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AP US History - US Presidents Flashcards

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7579242986George Washington1789-1797 Federalist Whiskey Rebellion; Judiciary Act; Farewell Address0
7579242987John Adams1797-1801 Federalist XYZ Affair; Alien and Sedition Acts1
7579242988Thomas Jefferson1801-1809 Democratic-Republican Marbury v. Madison; Louisiana Purchase; Embargo of 18072
7579242989James Madison1809-1817 Democratic-Republican War of 1812; First Protective Tariff3
7579242990James Monroe1817-1825 Democratic-Republican Missouri Compromise of 1820; Monroe Doctrine4
7579242991John Quincy Adams1825-1829 Democratic-Republican "Corrupt Bargain"; "Tariff of Abominations"5
7579242992Andrew Jackson1829-1837 Democrat Nullification Crisis; Bank War; Indian Removal Act6
7579242993Martin Van Buren1837-1841 Democrat Trail of Tears; Specie Circular; Panic of 18377
7579242994William Henry Harrison1841 Whig "Tippecanoe and Tyler too!"; First Whig President8
7579242995John Tyler1841-1845 Whig "His Accidency"; Webster-Ashburton Treaty9
7579242996James Polk1845-1849 Democrat Texas annexation; Mexican War10
7579242997Zachary Taylor1849-1850 Whig Mexican War hero and staunch Unionist11
7579242998Millard Fillmore1850-1853 Whig Compromise of 185012
7579242999Franklin Pierce1853-1857 Democrat Kansas-Nebraska Act; Gadsden Purchase13
7579243000James Buchanan1857-1861 Democrat Dred Scott decision; Harpers Ferry raid14
7579243001Abraham Lincoln1861-1865 Republican Secession and Civil War; Emancipation Proclamation15
7579243002Andrew Johnson1865-1869 Democrat 13th and 14th amendments; Radical Reconstruction; Impeachment16
7579243003Ulysses Grant1869-1877 Republican 15th amendment; Panic of 187317
7579243004Rutherford Hayes1877-1881 Republican Compromise of 1877; labor unions and strikes18
7579243005James Garfield1881, Republican Brief resurgence of presidential authority; Increase in American naval power; Purge corruption in the Post Office19
7579243006Chester Arthur1881-1885 Republican Standard Oil trust created Edison lights up New York City20
7579243007Grover Cleveland1885-1889 (1st term), 1893-1897 (2nd term) Democrat Interstate Commerce Act; Dawes Act; Panic of 1893; Pullman Strike21
7579243008Benjamin Harrison1889-1893 Republican Sherman Anti-Trust Act; Closure of the frontier22
7579243009William McKinley1897-1901 Republican Spanish-American War; Open Door policy23
7579243010Theodore Roosevelt1901-1909 Republican Progressivism; Square Deal; Big Stick Diplomacy24
7579243011William Howard Taft1909-1913 Republican Dollar diplomacy NAACP founded25
7579243012Woodrow Wilson1913-1921 Democrat WWI; League of Nations; 18th and 19th amendments; Segregation of federal offices; First Red Scare26
7579243013Warren Harding1921-1923 Republican "Return to normalcy", return to isolationism; Tea Pot Dome scandal; Prohibition27
7579243014Calvin Coolidge1923-1929 Republican Small-government (laissez-faire) conservative28
7579243015Herbert Hoover1929-1933 Republican "American individualism"; Stock Market Crash; Dust Bowl; Hawley-Smoot Tariff29
7579243016Franklin Delano Roosevelt1933-1945 Democrat New Deal; WWII; Japanese Internment; "Fireside Chats"30
7579243017Harry Truman1945-1953 Democrat A-bomb; Marshall Plan; Korean War; United Nations31
7579243018Dwight Eisenhower1953-1961 Republican Brown v. Board of Education; Second Red Scare; Highway Act and suburbanization ("white flight"); Farewell Address warning of the military industrial complex32
7579243019John Kennedy1961-1963 Democrat Camelot; Bay of Pigs; Cuban Missile Crisis; Space program; Peace Corps33
7579243020Lyndon Johnson1963-1969 Democrat Civil and Voting Rights acts; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; Great Society34
7579243021Richard Nixon1969-1974 Republican Environmental Protection Act; China visit; Moon Landing; Watergate35
7579243022Gerald Ford1974-1977 Republican Pardoning of Nixon; OPEC crisis36
7579243023Jimmy Carter1977-1981 Democrat stagflation / energy crisis; Iran hostage crisis; Camp David Accords37
7579243024Ronald Reagan1981-1989 Republican Conservative revolution; Iran-Contra scandal38
7579243025George H. W. Bush1989-1993 Republican Persian Gulf War39
7579243026Bill Clinton1993-2001 Democrat NAFTA; Lewinsky scandal and impreachment40
7579243027George W. Bush2001-2008 Republican War on terrorism; Patriot Act; Tax cuts; "No Child Left Behind"41
7579243028Barack Obama2008-2017 Democrat Affordable Care Act42
7579243029Donald Trump2017-? Republican "Make America Great Again"43

