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From the APUSH Crash Course review book. I have started combining this set with our second one with similar name, but I haven't finished yet.

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6678993503Proclamation of 1763forbade British colonists to cross an imaginary boundary along the crest of the Appalachian Mountains. The primary purpose was to avoid conflict between the trans-Appalachian Indians and the British colonists seeking inexpensive land.0
6678993504Stamp act, 1763raise revenue to support British troops in US. The colonists demonstrated their willingness to use violence rather than legal means to frustrate British policy. It was repealed because of the Boston Tea Party.1
6678993505Coercive actsparliament's response to the Boston Tea Party. Port of Boston was closed2
6678993506Common Sensepolitical pamphlet written by Thomas Paine, call for independence from GB, using biblical analogies.3
6678993507Enlightenmentstressed the idea of natural rights, representatives included Franklin and Jefferson.4
6678993508The Treaty of ParisThis treaty established America's new boundaries. The US stretched west to the Mississippi, north to the Great Lakes, and south to Spanish Florida. America agreed that loyalists would be further persecuted.5
6678993509The Articles of confederationIt didn't provide the government the authority to tax, or exercise control over the states. BUT, the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 came out of it.6
6678993510Northwest Ordinance of 1787creation of territorial governments and new states (Ohio being the 1st state admitted), also excluded slavery north of the Ohio River, and supported public education7
6678993511Shays Rebellion, 1786Massachusetts farmers were losing their farms because they could not pay their debt in hard currency, so they wanted an increase in circulation of paper money. This helped convince MA that the Articles of Confederation were too weak.8
6678993512Constitutionseparation of powers, authority of Congress to declare war, guarantee of the legality of slavery, electoral college, impeachment provisions, federalism, provisions for ratifying the constitution, bicameral legislature, 3/5 compromise.9
6678993513NOT in the constitution2 term limit, universal male suffrage, idea of political parties10
6678993514Federalist's papersAlexander Hamilton and James Madison wrote this to support the ratification of the Constitution11
6678993515Alexander Hamiltonwanted to promote economic growth by created a national bank, adopting a protective tariff, funding national debt, assume state debts, and tax liquor. Favored a loose interpretation of the Constitution12
6678993516Jeffersonstrict interpretation of the Constitution, a democratic-republican who marked the end of the federalist decade. He believed in Jeffersonian democracy, which emphasized state rights and freedom of speech and press. He purchased Louisiana in 180313
6678993517Marshallproponent of strong national government and an opponent of states' rights.14
6678993518The War of 1812caused by British impressment of US seamen, GB interference in US commerce and GB aid to NA on the frontier. The war contributed to the demise in the Federalist Party, intensified nationalistic feelings, promoted industrialization, and advanced the career of Jackson.15
6678993519Monroeera of good feelings, henry clays American system16
6678993520Missouri Compromise of 1820this settled the 1st major nineteenth century conflict over slavery. Maine entered the union as a free state and Missouri entered as a slave state. This closed the remaining territory of the Louisiana Purchase above the 36 30 line to slavery.17
6678993521Monroe Doctrineunilateral declaration of principles that asserted that the political system in the western hemisphere is closed to settlement.18
6678993522Jacksonbelief in the common man, expanded white male suffrage, supported patronage, bank war, removal of Cherokee Indians (Worcester vs Georgia) and the trail of tears19
6678993523The tariff of abominations(1816-1828) primary purpose was protection. This forced Calhoun to formulate his doctrine of nullification20
6678993524Bank WarJackson vetoed the bill to re-charter the second back of the US. This caused an expansion of credit and speculation; another party (Whigs) opposed Jackson under the leadership of clay and his American System.21
6678993525Seneca Falls Conventionorganized and led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, they demanded greater rights for women including suffrage, right to retain property after marriage, greater divorce and child custody rights, and educational opportunities, but NOT liberal abortion laws and equal pay for equal work22
6678993526Second Great Awakeningmade America aware of the moral issues posed by slavery23
6678993527Sarah Moore Grimkeone of the first women to support abolition and women's rights24
6678993528The Mexican war (1846-1848)Polk justified it by saying that Mexican troops crossed into US territory. Lincoln and transcendentalists opposed the war. The treaty of Guadalupe hidalgo ended the war.25
6678993529Treaty of Guadalupe hidalgothe US gained California, and New Mexico and recognition of the Rio Grande as the Southern boundary of Texas26
6678993530Wilmot Provisocalled for the prohibition of slavery in the lands acquired from Mexico in the Mexican war; symbolized the polarizing issue of extending slavery into the territories27
6678993531The compromise of 1850Douglas, Webster, Clay, and Calhoun all played a role. This included the admission of California as a free state, abolition of slave trade in the District of Columbia, passage of a stricter fugitive slave law, and establishment of territorial government s in New Mexico and Utah28
