Settlement & Migration
FINAL JEOPARDY
How many total minutes do you have for the APUSH Exam (NOT INCLUDING THE BREAK)?
195 minutes
55 minutes for MCQ
40 minutes for SAQ
100 minutes for Essays
Which law, passed in 1862, encouraged Americans to move West by granting them a 160 acre lot of land?
Homestead Act
The American South has traditionally been aligned with what political party, going all the way back to the time of Jefferson?
Democratic Party
What invention, intended to end the need of slavery, actually propelled it to dominate the South's economy?
The cotton gin
What term is used to describe the fear, anger, and discrimination against minority groups in the mid to late 19th century.
Nativism
Isolationists
What law, passed by British Parliament in 1763, discouraged colonists to settle land West of the Appalachian Mountains?
Proclamation Act (of 1763)
The "Corrupt Bargain" occurred in the 1824 election when who was elected?
John Quincy Adams
Promontory Point in Utah is significant to what major transportation system?
Railroads
Give the collective name for race-based laws that segregated many parts of society after Reconstruction ended in 1877.
Jim Crow laws
What treaty was signed by the US at the end of the Revolutionary War, which largely ignored French allies and involvement?
Treaty of Paris
What law, passed in 1887, attempted to assimilate Native Americans into American society by breaking up reservations into individual plots?
Dawes Severalty Act
What political party was created as a coalition backing Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 election?
The Republican Party
The Bessemer Process was used to cultivate what material that made it easier to build bigger and better things like skyscrapers, cars, and airplanes?
Steel
Sam Adams was a major part of what radical independence group in the 1770s?
The Sons of Liberty
After WW2, what structure was built in Germany that became the international symbol of the Cold War?
The Berlin Wall
What law, passed in 1882, prohibited immigration from China?
Chinese Exclusion Act
What term, coined by Mark Twain, is given to the era of politics that had many cities dominated by small groups of rich and powerful political machines?
The Gilded Age
What was the name of Henry Clay's philosophy that included creating a National Bank, building infrastructure, and implementing protective tariffs?
The American System
Which president proposed many social programs in the 1960s, and called it "The Great Society"?
Lyndon Johnson
What war resulted in the U.S. gaining the territories of Guam, Philippines, and Puerto Rico?
Spanish American War
What event involved millions of African Americans moving from the rural South to the urban North in the first half of the 20th century?
The Great Migration
The Federalists and Democratic-Republicans had many differences. Their differences were rooted in how they interpreted the Constitution. How would the Federalists interpret the Constitution?
Loose Construction
What system saw early Spanish settlers use natives to cultivate their new colonization, and in return, taught them Christianity and other Western norms?
The encomienda system
What term describes the belief held by many founding fathers, such as Thomas Jefferson, that there is a creator but this creator does not intervene in human affairs?
Deism
Impressment, funding Native insurgents, and blocking European trade were the main causes of what war?
War of 1812