AP US History Period 5 (1844-1877) Flashcards

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5859295281Popular SovereigntyNotion that the sovereign people of a given territory should decide whether to allow slavery. Seemingly a compromise, it was largely opposed by Northern abolitionists who feared it would promote the spread of slavery to the territories.0
5859295282Fugitive Slave LawPassed as part of the Compromise of 1850, it set high penalties for anyone who aided escaped slaves and compelled all law enforcement officers to participate in retrieving runaways. Strengthened the antislavery cause in the North.1
5859295283Uncle Tom's CabinHarriet Beecher Stowe's widely read novel that dramatized the horrors of slavery. It heightened Northern support for abolitions and escalated the sectional conflict.2
5859295285Emancipation Proclamation1863. Declared all slaves in rebelling states to be free but did not affect slavery in non-rebelling Border States. The Proclamation closed the door on possible compromise with the South and encouraged thousands of Southern slaves to flee to Union lines.3
5859295287Freedmans' Bureau1865-1872. Created to aid newly emancipated slaves by providing food, clothing, medical care, education, and legal support. Its achievements were never and depended largely on the quality of local administrators.4
5859295288Black Codes1865-1866. Laws passed throughout the South to restrict the rights of emancipated blacks, particularly with respect to negotiating labor contracts. Increased Norhterners' criticisms of President Andrew Johnson's lenient Reconstruction policies.5
5859295290SharecroppingAn agricultural system that emerged after the Civil War in which black and white farmers rented land and residences from a plantation owner in exchange for giving him a certain "share" of each year's crop. Sharecropping was the dominant form of southern agriculture after the Civil War, and landowners manipulated this system to keep tenants in perpetual debt and unable to leave their plantation.6
5859295292Compromise of 1850Admitted California as a free state, opened New Mexico and Utah to popular sovereignty, ended the slave trade (but not slavery itself) in Washington D.C., and introduced a more stringent fugitive slave law. Widely opposed in both the North and South, it did little to settle the escalating dispute over slavery.7
5859295293Kansas-Nebraska Act1854. Proposed that the issue of slavery be decided by popular sovereignty in the Kansas and Nebraska territories, thus revoking the 1820 Missouri Compromise. Introduced by Stephen Douglass in an effort to bring Nebraska into the Union and pave the way for a northern transcontinental railroad.8
5859295294Homestead Act1862. A federal law that gave settlers 160 acres of land for about $30 if they lived on it for five years and improved it by, for instance, building a house on it. The act helped make land accessible to hundreds of thousands of westward-moving settlers, but many people also found disappointment when their land was infertile or they saw speculators grabbing up the best land.9
5859295295Gettysburg Address1863. Abraham Lincoln's oft-quoted speech, delivered at the dedication of the cemetery at Gettysburg battlefield. In the address, Lincoln framed the war as a means to uphold the values of liberty.10
5859295296Appomattox Court HouseSite (city) where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in April 1865 after almost a year of brutal fighting throughout Virginia in the "Wilderness Campaign".11
5859295299Radical RepublicansMost liberal part of the Republican Party. Desired political, economic, and social equality for African Americans. Wanted harsh punishment for the South after the Civil War. Became much more powerful after Andrew Johnson's impeachment.12
5859295300Election of LincolnAngered many people in the south who owned slaves because he wanted to end slavery. Won the election of 1860 but did not win the popular vote. South Carolina was happy at the outcome of the election because now it had a reason to secede.11 states in the south seceded and made themselves the Confederacy after the election.13
5859295301Abolitionist MovementThe movement to end the practice of slavery within the entirety of the United States.14
5859295304Wilmot Proviso(1846) Proposal to prohibit slavery in any land acquired in the Mexican War. Never passed by both houses of Congress but helped fan the flame of sectional tension.15
5859295305Free-Soil Party(1848) Political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery into new territories.16
5859295306Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo(1848) The Mexican government gave up the area of Texas and offered to sell the provinces of California and New Mexico as a result of its defeat in the Mexican-American War.17
5859295310Bleeding Kansas(1856-1861) A sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory. The dispute further strained the relations of the North and South, making civil war imminent.18
5859295311Dred Scott v. Sanford(1857) Supreme Court case that decided US Congress did not have the power to prohibit slavery in federal territories and slaves, as private property, could not be taken away without due process. Invalidated the Missouri Compromise.19
5859295312John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry(1859) John Brown led a raid on Harper's Ferry. He hoped to start a rebellion against slaveholders by arming enslaved African Americans. Brown was quickly defeated by citizens and federal troops. Brown became a villain to southerners who now thought northerners would use violence to end slavery as well as a martyr to some northerners who saw Brown as someone who sacrificed himself for the ideal of freedom for all.20
5859295313Election of 1860(1860) The United States presidential election of 1860 set the stage for the American Civil War. Hardly more than a month following Lincoln's victory came declarations of secession by South Carolina and other states, which were rejected as illegal by outgoing President James Buchanan and President-elect Lincoln.21
5859295316Thirteenth Amendment(1865) The constitutional amendment ratified after the Civil War that forbade slavery and involuntary servitude.22
5859295317Fourteenth Amendment(1868) Provided equal protection of the law to freed slaves. Representation for any state that withheld voting from African Americans would be reduced.23
5859295318Fifteenth Amendment(1870) Prohibited any state from denying citizens the right to vote on the grounds of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.24
5859295320Manifest DestinyA notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific.25
5859295322Texas Annexation1845. Originally refused in 1837, as the U.S. Government believed that the annexation would lead to war with Mexico. Texas remained a sovereign nation. Annexed via a joint resolution through Congress, supported by President-elect Polk, and approved in 1845. Land from the Republic of Texas later became parts of NM, CO, OK, KS, and WY.26
