WorksheetsAge of Jackson
Total questions: 34
Worksheet time: 17mins
In the election of 1824, ___________________ won the greatest number of electoral votes but he didn’t win a majority.
Andrew Jackson
John Q Adams
John C Calhoun
William Crawford
Jackson’s victory was aided by changes that allowed more people to vote. These workers and farmers were attracted by Jackson’s image as a self-made “ ________ man.”
common
rich
ariticratic
political
Congress ________ goods from Europe so that American goods would be cheaper than goods imported from Europe.
taxed
boycotted
bought
Northern ________________ liked these tariffs because they made imported goods more expensive.
factory owners
farmers
politicians
cotton growers
Southerners were afraid the tariffs would hurt their profitable _________ trade with Europe.
cotton
timber
fur
automobile
Arguments about the tariffs led to fights over states’ rights. Southern leaders said that states could nullify _________ laws that they did not like.
federal
state
local
Which term means attempts to ruin your opponent’s reputation with insults.
mudslinging
bureaucracy
spoils system
repeal
Which term means to a candidate that received backing from their home states rather than the national party.
favorite sons
spoils system
nominating convention
bureaucracy
Which term means a system in which non-elected officials carry out laws.
favorite sons
spoils system
nominating convention
bureaucracy
Which term means to force eastern Native Americans to lands west of the Mississippi River.
relocate
spoils system
nominating convention
laissez-faire
Which was a Seminole leader who refused to leave his land and decided to fight instead.
Osceola
Tecumseh
Chief Joseph
Squanto
Which term means that government should interfere as little as possible in the nation's economy.
veto
spoils system
nominating convention
laissez-faire
Congress passed the Indian Removal Act in 1830 and created the Indian Territory west of the ____________ River.
Mississippi
Missouri
Hudson
Ohio
Thousands of Native Americans in the eastern United States were forced to relocate to live there, in what is now the state of _______________.
Tennessee
Oklahoma
Texas
Kansas
Georgia wanted the ___________ to move, but they refused to leave and took legal action.
Cherokee
Seminole
Creek
Lakota
The _________ Court agreed with the Cherokee, but President Jackson ignored the Court’s decision.
Supreme
Grand
Territorial
State
The federal government sent the military to make the Cherokee relocate to the Indian Territory. Their journey is called the Trail of _____.
Tears
Roses
Terror
Indians
Which is NOT a state soldiers rounded up Cherokee from in 1838?
Virginia
Tennessee
Georgia
Alabama
The Seminole in _______ refused to leave their land. They fought the army in the Seminole Wars.
Florida
Indiana
Georgia
Kentucky
Which is NOT a Native American tribe that was forced to relocate in Oklahoma
Powhatan
Choctaw
Creek
Chickasaw
By 1842 most Native Americans who once lived east of the Mississippi River had been moved to the _________ Territory.
Indian
Oregon
Texas
Cherokee
What was the name of the Supreme Court in which the court ruled in favor of the Cherokee from Georgia?
Worcester v. Georgia
McCulloch v. Maryland
Cherokee v. Jackson
Madison v. Marbury
In 1836, Jackson refused to sign a ______ to allow the Bank to continue to operate.
charter
law
ordinance
resolution
President Jackson disliked the Second _____ of the United States.
Bank
Constitution
War
Capitol
What man opposed Jackson in the “war against the bank”?
Nicholas Biddle
Thomas Jefferson
Martin Van Buren
John C Calhoun
Who won the presidential election of 1836?
Martin Van Buren
Andrew Jackson
Henry Clay
William Henry Harrison
The fear caused by the bank failures set off the Panic of ____.
1837
1818
1902
1841
President Van Buren did little to ease the crisis because he believed in the principles of ___________________.
laissez-faire
nullification
popular sovereignty
federalism
In 1840, President Martin Van Buren worked with Congress to pass a law that required the federal government to keep its money in a federal _______ instead of state banks.
reserve
fort
safe
armory
Supreme Court case in which the court decided the National Bank was constitutional which was contrary to what Andrew Jackson believed.
McCulloch v. Maryland
Worcester v. Georgia
Madison v. Marbury
Jackson v. National Bank
The depression helped Whig candidate ____________________ defeat President Van Buren in the 1840 election.
Martin Van Buren
Andrew Jackson
Henry Clay
William Henry Harrison
Harrison died shortly after becoming president, however, making Vice President _____________ the president.
John Tyler
Nicholas Biddle
Henry Clay
John C Calhoun
The issue of ______ divided the Whig party in the 1840's
slavery
nullification
annexation
expansion
In the 1840 presidential election William Henry Harrison used what symbol to help him win the election?
log cabin
donkey
horse and plow
liberty tree
