
• Boats entering US
• Native farming

South Carolina used the _______ _______ to declare taxes on imports unconstitutional as a states right.

• Nullification Crisis
• Foreign Conflict
• Native Conflict
• Unreasonable Conflict

What called for the government to negotiate treaties that would require Native Americans to relocate west of the Mississippi?

• spoils system
• Trail of Tears
• Indian Removal Act
• Whig Party

____ and ____ were accused of making a “corrupt bargain” in the 1824 Presidential Election.

• Andrew Jackson; Henry Clay
• Henry Clay; John C. Calhoun
• Henry Clay; John Quincy Adams
• John Quincy Adams; the devil

What valuable natural resource was found on Cherokee land in Georgia?

• diamonds
• gold
• silver