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The Age of Jackson
Section 1
DIRECTIONS Read each sentence and fill in the blank with the word in
the word pair that best completes the sentence.
1. Meetings to select the party’s presidential and vice presidential candidates are
called
. (Kitchen Cabinets/nominating conventions)
2. Secretary of State
was one of President Andrew
Jackson’s strongest allies in his official cabinet.
(John C. Calhoun/Martin Van Buren)
3. The South Carolina senator that Andrew Jackson chose to be his vice presidential
running mate was
.
(John C. Calhoun/Martin Van Buren)
4. One group of trusted advisers to President Jackson called the
was an informal group that sometimes met in the
White House. (Kitchen Cabinet/nominating convention)
5. A practice known as the
was when an elected official
rewarded some of his supporters with government jobs.
(spoils system/nominating convention)
DIRECTIONS On the line provided before each statement, write T if a
statement is true and F if a statement is false. If the statement is false,
write the correct term on the line after each sentence that makes the
sentence a true statement.
______ 6. The backers of Andrew Jackson were mostly farmers, frontier settlers, and
southern slaveholders.
______ 7. The political party that supported Andrew Jackson was known as the
Democratic Party.
______ 8. John C. Calhoun was elected president of the United States in 1828.
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march from their homeland
9. Bureau of Indian Affairs
10. Trail of Tears
11. Black Hawk
SECTION 1
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
nominating conventions
Martin Van Buren
John C. Calhoun
Kitchen Cabinet
spoils system
T
T
F; Andrew Jackson was elected president
of the United States in 1828.
Biography–John C.
Calhoun
1. Possible response: Calhoun served the
country in several political offices. He also
fought for the economies of the southern
states and remained influential in politics
by developing his nullification theory.
2. Possible response: Calhoun was from the
South, so a large part of the cotton market
depended on slave labor.
3. Students’ answers will vary.
SECTION 2
1. McCulloch v. Maryland upheld the con-
stitutionality of the Second Bank of the
United States.
2. William Henry Harrison belonged to the
Whig Party.
3. John C. Calhoun argued that tariffs violated the states’ rights doctrine.
4. Congress passed the Tariff of
Abominations in 1828, which included
high rates.
Biography–Sequoya
1. Possible response: The warriors had never
seen a written language used by their
own people and didn’t understand how
Sequoya was communicating with his
daughter.
2. Possible response: The Cherokee were
able to pass down their traditions through
reading and writing. This was especially
important because so many died as they
were being forced out west.
3. Students’ answers will vary.
SECTION 3
1. Indian chief of the Fox and Sauk Indians;
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
fought the U.S. Army
oversaw the federal policy toward Indians;
part of the U.S. government
authorized the removal of American
Indians who lived east of the Mississippi
River to lands in the West; a law passed by
Congress under pressure from President
Jackson
new homeland for removed peoples; contained what is mostly Oklahoma today
a Seminole leader; led the Seminole in the
Second Seminole War
a Cherokee; used 86 characters to represent Cherokee syllables to create a written
language
a Supreme Court ruling that said the
Cherokee nation is a distinct community,
occupying its own territory; ruling that
said the states had no power over Native
Americans
Cherokee’s 800-mile forced march to
Indian Territory; Cherokee suffered from
disease, hunger, and harsh weather on this
Biography–Black Hawk
1. Possible response: American Indians did
not have the same rights as the white
Americans. Therefore, Jackson and others
probably viewed them as inferior and not
entitled to own property.
2. Possible response: Black Hawk was stating that he was as powerful a leader as
Jackson.
3. Students’ answers will vary.
Biography–Daniel
Webster
1. Possible response: Jackson and Webster
disagreed on many issues except for their
opposition to nullification.
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