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CH10 The Age of Jackson
1. How did President Andrew Jackson react to Vice President John C.
Calhoun’s views on nullification?
2. Though the economic policies adopted by President Jackson before the
Panic of 1837 did not fix the country’s economic problems, they did
something else that has not been accomplished since – what was it?
3. Which of the following statements describes the social situation of the
United States before Jacksonian Democracy?
4. What was the Western frontier like in the early 1800s?
5. What was The Bureau of Indian Affairs and what was created to do?
6. Which group did Osceola lead against U.S. troops?
7. Northerners supported tariffs in the early 1800s because tariffs helped them
compete against which group?
8. What did the Seminole Indians do after signing a treaty in 1832 in which
they agreed to leave Florida within three years?
9. Martin Van Buren’s success in the presidential election of 1837 can be
attributed what major factor?
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10.How was Andrew Jackson described by his campaign during the election of
1828?
11.What term refers to a group of President Jackson’s advisors who sometimes
met in the White House kitchen?
12.Who was the Cherokee that used 86 characters to represent Cherokee
syllables to create a writing system for their own complex language
13.Who objected to the so-called Tariff of Abominations since they felt it
would hurt their economy?
14.Which political party favored a weak president and a strong Congress?
15.What event sparked a dispute over the right of the states to reject a federal
law as unconstitutional?
16.Who was the Indian leader who decided to fight U.S. officials rather than
leave Illinois?
17.Which Supreme Court case stated that only the federal government had
authority over Native Americans?
18.What was the forced march to Indian Territory taken by the Cherokee
called?
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19.Which politician from South Carolina advanced the states’ rights doctrine?
20.Which Supreme Court case held that the national bank was constitutional?
21.What is the practice of rewarding loyal supporters with government jobs
called?
22.Who argued that the United States was one nation, not a pact among
independent states?
23.Where was “Indian Territory?”
24.Who was one of Andrew Jackson’s strongest allies in his official cabinet?
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