AP United States History Midterm Guide

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Who was the commander of the Tennessee and later a U.S. president who defeated a Creek and Cherokee alliance at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in March 1814

Andrew Jackson

The controversy over the "midnight judges" appointed by the outgoing Federalist president John Adams gave rise to the pivotal U.S. Supreme Court case

Marbury v. Madison

What became the primary goal of the Lewis and Clark expedition after the conclusion of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803

President Jefferson wanted Lewis and Clark to learn and report back to him and the nation about the lands, native peoples, animals, and plants of the western territory that the United States had acquired and those lands beyond Louisiana Purchase to the Pacific Ocean.

What was the outcome of the Treaty of Ghent that ended the War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain

The British agreed to a treaty that essentially returned all borders and issues tot he status quo before the war

The changes in tone and symbolism for the federal government instituted by President Thomas Jefferson were intended to convey to Americans all of the following EXCEPT

a visible rejection by Jefferson to the ideology of republicanism in personal styles and political beliefs.

In Marbury v. Madison, Chief Justice John Marshall

asserted the Supreme Court had the authority to declare an act of Congress unconstitutional, confirming the power of judicial review

All of the following were members of the Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery as they prepared to leave from St. Louis for their expedition during the winter of 1803-04 EXCEPT

captured Indian tribal leaders from the Ohio and Indiana Territories.

Like many of the elite Americans of his day, Jefferson considered himself a deist, defined as a person who

rejected divine revelation and holds that the workings of nature alone reveal God's divine nature.

The War of 1812 did not result in a quick victory, costing little in the way of American lives or treasure for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

the state militias and U.S Army refused to match the brutality of Indian atrocities and the British army.

President Jefferson maintained the tariff, the tax on imported goods, but abolished all internal taxes because he

wanted to shrink the federal government in order to adhere to his beliefs in small federal governments


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