During the 1830s public servants and officials were widely perceived to be unqualified. What practice reinforced that perception?

• The public voting for candidates based on religious affiliations

• The president rewarding political supporters with appointments to desirable positions

• The federal government recruiting volunteers to serve abroad as ambassadors

• Legislators awarding government contracts to the lowest bidders

What was one effect of these events on the 1828 presidential election?

• Votes were cast by secret ballot.

• Property qualifications for voting were strengthened.

• Poll taxes were reduced.

• Voter participation increased.

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

• 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 agricultural land and natural resources

Which shaded state was the main designation of American Indians forced to relocate as part of the Trail of Tears?

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What was the primary question surrounding the 1832 Nullification Crisis?

• Can the federal government regulate interstate commerce?

• Can a state regulate a federal agency?

• Can a state overturn a federal law?

• Can the federal government levy taxes on states?

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The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved for the states respectively, or to the people.

-Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

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Conflicting interpretations of this amendment played a major role in the-

• Bank War

• Nullification Crisis

• Corrupt Bargain

• XYZ Affair

In 1832 the Supreme Court ruled that Georgia did not have legal authority over the Cherokees living in the State. President Andrew Jackson responded to this decision by-

• filing another petition against the Cherokee Nation

• ignoring the ruling and allowing Georgia to evict the Cherokee Nation

• ordering state officials in Georgia to negotiate with the Cherokee Nation

• asking Congress to pay reparations to the Cherokee Nation

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I consider then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressively by the letter of the Constitution...

-Proclamation, President Andrew Jackson

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The proclamation excerpted above was issued during which of these historical events?

• Shay's Rebellion

• The War of 1812

• The Nullification Crisis

• The Civil War

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Speaker 1: A state has the right to overrule an act passed by Congress. After all, the national government is supposed to share power with the states.

Speaker 2: I believe that you are wrong. The states do share power with the national government, but the Constitution says the national government has supremacy.

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These speakers are debating an issue that eventually became known as the-

• Monroe Doctrine

• Nullification Crisis

• Missouri Compromise

• Three-Fifths Compromise

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Finally, in the summer of 1842, after seven years of desperate warfare, an agreement was reached with the few hundred remaining Seminoles, allowing them to live in southwest Florida.

-John and Mary Lou Missall, A Short History of the Seminole Wars, 2006

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What led to the conflict referred to in this excerpt?

• The passage of the Dawes Act

• The Louisina Purchase

• The adoption of Indian removal policies

• The Battle of Tippecanoe