AMSCO APUSH LATEST 2026 TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Hartford Convention - ✔✔Meeting of Federalists near the end of the War of 1812 in
which the party listed it's complaints against the ruling Republican Party. These actions
were largely viewed as traitorous to the country and lost the Federalist much influence
✔✔Battle of Tippecanoe - ✔✔Battle between Americans and Native Americans.
Tecumseh and the Prophet attempted to oppress white settlement in the West, but
defeated by William Henry Harrison. Led to talk of Canadian invasion and served as a
cause to the War of 1812.
✔✔Barbary Pirates - ✔✔Plundering pirates off the Mediterranean coast of Africa;
President Thomas Jefferson's refusal to pay them tribute to protect American ships
sparked an undeclared naval war with North African nations
✔✔Embargo Act - ✔✔An 1807 law that prohibited American merchants from trading
with other countries
✔✔Nonintercourse Act - ✔✔An 1809 law that allowed Americans to carry on trade with
all nations except Britain and France
✔✔Battle of New Orleans - ✔✔A battle during the War of 1812 where the British army
attempted to take New Orleans. Due to the foolish frontal attack, Jackson defeated
them, which gave him an enormous popularity boost.
✔✔Treaty of Ghent - ✔✔Treaty that ended the War of 1812 and maintained prewar
conditions
✔✔Rush-Bagot Agreement - ✔✔1817 agreement that limited American and British
naval forces on the Great Lakes
✔✔Monroe Doctrine - ✔✔An American foreign policy opposing interference in the
Western hemisphere from outside powers
✔✔Eerie Canal - ✔✔built in 1825, and connected the Great Lakes with the Hudson
River
✔✔Lowell System - ✔✔Dormitories for young women where they were cared for, fed,
and sheltered in return for cheap labor, mill towns, homes for workers to live in around
the mills
, ✔✔Market Revolution - ✔✔Drastic changes in transportation (canals, RRs),
communication (telegraph), and the production of goods (more in factories as opposed
to houses)
✔✔Commonwealth v. Hunt - ✔✔A landmark ruling of the MA Supreme Court
establishing the legality of labor unions and the legality of union workers striking if an
employer hired non-union workers.
✔✔Spoils System - ✔✔A system of public employment based on rewarding party
loyalists and friends.
✔✔rotation in office - ✔✔Jackson's system of periodically replacing officeholders to
allow ordinary citizens to play a more prominent role in government
✔✔Indian Removal Act - ✔✔An 1830 a congressional act that authorized the removal of
Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River
✔✔Worcester v. Georgia - ✔✔Supreme Court decision where the Cherokee were
entitled to federal protection from the actions of state governments which would infringe
on the tribe's sovereignty; Jackson ignored it
✔✔Nicholas Biddle - ✔✔President of the Second Bank of the United States; he
struggled to keep the bank functioning when President Jackson tried to destroy it.
✔✔pet banks - ✔✔A term used by Jackson's opponents to describe the state banks that
the federal government used for new revenue deposits in an attempt to destroy the
Second Bank of the United States
✔✔Specie Circular - ✔✔Issued by President Jackson and was meant to stop land
speculation caused by states printing paper money without proper specie (gold or silver)
backing it. It required that the purchase of public lands be paid for in specie. It stopped
the land speculation and the sale of public lands went down sharply. The panic of 1837
followed.
✔✔Corrupt Bargain - ✔✔Refers to the presidential election of 1824 in which Henry Clay,
the Speaker of the House, convinced the House of Representatives to elect Adams
rather than Jackson.
✔✔Tariff of Abominations - ✔✔Tariff passed by Congress in 1828 that favored
manufacturing in the North and was hated by the South
✔✔Nullification Crisis - ✔✔A sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson
created by the Ordinance of Nullification, an attempt by the state of South Carolina to
nullify a federal law passed by the United States Congress.
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Hartford Convention - ✔✔Meeting of Federalists near the end of the War of 1812 in
which the party listed it's complaints against the ruling Republican Party. These actions
were largely viewed as traitorous to the country and lost the Federalist much influence
✔✔Battle of Tippecanoe - ✔✔Battle between Americans and Native Americans.
Tecumseh and the Prophet attempted to oppress white settlement in the West, but
defeated by William Henry Harrison. Led to talk of Canadian invasion and served as a
cause to the War of 1812.
✔✔Barbary Pirates - ✔✔Plundering pirates off the Mediterranean coast of Africa;
President Thomas Jefferson's refusal to pay them tribute to protect American ships
sparked an undeclared naval war with North African nations
✔✔Embargo Act - ✔✔An 1807 law that prohibited American merchants from trading
with other countries
✔✔Nonintercourse Act - ✔✔An 1809 law that allowed Americans to carry on trade with
all nations except Britain and France
✔✔Battle of New Orleans - ✔✔A battle during the War of 1812 where the British army
attempted to take New Orleans. Due to the foolish frontal attack, Jackson defeated
them, which gave him an enormous popularity boost.
✔✔Treaty of Ghent - ✔✔Treaty that ended the War of 1812 and maintained prewar
conditions
✔✔Rush-Bagot Agreement - ✔✔1817 agreement that limited American and British
naval forces on the Great Lakes
✔✔Monroe Doctrine - ✔✔An American foreign policy opposing interference in the
Western hemisphere from outside powers
✔✔Eerie Canal - ✔✔built in 1825, and connected the Great Lakes with the Hudson
River
✔✔Lowell System - ✔✔Dormitories for young women where they were cared for, fed,
and sheltered in return for cheap labor, mill towns, homes for workers to live in around
the mills
, ✔✔Market Revolution - ✔✔Drastic changes in transportation (canals, RRs),
communication (telegraph), and the production of goods (more in factories as opposed
to houses)
✔✔Commonwealth v. Hunt - ✔✔A landmark ruling of the MA Supreme Court
establishing the legality of labor unions and the legality of union workers striking if an
employer hired non-union workers.
✔✔Spoils System - ✔✔A system of public employment based on rewarding party
loyalists and friends.
✔✔rotation in office - ✔✔Jackson's system of periodically replacing officeholders to
allow ordinary citizens to play a more prominent role in government
✔✔Indian Removal Act - ✔✔An 1830 a congressional act that authorized the removal of
Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River
✔✔Worcester v. Georgia - ✔✔Supreme Court decision where the Cherokee were
entitled to federal protection from the actions of state governments which would infringe
on the tribe's sovereignty; Jackson ignored it
✔✔Nicholas Biddle - ✔✔President of the Second Bank of the United States; he
struggled to keep the bank functioning when President Jackson tried to destroy it.
✔✔pet banks - ✔✔A term used by Jackson's opponents to describe the state banks that
the federal government used for new revenue deposits in an attempt to destroy the
Second Bank of the United States
✔✔Specie Circular - ✔✔Issued by President Jackson and was meant to stop land
speculation caused by states printing paper money without proper specie (gold or silver)
backing it. It required that the purchase of public lands be paid for in specie. It stopped
the land speculation and the sale of public lands went down sharply. The panic of 1837
followed.
✔✔Corrupt Bargain - ✔✔Refers to the presidential election of 1824 in which Henry Clay,
the Speaker of the House, convinced the House of Representatives to elect Adams
rather than Jackson.
✔✔Tariff of Abominations - ✔✔Tariff passed by Congress in 1828 that favored
manufacturing in the North and was hated by the South
✔✔Nullification Crisis - ✔✔A sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson
created by the Ordinance of Nullification, an attempt by the state of South Carolina to
nullify a federal law passed by the United States Congress.
