APUSH 1st semester exam review

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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


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