Review Questions

1. Which group saw an expansion of their voting rights in the early nineteenth century?
free Black people
non-property-owning men
women
Native Americans

2. What was the lasting impact of the Bucktail Republican Party in New York?
They implemented universal suffrage.
They pushed for the expansion of the canal system.
They elevated Martin Van Buren to the national political stage.
They changed state election laws from an appointee system to a system of open elections.

3. Who won the popular vote in the election of 1824?
Andrew Jackson
Martin Van Buren
Henry Clay
John Quincy Adams

4. Why did Andrew Jackson and his supporters consider the election of John Quincy Adams to be a “corrupt bargain”?

5. Who stood to gain from the Tariff of Abominations, and who expected to lose by it?

6. What was the actual result of Jackson’s policy of “rotation in office”?
an end to corruption in Washington
a replacement of Adams’s political loyalists with Jackson’s political loyalists
the filling of government posts with officials the people chose themselves
the creation of the Kitchen Cabinet

7. The election of 1828 brought in the first presidency of which political party?
the Democrats
the Democratic-Republicans
the Republicans
the Bucktails

8. What were the planks of Andrew Jackson’s campaign platform in 1828?

9. What was the significance of the Petticoat affair?

10. South Carolina threatened to nullify which federal act?
the abolition of slavery
the expansion of the transportation infrastructure
the protective tariff on imported goods
the rotation in office that expelled several federal officers

11. How did President Jackson respond to Congress’s re-chartering of the Second Bank of the United States?
He vetoed it.
He gave states the right to implement it or not.
He signed it into law.
He wrote a counterproposal.

12. Why did the Second Bank of the United States make such an inviting target for President Jackson?

13. What were the philosophies and policies of the new Whig Party?

14. How did most White people in the United States view Native Americans in the 1820s?
as savages
as being in touch with nature
as enslaved people
as shamans

15. The 1830 Indian Removal Act is best understood as ________.
an example of President Jackson forcing Congress to pursue an unpopular policy
an illustration 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 enslaved property

16. What was the Trail of Tears?

17. The winner of the 1840 election was ________.
a Democrat
a Democratic-Republican
an Anti-Federalist
a Whig

18. Which of the following did not characterize political changes in the 1830s?
higher voter participation
increasing political power of free Black voters
stronger partisan ties
political battles between Whigs and Democrats

19. How did Alexis de Tocqueville react to his visit to the United States? What impressed and what worried him?