Jacksonian Democracy & Early Presidency

What was the question at the heart of the Nullification Crisis?

• Can states refuse to follow federal laws?

• Can the federal government force Indian nations off of their land?

• What happens when no presidential candidates have a majority?

Which principle of U.S. government is illustrated above?

• Checks and Balances

• Federalism

• Popular Sovereignty

• Separation of Powers

What party formed because they opposed Jackson's ideas?

• Whigs
• Republicans
• Federalists
• Democrats

At the founding of the nation, suffrage was restricted not only by gender and race but on the basis of __________ and __________.

• military service; loyalty to the nation
• property ownership; military service
• property ownership; tax payment
• tax payment; military service

To nullify a law means …

• to agree to the law
• to secede.
• to void or cancel the law.
• to vote on the law.

Andrew Jackson was a member of which political party?

• Whigs
• National Republicans
• Democrats
• Anti-Federalists

The belief in putting the needs of the nation before the needs of a specific region is

• nationalism.
• regionalism.
• individualism.
• patriotism.

The theory of nullification, whereby a state can reject a federal law, was most likely argued by

• John C. Calhoun
• John Marshall
• James Madison
• Andrew Jackson

Which state threatened to secede during the Nullification Crisis?

• South Carolina
• Texas
• Rhode Island
• Georgia

The spoils system refers to

• the informal advisers to President Jackson.
• the removal of the Cherokee from their lands.
• giving jobs to one's political supporters.
• the banks owned by Jackson's supporters where the administration put money after closing down the National Bank.