APUSH 1st semester exam review
The delegates of the Hartford Convention adopted resolutions in 1814 that included a call for...
A constitutional amendment requiring a 2/3 vote in Congress before war could be declared, new states admitted, or a trade embargo instituted by the federal government
For their labor in the colonies indentured servants received all of the following except...
A headright
Texas was annexed to the U.S. as a result of...
A joint resolution enacted by a simple majority in the House and the Senate rather than the 2/3 constitutional supermajority required of all the treaties with foreign nations
The financial means for England's first permanent colonization in America were provided by...
A joint-stock company
Andrew Jackson's veto of the recharter bill for the Bank of the U.S. was...
A major expansion of presidential power
Arrange the following in chronological order: the founding of the A. American Colonization Society B. American Anti-Slavery Society C. Liberty Party
A, B, C
Arrange these events in chronological order A. Louisiana Purchase B. Chesapeake incident C. Burr's trial for treason D. Embargo Act
A, C, B, D
Arrange the following events in chronological order A. George Washington surrenders at Fort Necessity B. General Edward Braddock is defeated near Fort Duquesne C. British troops capture Louisbourg in their first significant victory of the French and Indian War D. General James Wolfe's army defeats Montcalm's on the plains of Abraham
A,B,C,D
Match each individual below with the correct invention A. Samuel Morse B. Cyrus McCormick C. Elias Howe D. Robert Fulton 1. Telegraph 2. Mower-reaper 3. Steamboat 4. Sewing machine
A-1, B-2, C-4, D-3
Match the individual with his office in the new government A. Thomas Jefferson B. Alexander Hamilton C. Henry Knox D. John Jay 1. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court 2. Secretary of state 3. Secretary of war 4. Secretary of treasury
A-2, B-4, C-3, D-1
Match each abolitionist below with his role in the movement: A. Wendell Phillips B. Frederick Douglass C. Elijah P. Lovejoy D. William Lloyd Garrison 1. Abolitionist martyr 2. Black abolitionist 3. Abolitionist golden trumpet 4. Abolitionist newspaper publisher
A-3, B-2, C-1, D-4
Match each nation on the left with the correct description of the problem it presented for U.S. foreign relations following the Revolutionary War: A. Britain B. France C. Spain D. Barbary Coast 1. Threatened American commerce in the Mediterranean. 2. Demanded repayment of wartime loans. 3. Occupied a chain of trading forts in Old Northwest. 4. Controlled important trade routes from the interior of North America.
A-3, B-2, C-4, D-1
Match each individual below with the correct description A. Andrew Jackson B. Henry Clay C. John Quincy Adams D. William Crawford 1. Finished 3rd in the electoral vote in the presidential election of 1824 but was eliminated by illness 2. Was elected president by the House of Representatives despite his weak popular appeal 3. Threw his political support to the presidential candidate elected by the House of Representatives, inspiring charges of a "corrupt bargain" 4. Finished first in the popular vote in the election of 1824 but lost in the House of Representatives
A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1
American moved into Texas...
After an agreement was concluded between Mexican authorities and Stephen Austin to permit the Texan settlers to bring into Texas 300 families who were to become properly Mexicanized
The leading industry in the American colonies was...
Agriculture
The Articles of Confederation were finally approved when...
All states claiming western lands surrendered them to the national government
Colonists in both the North and the South established differences in all of the following areas except...
Allegiance to England
The main cause for the Salem Witchcraft Trials was...
Anger from sustenance farmers towards the growing wealthy class
The Great Compromise at the Constitutional Convention worked out an acceptable scheme for...
Apportioning congressional representation
All of the following were true of the Pilgrims except that they...
Arrived at their original destination with no casualties
The Whigs placed John Tyler on the 1840 ticket as vice president to...
Attract the vote of the states' righters
Why were African slaves brought predominantly to the southern colonies instead of northern colonies?
Because the south needed more and more people to work on their farms and it was cheap labor
The person most often called the "first civilized American" was...
Benjamin Franklin
Europeans wanted to discover a new, shorter route to eastern Asia in order to...
Break the hold that Muslim merchants had on trade with Asia, reduce the price of goods from Asia, and gain more profits for themselves
The Christian crusaders were indirectly responsible for the discovery of America because they...
Brought back valuable far Eastern spices, drugs, and silk
Arrange these events in chronological order: A. Dred Scott decision B. Lincoln-Douglas debates C. Kansas-Nebraska Act D. Harpers Ferry raid
C, A, B, D
The new Constitution did not provide for the creation of a...
