1. Complete Study Guide: APUSH 1st Semester Final
CH 1
Treaty that divided lands between Spain and Portugal: Treaty of Tordesillas
Jamestown leader that forced people to work for food: John Smith
Started own church in order to divorce his wife: King Henry VIII
Religious colony founded by Pilgrims: Plymouth
Discovered New World in 1492: Christopher Columbus
Call of massive exodus of puritans to New World: Great Migration
Name of Spanish conquerors: Conquistadors
Name of first Native Americans to come in contact with: Tainos
Pilgrim agreement to govern by majority rule: Mayflower Compact
Name of people who worked for passage to New World: Indentured Servants
Mechanism that allowed investors to profit off of private investors: Joint Stock Companies
Purifiers of the Church of England: Puritans
King that started civil war in England: King Charles I
Schism in Catholic Church: Protestant Reformation or Great Schism
Other name for Pilgrims: Separatists
Founder of the colony of Roanoke: Sir Walter Raleigh
Spanish fleet defeated by British: Spanish Armada
Conquered Aztecs: Hernan Cortes
Jamestown namesake: King James I
British Queen to solidify Protestantism: Queen Elizabeth
Diseases spread by the Native Americans wiped out millions of Europeans: TRUE
2. Portuguese introduced slavery into British colonies: FALSE
Taino Indians had a strong military that appeared quite formidable to Columbus: FALSE
Muslims were involved in the slave the trade long before in Africa: TRUE
CH 2
Collective name of Virginia and Maryland colonies: Chesapeake Colonies
Name of uprising of poor farmers, led to rising of Georgia: Bacon’s Rebellion
Name of people who worked for passage to New World: Indentured Servants
First Governor of Georgia: James Oglethorpe
Quaker that founded a colony because of inheritance of his father: William Penn
British laws that restricted trade to and from colonies: Navigation Acts
Doc that guaranteed freedom of worship in Pennsylvania: Charter of Liberties
Christian sect of Quakers believed men and women are equal: TRUE
2 lasting problems of Bacon’s Rebellion were colonial resistance and disparity between rich and poor: TR
Slavery became popular because of the increase in labor due to diminishing people: TRUE
Restrictions on rum and prostitution dropped when Georgia became a Royal Colony: TRUE
Under Dutch control, New York was called New Amistad: FALSE
The Act of Toleration provided religious freedom to worshippers of all faiths: FALSE
Merchantism was the belief of colonies existed to enrich parent country: FALSE
Ch 3&4
Argued state is bound by natural laws: John Locke
Argued English government should recognize the rights of all citizens: Patrick Henry
Asserted that a social contract existed between people and government: Jean Jacques Rousseau
British failed to capture Quebec and got nothing: King Williams War
British failed to capture Quebec but gained Nova Scotia: Queen Anne’s War
3. Georgian colonists repelled Spanish invasion from Florida: King George’s War
Preacher of Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God: Jonathan Edwards
War resulted in total expulsion from France in the New World: French and Indian War or 7 years war
Intolerable Acts as a direct result of Boston Tea Party: TRUE
Stamp act place tax on printed materials: TRUE
Sugar act was an example of an indirect tax: TRUE
Enlightenment philosophies empowered colonists: TRUE
People generally resent indirect taxes rather than direct tax: FALSE
Colonists hated the ship Gaspey because it thwarted smugglers from importing merchandise: TRUE
CH 5
Led uprising of New England farmers: Daniel Shays
Conservative to continental congress: John Jay
Radical delegate on continental congress: Patrick Henry
Moderate delegate to continental congress: George Washington
Writer of Common Sense: Thomas Paine
Along with Paul Revere, made midnight ride to inform forces about the attack: William Dawes
Battle of Water Lowe encouraged French to make alliances with the US: FALSE
Continental Congress came about because of Coercive acts: TRUE
Northwest Ordinance outlined rules for statehood: TRUE
Radical delegates of the continental congress were from the south: FALSE
Aristocratic privileges were reduced or eliminated at the end of the Revolutionary War: TRUE
Articles of Confederation established a unicameral house: TRUE
Articles of Confederation allowed the central government to levy taxes: FALSE
Articles of Confederation the central government could not conscript soldiers: TRUE
4. First continental congress was a result of the coercive act: TRUE
The Treaty of Paris (1783) the USA got Florida: FALSE
CH 6
Amendment insures one to speedy and public trial: 6th
Amendment no cruel or unusual punishment: 8th
Amendment to a jury in civil cases: 7th
Amendment to freedom of press, religion, speech, assembly, and petition: 1st
Amendment right to bear arms and militia: 2nd
Amendment no quartering soldiers during peacetime: 3RD
Amendment no unreasonable search and seizures: 4th
Amendment powers not to federal government belong to states or people: 10TH
Amendment any right not in constitution is still guaranteed against government infringement: 9th
Amendment need not to testify themselves, no double jeopardy: 5th
James Madison and Alexander Hamilton pushed to create new doc instead of articles of Confed: TRUE
Feds argued against bill of rights because people need not be protected by gov officials they elected: TR
Decline of Federalist party can be reaced to XYZ affair: FALSE
Anti-federalists argued that new constitution might destroy works of recent revolution: TRUE
Spain, fearful of having its American lands seized sold us Mississipi territory: TRUE
Naturalization act increased # of years for immigrants to qualify for citizenship: TRUE
Election of 1800 resulted in a tie vote in electoral college: TRUE
CH 7
Cousin of John Marshall: Thomas Jefferson
War hawk congressman from South Carolina: John C. Calhoun
War hawk congressman from Kentucky: DA NIGGA HENRY CLAY
5. Name of justice, who establish power of judicial review for Supreme Court: John Marshall
Man offered Louisiana Purchase to USA: Napoleon Bonaparte
Man who led US in battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson
Federalist judge who sued the government for his commission: William Marbury
Marshall’s decision in the case of Marbury v. Madison established the principal of legal president: FALSE
1 of the reasons the US got into the war of 1812 was because of the impressment of American semen: T
Jefferson’s chief reason for purchasing Louisian was to challenge Hamilton’s loose interpretation: FALSE
Jefferson’s assertion to presidency in 1800 brought change to Washington: TRUE
Jefferson’s ascension to presidency changed policies established by Washington and Adams: TRUE(?)
