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6731106273	Washington's Farewell address includes...	Avoiding foreign entanglements, and avoid political parties	0
6731106274	Whiskey Rebellion	Rebellion over the new taxes on Whiskey, Washington himself led an army to shut down the rebellion in comparison to Shay's rebellion which stood strong against the previous weak government	1
6731106275	12th Amendment	Talks about the President being able to choose their VP	2
6731106276	Federalist believes in..	Big government, National Bank, Loose interpretation of constitution. Ex Alexander Hamilton	3
6731106277	Anti-Federalist believes in..	States Rights, No national bank, strict interpretation of constitution. Ex Thomas Jefferson	4
6731106278	Theme related to the first two presidents	Federalist Era	5
6731106279	Related to Thomas Jefferson	The Revolution of 1800	6
6731106280	Thomas Jefferson made cuts to..	taxes, government spending, size of government, and military.	7
6731106281	Thomas Jefferson used a loose interpretation of the constitution when he..	bought the Louisiana Purchase	8
6731106282	Alien and Sedition Acts	Increased time for an immigrant to become a citizen from 5 years to 14, gave the president power to deport dangerous aliens (foreigners), made it illegal to publish defamatory works about the government	9
6731106283	Kentucky and Virginia Resolution	Made it possible for states to nullify a law that they didn't find was constitutional. Passed following the Alien and Sedition Acts	10
6731106284	Marbury V. Madison established...	Established Judicial review for the supreme court	11
6731106285	Hartford Convention	New England discusses secession,	12
6731106286	War of 1812	War between Britain and America, America was pissed about impressment of sailors, British aided Native Americans that were attacking the western side of the U.S.	13
6731106287	Agrarian Society	Belief that everyone should have a farm and be self- sufficient. Thomas Jefferson.	14
6731106288	Warhawks	People during the war of 1812 that thought Natives were apart of the problem	15
6731106289	War of 1812 is associated with President...	James Madison	16
6731106290	Era of Good Feelings is associated with President...	James Monroe	17
6731106291	Monroe Doctrine stated..	No European country would be allowed to come to North America w/o going to war with the US	18
6731106292	American System	Tariffs, National Bank, and Internal improvements	19
6731106293	Missouri Compromise	Established Missouri as a slave state, but all states north of Missouri would be free states	20
6731106294	"Corrupt Bargain"	John Q. Adams	21
6731106295	Tariff of Abominations	Heavily taxed all imports	22
6731106296	Era of the Common Man	Andrew Jackson	23
6731106297	What happened to amount of voters, and total votes?	Vote was extended to all white men instead of property owning white males. 80% voter turnout.	24
6731106298	Panic of 1837	Widespread unemployment, price of cotton decreased, many state banks collapsed	25
6731106299	Panic of 1837 is associated with President..	Martin Van Buren	26
6731106300	Spoils System	Andrew Jackson coined this phrase saying "the spoils go to the victor" fired federalists and replaced them with democrats.	27
6731106301	Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo	Ended the Mexican-American War; Mexico gave up all claims to land from California to Texas for $15 million	28
6731106302	Annexation of Texas is associated with President...	John Tyler, and James K. Polk	29
6731106303	Gadsden Purchase	Extended the US border	30
6731106304	Oregon Treaty	Treaty that extended the US border up to the 54 40 parallel, still the border today	31
6731106305	Matthew Perry heading to Japan is associated with President...	Millard Fillmore	32
6731106306	Kansas-Nebraska Act	Establish popular sovereignty in new states: Kansas and Nebraska. Led to Bleeding Kansas.	33
6731106307	Bleeding Kansas	Fight between antislavery and pro-slavery people	34
6731106308	Dred Scott v. Sanford	Establish the idea that a slave is a piece of property, and it would be unconstitutional if people couldn't bring their property where they went...NO FREE STATES.	35
6731106309	John Brown's Raid at Harper's Fairy	An unsuccessful of attempt to start a slave rebellion in Virginia	36
6731106310	First event in the Civil War	Attack at Fort Sumter	37
6731106311	Letting the union fall is associated with President..	James Buchanon	38
6731106312	The Emancipation Proclamation, and the Civil War are both associated with President...	Abraham Lincoln	39
6731106313	Compromise of 1850	1) California is establish as a free state 2) Popular Sovereignty 3) Fugitive Slave Act 4) Texas Debt = US Debt	40
6731106314	Fugitive Slave Act	Required that people that caught run away slaves must send them back to their owners in the south	41
