APUSH TERM 2

Question 1

Important turning point battle of the Revolutionary War. The American victory encouraged France to aid colonial independence from Britain.

Answer 1

Saratoga

Question 2

The final battle of the revolution; won by George Washington and his French allies who trapped Gen. Cornwallis in Virginia.

Answer 2

Yorktown

Question 3

First US government which was ineffectual in dealing with the nation’s financial and political problems because it lacked coercive power.

Answer 3

Articles of Confederation

Question 4

Debt-ridden farmers mounted a protest to foreclosures led by revolutionary war veterans; that demonstrated the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.

Answer 4

Shays’ Rebellion

Question 5

Also known as the Connecticut Compromise, it established a bicameral legislature with proportional representation in the lower house (House Representatives) and equal representation in the upper house [2 Senators each state].

Answer 5

Great Compromise

Question 6

Jay, Madison, and Hamilton published a series of letters under the pseudonym “Publius” to help grow support for the ratification of the Constitution.

Answer 6

The Federalist Papers

Question 7

Established by Alexander Hamilton to improve the national economy, but it also created a constitutional crisis on interpretation of the U.S. constitution.

Answer 7

National Bank

Question 8

Sec of Treasury under Washington and perhaps the greatest administrative genius in U.S. history. He was the father of the 1st National Bank, pro industry, nationalist and founder of the Federalist Party.

Answer 8

Alexander Hamilton

Question 9

1795 Treaty with Spain fearful of Jay Treaty with Great Britain might threaten Spanish holdings in the West. Spain permitted U.S. navigation rights on the Mississippi and conceded U.S. right to lands east of the Mississippi.

Answer 9

Pinckney’s Treaty

Question 10

The unpopular treaty with Great Britain 1794-95 that was supposed to stop British impressments but did not. The British did withdraw soldiers from the Northwest Territory.

Answer 10

Jay Treaty

Question 11

Western Pennsylvania Farmers failed uprising against the Washington administration. They took up arms as a result of Hamilton’s excise tax on whiskey in 1794

Answer 11

Whiskey Rebellion

Question 12

John Adams’ last minute appointment of Federalist Party members to federal courts before Thomas Jefferson took office in 1800.

Answer 12

Midnight Judges

Question 13

Issued by Jefferson and Madison in response to President Adam’s passage of the Alien & Sedition Acts, the resolution advocated States rights to nullify laws they considered to be unconstitutional.

Answer 13

Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions

Question 14

Jefferson’s least popular action taken. It did not allow American shipping to carry European goods to the U.S. It furthered American industry and wrecked the shipping business in the Federalist New England area.

Answer 14

Embargo Act 1807

Question 15

After the election of 1800, Jeffersonians promoted this as the ideal for women to raise their children with the idealism of the American nation.

Answer 15

Republican Motherhood

Question 16

Meeting of New England Federalists who were opposed to the War of 1812 and wanted to seek a separate peace with Britain even if it meant seceding from the Union.

Answer 16

Hartford Convention

Question 17

Henry Clay and John C Calhoun were members for their support of the war of 1812 (Now a common term used for pro-war sentiment)

Answer 17

War Hawks

Question 18

First of the internal improvements provided by congress in 1806 to help the colonization of the west. A toll bill linked to the road was vetoed by Monroe.

Answer 18

Old National Road-(Cumberland Road)

Question 19

Religious revivals and growth of Baptist and Methodist membership between 1800-1840 that lead to rise of major reform movements and utopian/religious sects like the Shakers & Mormons. Focus was on connecting the frontier families, and on Romanticism and Perfectionism

Answer 19

Second Great Awakening

Question 20

This was Henry Clay’s three part plan to improve the national economy through a 2nd National Bank, Internal Improvements, and Protective Tariffs.

Answer 20

American System 1819

Question 21

A Bill passed in 1820 to solve the divisive issue of the expansion of slavery which threatened to upset the political balance in the Senate. This bill set the tone for the congressional actions prior to the Civil War.

Answer 21

Missouri Compromise

Question 22

Senator from Kentucky called the Great Compromiser because he was credited with the Missouri Compromise and other major political compromises between 1820 and 1850.

Answer 22

Henry Clay

Question 23

French liberal politician who observed the evolution of American political thought, customs and social interaction in the 1830’s. His book Democracy in America is still considered one the most accurate primary sources on American culture.

Answer 23

Alexis De Tocqueville

Question 24

Brief period of nationalism and patriotism that followed the American victory over the British in the War of 1812. It was marked by a spirit of cooperation on economic matters, internal improvements and westward expansion

Answer 24

Era of Good Feelings

Question 25

Announcement made during the Era of Good Feelings because the U.S. feared that the Concert of Europe might intervene in Latin American revolutions-U.S. stood opposed to any further colonization in western hemisphere and would not intervene in European affairs.

Answer 25

Monroe Doctrine