Native Americans in the west allied themselves with the British in the War of 1812 cuz of land: FALSE
CH 8
Tax to limit imports in order for industry to flourish: Protective Tariff
Long standing chief justice responsible for many decisions: John Marshall
Belief one’s region of residence is superior to the country as a whole: Sectionalism
Who designed a system of interchangeable rifle parts during war of 1812: Eli Whitney
Man that advocated eco package to improve domestic situation: Henry Clay
Name of president during Era of Good Feelings: James Monroe
Belief one’s country is superior to others: Nationalism
British navy guy foreign secrety responsible for suggesting the Monroe doctrine: George Canning
Clay’s American system relied on state banks: FALSE
Eli Whitney’s cotton gin increased southern demand for slaves: TRUE
Contributing factor to westward movement was promise of citizenship for home steady acreage: FALSE
Missouri Compromise was 3 separate proposals: TRUE
Monroe asserted rights to US to send troops to latin America for political stability: FALSE
6. CH 9 & 10
Majority of people welcomed immigrants as a cheap form of labor: FALSE
Natavist reaction to immigrants resulted in changes to immigration laws: FALSE
African slaves resisted slavery through political activism: FALSE
There were large numbers of Irish immigrants because of promised lands for home steading: FALSE
The know nothing party drew its constituency from anti-immigration americans: TRUE
Factor that most directly promoted two party systems was because of sectional conflict in the N&S: FALS
CH11
Author of Moby Dick: Herman Melville
Founder of church of Christ of latter day saints: Joseph Smith
Leader of mental health reform movement: Doraphia Dix
Leader of public school reformation: Horace Mann
Author of leatherstocking tales: James Fenimore Cooper
Author of rip van winkle and legend of sleepy hallow: Washington Irving
author of scarlet letter: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Founder of New harmony utopia: Robert Owen
Leader of Virginia Uprising: Nat Turner
Two female leaders of women’s sufferage movement: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony
Onieda community was successful due to utopian ideas: FALSE
Antebellum literally means before war: TRUE
Shaker community failed due to no reproduction: TRUE
Second Great Awakening was characterized by growing unity among protestant churches: FALSE
Cult of domesticity strived for economic and social equality: FALSE
Temperance movement was oppressed by German and Irish immigrants: TRUE
7. Seneca falls convention was significant due to historical doc woman’s rights: TRUE
CH12
Discovery of gold motivated Americans to move west: TRUE
Overland passage oregan trail, caused disease, cold, and difficult to travel: TRUE
One of the major consequesnces of the Mexican war was increased sectional tensions over slavery: TRU
With new land, many poor Americans moved west to home stead and acquire their share of land: FALSE
Treaty that ended the Mexican war was popular with anti slavery southerners: FALSE
The US delayed the annex of texas because of the balance of slave and free states: TRUE
Main reason US delayed annex of texas was opposition in congress for slave states: TRUE
CH 13
The Lincoln-douglass debates resulted in increased support for douglas in the south: FALSE
Many southerners argued that slaves were treated better than factory workers: TRUE
Under fugitive law whites caught aiding escape slaves could be fined, imprisoned, and deported: FALSE
Compromise of 1850 came as a result of an influx of settlers to California in search of gold: TRUE
Lincoln and republican party stood that slavery should not expand: TRUE
Under fugitive slave law slave catchers could detain any black person, even if born free in north: TRUE
FILL IN
Name of cash crop in Virginia: tobacco
Term for Elizabeth 1st ‘s naval explorers: sea dogs
Nickname of Elizabeth: virgin queen
Name of first permanent English settlement in the New World: Jamestown
Church founded by henry 8th CHURCH OF ENGLAND/ANGLICAN CHURCH
Official name of Quakers; their church: Religious Society of Friends
8. Title of Maryland governor: Lord Baltimore
Pennsylvania literally means: Penn’s woods
Law school student turn monk, responsible for protestant reformation: Martin Luther
Buying and selling between 3 parties/countries: triangle trade
Belief of no need to obey law: antinomianism
Program that promised land as incentive to colonists who paid: headright system
Sweet substance popular with crusades: white death
Winter of 1609-1610: starving time
Killed Charles I in England: oliver Cromwell
Unusual food stuffs Jamestown colonists ate: people, mice/rats, cats, dogs
First French settlement in new world: Quebec
First English settlement in new world: Jamestown
Name of respresenative body in Jamestown: House of Burgesses
Disease Native Americans gave to Europeans: syphilis
Georgia was filled with criminals for what crime: debt
Supremecourt case that ruled private contracts can’t be altered by state: Dartmouth college v.
