Choose True or False

Click on the correct answer.


1	Jackson ran for president three times.
		True
		False




2	Martin Van Buren ran for president in 1840 as "a common man of the people."
		True
		False




3	Andrew Jackson made the presidentcy stronger by vetoing more bills than all his predecessors combined.
		True
		False




4	Many states took away the right to vote from free blacks at the same time that they were making it easier for white men to vote.
		True
		False




5	Andrew Jackson believed that the final source of government power comes from the states and so the states could nullify the laws of Congress within their own state boundaries.
		True
		False







6	One of the causes of the Panic of 1837 was that there was too much paper money in circulation.
		True
		False




7	The 'spoils system' refers to the group of informal advisers to Jackson.
		True
		False




8	During the Jackson presidency the nation was out of debt for the first and only time.
		True
		False




9	During the 1830s and 1840s there was a noted decrease in people trying to settle in western lands.
		True
		False




10	The Supreme Court ruled in the Worcester v. Georgia case that the Cherokee needed to move from their land to the Inidan land west of the Mississippi River.
		True
		False




11	Nominating conventions replaced caucuses as a way to choose a candidate and thus gave people a more direct voice in politics.
		True
		False




12	Martin Van Buren was the leader of the new Whig party.
		True
		False