APUSH finals study Jeopardy

Unit 1

100

The transfer of crops, livestock and diseases between the old world and the new world. Resulted in 90% of Native Americans getting wiped out by smallpox

Columbian Exchange

200

This technique allowed ancient Mesoamerican civilizations (including the Pueblo tribe) to form maize-based economies

Irrigation

300

This civilization existed between between the years 300 and 800 and was located in the Yucatan Peninsula

Mayas

400

This spanish conquistador took down the Aztecs with the power of smallpox

Hernan Cortes

500

Name the location AND language family of the Iroquois Confederation

Northeast, Algonquian

Unit 2

100

Colonization attempts in the new world were funded by these groups, hoping to make a profit off of their success

Joint-stock company

200

Another form of committment the Puritan church offered to maintain membership

Halfway Covenant

300

The two people who brought success to Jamestown through the cultivation of tobacco

John Rolfe and Pochahontas

400

The crop that was grown in South Carolina during this period

rice

500

Describe all three of the navigation acts

- Trade to and from the colonies had to be done by english or colonial ships/crews

- All goods that imported into the colonies had to pass through england

- Some specific goods could only be exported to england

Unit 3

100

Tons of tea were dumped into the harbor after this event, leading to the integration of the intolerable acts

Boston Tea Party

200

English philosopher who had a heavy influence on the popularity of ideas of Social Contract, which became part of the rhetoric of the American Revolution

John Locke

300

Benjamin Franklin's plan during the French and Indian war to unite the colonies against the French and Native Americans

Albany Plan of Union (1754)

400

The man who wrote a collection of essays encouraging the ratification of the constitution

Alexander Hamilton

500

Name OR describe 3 out of the 4 acts imposed onto the colonists in the coercive acts, or "intolerable acts"

- Port act: closed the port of boston

- Massachusetts government act: reduced power of massachusetts legislature while increasing power of royal government

- Administration of justice act: Allowed royal officials accused of crimes to be tried in Great Britain instead of the colonies

- Expansion of the quartering act - British soldiers could be housed in private homes

Unit 4

100

The decision that included Maine as a free state to maintain the balance in congress, and established the division between free states and slave states in the western territories

Missouri Compromise

200

The court case that established the principle of judicial review

Marbury V. Madison

300

The name of the disastrous situation in which South Carolina opposed high tariffs and claimed that they could ignore federal law.

Nullification Crisis

400

The treaty that split the disputed territory in Maine and British Canada

Webster-Ashburton Treaty

500

George Fitzhugh claimed that northern factory workers were "wage slaves" in an attempt to criticize the abolition movement in this piece of media

Sociology for the South

Unit 5

100

The annihilation of Senator Charles Sumner in congress after he attacked the democratic platform

The Caning

200

A third party that emerged from the debates caused by increasing Immigrates, eventually faded into obscurity after slavery became a larger issue

Know-nothing party

300

The ironclad ship built by the Union in response to facing a Confederate ship plated in metal; set the standard for metal ships after the Civil War

Monitor

400

One final attempt to preserve the union before the south seceded; offered to re-establish the terms of the missouri compromise

Crittenden Compromise

500

This piece of legislation initiating a Republican program to implement high tariffs to help industrialists

Morrill Tariff Act