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President Andrew Jackson used the spoils system to
a) veto bills he disliked
b) enforce Supreme Court decisions
c) move Native American Indians off their traditional lands
d) provide jobs to political party supporters

As a result of President Andrew Jackson’s policies, Native American Indians were
a) relocated to reservations in Mexico
b) forcibly removed to areas west of the Mississippi River
c) gradually allowed to return to their ancestral lands
d) given United States citizenship

Starting with the election of President Andrew Jackson (1828), voter participation increased due to the
a) passage of an amendment ending religious qualifications for voting
b) end of property requirements for voting by many states
c) extension of suffrage to Native American Indians
d) arrival of more immigrants from nations with democratic governments

A major reason for President Andrew Jackson’s policy toward the Cherokee Nation was to
a) provide Native American Indians with better farmland
b) enforce the United States Supreme Court decision in Worcester v. Georgia (1832)
c) obtain land from Native American Indians for white settlers
d) gain the political support of Native American Indians

One way in which the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (1798) and the South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification (1832) are similar is that each
a) claimed that individual states have the right to interpret federal laws
b) formed part of the unwritten constitution
c) supported the federal government’s power to declare war
d) provided a way for new states to enter the Union

Which Supreme Court decision is most closely associated with the Trail of Tears?
a) Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
b) McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
c) Worcester v. Georgia (1832)
d) Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)

The Declaration of Sentiments from the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 proclaimed that
a) the abolition of slavery was necessary
b) California should be admitted as a free state
c) all men and women are created equal
d) the sale of alcoholic beverages should be illegal

The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 is often viewed as the beginning of the
a) temperance movement
b) antislavery movement
c) Native American Indian movement
d) women’s rights movement

William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Tubman, and Harriet Beecher Stowe are best known for their efforts to
a) oppose the practice of slavery
b) create free public schools
c) begin the temperance movement
d) expand the rights of women

During the 1840s, abolitionists opposed annexation of new western territory because they
a) feared the admission of new slave states
b) wanted to limit the power of the national government
c) were concerned with the legal rights of Native American Indians
d) supported an isolationist foreign policy

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