Jackson Quick Quiz

President Jackson used the _____ to reward his supporters with government jobs.

• reform movement

• spoils system

The right of a state to "cancel" a federal law it believes is unconstitutional.

• nullification

• ratification

He argued that states had the right to nullify federal laws.

• Henry Clay

• Alexander Hamilton

• John C. Calhoun

• Andrew Jackson

Jackson lost the election of 1824 to

• Henry Clay

• John Quincy Adams

• Daniel Webster

Jackson disliked the national bank because he thought it gave unfair advantage to wealth interests in the

• South

• Southwest

• North

• Northeast

South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the Federal government tried to enforce the ___.

• Ordinance of Secession

• Tariff of 1832

Jackson wanted federal funds deposited in state banks because he felt they were more likely to loan money to ____.

• farmers

• factory owners

• wealthy merchants

Jackson had 16,000 Cherokee removed to Indian Territory on a journey known as the "Trail of _____".

• Sorrows

• Tears

Three to four _____ Cherokee died along the way.

• hundred

• thousand

Jackson thought he lost the election of 1824 because J.Q. Adams had made a "corrupt bargain" with ___.

• Daniel Webster

• John C. Calhoun

• Henry Clay