Andrew Jackson Review

In the presidential election of 1824, the four candidates were all _____.

• Whigs

• Federalsists

• Democratic Republicans

• Nationalists

Who decided the election of 1824?

• the Supreme Court

• the Electoral College

• the House of Representatives

• the voters

In his first message to Congress, President John Quincy Adams announced that he wanted to _____.

• improve roads and waterways

• build a national university

• support scientific research

• All of these

In the election of 1828, the National Republicans supported _____.

• John Quincy Adams

• Henry Clay

• William Crawford

• Andrew Jackson

Why did President Jackson devise the spoils system?

• to give jobs to his supporters

• to create a new cabinet position

• to choose his cabinet members

• to choose a justice for the Supreme Court to choose a justice for the Supreme Court

A _____ is a system in which nonelected officials carry out laws.

• bureaucracy

• spoils system

• nominating convention

• nullification

South Carolina’s Nullification Act was a response to _____.

• the spoils system

• tariffs

• the Maysville Road bill

• Jackson's veto of a law taxing European goods

President Jackson vetoed a bill about _____.

• secession

• nullification

• roads in Kentucky

• tariffs

_____ showed that the United States was becoming more democratic during the Jackson era.

• Use of the spoils system

• Changes in state requirements to vote

• An increase in political parties

• Use of tariffs to protect American goods

President Andrew Jackson supported white settlers' demand for _____.

• creating successful farming communities

• allowing Native Americans to become "civilized"

• moving American settlers to the Great Plains

• taking Native American lands for themselves