APUSH SOLVED QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
was a product of the belief that no government could be trusted to protect the liberties of
its citizens.
✔✔Black Codes - ✔✔laws made in the South during Reconstruction to gain control over
black workers.
✔✔Bleeding Kansas - ✔✔fights in Kansas over slavery; under the Kansas Nebraska Act
slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty so pro- and anti-slavery supported
conflicts
✔✔British Whigs - ✔✔These were radical members of the British Whig party who
influenced colonists to fear corruption (see republicanism)—they had a specific brand of
republicanism.
✔✔Brown, John - ✔✔Radical abolitionist who leads a raid on pro-slavery settlers in
Pottawatomie, Kansas (1856) during Bleeding Kansas and kills five people, presumed
to be proslavery supporters.
✔✔Calvinism - ✔✔Dominant theological credo of the New England Puritans based on
the teachings of John Calvin. Calvinists believed in predestination—that only "the elect"
were destined for salvation.
✔✔Carpetbaggers - ✔✔Pejorative used by southern whites to describe northern
businessmen and politicians who came to the South after the Civil War to work on
Reconstruction projects or invest in southern infrastructure.
✔✔Coercive/ Intolerable Acts - ✔✔After the Boston Tea party, Parliament passed
several acts in 1774 to punish the colonists.
✔✔Columbian Exchange - ✔✔The transfer of goods, crops, and diseases between New
and Old World societies after 1492.
✔✔Committees of Correspondence - ✔✔Local committees established across Mass.
✔✔Common Sense - ✔✔Written my Thomas Paine, it helped change the American
outlook to wanting independence.
✔✔Compromise of 1850 - ✔✔engineered by Henry Clay, John Calhoun, Daniel
Webster; takes on this issue of slave territories
, ✔✔Compromise of 1877 - ✔✔Hayes (Republican) was elected, but a compromise with
the Democrats had to be made. It was that the \army would leave the south, effectively
ending reconstruction.
✔✔Conquistadores - ✔✔Sixteenth-century Spaniards who fanned out across the
Americas.
✔✔Cooper, James F. - ✔✔1820s: First Great American Novelist.
✔✔Copperheads - ✔✔Name applied by Northerners to those northern political
supporters opposed to war and sympathetic to the South
✔✔Crittenden Compromise - ✔✔(1861) called for constitutional amendments
guaranteeing the legality of slavery in slave states
✔✔Cult of Domesticity: - ✔✔The separate woman's "sphere" which was a byproduct of
the male belief that there should be a distinction between the public and private worlds.
✔✔Declaration of Independence - ✔✔July 4, 1776: allowed Americans to appeal for
foreign aid and served as an inspiration for later revolutionary movements worldwide.
✔✔Declaratory Act - ✔✔1766; Passed by Parliament after repeal of the Stamp Act.
Asserted Parliament's authority over the colonies "in all cases whatsoever." Americans
did not pay attention to this act.
✔✔Dix, Dorothea - ✔✔Member of the women's rights movement and the Seneca Falls
Convention
✔✔Douglas, Stephen - ✔✔served as a Senator from Illinois in the 1830s to 1860s. Most
notably pushed Compromise of 1850 and Kansas-Nebraska act through congress
✔✔Douglass, Frederick - ✔✔former slave, noted abolitionist lecturer, founded
abolitionistnewspaper North Star.
✔✔Dred Scott Decision- - ✔✔1857 supreme court decision in which Dred Scott (a
slave) was denied his freedom even though he had lived in free territory north of the
Missouri Compromise line.
✔✔Edwards, Jonathan - ✔✔Preacher during the First Great Awakening (1740s)
attacked the new idea of salvation for all.
✔✔Election of 1864 - ✔✔Peace Candidate George McClellan v. Lincoln.
was a product of the belief that no government could be trusted to protect the liberties of
its citizens.
✔✔Black Codes - ✔✔laws made in the South during Reconstruction to gain control over
black workers.
✔✔Bleeding Kansas - ✔✔fights in Kansas over slavery; under the Kansas Nebraska Act
slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty so pro- and anti-slavery supported
conflicts
✔✔British Whigs - ✔✔These were radical members of the British Whig party who
influenced colonists to fear corruption (see republicanism)—they had a specific brand of
republicanism.
✔✔Brown, John - ✔✔Radical abolitionist who leads a raid on pro-slavery settlers in
Pottawatomie, Kansas (1856) during Bleeding Kansas and kills five people, presumed
to be proslavery supporters.
✔✔Calvinism - ✔✔Dominant theological credo of the New England Puritans based on
the teachings of John Calvin. Calvinists believed in predestination—that only "the elect"
were destined for salvation.
✔✔Carpetbaggers - ✔✔Pejorative used by southern whites to describe northern
businessmen and politicians who came to the South after the Civil War to work on
Reconstruction projects or invest in southern infrastructure.
✔✔Coercive/ Intolerable Acts - ✔✔After the Boston Tea party, Parliament passed
several acts in 1774 to punish the colonists.
✔✔Columbian Exchange - ✔✔The transfer of goods, crops, and diseases between New
and Old World societies after 1492.
✔✔Committees of Correspondence - ✔✔Local committees established across Mass.
✔✔Common Sense - ✔✔Written my Thomas Paine, it helped change the American
outlook to wanting independence.
✔✔Compromise of 1850 - ✔✔engineered by Henry Clay, John Calhoun, Daniel
Webster; takes on this issue of slave territories
, ✔✔Compromise of 1877 - ✔✔Hayes (Republican) was elected, but a compromise with
the Democrats had to be made. It was that the \army would leave the south, effectively
ending reconstruction.
✔✔Conquistadores - ✔✔Sixteenth-century Spaniards who fanned out across the
Americas.
✔✔Cooper, James F. - ✔✔1820s: First Great American Novelist.
✔✔Copperheads - ✔✔Name applied by Northerners to those northern political
supporters opposed to war and sympathetic to the South
✔✔Crittenden Compromise - ✔✔(1861) called for constitutional amendments
guaranteeing the legality of slavery in slave states
✔✔Cult of Domesticity: - ✔✔The separate woman's "sphere" which was a byproduct of
the male belief that there should be a distinction between the public and private worlds.
✔✔Declaration of Independence - ✔✔July 4, 1776: allowed Americans to appeal for
foreign aid and served as an inspiration for later revolutionary movements worldwide.
✔✔Declaratory Act - ✔✔1766; Passed by Parliament after repeal of the Stamp Act.
Asserted Parliament's authority over the colonies "in all cases whatsoever." Americans
did not pay attention to this act.
✔✔Dix, Dorothea - ✔✔Member of the women's rights movement and the Seneca Falls
Convention
✔✔Douglas, Stephen - ✔✔served as a Senator from Illinois in the 1830s to 1860s. Most
notably pushed Compromise of 1850 and Kansas-Nebraska act through congress
✔✔Douglass, Frederick - ✔✔former slave, noted abolitionist lecturer, founded
abolitionistnewspaper North Star.
✔✔Dred Scott Decision- - ✔✔1857 supreme court decision in which Dred Scott (a
slave) was denied his freedom even though he had lived in free territory north of the
Missouri Compromise line.
✔✔Edwards, Jonathan - ✔✔Preacher during the First Great Awakening (1740s)
attacked the new idea of salvation for all.
✔✔Election of 1864 - ✔✔Peace Candidate George McClellan v. Lincoln.
