Chapter 10 Test: The Age of Jackson PRACTICE TEST Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1. What effect did the Tariff of Abominations have on Andrew Jackson s America? a. It fostered the nation s hatred of British companies. b. It fueled growing sectional differences within the country. c. It helped the West, which did not rely on international trade. d. It favored the South s agriculture-based economy. 2. In the early 1800s the frontier West a. relied heavily on trade with Britain. b. suffered from low property values. c. struggled in a climate that often damaged crops. d. lacked services such as roads and water transportation. 3. How did President Andrew Jackson react to Vice President John C. Calhoun s views on nullification? a. Jackson commended him because he and Calhoun whole-heartedly agreed. b. Jackson stood back and let Calhoun be judged by the voting public. c. Jackson openly disagreed with Calhoun and watched as Calhoun resigned. d. Jackson fired Calhoun over the issue and forced duty collection on the South. 4. Northerners supported tariffs in the early 1800s because tariffs helped them compete with a. British merchants. b. Southern agriculturalists. c. British manufacturers. d. Southern manufacturers. 5. Where was Indian Territory? a. east of the Mississippi River b. south of the Blue Ridge Mountains c. present-day Oklahoma d. present-day Arkansas 6. What aspect of Native American history became known as the Trail of Tears? a. the streams of blood that flowed from the Sauk Indians in the Black Hawk War b. the forced 800-mile march Cherokee Indians made in their removal from Georgia c. the line connecting Seminole Indian settlements up and down Florida s east coast d. the unpublished works on the Cherokee population written by Sequoya 7. What was Daniel Webster s position on states rights? a. The welfare of the nation should override the concerns of individual states. b. Federal authority should be upheld, but federal power should not be expanded. c. States needed a way to lawfully protest questionable federal legislation. d. Economic problems should dictate which regions executive orders favored.
8. What idea did the Whig Party favor when it formed to oppose Jackson in 1834? a. expansion of the federal government b. creation of a monarchic state c. a weak president and a strong Congress d. broadening of the two-party system 9. The Bureau of Indian Affairs was a a. congressionally-approved office established to protect the ways of Native Americans. b. federal agency created to manage the removal of Native Americans to the West. c. federal agency designed to negotiate with Creek and Chickasaw Indians. d. group established by the Mississippi legislature to track Native American deaths. 10. Which of the following statements is an example of how voting rights were expanded in the early 1800s? a. Maryland set religious qualifications for voters. b. Some states extended suffrage rights to more white males. c. Party leaders began to nominate their parties candidates. d. Massachusetts granted one-half of a vote to each literate freedman. 11. What was the spoils system practiced by newly-elected president Andrew Jackson? a. damaging the reputations of one s political opponents b. celebrating one s victory over a period of months c. raising the wages of one s staff after a victory d. rewarding supporters by giving them government jobs 12. Northerners opposed the federal government s sale of public land at cheap prices in the early 1800s because it a. attracted unskilled immigrants to the North to settle. b. encouraged potential laborers in the North to migrate west. c. lured slaveholding plantation owners to move from the South. d. increased competition between the North and the South. 13. What did Vice President John C. Calhoun argue regarding the Tariff of Abominations? a. The federal government should have less power than the states. b. State governments should have no right to dispute federal laws. c. The federal government should favor his region over others. d. International trade should be a matter of federal law alone. 14. Which of the following statements describes the social situation of the United States before Jacksonian Democracy? a. Hundreds of craftspeople were opening shops in the cities. b. Small farmers were profiting from new technologies. c. Power was in the hands of a few wealthy individuals. d. Ordinary Americans were gaining a voice in government. 15. Arguments over which issue sparked the nullification crisis? a. states rights b. the Tariff of Abominations
