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AP US History Review

Early Colonization

Question: This settlement along the North Carolina coast mysteriously disappeared, never to be heard from again.
Answer: Roanoke Colony

Question: The Separatists had tried and failed to set up colonies in these two countries before setting sail for North America.
Answer: The Netherlands; Ireland

Question: This system offered free land to anyone willing to pay the transportation costs of indentured servants.
Answer: Headright System

Question: This stereotypical phrase represents the idea of self-reliance, initiative, resilience, and stoicism of early settlers in the Northeast.
Answer: Yankee ingenuity

Question: This compromise offered partial church membership for children and grandchildren of the Puritan "elect," even though they may not have been baptized.
Answer: Half-Way Covenant

Slavery

Question: This term refers to the slavery "leg" of the Triangle Trade.
Answer: Middle Passage

Question: At first, this form of labor was used in the southern colonies in place of African slavery.
Answer: Indentured servitude

Question: Most slaves imported from Africa wound up working on sugar plantations in this region of North America.
Answer: The Caribbean

Question: These rules in Virginia established a legal difference between servants and slaves based on race.
Answer: Slave Codes (1662)

Question: This 1831 slave rebellion was the most successful slave rebellion in US history and led to laws prohibiting the education of slaves and free blacks.
Answer: Nat Turner's Rebellion

Elections

Question: In 1788, he was the only president in US history to be elected unanimously.
Answer: George Washington

Question: The election of 1832, which pitted Andrew Jackson against Henry Clay, revolved mostly around this issue.
Answer: The Bank of the United States

Question: John Quincy Adams was elected president in 1824, amidst allegations that he had made a secret deal with his opponent, Henry Clay. What is the name used to refer to these allegations?
Answer: Corrupt Bargain

Question: This election caused the Southern states to secede from the Union.
Answer: 1860

Question: Big business played a large role in electioneering for the first time in 1896 and helped get this man elected as President.
Answer: William McKinley

Immigration

Question: A potato famine between 1845 and 1852 helped cause a massive migration of this group to the United States.
Answer: Irish

Question: Nativist sentiments against Irish, Germans, and Catholics led to the development of the Native American Party, also known by this name.
Answer: Know-Nothing Party

Question: Passed in 1882, this act represents one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history.
Answer: Chinese Exclusion Act

Question: "New Immigrants" of the mid-late 1800s were largely composed of people from these areas of the world.
Answer: Southern and Eastern Europe

Question: This Supreme Court decision established an important precedent in its claim that everyone born in the US is considered a US citizen.
Answer: United States v. Wong Kim Ark

Foreign Policy

Question: This country's navy aided the Americans in defeating the British during the American Revolution.
Answer: France

Question: Sensationalistic "yellow journalism" combined with American hunger for Cuba and Puerto Rico helped contribute to this 1898 war.
Answer: Spanish-American War

Question: This nickname refers to an incident in which three unnamed French agents demanded bribes from American diplomats who were trying to speak with the French Foreign Minister.
Answer: XYZ Affair

Question: This treaty, passed in 1819, saw the United States receive Florida from Spain in exchange for $5 million and the settlement of various boundary disputes in the Texas region.
Answer: Adams-Onís Treaty

Question: The Anglo-American Convention of 1818 proposed a joint British-American occupation of this region in North America.
Answer: Oregon/Oregon Country