5859295326California Gold Rush1849. Gold discovered in California attracted a rush of people all over the country and world to San Francisco; arrival of the Chinese; increased pressure on federal government to establish a stable government27
5859295327Mexican American War1846 - 1848. President Polk declared war on Mexico over the dispute of land in Texas. At the end, American ended up with 55% of Mexico's land, called the Mexican Cession.28
5859295328Republican Party1854. Established by anti-slavery Whigs and Democrats, "free-soilers" and reformers from the Northwest met and formed party in order to keep slavery out of the territories.29
5859295329Stephen A. DouglasSenator from Illinois who ran for president against Abraham Lincoln and was a leading voice in the debates over slavery and its expansion before the Civil War. Wrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Freeport Doctrine.30
5859295331Abraham Lincoln16th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865)31
5859295332secessionFormal withdrawal of states or regions from a nation32
5859295334sectionalismTerm used to describe the growing differences between the regions of the United States, especially the North and South, leading up to the Civil War.33
5859295335Robert E. LeeConfederate general who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by force. Military genius whose aggressiveness made him a fearsome opponent throughout the Civil War.34
5859295336Fort SumterFederal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil War.35
5859295337Battle of AntietamA battle near a sluggish little creek, it proved to be the bloodiest single day battle in American History with over 26,000 lives lost in that single day. Prevented an Confederate invasion of Maryland.36
5859295339Battle of GettysburgA large battle in the American Civil War, took place in southern Pennsylvania from July 1 to July 3, 1863. Union General George G. Meade led an army of about 90,000 men to victory against General Robert E. Lee's Confederate army of about 75,000. Proved to be a significant turning point in the war because of the loss of about 1/3 of Lee's army.37
5859295340Ulysses S. GrantAn American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War.38
5859295345Radical ReconstructionName given to the period when Congress, which was controlled by Republicans, took over Reconstruction efforts. When southerners balked at some of the more moderate reforms proposed, more radical republicans started to gain more power and pass more legislation.39
5859295347Freedmen's Bureau1865. Organization (turned government agency) run by the army to care for and protect southern Blacks after the Civil War, sometimes including settling them on confiscated confederate lands.40
5859295348Election of 1876Ended reconstruction because neither candidate had an electoral majority. The Democrat Sam Tilden loses the election to Rutherford B Hayes, Republican, was elected, and then ended reconstruction as he secretly promised.41
5859295349carpetbaggerA northerner who went to the South immediately after the Civil War; especially one who tried to gain political advantage or other advantages from the disorganized situation in southern states (as viewed from the southern perspective).42
5859295350scalawagA derogatory term for southerners who were working with the North to buy up land from desperate southerners; sometimes used in a general way by southerners criticizing other southerners who had northern sympathies.43
5859295351Nat TurnerA black preacher who in 1831 led a slave revolt Virginia that killed 60 whites. 100+ blacks were executed as a result. The rebellion was significant as it worried southern whites that larger slave rebellions were possible and therefore stricter rules were needed.44
5859295352Sojourner TruthA freed black woman who became a leader in the fight for black emancipation and women's rights.45
5859295353Frederick DouglassAn escaped slave who spoke publicly for the abolitionist cause. He wrote his autobiography, depicting the harsh realities of Southern slavery. He also looked to politics to help abolish slavery.46
5859295356American Colonization SocietyCreated in 1817 and supported by some blacks and whites, its purpose was to transport African Americans back to Africa once they had been freed from slavery. Idea was based on the idea that whites and blacks could not live as equals in America, even if slavery were abolished.47
5859295357James K. PolkDemocratic president after John Tyler who was best known for policies that promoted Manifest Destiny and expansionism.48
5859295361John C. CalhounSenator who argued for states' rights for the South. He asked for slavery to be left alone, slaves to be returned to the South, and state balance to be kept intact.49
5859295363Henry ClayKnown as the "Great Compromiser"; senator who pushed for compromise between the North and South and worked with Stephen Douglas; major figure in the passing of both the Missouri Compromise (1820) and Compromise of 1850.50
5859295364Underground RailroadSecret system of safe houses along a route that led many slaves to freedom in the North and eventually Canada.51
5859295366Charles SumnerSenator who spoke out for black freedom and racial equality post-Civil War. Publicly beaten by Preston Brooks for speaking out against the violence in Kansas, an event that marked increasing tensions between the North and South prior to the Civil War.52
5859295367Roger TaneyChief Justice of the Supreme Court who wrote an opinion in the 1857 Dred Scott case that declared the Missouri compromise unconstitutional, thereby legally preventing Congress from prohibiting slavery in new territories (and made Popular Sovereignty illegal).53
5859295368Jefferson DavisPresident of the Confederate States of America prior to and during the Civil War.54
5859295372Lincoln-Douglas DebatesLincoln challenged Stephen Douglas to debates during the senatorial race of 1858 which became a public referendum on the issue of slavery.55
5859295374Border StatesSouthern states that never chose secession and joined the Confederacy during the Civil War (Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Deleware).56
5859295375Andrew Johnson17th President of the United States, A Southerner form Tennessee, as V.P. when Lincoln was killed, he became president. He opposed radical Republicans who passed Reconstruction Acts over his veto. The first U.S. president to be impeached, he survived the Senate removal by only one vote.57
5859295385Civil Rights Act (1866)A Reconstruction bill which gave which granted citizenship to African Americans and weakened the poliferation of Black Codes in the South.58
5859295388"Seward's Folly"Refers to the United States' Secretary of State William Seward's decision to purchase the Alaskan territory from Russia in 1867. At the time, Seward's decision to buy the land was regarded as a terrible one by many critics in the United States.59

