APUSH nit 4B Quiz: Jacksonian Democracy & Abolition

A key purpose of Henry Clay's American system was to

• remove Native Americans to lands west of the Mississippi River to prevent future conflicts

• develop a national economy by improving transportation

• expand slavery into new territories to preserve its economic viability

• improve diplomatic relations with European nations by allowing free immigration

Which of the following factors best explains the increase of White male suffrage in the early nineteenth century?

• resistance to increased federal taxation

• Changes to property ownership requirements

• Reaction to widespread political protest

• Amendments to the United States Constitution

Andrew Jackson vetoes the recharter of the Bank of the United States partly because he believed that the bank

• concentrated too much power in the hands of a few people

• gave too many loans to assist unstable state and local banks

• planned to create new paper money unsupported by gold or silver

• was secretly funding the abolitionist movement

The women's movement in the antebellum period was characterized by all of the following EXCEPT

• demands for equal compensation for equal work

• involvement of middle-class women

• close links with the antislavery and temperance movements

• conventions in the Northeast and the Midwest, but not the South

William Lloyd Garrison and the American Anti-Slavery Society were known for

• advocating the use of tariff revenues to purchase slaves from slaveholders

• opposing women's participation in public abolitionist meetings

• advocating colonization by former slaves in West Africa

• advocating immediate and uncompensated emancipation