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The Age of Jackson
Ch 10 Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ______ _______ won many votes at the 1828 presidential election because he was described by his campaign as a war hero who had been poor and rose to success trough his own hard work | Andrew Jackson |
| The social situation of the United States before Jacksonian Democracy was that power was in the hands of a few _______ individuals | wealthy |
| The _______ frontier in the early 1800s lacked services such as roads and water | western |
| The _______ _______ refers to a group of President Jackson's advisors who sometimes met in the White House kitchen. | Kitchen Cabinet |
| The _____ ______ was/is the practice of rewarding loyal supporters with government jobs | spoils system |
| ______ ___ _____ was one of Andrew Jackson's strongest allies in his official cabinet. | Martin Van Buren |
| _____ _______ argued that the United States was one nation, not a pact among independant states | Daniel Webster |
| Northerners supported tariffs in the early 1800s because tariffs helped them compete with ______ manufacturers | British |
| ___________ objected to the so called Tariff of Abominations since they felt it would hurt their economy | Southerners |
| ____ _ _______ advanced the states' rights doctrine | John C. Calhoun |
| President _______ reacted to Vice President John C. Calhoun's views on nullification by openly disagreeing with him and watching Calhoun resign | Jackson |
| What effect did the Tariff of Abominations have on sectional differences in Andrew Jackson's America? | Increased feelings of sectionalism / Northerners wanted tariffs and Southerners did not |
| Which state threatened to secede from the Union during Andrew Jackson's presidency? | South Carolina |
| _________ _ ________ ruled that the national bank was unconstitutional. | McCulloch v. Maryland |
| How did President Jackson weaken the power of the national bank? | Andrew Jackson vetoed legislation that would have renewed the national bank's charter charter and he moved most of the national bank funds to state funds |
| Through the economic policies adopted by President Jackson before the Panic of 1837 did not fix the country's economic problems, they did not lower the ________ ____ | national bank |
| The ____ Party favored a weak president and a strong congress | Whig |
| What symbol represented was chosen to represent the Democratic Party during the 1800s? | Donkey |
| ______ ___ _____'s success in the presidential election of 1837 can be attributed to the inability of the opposing party to decide on one candidate. | Martin Van Buren |
| The ______ __ ______ ______ was a federal government agency created to manage the removal of Native Americans to the west | Bureau of Indian Affairs |
| A Cherokee named ______ used 86 characters to represent Cherokee symbols to create a writing system for their own complex language | Sequoya |