U.S. History A Quiz: The Age of Jackson and Democracy, 1820–1840

Which group’s voting rights expanded in the early nineteenth century?

• women

• Native Americans

• men who did not own property

• free African Americans

What was the lasting impact of the Bucktail Republican Party in New York?

• They elevated Martin Van Buren to the national political stage.

• They pushed for the expansion of the canal system.

• They implemented universal suffrage.

• They changed state election laws from an appointee system to a system of open elections.

What was the actual result of Andrew Jackson’s policy of “rotation in office”?

• the creation of the Kitchen Cabinet

• a replacement of Adams’s political loyalists with Jackson’s political loyalists

• the filling of government posts with officials chosen by the people

• an end to corruption in Washington

South Carolina threatened to nullify which federal act?

• the expansion of the transportation infrastructure

• the rotation in office that expelled several federal officers

• the abolition of slavery

• the protective tariff on imported goods

How did President Jackson respond to Congress’s re-chartering of the Second Bank of the United States?

• He signed it into law.

• He vetoed it.

• He gave states the right to implement it or not.

• He wrote a different proposal.

How were Native Americans viewed by most Americans in the 1820s?

• as savages

• as slaves

• as shamans

• as being in touch with nature

Which BEST characterizes the 1830 Indian Removal Act?

• an example of President Jackson forcing Congress to pursue an unpopular policy

• an example of the widespread hatred of Native Americans during the Age of Jackson

• an example of laws designed to integrate Native Americans into American life

• an effort to deprive the Cherokee of their slave property

Which party won the election of 1840?

• an Anti-Federalist

• a Democrat

• a Whig

• a Democratic-Republican

What term refers to the forced removal of the Cherokee and other tribes to the territory that is now Oklahoma?

• Trail of Tears

• Indian Wars

• Five Civilized Tribes

• Mourning Wars