Review for the APUSH Exam

APUSH Review

Review for the APUSH Exam

APUSH EXAM 1st QUARTER REVIEW

This was the first college in what is now the United States

Harvard

The first blacks brought into what is now the United States probably

came as ? indentured servants

The colonists in Virginia were lulled into a false sense of security

because of the ? of John Rolfe to Pocahontas marriage

In the colonies there were less restrictions against ?

Women

This colony required each community of 50 or more families to provide a

teacher of reading and writing Massachusetts

The Aztecs were so receptive to Cortez they were waiting for a white

bearded ? god

This person’s importance is that he started a permanent relationship be

tween Europe and the Americas Columbus

Roger Williams believed that the state was an improper and ineffectual

agency in matters of ? religion

This was the first constitution in the New World

The Mayflower Compact

The chief purpose of this policy was to strengthen the economy and

power of the mother country mercantilism

This war occurred because the Wampanoag Indians were frustrated with

the land-hungry settlers King Philip’s

This colony's charter was issued to a Roman Catholic Maryland

Peter Minuit purchased ? ? from the Indians for 60 guilders

Manhattan Island

At his trial, John Peter Zenger won acquittal on the grounds that ?

is an adequate defense truth

This person was the epitome of the mulitalented colonial American--a

newspaper man, writer, inventor, etc. Benjamin Franklin

According to Jean de Crevecoeur, “The American is a ? ? ” new man

This was the primary Puritan "social" institution the family

The 1649 Maryland Toleration Act granted religious freedom to all ?

Christians

Most of the colonists earned their living by ? farming

Religious and secular tension led to the ? Trials in Salem, Massa

chusetts in 1692-93 Witchcraft

The Great Awakening played a part in breaking down sectional and paro-

chial feelings and was the first national/ ? mass movement in the English colonies

This person helped the Pilgrims plant corn Squanto

Many American colonists did not like the Proclamation of 1763 because

it threatened to deprive them of ? lands that they desired

western

The British maintained a standing army in North America for the first

time following this war French and Indian

This was organized to broaden the base of colonial opposition and to

show hostility to the Stamp Tax the Sons of Liberty

Parliament passed these acts as a result of the Boston Tea Party

Coercive/Intolerable acts

This person said, "Give me liberty or give me death"

Patrick Henry

This was designed to keep the various colonies informed about British

activities Committees of Correspondence

This English political philosopher believed in natural rights--such as

life, liberty, and property John Locke

A notorious aspect of Pontiac's Rebellion occurred when a British officer traded blankets infested with ? to the Indians smallpox

This act attempted to crack down on smuggling by American merchants

American Revenue/Sugar

This act gave Parliament the power to legislate in the colonies in all

cases whatsoever Declaratory

In his Farewell Address, Washington warned against any ? Foreign

alliances permanent

This person defended the idea of no taxation without representation by

arguing that to tax people without their consent violated English law John Dickinson

Probably the most effective action the colonists took against the British was drastically reducing ? with Great Britain trade

The protest against customs duties and the presence of soldiers led to

This Boston Massacre

This incident involved the burning of a British ship that was used to

capture smugglers Gaspee

The First Continental Congress was a reaction to the passage of these

acts Intolerable

This was the colonists statement of war against Great Britain

the Declaration of Independence

Washington surprised the Hessians at ? By crossing the Delaware

River the morning after Christmas in 1776 Trenton

In his pamphlet Common Sense, this person defended the idea of American

independence on the grounds that people should not pledge

allegiance to a king and a corrupt government Thomas Paine

A positive outcome of the harsh winter at this place was that the Con

tinental army trained hard and became more disciplined

Valley Forge

Following the Battle of Saratoga this nation formed an alliance with

the United States France

Although the British were quite capable of continuing the war the loss

at this battle brought a more favorable climate to negotiate a

peace with the United States of America Yorktown

Concern over Congressional authority to set westward limits to state

boundaries created the most bitter debate over the Dickinson draft

for a ? during the early years of the American Revolution constitution

The most important part of the Treaty of Paris recognized the ? of

The United States independence

This was the United States’ first constitution the Articles of Confederation

After the war, United States merchants experienced a postwar ? depression

Under the Articles of Confederation governmental power was basically

in the hands of the ? state governments

The ? ? of 1785 established the rectangular method of land survey Land Ordinance

The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 prohibited ? in northwestern territories slavery

