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WorksheetsJackson Stations
Total questions: 31
Worksheet time: 17mins
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Class
Date
1.
Why were many more people allowed to vote in 1828 compared to 1824?
a)
tariffs were lowered
b)
property ownership was dropped
c)
women gained the right to vote
d)
African Americans were allowed to vote
2.
This was the practice started by Jackson of giving government jobs to supporters?
a)
Common Man
b)
Nullification
c)
Judicial Review
d)
Spoils System
3.
Which state threatened to leave the Union over the high tariff laws?
a)
Virginia
b)
South Carolina
c)
Connecticut
d)
Kentucky
4.
Name the law which forced the removal of all Indians to lands west of the Mississippi?
a)
Worchester v. Georgia
b)
Trail of Tears
c)
Indian Removal Act
d)
Corrupt Bargain
5.
What term describes the forced removal of the Cherokee, where many died on the long journey west?
a)
Worchester v. Georgia
b)
Indian Removal Act
c)
Trail of Tears
d)
Corrupt Bargain
6.
Name the Court case in which the Cherokee Indians won the right to keep their land, only to be removed by force anyway?
a)
Marbury v. Madison
b)
McCulloch v. Maryland
c)
Gibbons v. Ogden
d)
Worchester v. Georgia
7.
What National program did Jackson effectively kill because he thought it served the interests of the wealthy?
a)
Spoils System
b)
Nullification Crisis
c)
National Bank
d)
American System
8.
Nickname given to an 1828 tariff by people who viewed the tariff as another example of the federal government's power over the states.
a)
Tariff of Annoyances
b)
Tariff of Aggravations
c)
Tariff of Abominations
d)
Tariff of Anathemas
9.
Vice President who declared that the states had the right to nullify any federal law with which they disagreed was who?
a)
John Marshall
b)
Martin Van Buren
c)
John Douglas
d)
John C. Calhoun
10.
Person who was chief justice of the United States when the Supreme Court supported the constitutionality of the Second Bank of the United States in the case of McCulloch v. Maryland.
a)
John C. Calhoun
b)
John Marshall
c)
Martin Van Buren
d)
John Douglas
11.
What was the Southern economy based on?
a)
manufacturing
b)
livestock
c)
agriculture
d)
service industry
12.
Why did Southerns oppose tariffs in the early 1800s?
a)
decreased the price of goods they needed
b)
angered their European trading partners
c)
benefited only northern merchants
d)
were higher in the South than in the North
13.
What effect did the Tariff of Abominations have on America under Andrew Jackson?
a)
fostered the nation's hatred of British companies
b)
fueled growing sectional differences within the country
c)
helped the West, which did not rely on international trade
d)
favored the South's agriculture-based economy
14.
What was the nullification crisis a dispute over?
a)
the power of the states to secede from the Union
b)
the power of states to reject unconstitutional federal laws
c)
the power of the federal government to end tariffs
d)
the power of the federal government to favor one region
15.
What compromise eased the crisis on nullification?
a)
tariff lowered over several years; South Carolina would enforce the law
b)
tariff would stay in place; South Carolina could ignore it
c)
tariff was revoked; South Carolina would get an additional senator
d)
tariff would stay in place; Jackson sent troops to enforce
16.
What charter did Jackson veto?
a)
national mint
b)
Second Bank of the United States
c)
West India Trading Company
d)
Supreme Court
17.
Why did Jackson win the election of 1828?
a)
he was Harvard educated
b)
his dad was the second president of the US
c)
he was well-mannered and sophisticated
d)
he was a war hero and people could relate to him
18.
How did the high protective tariff of 1828 affect Southern planters?
a)
It protected them from foreign competition
b)
it increased the cost of European imports
c)
it increased their reliance on goods from the North
d)
it protected their land from Native Americans
19.
Which of the following groups thought of Andrew Jackson as their champion?
a)
merchants in New England
b)
Native Americans in the North
c)
common people across the country
d)
wealthy planters in the South
20.
Why did northerners ask Congress to place a tariff on imported goods?
a)
to protect their industries from foreign competition
b)
to allow more laborers to move West
c)
to increase revenue to build roads and infrastructure
d)
to allow them to compete more directly with the South
21.
Why did South Carolina pass the Nullification Act?
a)
to protect the rights of manufacturers
b)
to protest the resignation of Vice President Calhoun
c)
to strengthen the Union
d)
to protest the tariff
22.
The era surrounding the presidency of Andrew Jackson is best known for an expansion in...
a)
freedom of speech
b)
states' rights
c)
religious toleration
d)
voting rights
23.
President Jackson's weakening of the Second Bank of the United States resulted in?
a)
inflation and other economic problems
b)
the nullification crisis
c)
the rise of the Democratic Party
d)
increasing sectionalism
24.
Which present-day state were most of the Native Americans relocated to during the 1830s?
a)
Georgia
b)
North Carolina
c)
Oklahoma
d)
Mississippi
25.
Native American tribe in NW Georgia; were forcefully removed during the Trail of Tears
a)
Seminole
b)
Creek
c)
Cherokee
d)
Choctaw
26.
The Supreme Court ruled that ___ was not able to take the Cherokee land because the Cherokee were a sovereign nation.
a)
Tennessee
b)
Florida
c)
Georgia
d)
Ohio
27.
Native Americans did not go West ___, but were forced.
a)
immediately
b)
for money
c)
unanimously
d)
voluntarily
28.
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 removed:
a)
the Cherokee
b)
the Creek
c)
All Natives East of the Mississippi
d)
All Natives West of the Mississippi
29.
Why was it called the "Trail of Tears?"
a)
Harsh conditions
b)
There were many deaths
c)
People cried over the loss of their "homeland"
d)
All of the above
30.
Which of the following is another example of forced migration?
a)
Africans being taken from Africa to be sold into slavery
b)
A family moving to the US from Mexico in search of work
c)
Europeans establishing colonies in the New World
d)
People leaving Benin for better farming conditions
31.
What was the verdict of Worcester v. Georgia?
a)
Georgia laws must be followed on Cherokee land
b)
The Cherokee must be relocated to Indian Reservations
c)
The Cherokee can keep their land forever
d)
Georgia laws do not apply on Cherokee land
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