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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT APUSH EXAM
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Question 1: Order of the Star Spangled Banner
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group protesting the mass immigration of Irish, Roman Catholics, and Germans into America
Question 2: Daniel Webster
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leading American diplomat during the Antebellum period, leader of the Whig party, opposed Jackson and the Democratic party, spokesman for modernization, banking, and industry. Served in the House, Senate, and Secretary of State for 3 presidents
Question 3: William Travis
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commander of the defenders of the Alamo who was only 26 years old, was determined to hold his position and managed to send messages through Mexican lines asking for assistance, killed in the Battle of Alamo, death made Texas fight harder for independence
Question 4: Tariff of Abominations
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a protective tariff passed by the US Congress that effected the Antebellum Southern economy, it was the highest tariff in the US peacetime and its goal was to protect industry in the northern US from competing European goods
Question 5: Panic of 1837
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When Jackson was president, many state banks received government money that had been withdrawn from the Bank of the US, banks issued paper money and financed wild speculation, especially in federal lands, Jackson stopped this and the economy crumbled
Question 6: "King Mob"
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nickname given to Jackson by conservatives as an insult after he allowed the commons into the White House the night of his inauguration, they created a mob, wrecking china and furniture and causing Jackson to have to sneak out for his safety
Question 7: Cult of Domesticity
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a widespread cultural creed that glorified the customary functions of the homemaker, married women held immense power in being able to control the morals of the household
Question 8: John Quincy Adams
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6th president of the US, Federalist, then Democratic Republican, then Whig. Served in the senate and the House, helped formulate the Monroe Doctrine, lost his reelection to Jackson, viewed as one of the greatest diplomats in history
Question 9: Clermont
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a vessel with a powerful steam engine installed, invented by Robert Fulton, small, sparked success in steamboat
Question 10: John
- Calhoun
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VP under Jackson, leading Southern politician, began his political career as a nationalist and an advocate of protective tariffs, later he becomes and advocate for free trade, states rights, limited government, and nullification
Question 11: Specie Circular
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issued by Jackson and was meant to stop land speculation caused by states printing paper money, required that the purchase of public lands be paid for in specie, stopped the land speculation and sale of public lands went down sharply Question 12: "Jackson Forever: Go the Whole Hog"
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Jackson campaign slogan
Question 13: Catharine Beecher
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encouraged other women to work as nurses, school teachers, and maids
Question 14: Commonwealth vs hunt
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a landmark ruling of the Massachusetts Supreme Court establishing the legality of labor unions and the legality of union workers striking if an employer hired non-union workers
Question 15: Robert Fulton
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inventor of the first American steamboat, thus increasing trade while at the same time improving inter and state transportation
Question 16: Nicholas Biddle
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ran the Bank from 1832 on, he had done much to put the institution on a sound and prosperous basis, many Americans, including Jackson, were determined to destroy it
Question 17: Independent Treasury
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system in which government funds would be placed in independent treasury in DC and in subtreasuries, this way no private banks would have government money or name to use as a basis for speculation, Van Buren called special order of Congress for it to pass
Question 18: Juan Lopez de Santa Anna
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Mexican president and general, Mexican dictator who tried to crush Texas revolt and lost battles to Winfield Scott and Zachary Taylor in the Mexican War, lead attack on Alamo, defeated Houston, sold the "Golden Purchase" to the US
Question 19: Eli Whitney
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inventor of cotton gin, interchangeable parts, and the milling machine
Question 20: Stephen Austin
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original settler of Texas who brought Americans to Mexico, granted and from Mexico on the conditions of no slaves, convert to Roman Catholic, and learn Spanish
Question 21: Seminole Indians
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lived in Florida, waged a 7 year war on the US to try to stop the forceable movement of them, tricked into a truce where Chief Osceola was captured, most were moved to Oklahoma but others hid in the everglades
Question 22: Andrew Jackson
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a Democratic-Republican who was voted into office in 1828. The people wanted representation and reform from the administration of JQA. Believed that the people should rule. First president from the West. Appealed to the common man
Question 23: "Czar Nicolas I"
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what enemies of the Bank called Nicholas Biddle