Age of Jackson

“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 properties of many have been taken and sold before their eyes for almost nothing.”

This quotation from an eyewitness on the “Trail of Tears” describes events resulting from the -

• Intolerable Acts

• Lewis and Clark Expedition

• Quartering Act

• Indian Removal Act

2. What was President Jackson’s response to the nullification crisis?

• He admitted that the Union was a compact of states.

• He conceded South Carolina's right to secede.

• He offered to raise tariffs to keep South Carolina in the Union.

• He threatened to use force against South Carolina if it did not repeal its nullification policies.

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

Which political leader argued that states could nullify federal laws?

• Jphn Quincy Adams

• John C. Calhoun

• Henry Clay

• Daniel Webster

What factor best explains the large increase in voters between the election of 1824 and 1828?

• Former slaves were emancipated and allowed to vote

• An amendment was enacted ending voting fees

• Women were given the right to vote

• Many states had put an end to property qualifications

Why did President Jackson support the introduction of a “spoils system”?

• It would end vetoing bills he disliked

• It would have to be enforced by Supreme Court decisions

• It would remove Native American Indians from their traditional lands

• It would open up jobs in government to average citizens

What was one of the South’s objections to the higher tariffs enacted by congress?

• They would allow them access to cheap foreign goods

• They would prevent domestic manufacturing from growing

• They would redistribute wealth among American social classes

• They would make it more difficult to export crops

Which Supreme Court case best completes the partial outline below?

I. ___________________________________________

A. Heard under Chief Justice John Marshall

B. Concerned the relationship between the Cherokee people and a state

C. The Court ordered that Indian nations were subject to federal, not state law.

• Marbury v. Madison

• McCulloch v. Maryland

• Gibbons v. Ogden

• Worcester v. Georgia

The Five Tribes of the Civilized Nations were forced to move west and give up their land by the Indian Removal Act of 1830. In the fall and winter of 1838 the Cherokee were forced to leave their homelands and move to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). This was called the trail of______________

• sorrow

• misery

• tears

• opportunity

What tribe went to great lengths to blend in and become acceptable to white society? (in the end, it didn't work and they were removed too)

• Seminole

• Creek

• Cherokee

• Comanche