U.S. History Worksheet

15. Jackson also believed that the Bank was __________. He thought that the federal government did not have the right to create a bank because the Constitution did not name such a right.

• unconstitutional

• necessary

• beneficial

• inevitable

16. The __________ had ruled that creating a bank was permitted by the “necessary and proper” clause of the Constitution, but Jackson disagreed.

• U.S. Supreme Court

• U.S. Congress

• Federal Reserve

• State Legislatures

17. __________, Jackson’s Vice President, won the presidency in 1836. Just as he took office, the U.S. economy faced the Panic of 1837.

• Martin Van Buren

• Andrew Jackson

• John Quincy Adams

• James Monroe

As American settlers moved West in the early 1800s, they often attacked __________ to force them to give up their land.

• American Indians

• European settlers

• Mexican traders

• African slaves

19. __________ passed laws to take land from the native peoples. The U.S. Supreme Court declared these laws unconstitutional, but President Jackson ignored the rulings.

• Georgia

• Virginia

• New York

• California

In 1830, the U.S. Congress passed the __________. This law allowed the federal government to force American Indians to move west.

• Indian Removal Act

• Homestead Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

21. __________ drove the first western pioneers. They were looking for new sources of goods.

• Trade

• Adventure

• Religion

• War

Furs from animals such as beavers and Pacific Ocean Sea otters were in great demand in the __________.

• East

• West

• North

• South

23. __________ stayed as guides for the wagon trains that brought thousands of settlers in search of farmland west in the 1840s.

• Other Mountain men

• Native Americans

• Pioneers

• Settlers

24. Starting in 1843, settlers followed the Oregon Trail, a route that stretched over __________ miles from Missouri to Oregon.

• 2,000

• 1,500

• 3,000

• 2,500