Andrew Jackson Quiz

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

• True

• False

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

• 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

• Compromise of 1850

• Nullification 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

“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

What was one of the South's objections to the higher tariffs enacted by Congress?

• they would allow them access to cheap foreign imports

• they would prevent domestic manufacturing from growing

• they would redistribute wealth among American social classes

• they would make it more difficult to export crops

A tariff is:

• a high tax on EXPORTED goods

• a high tax on IMPORTED goods

What did President Jackson believe about the Bank of the United States?

• It should be supported at all costs.

• It unfairly favored poor people

• It unfairly favored wealthy people

• It was corrupt.