These flashcards mainly cover the late 1700s-1800s. They are terms and notes that you should know for the AP US History National Exam. These are the terms that most people forget or look over, not the stuff that everyone who took basic American History knows (i.e. What was the Civil War?)
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| 785654408 | Hartford Convention | Following this event, the Federalists die out because they are now seen as traitors | 0 | |
| 785654409 | Whiskey Rebellion | West Pennsylvania farmers resist excise tax on whiskey -Demonstrated strength and fairness of the new government *Happened under Washington | 1 | |
| 785654410 | Pinckney's Treaty | agreement between the united states and spain that changed floridas border and made it easier for american ships to use the port of new orleans | 2 | |
| 785654411 | Executive Priviledge | -Exercised by George Washington -Right of the president to withold information for the benefit of national security | 3 | |
| 785654412 | XYZ Affair | An insult to the American delegation when they were supposed to be meeting French foreign minister, Talleyrand, but instead they were sent 3 officials Adams called "X,Y, and Z" that demanded $250,000 as a bribe to see Talleyrand. | 4 | |
| 785654413 | Alien and Sedition Acts | Allowewd gov't to forcibly expel foreigners and to jail news reporters who wrote "maliciously" *During John Adams' Presidency | 5 | |
| 785654414 | Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions | Argued that the states had the right to judge the constitutionality of federal laws | 6 | |
| 785654415 | Revolution of 1800 | Jefferson's election changed the direction of the government from Federalist to Democratic- Republican, so it was called a "revolution." | 7 | |
| 785654416 | Louisiana Purchase | Jefferson was conflicted over this event because no where in the Constitution did it say that the president could buy land and Jefferson was a strict interpreter of the Constitution | 8 | |
| 785654417 | The New Jersey Plan | Plan that called for the modification of the Articles of Confederation and equal representation from each state | 9 | |
| 785654418 | The Virginia Plan | Plan that called for entirely new government based on checks & balances & representatives based on the states' population | 10 | |
| 785654419 | Great Compromise | Blended New Jersey Plan and Virginia Plan to create a bicameral legislature | 11 | |
| 785654420 | 1791 | The year the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution | 12 | |
| 785654421 | 1789 | Year the Constitution went into effect | 13 | |
| 785654422 | George Washington | President that used the veto only if he felt the bill was unconstitutional, created a cabinet for the presidency, Thomas Jefferson was his Secretary of State, and Alexander Hamilton was his Secretary of Treasury | 14 | |
| 785654423 | Alexander Hamilton's Debt Plan | -Assumed states' debt and repaid through land -Favored the North | 15 | |
| 785654424 | French Revolution | George Washington stayed out of this event by creating the Neutrality Proclamation | 16 | |
| 785654425 | Panic of 1819 | Ended the "Era of Good Feelings" | 17 | |
| 785654426 | Missouri Compromise | -Created by Henry Clay 1) Admitted Missouri as a slave state 2) Drew a line at the 36 30 parallel and said Missouri was the northernmost area slavery would exist 3) Admitted Maine as a free state | 18 | |
| 785654427 | Corrupt Bargain | No presidential candidate received the majority of popular votes so the election was handed off to House of Representatives, and Jackson lost. | 19 | |
| 785654428 | Spoils System | Trading jobs for political favors | 20 | |
| 785654429 | Alamo | Famous battle that was for Texan independence from the Mexican gov't | 21 | |
| 788090734 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | -Transcendentalist -American Writer -Stressed self-reliance and personal spiritual unity | 22 | |
| 788090736 | Walt Whitman | -Wrote "Leaves of Grass" | 23 | |
| 788090739 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | -American Poet who was also widely popular in Europe -Wrote "Paul Revere's Ride", "Psalm of Life", "The Song of Hiawatha", "Evangeline" | 24 | |
| 788090743 | Louisa May Alcott | Author of Little Women | 25 | |
| 788090747 | Emily Dickinson | Showed the universality of even a quiet human heart with more than 1,000 poems published after her death | 26 | |
| 788090752 | Edgar Allen Poe | "Darker" writer in the 1800s | 27 | |
| 788090757 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Wrote the Scarlet Letter (1850) | 28 | |
| 788090762 | Indian Removal Act | -1830 Was supposed to give federal aid to move Native Americans from their ancestral homes east of the Mississippi to Oklahoma | 29 | |
| 788090767 | Trail of Tears | -1838 -Cherokees forced from Georgia and pushed west -Many died along this trail | 30 | |
| 788090770 | Second Great Awakening | Period of religious revival and began in New York | 31 | |
| 788090774 | Dorothea Dix | Lady that pushed for prison reform | 32 | |
| 788090782 | National Woman Suffrage Movement | Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton come together to create this movement for equal rights for women | 33 | |
| 788090785 | Horace Mann | Pushed for public education and education reform in general | 34 | |
| 788090789 | William Lloyd Garrison | Was an immediatist who wanted the emancipation of slaves immediately. Also published an abolitionist newspaper called "The Liberator" | 35 | |
| 788090793 | Compromise of 1850 | Includes California admitted as a free state, the Fugitive Slave Act, Made popular sovereignty in most other states from Mexican- American War | 36 | |
| 788090797 | Wilmot Proviso | 1846 Bill that would ban slavery in the territories acquired after the War with Mexico -Was the first purely sectional vote (which never passed) | 37 | |
| 788090802 | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | Treaty that ended the Mexican War, granting the U.S. control of Texas, New Mexico, and California in exchange for $15 million | 38 | |
| 788090807 | Mexican Cession | Lands sold by Mexico to the US following the Mexican War | 39 | |
| 788090808 | Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 | proposed by Stephen Douglas; slavery in new Kansas and Nebraska territories was to be decided by popular sovereignty;undid the Missouri Compromise; reopened the issue of slavery in the territories; north outraged | 40 | |
| 788090812 | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin about the plight of the Southern slave | 41 |
