Review for the APUSH exam Flashcards
Multitude of APUSH review questions going over previous materials learned throughout the course of the year
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765785399 | This was the first college in what is now the United States (Like all was made to train ministers) | Harvard | 0 | |
765785400 | The first blacks brought into what is now the U.S. probably came as ? ? (1619 in Jamestown) | indentured servants | 1 | |
765785401 | The colonists in Virginia were lulled into a false sense of security because of the ? | marriage of John Rolfe to Pocahontas | 2 | |
765785402 | In the colonies there were less restrictions against ? | women | 3 | |
765785403 | This colony required each community of 50 or more families to provide a teacher of reading and writing | Massachusetts | 4 | |
765785404 | The Aztecs were so receptive to Cortez they were waiting for a white bearded ? | god | 5 | |
765785405 | This person's importance is that he started a permanent relationship between Europe and the Americas | Columbus | 6 | |
765785406 | Roger Williams believed that the state was an improper and ineffectual agency in matters of ? | religion | 7 | |
765785407 | This was the first constitution in the New World | The Mayflower Compact | 8 | |
765785408 | The chief purpose of this policy was to strengthen the economy and power of the mother country | mercantilism | 9 | |
765785409 | This war occurred because the Wampanoag Indians were frustrated with the land-hungry settlers | King Phillip's War | 10 | |
765785410 | This colony's charter was issued to a Roman-Catholic | Maryland | 11 | |
765785411 | Peter Minuit purchased ? ? from the Indians for 60 guilders | Manhattan Island | 12 | |
765785412 | At his trial, John Peter Zenger won aquittal on the grounds that ? is an adequate defense | truth | 13 | |
765785413 | This person was the epitome of the multitalented colonial American-- a newspaper mas, writer, inventor, etc. | Benjamin Franklin | 14 | |
765785414 | According to Jean de Crevecoeur, "The American is a ? ? " | new man | 15 | |
765785415 | This was the primary Puritan "social" institution | the family | 16 | |
765785416 | The 1649 Maryland Toleration Act granted religious freedom to all ? | christians | 17 | |
765785417 | Most of the colonists earned their living by ? | farming | 18 | |
765785418 | Religious and secular tension led to the ? Trials in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692-93 | Witchcraft | 19 | |
765785419 | The Great Awakening played a part in breaking down sectional and parochial feelings and was the first national ? | movement in the English colonies | 20 | |
765785420 | This person helped the Pilgrims plant corn | Squanto | 21 | |
765785421 | Many American colonists did not like the Proclamation of 1763 because it threatened to deprive them of ? | the western lands that they desired | 22 | |
765785422 | The British maintained a standing army in North America for the first time following this war | French and Indian | 23 | |
765785423 | This was organized to broaden the base of colonial opposition and to show hostility to the Stamp Tax | the Sons of Liberty | 24 | |
765785424 | Parliament passed these act as a result of the Boston Tea Party | Coercive/Intolerable acts | 25 | |
765785425 | This person said, "Give me liberty or give me death" | Patrick Henry | 26 | |
765785426 | This was designed to keep the various colonies informed about British activities | Committees of Correspondance | 27 | |
765785427 | This English political philosopher believed in natural rights-- such as life, liberty, and property | John Locke | 28 | |
765785428 | A notorious aspect of Pontiac's Rebellion occurred when a British officer traded blankets infected with ? to the Indians | smallpox | 29 | |
765785429 | This act attempted to crack down on smuggling by American merchants | American Revenue/Sugar | 30 | |
765785430 | This act gave Parliament the power to legislate in the colonies in all cases whatsoever | declatory act | 31 | |
765785431 | In his Farewell Address, Washington warned against any ? | Permanent Foreign alliances | 32 | |
765785432 | This person defended the idea of no taxation without representation by arguing that to tax people without their consent violated English law | John Dickenson | 33 | |
765785433 | Probably the most effective action the colonists took against the British was drastically reducing ? with Great Britain | trade | 34 | |
765785434 | The protest against customs, duties, and the presence of soldiers led to this | Boston Massacre | 35 | |
765785435 | This incident involved the burning of a British ship that was used to capture smugglers | Gaspee | 36 | |
765785436 | The First Continental Congress was a reaction to the passage of these acts | Intolerable/Coercive | 37 | |
765785437 | This was the colonists statement of war against Great Britain | the Declaration of Independence | 38 | |
765785438 | Washington surprised the Hessians at ? by crossing the Delaware River the morning after Christmas in 1776 | Trenton | 39 | |
