Apush vocab quiz

Question 1

2 parties, Republican Jefferson and Federalists Adams. After much debate, Jefferson was rewarded victory. It’s called a revolution because it produced the first orderly transfer of power from one party to another- without violence.

Answer 1

Election of 1800/”Revolution of 1800”

Question 2

U.S. acquisition of the Louisiana territory from France in 1803 for $15 million. The purchase secured American control of the Mississippi river and doubled the size of the nation.

Answer 2

Louisiana Purchase

Question 3

One of the leading Democratic-Republicans of New York, and served as a U.S. Senator from New York from 1791-1797. He was the principal opponent of Alexander Hamilton’s Federalist policies. In the election of 1800, Burr tied with Jefferson in the Electoral College.

Answer 3

Aaron Burr

Question 4

The name given to several renegade countries on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa who demanded tribute in exchange for refraining from attacking ships in the Mediterranean. From 1795-1801, the U.S. paid the Barbary states for protection against the pirates.

Answer 4

Barbary Pirates

Question 5

In 1807 the US Chesapeake was stopped in the mid-Atlantic by the British Leopard. The British demanded the return and surrender of four deserters from the royal navy, in which the Chesapeake’s commanding officer, James Barron, refused, resulting in British attack.

Answer 5

Chesapeake=Leopard Affair

Question 6

This law was passed in December 1807 over Federalist opposition, and prohibited United States vessels from trading with European nations during the Napoleonic War.

Answer 6

Embargo Act of 1807This law was passed in December 1807 over Federalist opposition, and prohibited United States vessels from trading with European nations during the Napoleonic War.

Question 7

A Shawnee leader, who fought against the United States expansion into the Midwest. He opposed any surrender of Native American land to whites, and tried with his brother, Tenskwatawa the “Prophet,” in uniting the tribes from American customs, especially liquor.

Answer 7

Tecumseh

Question 8

Battle in which Native Americans united by Tecumseh and Prophet fought against General William Henry Harrison’s forces and lost. Americans on the frontier blamed Britain for initiating the rebellion (1811) Significance: Destroyed the hopes of a large Indian Confederacy.

Answer 8

Battle of Tippecanoe

Question 9

The 9th president, an American military officer and politician, and the first president to have died in office.

Answer 9

William Henry Harrison

Question 10

A community of about twenty Democratic Republicans who persuaded Congress into supporting a declaration of war against Britain. Significance: Held significant power in congress and were able to convince the nation to enter a second struggle for liberty against Great Britain.

Answer 10

War Hawks

Question 11

Fought during the War of 1812 in central Alabama. On March 27, 1814, United States forces and Indian allies under General Andrew Jackson defeated the Red Sticks, a part of the Creek Indian tribe inspired by the Shawnee leader Tecumseh, effectively ending the Creek War.

Answer 11

Battle of Horseshoe Bend

Question 12

A military conflict fought between the United States and Great Britain from 1812 to 1815. Sparked by a variety of issues, including British interference with American trade and the impressment of American sailors by the British Navy.

Answer 12

War of 1812

Question 13

An agreement between the United States and Great Britain, in Belgium, on December 24, 1814. Ended the War of 1812, and provided that all territory captured would be returned to the rightful owner.

Answer 13

Treaty of Ghent

Question 14

Fought on January 8, 1815 between British troops led by General Edward Pakenham and American forces led by General Andrew Jackson. Despite being outnumbered 2:1, the Americans, who had constructed sophisticated earthworks, won a decisive victory against the British assault.

Answer 14

Battle of New Orleans

Question 15

A meeting of New England Federalists held in Hartford Connecticut in the winter of 1814-15. These Federalist opposed the War of 1812 and held the convention to discuss and seek redress by Washington for their complaints and wrongs that the felt had been done.

Answer 15

Hartford Convention

Question 16

A period in the political history of the United States that reflected rising nationalism in America after between 1817-1825. The era saw the collapse of the Federalist Party and an end to the disputes between it and the dominant Democratic-Republican Party during the First Party System.

Answer 16

Era of Good Feelings

Question 17

A protective tariff that was principally intended to hold the production of textiles and goods. This tariff was made in order to defend the industries that were established during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812, promoting new industries.

Answer 17

Tariff of 1816/protective tariff

Question 17

It proposed a protective tariff in support of home manufactures, internal improvements such as federal aid to local road and canal projects, a strong national bank, and distribution of the profits of federal land sales to the states.

Answer 17

Henry Clay’s American System

Question 18

This institution was chartered in 1816 under President Madison and became a depository for federal funds and a creditor for (loaning money to) state banks.

Answer 18

Second Bank of the US

Question 19

The start of a two-year depression caused by extensive speculation, the loose lending practices of state banks, a decline in European demand for American staple goods, and mismanagement within the second Bank of the United States.

Answer 19

Panic of 1819

Question 20

Congress admitted Maine as a free state in 1820 so that Missouri would become a slave state and prohibited slavery in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase territory north of 36 30, the southern boundary of Missouri.

Answer 20

Missouri Compromise

Question 21

It was the treaty in 1819 that purchased eastern Florida to establish the boundary between Mexico and the Louisiana territory. It provided for the cession of Florida to the United States in return for American settlement of claims of her citizens against Spain

Answer 21

Adams-Onis Treaty, 1819

Question 22

A policy set forth by President James Monroe indicating that further colonization by Europe in the Western Hemisphere would be considered a hostile act.

Answer 22

Monroe Doctrine

Question 23

An American statesman who served as the sixth President of the United States, a diplomat, a Senator and member of the House of Representatives. Significance: He helped negotiate the Treaty of Ghent, ending the War of 1812.

Answer 23

John Quincy Adams