AP US History Chapter 13 Flashcards

AMSCO United States History 2015 Edition, Chapter 13 The Union in Peril, 1848-1861

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5769730952free-soil movementThis movement did not oppose slavery in the South, but they did not want the Western states to allow slavery. (p. 247)0
5769730953Free-Soil partyIn 1848, Northerns organized this party to advocate that the new Western states not allow slavery and provide free homesteads. Their slogan was, "free soil, free labor, free men". (p. 248)1
5769730954conscience WhigsWhigs that opposed slavery. (p. 248)2
5769730955barnburnersAntislavery Democrats, whose defection threatened to destroy the the Democratic party. (p 248)3
5769730956New England Emigrant Aid CompanyNorthern abolitionist and Free-Soilers set up this company to pay for the transportation of antislavery settlers to the Kansas Territory. They did this to shift the balance of power against slavery in this new territory. (p. 253)4
5769730957bleeding KansasAfter 1854, the conflicts between antislavery and proslavery forces exploded in the Kansas Territory. (p. 252)5
5769730958Pottawatomie CreekIn 1856, abolitionist John Brown and his sons attacked this proslavery farm settlement and killed five settlers. (p. 253)6
5769730959Lecompton constitutionIn 1857, President James Buchanan asked that Congress accept this document and admit Kansas as a slave state. Congress did not accept it. (p. 255)7
5769730960popular sovereigntyAround 1850, this term referred to the idea that each new territory could determine by vote whether or not to allow slavery would be allowed in that region. (p. 248)8
5769730961Lewis CassThis Democratic senator from Michigan, proposed popular sovereignty as the solution to the slavery question in the territories. (p. 248)9
5769730962Henry ClayHe proposed the Compromise of 1850. (p. 249)10
5769730963Zachary TaylorThe twelfth president of the United States from 1849 to 1850. He was a general and hero in the Mexican War. He was elected to the presidency in 1848, representing the Whig party. He died suddenly in 1850 and Millard Fillmore became the president. (p 248, 249)11
5769730964Compromise of 1850Henry Clay proposed and it was signed into law by President Millard Fillmore. It proposed: * Admit California to the Union as a free state * Divide the remainder of the Mexican Cession into New Mexico and Utah (popular sovereignty) * Give land in dispute between Texas and New Mexico to federal government in return for paying Texas' public debt of 10 million * Ban slave trade in D. C., but permit slaveholding * New Fugitive Slave Law to be enforced (p. 249)12
5769730965Stephen A. DouglasIn 1854, he devised the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which in effect overturned the Missouri Compromise, and allowed the South the opportunity to expand slavery. In 1858, he debated Abraham Lincoln in a famous series of seven debates in the campaign for the Illinois senate seat. He won the campaign for reelection to the Senate, but he alienated Southern Democrats. In 1860, he won the Democratic presidential nomination, but Southern Democrats nominated their own candidate, John Breckinridge. He was easily defeated by Abraham Lincoln in the presidential election that year. (p. 252, 256, 258)13
5769730966Millard FillmoreThe thirteenth president of the United States, serving from 1850 until 1853, and the last member of the Whig Party to hold that office. He was the second Vice President to become president upon the death of a sitting President, when he succeeded Zachary Taylor. As vice president he helped pass the Compromise of 1850. (p. 249, 255)14
5769730967Kansas-Nebraska ActThis 1854 act, sponsored by Senator Stephen A Douglas, would build a transcontinental railroad through the central United States. In order gain approval in the South, it would divide the Nebraska territory into Nebraska and Kansas and allow voting to decide whether to allow slavery. This increased regional tensions because it effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise, which had already determined that this area would not allow slavery. (p. 252)15
5769730968Crittenden compromiseIn the winter of 1860-1861, Senator John Crittenden proposed a constitutional amendment to appease the South. He proposed that slavery would be allowed in all areas south of the 36 30 line. The Republicans rejected the proposal because it would allow extension of slavery into the new territories. (p. 260)16
5769730969Franklin PierceThe fourteenth President of the United States from 1853 to 1857. A Democrat from New Hampshire, he was acceptable to Southern Democrats because he supported the Fugitive Slave Law. (p. 252)17
5769730970Know-Nothing partyThis political party started in the mid-1850s. Also known as the American party, they were mostly native-born Protestant Americans. Their core issue was opposition to Catholics and immigrants who were entering Northern cities in large numbers. (p. 254)18
5769730971Republican partyThis political party formed in 1854, in response to the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. It was composed of a coalition of Free-Soilers, antislavery Whigs, and Democrats. Although not abolitionist, it sought to block the spread of slavery in the territories. (p. 254)19
5769730972John C. FremontIn the presidential election of 1856, this California senator was the Republican nominee. The Republican platform called for no expansion of slavery, free homesteads, and a probusiness protective tariff. He lost the election to James Buchanan, but won 11 of the 16 free states, which foreshadowed the emergence of a powerful Republican party. (p. 255)20
5769730973James BuchananThe fifteenth President of the United States from 1857 to 1861. He tried to maintain a balance between proslavery and antislavery factions, but his moderate views angered radicals in both North and South, and he was unable to forestall the secession of South Carolina to December 20, 1860. During his term: "Bleeding Kansas" (1856), Caning of Senator Sumner (1856), Lecompton Constitution (1857), Dred Scott case (1857) (p. 255)21
5769730974election of 1860In this presidential election, the Republican candidate, Abraham Lincoln won. Lincoln won all the northern states, while John C. Breckinridge, a South Democrat, won all the southern states. The South felt like it no longer had a voice in national politics and a number of states soon seceded from the Union. (p. 258)22
5769730975sucessionThe election of Abraham Lincoln was the final event that caused the southern states to leave the Union. In December 1860, South Carolina voted unanimously to secede. Within the next six weeks Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas had all seceded. In February 1861, representatives of seven states met in Montgomery, Alabama to create the Confederate States of America. (p. 259)23
5769730976Fugitive Slave LawCongress passed a second version of this law in 1850. The law's chief purpose was to track down runaway slaves who had escaped to a Northern state, capture them, and return them to their Southern owners. Enforcement of the law in the North was sometimes opposed even though there were penalties for hiding a runaway slave or obstructing enforcement of the law. (p. 250)24
5769730977Underground RailroadA network of people who helped thousands of enslaved people escape to the North by providing transportation and hiding places. (p. 250)25
5769730978Harriet TubmanBorn a slave, she escaped to the North and became the most renowned conductor on the Underground Railroad, leading more than 300 slaves to freedom. (p. 250)26
5769730979Dred Scott v. SandfordAn 1857 Supreme Court case, in which Chief Justice Roger Taney ruled that African Americans (free or slave), were not citizens of the United States, that Congress could not exclude slavery from any federal territory, and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. The ruling delighted Southern Democrats and infuriated Northern Republicans. (p. 255)27
5769730980Roger TaneyHe was a Southern Democrat and chief justice of the Supreme Court during the Dred Scott v. Sandford case. (p. 255)28
5769730981Abraham LincolnHe was elected president of the United States in 1860. He was a Republican, who ran on a platform that appealed to those in the North and the West. It called for the exclusion of slavery in the new territories, a protective tariff for industry, free land for homesteaders, and a railroad to the Pacific. (p. 258)29
5769730982Lincoln-Douglas debatesIn 1858, Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln had seven debates in the campaign for the Illinois senate seat. Lincoln was not an abolitionist, but he attacked Douglas's seeming indifference to slavery as a moral issue. Although Lincoln lost the election to Douglas, he emerged as a national figure and leading contender for the Republican nomination for president. (p. 256)30
5769730983house-divided speechThe speech given by Abraham Lincoln when accepting the Republican nomination for the Illinois senate seat. He said, "This government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free". (p. 256)31
5769730984Freeport DoctrineDoctrine developed by Stephen Douglas that said slavery could not exist in a community if the local citizens did not pass laws (slave codes) maintaining it. This angered Southern Democrats. (p. 257)32
5769730985Sumner-Brooks incidentThis incident took place in 1856, when Congressman Preston Brooks severely beat Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner. The attack occurred in the Senate chamber, after Sumner gave a vitriolic speech, "The Crime Against Kansas". (p. 254)33
5769730986John BrownHe led his four sons and some former slaves, in an attack on the federal arsenal, called the Harpers Ferry raid. (p. 257)34
5769730987Harpers Ferry raidIn October 1859, John Brown led his four sons and some former slaves, in an attack on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry. His impractical plan was to obtain guns to arm Virginia's slaves, whom he hoped would rise up in a general revolt. He and six of his followers were captured and hanged. Southern whites saw the raid as proof of the north's true intentions - to use slave revolts to destroy the South. (p. 257)35
5769730988Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's CabinIn 1852, she wrote this influential book about the conflict between a slave named Tom, and a brutal white slave owner, Simon Legree. It caused a generation of Northerners and many Europeans to regard all slave owners as cruel and inhuman. Southerners believed it to be proof of Northern prejudice against the Southern way of life. (p. 250)36
5769730989Hinton R. Helper, Impending Crisis of the SouthIn 1857, he wrote this nonfiction book, that attacked slavery using statistics to demonstrate to fellow Southerners that slavery weakened the South's economy. Southern states banned the book, but it was widely read in the North. (p. 250)37
5769730990George Fitzhugh, Sociology of the SouthIn 1854, he wrote this proslavery book which argued that slavery was a positive good for slave and master alike. He was the boldest and most well known of proslavery authors. He questioned the principle of equal rights for unequal men and attacked the capitalist wage system as worse than slavery. (p. 251)38