woodward
Supremecourt case that ruled that federal government has implied powers and federal laws are superior
to state laws: McCulloch v. Maryland
Henry Clay’s economic package: American system
General term for James Monroe’s two term presidency: Era of Good Feelings
Power granted to supreme court as a result of marbury v. Madison: Judicial Review
Group that recived tribune from Washington and adams: barbury pirates
Term for William penn’s goals: holy experiment
9. Name of uprising in England that replaced james with William and Mary: Glorious Revolution
law that prevented trade with England and France: nonintercoarse acts
how much for Louisiana purchase: $15 million
Native American leader that tried to unite tribes against us: Tecumseh
Nickname for US constitution: old iron sides
Nickname for old republicans: quids
Writer of star spangled banner: Francis Scott Key
Battle in which star spangled banner was written at this fort: fort mchenry
First 10 amendments to constitution: bill of rights
First 2 political parties: federalists and democratic-republicans
British policy, which allowed colonist to violate trade laws due to lack of enforcement: salutary neglect
Blank search warrant: writ of assistance
The intolerable acts in England: coercive acts
Name of treaty that ended French and Indian War: the peace of paris/ treaty of paris 1763
Paradigm shifted from god grants authority, to people give authority: the Enlightenment
Outbreak of religious conversion during 1730s and 1740s: The Great Awakening
7 years war called in Europe: French Indian War
Law that forbade colonists of settling west of Appalachian Mountains: Proclamation 1763
Type of native Americans people dressed during boston tea party: Mohawks
Principal author of Declaration of Independence: Thomas Jefferson
Name for loyalists: Torries
Name for patriot: Whig
Washington’s warning: no sectionalism, no political parties, no permanent alliances, avoid foreign
affairs
10. Colonist torture method involving picket fence: riding the fence
Institution created from the land ordnance: public education
Battle as a result encouraged French to help: Battle of Saratoga
Battle in which the British army surrendered: Battle of Yorktown
British general that surrendered at Yorktown: Charles Cornwallis
Inventor of steamboat: Robert Fulton
Last Federalist judge: John Marshall
Two largest immigrant groups 1830s&40s: German and Irish
Shift from rural living to urban living: Urbanization
Forced marched of Cherokees of tribal land in Georgia: Trail of Tears
King Caucus was replaced by: nominating convention
Age of Jackson is also known as the: Era of the Common Man
Gifting of government jobs for past service: spoils system
Andrew Jackson’s nickname: Old Hickory
Name of treaty that ended Mexican American war: treaty of Guadalupe hidalgo
American’s for-ordained mission to expand: Manifest destiny
Practice allowing men to have more than one wife: polygamy
Literally meaning moderation; to curtail or curve consumption of alcohol: Temperance
Man listed as vp candidate for both adams and Jackson: John C. Calhoun
Anti-immigration proponents: nativists
name of doc issued by wmn at Seneca falls convention: declaration of sentiments
belief of many Americans that adams appointed henry clay as secretary of state: Corrupt Bargain
southern term used to refer to slavery once it became uncomfortable: peculiar institution
most populous subcategory in a category when the subcategory blah blah blah blah: plurality
11. 4 countries that claimed oregan territory: Spain, Britain, Russia, and the US
First state to succeed from Union: south Carolina
Next 6 to succeed: Texas, Mississipi, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, Florida
Harper’s ferry was a: federal arsonal
Position to compleltey eradicate slavery everywhere: abolitionist
Position to not allow slavery to expand, and only stay where its established: Free Soil
Position to allow residents/people to decide/vote on slavery: popular sovereignty
Most popular book during the Antebellum period on slavery: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Author of that book: Harriet Beacher Stowe
Collective term of the territory given to the US after Mexican American war: Mexican Cession
Horrendous trip from Africa to US: middle passage
Free State that entered the union to balance the entrance of the slave state of Missouri: Maine
PREAMBLE
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure
domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the
Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the
United States of America.