6731106315	1st President to be impeached was..	Andrew Johnson	42
6731106316	14th Amendment	Citizenship for slaves	43
6731106317	15th Amendment	Suffrage given to black males	44
6731106318	Established as a replacement of slavery	Share Cropping	45
6731106319	War on Terror, and NCLB are associated with President..	George W. Bush	46
6731106320	Bill Clinton	Known as a moderate democrat that gave the US a surplus, Monica Lewinsky scandal	47
6731106321	Half-Breed	People that opposed political machines	48
6731106322	Stalwarts	People that favored political machines	49
6731106323	Plessy V. Ferguson	Establish segregation as separate but equal	50
6731106324	Williams Jennings Bryan	Nominated by the populas party for president, gave the Cross of Gold speech	51
6731106325	Sinking of the Maine	Caused the Spanish American war	52
6731106326	Spanish American War resulted in...	US obtaining Guam, Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Cuba	53
6731106327	Big Stick Diplomacy	Big stick symbolized power and readiness to use military if needed. Associated with Teddy Roosevelt	54
6731106328	Election of 1912	Teddy Roosevelt wanted to run again and split the republican vote, this let Woodrow Wilson win the election. First Southern democrat to win since before the civil war	55
6731106329	19th Amendment	Establish suffrage for women	56
6731106330	14 Points, and the first world war are associated with President...	Woodrow Wilson	57
6731106331	"Return to Normalcy"	Phrase coined by Harding	58
6731106332	"Business of America is Business"	Phrase coined by Coolidge	59
6731106333	Too little too late is associated with President...	Hoover, everything he tried to do to prevent the Great Depression was TL or TL	60
6731106334	Rugged Individualism	Told Americans to tough out the hard times and good will come like nothing ever went wrong	61
6731106335	President associated with the "alphabet soup"	FDR, all of his domestic policies were referred to as the alphabet soup	62
6731106336	Korematsu V US	Establish the fact that the government could label a whole race as "suspect classification" meaning the govt. was permitted to deny the Japs their constitutional rights	63
6731106337	Brown v. Board of Education	Deconstructed segregation, separate is not equal	64
6731106338	Containment	The idea that the US had to stop the spread of communism	65
6731106339	President associated with ending the war with atom bombs...	Truman	66
6731106340	President associated with ending the great depression and having 4 terms...	FDR	67
6731106341	Interstate Highway Act	Established a highway system connecting east and west coasts of the US	68
6731106342	Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missle Crisis, and the man on the moon are associated with President...	JFK	69
6731106343	Worcester v. Georgia	Established that it was unconstitutional for Georgia law to regulate the access of US citizens into Cherokee Country	70
6731106344	Little Rock 9	First 9 girls to integrate blacks and whites together	71
6731106345	President associated with focusing on poverty and elderly (Medicare, and Medicaid)	Lyndon B. Johnson	72
6731106346	Environmental Protection Agency	Focuses on protecting the environment and animals	73
6731106347	Kent State	Reaction to the expansion of the Korean War, soldiers went into Kent State and shot protestors	74
6731106348	President associated with the Iran hostage crisis	Jimmy Carter	75
6731106349	President associated with the Persian Gulf War	George H. W. Bush	76
6731106350	Sumner-Brooks Affair	Brooks beat Sumner over the head with his cane on the senate floor, ending compromise.	77
6731106351	Lincoln-Douglas debates	These debates made Lincoln famous for battling with the person that came up with the idea of popular sovereignty	78
6731106352	Election of 1860	Lincoln v Douglas v John Bell v John C Breckinridge South secedes from the union because of Lincoln's victory	79
6731106353	Uncle Tom's Cabin	Book that was published to display the atrocities of slavery throughout the country	80
6731106354	Wilmot Provisio	Bill that banned slavery in the territories that were acquired after the war with Mexico	81
6731106355	W.E.B Du Bois	Believed that intellect for the blacks was the best way to gain rights	82
6731106356	Booker T. Washington	Believed blacks must gain economic equality before their gain of social equality, believed that blacks must have useful skills so whites could see them as useful	83
6731106357	Treaty of Ghent	Ended the war of 1812	84
6731106358	Bacon's Rebellion	Bacon was frustrated that the Native's kept attacking the west side of the frontier and he was frustrated that the government wouldn't send aid, rebellion against Berkely	85
6731106359	Shay's Rebellion	A rebellion against the foreclosures and the tax delinquencies, this rebellion is important because it shows the weakness of the newly formed govt. and that it needs reform.	86