AP US History Chapter 19 Flashcards

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7005848235Uncle Tom's CabinWritten by harriet beecher stowe in 1853 that highly influenced england's view on the American Deep South and slavery. a novel promoting abolition. intensified sectional conflict.0
7005848236The Impeding Crisis of the SouthWritten by Hinton R. Helper, non aristocratic white from North Carolina, hated both slavery and blacks, gave statistics that shareholding whites were the ones who suffered most from the millstone of slavery, didn't leave impression on poor whites who the book was addressed his message, banned1
7005848237New England Emigrant Aid CompanyA group that financed groups of Northern abolitionists who wanted move west into Kansas in order to assure it as a free states2
7005848238Lecompton ConstitutionSupported the existence of slavery in the proposed state and protected rights of slaveholders. It was rejected by Kansas, making Kansas an eventual free state3
7005848239Bleeding Kansas(1856) A series of violent fights between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in Kansas who had moved to Kansas to try to influence the decision of whether or not Kansas would a slave state or a free state4
7005848240Dred Scott v. StanfordAn 1856 Supreme Court case in which a slave; Dred Scott, sued unsuccessfully for his freedom because he had been taken to live in territories where slavery was illegal5
7005848241Panic of 1857Economic downturn caused by overspeculation of western lands, railroads, gold in California, grain. Mostly affected northerners, who called for higher tariffs and free homesteads6
7005848242Tariff of 1857Lowered duties on imports in response to a high Treasury surplus and pressure from Southern farmers7
7005848243Lincoln-Douglas Debates1858 Senate Debate, Lincoln forced Douglas to debate issue of slavery, Douglas supported pop-sovereignty, Lincoln asserted that slavery should not spread to territories, Lincoln emerged as strong Republican candidate8
7005848244Freeport QuestionIdea that any territory could ban slavery by simply refusing to pass laws supporting it9
7005848245Freeport DoctrineDoctrine developed by Stephen Douglas that said the exclusion of slavery in a territory could be determined popular sovereignty10
7005848246Harpers Ferry(JB), 1859 John Brown's scheme to invade the South with armed slaves, backed by sponsoring, northern abolitionists; seized the federal arsenal; Brown and remnants were caught by Robert E. Lee and the US Marines; Brown was hanged11
7005848247Constitutional Union partyAlso known as the "do-nothings" or "Old Gentlemen's" party; 1860 election; it was a middle of the road group that feared for the Union- consisted mostly of Whigs and Know-Nothings, met in Baltimore and nominated John Bell from Tennessee as candidate for presidency-the slogan for this candidate was "The Union, the Constitution, and the Enforcement of the laws."12
7005848248Confederate States of AmericaSouth Carolina, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Georgia13
7005848249Crittenden AmendmentsProposed legislation in 1860; final attempt to appease the South; new states north of the 36° 30' line could choose to be slave or free, southern states would always be slave; killed by Lincoln14
7005848250Harriet Beecher StoweAbolitionist, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin15
7005848251Henry Ward BeecherThis New York minister sent Beecher's Bibles - boxes of guns with bibles packed around them so you couldn't see the guns - to Kansas. His sister's name was Harriet.16
7005848252James Buchanan15th President17
7005848253Charles SumnerAbolitionist senator whose verbal attack on the South provoked a physical assault that severely injured him18
7005848254Preston S. BrooksSouth Carolina Congressman who beat up Charles Sumner for his speech19
7005848255Dred ScottA black slave, had lived with his master for 5 years in Illinois and Wisconsin Territory. Backed by interested abolitionists, he sued for freedom on the basis of his long residence on free soil. The ruling on the case was that He was a black slave and not a citizen, so he had no rights20
7005848256Roger B. TaneyChief Justice of the Supreme Court when Dred Scott decision was made21
7005848257Stephen A. DouglasSenator from Illinois who ran for president against Abraham Lincoln. Wrote the Kansas-Nebreaska Act and the Freeport Doctrine22
7005848258Abraham Lincoln16th President23
7005848259John Brown(FP) , Well-known abolitionist. used violence to stop slavery immediately, involved in the Pottawatomie Massacre, he ws tried, convicted of treason and hung... he became a martyr24
7005848260John C. BreckinridgeThe South's pro-slavery Democratic candidate in the election of 1860. Completed the split of the Democratic Party by being nominated.25
7005848261John Jordan CrittendenHe thought up and proposed the Crittenden Amendments designed to appease the South. These amendments were rejected by Lincoln and all hope of compromise was evaporated.26

AP US History Period 7 (1890-1945) Flashcards

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6393599057The Great DepressionThe deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the United States, the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors.0
6393599058Progressive EraA period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States, from the 1890s to 1920s.1
6393599059ProhibitionA nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933.2
6393599060Women's suffrageThe women's right to vote, granted by the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920).3
6393599067imperialistA policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.4
6393599068isolationismA category of foreign policies institutionalized by leaders who asserted that their nations' best interests were best served by keeping the affairs of other countries at a distance.5
6393599069Spanish-American WarA conflict fought between Spain and the United States in 1898. Hostilities began in the aftermath of sinking of the USS Maine in Havana harbor leading to American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.6
6393599071League of NationsAn intergovernmental organization founded on 10 January 1920 as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It lacked an armed force to enforce policy and was not joined by the United States.7
6393599072fascismAn authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.8
6393599073totalitarianismA political system where the state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible.9
6393599105Open Door PolicyThe policy that China should be open to trade with all of the major powers, and that all, including the United States, should have equal right to trade there. This was the official American position toward China as announced by Secretary of State John Hay in 1899.10
6393599107Eugene DebsProminent socialist leader (and five time presidential candidate) who founded the American Railroad Union and led the 1894 Pullman Strike11
6393599108Roosevelt CorollaryRoosevelt's 1904 extension of the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the United States has the right to protect its economic interests in South And Central America by using military force.12
6393599110Pure Food and Drug ActForbade the manufacture or sale of mislabeled or adulterated food or drugs, it gave the government broad powers to ensure the safety and efficacy of drugs in order to abolish the "patent" drug trade. Still in existence as the FDA.13
6393599111Teddy RooseveltTwenty-sixth president of the United States; he focused his efforts on trust busting, environment conservation, and strong foreign policy.14
6393599116Fourteen PointsThe war aims outlined by President Wilson in 1918, which he believed would promote lasting peace; called for self-determination, freedom of the seas, free trade, end to secret agreements, reduction of arms and a league of nations.15
6393599118Sedition ActA law passed by Congress in 1918 (during World War I) to make it illegal to say anything disloyal, profane, or abusive about the government or the war effort in WWI. Seen as a military necessity by some for effectively fighting in WWI.16
6393599123Herbert HooverRepublican president at the outset of the Great Depression. As a Republican, he believed that the federal government should not interfere in economic problems; the severity of the Great Depression forced his hand to provide some federal assistance to those in need, but he mostly left these efforts to the states.17
6393599124Smoot-Hawley TariffOne of Herbert Hoover's earliest efforts to protect the nation's farmers following the onset of the Great Depression. Tariff raised rates to an all-time high.18
6393599129William Jennings BryanUnited States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school (1860-1925).19
6393599130Woodrow Wilson(1856-1924) President of the United States (1913-1921) and the leading figure at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. He was unable to persuade the U.S. Congress to ratify the Treaty of Versailles or join the League of Nations.20

