wayground logo

Free Printable Worksheets

NEW

Font size

S
M
L
XL
Worksheets

Andrew Jackson and Westward Expansion

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A meeting at which a political party selects its presidential and vice presidental canadiate; first held in the 1820s.

a)

Missouri Compromise

b)

Monroe Doctrine

c)

Nominating Conventions

d)

Magna Carta

2.

An expansion of voting rights during the popular Andrew Jackson administration

a)

Jacksonian Democracy

b)

Judicial Review

c)

Industrial Revolution

d)

Impeach

3.

A politicans' practice of giving government jobs to his or her supporters.

a)

Rhode Island system

b)

Republican Party

c)

Spoils system

d)

Sectionalsim

4.

A political party formed by supporters of Andrew Jackson after the presidental election of 1824

a)

Republican Party

b)

Anti Federalist Party

c)

Democratic Republican Party

d)

Democratic Party

5.

A dispute led by John C. Calhoun that said that states could ignore federal laws if they believed those laws violated the Constitution.

a)

Northwest Passage

b)

Panic of 1837

c)

Placer miner

d)

Nullification Crisis

6.

A finanical crisis in the United States that led to an economic depression.

a)

Panic of 1837

b)

Pardon

c)

Oregon Trail

d)

Nullification crisis

7.

A congressional act that authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived wast of the Mississippi River.

a)

Industrial Revolution

b)

Indian Removal act

c)

Jim Crow Law

d)

Judicial Branch

8.

An 800-mile forced march made by the Cherokee from their homeland in Georgia to Indian Territory; resulted in the deaths of alomst one fourth of the Cherokee people.

a)

Trail of love

b)

Tenements

c)

Teepees

d)

Trail of Tears

9.

A 2,000 mile trail strtching through the Great Plains from western Missouri to the Orgeon Territory.

a)

Oregon Trail

b)

Missouri Trail

c)

Texas Trail

d)

Hate Trail

10.

Agents that were contracted by the Mexican republic to bring settlers to Texas in the early 1800s.

a)

Embargo

b)

Depression

c)

Donner Party

d)

Empresarios