6731106360	Pontiac's Rebellion	Rebellion led to drive British forces out of Ohio country, rebellion was crushed	87
6731106361	Stono Rebellion	Slave rebellion	88
6731106362	Encomienda System	System set up by Spanish to use the natives as slave laborers	89
6731106363	Pueblo Revolt	30,000 Pueblos v. 2,000 Spaniards, Pueblos pushed back spanish out of modern day New Mexico, 12 years later the Spanish recaptured them, but the Spanish were more accepting of the pueblos customs	90
6731106364	Britain's reasoning for going to America	Freedom of religion, and greed	91
6731106365	Spanish reasoning for going to America	To conquer land and expand their empire, to convert people	92
6731106366	French reasoning for going to America	For fur and marriages	93
6731106367	Columbian exchange	Exchange between europe, Africa, and the New world. The new world got food, slaves from Africa, and the New world gave Old world gold, silver and other material possessions	94
6731106368	Jamestown	Known as the first permanent settlement in the colonies; Founded by captain John Smith	95
6731106369	Anne Hutchinson	Believed that predestination didn't exist, believed that people could be religious without going to church, was exiled	96
6731106370	Roger Williams	Believed in the separation of church and state, advocated for Native Americans rights	97
6731106371	Mayflower compact	First governing document of the Plymouth colony, drafted on the ship ride over to the New world, majority rule, sense of democracy	98
6731106372	William Penn	Early advocate for democracy and religious freedoms, promoted good relations with the Native Americans	99
6731106373	Quaker society	Women were equal to men in jobs, and everyday life. Fair to Native Americans	100
6731106374	House of Burgesses	First legislature established in the New world, could levy taxes to people and make laws, but England could overrule these acts, set the precedent for future parliaments to be established	101
6731106375	Maryland Toleration Act	Maryland had very strict laws pertaining to religion, this act made it so all Christian religions, but not to those who didn't believe in the divinity of Jesus, this act would lead to the first amendment, freedom of religion	102
6731106376	Ben Franklin's "Join or Die"	Represented the colonies uniting together as one or they will die to the Native Americans	103
6731106377	Salutary Neglect	British were giving US autonomy, this less restricting policy would ultimately fail because the people got used to the freedom and despised any restraint to the people	104
6731106378	Salem witch trials	targeted women who were misfits, or independent	105
6731106379	Middle Passage	The route and passage across the Atlantic ocean, 90% of the people on these boats were africans	106
6731106380	Mercantilism	Money for the mothercountry	107
6731106381	Engel v. Vitale	Public schools cannot make students say prayers	108
6731106382	McCulloch v. Maryland	Expanded Congress's ability to use its implied powers	109
6731106383	Schenck v. United States	Justice Holmes' claim that Congress could restrict speech if the words "are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create and clear and present danger" when Schenck was convicted for mailing pamphlets urging potential army inductees to resist conscription.	110
6731106384	Roe v. Wade	Established a woman's right to abortion under certain circumstances	111
6731106385	Navigation Acts	Regulated trade to help the British economy, restricted all of colonial trade exports	112
6731106386	The First Great Awakening	the first great awakening was a religious revival in the colonies	113
6731106387	George Whitefield	Great preacher of the colonial	114
6731106388	John Peter Zenger Case	John published a defamatory comments about a government official and was arrested for it, established freedom of press	115
6731106389	Second event in the Civil War	Bull Run	116
6731106390	Third event in the Civil War	Antetum	117
6731106391	Fourth event in the civil war	Shiloh	118
6731106392	Fifth event in the civil war	Sherman's March	119
6731106393	Sixth event in the civil war	Gettysburg (Gettysburg Address)	120
6731106394	Last event of the civil war	Appomattox Court House (ended the war)	121
6731106395	Bonus March	March of unemployed veterans that were demanding their bonuses from the army immediately, Hoover sent in the military	122
6731106396	Declaration Act	Says that the British had the right to tax the colonies, the reaction of the colonies is that they will just boycott the items being taxed	123
6731106397	Writ of Assistance	Gave the right to British soldiers to search homes	124
6731106398	Intolerable Acts	Reaction to the Boston Tea Party, closed Port of Boston, colonies had to pay for the tea that was ruined, and colonial assembly	125
