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Age of Jackson

Total questions: 34

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

In the election of 1824, ___________________ won the greatest number of electoral votes but he didn’t win a majority.

a)

Andrew Jackson

b)

John Q Adams

c)

John C Calhoun

d)

William Crawford

2.

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.”

a)

common

b)

rich

c)

ariticratic

d)

political

3.

Congress ________ goods from Europe so that American goods would be cheaper than goods imported from Europe.

a)

taxed

b)

boycotted

c)

bought

4.

Northern ________________ liked these tariffs because they made imported goods more expensive.

a)

factory owners

b)

farmers

c)

politicians

d)

cotton growers

5.

Southerners were afraid the tariffs would hurt their profitable _________ trade with Europe.

a)

cotton

b)

timber

c)

fur

d)

automobile

6.

Arguments about the tariffs led to fights over states’ rights. Southern leaders said that states could nullify _________ laws that they did not like.

a)

federal

b)

state

c)

local

7.

Which term means attempts to ruin your opponent’s reputation with insults.

a)

mudslinging

b)

bureaucracy

c)

spoils system

d)

repeal

8.

Which term means to a candidate that received backing from their home states rather than the national party.

a)

favorite sons

b)

spoils system

c)

nominating convention

d)

bureaucracy

9.

Which term means a system in which non-elected officials carry out laws.

a)

favorite sons

b)

spoils system

c)

nominating convention

d)

bureaucracy

10.

Which term means to force eastern Native Americans to lands west of the Mississippi River.

a)

relocate

b)

spoils system

c)

nominating convention

d)

laissez-faire

11.

Which was a Seminole leader who refused to leave his land and decided to fight instead.

a)

Osceola

b)

Tecumseh

c)

Chief Joseph

d)

Squanto

12.

Which term means that government should interfere as little as possible in the nation's economy.

a)

veto

b)

spoils system

c)

nominating convention

d)

laissez-faire

13.

Congress passed the Indian Removal Act in 1830 and created the Indian Territory west of the ____________ River.

a)

Mississippi

b)

Missouri

c)

Hudson

d)

Ohio

14.

Thousands of Native Americans in the eastern United States were forced to relocate to live there, in what is now the state of _______________.

a)

Tennessee

b)

Oklahoma

c)

Texas

d)

Kansas

15.

Georgia wanted the ___________ to move, but they refused to leave and took legal action.

a)

Cherokee

b)

Seminole

c)

Creek

d)

Lakota

16.

The _________ Court agreed with the Cherokee, but President Jackson ignored the Court’s decision.

a)

Supreme

b)

Grand

c)

Territorial

d)

State

17.

The federal government sent the military to make the Cherokee relocate to the Indian Territory. Their journey is called the Trail of _____.

a)

Tears

b)

Roses

c)

Terror

d)

Indians

18.

Which is NOT a state soldiers rounded up Cherokee from in 1838?

a)

Virginia

b)

Tennessee

c)

Georgia

d)

Alabama

19.

The Seminole in _______ refused to leave their land. They fought the army in the Seminole Wars.

a)

Florida

b)

Indiana

c)

Georgia

d)

Kentucky

20.

Which is NOT a Native American tribe that was forced to relocate in Oklahoma

a)

Powhatan

b)

Choctaw

c)

Creek

d)

Chickasaw

21.

By 1842 most Native Americans who once lived east of the Mississippi River had been moved to the _________ Territory.

a)

Indian

b)

Oregon

c)

Texas

d)

Cherokee

22.

What was the name of the Supreme Court in which the court ruled in favor of the Cherokee from Georgia?

a)

Worcester v. Georgia

b)

McCulloch v. Maryland

c)

Cherokee v. Jackson

d)

Madison v. Marbury

23.

In 1836, Jackson refused to sign a ______ to allow the Bank to continue to operate.

a)

charter

b)

law

c)

ordinance

d)

resolution

24.

President Jackson disliked the Second _____ of the United States.

a)

Bank

b)

Constitution

c)

War

d)

Capitol

25.

What man opposed Jackson in the “war against the bank”?

a)

Nicholas Biddle

b)

Thomas Jefferson

c)

Martin Van Buren

d)

John C Calhoun

26.

Who won the presidential election of 1836?

a)

Martin Van Buren

b)

Andrew Jackson

c)

Henry Clay

d)

William Henry Harrison

27.

The fear caused by the bank failures set off the Panic of ____.

a)

1837

b)

1818

c)

1902

d)

1841

28.

President Van Buren did little to ease the crisis because he believed in the principles of ___________________.

a)

laissez-faire

b)

nullification

c)

popular sovereignty

d)

federalism

29.

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.

a)

reserve

b)

fort

c)

safe

d)

armory

30.

Supreme Court case in which the court decided the National Bank was constitutional which was contrary to what Andrew Jackson believed.

a)

McCulloch v. Maryland

b)

Worcester v. Georgia

c)

Madison v. Marbury

d)

Jackson v. National Bank

31.

The depression helped Whig candidate ____________________ defeat President Van Buren in the 1840 election.

a)

Martin Van Buren

b)

Andrew Jackson

c)

Henry Clay

d)

William Henry Harrison

32.

Harrison died shortly after becoming president, however, making Vice President _____________ the president.

a)

John Tyler

b)

Nicholas Biddle

c)

Henry Clay

d)

John C Calhoun

33.

The issue of ______ divided the Whig party in the 1840's

a)

slavery

b)

nullification

c)

annexation

d)

expansion

34.

In the 1840 presidential election William Henry Harrison used what symbol to help him win the election?

a)

log cabin

b)

donkey

c)

horse and plow

d)

liberty tree