This rebellion was a factor leading to the Constitutional Convention

Shay's

This person is often called the "Father of the Constitution"

James Madison

The ? Compromise dealt with representation in the House of Representatives Great

The concern that the Constitution lacked a Bill of Rights accurately

describes an argument of this “group” of people Anti-Federalists

The Federalist Papers were written in defense of the ? Constitution

This person’s economic program was designed primarily to establish the

financial stability and credit of the new government

Alexander Hamilton

The ? Rebellion was spurred by opposition to Hamilton's excise tax

Whiskey

The ? ? was significant because it gave the United States

control of the Mississippi River Louisiana Purchase

In order to prevent further European colonization of the Americas the

United States issued the ? ? Monroe Doctrine

This was the first profession open to American women teaching

President Andrew Jackson viewed ? as a dangerous and treasonous af

front to the union nullification

The term “midnight judges” describes the appointments this president

made at the end of his term of office John Adams

The Supreme Court decision in Marbury v. Madison established this principle judicial review

This “affair” involved a demand for a bribe XYZ

The election of 1800 was contentious and bitter because Federalist’s in

the House of Representatives sought to deny the presidency Thomas Jefferson

This compromise brought Missouri and Maine into the Union

Missouri

An honest appraisal of Jackson's Indian policies reveals that he

believed in ? forced removal after getting legislation passed

The election of 1824 has been known by the term "the corrupt bargain"

because it was felt that this man unduly used his influence to de

termine the stalemated outcome Henry Clay

The foreign policy goals of Jefferson and Madison before 1812 were to

maintain United States' ? rights without going to war neutral

The ? ? features a strategy in which government jobs are given

to supporters of the victorious party spoils system

When Henry Clay tried to make the ? ? ? ? ? a key

campaign issue in 1832, Jackson turned the tables on him by vehemently

opposing rechartering it Bank of the United States

The Lewis and Clark expedition was known as the ? Corps of Discovery

This act passed in 1807 ruined United States shipping Embargo

The ? Canal was significant because it tied the manufacturing of

the East to the farming of the West Erie

The invention of the ? ? increased southern planters’ reliance

on slaves cotton gin

(2 pointer) These two women were the catalysts for the women rights

movement in the late 1840s Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott

The Supreme Court's decision in this case strengthened national power

over the states McCulloch v. Maryland

Massachusetts represented an example of recruitment of work-

ers through the ? Waltham/ Lowell system

During the 1840's this form of transportation became the most dynamic

means of interregional trade railroads

(2 pointer) Under the leadership of ? and his brother known as the

? an intertribal confederation of Native Americans was organized

Tecumseh AND the Prophet

Transcendentalists believed that intuition and emotion were the keys to

finding ? truth

This convention issued a historic declaration of women’s rights

Seneca Falls

APUSH EXAM 2d QUARTER REVIEW

The dominant issue in the election of 1844 was the annexation of ?

Texas

President Lincoln was reluctant to emancipate the slaves in the first

year of the Civil War because he feared that emancipation would drive

the ? ? s out of the Union border states

This freed the slaves of all states in rebellion the Emancipation

Proclamation

The statement "It is our God-given right to spread our democracy and

culture across the continent" would most likely have been said by a

believer in ? ? manifest destiny

Acquiring California was the cornerstone of this president’s foreign

policy James K. Polk

Most Northerners began fighting to preserve the ? but also came to

see that slavery must be ended Union

The ? was a resolution which would have forbid slavery in any

territory acquired from Mexico Wilmot Proviso

The Compromise of 1850 prohibited the slave trade in the ? ?