6731106399	First Continental Congress	First meeting of the Congress states that the colonies were all loyal to Britain, but they were angry with the mother countries actions towards them	126
6731106400	Treaty of Paris	States that America is an independent Nation, and the Mississippi river is the boundary	127
6731106401	Second Continental Congress	Delegates came to the decision to make an army, and send Britain an olive branch	128
6731106402	New Jersey Plan	Small states, have equal representation in congress	129
6731106403	Virginia Plan	Large states, have a representation based off of population	130
6731106404	Great Compromise	Took both aspects of the Virginia, and New Jersey Plans, and made them into one	131

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Colonies AP US History Flashcards

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4868143023	Virginia	•joint stock company •Chief Powhatan •John Smith •Promise of free land after 7 years of labor •tobacco •John Rolfe •indentured servants •William Berkeley	0
4868143024	Maryland	•first propriety colony •Lord Baltimore (Cecilius Calvert) •tobacco	1
4868143025	Plymouth	•Pilgrims/Separatists •William Bradford •Mayflower Compact	2
4868143026	Massachusetts Bay	•John Winthrop •refuge for persecuted Christians •the trading company became the gov	3
4868143027	Rhode Island	•Roger Williams •Anne Hutchinson •religious refuge •separation of church and state	4
4868143028	Connecticut	•Thomas Hooker •self-governing •fundamental orders of commonwealth •Christian commonwealth, but voting wasn't limited to church members	5
4868143029	New Hampshire	•John Mason •became a royal colony	6
4868143030	Maine	•Fernando Gorges •taken over by Massachusetts (its proprietor)	7
4868143031	The Carolinas	•Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina •encourage practice of large land grants •SC became royal •NC remained under proprietors' rule	8
4868143032	New Netherland (New York)	•profit-making enterprise •Peter Minuit •religious pluralism	9
4868143033	New Jersey	•George Carteret •originally east and west jersey	10
4868143034	Pennsylvania	•Quakers •William Penn •religious tolerance •proprietary gov	11
4868143035	Georgia	•James Oglethorpe •royal colony •effective gov	12

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AP US History Presidents Flashcards

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7164082691	George Washington	1789-1797; None	0
7164082692	John Adams	1797-1801; Federalist	1
7164082693	Thomas Jefferson	1801-1809; Democratic-Republican	2
7164082694	James Madison	1809-1817; Democratic-Republican	3
7164082695	James Monroe	1817-1825; Democratic-Republican	4
7164082696	John Quincy Adams	1825-1829; Democratic-Republican	5
7164082697	Andrew Jackson	1829-1837; Democrat	6
7164082698	Martin Van Buren	1837-1841; Democrat	7
7164082699	William H. Harrison	1841; Whig	8
7164082700	John Tyler	1841-1845; Whig	9
7164082701	James Knox Polk	1845-1849; Democrat	10
7164082702	Zachary Taylor	1849-1850; Whig	11
7164082703	Millard Fillmore	1850-1853; Whig	12
7164082704	Franklin Pierce	1853-1857; Democrat	13
7164082705	James Buchanan	1857-1861; Democrat	14
7164082706	Abraham Lincoln	1861-1865; Republican	15
7164082707	Andrew Johnson	1865-1869; National Union	16
7164082708	Ulysses S. Grant	1869-1877; Republican	17
7164082709	Rutherford B. Hayes	1877-1881; Republican	18
7164082710	James A. Garfield	1881; Republican	19
7164082711	Chester A. Arthur	1881-1885; Republican	20
7164082712	Grover Cleveland (1st Term)	1885-1889; Democrat	21
7164082713	Benjamin Harrison	1889-1893; Republican	22
7164082714	Grover Cleveland (2nd Term)	1893-1897; Democrat	23
7164082715	William McKinley	1897-1901; Republican	24
7164082716	Theodore Roosevelt	1901-1909; Republican	25
7164082717	William Howard Taft	1909-1913; Republican	26
7164082718	Woodrow Wilson	1913-1921; Democrat	27
7164082719	Warren G. Harding	1921-1923; Republican	28
7164082720	Calvin Coolidge	1923-1929; Republican	29
7164082721	Herbert Hoover	1929-1933; Republican	30
7164082722	Franklin Roosevelt	1933-1945; Democrat	31
7164082723	Harry S. Truman	1945-1953; Democrat	32
7164082724	Dwight Eisenhower	1953-1961; Republican	33
7164082725	John F. Kennedy	1961-1963; Democrat	34
7164082726	Lyndon B. Johnson	1963-1969; Democrat	35
7164082727	Richard M. Nixon	1969-1974; Republican	36
7164082728	Gerald R. Ford	1974-1977; Republican	37
7164082729	Jimmy Carter	1977-1981; Democrat	38
7164082730	Ronald Reagan	1981-1989; Republican	39
7164082731	George Bush	1989-1993; Republican	40
7164082732	Bill Clinton	1993-2001; Democrat	41
7164082733	George W. Bush	2001-2009; Republican	42
7164082734	Barack Obama	2009-2017; Democrat	43
7164083348	Donald Trump	2017-?; Republican	44

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AP US History 'Isms' Flashcards

All the 'isms' of AP US History that our teacher wanted us to know.
