AP US History- Chapter 8: Varieties of American Nationalism Flashcards
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| 7380923001 | Adams- Onis Treaty | A Treaty where the United States agreeded to acquire Florida from the Spanish in 1819. | 0 | |
| 7380923002 | American System | Goals that was to promote domestic products, import tariffs, keep land prices high, emphasize the US bank, and improve the transportatin infastructure. It had strengthened the nation but it wasn;t popular or approved by the citizens. | 1 | |
| 7380924827 | Francis Cabot Lowell | A Boston merchant who was an inventor that developed the power mill. He had founded the Boston Manufacutring Company, which revolutionized American manufacturing by placing bulk losing industries close to each other. This shaped American industrial labor ethnic contributed to the "hard work" appeal. | 2 | |
| 7380924828 | Gibbons vs. Ogden | New York had granted A. Ogden to have the right to ferry passengers between New York, New Jersey and Tennesse. Gibbons had license that granted by Congress. It competed against Ogden as the New York courts favored Ogden. However, the Supreme Court handed power to Congress and claimed Gibbon's license was actually true. The Court gave Congress a greater power over interstate commerce, regulate US economy, involved with Federal government more in the US economic growth. | 3 | |
| 7380924861 | Henry Clay | Speaker of the House who defended the southern states in the Missouri Compromise. | 4 | |
| 7380927379 | John Quincy Adams | The Secretary of State under James Monroe. He had created in 1819 the Adams- Onis Treaty. In 1824, he had won the presidency, making him the sixth president. | 5 | |
| 7380927380 | McCulloch vs. Maryland | The argument between the South and Western states that attempted to drive out the Federal bank branches out of business. It discouraged their business/boycott them while John Marshall defended them constitutinality. By doing tis, he confirmed more :implied powers" of the Supreme Court listed in the US Constitution. | 6 | |
| 7380929700 | Missouri Compromise | At the time, Missouri was a slave state along with Maine, This was when any state above the southern boundary of Missouri would be free, temporary resolution to the strong sectionalism. | 7 | |
| 7380931900 | Monroe Doctrine | Created in 1820s, which was written by John Quincy Adams. In this document, it was when the Americans would no longer be subject to colonization by European powers, that Europeans would not interfere with internal concerns of powers, symbol of growing nationalism in U.S, and dominating power in the Western Hemisphere. | 8 | |
| 7380931901 | Sectionalism | The restriction of interest to a narrow sphere. It had undue concern with local interests or petty distinctions at the expense of the general well-being. | 9 | |
| 7380933561 | Seminole War | Occurred in Flordia and was for the US to fight against the Seminole Indians that kept raiding the American territory. Jackson had used this as an opportunity to take Spanish forts. | 10 | |
| 7380933562 | Sequoyah | He was a Cherokee silversmith and in 1821 had completed the independent creation of the Cherokee syllabary. This made reading and writing in the Cherokee community available. | 11 | |
| 7380939031 | Stephan H. Long | An explorer who explored the west and chart territories that went against the original plan. | 12 | |
| 7380939032 | Tallmadge Amendment | An amendment that proposed to prohibit further introduction of slaves into Missouri, providing gradual emancipation of slaves already there. This caused a controversy between the pro and anti slavery states as the representatives for two years after it had been considered were testing the American identity of freedom. | 13 | |
| 7380941006 | Transportation Improvements | Improvements of the methods of transportation. There were roads being built, the National Road from 1811-1818 and creation private carriages, other vehicles and stage coaches. | 14 | |
| 7380941007 | Worcester vs. Georgia | The state of Georgia had attempted to regulate access by U.S citizen in the Cherokee country. The Supreme Court Decision was that the Cherokee Indians were entitled to federal protection from the actions of the state government. These actions would infringe on the tribe's sovereignty and Jackson ignored it. | 15 |
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AP Psychology Module 2 Flashcards
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| 14738377047 | nature-nurture issue | the longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors. Today's science sees traits and behaviors arising from the interaction of nature and nurture | 0 | |
