APUSH Fall Semester Exam

What type of people poured into the western regions of OH, IN, IL, MI, and MO?

Economic expansion into the western territories posed a threat to what group of people?

The demand for slavery skyrocketing was caused by:

When elected as POTUS in 1816, what were James Monroe’s objectives?

What did James Monroe do to secure control over North America?

Treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that ceded FL to the U.S. , ended any Spanish claims in Oregon , and recognized Spanish rights in the SW.

President Monroe’s 1823 statement declaring the Americas closed to further European colonization and discouraging European interference in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere

A financial panic that began when the 2nd U.S. Bank tightened credit and recalled government loans. Six years of economic depression followed.

The War of 1812 was really a war for?

The Panic of 1819 caused what?

An amendment to a statehood bill for MO proposed by James Tallmadge that would have banned slavery in the new states. It created a deadlock in Congress that lead to the MO Compromise.

Law proposed by Henry Clay in 1820 admitting MO to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state and banning slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of latitude 36’30’’

Who won the election of 1824?

Who won the election of 1820?

NY politician known for his skillful handling of party politics; founded the Democratic Party and became the 8th President

Political Party that brought Andrew Jackson into office; it recalled Jeffersonian principles of limited government and drew its supporters from farmers, craftsmen, and small businesses.

Who won the election of 1828?

Andrew Jackson believed in ________ which was the elimination of unnecessary jobs or functions for reform or cost-cutting purposes.

Andrew Jackson’s informal advisors who helped him shape both national and Democratic Party policy

Andrew Jackson tried to implement reform in four broad areas:

The political conflict that occurred when Andrew Jackson tried to destroy the 2nd Bank of the U.S., which he thought represented special interests at the expense of the common man.

Law passed by Congress in 1830 providing for the removal of all Indian tribes east of the MS and the purchase of western lands for their resettlement.

In the early 1820’s the _______ tribe created a formal government with a legislative court system, and drafted a Constitution.

Forced march of the Cherokee people from GA to Indian Territory in the winter of 1838, during which thousands of Cherokee died.

Founder of the Mormons, led his congregation westward from NY to IL

Mormon leader who took over in 1844 after Joseph Smith’s death and guided the Mormons from IL to Utah

Overland route form Saint Louis to the Pacific Northwest followed by thousands of settlers in the 1840s

Constitutional amendment, ratified in 1804, that provides for separate balloting in the electoral college for the President and Vice President.

The 12th amendment was created in response to what?

What did Thomas Jefferson believe the greatest threats to America were?

What did Thomas Jefferson want the American economy to be based on?

Treasury secretary in Jefferson’s administration, favored limited government and reduced the federal debt by cutting spending.

Territory that stretched from MS river to the Rocky Mountains, bought from France in 1803

What were the three benefits of the Louisiana Purchase?

What was the purpose of Lewis and Clark’s expeditions?

Creator of the Missouri Compromise

Were young and flocked to newly emerging cities in pursuit of formal education. Clerks, bookkeepers, and managers.

An organization through which individuals engage in voluntary service, usually charity or reform.

Upper Class

The belief that women’s proper role lies in domestic pursuits

When did Missouri apply for statehood and when was it admitted?

True/False: Neither side liked the Missouri Compromise

How was the Texas territory acquired?

How was the Oregon territory acquired?

How were the states of CA, NV, UT, AZ, and CO acquired?

When did the Mormons move from Illinois to Utah?

Belief that God had ordained the U.S. special to rule over NA

In between what two rivers did a skirmish occur that started the Mexican War?

__________ believed that the Rio Grande is the U.S border and so the Mexicans were on our land.

______ Believed that the Nueces River was the American border and the war was the United State’s fault

Supreme Court decision (1803) declaring part of the Judiciary of the Judiciary Act of 1789 unconstitutional thereby establishing an important precedent in favor of the judicial review.

Supreme Court Case (1831) concerning Georgia’s annulment of all Cherokee laws; the Supreme Court ruled that Indian tribes did not have the right to appeal to the federal court system.

Supreme Court Case (1832) concerning the arrest of two missionaries who were working with the Cherokees in Georgia; the Court found that Georgia had no right to rule in Cherokee territory

Artistic and intellectual movement characterized by interest in nature, emphasis on emotions and imagination over rationality and rebellion against social conventions.