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6093097217	Anarchism	a political theory favoring the abolition of governments ex.	0
6093097218	Communism	a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state. ex. Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto,	1
6093097219	Capitalism	an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations ex. used by all the rich people (Rockefeller, Vanderbilt etc.)	2
6093097220	Socialism	an economic system in which the factors of production are owned by the public and operate for the welfare of all. ex. Eugene V. Debs, American Federation of Labor, the Knights of Labor	3
6093097221	Nationalism	the doctrine that your national culture and interests are superior to any other or a strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country ex.	4
6093097222	Jingoism	extreme, chauvinistic patriotism, often favoring an aggressive, warlike foreign policy ex.	5
6093097223	Nativism	a policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones ex. 1840's and 1850's in response to the influx of Irish and German Catholics.	6
6093097224	Sectionalism	a devotion to the interests of one geographic region over the interests of the country as a whole ex. political struggle over slavery, The Missouri Compromise of 1820	7
6093097225	Transcendentalism	a nineteenth-century movement in the Romantic tradition, which held that every individual can reach ultimate truths through spiritual intuition, which transcends reason and sensory experience. ex. Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson	8
6093097226	Deism	Religious belief that says God created the world and lets it run itself by natural law ex. Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, and Paine were deists, Frank Lloyd Wright	9
6093097227	Federalism	A system in which power is divided between the national and state governments ex. the 50 states have their own governments etc. but there is also a national power	10
6093097228	Revivalism	Second Great Awakening led to it. Revived a great faith in Christianity with more Americans belonging to the church. HS: Led to more people advocating equal rights such as blacks and women. ex.	11
6093097229	Protestantism	The theological system of any of the churches of western Christendom that separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation ex.	12
6093097230	Rationalism	the theological doctrine that human reason rather than divine revelation establishes religious truth ex.	13
6093097231	Social Darwinism	The application of ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies - particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion. ex. particularly used in economics, Herbert Spencer/William Sumner applied idea	14
6093097232	Mercantilism	an economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by exporting more than importing ex. US and Great Britain	15
6093097233	Catholicism	The system, doctrine, and practice of the Roman Catholic Church. ex. Doesn't really need examples, does it?	16
6093097234	Populism	Farm-based movement of the late 1800s that arose mainly in the area from Texas to the Dakotas and grew into a joint effort between farmer and labor groups against big business and machine-based politics. The movement became a third party in the election of 1892. ex. James Weaver, Thomas Watson, wanted 8 hour work days, regulation of railroads, increased coinage of silver	17
6093097235	Progressivism	The movement in the late 1800s to increase democracy in America by curbing the power of the corporation. It fought to end corruption in government and business, and worked to bring equal rights of women and other groups that had been left behind during the industrial revolution. ex. supported by urban mid. class, doctors, lawyers, white collar office workers, ministers, storekeepers	18
6093097236	Pragmatism	(philosophy) the doctrine that practical consequences are the criteria of knowledge and meaning and value ex. William James, John Dewey	19
6093097237	Consumerism	the theory that an increasing consumption of goods is economically beneficial ex.	20
6093097238	Realism	A 19th century artistic movement in which writers and painters sought to show life as it is rather than life as it should be ex. brought on by societal changes such as the aftermath of the Civil War in the United States and the emergence of Darwin's Theory of Evolution	21
6093097239	Naturalism	a nineteenth-century literary movement that was an extension of realism and that claimed to portray life exactly as it was. ex.	22
6093097240	Liberalism	A political ideology that emphasizes the civil rights of citizens, representative government, and the protection of private property. This ideology, derived from the Enlightenment, was especially popular among the property-owning middle classes. ex.	23
6093097241	Conservatism	This was the political idea in which the people regarded tradition as the basic source of human institutions and the proper state and society remained those before the French Revolution which rested on a judicious blend on monarchy, bureaucracy, aristocracy, and respectful commoners ex.	24
6093097242	Congregationalism	form of Protestant church government in which the local congregation is independent and self-governing ex. Puritans	25
6093097243	New Imperialism	Period of colonial expansion undertaken by European nations, and subsequently by Japan and the US, during the last quarter of the nineteenth century ex. US and the Philippines, Europe's Scramble for Africa, US and Cuba and the Cuban revolt, Suez Canal	26
6093097244	Imperialism	A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, socially, and economically. ex.	27
6093097245	International Darwinism	Darwin's concept of the survival of the fittest applied to competition among nations. In the international arena, the US had to demonstrate its strength by acquiring territories overseas. ex. Again,US and Philippines and US and Cuba, think Pan-Americanism	28
