CFA #3 Jacksonian Era

In which of the following years was Andrew Jackson elected President?

• 1812

• 1820

• 1832

• 1848

What was the corrupt bargain

• The decision by the House of Representatives to award the presidential election of 1824 to John Quincy Adams, despite Andrew Jackson winning the popular and electoral vote.

• Andrew Jackson manipulating the House of Representatives to award him the presidency of 1824.

• A deal made between Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams to split the presidential vote in 1824.

• John Quincy Adams selling the presidency to Andrew Jackson in 1824.

Jackson was portrayed as ________________, who had been poor and worked hard to be successful.

• aristocrat

• war hero

• businessman

• frontiersman

The election of Andrew Jackson is often considered the beginning of which political party?

• Republican

• Democratic

• Federalist

• Democratic-Republican

Why did Andrew Jackson's administration support the removal of Native Americans from the eastern states?

• The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Jackson's policy.

• Whites wanted to settle and live on Native American lands.

• The federal government wanted to protect the Native Americans from violent white settlers.

Use the excerpt below to answer the next question.

"What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms; embellished with all the improvements which art can devise, or industry execute; occupied by more than twelve millions of happy people, and filled with all the blessings of liberty, civilization, and religion?"

-President Andrew Jackson on Indian removal in a speech to Congress, 1830.

Question 6. Based on the excerpt above, which of these was an assumption of President Jackson?

• Native Americans could farm successfully in competition with United States citizens.

• Native Americans lived in great numbers in areas desirable to United States citizens.

• Native American culture was inferior to the culture of United States citizens.

• Native American civilization represented a threat to United States citizens.

Use the quote below to answer the next question.

My friends . . . circumstances that cannot be controlled, and which are beyond the reach of human laws, render it impossible that you can flourish in the midst of a civilized community. You have but one remedy within your reach. And that is, to remove to the West and join your countrymen, who are already established there. And the sooner you do this, the sooner you will commence your career of improvement and prosperity.

—Andrew Jackson, 1835

Question 7.) The above statement is most closely associated with what action during the 19th century?

• The outbreak of the Mexican-American War.

• The Cherokee Trail of Tears.

• The secession of southern states.

• The spread of slavery across the South.

Use the excerpt below to answer the next question.

I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.

—President Andrew Jackson, 1832

Question 8.) President Andrew Jackson’s defense of the Union in the above statement placed him in opposition to which group?

• those wishing to protect Cherokee lands from seizure by Georgia

• those arguing for the nullification of the Tariff of 1828

• those wishing to secede in order to protect slavery

• those arguing to extend voting rights to women

_____________ was the court case where the cashier at the bank refused to pay the tax that was designed to limit the Bank's operations.  The case went all the way to the Supreme Court, ruling the national bank was constitutional.

• Marbury vs madison

• Brown vs Board of Education

• McCulluch vs Maryland

• Owasso Public Schools vs Falvo

Indian Territory was established in what is now present-day ___________________.

• Colorado

• Oklahoma

• Mississippi

• New Mexico