Cabinet
In the debates of 1850, Senator William H. Seward, as a representative of the northern Young Guard, argued that...
Christian legislators must obey God's moral law
The area in dispute between the U.S. and Great Britain in 1845 lay between the...
Columbia river, the 49th parallel, and the Pacific Ocean
Plantation mistresses...
Commanded a sizable household staff of mostly female slaves
In the election of 1800, the Federalists accused Thomas Jefferson of all of the following except...
Conspiring with Aaron Burr to have Spain attack the U.S.
The crop that became the staple of life in Mexico and South America was...
Corn
Despite his suspicions of the federal government, Andrew Jackson's Democratic political party...
Created the spoils system in he federal government
Arrange the following in chronological order: A. Annexation of Texas B. Webster-Ashburton Treaty C. Settlement of the Oregon boundary D. Aroostook War
D, B, A, C
During a generation of peace following the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht, Britain provided its American colonies with...
Decades of salutary neglect
Spain's dreams of empire began to fade with the...
Defeat of the Spanish Armada
For free blacks living in the North...
Discrimination against blacks concerning employment, the right to vote, and obtaining a public education was common
Once Europeans began to land in the Americas, what killed the majority of Native Americans?
Diseases that they had never been exposed to and no cure for such as smallpox
Some of the more advanced Native American cultures did all of the following except...
Engage in significant ocean voyages of discovery
The settlement founded in the early 1600's that was the most consequential for the future U.S. was the...
English at Jamestown in 1607
The 1662 slave codes in Virginia are significant because they...
Established a legal difference between servants and slaves based on race
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787...
Established a procedure for governing the Old Northwest territory and managing the political transition from a territory to the state in the Old Northwest
As the founder of Rhode Island, Roger Williams...
Established complete religious freedom for all
European immigration to the South was discouraged most profoundly by...
Fierce economic competition with slave labor
In his quest for California, President James K. Polk...
First advocated buying the area from Mexico
The policy of the Jackson administration toward the eastern Indian tribes involved...
Forced removal from their traditional lands
Relations between Britain and the U.S. in the 1830s and 1840s could be characterized as...
Generally tense, with periods of both violence and peaceful resolution
The headright system, which made some people very wealthy, consisted of...
Giving the right to acquire 50 acres of land to the person paying the passage of a laborer
17th century colonial tobacco growers usually responded to depressed prices for their crop by...
Growing more tobacco to increase their volume of production
In contrast to the Chesapeake colonies, those in New England...
Had a more diversified economy
Abraham Lincoln opposed the Crittenden Compromise because...
He had been elected from a platform that opposed the extension of slavery
All of the following happened after President John Tyler's veto of a bill to establish a new Bank of the U.S. except...
He signed another similar national bank bill providing for a "Fiscal corporation"
President Jefferson's embargo failed for all of the following reasons except that...
He underestimated Britain's dependence on American trade
John Quincy Adams, elected president in 1825, was charged by his political opponents with having struck a "corrupt bargain" when he appointed _______ to become _______
Henry Clay, secretary of state
John Quincy Adams's weaknesses as president included all of the following except...
His encouragement of his supporters to "sling mud" at Jackson
The one branch of government elected directly by the people under the newly enacted Constitution is the...
House of Representatives
The Bill of Rights was intended to protect ____ against the potential tyranny of ____.
Individual liberties, a strong central government
The Panic of 1819 brought with it all of the following except...
Inflation
The Molasses Act of 1733 was intended to...
Inhibit colonial trade with the French West Indies
The British attack on Fort McHenry...
Inspired the writing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" by Francis Scott Key
The triangular trade of the colonial American shipping industry...
Involved the trading of rum for African slaves
The jury's decision in the case of John Peter Zenger, a newspaper printer, was significant because...
It facilitated freedom of the press and a more robust public discussion of political affairs
Which of the following has the least in common with the other 4? a. Nat Turner b. David Walker c. John C. Calhoun d. Denmark Vesey
John C. Calhoun
The U.S.' most successful diplomat in the Era of Good Feelings was...
John Quincy Adams
The immediate purpose of the Albany Congress of 1754 was to...
Keep the Iroquois tribes loyal to the British
By the early 18th century, religion in colonial America was...
Less fervid than when the colonies were established
The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 arose in southwestern Pennsylvania when the federal government ...
Levied an excise tax on whiskey
Before the arrival of Europeans, most native peoples in North America...
Lived in small, scattered, and impermanent settlements
Thomas Jefferson's "Revolution of 1800" was remarkable in that it...
