APUSH 4.7 & 4.8

Which of the following factors best explains the increase in White male suffrage in the early nineteenth century?

• Reaction to widespread political protest

• Resistance to increased federal taxation

• Amendments to the United States Constitution

• Changes to property ownership requirements

Jacksonian Democracy was distinguished by the belief that

• an aristocracy posed no danger to the Republic

• political participation by the common man should be increased

• political rights should be granted to women

• franchise restrictions should be radically neutral

Which of the following best explains the cause of the emergence of new political parties in the early nineteenth century?

• Continued debates over the proper role of the federal government

• Growing agreement regarding the issue of slavery

• Declining support for westward territorial expansion

• Persistent concern over the influence of foreign powers

Which of the following best explains the expansion of participatory democracy in the early nineteenth century?

• The abolition of slavery in most northern states

• The growth of manufacturing along rivers and canals

• The extension of suffrage rights to most adult White men

• The influence of the early women’s rights movement

Politics in the antebellum United States changed dramatically because

• expanded White male suffrage broadened participation in elections

• female suffrage became a topic of debate in the House of Representatives

• widespread electoral reform resulted in direct election of senators

• the government sought to assimilate American Indians in the West

An important consequence of the “tariff of abominations” (1828) is that it led to the

• reelection of Andrew Jackson

• enunciation of the doctrine of nullification

• alliance of Southern planters and Western farmers

• expansion of the New England textile industry

Andrew Jackson supported all of the following EXCEPT

• Indian removal

• the right of nullification

• use of the presidential veto power

• the removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States

The immediate effect of Andrew Jackson’s attack on the Second Bank of the United States in 1834 was

• the creation of the “independent treasury”

• an expansion of credit and speculation

• the failure of state banks

• the creation of a federal deficit

Andrew Jackson vetoed the recharter of the Bank of the United States partly because he believed that the bank

• concentrated too much power in the hands of a few people

• gave too many loans to assist unstable state and local banks

• was secretly funding the abolitionist movement

• planned to create new paper money unsupported by gold or silver

President Andrew Jackson’s creation of a monetary system based on state-chartered banks most likely contributed to which of the following?

• A rise in manufacturing

• The Panic of 1837

• Expanded transportation networks

• The imposition of a high tariff