APUSH CERTIFICATION EVALUATION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
✔✔Gang System - ✔✔Most common system used in slave labor. Slaves were forced to
work as many hours as the overseer considered reasonable
✔✔Garrison, William Lloyd - ✔✔In 1831 formed anti-slavery newspaper the Liberator -
Brought revolutionary philosophy to the anti-slavery movement to view slavery from the
black perspective.
✔✔Gettysburg - ✔✔July 1863—Northern victory with huge losses to both sides. South
no longer has enough manpower to go on the offensive in the North
✔✔Glorious Revolution - ✔✔1688: Relatively peaceful overthrow of the unpopular
Catholic monarch, James II
✔✔Great Awakening - ✔✔Every person could break away from the constraints of the
past and start anew with their relationship with God.
✔✔Greenbacks - ✔✔Paper currency used during the Civil War in the North.
✔✔Hamilton's Fiscal Plan - ✔✔First major plan in Washington Administration.
✔✔Harper's Ferry - ✔✔October 16, 1859, John Brown, an antislavery, extremist, and 18
others attacked and seized a federal arsenal, in Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
✔✔Hartford Convention - ✔✔1814 delegates from the New England states met to
discuss their grievances concerning the War of 1812.
✔✔Homestead Act - ✔✔settlers were able to buy 160 acres cheaply if they occupied
they land for 5 years.
✔✔Horace Mann - ✔✔A great educational reformer
✔✔Indentured Servants - ✔✔During colonial period, a white person whose passage to
the New World was paid for by an American planter or company in exchange for several
years of labor.
✔✔Independent Sub-Treasury - ✔✔where the gov't would place funds in independent
treasuries so that the gov't money would be safe from speculation
✔✔Jay's Treaty - ✔✔Negotiated with Britain to get them out of NW territory, establish
commercial relations with British W.
, ✔✔Jefferson, Thomas - ✔✔Third president of United States—Louisiana Purchase,
Lewis and Clark expedition, Embargo Act, Non-intercourse Act, reduced Army and
Navy, first Indian Policy.
✔✔Judiciary Act of 1789 - ✔✔Created the federal court system. Later part of it was
declared unconstitutional in Marbury v. Madison
✔✔Kansas-Nebraska Act - ✔✔Intended to determine the slave status of the territory by
popular sovereignty.
✔✔King Philip/King Philip's War - ✔✔1675-76; Series of assaults by Metacom, King
Philip, on English settlements in New England.
✔✔Know-Nothings/American Party - ✔✔1850s: nativist party that advocated
temperance- which was anti-immigrant because Irish and Germans drank
✔✔Ku Klux Klan - ✔✔Group for white supremacy
✔✔League of the Iroquois - ✔✔Powerful group of five, later six, Native American
tribes—mostly in NY, could command attention from colonists, British and French
because of fur trade.
✔✔Leisler's Rebellion - ✔✔1689-1691; Armed conflict between aspiring merchants led
by Jacob Leisler and the ruling elite of New York.
✔✔Lexington and Concord - ✔✔April, 1775; First battles of the Revolutionary War,
fought outside of Boston.
✔✔Liberator - ✔✔1831-1865; Antislavery newspaper published by William Lloyd
Garrison
✔✔Liberty Party - ✔✔1840) political party, anti-slavery but not strongly abolitionist.
✔✔Lincoln-Douglas Debates - ✔✔between Democrat Stephen Douglas and Republican
Abraham Lincoln over Illinois senate seat; Douglas won, Lincoln gained national
prominence.
✔✔Louisiana Purchase - ✔✔1803: Jefferson had negotiated the purchase of New
Orleans to avoid war with France and Political downfall.
✔✔Luther, Martin - ✔✔led the Protestant Reformation in England where he challenged
the belief that salvation was obtained through good works or loyalty to church.
✔✔Gang System - ✔✔Most common system used in slave labor. Slaves were forced to
work as many hours as the overseer considered reasonable
✔✔Garrison, William Lloyd - ✔✔In 1831 formed anti-slavery newspaper the Liberator -
Brought revolutionary philosophy to the anti-slavery movement to view slavery from the
black perspective.
✔✔Gettysburg - ✔✔July 1863—Northern victory with huge losses to both sides. South
no longer has enough manpower to go on the offensive in the North
✔✔Glorious Revolution - ✔✔1688: Relatively peaceful overthrow of the unpopular
Catholic monarch, James II
✔✔Great Awakening - ✔✔Every person could break away from the constraints of the
past and start anew with their relationship with God.
✔✔Greenbacks - ✔✔Paper currency used during the Civil War in the North.
✔✔Hamilton's Fiscal Plan - ✔✔First major plan in Washington Administration.
✔✔Harper's Ferry - ✔✔October 16, 1859, John Brown, an antislavery, extremist, and 18
others attacked and seized a federal arsenal, in Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
✔✔Hartford Convention - ✔✔1814 delegates from the New England states met to
discuss their grievances concerning the War of 1812.
✔✔Homestead Act - ✔✔settlers were able to buy 160 acres cheaply if they occupied
they land for 5 years.
✔✔Horace Mann - ✔✔A great educational reformer
✔✔Indentured Servants - ✔✔During colonial period, a white person whose passage to
the New World was paid for by an American planter or company in exchange for several
years of labor.
✔✔Independent Sub-Treasury - ✔✔where the gov't would place funds in independent
treasuries so that the gov't money would be safe from speculation
✔✔Jay's Treaty - ✔✔Negotiated with Britain to get them out of NW territory, establish
commercial relations with British W.
, ✔✔Jefferson, Thomas - ✔✔Third president of United States—Louisiana Purchase,
Lewis and Clark expedition, Embargo Act, Non-intercourse Act, reduced Army and
Navy, first Indian Policy.
✔✔Judiciary Act of 1789 - ✔✔Created the federal court system. Later part of it was
declared unconstitutional in Marbury v. Madison
✔✔Kansas-Nebraska Act - ✔✔Intended to determine the slave status of the territory by
popular sovereignty.
✔✔King Philip/King Philip's War - ✔✔1675-76; Series of assaults by Metacom, King
Philip, on English settlements in New England.
✔✔Know-Nothings/American Party - ✔✔1850s: nativist party that advocated
temperance- which was anti-immigrant because Irish and Germans drank
✔✔Ku Klux Klan - ✔✔Group for white supremacy
✔✔League of the Iroquois - ✔✔Powerful group of five, later six, Native American
tribes—mostly in NY, could command attention from colonists, British and French
because of fur trade.
✔✔Leisler's Rebellion - ✔✔1689-1691; Armed conflict between aspiring merchants led
by Jacob Leisler and the ruling elite of New York.
✔✔Lexington and Concord - ✔✔April, 1775; First battles of the Revolutionary War,
fought outside of Boston.
✔✔Liberator - ✔✔1831-1865; Antislavery newspaper published by William Lloyd
Garrison
✔✔Liberty Party - ✔✔1840) political party, anti-slavery but not strongly abolitionist.
✔✔Lincoln-Douglas Debates - ✔✔between Democrat Stephen Douglas and Republican
Abraham Lincoln over Illinois senate seat; Douglas won, Lincoln gained national
prominence.
✔✔Louisiana Purchase - ✔✔1803: Jefferson had negotiated the purchase of New
Orleans to avoid war with France and Political downfall.
✔✔Luther, Martin - ✔✔led the Protestant Reformation in England where he challenged
the belief that salvation was obtained through good works or loyalty to church.
