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1828-1860
(Jacksonian Democracy- Beginning of Civil War)
Sarah Cho, Sheena Chu, and Tyler Otahal
What set off the Nullification Crisis
in South Carolina?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Compromise of 1850
Controversy over slavery
Election of 1828
Peggy Eaton
Fear of the slave issue being addressed
Why did Andrew Jackson initiate
the Bank war?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
He hated money
The anti-bank philosophy of Jacksonian Democracy
in which it was thought that the bank was using
money to influence politics (against him).
He had an old grudge against a banker
His father was a banker
He enjoyed pet banks
How did Andrew Jackson appoint
federal offices?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Popular sovereignty
Merit
Spoils System
Pity
With the Tenure of Office Act
What set the renewed agitation over
the Brooks- Sumner issue in motion?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
The Great Compromise of 1850
The Missouri Compromise
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
The Kansas- Nebraska Act of 1854
The Tariff of Abominations
Why did squatter sovereignty, (popular
sovereignty) come about?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
To allow the controversial issue of slavery to be
accepted by both the north and the south in their
own terms
National leaders were pro- choice
To force the people in the South to agree to use
compensated emancipation to abolish slavery.
A fair system was wanted by the people
Slavery was not controversial
What is the best description of clothing
during the Jacksonian period?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
The upper class wore silk clothing while the lower and
middle class wore rough clothing.
Men and women of all classes wore long sleeved shirts, long
pants or skirts, and had long hair.
All women wore the same style dress, and men had short
hair and wore pantaloons, with subtle differences in taste or
quality of material.
Lower class people wore dark colors while upper and middle
class people wore bright colors to make them stand out in
the crowd.
Lower class people wore bright clothing, so the upper and
middle class could easily pick them out and laugh at them.
In 1860, what percentage of white
Southerners belonged to slave-owning
families?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
99%
10%
75%
50%
25%
Slaveholders justified slavery by…
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
The fact that they had paid money for
them
Giving the slaves half of their profits
Treating them as their equal
Supposed mental and moral inferiority of
Africans
Promising the slaves freedom
Which of the following contributed
to the increase of slaves?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
The upper South was moving back to
agriculture after failed industrialization
The invention of the Cotton Gin
The rise of “King Sugar”
The discovery of how to grow rice and sugar
on small farms
The number of slaves didn’t increase, it
decreased.
Which of the following was NOT a
proslavery argument?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Enslavement was the natural and proper
status for people of African descent
Slavery was enforced by the Bible and
Christianity
Blacks are naturally dependent
Blacks love being tortured and enjoy
working as much as possible for Whites
Master-slave relationships were more
humane than employer-wage laborers
Which of the following didn’t provide
the United States with more land?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Gadsden Purchase
Manifest Destiny
Adams- Onis Treaty
Webster- Ashburton Treaty
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Wilmot Proviso did what to the
US expansion?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Made Mexico give Texas to the United States.
Ended the Mexican American War.
It stated that all land acquired from the Mexican
American War would be slave free.
Wanted all territories gained from the Mexican
American War to be slave territory
All disputed land from the Mexican American war
would be returned to Mexico
The Free Soil party wanted all of
the following except?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Slavery in the United States territories
President Martin Van Buren to be reelected.
Remove existing laws that discriminated
against freed blacks
Homestead act and a tariff for revenue only
Free Soil Party wanted all of the above
The fugitive slave act denied blacks
all of the following except?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
The right to testify on their own behalf
The right to a jury
The right to walk freely
The right to basic constitutional rights
The right to be returned to their
previous white slave owner
The know-nothing party pushed for
all of the following except?
A.
B.
C.
D.
To strengthen the immigrant voting
power
Immigrants to be departed from
America
Destroying the immigrant vote
Reducing immigrant jobs