6093097246	Racism	the prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior to members of other races ex. against Chinese, immigrants	29
6093097247	Utilitarianism	idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people ex.	30
6093097248	Militarism	the policy of building up strong armed forces to prepare for war ex. Spanish-American War	31

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AP US History Period 4 (king) Flashcards

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5318017914	Democrats	political party that brought Andrew Jackson into office in 1829 - supported Jeffersonian ideas of limited government, drawing its support from the "common Man"	0
5318017915	Whig Party	Political Party created in 1834 as a coalition of anti-Jackson political leaders	1
5318017925	Southern Defense of Slavery	southerners held a widespread belief that blacks were inferior to whites and that the slavery was good for black - also understood that the southern cotton economy was dependent on slave labor	2
5318017927	Charles Finney	Presbyterian minister who is credited and is known as the "Father of modern Revivalism" - advocated the abolition of slavery and equal education for women and African Americans	3
5318017928	Elizabeth Cady Stanton	Advocate of women right's, including the right to vote -organized (with Lucretia Mott) the first women's rights convention at Seneca Falls, NY	4
5318017929	Frances (Franny) Wright	Scottish-born woman who became a vocal advocate as a US citizen for racial equality, equality for women, birth control, and open sexuality	5
5318017930	Dorothea Dix	Pioneer in the moment for special treatment for the mentally ill	6
5318017931	Horace Mann	Massachusetts educator who called for publicly funded education for all children	7
5318017933	William Lloyd Garrison	Radical abolitionist in Massachusetts who published the liberator, an antislavery newspaper	8
5318017934	Sojourner Truth	Former Slave (freed in 1827) who became a leading abolitionist and feminist	9
5318017935	Elijah Lovejoy	Abolitionist leader who was killed in Alton, Illinois by a proslavery mob attacking his newspaper press to keep him from publishing	10
5318017936	Frederick Douglass	Former slave who became a significant leader in the abolitionist movement - Known for his great oratorical skills	11
5318017937	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Philosopher, writer, and poet who became a central figure in American Transcendentalist	12
5318017938	Henry David Thoreau	Writer and naturalist - With Ralph Waldo Emerson, he became America's best known transcendentalist	13
5318017939	John James Audubon	Naturalist and painter who became well-known for his attempt to document all types of American birds	14
5318017940	Richard Allen	African American minister who established the first independent African American denomination in the US, the African Methodist Episcopalian Church	15
5318017941	David Walker	African American who wanted slaves to rebel against their own masters - relied on sailors and ship's officers sympathetic to the abolitionist cause to transfer his message to southern ports	16
5318017942	Samuel Slater	known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution," - brought British textile technology to the United States	17
5318017943	Cyrus McCormick	Developed the mechanical reaper in 1831, a machine that revolutionized farming by increasing crop yields and decreasing the number of field hands needed for the harvest	18
5318017944	John Deere	Invented the steel plow in 1837, which revolutionized farming - the steel plow broke up soil without the soil getting stuck to the plow	19
5318017955	American Anti-Slavery Society	Abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison - included Frederick Douglass as a significant leader of the society	20
5318096631	George Fitzhugh	writer who published the idea that slavery is a positive good because "the negro is but a grown up child" who needs the economic and social protections of slavery	21
5318112764	cult of domesticity	The belief that women were to provide religious and moral instruction in the homes but avoid the rough world of politics and business. Popular in the Mid-19th Century, caused womens rights movements.	22
5318132412	Seneca Falls Convention	Site of the first modern women's right convention. At the gathering. Stanton read Declaration of Sentiments. Some even called for suffrage. Much of this is a reaction AGAINST the cult of domesticity.	23
5318154022	Quakers	Many were abolitionists, as seen by the Grimke sisters.	24
5318159823	Burned over Districts	Part of the 2nd Great Awakening - label given to Western New York due to intense level of evangelical revelation that swept through the area like wildfire	25
5318170086	Transcendentalism	Emerson, Thorough -- belief in the "inner light" and ability of man, reverense or nature, belief in direct communication with God and Nature (no need for organized churches) Promoted individualism, self-reliance, and freedom from social constraints, and emphasized emotions.	26
5318172116	2nd Great Awakening	Across the country people attended revival meetings and joining churches in record number during the 1820 and 1830s, started by a reaction to liberal religious thought such as Diesm and Unitarianism.	27

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7642728274	(King) Ferdinand and (Queen) Isabella	King and Queen of Spain during the age of Exploration in the 15th century; funded Columbus's journey to America's	0
7642728275	Martin Luther	German monk who broke for the Catholic Church; initiated the Protestant Reformation	1
7642728276	(John) Calvin	Religious leader during Protestant Reformation; focused on predestination and total depravity	2
