Gimkit Spreadsheet Import Template: US History Questions

Which Supreme Court case established judicial review, allowing the Court to strike down laws that violate the Constitution?

• Marbury v. Madison

• McCulloch v. Maryland

• Gibbons v. Ogden

• Worcester v. Georgia

What was President Andrew Jackson’s stance toward the national bank during his presidency?

• He vetoed its recharter and sought to dismantle it.

• He expanded its powers to regulate credit.

• He left it unchanged to avoid controversy.

• He transferred its control to the Supreme Court.

Which concept refers to the belief that common people should have expanded political power, championed during the era of Andrew Jackson?

• Jacksonian Democracy

• Federalism

• Judicial Review

• Manifest Destiny

Which policy idea justified U.S. territorial expansion to the Pacific by claiming it was the nation’s destiny to spread liberty and democracy?

• Manifest Destiny

• Isolationism

• Nullification

• Protective Sovereignty

In McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), what constitutional principle was reinforced regarding federal power?

• Implied powers and federal supremacy over the states

• Strict construction limiting Congress to enumerated powers

• States’ rights to tax federal institutions

• Judicial restraint against federal institutions

Which Supreme Court case broadened Congress’s authority to regulate interstate commerce?

• Gibbons v. Ogden

• Worcester v. Georgia

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• Marbury v. Madison

What triggered the Nullification Crisis during Jackson’s presidency?

• South Carolina’s attempt to nullify federal tariffs

• Georgia’s refusal to recognize Cherokee sovereignty

• A national bank charter dispute

• The annexation of Texas

Which event involved the forced relocation of Native American nations from southeastern homelands to lands west of the Mississippi?

• Trail of Tears

• Great Migration

• Panic of 1837

• Compromise of 1850

Which movement sought to reduce alcohol consumption and promoted laws restricting sales of liquor?

• Temperance movement

• Nativism

• Transcendentalism

• Laissez-faire

Which reformer led efforts for public education, advocating tax-supported schools and better training for teachers?

• Horace Mann

• Frederick Douglass

• Dorothea Dix

• Susan B. Anthony