PERIOD 4 AP US HISTORY Flashcards

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5338271942War of 1812A war (1812-1814) between the United States and England which was trying to interfere with American trade with France.0
5338271943impressmentThe British practice of taking American sailors from American ships and forcing them into the British navy; a factor in the War of 1812.1
5338271944Treaty of GhentDecember 24, 1814 - Ended the War of 1812 and restored the status quo. For the most part, territory captured in the war was returned to the original owner.2
5338271945Hartford ConventionMeeting of Federalists near the end of the War of 1812 in which the party listed it's complaints against the ruling Republican Party.3
5338271946Louisiana PurchaseDoubled size of US, opened up land for expansion;4
5338271947Erie CanalCompleted in 1825, this water way connected New York City and Buffalo, New York. began era of new transportation5
5338271948Samuel F B MorseInvented the telegraph and Morse code6
5338271949Eli WhitneyCotton Gin7
5338271950The Lowell Systemtextile mill that employed young, unmarried women from local farms. The working conditions were harsh and lead to an 1830s strike and the beginning of the labor movement8
5338271951The Lowell girlsThe girls were hired to work in the textile mills because they had small hands9
5338271952Second bank of the United Statesa national bank overseen by the federal government. Congress had established the bank in 1816, giving it a 20 year charter.10
5338271953John CalhounFirst vice president during Jackson's presidency, Staunchly pro-slavery vice-president, engineering the Compromise of 1850 and helping further split the nations11
5338271954American SystemEconomic program advanced by Henry Clay that included support for a national bank, high tariffs, and internal improvements; emphasized strong role for federal government in the economy.12
5338271955James MonroeThe Missouri Compromise in 1821., the fifth President of the United States (1817-1825). acquisition of Florida (1819); the Missouri Compromise (1820), in which Missouri was declared a slave state; and the profession of the Monroe Doctrine (1823)13
5338271956Panic of 1819Economic panic caused by extensive speculation and a decline of Europena demand for American goods along with mismanagement within the Second Bank of the United States. Often cited as the end of the Era of Good Feelings.14
5338271957Missouri Compromise"Compromise of 1820" over the issue of slavery in Missouri. It was decided Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state and all states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South were slave states.15
5338271958Monroe DoctrineA statement of foreign policy which proclaimed that Europe should not interfere in affairs within the United States or in the development of other countries in the Western Hemisphere.16
5338271959Corrupt BargainRefers to the presidential election of 1824 in which Henry Clay, the Speaker of the House, convinced the House of Representatives to elect Adams rather than Jackson.17
5338271960John Quincy Adams6th president after Monroe18
5338271961Martin Van Burreneighth president, succeeded Jackson19
5338271962Spoils System"rotation in office;" Jackson felt that one should spend a single term in office and return to private citizenship, those who held power too long would become corrupt and political appointments made by new officials was essential for democracy. Jackson then appointed officials he favored20
5338271963South Carolina Ordinanceordinance of nullification that repudiated the federal tariff acts of 1828 and 1832o21
5338271964Nicholas BiddlePresident of the Second Bank of the United States; he struggled to keep the bank functioning when President Jackson tried to destroy it.22
5338271966Indian Removal Act (1830)Signed into law by President Andrew Jackson, strongly supported by the South whom was eager to gain access to the lands inhabited by the "Five Civilized Tribes." Though the act was intended to be voluntary removal, significant pressure was put onto the tribes' chiefs to vacate and led to the inevitable removal of most Indians from the states23
5338271967DeismA popular Enlightenment era belief that there is a God, but that God isn't involved in people's lives or in revealing truths to prophets.24
5338271968The Second Great Awakening(1790-1840s) a series of American religious revivals occurring throughout that eastern U.S.; these revivals encouraged a culture performing good deeds in exchange for salvation, and therefore became responsible for an upswing in prison reform, the temperance cause, the feminist movement, and abolitionism25
5338271969Temperance MovementAn organized campaign to eliminate alcohol consumption26