? District of Columbia

This influential novel was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle

Tom's Cabin

This person hoped that his raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia would start

a slave rebel- lion in the state of Virginia John Brown

The Compromise of 1850 allowed ? to be admitted as a free state

California

According to this person’s idea of popular sovereignty the status of

slavery in a territory would be determined by the voters in the

territory Stephen Douglas

In this controversial decision, the Supreme Court declared that

Congress did not have the right to regulate slavery in the

territories Dred Scott

The actual fighting of the Mexican War began when United States forces

moved into the territory between the Nueces and ? ? rivers

Rio Grande

This was the first person Lincoln asked to command Union armies

Robert E. Lee

The Compromise of 1850 provided for a stronger the ? ? law

fugitive slave

In the controversial Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court declared

that blacks were not ? of the United States citizens

One of the factors that led to the defeat of the South in 1865 was ?

’s march through Georgia William T. Sherman

In the ? Doctrine Stephen Douglas stated that slavery could exist

in a territory only if residents passed a law to protect it Freeport

Lincoln’s response to reports that Grant was back to his old drinking

habits and should be fired was, “He ? ‘s” fights

? were Northern Democrats suspected of having Confederate sympathies

Copperheads

The New York ? Riot turned into violence based on social class and

racism Draft

Union victories in the West gave them the key strategic control of the

? River Mississippi

This person was known for performing nursing duties in dangerous

situations Clara Barton

An ironic frustration for the Confederate government was that their

belief in ? ‘S ? harmed the Confederate war effort state's rights

This person’s effective strategy for winning the war was based on

coordinating the Union's efforts on all fronts of the war Ulysses Grant

Effects of the Union's takeover of Atlanta included the boosting of ?

‘S campaign for reelection Abraham Lincoln's

The Compromise of 1850 a territorial government for the rest of the

acquisition from Mexico without reference to ? Slavery

President Lincoln suspended the right of ? ? for the purpose of

making it easier to arrest and hold suspected Confederate agents

habeas corpus

One of the factors that led to the defeat of the South in 1865 was ?

’s war of attrition in Virginia Ulysses Grant

One of the factors that led to the defeat of the South in 1865 was the

Confederacy’s failure to obtain ? foreign Intervention

This person invented the phonograph Thomas Edison

The purpose of Lincoln’s and Johnson’s plan for ? was to encourage

rapid readmis- sion of ex-Confederate states into the Union

Reconstruction

In urban, working-class neighborhoods of the early twentieth century,

? groups lived in mixed or neighboring sections of town ethnic

This person started as a $1.20 a week bobbin boy and developed an

empire in steel Andrew Carnegie

? ? laws established segregation as an institution in southern

states Jim Crow

The ? Affair involved a bombing at a protest rally of strikers

Haymarket

This amendment to the Constitution outlawed slavery everywhere in the

United States Thirteenth

This person controlled New York City politics during the 1860s and

early 1870s William Tweed

One of the results of President Andrew Johnson's clash with Congress

for control of Reconstruction was that he was ? ed but not

convicted impeached

This term described nonunion workers who replaced union workers during

a strike scabs

This was probably the most famous amusement park around the turn of the

twentieth century Coney Island

According the this amendment the right to vote could not be denied “on

account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude” Fifteenth

Following the election of 1876 a special ? commission determined

who would be the president electoral

This president proposed the Ten Percent Plan Abraham Lincoln

This film promoted an image of romanticized heroism by the Ku Klux Klan

Birth of a Nation

Thomas Nast is said to be the creator of the modern political ?

cartoon

The ? Civil Service Act began the move toward ending the spoils

system Pendleton

In 1865, a number of southern states passed ? ? in order to

control movement and provide a stable work force for the plantations

black codes

During Reconstruction this organization attempted to stop blacks from