AMSCO APUSH COMPREHENSIVE EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Hay-Pauncefote Treaty - ✔✔1901 - Great Britain recognized U.S. Sphere of
Influence over the Panama canal zone provided the canal itself remained neutral. U.S.
given full control over construction and management of the canal.
✔✔Wilson and Mexico - ✔✔Wilson did not want to get involved with Mexico's Revolts
because they were financially motivated. In the end he does send troops to South
Texas
✔✔General Victoriano Huerta - ✔✔brutal dictator; Wilson refused to recognize his
bloody regime; nearly ended up fighting the US in 1914
✔✔Mexican Immigration - ✔✔As Mexicans arrived in the United States, most became
poorly paid agricultural, mine, and railroad laborers, with little prospect of upward
economic mobility.
✔✔Tampico Incident - ✔✔An arrest of American sailors by the Mexican government
that spurred Woodrow Wilson to dispatch the American navy to seize the port of
Veracruz in April 1914. Although war was avoided, tensions grew between the US and
Mexico.
✔✔Port of Veracruz - ✔✔Tensions built up after American Sailors were arrested in 1914
✔✔ABC intervention - ✔✔official name was the Consultation, Non-Aggression and
Arbitration Pact. Argentina, Brazil and Chile. May 15, 1915, the Powers met in Canada
to sign a formal treaty, designed to develop cooperation, nonaggression and the
arbitration of disputes between Mexico and the United States.
✔✔Venustiano Carranza - ✔✔He became president of Mexico in 1914. He succeeded
the harsh President Huerta. President Carranza at first supported Wilson's sending
General Pershing into Mexico to look for the criminal Pancho Villa, but when he saw the
number of troops he became outraged and opposed Wilson.
✔✔Pancho Villa - ✔✔A popular leader during the Mexican Revolution of 1910. An
outlaw in his youth, when the revolution started, he formed a cavalry army in the north
of Mexico and fought for the rights of the landless in collaboration with Emiliano Zapata.
✔✔John Pershing - ✔✔He was a U.S. General who led the landings in France in huge
numbers by the American Expeditionary Forces in WWI; was an American general who
led troops against "Pancho" Villa
✔✔American Expeditionary Force - ✔✔About 2 million Americans went to France as
members of this under General John J. Pershing. Included the regular army, the
, National Guard, and the new larger force of volunteers and draftees and they served as
individuals
✔✔Embargo Act 1812 - ✔✔Jefferson cuts off all trade w/ Europe
✔✔Non-Intercourse Act - ✔✔1809 - Replaced the Embargo of 1807. Unlike the
Embargo, which forbade American trade with all foreign nations, this act only forbade
trade with France and Britain. It did not succeed in changing British or French policy
towards neutral ships, so it was replaced by Macon's Bill No. 2.
✔✔Macon's Bill No. 2 - ✔✔Reopened trade with Britain and France , America would
lend its support to the first nation to drop trade restrictions; France acted first and
America halted all British imports. The United States declared war on Britain.
✔✔Impressment - ✔✔British practice of taking American sailors and forcing them into
military service
✔✔German blockade - ✔✔Blockade of the area between Great-Britain and France by
the use of German U-boats. The Germans did not want Britain sending supplies to the
other Allied Powers
✔✔British Blockade - ✔✔Declared a loose, ineffectual and hence illegal blockade, it
defined a broad list of contraband which was not to be shipped to Germany by neutral
countries.
✔✔Sussex Pledge - ✔✔A promise Germany made to America, after Wilson threatened
to sever ties, to stop sinking their ships without warning.
✔✔Lusitania - ✔✔A British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-Boat on May
7, 1915. 128 Americans died. The sinking greatly turned American opinion against the
Germans, helping the move towards entering the war.
✔✔U.S. Economic Boom and Trade - ✔✔Industrialization increases during WWI, trade
also increases but becomes compromised by German U-Boats
✔✔Loans - ✔✔war bonds sold to individuals to raise money for the war effort
✔✔Kaiser Wilhelm - ✔✔Became ruler of Germany in 1888 and dramatically changed
Germany's foreign policy. He wanted to show the world how mighty Germany had
become and did not want to share his power with anyone. He let Germany's treaty with
Russia lapse in 1890, which allowed Russia to form a defensive military alliance with
France. Next, Wilhelm began a shipbuilding program in order to make the German navy
equal to the British fleet. This led Britain to form an alliance with France.
