CPUSH EOC Standard 2 Review Questions

The Louisiana Purchase of 1803

• was a major cause of the Spanish-American War

• resulted in increase conflict between the US and France

• resulted in the removal of all British military forces from North America

• Almost doubled the area of the US and gave it control of the Mississippi River

The main idea behind the settling of western lands by Americans in the early-1800s was known as

• Women Suffrage

• Manifest Destiny

• the Industrial Age

• the Abolition Movement

This cartoon refers to the Monroe Doctrine issued in 1823. The Monroe Doctrine was intended to prevent European expansion in

• China

• north Africa

• South America

• southeast Asia

President Jackson felt that in order to limit elite power, he should award his political supporters with jobs and positions in his government. This practice became known by what name?

• The Buddy System

• The Back Scratch Affair

• The Spoils System

• Friends and Family Plan

The idea that the common people should control the government

• Spoils system
• Corrupt Bargain
• American system
• Jacksonian Democracy

Which statement about the “Trail of Tears” is accurate?

• President Andrew Jackson opposed the removal of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia.

• Large numbers of Cherokee were forced to relocate during the winter months.

• Chief Justice John Marshall ordered the Cherokee Indians to move westwards.

• The Cherokee were moved because they lacked a written alphabet.

Indian Removal Act

• In 1830, authorizing the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River to lands in the West.
  
• The Cherokee were forced to march 800 miles to the Indian Territory
• Court ruled that the Cherokee nation was a distinct community in which the laws of Georgia had no force
• U.S. land in what is now Oklahoma - and planned to move Native Americans there.

Trail of Tears

• In 1830, authorizing the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River to lands in the West.
  
• To manage Indian removal to western lands, Congress approved the creation of a new government agency
• Court ruled that the Cherokee nation was a distinct community in which the laws of Georgia had no force
• The Cherokee were forced to march 800 miles to the Indian Territory

The nullification crisis occurred when

• the Supreme Court declared the tariff laws null and void.
• Congress refused Jackson's request to repeal the tariff laws.
• South Carolina threatened to secede if the tariff laws were enforced.
• Jackson threatened to make South Carolina leave the Union by force.

What was President Jackson's response to the nullification crisis?

• He admitted that the Union was a "compact" of the states

• He offered to raise tariffs to keep South Carolina in the Union

• He conceded South Carolina's right to secede

• He threatened to use force against South Carolina if it did not repeal its nullification policies