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APUSH Semester Exam
Question | Answer |
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A favorable balance of trade exists for a nation when it imports (more/less) than it exports. | less |
True of False: The main reason English settlers colonized America were religious freedom and economic opportunity. | True |
Loyalists were called (Continentals/Tories) | Tories |
What were the three Cabinet departments established during George Washington's Administration? | State, Treasury, and War |
What land purchase from France more then doubled the area of the United States? | The Louisiana Purchase |
Who invented the cotton gin and the system of interchangeable parts? | Eli Whitney |
What president ignored the Supreme Courts ruling regarding the Cherokee Nation of Georgia and moved them to land west of the Mississippi? | Andrew Jackson |
What was the written plan the, although later considered weak and ineffective, provided the framework for the first government of the United States? | Articles of Confederation |
What did the Supreme Court rule in the Dred Scott decision? | That black slaves were not citizens, merely property of their owners |
Were James Madison and Alexander Hamilton Federalists or Anti-Federalists? | Federalists |
Under what congressional organization were the Article of Confederation ratified? | Second Continental Congress |
What state did Secretary of State Seward authorize the purchase of? | Alaska |
Who was the author of the book that fueled the abolitionists' fire, "Uncle Tom's Cabin?" | Harriet Beecher Stowe |