c. economic depression d. bank operations Completion Complete each statement. 16. At public, political parties gave people a voice in the process of selecting candidates for president and vice president. (election rallies/nominating conventions) 17. s chances of winning the presidential election of 1828 rose because his heroism during the war made him popular with voters. (Andrew Jackson/John Quincy Adams) 18. A member of the Party might have nicknamed Andrew Jackson the People s President. (Democratic/Republican) 19. Arguments over a national tariff sparked the _ crisis, during which the state of South Carolina threatened to separate from the United States. (secession/nullification) 20. of Massachusetts opposed nullification for the sake of national unity. (Daniel Webster/Robert Y. Hayne) 21. During Andrew Jackson s presidency supported the kind of policies that helped their region. Those policies boosted the farming economy and encouraged further settlement. (westerners/southerners) 22. In the early 1800s Americans from the North supported because they helped them compete with British manufacturers. (customs/tariffs) Matching Match each item with the correct statement below. a. Black Hawk b. John C. Calhoun c. William Henry Harrison d. Indian Territory e. Kitchen Cabinet f. McCulloch v. Maryland g. Osceola h. spoils system i. Trail of Tears j. Martin Van Buren k. Worcester v. Georgia l. Daniel Webster 23. ruled that the national bank was constitutional
24. led the Seminole against U.S. troops 25. advanced the states rights doctrine 26. practice of rewarding loyal supporters with government jobs 27. U.S. land in present-day Oklahoma 28. Indian leader who decided to fight U.S. officials rather than leave Illinois 29. forced march to Indian Territory taken by the Cherokee 30. argued that the United States was one nation, not a pact among independent states
Chapter 10 Test: The Age of Jackson Answer Section PRACTICE TEST MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: 2 OBJ: 10.2.1 2. ANS: D PTS: 1 DIF: 2 OBJ: 10.2.1 3. ANS: C PTS: 1 DIF: 2 OBJ: 10.2.2 4. ANS: C PTS: 1 DIF: 2 OBJ: 10.2.1 5. ANS: C PTS: 1 DIF: 1 OBJ: 10.3.1 NAT: 10.3.1 6. ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: 1 OBJ: 10.3.2 NAT: 10.3.2 7. ANS: A PTS: 1 DIF: 2 OBJ: 10.2.2 8. ANS: C PTS: 1 DIF: 1 OBJ: 10.2.4 NAT: 10.2.3 9. ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: 2 OBJ: 10.3.1 NAT: 10.3.1 10. ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: 2 OBJ: 10.1.1 NAT: 10.1.1 11. ANS: D PTS: 1 DIF: 2 OBJ: 10.1.2 NAT: 10.1.2 12. ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: 2 OBJ: 10.2.1 13. ANS: A PTS: 1 DIF: 2 OBJ: 10.2.2 14. ANS: C PTS: 1 DIF: 2 OBJ: 10.1.1 NAT: 10.1.1 15. ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: 2 OBJ: 10.2.2 COMPLETION 16. ANS: nominating conventions PTS: 1 DIF: 2 OBJ: 10.1.1 NAT: 10.1.1 17. ANS: Andrew Jackson PTS: 1 DIF: 1 OBJ: 10.1.2 NAT: 10.1.2 18. ANS: Democratic
PTS: 1 DIF: 1 OBJ: 10.1.2 NAT: 10.1.2 19. ANS: nullification PTS: 1 DIF: 2 OBJ: 10.2.2 20. ANS: Daniel Webster PTS: 1 DIF: 1 OBJ: 10.2.2 21. ANS: westerners PTS: 1 DIF: 2 OBJ: 10.2.1 22. ANS: tariffs PTS: 1 DIF: 2 OBJ: 10.2.1 MATCHING 23. ANS: F PTS: 1 DIF: 2 OBJ: 10.2.3 NAT: 10.2.3 24. ANS: G PTS: 1 DIF: 1 OBJ: 10.3.3 NAT: 10.3.3 25. ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: 2 OBJ: 10.2.2 10.2.4 26. ANS: H PTS: 1 DIF: 2 OBJ: 10.1.2 NAT: 10.1.2 27. ANS: D PTS: 1 DIF: 2 OBJ: 10.3.1 NAT: 10.3.1 28. ANS: A PTS: 1 DIF: 1 OBJ: 10.3.3 NAT: 10.3.3 29. ANS: I PTS: 1 DIF: 2 OBJ: 10.3.2 NAT: 10.3.2 30. ANS: L PTS: 1 DIF: 1 OBJ: 10.2.2