President Jackson's Administration

Northerners supported tariffs in the early 1800's because tariffs helped them compete with...

• British merchants.

• Southern agriculturalists.

• British manufacturers.

• Southern manufacturers.

In the early 1800's southerners opposed tariffs because tariffs...

• decreased the price of the goods they needed.

• angered their European trading partners.

• benefited only northern merchants.

• were higher in the South than in the North and West.

What effect did the Tariff of Abominations have on Andrew Jackson’s America?

• It fostered the nation’s hatred of British companies.

• It fueled growing sectional differences within the country.

• It helped the West, which did not rely on international trade.

• It favored the South’s agriculture-based economy.

In the early 1800's the frontier West...

• relied heavily on trade with Britain.

• suffered from low property values.

• struggled in a climate that often damaged crops.

• lacked services such as roads and water transportation.

Arguments over which issue sparked the nullification crisis?

• states’ rights

• the Tariff of Abominations

• economic depression

• bank operations

The nullification crisis was a dispute over the power of the...

• states to secede from the Union.

• federal government to end tariffs.

• federal government to favor one region over another.

• states to reject unconstitutional federal laws.

What was Daniel Webster’s position on states’ rights?

• The welfare of the nation should override the concerns of individual states.

• Federal authority should be upheld, but federal power should not be expanded.

• States needed a way to lawfully protest questionable federal legislation.

• Economic problems should dictate which regions executive orders favored.

What was Andrew Jackson’s view on the Second Bank of the United States?

• It should have the power to act exclusively as the federal government’s financial agent.

• It should be mostly privately owned, but supervised by Congress and the president.

• It was an unconstitutional extension of Congress that should be controlled by the states.

• It was a welfare agency for wealthy politicians that should have its charter revoked.

What idea did the Whig Party favor when it formed to oppose Jackson in 1834?

• expansion of the federal government

• creation of a monarchic state

• a weak president and a strong Congress

• broadening of the two-party system

What caused the severe economic depression of the Panic of 1837?

• President Jackson’s unsuccessful economic policies

• Congress’s veto of the creation of a national bank

• President Harrison’s excessive investments in the military

• President Van Buren’s inability to gain support from the Whig Party