APUSH Semester 1 Final

Eli Whitney saved the South economically by inventing

Eli Whitney saved the South economically by inventing

the cotton gin

The Wild West lasted _ years and involved 3% of US citizens

20

Most cowboys were black and _ in the Wild West

Indian or Mexican

Kansas and Nebraska were given ____ __________ in the KS/NE Act

Popular Sovereignty

People who believed that the federal government power was greater than the States’ powers were called

Federalists

Reconstruction was an effort to ___ the American South

rebuild

The Mexican-American War was primarily a boundary dispute over the Nueches River and the ______ river

Rio Grande

The Missouri Compromise line was established at _____ (long, lat.)

36, 30"

The Jamestown colony was established for ______. (motive)

mercantilism

“Abolition” is a cause that seeks to end

end slavery

Lincoln did not win any electoral vote in any ____ states

southern

_____ moved to Kansas, cut off peoples’ heads and attacked a federal arsenal (and somehow became an American hero)

John Brown

Made up disease by Dr. Josiah Nott:

yellow fever

Giving Jobs to relative and friends

spoils system

search for the Northwest Passage, sent by Jefferson _____

Lewis and Clark

President who wanted to approve the Lecompton Constitution

James Buchanan

Helped Lewis and Clark reach the Pacific Ocean

Sacajawea or York

Bought the Louisiana Purchase from France

Thomas Jefferson

Passed the Alien-Sedition Act

John Adams

The United States fought the war of 1812 becuase the British were _____ US sailors

Impressment

Started a utopain community in Edwardsville

N.O. Nelson

This person ran the settelment House in Chicago known as the Hull House:

Jane Addams

Inventor, statesman, and ambassador to France:

Ben Franklin

Established the two-term tradition for presidents:

George Washington

Founded in Onieda Colony with complex marriage:

Jonathan Noyes

Burned a huge portion of the south in the Civil War

William T. Sherman

Became a federalist when elected

Jefferson or Jackson or any antifederalist

founded the “Sons of Liberty”

Sam Adams

President during reconstruction

Andrew Johnson

Where was the first shot of the war fired?

Fort Sumter

Bacon’s Rebellion was caused by concerns over:

The stratification of rich and poor

Gave aid to freed slaves in the South after the Civil War

freedmen’s Bureau

The concept that women should sacrifice for America

Republican Motherhood

The concept that women should work from the home in a personal sphere

cult of Domesticity

The South Carolina Exposition and Protest was written agianst the

Tariff of 1828 by John c. Calhoun

Grant’s plan to win the war

Anaconda Plan

Andrew Johnson was impeached for a lot of reasons. What law did he violate?

Tenure of Office Act

Spanish method of dividing indigenous peoples for labor

Encomienda system

The first successful British Settlement in North America was at

Jamestown, Virginia

One colonial example of insulation creating tension between religion and economics was at:

New England

An English movement that created less public land and led to the formation of unemployment was ____

Enclosure Movement

what crop was introduced to Virginia that made a huge profit?

Tobacco

Georgia was established as a ___ colony

buffer

Mercantilism encourages empires/nations to have ____ (many, few, no, some) colonies

Many

This organization acted as a colonial mafia, terrorizing taxation agents

Sons of Liberty

The French and Indian war was really about

Control of colonial North America

The Indian chief that fought against the English military governor after the French and Indian War was ___

Chief Tecumseh

The proclamation line of 1763 was designed to

protect American settlers from encroaching on Indian land

British legislation place on tax printed materials called the ____ tax

Stamp

The crop of ____ made the Jamestown colony profitable

tobacco

The legislation said that England had the right to tax the colonies without representation was called the

Declaratory Act

Mr. ____ was the first president of the U.S.

Washington

The Alamo was originally a Spanish

Mission/Church

The Louisiana Purchase was sold to the US by ____

France

The helpful Indian who aided the Puritan colonists was named ___

Squanto

Charleston, SC got wealthy because they could grow ____ on the land near them

rice

God chooses who goes to heaven

predestination

Said “Slavery follows the flag”

Dred Scott decision

President of the confederacy

Jefferson Davis

Courts can declarer laws unconstitutional

Judicial Review

State’s can ignore federal laws they don’t like

nullification

Fundamentally, Monroe wanted European powers to

conserve manifest Destiney

The “policy” that President Monroe proposed says that the US will be ____ involved in affairs of the European powers

not

Burned by the British during the war of 1812

White House

Became a free state because of the Missouri compromise

Maine

Largest land acquisition by the US

Louisiana Purchase

First transcontinental RR finished in this state

Utah

The last “golden spike” was driven into a transcontinental RR by

Leland Stanford

Got the snot beat out of him while in congress

Charles Sumner

Issued the Emancipation Proclamation

President Abraham Lincoln

Former actor form the South, played a part at Ford’s Theater

John Wilkes Booth

Captured the Federal Arsenal at Harper’s Ferry

John Brown