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WorksheetsCH.10: Jacksonian America
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
This as an attempt to ruin an opponent's reputation with insults
Spoils System
Mudslinging
Succession
Nullification
A state's refusal to recognize an act of Congress that it considers unconstitutional
Nullification
States Rights
Mudslinging
Succession
The Formal withdrawal of states or regions from a nation
Nullification
Succession
States Rights
Mudslinging
A general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money.
Succession
Inflation
Nullification
Lame Duck Period
These are corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more votes for his party.
States Rights
Spoils System
Kitchen Cabinet
Political Machine
A system of public employment based on rewarding party loyalists and friends.
Political Machines
Spoils System
States Rights
Kitchen Cabinet
An informal group of advisers to whom president Jackson turned to for counsel and guidance;
Spoils System
Political Machines
Kitchen Cabinet
States Rights
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.
Martin Van Buren
John Tyler
Nicholas Biddle
Henry Clay
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.
Martin Van Buren
John Tyler
Nicholas Biddle
Henry Clay
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
Martin Van Buren
John Tyler
Henry Clay
Nicholas Biddle
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.
Specie Circular
Kitchen Cabinet
Pet Banks
Spoils System
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
Kitchen Cabinet
Spoils System
Pet Banks
Specie Circular
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
Socialist
Whig
Democrat
Republican
Chief Justice selected by Martin Van Buren after the death of John Marshall
John Tyler
Nicholas Biddle
Roger Taney
Daniel Webster
This Native American tribe from Georgia was the last to move west, mostly through force on the Trail of Tears
Cherokee
Creek
Choctaw
Chickasaw
Tariff passed by Congress in 1828 that favored manufacturing in the North and was hated by the South
American System
Tariff of Abomination
Compromise of 1833
Independent Treasury
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.
Tariff of Abomination
American System
Independent Treasury
Compromise of 1833
Western migrants who set up farms on unoccupied land without a clear legal title.
Squatters
Sitters
Mudslingers
Secessionists
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.
Andrew Jackson
Martin Van Buren
John Tyler
William Henry Harrison
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.
Compromise of 1833
American System
Tariff of Abomination
Independent Treasury