| 14738377048 | natural selection | the principle that, among the range of inherited trait variations, those contributing to reproduction and survival will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations | 1 | |
| 14738377049 | levels of analysis | the differing complementary views, from biological to psychological to social-cultural, for analyzing any given phenomenon | 2 | |
| 14738377050 | biopsychosocial approach | an integrated approach that incorporates biological, psychological, and social-cultural levels of analysis | 3 | |
| 14738377051 | behavioral psychology | the scientific study of observable behavior, and its explanation by principles of learning | 4 | |
| 14738377052 | biological psychology | the scientific study of the links between biological and psychological processes | 5 | |
| 14738377053 | Cognitive Psychology | the scientific study of mental processes, including perception, thought, memory, and reasoning | 6 | |
| 14738377054 | evolutionary psychology | the study of the evolution of behavior and the mind, using principles of natural selection | 7 | |
| 14738377055 | psychodynamic psychology | the study of how the unconscious mind drives and conflicts to influence behavior | 8 | |
| 14738377056 | social-cultural psychology | the study of how situations and cultures affect our behavior and thinking | 9 | |
| 14738377057 | Psychometrics | the scientific study of the measurement of human abilities, attitudes, and traits | 10 | |
| 14738377058 | basic research | pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base | 11 | |
| 14738377059 | developmental psychology | a branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span | 12 | |
| 14738377060 | educational psychology | the study of how psychological processes affect and can enhance teaching and learning | 13 | |
| 14738377061 | personality psychology | the study of an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting | 14 | |
| 14738377062 | social psychology | the scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another | 15 | |
| 14738377063 | applied research | scientific study that aims to solve practical problems | 16 | |
| 14738377064 | industrial-organizational (I/O) psychology | the application of psychological concepts and methods to optimizing human behavior in workplaces | 17 | |
| 14738377065 | human factors psychology | an I/O subfield that explores how people and machines interact and how machines and physical environments can be made safe and easy to use | 18 | |
| 14738377066 | counseling psychology | a branch of psychology that assists people with problems in living (often related to school, work, or marriage) and in achieving greater well-being | 19 | |
| 14738377067 | clinical psychology | The branch of psychology concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of psychological problems and disorders. | 20 | |
| 14738377068 | psychiatry | branch of medicine dealing with the mind and its disorders | 21 | |
| 14738377069 | positive psychology | the scientific study of optimal human functioning; aims to discover and promote strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive | 22 | |
| 14738377070 | community psychology | a branch of psychology that studies how people interact with their social environments and how social institutions affect individuals and groups | 23 | |
| 14738377071 | Charles Darwin | argued that natural selection shapes behaviors as well as bodies |  | 24 |
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AP US History - US Presidents Flashcards
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| 13938829731 | George Washington | 1789-1797 Federalist Whiskey Rebellion; Judiciary Act; Neutrality; Farewell Address | 0 | |
| 13938829732 | John Adams | 1797-1801 Federalist XYZ Affair; Alien and Sedition Acts | 1 | |
| 13938829733 | Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 Democratic-Republican Marbury v. Madison; Louisiana Purchase; Embargo of 1807 | 2 | |
| 13938829734 | James Madison | 1809-1817 Democratic-Republican War of 1812; First Protective Tariff | 3 | |
| 13938829735 | James Monroe | 1817-1825 Democratic-Republican Missouri Compromise of 1820; Monroe Doctrine | 4 | |
| 13938829736 | John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 Democratic-Republican "Corrupt Bargain"; "Tariff of Abominations" | 5 | |
| 13938829737 | Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 Democrat Nullification Crisis; Bank War; Indian Removal Act | 6 | |
