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CH.10: Jacksonian America

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This as an attempt to ruin an opponent's reputation with insults

a)

Spoils System

b)

Mudslinging

c)

Succession

d)

Nullification

2.

A state's refusal to recognize an act of Congress that it considers unconstitutional

a)

Nullification

b)

States Rights

c)

Mudslinging

d)

Succession

3.

The Formal withdrawal of states or regions from a nation

a)

Nullification

b)

Succession

c)

States Rights

d)

Mudslinging

4.

A general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money.

a)

Succession

b)

Inflation

c)

Nullification

d)

Lame Duck Period

5.

These are corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more votes for his party.

a)

States Rights

b)

Spoils System

c)

Kitchen Cabinet

d)

Political Machine

6.

A system of public employment based on rewarding party loyalists and friends.

a)

Political Machines

b)

Spoils System

c)

States Rights

d)

Kitchen Cabinet

7.

An informal group of advisers to whom president Jackson turned to for counsel and guidance;

a)

Spoils System

b)

Political Machines

c)

Kitchen Cabinet

d)

States Rights

8.

He was President of the Second Bank of the United States; he struggled to keep the bank functioning when President Jackson tried to destroy it.

a)

Martin Van Buren

b)

John Tyler

c)

Nicholas Biddle

d)

Henry Clay

9.

This President advocated lower tariffs and free trade, and by doing so maintained support of the south for the Democratic party. He succeeded in setting up a system of bonds for the national debt.

a)

Martin Van Buren

b)

John Tyler

c)

Nicholas Biddle

d)

Henry Clay

10.

This president would be elected Vice President and became the 10th President of the United States when William Henry Harrison died 1841-1845, who opposed many parts of the Whig program for economic recovery

a)

Martin Van Buren

b)

John Tyler

c)

Henry Clay

d)

Nicholas Biddle

11.

A term used by Jackson's opponents to describe the state banks that the federal government used for new revenue deposits in an attempt to destroy the Second Bank of the United States; the practice continued after the charter for the Second Bank expired in 1836.

a)

Specie Circular

b)

Kitchen Cabinet

c)

Pet Banks

d)

Spoils System

12.

Issued by Jackson - attempt to stop states from speculating land with money they printed that was not backed by anything. It said that when it came to payment for public lands, the government would accept only gold or silver

a)

Kitchen Cabinet

b)

Spoils System

c)

Pet Banks

d)

Specie Circular

13.

An American political party formed in the 1830s to oppose President Andrew Jackson and the Democrats, stood for protective tariffs, national banking, and federal aid for internal improvements

a)

Socialist

b)

Whig

c)

Democrat

d)

Republican

14.

Chief Justice selected by Martin Van Buren after the death of John Marshall

a)

John Tyler

b)

Nicholas Biddle

c)

Roger Taney

d)

Daniel Webster

15.

This Native American tribe from Georgia was the last to move west, mostly through force on the Trail of Tears

a)

Cherokee

b)

Creek

c)

Choctaw

d)

Chickasaw

16.

Tariff passed by Congress in 1828 that favored manufacturing in the North and was hated by the South

a)

American System

b)

Tariff of Abomination

c)

Compromise of 1833

d)

Independent Treasury

17.

Economic program advanced by Henry Clay that included support for a national bank, high tariffs, and internal improvements; emphasized strong role for federal government in the economy.

a)

Tariff of Abomination

b)

American System

c)

Independent Treasury

d)

Compromise of 1833

18.

Western migrants who set up farms on unoccupied land without a clear legal title.

a)

Squatters

b)

Sitters

c)

Mudslingers

d)

Secessionists

19.

The first president to die in office, most likely likely from the dirty water problem at the White House. Before that, he was a war hero at the Battle of Tippecanoe.

a)

Andrew Jackson

b)

Martin Van Buren

c)

John Tyler

d)

William Henry Harrison

20.

It was a new tariff proposed by Henry Clay and John Calhoun that gradually lowered the tariff to the level of the tariff of 1816.

a)

Compromise of 1833

b)

American System

c)

Tariff of Abomination

d)

Independent Treasury