WorksheetsUSH 2.1
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
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Class
Date
1.
Enter your name.
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2.
What caused the massive increase in voter participation in the 1828 election?
a)
the repeal of property ownership requirements for voting
b)
a new enthusiasm for politics
c)
the movement of people from cities to towns
d)
the increase in the number of civil service jobs
3.
How did the increase in the number of eligible voters help Andrew Jackson's bid for president?
a)
The new voters were largely National Republicans who followed Henry Clay's recommendations.
b)
The vote was given to Native Americans who favored Jackson.
c)
Many of the new voters were from the West and related to Jackson.
d)
The new voters were largely immigrants who liked Jackson's immigration policy.
4.
What new method of selecting presidential candidates developed in the 1830s?
a)
the congressional caucus system
b)
the nominating convention system
c)
the executive committee system
d)
the spoils system
5.
Andrew Jackson supported the spoils system because he believed it
a)
brought into government the country's most educated people.
b)
opened up government to more ordinary people.
c)
encouraged good workers to stay in their government jobs.
d)
attracted young thinkers into public service.
6.
What was South Carolina's reaction to the "tariff of abominations"?
a)
South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union.
b)
South Carolina proposed nullification.
c)
South Carolina boycotted imported goods.
d)
South Carolina formed its own country.
7.
How did President Jackson respond to South Carolina's declaration that the federal tariffs were null and void?
a)
He allowed them to secede.
b)
He lowered the tariff.
c)
He sent a warship to South Carolina.
d)
He proposed a compromise with the state.
8.
What was President Jackson's plan for dealing with Native Americans?
a)
He negotiated separate treaties between settlers and individual Native American groups.
b)
He pushed a bill through Congress to move Native Americans to the Great Plains.
c)
He appealed to the Supreme Court.
d)
He allowed some Native American groups to keep their lands in exchange for peace treaties.
9.
President Martin Van Buren ordered the army to remove the Cherokee from Georgia in what is known as
a)
the Trail of Tears.
b)
the Great Migration.
c)
the Reservation Removal.
d)
the Jacksonian Crisis.
10.
How did President Jackson ensure that the Second Bank of the United States was destroyed?
a)
He forced the Bank of the United States to make loans to Western farmers.
b)
He forced the Bank of the United States to redeem all of its notes for silver.
c)
He removed all federal deposits and gave them to state banks.
d)
He pushed a law through Congress that controlled interest rates.
11.
What political party emerged in opposition to President Jackson?
a)
the Know-Nothings
b)
the Whigs
c)
the Free-Soil Party
d)
the Anti-Masonic Party
12.
Beginning in the early 1800s and continuing through the presidency of Andrew Jackson, the nation witnessed a growth of (a) as government became more inclusive and ordinary citizens became a greater political force.
13.
(a) , vice president under Andrew Jackson and a resident of South Carolina, put forth the idea that states had the right to declare federal laws void, called nullification.
14.
In the early 1800s, many Americans believed that the (a) was a wasteland and that moving Native Americans there would end the conflict with them.
15.
In 1830, President Jackson pushed through Congress the Indian (a) Act, which provided money for relocating Native Americans.
16.
President Jackson’s forceful style earned him many detractors, and by the mid-1830s, a new party— named the (a) after the party in England that had worked to limit the king’s power—had emerged to oppose him.
17.
President Andrew Jackson strongly supported the practice of appointing people to government jobs on the basis of party loyalty and support, a practice known as the
a)
caucus system.
b)
expansion of suffrage.
c)
spoils system.
d)
nullification crisis
18.
By 1832 the Jacksonians had replaced the caucus system for choosing presidential candidates with the
a)
national nominating convention.
b)
state primary system.
c)
spoils system.
d)
state party conventions.
19.
In 1828 many South Carolinians threatened to secede from the Union when Congress levied what critics called the
a)
Trail of Tears.
b)
Webster-Ashburton Treaty.
c)
Panic of 1837.
d)
Tariff of Abominations.
20.
Despite the Supreme Court’s ruling in McCulloch v. Maryland, President Jackson believed that the Bank of the United States
a)
caused inflation.
b)
was unconstitutional.
c)
was corrupt.
d)
should be strengthened
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