APUSH EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2026
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
◉Samuel Morse. Answer: invented the telegraph and Morse Code
◉Lowell, Massachusetts. Answer: well-known as employing young
women to work in its textile factories
◉Cumberland Road (National Road). Answer: went from Maryland
all the way to Illinois, showed federal government investment in
transportation
◉Robert Fulton. Answer: credited with building the first steamboat,
the Clermont (1807)
◉Erie Canal. Answer: The granddaddy of all canals, connected New
York to the Great Lakes in the Northwest, allowed trade and travel
◉transportation (revolution). Answer: revolution where people
wanted to link the West with the rest of the nation
◉division of labor. Answer: The North: manufacturing
,The South: cotton for export
The West: grain and livestock
◉Deism. Answer: sprang out of the Enlightenment (AKA "Age of
Reason") and was based on scientific or logical reasoning rather
than faith. Belief that God created the world but then took a step
back from daily affairs.
◉Unitarian. Answer: religion drew followers even farther away from
Christianity
• Believed God existed in 1 person ("uni"), but not in the Holy
Trinity.
• Rejected the divinity of Christ.
• Believed people were essentially good at heart, not born under
"original sin."
• Believed people were saved through "good works", not through
faith in Christ.
• Attracted intellectual types, notably Ralph Waldo Emerson
◉Joseph Smith. Answer: claimed to have found golden tablets in NY
with the Book of Mormon inscribed on them
◉Brigham Young. Answer: took over and led the Mormons along the
"Mormon Trail" to Utah after Joseph Smith was killed
, ◉Horace Mann. Answer: • known as the "Father of Public Education"
• pushed for free compulsory education and education
◉Noah Webster. Answer: Blueback Speller and dictionary
◉Dorothea Dix. Answer: sought and got improved treatment for the
mentally insane
◉American Temperance Society. Answer: • founded in Boston, 1826
• used a variety of methods to encourage temperance (discourage
drinking)
◉Grimke sisters. Answer: Sisters who pushed for the abolition of
slavery
◉Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention (1848). Answer: • It
wrote a "Declaration of Sentiments" arguing that "all men and
women were created equal"
• It demanded female suffrage
• Neither of these things happened anytime soon, but the women's
rights movement was born
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
◉Samuel Morse. Answer: invented the telegraph and Morse Code
◉Lowell, Massachusetts. Answer: well-known as employing young
women to work in its textile factories
◉Cumberland Road (National Road). Answer: went from Maryland
all the way to Illinois, showed federal government investment in
transportation
◉Robert Fulton. Answer: credited with building the first steamboat,
the Clermont (1807)
◉Erie Canal. Answer: The granddaddy of all canals, connected New
York to the Great Lakes in the Northwest, allowed trade and travel
◉transportation (revolution). Answer: revolution where people
wanted to link the West with the rest of the nation
◉division of labor. Answer: The North: manufacturing
,The South: cotton for export
The West: grain and livestock
◉Deism. Answer: sprang out of the Enlightenment (AKA "Age of
Reason") and was based on scientific or logical reasoning rather
than faith. Belief that God created the world but then took a step
back from daily affairs.
◉Unitarian. Answer: religion drew followers even farther away from
Christianity
• Believed God existed in 1 person ("uni"), but not in the Holy
Trinity.
• Rejected the divinity of Christ.
• Believed people were essentially good at heart, not born under
"original sin."
• Believed people were saved through "good works", not through
faith in Christ.
• Attracted intellectual types, notably Ralph Waldo Emerson
◉Joseph Smith. Answer: claimed to have found golden tablets in NY
with the Book of Mormon inscribed on them
◉Brigham Young. Answer: took over and led the Mormons along the
"Mormon Trail" to Utah after Joseph Smith was killed
, ◉Horace Mann. Answer: • known as the "Father of Public Education"
• pushed for free compulsory education and education
◉Noah Webster. Answer: Blueback Speller and dictionary
◉Dorothea Dix. Answer: sought and got improved treatment for the
mentally insane
◉American Temperance Society. Answer: • founded in Boston, 1826
• used a variety of methods to encourage temperance (discourage
drinking)
◉Grimke sisters. Answer: Sisters who pushed for the abolition of
slavery
◉Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention (1848). Answer: • It
wrote a "Declaration of Sentiments" arguing that "all men and
women were created equal"
• It demanded female suffrage
• Neither of these things happened anytime soon, but the women's
rights movement was born