765785439 | 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 | 40 | |
765785440 | A positive outcome of the harsh winter at this place was that the Continental army trained hard and became more disciplined | Valley Forge | 41 | |
765785441 | Following the Battle of Saratoga, this nation formed an alliance with the U.S. | France | 42 | |
765785442 | 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 U.S. | Yorktown | 43 | |
765785443 | Concern over congressional authority to set westward limits to state boundaries created the most bitter debate over the Dickenson draft for a ? during the early years of the American Revolution | constitution | 44 | |
765785444 | The most important part of the Treaty of Paris recognized the ? of the United States | independence | 45 | |
765785445 | This was the U.S.' first constitution | the Articles of Confederation | 46 | |
765785446 | After the war, U.S. merchants experienced a postwar ? | depression | 47 | |
765785447 | Under the Articles of Confederation, governmental power was basically in the hands of the ? governments | state | 48 | |
765785448 | The ? ? of 1785 established the rectangular method of land survey | Land Ordinance | 49 | |
765785449 | The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 prohibited ? in northwestern territories to become states | slavery | 50 | |
765785450 | This rebellion was a factor leading to the Constitutional Convention | Shay's Rebellion | 51 | |
765785451 | This person is often called the "Father of the Constitution" | James Madison | 52 | |
765785452 | The ? dealt with representation in the House of Representatives | Great Compromise | 53 | |
765785453 | The concern that the Constitution lacked a Bill of Rights accurately describes an argument of this "group" of people | Anti-Federalists | 54 | |
765785454 | The Federalist Papers were written in defense of the Constitution by | Madison, Hamilton, and Jay | 55 | |
765785455 | This person's economic program was designed primarily to establish the financial stability and credit of the new government | Alexander Hamilton | 56 | |
765785456 | The ? rebellion was spurred by opposition to Hamilton's excise tax | Whiskey rebellion | 57 | |
765785457 | The ? ? was significant because it gave the U.S. control of the Mississippi River and the city of New Orleans | Louisiana Purchase | 58 | |
765785458 | In order to prevent further European colonization of the Americas, the U.S. issued the ? ? | Monroe Docrine | 59 | |
765785459 | This was the first profession open to American women | teaching | 60 | |
765785460 | President Andrew Jackson viewed ? as a dangerous and treasonous affront to the union | nullification | 61 | |
765785461 | The term "midnight judges" describes the appointments this president made at the end of his term in office | John Adams | 62 | |
765785462 | The Supreme Court decision in Marbury v. Madison established this principle | judicial review | 63 | |
765785463 | This "affair" involved a demand for a bribe by French officials | XYZ affair | 64 | |
765785464 | The election of 1800 was contentious and bitter because Federalists in the House of Representatives sought to deny the presidency to | Thomas Jefferson | 65 | |
765785465 | This compromise in 1820 brought Missouri and Maine into the Union as well as denied slavery in the rest of the LA purchase | Missouri Compromise | 66 | |
765785466 | An honest appraisal of Jackson's Indian policies reveals that he believed in ? removal after getting legislation passed | forced | 67 | |
765785467 | The election of 1824 has been known by the term "the corrupt bargain" because it was felt that this man used his influence to determine the stalemate outcome | Henry Clay | 68 | |
765785468 | The foreign policy goals of Jefferson and madison before 1812 were to maintain the U.S.' ? rights without going to war | neutral | 69 | |
765785469 | The ? ? features a strategy in which government jobs are given to supporters of the victorious party | spoils system | 70 | |
765785470 | When Henry Clay tried to make the ? ? ? ? ? a key campaign issue in 1832, Jackson turned the tables on him by vehemently opposing re-chartering it | Bank of the United States | 71 | |
765785471 | The Lewis and Clark expedition was known as the ? ? ? | Corps of Discovery | 72 | |
765785472 | This act passed in 1807 ruined United States shipping | embargo act | 73 | |
765785473 | The ? Canal was significant because it tied the manufacturing of the East to the farming of the West | Erie | 74 | |
765785474 | The invention of the ? ? increased southern planters' reliance on slaves | cotton gin | 75 | |
765785475 | These two women were the catalysts for the women rights movement in the late 1840s | Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott | 76 | |
765785476 | The Supreme Court's decision in this case strengthened national power over the states | McCulloch v. Maryland | 77 | |
765785477 | Massachusetts represented an example of recruitment of female workers through the ? system | Lowell | 78 | |
