APUSH Midterm Review

1607-1699

100

This man is known for a "City upon a hill."

John Winthrop

200

A joint-stock company searching for gold founded this American colony.

Jamestown

300

This group came to the colonies seeking economic, political, and religious freedom in the 1630s

Puritans

400

Which event exposed tensions between backcountry farmers and the tidewater gentry in Virginia

Bacon's Rebellion

500

This man defended liberty of conscience because he said the state was an improper and ineffectual agency in matters of the spirit

Roger Williams

1699-1765

100

What act was supposed to pay for British troops in the colonies?

Stamp Act

200

After this war, the British demanded the Americans pay for their military support

French and Indian War

300

Slaves who participated in this rebellion in South Carolina in 1739 hoped to flee to Florida where the Spanish offered freedom

Stono Rebellion

400

This movement of the 1740s led to splits among existing religious denominations and the rise of new churches

The Great Awakening

500

Created an imaginary boundary to keep colonists from settling the Northwest territory. 

Proclamation Line of 1763

1765-1798

100

What was included in the Constitution to settle the question of how slaves would be counted?

Three-Fifths Compromise

200

In what event did debt-ridden farmers attack courts in western Massachusetts?

Shays' Rebellion

300

This document gave government no power to levy taxes

Articles of Confederation

400

These were in response to the Alien and Sedition Acts... 

Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

500

What document established the electoral college to elect the president?

The Constitution

1798-1832

100

This man threatened succession if the Tariff of Abominations was forced upon South Carolina. 

John C. Calhoun

200

Internal improvements, tariffs, Isolationism...

American system

300

According to this Court decision, the Supreme Court has the authority to determine the constitutionality of congressional acts

Marbury v Madison

400

This concept includes the idea that women should be educated to raise their children to be good citizens

Republican motherhood

500

This was a victory for antislavery advocates because it closed most of the Louisiana Purchase to slavery

Missouri Compromise

1832-1865

100

This political party was founded in 1854...

Republican

200

California ='s free state

Fugitive Slave Act

Utah and NM will decide using Pop. Sov. 

Slave Trade, not slavery ends in D.C.

Texas gives up claims in NM for $10 Million 

Compromise of 1850

300

The first attempt to apply the doctrine of popular sovereignty in determining the status of slavery occurred in

Kansas

400

"So this is the lady who started the Civil War"

Harriet Beecher Stowe

500

This Supreme Court decision repealed the Missouri Compromise

Dred Scott