Westward Expansion Review

How did the typical southern farmer feel about protective tariffs?

• They would like protective tariffs because they protect their crops

• They would dislike protective tariffs because they protect foreign crops from competition

• They would like protective tariffs because they give farmers small tax cuts

• They would dislike protective tariffs because they protect business not agriculture

All of the following are true of the Industrial Revolution EXCEPT:

• City sizes and populations decreased

• Social mobility attracted many immigrants

• There was a rapid growth in cities

• The South focused more on crops than industry

The Presidential Election of 1828 saw more attacks on the candidates’ personal lives rather than their political policies. We call this type of campaign a:

• gossip campaign

• mudslinging campaign

• Whig campaign

• spoils system

Andrew Jackson would have been most supportive of

• An Indian’s right to remain on their land

• continuing the National Bank

• The Whig Party

• expanding the rights of the “common man”

The nullification crisis involving South Carolina took place because John C. Calhoun and southern planters strongly disagreed with the

• Appeals process and Judicial Review

• Tariff of Abominations (1828)

• Charter for the 2nd US Bank

• Industrial Revolution

Supporters of nullification argued that states had the right to do what?

• Appoint judges

• Print paper money

• Void federal laws

• Charter State Banks

What is passed by Congress to allow Jackson to force South Carolina to pay the Tariff of 1828?

• Embargo Act

• Force Bill

• Tariff of Abominations

• Judicial Review

Manifest destiny is the belief that Americans have

• the right to peacefully live with the Native Americans in the United States

• the ability to change one’s own destiny through technology and innovation

• the God-given right to settle the land across the entire continent

• the power to tell the rest of the world to stay out of the Western Hemisphere

California was admitted to the Union as a free state, the New Mexico and Utah territories were organized using popular sovereignty, the slave trade was abolished in Washington, DC, and a new and more effective fugitive slave law was enacted under which compromise?

• Missouri Compromise

• Crittenden Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Great Compromise

What change in US politics did the election of Andrew Jackson represent?

• the growing influence of common people

• the growing influence of big businesses

• growing opposition to Manifest Destiny

• growing opposition to the spoils system