Author Question: How did slavery influence American politics in the early nineteenth century? What will be an ... (Read 61 times)

ts19998 · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

Which of the following upheld the Cherokees right to their lands?

A) Jackson administration
B) Van Buren administration
C) Georgia state legislature
D) Supreme Court

Question 2

Andrew Jackson is referred to as the Peoples President. To what extent did he live up to that name? To what extent did he fall short?

What will be an ideal response?

Question 3

How did slavery influence American politics in the early nineteenth century?

What will be an ideal response?

trampas · **Reply #1 on:** Sep 21, 2019

Answer 1

Answer: D

Answer 2

Answer: The ideal answer should include:
a. The participation of ordinary people, most of them from the West, in Jacksons inauguration highlights Jacksons appeal to the masses.
b. Jacksons victory over Nicholas Biddle in the battle over the Bank of the United States is considered a triumph of democracy.
c. However, the collapse of the Bank of the United States contributed to the financial Panic of 1937, which negatively affected many of the people Jackson represented.
d. Jacksons support of the Indian Removal Act benefited the people who were white.
e. However, Jacksons support of the Indian Removal Act hurt the people who were Indians.

Answer 3

Answer: The ideal answer should include:
a. The states in the North had abolished slavery and wanted to stop its spread.
b. The states in the South profited from slavery and wanted to encourage its spread.
c. Because the population in the Northern states was greater, those states controlled the House of Representatives.
d. As long as there was the same number of free states as slave states, the Southern states could block any move made in the Senate to abolish slavery.
e. In 1820, there were eleven free states and eleven slave states.
f. The Missouri Compromise finally granted Missouris application for statehood.
g. Maine was admitted as free state at the same time, thereby maintaining the balance between free and slave states.
h. The Missouri Compromise also established the latitude line of 3630 as the northern border of slave states to be created from the Louisiana Territory.