APUSH Review 1

Presidents

100

He was the president during the Civil War.

Lincoln

200

He was America's third president, first Secretary of State, and the author of the Declaration of Independence.

Jefferson

300

As president during the Great Depression, he created the New Deal and helped the US win WWII.

Roosevelt

400

He had a reputation as a man of the people, partly because of his veto of the Bank of the United States.

Jackson

500

He was president during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Kennedy

Inventions

100

He invented the light bulb, motion pictures, and the phonograph.

Edison

200

He invented the cotton gin and brought interchangeable parts to the United States.

Whitney

300

He used the assembly line to mass produce cheap cars in the 1920s.

Ford

400

He invented the telegraph.

Morse

500

He invented bifocals.

Franklin

The Arts

100

This best-selling anti-slavery book was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

200

This type of music, popular in the 1920s, was a combination of different musical styles.

Jazz

300

What literary genre was typical of the writings of e e cummings?

poetry

400

James Fennimore Cooper's most famous book, that was about the struggle between nature and civilization.

The Last of the Mohicans

500

This movement in painting was famous in the mid-19th century for expansive landscapes that dwarfed the people in them.

Hudson River School

Foreign Affairs

100

This cornerstone of American Foreign Policy warned Europeans not to colonize the Western Hemisphere.

Monroe Doctrine

200

President Jefferson attempted this strategy to get France and Britain to stop interfering with American shipping. Those who hated the strategy called it O Grab Me.

Embargo

300

This treaty ended WWI.

Versailles

400

This more aggressive approach to fighting the Cold War said that sometimes it was necessary to get to the very edge of war to make the Soviets back down. 

Brinksmanship

500

Dollar Diplomacy was associated with this president.

Taft

S Words

100

This was the most deadly disease brought over by Europeans to the Americas.

Smallpox

200

This British tax was placed on all legal documents and paper products.

Stamp

300

This Russian satelite was the first man-made thing to go beyond earth's atmosphere.

Sputnik

400

This system of agriculture was manipulated by white southerners after the Civil War to keep African-Americans in debt.

Sharecropping

500

This World War 1 Act made it illegal to criticize the government.

Sedition