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Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 22mins
This agreement determined how slaves would be counted for representation and placed a ban on asking for an end to the slave trade.
Two-Fifths Compromise
Three-Fifths Compromise
One-Third Compromise
One-Fifth Compromise
What role did the government have, according to John Locke?
Protect the people's natural rights
Take away people's natural rights
Help determine the people's natural rights
Representative government grew in the colonies due to what reason?
Colonists relied on England for goods due to mercantilism
British rulers usually left colonists alone and didn't interfere
Most colonies only protected it's own interests
Colonists were not loyal to the king
*Intolerable Acts Imposed
*First Continental Congress Convened
*Thomas Paine's Common Sense Published
All the events listed above occurred during...
The Era of Westward Expansion
The Era of Good Feelings
The Revolutionary Era
The Jacksonian Era
What kind of congress did the Great Compromise establish?
1 House that controls everything
2 Houses that have no power
2 Houses that both vote on laws
1 House that has no power
What was the Second Great Awakening?
Religious Revival
A major decline in religion
Increased effort of embargo and tariffs
Alliances made with other countries
Bank War
Nullification Crisis
Corrupt Bargain
XYZ Affair
The right of a state to reject a federal law that it considers unconstitutional
Monroe Doctrine
American System
Doctrine of Nullification
Spoils System
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.
States' Rights Doctrine
Nullification Crisis
Panic of 1837
Indian Removal Act
What was the significance of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Marbury v. Madison (1803)?
It defined the scope of Congressional power to regulate interstate commerce.
It limited the power of the President to veto acts of Congress.
It placed restrictions on Congressional power under the "elastic" clause of the U.S. Constitution.
It established the right of the U.S. Supreme Court to declare a law unconstitutional.
Cherokee Indians can stay on their land and don't have to move; Jackson ignores the ruling and move the cherokee anyway-
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Worcester vs. Georgia
Gibbons vs. Ogden
Marbury vs. Madison
To nullify a law means …
to agree to the law
to secede.
to void or cancel the law.
to vote on the law.
Which state said they wouldn‘t pay the new tariff and passed the Nullification act?
North Carolina
South Carolina
Virginia
Georgia
Which region of the country had a lot of manufacturing?
the north
the south
the west
Alaska
Which person is known as the "Father of State's Rights" and supported nullification and secession if necessary to protest the "Tariff of Abomination"?
Henry Clay
James Monroe
John C. Calhoun
James Madison
What was the Tariff of 1828 referred to by the Southerners?
Tariff of Nullification
Tariff of the South
Tariff of Abominations
3/5 Compromise
Andrew Jackson's election victory in 1828 depended on support from
the rich and well-born.
Native Americans.
the common people.
states' rights supporters.
Jackson's practice of rewarding political supporters with government jobs became known as
the spoils system.
Jacksonian democracy.
mudslinging.
a corrupt bargain.
The Nullification Crisis was triggered by strong opposition to the
Force Bill.
Indian Removal Act.
Tariff of Abominations.
Bank of the United States.
Jacksonian Democracy
an informal group of trusted advisers who sometimes met in the White House kitchen
The practice of giving government jobs to political backers
The period of expanding democracy in the 1820s and 1830s
The Court ruled that the national bank was constitutional
Why did Jackson oppose the Bank of the United States?
He thought its president was inexperienced and poorly educated.
He thought it loaned too much money to farmers and workers.
He thought it was unconstitutional and that it favored the rich.
He thought it benefited western business owners over those in the east.
Define suffrage.
taxes on imported goods
all people are in pain
rights to vote
How did Jackson expand suffrage
eliminated property qualifications for voting
gave native citizenship
let slaves vote
Reason for motivating industrialist in the northern states to favor tariffs
Tariffs would improve manufactured goods
Tariffs would increase the demand for American manuefactured goods
tariffs would result in more revenue($) for the federal government