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Hay-Pauncefote Treaty - ✔✔1901 - Great Britain recognized U.S. Sphere of
Influence over the Panama canal zone provided the canal itself remained neutral. U.S.
given full control over construction and management of the canal.
✔✔Wilson and Mexico - ✔✔Wilson did not want to get involved with Mexico's Revolts
because they were financially motivated. In the end he does send troops to South
Texas
✔✔General Victoriano Huerta - ✔✔brutal dictator; Wilson refused to recognize his
bloody regime; nearly ended up fighting the US in 1914
✔✔Mexican Immigration - ✔✔As Mexicans arrived in the United States, most became
poorly paid agricultural, mine, and railroad laborers, with little prospect of upward
economic mobility.
✔✔Tampico Incident - ✔✔An arrest of American sailors by the Mexican government
that spurred Woodrow Wilson to dispatch the American navy to seize the port of
Veracruz in April 1914. Although war was avoided, tensions grew between the US and
Mexico.
✔✔Port of Veracruz - ✔✔Tensions built up after American Sailors were arrested in 1914
✔✔ABC intervention - ✔✔official name was the Consultation, Non-Aggression and
Arbitration Pact. Argentina, Brazil and Chile. May 15, 1915, the Powers met in Canada
to sign a formal treaty, designed to develop cooperation, nonaggression and the
arbitration of disputes between Mexico and the United States.
✔✔Venustiano Carranza - ✔✔He became president of Mexico in 1914. He succeeded
the harsh President Huerta. President Carranza at first supported Wilson's sending
General Pershing into Mexico to look for the criminal Pancho Villa, but when he saw the
number of troops he became outraged and opposed Wilson.
✔✔Pancho Villa - ✔✔A popular leader during the Mexican Revolution of 1910. An
outlaw in his youth, when the revolution started, he formed a cavalry army in the north
of Mexico and fought for the rights of the landless in collaboration with Emiliano Zapata.
✔✔John Pershing - ✔✔He was a U.S. General who led the landings in France in huge
numbers by the American Expeditionary Forces in WWI; was an American general who
led troops against "Pancho" Villa
✔✔American Expeditionary Force - ✔✔About 2 million Americans went to France as
members of this under General John J. Pershing. Included the regular army, the
, National Guard, and the new larger force of volunteers and draftees and they served as
individuals
✔✔Embargo Act 1812 - ✔✔Jefferson cuts off all trade w/ Europe
✔✔Non-Intercourse Act - ✔✔1809 - Replaced the Embargo of 1807. Unlike the
Embargo, which forbade American trade with all foreign nations, this act only forbade
trade with France and Britain. It did not succeed in changing British or French policy
towards neutral ships, so it was replaced by Macon's Bill No. 2.
✔✔Macon's Bill No. 2 - ✔✔Reopened trade with Britain and France , America would
lend its support to the first nation to drop trade restrictions; France acted first and
America halted all British imports. The United States declared war on Britain.
✔✔Impressment - ✔✔British practice of taking American sailors and forcing them into
military service
✔✔German blockade - ✔✔Blockade of the area between Great-Britain and France by
the use of German U-boats. The Germans did not want Britain sending supplies to the
other Allied Powers
✔✔British Blockade - ✔✔Declared a loose, ineffectual and hence illegal blockade, it
defined a broad list of contraband which was not to be shipped to Germany by neutral
countries.
✔✔Sussex Pledge - ✔✔A promise Germany made to America, after Wilson threatened
to sever ties, to stop sinking their ships without warning.
✔✔Lusitania - ✔✔A British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-Boat on May
7, 1915. 128 Americans died. The sinking greatly turned American opinion against the
Germans, helping the move towards entering the war.
✔✔U.S. Economic Boom and Trade - ✔✔Industrialization increases during WWI, trade
also increases but becomes compromised by German U-Boats
✔✔Loans - ✔✔war bonds sold to individuals to raise money for the war effort
✔✔Kaiser Wilhelm - ✔✔Became ruler of Germany in 1888 and dramatically changed
Germany's foreign policy. He wanted to show the world how mighty Germany had
become and did not want to share his power with anyone. He let Germany's treaty with
Russia lapse in 1890, which allowed Russia to form a defensive military alliance with
France. Next, Wilhelm began a shipbuilding program in order to make the German navy
equal to the British fleet. This led Britain to form an alliance with France.