AP US History Period 4 Flashcards

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5347894915Federalistpolitical party created in the 1790s led by Alexander Hamilton, favored a stronger national government - Supported primarily by the bankers and moneyed interests0
5347894916Democratic-RepublicansPolitical party created in the 1790's - led by Thomas Jefferson - favored limited government and state rights - supported primarily by the "Common man"1
5347894917Election of 1800aka Revolution of 1800- election that led to a peaceful transfer of power from the Federalist party to the Democratic Republican Party2
5347894918Hartford Convention, 1814meeting of Federalists during the War of 1812 in which anti-war Federalist threatened to secede from the Union - generally viewed by some as treasonous and the Federalist Part began to die out3
5347894922Era of Good Feelingsthe decline of the Federalist Party and the end of the war of 1812 gave rise to a time of political cooperation - associated with the presidency of James Monroe4
5347894923Democratspolitical party that brought Andrew Jackson into office in 1829 - supported Jeffersonian ideas of limited government, drawing its support from the "common Man"5
5347894924Whig PartyPolitical Party created in 1834 as a coalition of anti-Jackson political leaders and dedicated to internal improvements funded by the national government6
5347894925Andrew JacksonLeader of the Democrats who became the seventh president of the US (1829-1837), known for his opposition to the 2nd Bank of the US, the Indian Removal Act, and opposition to nullification7
5347894926Henry ClayLeader of the Whig Party who proposed an "American System" to make the United States economically self-sufficient - worked to keep the Union together through political compromise8
5347894927South Carolina Nullification Crisis, 1832-1833After South Carolina declared the federal tariff null and void, President Jackson obtained a Force Bill to use military actions against South Carolina - ended with a compromise to lower tariffs over an extended time9
5347894929John C. CalhounSouth Carolina political leader who defended slavery as a positive good and advocated the doctrine of nullification, a policy in which state could nullify federal law10
5347894930Midnight JudgesFederalist judges appointed by John Adams between the time he lost the election of 1800 and the time he left office in March 180111
5347894931John MarshallAppointed to the Supreme Court by John Adams in 1801- served as a chief justice until 1835 - legal decisions gave the Supreme Court more power, strengthened the federal government, and protecting private property12
5347894932Cotton Beltsouthern region in US where most of the cotton is grown/deep - south area that stretched from South Carolina to Georgia to the new states in the southwest frontier - had the highest concentration of slaves13
5347894933Marbury v. Madison 1803Supreme Court that declared a section of Judiciary Act of 1789 unconstitutional and established the principle of judicial review14
5347894934Judicial ReviewThe power of the Supreme Court to review the constitutionality of laws passed by Congress15
5347894935McCulloch v. Maryland 1819Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of the BUS - Maryland did not have the right to tax the federal bank and John Marshall wrote, "The power to tax is the power to destroy."16
5347894936Gibbons v. Ogden 1824Supreme Court decision stating that the authority of Congress is absolute in matters of interstate commerce17
5347894937Market EconomyEconomic system based on the unregulated buying and selling of goods and services - Prices are determined by the forces of supply and demand18
5347894939Embargo Act 1807in order to pressure Britain and France to aspect neutral trading rights, Jefferson issued a government-order ban on international trade - went into effect in 1808 and closed down virtually all U.S. trade with Foreign nations19
5347894940American System 1815Henry Clay's proposal to make the U.S. Economically self-sufficient - called for protective tariffs, internal improvements at federal expense, the creation of a second Bank of the United States20
5347894941Panic of 1819Financial panic that began when the Second Bank of the US tightened credit and recalled government loans after the price of cotton dropped21
5347894942Debates over the tariff and internal improvementsNortherners generally favored higher tariffs and internal improvements at federal expense while Southerners generally opposed higher tariffs and internal improvements at federal expense22
5347894944Second Bank of the United States 1816Privately owned bank that operated as both a commercial and fiscal agent for the US government - established in 1816 under a charter that was supposed to last 20 years23
5347894945Tariff of 1816first protective tariff in US history - designed primarily to help America's textile industry24
5347894946Tariff of Abominations 1828tariff with such high rates that it set off tension between northerners and southerners over tariff issues25
5347894947Panic of 1837Economic collapse caused primarily by President Jackson's destruction of the Second Bank of the United States26
5347894948Southern Defense of Slaverysoutherners 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 labor27
5347894949Slave CodesLaws that established the status of slaves denying them basic rights and classifying them as the property of slaveholders28
5347894951Second Great Awakeningan upsurge in religious activity that began around 1800 and was characterized by emotional revival meetings - led to several reform movements designed to make a life better in this world29
5347894952Charles FinneyPresbyterian 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 Americans30
5347894953Seneca Falls Convention 1848the first convention in America for women right's held in NY31
5347894954Elizabeth Cady StantonAdvocate of women right's, including the right to vote -organized (with Lucretia Mott) the first women's rights convention at Seneca Falls, NY32
5347894956Dorothea DixPioneer in the moment for special treatment for the mentally ill33
5347894957Horace MannMassachusetts educator who called for publicly funded education for all children34
5347894958Utopian CommunitiesIdealistic reform movement based on the belief that a perfect society could be created on Earth - Significant Utopian experiments were established at New Harmony, Indiana, Book Farm, Massachusetts and Oneida Community in New York35
5347894959James FortenAfrican American businessman from Philadelphia who advocated racial integration and equal rights during the Jeffersonian era36
5347894960American Colonization Society 1817Organization established to end slavery gradually by helping individual slave owners liberate their slaves and then transport the freed slaves to Africa37
5347894961William Lloyd GarrisonRadical abolitionist in Massachusetts who published the liberator, an antislavery newspaper38
5347894962Sojourner TruthFormer Slave (freed in 1827) who became a leading abolitionist and feminist39
5347894965Frederick DouglassFormer slave who became a significant leader in the abolitionist movement - Known for his great oratorical skills40
5347894966NeoclassicismRevival in architecture and art in the late 1700s and early 1800s that was inspired by Greek and Roman Models41
5347894967Hudson River School 1825-1875The first native school of painting in the US - Attracting artists who were rebelling against neoclassicism - painted primarily landscapes42
5347894968TranscendentalismPhilosophical and literary movement that believed God existed within human being and nature - believed intuition was the highest source of knowledge43
5347894969Ralph Waldo EmersonPhilosopher, writer, and poet who became a central figure in American Transcendentalist44
5347894970Henry David ThoreauWriter and naturalist - With Ralph Waldo Emerson, he became America's best known transcendentalist45
5347894971John James AudubonNaturalist and painter who became well-known for his attempt to document all types of American birds46
5347894972Richard AllenAfrican American minister who established the first independent African American denomination in the US, the African Methodist Episcopalian Church47
5347894974Slave musicMusic created by slaves for the purpose of religion, work and recreation - became the foundation for later styles of music known as gospel, jazz, and blues48
5347894975Samuel Slaterknown as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution," - brought British textile technology to the United States49
5347894977John DeereInvented the steel plow in 1837, which revolutionized farming - the steel plow broke up soil without the soil getting stuck to the plow50
5347894978Lowell systemmethod of factory management that evolved in the textile mills of Lowell, MA, - owned by the Boston Manufacturing Company and named in honor of the company's founder, Francis Lowell - first example of a planned automated factory51
5347894980Anthracite coal miningCoal mines in PA produced anthracite, which became the most popular fuel for heating homes in the northern United States until the 1950s when it was replaced by oil and gas burning heating systems52
5347894981Interchangeable partsParts that were identical and which could be substituted for one another - developed by Eli Whitney for the manufacturing of muskets53
5347894982Erie Canal 1817-1825350 mile canal built by the state of NY that stretched from Buffalo to Albany, the canal revolutionized shipping in NY54
5347894983TurnpikesA road in which tolls were collected at gates set up along the road55
5347894984National Road 1811aka Cumberland Road- First significant road built in the US at the expense of the federal government - stretched from the Potomac River to the Ohio River56
5347894985Baltimore and Ohio RailroadFirst steam railroad commissioned in the US57
5347894986Mason-Dixon Lineboundary between PA and MD that marked the division between free and slave states before the Civil War58
5347894987Cult of Domesticitythe belief that a woman's proper role in life was found in Domestic pursuits (raising children, taking care of the house)59
5347894990Destruction of the Second Bank of the United States 1833President Jackson, who thought the Bank of the U.S. represented special interests at the expense of the common man, ordered federal deposits placed in state banks ("pet" banks) to deplete the funds of the national bank60
5347894991Louisiana Purchase 1803U.S. purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, doubling the size of the U.S. and giving the U.S. full control of the Mississippi River61
5347894992Lewis and Clark expedition 1804-1806Expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark62
5347894993War HawksMembers of Congress from the West and South elected in 1810 who wanted war with Britain in the hopes of annexing new territory and ending British trade with the Indians of the Northwest63
5347894994War of 18121812-1815, War between the U.S. and Great Britain caused primarily by the British violation of American neutral rights on the high seas. - ended with an agreement of "status quo ante" (a return to how things were before the war)64
5347894995Adams-Onis Treaty, 1819Treaty between the U.S. and Spain that ceded Florida to the U.S65
5347894996Monroe Doctrine 1823President Monroe's unilateral declaration that the Americas would be closed to further European colonization stated the U.S. would not allow European interference in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere66
5347894999Annexation of Texas 1845Through a joint resolution of Congress, the U.S. annexed and granted statehood to the Republic of Texas, an independent nation that had won its independence from Mexico in 183667
5347895000Oregon Treaty 1846after years of conflict over ownership of the Pacific Northwest, the U.S. and England established the boundary at 49° latitude68
5347895001Manifest DestinyBelief that the U.S. was destined to expand across the North American continent69
5347895002Mexican- American War 1846-48War caused by a territorial dispute between the U.S. and Mexico that led to Mexico ceding land to the U.S.70
5347895003Mexican Cession, 1848The region of the present-day southwestern United States that Mexico ceded to the U.S. in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo71
5347895004Chinese tradeIn 1844 the US secured a treaty with China that gave the US trading privileges already enjoyed by many other foreign powers72
5347895005TecumsehShawnee leader who established an Indian confederacy that he hoped would be a barrier to white expansion - Defeated at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811 by U.S. forces led by General William Henry Harrison73
5347895006Indian Removal Act, 1830Law that provided for the removal of all Indian tribes east of the Mississippi and the purchase of Indian lands for resettlement74
5347895008Worcester v. Georgia 1832A Supreme Court ruling that declared a state did not have the power to enforce laws on lands that were not under state jurisdiction - John Marshall wrote that the state of Georgia did not have the power to remove Indians75
5347895009Trail of Tears 1838Forced march of the Cherokee people from Georgia to Indian Territory in the winter76
5347895010Seminole Wars 1814-1819, 1835-1842The Seminole of Florida opposed removal and resisted US troops77
5347895012Missouri Compromise 1820Law proposed by Henry Clay admitting Missouri to the U.S. as a slave state and Maine as a free state78
5347895014American Anti-Slavery SocietyAbolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison - included Frederick Douglass as a significant leader of the society79

