Ch 10 Practice Quizizz

Jackson's idea about political rights and equality included:

• all men

• all white men and white women

• everyone lived in the United States

• only white men

In the election of 1828, Andrew Jackson's Democratic Party...

• wanted a strong central government

• supported a national bank

• favored states' rights

• was dominated by wealthy merchants and farmers

The practice of replacing current government employees with supporters of the winning candidate is the...

• reciprocal system

• buddy system

• spoils system

• tariff system

Which statement describes 'The Trail of Tears'?

• The blood shed by the Indians at the Battle of Little Bighorn

• The line connecting Natives from sea to shining sea

• The path Chief Osceola took on his way to prison in Florida

• The involuntary 800-1000 mile march Cherokee Indians made in their removal from Georgia

Why did President Jackson create the spoils system?

• to choose his Cabinet members

• to create a new Cabinet position

• to give jobs to his supporters

• to choose a justice for the Supreme Court

From which group did Andrew Jackson receive the most support in the election of 1828?

• Republicans

• common people

• rich upper-class

• Native Americans

The Indian Removal Act relocated thousands of Cherokees from Georgia to Indian Territory for the purpose of _________.

• making the land available for white settlers and farmers
• allowing the Cherokee their freedom from U.S. control
• obeying the Supreme Court's order to move the Cherokee
• creating a wilderness area for use by French trappers

The Seminole people successfully resisted their removal from which present day state?

• Louisiana

• South Carolina

• Georgia

• Florida

What did the Indian Removal Act of 1830 authorize President Andrew Jackson to do?

• declare war on any Native American tribe who resisted the relocation treaties

• negotiate treaties to relocate Native American tribes west of the Mississippi River

• remove Native Americans from their lands to attend English-speaking schools

• forcibly remove all Native Americans to reservations in the eastern United States without pay for their land

What proclamation led the Trail of Tears under President Andrew Jackson?

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Gettysburg Address

• Indian Removal Act

• War of 1812