APUSH Vocab

Question 1

Strict Interpretation

Answer 1

Belief held predominately by Democratic-Republicans that the federal government had only the powers literally written in the Constitution and nothing more.

Question 2

Loose Interpretation

Answer 2

Belief held predominantly by Federalists that the federal government had implied powers beyond what was written in the Constitution due to the Elastic Clause.

Question 3

Fletcher v Peck

Answer 3

Landmark SCOTUS case under the Marshall Court, which ruled states could not pass laws invalidating contracts and was the first time the Supreme Court ruled a state law unconstitutional.

Question 4

Gibbons v. Ogden

Answer 4

Landmark SCOTUS case under the Marshall Court over navigation rights, with the Supreme Court upholding the federal government’s broad authority to regulate interstate commerce.

Question 5

Tariff of 1816

Answer 5

First protective tariff levied in the United States, this tariff was levied to protect American factories that had developed during the War of 1812 from cheaper British goods.

Question 6

Tallmadge Amendment

Answer 6

Added to the bill for Missouri’s admission to the Union, it called for the gradual emancipation of slaves in Missouri, which infuriated the Southern states and was defeated in the Senate.

Question 7

Chesapeake- Leopard Affair

Answer 7

British warship fired on a U.S. warship and killed three Americans and impressed four others, which sparked American anger and almost started a war.

Question 8

Quids

Answer 8

Name given to Democratic-Republicans who opposed going to war with Great Britain on the grounds it violated classic Democratic-Republican values of limited federal power and maintenance of peace.

Question 9

Battle of Lake Erie

Answer 9

Important naval military engagement between American and British ships in 1813 on Lake Erie that resulted in a British defeat at the hands of American Captain Oliver Hazard Perry.

Question 10

Battle of Horseshoe Bend

Answer 10

Military engagement between the United States led by General Andrew Jackson and the British allied Creek Nation that ended in American victory and opened Alabama to American settlers.

Question 11

Textile Mills

Answer 11

Factories that produce cloth, which made up some of the first factories in the United States and required many workers and were constructed predominantly in the North and near bodies of water.

Question 12

Workingmen’s Party

Answer 12

Political party that tried to unite artisans and skilled laborers into a political organization.

Question 13

Commonwealth v. Hunt

Answer 13

Massachusetts Supreme Court Case that established the legal right of unions to negotiate labor contracts with employers that greatly impacted how other states viewed and treated unions.

Question 14

Corporations

Answer 14

Companies owned by shareholders that can sell stock to raise large amounts of funds to invest in capital such as factories and machinery.