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Jacksonian Democracy / Industrial Revolution

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Why did Samuel Slater choose Rhode Island?

a)

Labor cost

b)

Labor force

c)

Plenty of water

d)

Plenty of trees

2.

Which of the following applies to the Lowell girls

a)

Long Hours

b)

Forced to work

c)

Good pay

d)

Grueling conditions

3.

What made mass production possible?

a)

Hard work

b)

The industrial Revolution

c)

The cotton gin

d)

interchangeable parts

4.

Which of the following were reasons for the "Era of Good Feelings?"

a)

Increased nationalism

b)

decreased nationalism

c)

decreased partisanship; parties got along

d)

increased partisanship; parties did not get along

5.

Treaty. Got Florida, gave Texas

a)

Adams Onis

b)

Treaty of Greenville

c)

Rush Bagot Treaty

d)

Florida Texas treaty

6.

Told European powers to stay out of western hemisphere and not doing so would be seen as a threat

a)

Adams Onis treaty

b)

Monroe Doctrine

c)

Rush Bagot Treaty

d)

Madison doctrine

7.

Why did some in Congress oppose federally funded roads and canals

a)

They were cheap

b)

They didn't swim

c)

They thought it was unconstitutional

d)

They were not opposed to it

8.

How did boats get down the Erie canal?

a)

Steam

b)

Wind

c)

Horses, Donkeys, oxen

d)

Four wheel drive

9.

What were results of the Missouri compromise?

a)

Maine entered as a free state

b)

Missouri entered as a slave state

c)

Nothing north of the southern border of MO could be slave in Louisiana Purchase

d)

Balance was maintained between slave and free states

10.

Politicians arguing over the interests of their particular region

a)

partisanship

b)

sectionalism

c)

compromistation

d)

Prostagliflationaryanism

11.

Convinced Congress to accept Missouri compromise

a)

Andrew Jackson

b)

Henry Clay

c)

James Monroe

d)

Martin VanBuren

12.

Who decided the election of 1824

a)

The people

b)

The electoral college

c)

The senate

d)

The house with some help from Henry Clay's "corrupt bargain"

13.

Who won the popular vote in 1824, but did not have enough electoral votes

a)

Andrew Jackson

b)

John Quincy Adams

c)

Henry Clay

d)

Martin VanBuren

14.

Who received expanded voting rights in the early 1800's

a)

Women

b)

Slaves

c)

White men

d)

Free black men

15.

Before Jacksonian democracy, who held the power?

a)

Common people

b)

a wealthy few

c)

The president

d)

Corporations

16.

Seen as out of touch with the common people

a)

Andrew Jackson

b)

John Quincy Adams

17.

Who's inauguration had people tearing up the white house and jumping out windows.

a)

Andrew Jackson

b)

John Quincy Adams

18.

The Tariff of Abominations caused all of the following

a)

The nullification crisis

b)

sectional division

c)

Andrew Jackson losing the election

d)

Martin Van Buren getting elected

19.

What was lacking from the west in the early 1800's

a)

Roads

b)

Canals

c)

available land

d)

a draw for people to come

20.

The dispute over the states power to reject unconstitutional federal laws

a)

Missouri compromise

b)

Nullification Crisis

c)

Tariff of Abominations

d)

Monroe Doctrine

21.

Jackson's vice president who thought the states should have more power than the federal government?

a)

James Madison

b)

James Monroe

c)

John C Calhoun

d)

Martin VanBuren

22.

Why did Andrew Jackson want to kill the Second Bank of the U.S.

a)

He didn't

b)

They wouldn't loan him money

c)

It favored the rich

d)

They stopped giving suckers in the drive thru

23.

Before the panic of 1837 Jackson....

a)

increased the national debt

b)

lowered the national debt

24.

What helped Martin VanBuren get elected

a)

He was a Beast

b)

The opposing party chose 3 candidates

c)

He had incredible hair

25.

What did Jackson try to make illegal to buy with paper money

a)

Land

b)

Horses

c)

tobacco

d)

Flaming Hot Cheetos

26.

What caused the death of William Henry Harrison

a)

A Bullet

b)

A knife

c)

A long speech in the cold with no coat

d)

getting run over by a horse and buggy

27.

Who used the slogan "Tippecanoe and Tyler too?"

a)

Van Buren

b)

Polk

c)

Harrison

d)

Jackson

28.

What did the Log Cabin Campaign try to say about the candidates in 1840

a)

VanBuren was a man of the people

b)

Harrison was out of touch with the common man

c)

VanBuren grew up in a log cabin

d)

VanBuren was a man of wealth and privilege - but they did not say that Harrison also came from wealth...even though he did.

29.

Steam Engine

a)

Cooper

b)

Fulton

c)

Watt

d)

McCormick

e)

Whitney

30.

Steam Locomotive

a)

Cooper

b)

Fulton

c)

Watt

d)

McCormick

e)

Whitney

31.

Steamboat

a)

Cooper

b)

Fulton

c)

Watt

d)

McCormick

e)

Whitney

32.

Cotton Gin and interchangeable parts

a)

Cooper

b)

Fulton

c)

Watt

d)

McCormick

e)

Whitney

33.

Mechanical reaper

a)

Cooper

b)

Fulton

c)

Watt

d)

McCormick

e)

Whitney

34.

Telegraph

a)

Morse

b)

Deere

c)

Watt

d)

McCormick

e)

Whitney

35.

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Steel Plow

a)

Morse

b)

Deere

c)

Watt

d)

McCormick

e)

Whitney

36.

How did Jackson feel about Native Americans?

a)

He pitied them and wanted the best for them

b)

He wanted to make peace with all tribes

c)

He thought they could not live as noncitizens within US borders

d)

He had no opinion

37.

Where was the arid uninhabitable land where the government relocated Native Americans to?

a)

Nebraska

b)

Florida

c)

Oklahoma

d)

Texas

38.

What caused the Cherokee removal to be called the Trail of Tears?

a)

It was sad to leave their homes

b)

It was sad to leave so many behind

c)

So many Cherokee died along the way

d)

So many families were separated

39.

How did the Cherokee resist being relocated?

a)

They fought

b)

They hid

c)

They sued

d)

They didn't

40.

How did the Seminole resist removal?

a)

They fought using guerilla tactics

b)

They did not and were removed

c)

They signed a treaty

d)

they sued the government