Chapter 10

Which of the following statements is true regarding the Trail of Tears?

At least one-quarter of the Indians perished during the winter of 1838-1839.

Andrew Jackson was the standard-bearer for which political party?

Democrats

A significant theme of the Monroe Doctrine was that

European powers should refrain from further colonization in the Americas.

All of the states that entered the Union after the original thirteen made property ownership a requirement of voting, at least for a time. T/F

False

As working-class whites gained equal rights in the political arena, they grew increasingly critical of racial inequality. T/F

False

Both John C. Calhoun and Andrew Jackson believed in states' rights to nullify federal law. T/F

False

Despite his reputation for stubbornness, President Jackson proved timid and conciliatory during the nullification crisis and the Bank War. T/F

False

Free blacks gained the right to vote in every state in the Union after 1800. T/F

False

In Worcester v. Georgia, Chief Justice Marshall described Indians as "wards" of the federal government, deserving paternal protection. T/F

False

Which of the following was not a trend in American democracy during the 1820s and 1830s?

Ironically, as the number of eligible voters rose, voter turnout in elections declined.

This person refused to sign the Pennsylvania constitutional conversion document because it had a provision limiting suffrage to only whites and later became a leader in the drive for equal rights for African-Americans after the Civil War.

Thaddeus Stevens

Between Democrats and Whigs, the Democrats found greater support among subsistence farmers, aspiring entrepreneurs, and urban workers; the Whigs found greater support among wealthy landowners and well-connected businessmen. T/F

True

The Indian Sequoia developed an alphabet from the Cherokee language. T/F

True

The Second Bank of the United States held all the funds of the federal government and accumulated a large amount of paper money issued by local banks. T/F

True

How much of the adult white male population in the United States could vote by 1840?

approximately 90 percent

Pet banks were created when

both houses of Congress approved the president's appointment for a new pet bank, which handled more gold and silver than paper money.

The Tariff of 1816 protected goods produced in the United States, especially

cheap cotton textiles.

The government-sponsored construction of roads and canals in the early 1800s later deemed unconstitutional was called

internal improvements.

In the mid 1800s, this had replaced class as the boundary between those American men who were entitled to enjoy political freedom and those who were not.

race

President James Madison favored a system of national economic incentives for manufacturers, a protective tariff, a new national bank, and federal financing of roads and canals that came to be known as

the American System.

McCulloch v. Maryland ruled that

the Bank of the United States was constitutionally legal.

When Thomas Jefferson wrote, "This momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror," he was referring to

the westward expansion of slavery.

In the election of 1824, John Quincy Adams won the popular vote, but lost the electoral vote. T/F

False

President Andrew Jackson's inauguration was a quiet affair in which a small group of close-knit friends of the new president met at the White House for a solemn, elite dinner. T/F

False

While Whigs considered individual morality a private matter, not a public concern, Democrats insisted that liberty and power reinforced each other. T/F

False