Jacksonian Democracy

"Jacksonian Democracy" is associated with which of these characteristics?

• a nation governed by upper and middle class educated property owners

• voting rights extended to all adult, white males

• suffrage for all people in the United States

• laws promising full political equality regardless of race, sex, or wealth

Andrew Jackson appealed to many "common" Americans in the early 19th century because

• people wanted a President who was neither Democrat nor Republican

• industrialists believed his economic plan would boost American businesses

• he had once been poor and was distrustful of "elite" politicians

• he represented the aristocratic ideal they wished to attain

The Nullification Crisis of 1832 centered around?

• southern opposition to tariffs

• Jackson's War on the Bank

• decreased trade with France

• the annexation of Texas

In the Nullification Crisis, South Carolina used the concept of states' rights to argue that?

• the tariff only helped southern planters

• the states did not have the power to tax imports

• federal law should be more powerful than state law

• states should have the power to reject federal laws

Which of these statements is true? Andrew Jackson believed that the National Bank:

• needed help getting a new charter

• caused the economy to expand

• did not serve the interests of the North

• was corrupt and unconstitutional