7642728277	(King) Henry VIII	English monarch who broke from the Catholic Church and established the Anglican Church (Church of England); father of Queen Elizabeth I	3
7642728278	(Queen) Elizabeth I	Henry VIII's successor who continued the Anglican church; turned back the Spanish Armada; encouraged mercantilism	4
7642728279	(King) Philip II	Spanish Monarch who sent the Spanish Armada to attack England, which failed	5
7642728280	Spanish Armada	The Spanish Fleet sent to attack England, but failed due to losses in battle or weather damage	6
7642728281	(Sir Humphrey) Gilbert	English nobleman whose attempt to settle on Newfoundland collapsed due to inadequate supplies and harsh climate`	7
7642728282	(Sir Walter) Raleigh	English nobleman who led an early attempt to establish a colony in the New World; associated with Roanoke, "the Lost Colony"	8
7642728283	(King) James I	English monarch who granted the Virginia Company, and other groups, rights to etablish colonies	9
7642728284	Virginia Company	first English colony established in the US; included traders and adventurers with no motive to settle; colony failed at first	10
7642728285	(Peter) Stuyvesant	Governor of New Netherland, the precursor to New York	11
7642728286	New Netherland	the colony which would become New York	12
7642728287	(John) Rolfe	brought tobacco to Virginia; married Pocohantas	13
7642728288	House of Burgesses	first elected legislative body in the US which could make laws and raise taxes; Virginia;	14
7642728289	Headright System	this system encouraged immigration by granting heads of households 50 acres of land per servant he brings	15
7642728290	(Lord) Baltimore	English noble man who etablished Maryland as a refuge from religious persecution	16
7642728291	Toleration Act (1649)	an act enacted in Maryland to grant religious freedom to all Christians	17
7642728292	Navigation Acts (1651, 1660, 1663)	These sets of acts restricted the US to trade with England, which helped fuel resentment of England	18
7642728293	(William) Berkeley	corrupt Virginian governor; made large land grants to himself and members in his council and supressed dissent in the House of Burgesses - acts which upset the people; associated with Bacon's Rebellion	19
7642728294	(Nathaniel) Bacon	Virginian; led a rebellion against the government's orders not to attack the Native Americans for land	20
7642728295	(William) Bradford	English Separatists who arrived in Massachusetts in the Mayflower	21
7642728296	Mayflower Compact	the first covenant of government in the US;	22
7642728297	(King) Charles I	this English monarch's reign was marked by the English Civil War; the monarchy was temporarily dispowered after his rule	23
7642728298	(John) Winthrop	led Puritans to Massachusetts Bay Colony; "City on a Hill" quote	24
7642728299	(Roger) Williams	advocated religious tolerance and separation of church and state; he was banished from Massachusetts and established Rhode Island	25
7642728300	(Anne) Hutchinson	MA women who opposed Puritan doctrines and held prayer meetings in which she argued that salvations would be awarded for good faith rather than good deeds	26
7642728301	(Thomas) Hooker	left MA to avoid coersive policies of magistrates and to find better land; established Connecticut River Valley	27
7642728302	Fundamental Orders of Connecticut	set up a governing system in Connecticut; similar to MA's government	28
7642728303	English Civil War	this war led to the execution of King Charles I, Ending with the execution of Charles I, this war was to put either the king or Parliament in the political power of England. This, however, did not resolve this problem.	29
7642728304	(Oliver) Cromwell	English general and statesman who led the parliamentary army in the English Civil War (1599-1658)	30
7642728305	(King) Charles II	reinstalled the English monarchy; was disliked for his support of Catholicism; toppled by parliamentary leaders in the Glorious Revolution	31
7642728306	Halfway Covenant	proposed that second-generation members be granted the same privilege of baptism (but not communion) as had been granted to the first generation; tried to encourage a spiritual conversion and full-church membership	32
7642728307	Metacom's War (King Phillip's War)	Native Americans battle New England colonies; large percentage of native americans died, making it one of the bloodiest wars in US; severely damaged the Native American presence in the new world	33
7642728308	Duke of York (James II)	took New Netherlands and named it New York; became English king, who was disliked for his support of Catholicism	34
7642728309	Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina	laws of Carolina that never went into effect because it mostly benefitted the wealthy	35
7642728310	(Sir Edmund) Andros	governor of the Dominion of New England; disliked for upsetting the established political systems in New England	36
7642728311	Glorious Revolution	a bloodless coup in England tha overthrew James the II and enthroned Mary II and William the III; weakened the monarchial power	37
7642728312	(King) William III and (Queen) Mary II	King and Queen of England who were enthroned after the Glorious Revolution	38
7642728313	Declaration of Rights	1689, a Bill of Rights, signed by the monarchs of England to recognize the rights of English people --> precursor to American Bill of Rights	39
7642728314	Leisler's Rebellion	American extention of the Glorious Revolution; overthrew Andros and send him back to England	40
7642728315	Stono Rebellion	A 1739 slave rebellion in Charleston, South Carolina; worried whites and caused plantations to suppress blacks more	41
7642728316	(Sir Robert) Walpole	British Whig chief minister; his patronage system created the policy of salutary neglect in the US	42
7642728317	(James) Oglethorpe	first governor of Georgia; attacked Florida, but without success	43
