Jacksonian America

Beginning in the early 1800s and continuing through the presidency of Andrew Jackson, the nation witnessed a growth of _____________ as government became more inclusive and ordinary citizens became a greater force.

• Democracy

• John C. Calhoun

• The Whigs

• Removal

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

• John Tyler

• John C. Calhoun

• The Whigs

• Martine Van Buren

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

• Appalachian Mountains

• The Great Plains

• The Sahara Desert

• The Rocky Montains

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

• Separation

• Seclusion

• Removal

• Addition

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

• Democrats

• Republicans

• Caucus

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