FREE U.S. HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT TOP 250

PDF Download

FREE U.S. HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT TOP 250

APUSH TERMS EXAM QUESTIONS

Actual Qs and Ans Expert-Verified Explanation

This Exam contains:

-Guarantee passing score -248 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation

Question 1: XYZ Affair

Answer:

controversy in which French demand bribe from US just to negotiate ending of French seizure of US ships ("millions for defense, not a cent for trubute")

Question 2: What was the Hartford Convention

Answer:

meeting to discuss the grievances of the New England states during War of 1812; discussed secession until Jackson won at New Orleans

Question 3: American Colonization Society

Answer:

early 19th century movement that sought to return slaves to Africa (Liberia)

Question 4: Omaha Platform

Answer:

platform of Populist Party in early 1900s that called for reforms to curtail power of banks and trusts

Question 5: Marbury v Madison

Answer:

Supreme Coirt case that established judicial review (right of Supreme Court to declare a law unconstitutional)

Question 6: Antietam (1862)

Answer:

Union victory in Civil War that prevented intervention by foreign powers

Question 7: What was the Virginia Company

Answer:

joint stock company chartered to colonize North America between 34th and 45th parallels; Investors hoped to find gold, silver, northwest passage, cure for syphilis

Question 8: Ostend Manifesto 1852

Answer:

Pierce's attempt to buy Cuba from Spain in order to expand slavery

Question 9: Paxton Boys

Answer:

Pennsylvania backcountry farmers who slaughtered Indians in fear after Pontiac's Rebellion scared them; Ben Franklin saved peaceful Indians that the Paxton Boys were about to murder in Philly

Question 10: John

• Rockefeller

Answer:

Robber Baron who made fortune in oil (Standard Oil)

Question 11: Fugitive Slave Law 1854

Answer:

said northerners had to return runaway slaves to south; caused severe sectionalism

Question 12: Civil Rights Act of 1957

Answer:

a) Expedited lawsuits by African-Americans who claimed voting rights were violated b)Created

Commission on Civil Rights to advise govt on issues

Question 13: Bill of Rights

Answer:

1st 10 Amendments to Constitution

Question 14: Popular Sovereignty

Answer:

idea of letting the people who settled a territory to decide if they wanted slavery by voting; 1st applied in Kansas

Question 15: Bacon's Rebellion (1676)

Answer:

revolt of backcountry farmers in Virginia against Tidewater elite on coast who were hated because of power

Question 16: Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin

Answer:

Claimed Truman's administration was filled with communists

Question 17: Kentucky Resolves and Virginia Resolves

Answer:

• early examples of states' rights
• nullified Alien and Sedition Acts in 1790s that were seen as making national govt too powerful

Question 18: 18th Amendment

Answer:

outlaws manufacture, sale, distribution of alcohol

Question 19: Toleration Act of 1649

Answer:

granted freedom of worship to all Christians (but not Jews) in Maryland; 1st example of religious toleration in Americas

Question 20: Dienbienphu (1954)

Answer:

French defeat in Vietnam that resulted in French withdrawal and increase in US involvement

Question 21: Andrew Carnegie

Answer:

Robber Baron who made fortune in steel; became philanthropist

Question 22: contraband

Answer:

enemy property that could be "seized"; used as excuse to seize slaves prior to Emancipation Proclamation

Question 23: American Federation of Labor

Answer:

labor union led by Samuel Gompers, excluded many and was more successful

Question 24: What was the Great Awakening

Answer:

An emotional religious revival during the 1730s and 1740s amongst ALL colonies

Question 25: new immigrants

Answer:

immigrants from southern and eastern Europe

Question 26: Operation Rolling Thunder

Answer:

code name for saturation bombing of North Vietnam

Question 27: American system

Answer:

program for advancing US economic growth in early 1800s (Henry Clay)

• tariffs
• national bank
• infratsructure

Question 28: Palmer Raids

Answer:

Mass arrests of socialists, communists in 33 cities after WWI