AP Midterm

Question 1

Missouri Compromise

Answer 1

The Missouri comp was made to defuse the sectional and political rivalries whether slavery was permitted there or not

It brought Maine in as a free state while dividing slavery

Question 2

Salem witch trails

Answer 2

Trials of people accused of witchcraft in Mass

Question 3

The first great awakening

Answer 3

A spiritual revival in America

Allowed people to start anew + prosper in their own life while being able to express more emotion to God so they can connect better

Question 4

Stamp act

Answer 4

Tax that was applied to most of the printed documents in the colonies b,c of the Seven Years’ War

Act was unconstitutional. Strained relations w, the colonies (causing a rebellion 10yrs later)

Question 5

Cotton gin

Answer 5

A machine that separates cotton seeds from cotton fibers

Sped up process for removing seeds from cotton.

Question 6

Battle of Saratoga

Answer 6

Turning point in the American Revolution.

American victory got French gov. To recognize the and to enter the war as their ally

Question 7

Louisiana purchase

Answer 7

Land purchase by thom Jeff 1803 bought from France and doubled the size of the us.
Gave us control over the Mississippi River and the port city of New Orléans ! help farmers import,export profit

Question 8

Yorktown

Answer 8

Last fight for independence with France,
Rouchambeau ? And Washington fight against monarchy

British surrendered American revolution

Question 9

Gag rule

Answer 9

No petitions, papers etc. Talking about slavery, abolishing slavery will be read or placed on the table

Went against the first amendment freedom of petition

Question 10

Art of Con

Answer 10

Had a universal understanding of state powers and how the government intertwined with everyone

First U.S constitution

Question 11

Bacons Rebellion

Answer 11

Indentured servants were getting freed to much and went into Indian territories which upset the Indians causing them to attack and Bacon went to the government but they did nothing, so he went and burned down Jamestown

First act of colonial defiance

Question 12

Cult of domesticity

Answer 12

Virtues which women had to abide by and their purpose

Women starting roles within society

Question 13

Interchangeable parts

Answer 13

Parts were identical, can just replace broken parts

Cheaper and you didn’t have to be as skilled to make them, manufacturing system developing

Question 14

Bill of rights

Answer 14

The first 10 amendment of the us

To protect the rights of citizens from governments

Question 15

Mexican American war

Answer 15

Mexico wanted to protect what was their and the us found a way to start the war since the Mexicans killed Americans on “American” soil.

Attained Texas

Question 16

3/5 comp

Answer 16

Every slave counted as 3/5 of a citizen toward the population

This helped solve the issue with the House of Representatives seating for every state

Question 17

Treaty of Ghent

Answer 17

Peace treaty that ended the war of 1812

All conquered territory was returned

Question 18

Indenture servants

Answer 18

Worked as indentured servants to come to the new country, They would have in half of the contract and once they completed all the requirements they were release

Paved the path for slaves

Question 19

Dawes Act

Answer 19

Gives Indians independence from tribe. And turn them into farmers and give them allotment of land.

Took land from Indians and forced themOut of their homes

Question 20

Fugitive slave law

Answer 20

Gave southerners legal weapons to retrieve slaves who ran to a free state.

Lead to the civil war

Question 21

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 21

small civil war, fought between proslavery and antislavery advocates for control of the new territory of Kansas under the doctrine of popular sovereignty

Lead to civil war

Question 22

13th amendment

Answer 22

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Abolished slavery

Question 23

Battle of Antietam

Answer 23

Stop Confederates from advancing on Maryland for supplies

Gave Lincoln a time to deliver the Emancipation Proclamation without sounding pathetic

Question 24

Know-Nothing party

Answer 24

Wanted to keep the government in the native born citizens hands

Social anxiety controlling gov actions

Question 25

Sharecropping

Answer 25

Former slaves taken in by former slave owners gave them little plot to work and supplied them with housing clothes etc and made their debt super high

enslave them again, causing more conflict with radical republicans

Question 26

Tenure of office act

Answer 26

restricting the power of the President to remove certain office-holders without the approval of the Senate

Republicans hope this would get president Johnson impeached

Question 27

Bell telephone

Answer 27

First telephone and Bell telephone company was made

Change communication forever

Question 28

Jim Crow laws

Answer 28

a practice or policy of segregating or discriminating against black people.

Restrained African Americans from being “free”

Question 29

Olive Branch Petition

Answer 29

colonists’ last effort to make peace with the British king and avoid a war between Britain and the colonies.

It gave the colonies the opportunity they needed to rebel

Question 30

Virginia-Kentucky resolutions

Answer 30

They were political statements in favor of states’ rights and Strict Constructionism.

Kentucky and Virginia legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional

Question 31

Burr-Hamilton duel

Answer 31

Burr and Hamilton had personal tensions between each other and burr ended up shooting ham in the gut near his spinal cord and hamiltons second claimed he thought it was wrong and shot sky ward and burr second claimed he shot at burr and missed

Hamilton ended up dying and he was an important figure in political matters

Question 32

French and Indian War

Answer 32

A series of military engagements between Britain and France in North America

helped bring about the American Revolution.

Question 33

Treaty of Paris

Answer 33

Ended the American Revolutionary War

Recognize American independence

Question 34

Trade and Navigation Acts

Answer 34

The triangle trade, tightening the govs control over trade and they could monitor the trades

They closed of import and export for other countries as well by establishing a cut clean trading center of who to profit from

Question 35

Alien and Sedition acts

Answer 35

Made it harder for immigrants to become American citizens and allowed the gov to prosecute anyone who engaged in Sedition against the government

Discouraged immigration and helped lower people who criticized gov and fédéralistes

Question 36

XYZ affair

Answer 36

involving a confrontation between the United States and Republican France that led to an undeclared war, replaced three French agents names with X, Y and Z.

Lead to Quasi war

Question 37

Whig party

Answer 37

organized a new party to contest Jacksonian Democrats nationally and in the states. Guided by their most prominent leader, Henry Clay

Second Party System

Question 38

Mayflower compact

Answer 38

first written framework of government established

first agreement for self-government to be created and enforced in America

Question 39

Social Darwinism

Answer 39

Survival of the fittest

was used to justify political conservatism, imperialism, and racism and to discourage intervention and reform.

Question 40

Star-Spangled Banner

Answer 40

Inspired by the sight of the American flag flying over Fort McHenry the morning after the bombardment

The nations national anthem