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Test on Jacksonian Democracy

Part I Directions: Choose the letter that best answers the question above.
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1. How many terms did Andrew Jackson serv,e as president?

a. One
b. Two
c. Three
d. None

2. What was the idea behind Jacksonian Democracy?

a. A policy of fairness towards the Native Americans.


b. A government that involved and included everyone.
c. Widening political power to more people and an era of greater public involvement.
d. More power and respect given to the Supreme Court.

3. Andrew Jackson was the first President that was not...

a. Part of the aristocratic class.


b. Considered a representative of Common Man.
c. Born in a log cabin
d. In favor of the spoils system

4. What was the spoils system?

a. A food storage system


b. Adults who were spoiled brats
c. Widening political power to common man
d. The practice of giving government jobs to political backers.

5. What was the law passed in 1828 that significantly raised taxes or tariffs on raw materials and
manufactured goods?

a. Doctrine of Nullification
b. Panic of 1837
c. Tariff of Abominations
d. The Spoils System

6. What is the idea that a state had the right to reject, a federal law that it considers unconstitutional.

a. Doctrine of Nullification
b. Panic of 1837
c. Tariff of Abominations
d. The Spoils System
7. What was the law (1830) that called for the government to negotiate treaties requiring Native
Americans to relocate west?

a. Trail of Tears
b. Doctrine of Nullification
c. Indian Removal Act
d. Tariff of Abominations

8. What was the harsh journey of the Cherokee from their homeland called?

a. Trail of Tears
b. Doctrine of Nullification
c. Indian Removal Act
d. Tariff of Abominations

9. Who was Andrew Jackson's first Vice President?

a. John Quincy Adams


b. John C. Calhoun
c. Martin Van Buren
d. William Henry Harrison

10. Who beat Andrew Jackson in his first run for president in 1824?

a. John Quincy Adams


b. John C. Calhoun
c. Martin Van Buren
d. William Henry Harrison

11. Who was the Cherokee that invented a writing system for the Cherokee language?

a. Osceola
b. Geronimo
c. Seminole
d. Sequoya

12. Who led the Seminoles' in a war against removal from Florida?

a. Osceola
b. Geronimo
C. Seminole
d. Sequoya

13. What did Jackson mean when he told the Native Americans that they had to assimilate?

a. To be absorbed into white culture.


b. To move their families west.
c. To secede from the union.
d. A prolonged economic slump.
14. What "war," did President Jackson wage that led to economic disaster?

a. War of 1812
b. WWI
c. War on state banks
d. War on The Second National Bank

15. When the Cherokee appealed seizure of their lands, who did the U.S. Supreme Court side with?

a. Cherokee
b. Georgia
c. Andrew Jackson
d. Osceola

16. Where were Native Americans moved in the west?

a. Michigan, Ohio & Pennsylvania


b. California, Texas & Utah
c. Arkansas, Georgia & Florida
d. Kansas, Nebraska & Oklahoma

17. What does secede mean?

a. To be successful
b. To withdraw
c. To unify a group
d. To progress

18. Suggesting that their culture and ways were not valued, Jackson told Native American's they
should...

a. Assimilate
b. Persecute
c. Form alliances
d. Write a charter

19. What is the word for a prolonged and severe economic slump?

a. Recession
b. Charter
c. Inflation
d. Depression

20. What happened after Martin Van Buren took office as President?

a. He died suddenly
b. Native Americans appealed to the Supreme Court
c. Panic of 1837
d. He was impeached

21. What happened after William Henry Harrison took office as President?

a. He died suddenly
b. Native Americans appealed to the Supreme Court
c. Panic of 1837
d. He was impeached
22. What does inflation mean?

a. A Bounce House
b. A written grant
c. The ability to read
d. Prices are rising

23. What does charter mean?

a. A Bounce House
b. A written grant
c. The ability to read
d. Prices are rising

24. What does literacy mean?

a. People who litter


b. A written grant
c. The ability to read
d. Prices are rising

25. Why did Daniel Webster, Henry Clay and others form the Whig Party?

a. To oppose Andrew Jackson and his policies.


b. The British have shown that wigs are cool.
c. To protect Andrew Jackson
d. To celebrate the King

26. What branch of government did the Whig Party feel represented the will of the people?

a. Executive Branch
b. Judicial Branch
c. Legislative Branch
d. President's Cabinet

27. What did the election of W.H. Harrison show, as he was touted a hero from the War of 1812 and a
frontiersman?

a. the value of military status in the election


b. The importance of the South in politics
c. The value of the War with the National Bank
d. The importance of the West in American. politics

Part II Directions: Write a paragraph about one of the following:

a. Do you think Andrew Jackson was a champion of the common people? Why or why not?

b. In what ways did Jackson's policy toward Native Americans reflect bias?

c. What do you think would have happened if Congress had not passed the Indian Removal Act?

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