Based on the image, what can be inferred about the spoils system?
10th Grade Post-Assess 3rd

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Skylar Fayth Smith
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
It was viewed as a dishonorable system of government corruption.
It was viewed as an honorable system that instituted a stronger sense of leadership.
It was viewed as a dishonorable system that paid Americans to better support their government.
It was an honorable system that shifted America's view of future presidents.
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Read the quote by Andrew Jackson, "The duties of all public officers are... so plain and simple that men of intelligence may readily qualify for their performance..." What action by President Andrew Jackson is best supported by this quote?
Allowing civil servants to remain in public office for life
Requiring political supporters to have previous government experience
Appointing political supporters to government positions
Requiring all civil servants to have a college education
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Use the information to answer the question. Why was the above sequence of events significant in the history of the Cherokee people?
It brought about the establishment of federal reservations in the eastern US.
It restored Cherokee land rights that had been granted during the colonial period.
It brought about the granting of citizenship rights to the Cherokee people.
It led to the Cherokee people being forced to move west of the Mississippi River.
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Read the list of reforms advocated by Dorothea Dix; establishment of prison libraries, fewer physical punishments, and shorter sentences for crimes. What was the broader goal of reforms like the ones in the list?
To reduce crime rates in the community
To allow religious groups to manage prisons
To support rehabilitation of prisoners
To make sure all prison inmates were literate
5.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Select the four statements that describe Transcendentalism during the Second Great Awakening.
Included writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Margaret Fuller
Provided support for reform in America, particularly the abolitionist movement
Philosophy that surrounded the importance of self-reliance and individual conscience
Literary movement that emphasized the unity of human beings and nature
Theory that explained the human need for societal norms and the status quo
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The influence of the Second Great Awakening is demonstrated by this excerpt because citizens were expected to... "Democracy is self-government, and can never be safe or useful except... to enforce by the power of public sentiment, the practice of those virtues which are indispensable to the highest good of any community." --Charles Grandison Finney 1851
Accept the legal supremacy of states' rights
Submit to political control by an elite minority
Unite to support constitutional reform policies
Surrender individual rights to guarantee majority rule
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
1836; 13 former slaves create the Second Baptist Church, 1837; Detroit Anti-Slavery Society is created, 1840; William Lambert and Sr. Joseph Ferguson assist 45,000 fugitive slaves with achieving freedom in Canada. Use this timeline to identify the Underground Railroad's importance in Michigan.
The Underground Railroad was very active in Michigan, and helped many fugitive slaves achieve freedom.
The Underground Railroad was active in Michigan, but did not help fugitive slaves achieve freedom.
The Underground Railroad was not active in Michigan, and did not help fugitive slaves achieve freedom.
If fugitive slaves made it to Michigan on the Underground Railroad they did not have to make it to Canada to achieve freedom.
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