Marked the peaceful and orderly transfer of power on the basis of election results accepted by all parties
Adopted almost a decade before the federal constitution, the _______ constitution remains the longest-lived in the world
Massachusetts
Two areas where women in the nineteenth century were widely thought to be superior to men were...
Moral sensibility and artistic refinement
Colonists emerged from the French and Indian War...
More confident in their military strength
All of the following were true of slavery in the South except that...
Most slaves were raised in single unstable parent households
The sentiment of fear and opposition to open immigration was called...
Nativism
The great increase of the slave population in the first half of the 19th century was largely due to...
Natural reproduction
Andrew Jackson's inauguration as president symbolized the...
Newly won ascendancy of the masses
Native American civilization was least highly developed in...
North America
Supporters of the Whig party included all of the following except...
Opponents of public education
The performance of the U.S. Navy in the War of 1812 could best be described as...
Overall surprisingly successful and skillful against the accomplished British ships and commanders
As a result of the panic of 1857, the South...
Overconfidently believed that it was now economically superior to the North
Most likely the first Americans were...
People who crossed the land bridge from Eurasia to North America
How did British politicians respond to the American's cry of "no taxation without representation"?
Politicians argued that the colonists already had virtual representation
The development of "three sister" farming on the southeast Atlantic seaboard...
Produced a rich diet that led to high population densities
The Wilmot Proviso, if adopted, would have...
Prohibited slavery in any territory acquired in the Mexican War
The Mayflower Compact can be best described as a...
Promising step toward genuine self-government
Benjamin Franklin published in his Pennsylvania Gazette his most famous cartoon of the colonial era, a disjointed snake, which...
Promoted the idea that if the colonies did not stand united against France, they would fall apart and die
Spain began to fortify and settle its North American borderlands in order to...
Protect its Central and South American domains from encroachments by England and France
In 1857, the Supreme Court ruled in the Dred Scott decision that...
Protection of slavery was guaranteed in all the territories of the U.S.
The Scots-Irish can best be described as...
Pugnacious, lawless, and individualistic
The world's first antislavery society was founded by...
Quakers in Philadelphia
One feature common to all of the eventually rebellious colonies was their...
Rapidly growing populations
The outcome of the Battle of Quebec in 1759...
Resulted in the emergence of Great Britain as the overwhelmingly dominant power in America
The Constitutional Convention of 1787 was called to...
Revise the Articles of Confederation
The population of the Chesapeake colonies throughout the first half of the 17th century was notable for its...
Scarcity of women
Before the middle of the 15th century, sub-Saharan Africa had remained remote and mysterious to Europeans because...
Sea travel down the African coast had been virtually impossible
Which of these is NOT a true statement about the fate of Anne Hutchinson?
She preached to fellow residents of Salem
The Puritan system of Congregational Church government logically led to...
Signs of democracy in political government
The main purpose of the Alien and Sedition Acts was to...
Silence and punish critics of the Federalists
In the 1820's and 1830'2, the two issues that greatly raised the political stakes were...
Slavery and economic distress
As a result of the development of the cotton gin...
Slavery revived and expanded
As a result of the Missouri Compromise...
Slavery was banned north of the 36 30' in the Louisiana Purchase territory
Thomas Jefferson received the bulk of his political support from the...
South and West
Southern colonies generally allowed married women to retain separate title to their property because...
Southern men fequently died young
John C. Calhoun's South Carolina Exposition was an argument for...
States' rights
The Nullification Crisis of 1832-1833 erupted directly over...
Tariff policy
The____Amendment might rightly be called the states' rights amendment
Tenth
The Tariff of 1816 was the first in American history...
That aimed to protect American industry
The Mormon religion originated in...
The Burned-Over District of New York
Americans responded to the Stamp Act by comparing it to which past event?
The Dominion of New England
The largest single addition to American territory was...
The Mexican Cession
The clash between Britain and France for control of the North American continent sprang from their rivalry for control of...
The Ohio River Valley
The U.S. acquired free navigation of the Mississippi River, the rights of deposit at New Orleans, and the large disputed territory north of Florida in...
The Pinckney Treaty
All of the following were true of the American economy under Cotton Kingdom except...
The South reaped all the profits from the cotton trade
The South grew increasingly worried about the future of slavery because...
The admission of California might permanently tip the political balance against them
The Deist faith embraced all of the following except...
The concept of original sin
On what basis did the American colonists object to the vice-admiralty courts in which violators of the Sugar Act were tried?