A philosophical and literary movement asserting that God exists within human beings and in nature, and that intuition is the highest source of knowledge.

A labor organization whose members work in a specific trade or craft.

The first national association of trade unions in the U.S., formed in 1834

Led an armed slave revolt in 1831 of 70 slaves in Southhampton, VA

Successor to the Liberty Party, adopted the slogan “Free Soil, Free Speech, free labor, and free men.

How many people fought in the Civil War?

In 1831, William Lloyd Garrison began publishing a militant anti-slavery newsletter called _________

The heaviest action during the first two years of the War of 1812 were where?

T/F The northernmost state for cotton production in 1860 was Missouri

This president directly challenged the rulings of the Supreme Court in the cases of Cherokee Nation v. Georgia and Worcester v. Georgia

The case of Marbury v. Madison was Chief Justice John Marshall’s first major case and established what?

First anti-slavery political party, believed that slavery would die on its own if it could be confined geographically.

American general whose defeat of Santa Anna at Buena Vista in 1847 made him a national hero and the Whig choice for president in 1848.

Explorer, Soldier, and politician who explored and mapped out much of the American west and Northwest.

An 1846 measure that would have closed any territory acquired from Mexico to slavery. It did not pass.

Treaty in 1848 in which Mexico gave up Texas above the Rio Grande and ceded New Mexico and California to the U.S. in return for 15 million $

Successor to the Liberty Party, launched in Buffalo, NY in 1848

Members of anti-catholic, anti-immigrant organizations who eventually formed themselves into a national political party.

Plan intended to reconcile North and South on the issue of slavery; it recognized the principle of popular sovereignty and included a strong fugitive slave law.

What were the five parts of the Compromise of 1850?

What was the biggest problem of the Compromise of 1850?

T/F During the 1850’s industrial growth accelerated, further altering the nation’s economic structure.

American Novelist and abolitionist whose novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin fanned anti slavery sentiments in the North

What was the keystone in Franklin Pierce’s agenda after being elected POTUS in 1852?

Abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery in 1827 and became a leading preacher against slavery and for the rights of women.

A strip of land in present day Arizona and New Mexico that the U.S. bought from Mexico in 1853 to secure a southern route for a transcontinental railroad.

Secretary of war under Franklin Pierce, later became the president of the Confederacy.

An 1854 law creating the Kansas and Nebraska territories and allowing residents to decide whether to allow slavery within their borders.

What assumption did the Kansas-Nebraska Act rest upon?

Cofounder of the Republican Party and a strong advocate for abolition and racial equality; he was brutally beaten by a southern congressman in 1856 after delivering a speech attacking the South

After the passage of the K-S Act, anti slavery forced divided into what three groups?

Declaration by American foreign minsters in 1854 that if Spain refused to sell Cuba, the United States might be justified in taking it by force.

What were the outcomes of the Dred-Scott case?

What caused Abraham Lincoln to come back into politics?

Debate on the issue of slavery in the territories, puts Lincoln on the national landscape.

In the election of 1860 what were the views of the Democrats and Republicans on slavery?

____ was the first state to secede from the Union because they saw Lincoln’s election as a sign of radicalization

34 States were in the Union when Lincoln was elected, only ____ remained when he was inaugarated.

Abolitionist who fought pro slavery settlers in Kansas in 1855, he was hung for treason after seizing the U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry in 1859 in an effort to liberate slaves.

Political Party that formed in 1854 that opposed the extension of slavery into the western territories.

Stephen Douglas’s belief stated at Freeport, IL, that a territory could exclude slavery by writing local laws or regulations that made slavery impossible to enforce.

Political Party that organized on the eve of the Civil War with no platform other than preservation of the Constitution, the Union, and the Law.

After Lincoln was elected, southerners thought he would do what?

Kentucky senator who made an unsuccessful attempt to prevent the Civil War by proposing a series of unconstitutional amendments protecting slavery south of the MO Compromise Line

After South Carolina seceded, five other states voted to secede in January 1861. What were they?

On February 4, 1861, delegates from the seceded states met and formed the ____________.