Jackson Day 3 Assignment

Multiselect - Select the correct answers. Which statement describes the response to the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832? Select TWO correct answers.

• Southern states proposed a change to the amendment process of the U.S. Constitution.
• Both northern and southern states elected new members to the Supreme Court.
• Northern states favored the tariffs because it helped strengthen their industrial-based economy.
• South Carolina argued that the Tenth Amendment gave states the power to declare the federal tariff null.

Andrew Jackson called rewarding his campaign supporters with political offices the _____________________________________________.

• Spoils system
• Checks and balances
• Henry Clay
• House of Representatives
• Suffrage

Jacksonian Democracy expanded ____________________________________ to the common man.

• Suffrage
• Checks and balances
• Henry Clay
• House of Representatives
• Spoils system

The ______________________________________________________ decided the presidential election of 1824.

• House of Representatives
• Checks and balances
• Henry Clay
• Spoils system
• Suffrage

__________________________________________________ helped secure the votes needed to elect John Quincy Adams as president.

• Henry Clay
• Checks and balances
• House of Representatives
• Spoils system
• Suffrage

________________________________________________ is where each branch of government has some power over the other two branches.

• Checks and balances
• Henry Clay
• House of Representatives
• Spoils system
• Suffrage

British impressment of U.S. sailors into the British Navy was a main cause of the ________________________________________________.

• War of 1812
• Checks and balances
• Henry Clay
• House of Representatives
• Spoils system

Speaker 1: A state has the right to overrule an act passed by Congress. After all, the national government is supposed to share power with the states.

Speaker 2: I believe that you are wrong. The states do share power with the national government, but the Constitution says the national government has supremacy.

These speakers are debating an issue that eventually became known as the —

• Monroe Doctrine

• Nullification Crisis

• Missouri Compromise

• Three-Fifths Compromise

What does nullification mean?

• Leaving the Union

• Joining the Union

• Taxing imports/exports

• Cancelling or ignoring a law