APUSH unit 4-5

Question 1

American System

Answer 1

proposed by Henry Clay, intended to strengthen the US economy through a combination of tariffs, national bank, and infrastructure.

Question 2

Louisiana Purchase

Answer 2

Large portion of land that was purchased by Jefferson from the French (Napoleon), for $15 million in 1803.

Question 3

The 2nd Great Awakening

Answer 3

Series of religious revivals that mainly focused on personal religious experience and Utopian communities. Also triggered the Antebellum Reform Movement.

Question 4

Antebellum Reform Movement

Answer 4

A series of movements inspired by the 2nd Great Awakenings ideal (better the community, make an impact) like temperance, abolition (Lyman Beecher), education, prison reforms, insane asylums, etc.

Question 5

Judicial Review

Answer 5

The ability of the Supreme Court of the US (SCOTUS) t determine constitutionality

Question 6

The War of 1812

Answer 6

Conflict between the US and GB over trade and impressment. Great lakes were shaped with US and Canada.

Question 7

Adams-Onis Treaty

Answer 7

A treaty that allowed the US to buy Florida from Spain.

Question 8

Market Revolution

Answer 8

turning point in US industry and production. (railroads, canals, steamboats, etc. making things QUICKER which resulted in more PROFIT)

Question 9

Tariff of Abominations

Answer 9

A protective tariffthat was passed to support early growing domestic industries by raising costs of imported goods. This led to the Nullification crisis.

Question 10

Nullification crisis

Answer 10

whether individual states had the right to nullify or reject federal laws within their boundaries.

Question 11

Monroe Doctrine

Answer 11

Made by James Monroe; a Doctrine that warned European nations that the US would not tolerate further colonization.

Question 12

Lewis and Clark

Answer 12

tasked with exploring land that the United States had recently acquired (the Louisiana Purchase)

Question 13

embargo act

Answer 13

1807,closed U.S. ports to all exports and restricted imports from Britain, response to British and French interference with neutral U.S. merchant ships during the Napoleonic Wars.

Question 14

the compromise of 1850

Answer 14

a series of measures proposed by U.S. Senator Henry Clay and passed by the U.S. Congress to settle several issues connected to slavery and avert the threat of dissolution of the Union

Question 15

the fugitive slave law

Answer 15

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was part of the Compromise of 1850. The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state.

Question 16

the Missouri compromise (compromise of 1820)

Answer 16

This legislation admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state at the same time, so as not to upset the balance between slave and free states in the nation. It also outlawed slavery above the 36º 30’ latitude line in the remainder of the Louisiana Territory.

Question 17

popular sovereignty

Answer 17

The doctrine stating that the sovereign people of a territory should themselves determine the status of slavery within that territory.