Chapter 6: The Spirit of Reform, Lesson 1 - Lesson 2

____________________, vice president under Andrew Jackson and a resident of South Carolina, put forth the idea that states had the right to declare federal laws void, called nullification

• John Quincy Adams

• John C. Calhoun

• Theodore Roosevelt

• George Washington

In the early 1800s, many Americans believed that the ____________________ was a wasteland and that moving Native Americans there would end the conflict with them.

• New York

• California

• Cherokee Land

• Great Plains

In 1830, President Jackson pushed through Congress the Indian ____________________ Act, which provided money for relocating Native Americans.

• Acceptence

• Removal

• Aid

• Manifest

President Jackson’s forceful style earned him many detractors, and by the mid-1830s, a new party— named the ____________________ after the party in England that had worked to limit the king’s power—had emerged to oppose him.

• Whigs

• Loyalists

• Democrats

• Nationalists

President Andrew Jackson strongly supported the practice of appointing people to government jobs on the basis of party loyalty and support, a practice known as the

• caucus system

• expansion of suffrage

• spoils system

• nullification crisis

By 1832 the Jacksonians had replaced the caucus system for choosing presidential candidates with the

• national nominating convention

• state primary system

• spoils system

• state party conventions

In 1828 many South Carolinians threatened to secede from the Union when Congress levied what critics called the

• Trail of Tears

• Webster-Ashburton Treaty

• Panic of 1837

• Tariff of Abominations

Despite the Supreme Court’s ruling in McCulloch v. Maryland, President Jackson believed that the Bank of the United States

• caused inflation

• was unconstitutional

• was corrupt

• should be strengthened

The largest group in the wave of immigrants that swept into the United States between 1815 and 1860 came from

• Germany

• Italy

• Russia

• Ireland

Most German immigrants arriving in the United States between 1815 and 1860 settled in

• Massachusetts and New York

• Pennsylvania and Ohio

• Louisiana and New Mexico

• California and Texas