6678993532Kansas-Nebraska Actstatus of free or slave state determined by popular sovereignty (Stephen A Douglas). This act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, permitted the expansion of slavery beyond the Southern states, split the Democratic Party, and sparked the formation of the Republican Party29
6678993533Election of 1860Democratic Party split, Lincoln won, and 7 southern states seceded from the Union30
6678993534Civil war(1861-1865) the border states were important because of their strategic location and important industrial and agricultural resources, they included Kentucky and Maryland31
6678993535Battle of Antietamthe union victory persuaded England and France to remain neutral; the Union victory enabled Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation which freed the slaves in the confederate states in rebellion.32
6678993536The Compromise of 1877the Democrats agreed that Hayes would take office, and the republicans agreed to withdraw all federal troops from the South. Hayes promised to appoint at least one Southerner to his cabinet. The republicans agreed to support internal improvements in the South, and abandoned their commitment to racial equality. This ended congressional reconstruction.33
6678993537Booker T. Washingtoncalled on African Americans to seek economic opportunities rather than political rights, he supported black economic self-help, accommodation to white society, vocational education, racial solidarity, and opposed public political agitation. Atlanta Compromise34
6678993538Web Duboisagainst Washington, believed in the top tenth, advocated full political, economic, and social equality, founded NAACP (focused on using the courts), goal was integration, unlike Washington who believed in separatism35
6678993539Helen Hunt Jacksonwrote the "century of dishonor" which aroused public awareness of the federal governments long record of betraying and cheating the Native Americans36
6678993540Andrew Carnegieused vertical integration to gain control of the steel industry, gospel of wealth37
6678993541Taylorismscientific management, increased factory production and lowered labor costs38
6678993542The knights of laborled by Terrence V. Powderly, had an open-membership policy (welcomed unskilled and semi-skilled workers including women, immigrants, and African Americans), associated with anarchists after the Haymarket square Riot. Strove for cooperative society39
6678993543Industrial workers of the worldled by Mother Jones, Elizabeth Flynn, and Big Bill Haywood. United all laborers including unskilled African Americans, endorsed violent tactics, embraced class conflict, collapsed during WWI40
6678993544American Federation of Laborled by Samuel Gompers, the leader of the Cigar Makers Union. Alliance of skilled workers in craft unions, concentrated on higher wages, shorter hours, and better working conditions41
6678993545Pullman strike, 1894this halted a substantial portion of American railroad commerce , the strike ended when Cleveland ordered federal troops to Chicago42
6678993546New Immigrants in the 1880sprior to this most immigrants came from British isles and Western Europe, now immigrants came from small towns and village sin southern and eastern Europe (Italy, Russia, Poland, and Austria Hungary). These immigrants settled in large cities in the Northeast and Midwest43
6678993547Chinese Exclusion act188244
6678993548Nativist opposition to new immigrantsthey opposed the new immigrants because they were Catholic and Jewish, they spoke different languages, they didn't understand American political tradition, and they threatened jobs45
6678993549Realismlate nineteenth century (1880-1900)46
6678993550Populists partywanted to increase the money supply with the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold (16:1), use the interstate commerce act, organize cooperative marketing societies, and support Bryan in the '96 election47
6678993551Progressiveswanted direct election of senators, women's suffrage, initiative, recall, and referendum, nonpartisan local governments, and regulation of big business (did NOT fight for the passage of civil rights laws or the creation of the socialist commonwealth)48
6678993552Teddy Rooseveltpromoted a square deal for labor by using arbitration to settle the Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902, ran as the Progressive or Bull Moose candidate in 191249
6678993553Woodrow Wilsonreformer who attacked high tariffs, banking problems, and trusts. He supported the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 (est. a system of district banks coordinated by a central board, made currency and credit more elastic)50
6678993554Women's suffragethe only state with complete women's suffrage before 1900 was located west of the Mississippi. Wyoming (1869) was the 1st state to grant women the full right to vote. The 19th amendment granted women the right to vote51
6678993555Women's Christian temperance unionled by Carry nation, convinced women that they had a moral responsibility to improve society by working for prohibition52
6678993556Spanish American WarUSS Maine was sunk, and yellow journalism caused the war. As a result of war, Spain relinquished control of Puerto-Rico, Cuba (established a protectorate) , Guam, and the Philippines to the US53
6678993557Roosevelt corollary to the Monroe Doctrinewanted to forestall European intervention, it expanded the US's role in Central America by claiming that the US had a the right to assume the role of "an international police power"54
