1. Which statement BEST explains how and why white male suffrage expanded in the first three decades of the 1800s?

A.
New states entering the union established white male suffrage in their state constitutions.

B.
This was the agenda pushed by journalists across the political spectrum.

C.
Only white men really wanted to gain access to voting and full citizenship during those decades.

D.
The Founding Fathers had written this expansion into the Constitution.

2. How did President Jackson set about destroying the Second Bank of the United States?

A.
He called for a Constitutional amendment, which was enacted during his last year in office.

B.
He took federal monies out of the bank, which ultimately led to its collapse.

C.
He fought a duel against the bank’s director, who lived but did as Jackson wanted.

D.
He worked with Congress to defund the bank.

3. Which statement BEST summarizes Andrew Jackson’s version of democratic populism?

A.
He started and led the Populist party.

B.
He railed against the power of the federal government allied with business elites.

C.
He thought that business interests from the northern states deserved better representation in government.

D.
He called for the federal government to expand its authority in order to enhance the power of the people.

4. Which statement BEST highlights the differences between what Henry Clay and Andrew Jackson wanted?

A.
The differences between the two centered primarily on their foreign policy visions.

B.
Clay preferred a states’ rights approach to federal power intervention, whereas Jackson considered himself a federalist at heart.

C.
Jackson and Clay agreed about the need to have the federal government build roads and canals throughout the United States.

D.
Jackson advocated limited use of federal power over the economy in contrast to Clay’s American System of road building.

5. What were the effects of Jacksonian democracy on the Cherokee people of Georgia and South Carolina?

A.
The lives of the Cherokee people improved overall after the Second Bank of the United States was shut down.

B.
Most Cherokee men voted for Andrew Jackson and had their support well rewarded by his successor, Martin Van Buren.

C.
The vast majority of Cherokee people in Georgia and South Carolina lost their homes and land as Jacksonian democracy swept the nation.

D.
The Cherokee had already been absorbed into the Choctaw and Seminole nations prior to Jackson’s presidency.