7642728318	Molasses Act (1733)	act which raised tax on molasses; made British products cheaper than those of the West Indies	44
7642728319	Currency Act (1751)	act which prohibited US from issuing paper currency; hurt US trade by removing circulating paper money	45
7642728320	(Benjamin) Franklin	US politician, diplomat, scientist, inventor, writer; the US extention of the enlightenment	46
7642728321	(Johnathan) Edwards	an american theologian and congregational clergyman whose sermons associated with the Great Awakening; known for fire-and-brimstone speeches	47
7642728322	(George) Whitefield	leading evangelist of religious reform in England and the colonies; Great Awakening that challenged the established religious order.	48
7642728323	Old and New Lights	the traditional and new members of the church during the Great Awakening	49
7642728324	Fort Duquesne	a fort built by the French; renamed Fort Pitt after it was captured by the British early the French-Indian war	50
7642728325	(Williams) Pitt	General who led British forces in French and Indian War; used much of his own money to finance the war	51
7642728326	(General) Edward Braddock	Commanded forces sent by Great Britain to support American colonists; defeated and killed by French and Indian troops	52
7642728327	(General) James Wolfe	General who was given task of capturing Quebec by Pitt in 1759	53
7642728328	Albany Plan of Union	a plan proposed by Benjamin Franklin to unite the colonies	54
7642728329	Pontiac's Rebellion	Conflict between the Native Americans and the British over settlement of Indian lands in the Great lakes area	55
7642728330	Proclamation of 1763	British Treaty with Native Americans not to settle over the Appalachians; a restriction which upset American settlers, especially since some had already crossed the line	56
7642728331	Treaty of Paris (1763)	treaty which ended the French and Indian war; made Britain the major power in North America;	57
7642728332	Paxton Boys	a group of farmers massacre a peaceful Native American tribe because of Pennsylvania's Indian policy	58
7642728333	Regulator Movement	movement consisting of landowning vigilantes tried to supress outlaw bands of whites who were stealing cattle and property; wanted greater political rights for S. Carolina	59

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7849571395	Napoleon III	Elected emperor of France from 1852-1870, he invaded Mexico when the Mexican government couldn't repay loans from French bankers. He sent in an army and set up a new government in Mexico during the Civil War. He refused Lincoln's request that France withdraw. After the Civil War, the U.S. sent an army to enforce the request and France withdrew from Mexico.	0
7849571396	Charles Francis Adams	United States Minister to Great Britain during the Civil War, he wanted to keep Britain from entering the war on the side of the Confederacy.	1
7849571398	Maximilian	French viceroy appointed to lead the French government set up in Mexico. After the Civil War, the U.S. invaded and he was executed, a demonstration of the enforcement of the Monroe Doctrine to European powers.	2
7849571399	Sally Tompkins	Confederate nurse who ran a hospital in Richmond, Virginia during the Civil War	3
7849571400	Jay Cooke	A New York financier who was interested in the OSN Railroads. When he acquired the charter of the North Pacific, he persuaded Congress to enlarge the land grants 60 miles on each side of the railroad, and he allowed timber companies to sell off these lands.His bankruptcy caused a national depression.	4
7849571401	Abraham Lincoln	Was President of the United States, opposed the spread of slavery, issued the Emancipation Proclamation, was determined to preserve the Union, by force if necessary, believed the United States was one nation, not a collection of independent states.	5
7849571402	Jefferson Davis	An American statesman and politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865	6
7849571403	Elizabeth Blackwell	Northern woman who was the first woman to become a licensed doctor in the U.S. and helped run the US Sanitiary Commission	7
7849571404	Clara Barton	Launched the American Red Cross in 1881. An "angel" in the Civil War, she treated the wounded in the field.	8
7849571415	William H. Seward	U.S. Secretary of state during the Civil War. He became one of the most important members of Lincoln's cabinet and engineered the purchase of Alaska after the Civil War.	9
7849571417	Horace Greeley	An American newspaper editor and founder of the Republican party. His New York Tribune was America's most influential newspaper 1840-1870. Greeley used it to promote the Whig and Republican parties, as well as antislavery and a host of reforms.	10

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6656741649	intro	context (what caused events in time period, where did it originate, other related events) 2-3 sentences in the period stated by the question (& possibly period right before), define any terms, thesis	0
6656742477	body paragraphs	include all documents(2 to 3 per paragraph); for 5 sources (about 2 per paragraph) - explain POV (what argument does this document support or negate?), author's purpose (what was the creator's aim in writing or disseminating this document?), context (where is this document coming from? What was it used for?), or audience (who was meant to see this document, and why?); tie back to thesis; include outside knowledge to link together arguments and paragraph	1
6656757673	Use Evidence Beyond the Documents	one paragraph on an argument not based on documents	2
6656759005	synthesis	compare to another time period or area, give concrete evidence, explain why they are simmilar	3
6656761019	conclusion	thesis, one sentence describing impact of time period	4

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