Unit 6- Age of Jackson

What is suffrage?

• having pain inflicted upon you

• The right to vote

• Hurting Emotionally

• The right to bear arms

Which reason motivated industrialists in northern states to favor tariffs during the 1800's

• Tariffs would improve the quality of American-made products.

• Tariffs would increase the price of raw materials from the West.

• Tariffs would result in more revenue for the federal government.

• Tariffs would increase the demand for American manufactured goods.

What was the Nullification Crisis

• constitutional struggle between southern states, particularly South Carolina, and President Andrew Jackson over the issue of raising tariffs on imported items. The higher tariffs benefited northern industry but hurt southern trade with other countries. The south threatened to nullify, or ignore the tariff laws.

• President Andrew Jackson removed Cherokee Indians from their home in Georgia to reservations in Oklahoma (Trail of Tears)

• U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Cherokees saying that the state of Georgia did not have a right to the Native's land.

• The Cherokee Indians were forced to leave their lands. They traveled from North Carolina and Georgia through Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas-more than 800 miles (1,287 km)-to the Indian Territory. More than 4, 00 Cherokees died of cold, disease, and lack of food during the 116-day journey.

Which issue led the Democratic Party to back the presidential campaign of Andrew Jackson?

• Expansion of slavery

• State nullification crisis

• Supreme Court judicial review

• Rejection of the national bank

What was the Spoils System?

• Jackson ordered removal of all federal deposits in the national bank and placed in state banks.

• A system in which food spoils because of the long trek on the Trail of Tears

• the practice of a successful political party giving public office to its supporters.

• Tariff passed by Congress in 1828 that favored manufacturing in the North and was hated by the South

Which of the following best characterize the Jackson presidency?

• Wealthy industrialists control domestic policies

• Justice for American Indian groups

• Political machines control elections

• Greater democracy for the common man

The Second Bank of the United States was controversial because —

• the U.S. Treasury alone sets all government monetary polices

• the President issued an executive order to establish the bank

• the House of Representatives has the sole authority to raise revenue

• the Constitution does not specifically empower Congress to create a bank

Which headline could have accompanied the election of Andrew Jackson as president?

• "Weak, Indecisive Leader Takes Power"

• "As Usual, No Change"

• "A Victory for the Common Man"

• "A Hero Leads the Republican Party"

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That it shall and may be lawful for the President of the United States to cause so much of any territory belonging to the United States, west of the river Mississippi . . . to be divided into a suitable number of districts, for the reception of such tribes or nations of Indians as may choose to exchange the lands where they now reside, and remove there.—Indian Removal Act, 1830

One goal of the U.S. Congress in passing this act was to —

• assimilate American Indian tribes into the culture of the United States

• use American Indian tribes to push out foreign control of western territories

• avoid conflict between white settlers and American Indian tribes

• provide legal protections for American Indian tribal land ownership

The supreme court sided with the Cherokees, saying that the government could not force them off their land?

• Marbury v. Madison

• Worcester v. Georgia

• McCulloch V. Maryland

• Gibbons v. Ogden