Module 10; Age of Jackson

Why did Andew Jackson create the Indian Removal Act?

• There was too much conflict with Native Americans

• To open the land for American settlement

• To make Native America Chiefs happy

• To allow the French to settle the land

What was the first Native American tribe to be relocated from their land?

• Cherokee

• Choctaw

• Creek

• Chickasaw

What tribe resisted their removal from their land in 1836?

• Chickasaw

• Cherokee

• Choctaw

• Creek

What tribe had 1/4 of their people die on their 800 mile march to Indian Territory, it became known as the "Trail of Tears"?

• Choctaw

• Chickasaw

• Cherokee

• Creek

What tribe successfuly resisted removal from their land, their descendents still live on there land today?

• Fox

• Sauk

• Seminole

• Cherokee

Why were American's in the North in favor of high tariffs?

• Helped them compete with British factories

• It made foreign goods less expensive

• It made farming easier, and more cost effective

• Made land less expensive

Why did many Southerner's not support high tariffs? Select 2.

• Made imported good more expensive

• Tariffs angered some othe South's European trading partners

• Made land more expensive for farming

• Tariffs would end slavery

What did the Southerns call the high tariffs that Congress created?

• States Rights

• Tariff of Abomination

• Force Bill 

• Nullification Tariff

Who helped create a compromise on tariffs for both the north and south?

• Andrew JacksonAndrew Jackson

• Henry Clay

• John Quincy Adams

• William Henry Harisson

What was the name of the new political party created in 1840 to opposed Jackson and Martin Van Buren? 

• Whig

• Tea

• Republican

• Democratic