7th Unit 8 Jacksonian Democracy Quiz

What was the “spoils system” practiced by newly-elected president Andrew Jackson?

• damaging the reputations of one’s political opponents

• celebrating one’s victory over a period of months

• raising the wages of one’s staff after a victory

• rewarding supporters by giving them government jobs

Andrew Jackson won many votes at the 1828 presidential election because he was Harvard-educated and his father had been the second president of the United States.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Choose two correct answers:

This painting, American Progress, shows

• American settlers destiny to expand west

• New inventions had little impact on geography of new territories

• New inventions helped settlers relocate westward

• cities and trade posts were unsuccessful in many of the new territories

Andrew Jackson's main issue that divided the political parties was -

• the Spoils System

• the Bank of the United States

• the doctrine of state nullification

• the admission of Arkansas and Michigan

Which law helped the northern economy and manufacturers, but did NOT help the southern economy.

• Wilmont Provisio

• Missouri Compromise

• Tariff of 1828

• Independent Treasury Act

What was the effect of the Indian Removal Act?

• it started the process for the relocation of native americans

• decided the cherokee had the right to stay on their native lands

• forced the removal of Cherokee Nation to reservations in Oklahoma

• strained the relationship between South Carolina and introduced the idea of secession

• destroyed an important economic institution because Jackson felt it favored the elite

What was the effect of the Trail of Tears?

• it started the process for the relocation of native americans

• decided the cherokee had the right to stay on their native lands

• forced the removal of Cherokee Nation to reservations in Oklahoma

• strained the relationship between South Carolina and introduced the idea of secession

• destroyed an important economic institution because Jackson felt it favored the elite

What was the effect of the Nullification Crisis?

• it started the process for the relocation of native americans

• decided the cherokee had the right to stay on their native lands

• forced the removal of Cherokee Nation to reservations in Oklahoma

• strained the relationship between South Carolina and introduced the idea of secession

• destroyed an important economic institution because Jackson felt it favored the elite

Which event is being described in the quote?

"Cherokees! The President of the United States has sent me, with a powerful army, to cause you...to join..your people who are already established in prosperity, on the other side of the Mississippi...The full moon of May is already on the wane, and before anothe shall have passed away, every Cherokee man, woman and child...must be in motion to join their brethren in the far West."

• Trail of Tears

• Tariff of Abominations

• Worcester v. Georgia

• Nullification Crisis

The American claim is by the right of our _______________ to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent.—John Sullivan, 1845

What belongs in the blank?

• expansionist decree

• political right

• manifest destiny

• nullification