The courts were run by British-appointed judges and did not involve juries
All of the following are reasons for increased reliance on slave labor, after 1680, in colonial America except...
The development of wheat as a staple crop in the British colonies
Undoubtedly the most durable political offspring of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was...
The emergence of the new Republican political party
The Spanish Conquistadores were very successful in setting up a Spanish empire, stretching from Florida all the way through Central and South America. Why were they so successful as compared to their English counterparts?
The encomienda system, and they tried to be as friendly as they could, not earning them a lot of enemies
On becoming president, Thomas Jefferson and the Republicans in Congress immediately repealed...
The excise tax on whiskey
Opposition by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison to the financial plan of Alexander Hamilton resulted in...
The formation of permanent political parties
King Philip's War resulted in all of the following except...
The immediate westward march of English settlement in New England
In 1846 the U.S. went to war with Mexico for all of the following reasons except...
The impulse to satisfy Congressman Abraham Lincoln and similar political allies in Congress to enact the so-called "spot resolutions" concerning alleged Mexican incursions into American territory
At the top of the social class in the South were...
The planter elite
As a result of Sir Edmund Andros's rule...
The power of town meetings was curbed, officials tried to enforce the Navigation Laws, and taxes were levied without the consent of elected represemtatives
The most alarming aspect of the Compromise of 1850 to northerners was the concession to the South concerning...
The revised, more stringent and coercive Fugitive Slave Law
According to the principle of popular sovereignty, the question of slavery in the territories would be determined by...
The self-determination of people in any given territory
The term "Columbian Exchange" describes...
The transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds
Which aspect of the Townshend Acts posed a great danger to American political autonomy, according to the colonists?
The use of its revenue to pay royal officials
Ecological imperialism, as exemplified during the American historical period of 1790-1860, can best be described as...
The wanton, heedless exploitation of natural resources by humans aggressively engaged in economic development and trade
The majority of southern whites owned no slaves because...
They could not afford the purchase price
Despite an abundance of fish and game, early Jamestown settlers continued to starve because...
They were unaccustomed to fending for themselves and wasted time looking for gold
Southerners feared the Tariff of 1828 because...
This same use of the power of the federal government could be used to suppress slavery
Which of the following actions did the First Continental Congress ultimately decide to implement in 1774?
Threatening to cut off almost all American exports to Britain, Ireland, and the West Indies
The case of Marbury vs. Madison established that the Constitution mandated that the Supreme Court and not Congress nor the president of the U.S had the authority...
To determine the meaning of the Constitution
For Native Americans, the War of 1812 meant...
Treaties in which they reluctantly relinquished lands north of the Ohio River
The terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, ending the Mexican War, included...
U.S. payment of $15 million for the cession of northern Mexico
The Great Awakening...
Undermined the prestige of the learned clergy in the colonies
The English treatment of the Irish, under the reign of Elizabeth I, can best be described as...
Violent and unjust
Alexander Hamilton believed that a limited national debt...
Was beneficial, because people to whom the government owed money would work hard to make the nation a success
Tax-supported public education between 1825 and 1850...
Was deemed essential for social stability and democracy
In his first military command encounter in the French and Indian War, Lieutenant Colonel George Washington...
Was defeated by French forces at Fort Necessity following a 10 hour siege in July 1754
The New England Confederation...
Was designed to bolster colonial defense
All of the following were true of the Second Great Awakening except that it...
Was not as large, democratic, or influential in terms of social reform as the First Great Awakening
The presidential election of 1824...
Was the first one to see the election of a president who failed to win a majority of the electoral vote from the state electors
The riches created by the growing slave population in the American South...
Were not distributed evenly among whites
When the Irish flocked to the U.S. in the 1840s, they stayed in larger seaboard cities because they...
Were too poor to move west and buy land
The leader that helped the Pilgrims survive was...
William Bradford
The Proclamation of 1763 was designed mainly to...
Work out a fair settlement of the Indian problem and prevent another bloody Indian eruption like Pontiac's uprising
The Lecompton Constitution was written so that Kansas...
Would continue to permit slavery for owners of slaves who held slaves in Kansas at the time of the ratification vote, even if the voters of Kansas enacted the Lecompton Constitution "without slavery"
As a result of reading Uncle Tom's Cabin, many northerners...
Would have nothing to do with the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law
Bacon's Rebellion was supported mainly by...
Young men frustrated by their inability to acquire land and find women to marry
In Calvinist thought, the "conversion" was...
a personal experience when God revealed an individual's heavenly destiny