6678993558WWIWilson began by claiming neutrality, but Germany launched a submarine war on the US in 1917, then Arthur Zimmerman (German foreign secretary) sent a secret telegram to the German minister in Mexico, which was intercepted by the British who interpreted as asking the Mexicans to join the military alliance against the US. The committee on public information used propaganda to arouse public support for the war.55
6678993559Black migrationduring WWI, wartime demand for labor attracted AA to cities in the North and west56
6678993560Treaty of VersaillesWilson's 14 points included open diplomacy, freedom of the seas, organization to preserve peace, self-determination, did NOT include recognition of allied economic and territorial agreements made during the war or a provision to create the international monetary fund57
6678993561Red Scare1919, the Bolsheviks overthrew the czar and seized power and Russia, confused and frightened American's. As a result, the palmer Raids were conducted against suspected communists and anarchists.58
6678993562National Origins Act of 1924the purpose was to restrict the flow of newcomers from the Southern and Eastern Europe, Mexicans and Puerto Rican immigrants however increases59
6678993563Marcus GarveyCRM activist in the '20s. He was the leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Garveyism includes black pride, black economic development, Black Nationalism, and pan-Africanism (he believed blacks should return to Africa)60
6678993564Causes of the great depressionConsequences of the 1929 stock market crash- a loss of confidence in the stock market, a reduction of the output of manufactured goods, and a decline in investments in capital goods Overproduction and under consumption Decline in farm prosperity International trade- Hawley smoot tariff act of 1930 raised tariffs, triggering a decline in trade61
6678993565Herbert Hooverdisbanded the bonus expeditionary force who demanded their bonus. Believed recovery depended on the business community, emphasized private charities, supported federal loans to private businesses and to state and local governments, established the reconstruction finance corporation62
6678993566FDRrelief, recovery, and reform. Created the new deal (did NOT propose legislation that would nationalize the bank) , and used deficit spending on public works programs to revive the economy63
6678993567New dealdid not directly help AA, didn't sponsor equal rights amendment, didn't nationalize bank industries, didn't provide legal recognition of unions for migrant workers64
6678993568Congress of industrial organizationjohn c lewis, organized skilled and semi-skilled factory workers65
6678993569Democratic coalition of FDR in 1936white southerners, AA, ethnic minorities, union members66
6678993570Stimson doctrine1932, Japanese invaded and conquered Manchuria, we declared that any territorial acquisition achieved by force we would not recognize67
66789935711960 election1st to be televised, Nixon looked bad68
6678993572Foreign EntanglementsIn his Farewell Address, George Washington warned of this in particular.69
6678993573Revolution of 1800The victory of Jefferson and the Democratic-Republicans ended the Federalist Decade in this.70
6678993574Jeffersonian DemocracyA system of ideas. Included: the yeoman farmer best exemplifies virtue and independence, the federal government must not violate the rights of the states, the freedoms of speech and the press are essential, and the President should practice Republican simplicity.71
6678993575Marbury v. MadisonA case in 1803 which established the principle of judicial review, that the Supreme Court should determine whether a piece of legislation is constitutional or not.72
6678993576American SystemHenry Clay's plan of internal improvements, developing infrastructure to increase trade and unity.73
6678993577Tariff of AbominationsA tariff passed in 1828, after several tariffs passed between 1816 and 1828, all of which were intended to protect. This tariff went too far and provoked John C. Calhoun to formulate his doctrine of nullification.74
6678993578Worcester v. GeorgiaA case in 1831 in which, unlike other Native American tribes, the Cherokees challenged the removal order in court. Cherokees won, but Jackson refused to recognize "John Marhall's" decision.75
6678993579Second Bank of the United StatesPresident Jackson vigorously opposed this, claiming that it catered to special privileges. His war against this helped bring about the Whigs, a party which hated him.76
6678993580The Cult of DomesticityAnother term for the concept of Republican Motherhood, a concept which said women should only be concerned with domestic, family, and religious affairs.77
6678993581Seneca Falls ConventionTook place in 1848, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucretia Mott, and issued the "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions."78
6678993582Dorothea DixA woman not involved in the women's rights movement but in the reform of treatment of people with mental and emotional disabilities.79
6678993583The LiberatorA radical abolitionist newspaper edited by William Lloyd Garrison. (Please note, Garrison was also a supporter of women's rights)80
6678993584TranscendentalismA philosophical and literary movement of the 1800s which emphasized living a simple life while celebrating the truth in nature, emotion, and imagination. (Think Thoreau and Emerson)81
6678993585The Mexican WarA war which was strongly opposed by Abraham Lincoln and the Whigs. Ended with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.82

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