Vocab
What is the name of the new homeland for Native Americans, which contained most of present-day Oklahoma?
Bonus: Name a tribe who was sent here +100pts
What is the Indian Territory
Bonus: Cherokee, Sauk, Fox, Chickasaw, Choctaw, or Creek +100pts
What is the name of the act that authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River?
Bonus: Why were the Native Americans moved? +500pts
What is the Indian Removal Act
Bonus: Because President Andrew Jackson wanted this land for new white settlers to improve the South's economy. = +500pts
Who was Jackson’s vice presidential running mate?
Which state did he originate from and represent? = +100pts
Who was John C. Calhoun
South Carolina = +200pts
Fill in the blank:
The Panic of 1837 was caused by President Andrew Jackson's:
- Poor banking policies
- Poor military spending
- Poor tariff expansion
- Poor property taxation
Bonus: What was Jackson trying to accomplish? +300pts
What is his poor banking policies
Bonus: He wanted to fix the economy in the south. +300pts
True or False:
Alexander Hamilton was the 6th president.
Bonus: If you said false, then fix it. = +100pts
False, Alexander Hamilton was never the president
Bonus: John Quincy Adams was 6th president. = +100pts
What is the 800-mile forced march westward in which one-fourth of the 18,000 Cherokee died called?
Bonus: Where did Cherokee that did not take this walk flee to? = +200pts
What is the Trail of Tears
Bonus: The mountains of North Carolina = +100pts
What is the practice of rewarding political supporters with government jobs by Andrew Jackson called?
Bonus: Who was Jackson's biggest supporter and which job did he recieve? = +200pts
What is the Spoils system.
Bonus: Who was Martin Van Buren and he became Secretary of State = +200pts
Who was the secretary of state in Jackson’s cabinet?
How did this person receive this job? Does this person hold any other government jobs? = +200pts
Who was Martin Van Buren
Andrew Jackson's spoils system. Yes he will become the 8th president after Jackson = +200pts
Why did Jackson support the Indian Removal Act?
What is he argued that opening NA lands to white settlement would improve the economy.
Name presidents 1, 3, & 5.
Who are
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson &
James Monroe
What is the nickname given to a tariff by the southerners who opposed it?
Bonus: Why did Southerners oppose this tariff? = +100pts
What is the Tariff of Abominations
Bonus: Because they could not afford to pay it or their necessities which came from Europe = +100pts
What is the name of the financial crisis that led to a severe economic depression?
Bonus: Who caused this incident? & who was blamed? = +200pts
What is the Panic of 1837
Andrew Jackson, but Martin Van Buren was blamed +100pts
Who was the general and the Whig presidential candidate in 1840?
Bonus: Which # president will he become? = +100pts
Who is William Henry Harrison
Bonus: President #8 = +100pts
In which ways did the Cherokee resist relocation?
Bonus: Which state were the Cherokee removed from? = +200pts
What is fighting in court and adopting white culture
Bonus: Georgia, GA = +200pts
Name presidents 2, 4, & 6.
Who are
John Adams
James Madison &
John Q. (Quincy) Adams
What are the public meetings to select a party’s presidential and vice presidential candidates called?
What are Nominating Conventions
What was the name for the dispute over whether states had the right to nullify, or disobey, any federal law with which they disagreed called?
Bonus: What document started all of this and who backed it to the point of resignation? = +200
What is the Nullification Crisis
Bonus: The States' Rights Doctrine backed by John C. Calhoun = +200pts
Who was the Seminole leader who called on Native Americans to resist removal by force?
Where was this group located? = +200pts
Who was Osceola
Seminole Native Americans of Florida = +200pts
Did Andrew Jackson advance the cause of democracy? Why or why not?
What is yes and no, yes because he formed nominating conventions during his campaign but also caused inflation from attacking the 2nd federal bank by redistributing national funds back to state banks.
Name ALL presidents 1-9 BACKWARDS! Start with #9 and go, 8, 7, 6...
Bonus: Name a President from 1-9 who ONLY got the chance to serve 1 term (hint there are only 3 and 1 who died a month into office)= +500pts
Who are:
9: William Henry Harrison
8: Martin Van Buren
7: Andrew Jackson
6: John Q. Adams
5: James Monroe
4: James Madison
3: Thomas Jefferson
2: John Adams &
1: George Washington
Bonus: John Adams, John Q. Adams, Martin Van Buren, & William Henry Harrison = 1 TERM ONLY = 500pts a piece if named.