APUSH Unit 4

Question 1

Election of 1800

Answer 1

Jefferson, Revolution of 1800

Question 2

John Marshall

Answer 2

fourth chief justice

Question 3

Marbury v Madison

Answer 3

(1803) - Judiciary Act was declared unconstitutional. Judicial Review came to be and it significantly increased the power of the federal Supreme Court.

Question 4

McCulloch v Maryland

Answer 4

(1819) - a state cannot tax a federal bank. National law trumps state law

Question 5

Causes - War of 1812

Answer 5

1) Continued impressment of American citizens
2) Americans wanted westward expansion. Britain was found to be giving Indians weapons - War Hawks got mad

Question 6

Embargo Act of 1807

Answer 6

Shut down America’s import/export business

Question 7

Non-Intercourse Act

Answer 7

1809 - reopened trade with everyone except Britain and France

Question 8

Hartford Convention

Answer 8

New England states threatened to secede from the colonies but the Federalists values didnt seem to line up anymore

Question 9

War of 1812 Results

Answer 9

1) Made it clear that without a National Bank, the US didn’t have credit
2) Weak systems of infrastructure & transportation

Question 10

Clay’s American System

Answer 10

1) Federally funded internal improvements (maybe)
2) Federal tariffs
3) Second Bank of the US

Question 11

Treaty of Ghent

Answer 11

1814

Question 12

1817 Election

Answer 12

James Monroe, SOS John Quincy Adams

Question 13

Adam-Onis Treaty (1819)

Answer 13

Border between the US and Spain (Florida sold to US)

Question 14

Monroe Doctrine

Answer 14

1823 - Western Hemisphere was for the US, not European military. Officially challenged

Question 15

Election of 1824

Answer 15

Adams, SOS Clay

Question 16

Election of 1828

Answer 16

Jackson, VP Callhoun

Question 17

Doctrine of Nullification

Answer 17

state judged a federal law unconstitutional, they could nullify it.

Question 18

Force Bill

Answer 18

respond with military action
Calhoun decided to back off from the threat to succeed if the tax was reduced. Then the force bill was nullified.

Question 19

Second National Bank

Answer 19

State banks had to close doors because they were unable to make payments to national bank.

Question 20

Worcester v Georgia

Answer 20

Supreme Court sided with Indians. BUT, in 1835, some met with US officials without tribal sanction

Question 21

Treaty of New Echota

Answer 21

exchanged cherokee lands in the east for reservation territory west of mississippi.

Question 22

1. The Louisiana Purchase resulted primarily from

Answer 22

American efforts to secure from France commerce rights in New Orleans and along
the Mississippi River

Question 23

While Chief Justice John Marshall presided over the Supreme Court, its decisions

Answer 23

laid the groundwork for a “broad” interpretation of the Constitution

Question 24

Dorothea Dix

Answer 24

inspired to dedicate her life to a humanitarian crusade by discovery of the confinement of the mentally ill in local jails

Question 25

A significant motivating force behind the reform movements from the 1820s to the 1850s was

Answer 25

religious revival

Question 26

Frederick Douglas

Answer 26

an escaped slave who became the publisher of the Abolitionist newspaper The North Star

Question 27

Harriet Tubman

Answer 27

a conductor on the Underground Railroad who helped fugitives escape to the North

Question 28

Nat Turner

Answer 28

a slave who led an “army of slaves” in rebellion in 1831

Question 29

Horace Mann

Answer 29

the “father of the American public school system”

Question 30

Lucretia Mott

Answer 30

among the first white Americans to call for an immediate end to slavery… organized the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society