APUSH Civil War Questions

This established how enslaved men and women would be represented in the House during the Constitutional Convention

3/5th Compromise

Created by Congress in 1789, these structured settlement of the area north of the Ohio River, east of the Mississippi River, and south of the Great Lakes, created a policy for the addition of new states to the nation, and did not allow for slavery

Northwest Ordinances

These condemned the Alien and Sedition Acts as unconstitutional and claimed that because these acts overstepped federal authority under the Constitution, they were null and void

Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions

This invention resulted in more production of a particular crop and increased the use of slaves in the South

cotton gin

Reflecting the focus of early abolitionists on transporting freed blacks back to Africa, the organization established Liberia, a West-African settlement intended as a haven for emancipated slaves

American Colonization Society

Who devised the American System

Henry Clay

What was the name for the plan for federal support of internal improvements, a strong tariff and a national bank?

American System

Who killed the Second Bank of the US

Andrew Jackson

What was the name for the law which required Native Americans to move to present-day Oklahoma

Indian Removal Act

This theory was reintroduced by Calhoun during his protest of federal tariffs

Nullification theory

During the Second Great Awakening, the best way for converts to demonstrate their faith was to advocate for what

Abolition

This began as an effort by church establishments to revitalize their organization and had individuals re-commit to traditional religion in the face of scientific empiricism

Second Great Awakening

What was the name for Jackson's patronage system in which he rewarded his supporters with government jobs

Spoils system

What's the name for the cotton-growing region stretching from Georgia to Louisiana

Black Belt

The theory that "In all societies that must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life" was used to justify slavery

Mudsill Theory

Which court case established the Supreme Court's power of judicial review

Marbury v Madison

Which court case established that only the federal government could regulate Native Americans, not state governments

Worcester v Georgia

Who won the election that Andrew Jackson term the "corrupt bargain"

John Quincy Adams

Which historical event inspired a wave of nationalism reflected in American literature during Antebellum America

War of 1812

What was the name for the meeting in which Federalist delegates discussed possible secession if the War of 1812 did not end quickly

Hartford Convention

What's the name for the declaration that the US would not allow European interference in the Americas

Monroe Doctrine

This sought to protect northern and western agricultural products from competition with foreign imports; however, the resulting tax on foreign goods would raise the cost of living in the South and would cut into the profits of New England's industrialists

Tariff of 1828/Tariff of Abominations

A result of Henry Clay's efforts to soothe South Carolina's qualms about the Tariff of Abominations

It caused South Carolina to withdraw the ordinance nullifying the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 Both protectionists and anti-protectionists accepted this compromise. Compromise Tariff

Who coined the term "manifest destiny" in his appeal to annex the Republic of Texas

John O'Sullivan

The journalist, John O'Sullivan, is most closely associated with which early 19th Century term

Manifest Destiny

This literary and intellectual movement saw a shared a belief in the value of human intuition, the presence of divinity in nature, and an emotional comprehension of God

Transcendentalism

What was the name of the treaty that resolved the US-Canada border disputes

Webster-Ashburton Treaty

What was the name of the treaty in which Mexico recognized an independent Republic of Texas

Treaty of Velasco

Which major American political party typically supported westward expansion

Democrats

Which major American political party typically opposed westward expansion

Whigs

Who was the leader of the Whigs

Henry Clay

What was the name of the treaty in which Spain ceded Florida to the US along with its claims to Oregon

Adams-Onis Treaty

What was the name of the American who was granted a large land claim in Texas by Mexico

Stephen F Austin

What main issue arose quickly between Texans and the Mexican government

Slavery

Name the first president of the Republic of Texas

Sam Houston

Name the US Army Captain who led a "map-making expedition" to California in 1845

John C Fremont

Who called the first national political convention held by a major political party

The Democrats, or Jackson and Van Buren

Who was elected President of the US in 1836

Martin Van Buren

What was the name given to the promise by congressional leaders in the House of Representatives to ignore antislavery petitions

The gag rule

Which politician routinely challenged the gag rule

John Quincy Adams

What was the initial cause of the Panic of 1837

Lack of credit

What was the name given to the 1836 proclamation by Jackson which required purchases of federal land to be made in gold or silver rather than bank notes

Specie Circular

Which two candidates ran for President in the election of 1840

William Henry Harrison (Whig) and Martin Van Buren (Democrat)

Who was elected President in 1840

William Henry Harrison

Who became President in 1841 when William Henry Harrison died

John Tyler

Who is the only President in US history to be expelled from his own political party

John Tyler (over his veto of the bank bills)

In the Presidential election of 1844, who did Andrew Jackson support

James K Polk

The Webster-Ashburton Treaty negotiated a border between the US and Canada at what line

The 49th parallel

What coordinates were a campaign slogan regarding the boundary of Oregon?