| 13938829738 | Martin Van Buren | 1837-1841 Democrat Trail of Tears; Specie Circular; Panic of 1837 | 7 | |
| 13938829739 | William Henry Harrison | 1841 Whig "Tippecanoe and Tyler too!"; First Whig President | 8 | |
| 13938829740 | John Tyler | 1841-1845 Whig "His Accidency"; Webster-Ashburton Treaty | 9 | |
| 13938829741 | James Polk | 1845-1849 Democrat Texas annexation; Mexican War | 10 | |
| 13938829742 | Zachary Taylor | 1849-1850 Whig Mexican War hero and staunch Unionist | 11 | |
| 13938829743 | Millard Fillmore | 1850-1853 Whig Compromise of 1850 | 12 | |
| 13938829744 | Franklin Pierce | 1853-1857 Democrat Kansas-Nebraska Act; Gadsden Purchase | 13 | |
| 13938829745 | James Buchanan | 1857-1861 Democrat Dred Scott decision; Harpers Ferry raid | 14 | |
| 13938829746 | Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 Republican Secession and Civil War; Emancipation Proclamation | 15 | |
| 13938829747 | Andrew Johnson | 1865-1869 Democrat 13th and 14th amendments; Radical Reconstruction; Impeachment | 16 | |
| 13938829748 | Ulysses Grant | 1869-1877 Republican 15th amendment; Panic of 1873 | 17 | |
| 13938829749 | Rutherford Hayes | 1877-1881 Republican Compromise of 1877; labor unions and strikes | 18 | |
| 13938829750 | James Garfield | 1881, Republican Brief resurgence of presidential authority; Increase in American naval power; Purge corruption in the Post Office | 19 | |
| 13938829751 | Chester Arthur | 1881-1885 Republican Standard Oil trust created Edison lights up New York City | 20 | |
| 13938829752 | Grover Cleveland | 1885-1889 (1st term), 1893-1897 (2nd term) Democrat Interstate Commerce Act; Dawes Act; Panic of 1893; Pullman Strike | 21 | |
| 13938829753 | Benjamin Harrison | 1889-1893 Republican Sherman Anti-Trust Act; Closure of the frontier | 22 | |
| 13938829754 | William McKinley | 1897-1901 Republican Spanish-American War; Open Door policy | 23 | |
| 13938829755 | Theodore Roosevelt | 1901-1909 Republican Progressivism; Square Deal; Big Stick Diplomacy | 24 | |
| 13938829756 | William Howard Taft | 1909-1913 Republican Dollar diplomacy NAACP founded | 25 | |
| 13938829757 | Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1921 Democrat WWI; League of Nations; 18th and 19th amendments; Segregation of federal offices; First Red Scare | 26 | |
| 13938829758 | Warren Harding | 1921-1923 Republican "Return to normalcy", return to isolationism; Tea Pot Dome scandal; Prohibition | 27 | |
| 13938829759 | Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 Republican Small-government (laissez-faire) conservative | 28 | |
| 13938829760 | Herbert Hoover | 1929-1933 Republican "American individualism"; Stock Market Crash; Dust Bowl; Hawley-Smoot Tariff | 29 | |
| 13938829761 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 1933-1945 Democrat New Deal; WWII; Japanese Internment; "Fireside Chats" | 30 | |
| 13938829762 | Harry Truman | 1945-1953 Democrat A-bomb; Marshall Plan; Korean War; United Nations | 31 | |
| 13938829763 | Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 Republican Brown v. Board of Education; Second Red Scare; Highway Act and suburbanization ("white flight"); Farewell Address warning of the military industrial complex | 32 | |
| 13938829764 | John Kennedy | 1961-1963 Democrat Camelot; Bay of Pigs; Cuban Missile Crisis; Space program; Peace Corps | 33 | |
| 13938829765 | Lyndon Johnson | 1963-1969 Democrat Civil and Voting Rights acts; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; Great Society | 34 | |
| 13938829766 | Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 Republican Environmental Protection Act; China visit; Moon Landing; Watergate | 35 | |
| 13938829767 | Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 Republican Pardoning of Nixon; OPEC crisis | 36 | |
| 13938829768 | Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 Democrat stagflation / energy crisis; Iran hostage crisis; Camp David Accords | 37 | |
| 13938829769 | Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 Republican Conservative revolution; Iran-Contra scandal | 38 | |
| 13938829770 | George H. W. Bush | 1989-1993 Republican Persian Gulf War | 39 | |
| 13938829771 | Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 Democrat NAFTA; Lewinsky scandal and impreachment | 40 | |
| 13938829772 | George W. Bush | 2001-2008 Republican War on terrorism; Patriot Act; Tax cuts; "No Child Left Behind" | 41 | |
| 13938829773 | Barack Obama | 2008-2017 Democrat Affordable Care Act | 42 |
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