Age of Jackson Day 6

The key issue of the Nullification Crisis was a debate over:

• Individual power of states over federal authority

• Abolishment of slavery

• Women’s right to vote and run for office

• Relocation of Indians to western territories

Andrew Jackson dispatched naval ships to Charleston harbor and warned South Carolina that its action to void the Tariff of 1832 within its territory was treason. This was his response to:

• Indian Removal Act

• Industrial Revolution

• Missouri Compromise

• The Nullification Crisis

In Worcester v. Georgia, Supreme Court Justice John Marshall declared:

“The act of Georgia under which the plaintiff [Worchester] was prosecuted is void. The acts of Georgia are [against] the Constitution, laws, and treaties of the United States.”

This ruling supports the idea of:

• republicanism

• popular sovereignty

• individual rights

• anti-federalism

In the Nullification Crisis, what political leader argued that states reserved the right to nullify federal laws?

• Andrew Jackson

• John Calhoun

• John Quincy Adams

• . Henry Clay

During the presidency of Andrew Jackson, Protestant Evangelicals supported what major reform movement?

• Abolishment of slavery

• Individual rights for Indians

• Women’s right to vote

• Rights of factory workers

Why were southern states against the higher tariffs enacted by Congress?

• It would make it more difficult to export crops.

• . It would give northern farmers an economic advantage.

• It would give slaves more individual rights.

• It would prevent manufacturing business from growing.

The political cartoon and commentary was in response to the “reckless power” of Andrew Jackson.

Criticism of the Jackson’s ideas led to what major political movement?

• Women’s right to vote

• Establishment of the Whig Party

• Trail of Tears

• War of 1812

Andrew Jackson’s views on slavery were mostly aligned with which of the following groups?

• Protestant evangelicals

• Northern Republicans

• Southern plantation owners

• European immigrants

How did the southern plantation system influence the northern economic system?

• The economic system of the northern states was completely independent from the southern plantations.

• The tariffs on southern plantations made northern businesses more profitable.

• Northern plantations could not compete with cheaper prices from southern plantations because of their use of slave labor.

• Southern plantations produced cotton used in northern mills and factories.

Andrew Jackson believed that:

• South Carolina farmers could determine their own level of taxation.

• South Carolina was correct in its assertion that it could secede from the Union over the Tariff of 1832.

• South Carolina did not have the authority to nullify a federal law unconstitutional.

• South Carolina was no longer a slave state under federal law.