54'40"

Who was considered a "dark horse" candidate in the 1844 election?

James K Polk

Who was the general sent by James K Polk in 1845 to cross into Texas and approach the Rio Grande in an effort to create a war with Mexico?

Zachary Taylor

Who wrote Civil Disobedience?

Henry David Thoreau

How did poet Henry David Thoreau protest the US-Mexico War?

He refused to pay taxes

What territory was the US able to seize without bloodshed?

New Mexico

What was the name for the rebellion organized by American immigrants in California?

Bear Flag Revolt

What was the name for the final extension of US territory in the contiguous 48 states, negotiated in 1853?

Gadsden Purchase

Who was elected President in 1848?

Zachary Taylor

Who became President in 1850, after Zachary Taylor died in office?

Millard Fillmore

Which treaty gave the US open trading rights with China?

Treaty of Wang-hsia

Which 1848 event led to a rapid increase in the population of California?

Discovery of gold/gold rush

Who did President Millard Fillmore send to "open up" Japan in 1853?

Commodore Matthew Perry

Who published the antislavery newspaper, The Liberator?

William Lloyd Garrison

Who led a slave revolt in Virginia in 1831?

Nat Turner

In 1854, he graduated from Yale, making him the first Chinese student to graduate from an American university

Yung Wing

In 1854, this ended Japan's two-hundred year period of economic isolation, establishing an American consulate in Japan and securing American coaling rights in Japanese ports

Treaty of Kanagawa

In 1854, this case reversed the murder conviction against George W Hall because all three witnesses were Chinese and ultimately established that Chinese Americans or Chinese immigrants could not legally testify against white Americans in court

People v Hall

In 1859, which group was officially excluded from San Francisco public schools?

Chinese Americans or immigrants

In which state did most Chinese immigrants to the US settle?

California

As gold fields became less profitable, many Chinese immigrants worked as laborers in which industry?

Railroads

Irish immigrants to the United States in the 1840s-1850s were predominantly which religion?

Catholic

The increase in immigration to the US in the 1840s-1850s led to the creation of what political party in 1845?

The Know-Nothing Party

Name the education reformer who sought to ensure that public schools helped to turn all future citizens into "good Americans"

Horace Mann

What was the purpose of the United States Land Commission in California?

To challenge Mexican land grants / take land of Californios

What was the phrase used to defend slavery prior to 1830?

A "necessary evil"

The most famous "conductor" of the Underground Railroad was who?

Harriet Tubman

This abolitionist was killed by a mob along the border between Illinois and Missouri after he set up a printing press to publish antislavery literature

Elijah Lovejoy

The most important industry in the nation during the two decades before the Civil War was

the textile industry

This new labor and production model primarily employed women from farm families

Lowell System

Which document reads, "We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men AND WOMEN are created equal..."?

The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions

Where did the 1848 Convention of Women meet?

Seneca Falls

Name the sisters who were ardent abolitionists and feminists, and who became the first female representatives of the American Anti-Slavery Society

Sarah and Angelina Grimke

Name one of the two women who organized the Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention

Elizabeth Cady Stanton or Lucretia Mott

Who wrote the famous speech, "Ain't I a Woman"?

Sojourner Truth

What was the name for the proposed amendment that would prohibit slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico?

Wilmot Proviso

This ended the Mexican-American War in favor of the United States adding an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory, including the land that makes up all or parts of present-day Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming; Mexico also gave up all claims to Texas and recognized the Rio Grande as America's southern boundary

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

What was the agreement that settled a crisis over the expansion of slavery in 1820?

Missouri Compromise

Who crafted the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

Henry Clay

This political party was organized by anti-slavery men in the north, democrats who were resentful at Polk's actions, and some conscience Whigs and was against slavery in the new territories

Free-Soil Party

Name the two senators who crafted the Compromise of 1850 and ensured it became law

Henry Clay and Stephen A. Douglas

Enforcement of which law led many to believe that slave states and free states could not exist in the same country?

Fugitive Slave Act

What inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe to write Uncle Tom's Cabin?

Her anger at the Fugitive Slave Act

Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

Harriet Beecher Stowe

What book angered Southerners and inspired many Northerners to support abolition?

Uncle Tom's Cabin

What was the term for allowing each territory to decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery?

Popular sovereignty

Who was the most prominent supporter of popular sovereignty?

Stephen A Douglas

The Missouri Compromise was explicitly repealed by which law?

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Which law basically destroyed the Whig party?

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Members of which two political parties joined together to create the Republican party?

Whigs and Free-Soilers

What was the name for the civil war in a US territory that took place from 1854-1858, after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Bleeding Kansas

What was the pro-slavery document written in 1857 by questionably-elected Kansas delegates?

Lecompton Constitution