Era of Jackson Part III Review

The practice of replacing current government employees with supporters of the winning candidate is the...

• reciprocal system

• buddy system

• spoils system

• tariff system

Which statement describes "The Trail of Tears"?

• The blood shed by the Indians at the Battle of Little Bighorn

• The line connecting Natives from sea to shining sea

• The path Chief Osceola took on his way to prison in Florida

• The involuntary 1000-mile march Cherokee Indians made in their removal from Georgia

Why did President Jackson create the spoils system?

• to choose his Cabinet members

• to create a new Cabinet position

• to give jobs to his supporters

• to choose a justice for the Supreme Court

From which group did Andrew Jackson receive the most support in the election of 1828?

• Republicans

• common people

• rich upper-class

• Native Americans

The Indian Removal Act relocated thousands of Cherokees from Georgia to Indian Territory for the purpose of ________________.

• making the land available for white settlers and farmers

• allowing the Cherokee their freedom from U.S. control

• obeying the Supreme Court's order to move the Cherokee

• creating a wilderness area for use by French for trappers

The Seminole people successfully resisted their removal from which present day state?

• Louisiana

• South Carolina

• Georgia

• Florida

What did the Indian Removal Act of 1830 authorize President Andrew Jackson to do?

• declare war on any Native American tribe who resisted the relocation treaties

• negotiate treaties to relocate Native American tribes west of the Mississippi River

• remove Native Americans from their lands to attend English-speaking schools

• forcibly remove all Native Americans to reservations in the eastern United States without pay for their land

What proclamation led the Trail of Tears under President Andrew Jackson?

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Gettysburg Address

• Indian Removal Act

• War of 1812

The Cherokee people were forced to leave their land in Georgia and walk_________ to their new home in _____________.

• 2000 miles; New Mexico

• 1000 miles; Oklahoma

• 1500 miles; Utah

• 400 miles; Mississippi

Why was the removal of the Cherokee people from Tennessee and Georgia called the "Trail of Tears?"

• The Cherokee traveled mainly by water.

• The Cherokee left a trail so other Native Americans could find them.

• The Cherokee suffered and died when they had to leave their homeland.

• The Cherokee tribe's trail disappeared after they left.