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Age of Jackson

Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 22mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This agreement determined how slaves would be counted for representation and placed a ban on asking for an end to the slave trade.

a)

Two-Fifths Compromise

b)

Three-Fifths Compromise

c)

One-Third Compromise

d)

One-Fifth Compromise

2.

What role did the government have, according to John Locke?

a)

Protect the people's natural rights

b)

Take away people's natural rights

c)

Help determine the people's natural rights

3.

Representative government grew in the colonies due to what reason?

a)

Colonists relied on England for goods due to mercantilism

b)

British rulers usually left colonists alone and didn't interfere

c)

Most colonies only protected it's own interests

d)

Colonists were not loyal to the king

4.

*Intolerable Acts Imposed

*First Continental Congress Convened

*Thomas Paine's Common Sense Published

All the events listed above occurred during...

a)

The Era of Westward Expansion

b)

The Era of Good Feelings

c)

The Revolutionary Era

d)

The Jacksonian Era

5.

What kind of congress did the Great Compromise establish?

a)

1 House that controls everything

b)

2 Houses that have no power

c)

2 Houses that both vote on laws

d)

1 House that has no power

6.

What was the Second Great Awakening?

a)

Religious Revival

b)

A major decline in religion

c)

Increased effort of embargo and tariffs

d)

Alliances made with other countries

7.
a)

Bank War

b)

Nullification Crisis

c)

Corrupt Bargain

d)

XYZ Affair

8.

The right of a state to reject a federal law that it considers unconstitutional

a)

Monroe Doctrine

b)

American System

c)

Doctrine of Nullification

d)

Spoils System

9.

Calhoun and his supporters believed that the states could reject, any federal law they felt was unfair, this led to a showdown between the federal government and South Carolina.

a)

States' Rights Doctrine

b)

Nullification Crisis

c)

Panic of 1837

d)

Indian Removal Act

10.

What was the significance of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Marbury v. Madison (1803)?

a)

It defined the scope of Congressional power to regulate interstate commerce.

b)

It limited the power of the President to veto acts of Congress.

c)

It placed restrictions on Congressional power under the "elastic" clause of the U.S. Constitution.

d)

It established the right of the U.S. Supreme Court to declare a law unconstitutional.

11.

Cherokee Indians can stay on their land and don't have to move; Jackson ignores the ruling and move the cherokee anyway-

a)

Dred Scott vs. Sanford

b)

Worcester vs. Georgia

c)

Gibbons vs. Ogden

d)

Marbury vs. Madison

12.

To nullify a law means …

a)

to agree to the law

b)

to secede.

c)

to void or cancel the law.

d)

to vote on the law.

13.

Which state said they wouldn‘t pay the new tariff and passed the Nullification act?

a)

North Carolina

b)

South Carolina

c)

Virginia

d)

Georgia

14.

Which region of the country had a lot of manufacturing?

a)

the north

b)

the south

c)

the west

d)

Alaska

15.

Which person is known as the "Father of State's Rights" and supported nullification and secession if necessary to protest the "Tariff of Abomination"?

a)

Henry Clay

b)

James Monroe

c)

John C. Calhoun

d)

James Madison

16.

What was the Tariff of 1828 referred to by the Southerners?

a)

Tariff of Nullification

b)

Tariff of the South

c)

Tariff of Abominations

d)

3/5 Compromise

17.

Andrew Jackson's election victory in 1828 depended on support from

a)

the rich and well-born.

b)

Native Americans.

c)

the common people.

d)

states' rights supporters.

18.

Jackson's practice of rewarding political supporters with government jobs became known as

a)

the spoils system.

b)

Jacksonian democracy.

c)

mudslinging.

d)

a corrupt bargain.

19.

The Nullification Crisis was triggered by strong opposition to the

a)

Force Bill.

b)

Indian Removal Act.

c)

Tariff of Abominations.

d)

Bank of the United States.

20.

Jacksonian Democracy

a)

an informal group of trusted advisers who sometimes met in the White House kitchen

b)

The practice of giving government jobs to political backers

c)

The period of expanding democracy in the 1820s and 1830s

d)

The Court ruled that the national bank was constitutional

21.

Why did Jackson oppose the Bank of the United States?

a)

He thought its president was inexperienced and poorly educated.

b)

He thought it loaned too much money to farmers and workers.

c)

He thought it was unconstitutional and that it favored the rich.

d)

He thought it benefited western business owners over those in the east.

22.

Define suffrage.

a)

taxes on imported goods

b)

all people are in pain

c)

rights to vote

23.

How did Jackson expand suffrage

a)

eliminated property qualifications for voting

b)

gave native citizenship

c)

let slaves vote

24.

Reason for motivating industrialist in the northern states to favor tariffs

a)

Tariffs would improve manufactured goods

b)

Tariffs would increase the demand for American manuefactured goods

c)

tariffs would result in more revenue($) for the federal government