765785478 | During the 1840s this form of transportation became the most dynamic means of interregional trade | railroads | 79 | |
765785479 | Under the leadership of ? and his brother known as the ? an intertribal confederation of Native Americans was organized | Tecumseh and the Prophet | 80 | |
765785480 | Transcendentalists believed that intuition and emotion were the keys to finding ? | truth | 81 | |
765785481 | This convention issued a historic declaration of women's rights | Seneca Falls | 82 | |
765785482 | The dominant issue in the election of 1844 was the annexation of ? | Texas | 83 | |
765785483 | President Lincoln was reluctant to emancipate the slaves in the first year of the Civil War because he feared that emancipation would drive the ? ? out of the Union | border states | 84 | |
765785484 | This freed the slaves of all states in rebellion | the Emancipation Proclamation | 85 | |
765785485 | 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 | 86 | |
765785486 | Aquiring California was the cornerstone of this president's foreign policy | James K. Polk | 87 | |
765785487 | Most northerners began fighting to preserve the ? but also came to see that slavery must be ended | Union | 88 | |
765785488 | The ? was a resolution which would forbid slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico | Wilmot Proviso | 89 | |
765785489 | The Compromis of 1850 prohibited the slave trade in the ? ? ? | District of Columbia | 90 | |
765785490 | This influential novel was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin | 91 | |
765785491 | This person hoped that his raid on Harper's Ferry, VA would start a slave rebellion in the state of VA | John Brown | 92 | |
765785492 | The Compromise of 1850 allowed ? to be admitted as a free state | California | 93 | |
765785493 | 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 | 94 | |
765785494 | In this controversial decision, the Supreme Court declared that Congress did not have the right to regulate slavery in the territories | Dred Scott | 95 | |
765785495 | The actual fighting of the Mexican War began when the U.S. forces moved into the territory between the Neuces and ? ? rivers | Rio Grande | 96 | |
765785496 | This was the first person Lincoln asked to command Union armies | Robert E. Lee | 97 | |
765785497 | The most controversial part of the Compromise of 1850 provided for a stronger ? ? law | fugitive slave | 98 | |
765785498 | In the controversial Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court declared that blacks were not ? of the United States | citizens | 99 | |
765785499 | One of the factors that led to the defeat of the South in 1865 was ?'s march through Georgia | William T Sherman | 100 | |
765785500 | In the ? Stephen Douglas stated that slavery could exist in a territory only if residents passed a law to protect it | Freeport Doctrine | 101 | |
765785501 | Lincoln's response to reports that Grant was back to his old drinking habits and should be fired was, "He ?" | fights | 102 | |
765785502 | ? were Northern Democrats suspected of having Confederate symapthies | Copperheads | 103 | |
765785503 | The NY ? Riot turned into violence based on social class and racism | Draft | 104 | |
765785504 | Union victories in the West gave them the key strategic contol of the ? River | Mississippi | 105 | |
765785505 | This person was known for performing nursing duties in dangerous Situations as well as later helping found the Red Cross | Clara Barton | 106 | |
765785506 | An ironic frustration for the Confederate gov. was that their belief in ?'s ? harmed the Confederate war effort | state's rights | 107 | |
765785507 | This person's efferctive strategy for winning the war was based on coordinating the Union's efforts on all fronts of the war | Ulysses Grant | 108 | |
765785508 | Effects of the Union's takeover of Atlanta included the boosting of ?'s campaign for reelection | Abraham Lincoln | 109 | |
765785509 | The Compromise of 1850 a territorial gov. for the rest of the acquisition from Mexico without reference to ? | slavery | 110 | |
765785510 | President Lincoln suspended the right of ? ? for the purpose of making it easier to arrest and hold suspected Confederate agents | habeas corpus | 111 | |
765785511 | One of the factors that led to the defeat of the South in 1865 was ?'s war attrition in VA | Ulysses Grant | 112 | |
765785512 | One of the factors that led to the defeat of the South in 1865 was the Confederacy's failure to obtain ? intervention | foreign | 113 | |
765785513 | This person invented the phonograph | Thomas Edison | 114 | |
765785514 | The purpose of Lincoln's and Jhonson's plan for ? was to encourage rapid re-admission of ex-Confederate states into the Union | Reconstruction | 115 | |
765785515 | In urban, working-class neighborhoods of the early twentieth century, ? groups lived in mixed neighboring sections of town | thnic | 116 | |
765785516 | This Scottish immigrant started as a $1.20 a week bobbin boy and developed an empire in steel | Andrew Carnegie | 117 |