1. What have historians often called the
period in American history from 1824
to 1850?
2. For whom was this period named?
3. What did the Age of Jackson witness?
4. When was Andrew Jackson elected
president of the United States?
5. What group participated in the electoral
process for the first time during the Age
of Jackson?
6. Before the Age of Jackson, with whose
rule had the mass of American people
been content?
7. What type of government is an
aristocracy?
8. What is an aristocrat?
9. Before the 1828 election, with whom
had the majority of the American
people been satisfied with selecting
their president?
10. Why was the distinction between
“aristocrat” and common man
disappearing by the mid-1820s?
11. Define suffrage.
12. Define universal white manhood
suffrage.
13. What two types of voting requirements
did universal white manhood suffrage
eliminate?
14. During the Jacksonian period, what
action did many of the older states take
regarding voter qualifications?
15. What new method of choosing
presidential candidates was first used
during the 1828 election?
16. What is a national convention?
17. To what political party did Andrew
Jackson belong?
18. What did President Jackson use to
reward his political supporters?
1. the Age of Jackson
2. President Andrew Jackson
3. a new democratic spirit in American
politics
4. 1828
5. the American masses
6. the aristocracy’s
7. an aristocracy = a gov’t. in which power
is given to those believed to be best
qualified to rule
8. an aristocrat = a member of the ruling
class
9. the aristocrats
10. because new states were providing for
universal white manhood suffrage
11. suffrage = the right to vote
12. all adult white males can vote
13. 1) religious qualification; 2) property
qualification
14. either lowered or eliminated property
qualifications
15. national nominating conventions
16. national convention = a meeting of
members from the same political party to
choose that party’s candidates for president
and vice president
17. Democratic
18. the spoils system
19. What was the spoils system?
20. What was the major criticism of the
spoils system?
21. What type of reform did Jackson
consider the spoils system?
22. What did Jackson call the spoils
system, and why did Jackson believe it
benefited a democracy like the United
States?
23. How else did Andrew Jackson
champion democracy?
24. Why did Jackson distrust the Bank of
the United States?
25. Who made up the Eastern elite?
26. What action did President Jackson take
in 1832 on the bill to recharter the
BUS?
27. What is a presidential veto?
28. How did President Jackson’s veto of
the bank recharter bill differ from all
previous presidential vetoes?
29. What right did Jackson claim for the
president in his message vetoing
recharter of the Second BUS?
30. How did Andrew Jackson’s bank veto
make the presidential veto part of the
legislative or lawmaking process?
31. What precedent was set by President
Jackson’s bank veto?
32. What became the central issue in the
presidential election of 1832?
33. Who ran against President Jackson in
the 1832 election, and what was this
candidate’s political party?
34. What was Henry Clay’s position on the
Second Bank of the United States?
35. To what did the National Republican
Party change its name?
36. Who won an overwhelming victory in
the 1832 presidential election?
37. How did President Jackson interpret his
19. the spoils system = the practice of an
elected official giving government jobs to
his political supporters
20. it failed to put the most qualified people
in government jobs
21. a democratic reform
22. rotation-in-office; Jackson believed
every white male citizen should participate
in government service at some point during
his life
23. by opposing the Second Bank of the
United States
24. because Jackson believed the BUS was
an undemocratic tool of the Eastern elite
25. wealthy businessmen
26. vetoed it
27. veto = the power granted to the
President by the Constitution to prevent
passage of legislation by Congress;
literally, Latin for “I forbid”
28. it was not based solely on
constitutional grounds
29. a President had the right to veto bills
for any reason he wanted
30. before Congress passed a bill, they had
to consider whether the President might
veto it
31. later presidents could veto any bill they
didn’t like
32. Jackson’s bank veto
33. Henry Clay; National Republican
34. Clay supported the BUS.
35. the Whig Party
36. Andrew Jackson
37. as a sign that the American public
overwhelming victory in the 1832
presidential election?
38. What did Jackson make as a major goal
of his second term as president?
39. What action did President Jackson take
against the BUS?
40. How did Jackson’s reelection affect the
BUS?
41. What resulted from President Jackson’s
decision to withdraw all federal funds
from the BUS?
42. What was the Panic of 1837?
43. What group of Americans was
particularly hurt by the reforms of
Jacksonian democracy?
44. As white Americans moved westward
during the Jacksonian period, what two
things happened to the American
Indians?
45. What president proposed the Indian
Removal Act in 1830?
46. What did the Indian Removal Act in
1830?
47. What was the Trail of Tears?
48. What happened to nearly one-fourth of
the Cherokees on the Trail of Tears?
49. What happened to other Indians tribes
during the Jacksonian period?
50. What happened to American Indians
throughout the rest of the 19th century?
approved of his war on the BUS
38. to destroy the power of the BUS
39. withdrew all federal government money
from the BUS and deposited it in state
banks
40. brought an end to the Second Bank of
the United States
41. a major economic depression, which
led to the Panic of 1837
42. Panic of 1837 = an economic situation
that resulted from reckless land
speculation, which led to bank failures and
dissatisfaction with the use of state banks
as depositories for public funds
43. American Indians
44. 1) defeated in violent conflicts; 2)
removed from their ancestral lands
45. Jackson
46. required the forced relocation of the
Southeastern Indians to a new Indian
Territory in what is now Oklahoma
47. the forced journey of Cherokee Indians
from their homes in Georgia to a new
Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma
48. died of hardship, sickness, and
starvation
49. either relocated from Atlantic Coast
states to Oklahoma or confined to (made to
stay on) reservations
50. forcibly removed from their ancestral
lands; kicked off their land
51. Name another reform movement that
developed during the Jacksonian
period.
51. women’s rights movement
52. What was the main goal of the
women’s rights movement?
52. to give equal rights to American
women, especially the right to vote
53. When and where did the women’s
rights movement begin?
53. 1848; Seneca Fall, New York
54. What right for women did the Seneca
Falls Declaration support?
54. women’s suffrage or the right to vote
55. Who were two of the most important
leaders of the women’s suffrage
movement?
55. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B.
Anthony
56. Did the women’s suffrage movement
continue after the Civil War?
56. yes