ap US history period 3 Flashcards

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7684589201Washington's farewell addressWarns against sectionalism and foreign affairs, wants everyone to stay strong as a nation. Encourages things written by Hamilton0
7684589202Thomas PaineAmerican Revolutionary leader and pamphleteer (born in England) who supported the American colonist's fight for independence and supported the French Revolution (1737-1809)1
7684589203ConstitutionA document which spells out the principles by which a government runs and the fundamental laws that govern a society2
7684589204federalismA system of government in which power is distributed among certain geographical territories rather than concentrated within a central government.3
7684589205French RevolutionThe revolution that began in 1789, overthrew the absolute monarchy of the Bourbons and the system of aristocratic privileges, and ended with Napoleon's overthrow of the Directory and seizure of power in 1799.4
7684589206republican governmentSystem of government in which power is held by the voters and is exercised by elected representatives responsible for promoting the common welfare.5
7684589207legislative branchBranch of government that makes the laws6
7684589208separation of powersConstitutional division of powers among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches, with the legislative branch making law, the executive applying and enforcing the law, and the judiciary interpreting the law7
7684589209ratification processthe ratification of the Constitution required only nine of the thirteen states (not unanimity, like the Articles of Confederation)8
7684589210Seven Year' WarA war between New France and the British. The reason this war started was because New England wasn't allowed to cross the Allegheny mountains and this made them mad. Also there were small fights at the border but other than those two things there countries were supposed to be at peace.9
7684589211loyalistAmerican colonists who remained loyal to Britain and opposed the war for independence.10
7684589212George Washington1st President of the United States; commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution (1732-1799)11
7684589213natural rightsthe idea that all humans are born with rights, which include the right to life, liberty, and property12
7684589214American RevolutionThis political revolution began with the Declaration of Independence in 1776 where American colonists sought to balance the power between government and the people and protect the rights of citizens in a democracy.13
7684589215Northwest OrdinanceEnacted in 1787, it is considered one of the most significant achievements of the Articles of Confederation. It established a system for setting up governments in the western territories so they could eventually join the Union on an equal footing with the original 13 states14
7684589216Albany CongressA conference in the United States Colonial history form June 19 through July 11, 1754 in Albany New York. It advocated a union of the British colonies for their security and defense against French Held by the British Board of Trade to help cement the loyalty of the Iroquois League. After receiving presents, provisions and promises of Redress of grievances. 150 representatives if tribes withdrew without committing themselves to the British cause.15
7684589217Paris Peace, 1763ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France, as well as their respective allies. In the terms of the treaty, France gave up all its territories in mainland North America, effectively ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies there16
7684589218Pontiac1763 - An Indian uprising after the French and Indian War, led by an Ottowa chief named Pontiac. They opposed British expansion into the western Ohio Valley and began destroying British forts in the area. The attacks ended when Pontiac was killed.17
7684589219Proclamation of 1763A proclamation from the British government which forbade British colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains, and which required any settlers already living west of the mountains to move back east.18
7684589220mercantilismEconomic policy common to many absolute monarchies. Government control of foreign trade is of paramount importance for ensuring the military security of the country. In particular, it demands a positive balance of trade and desires new sources of gold and silver bullion, thus fueling more colonialism.19
7684589221Quartering Act, 1765Was an act enforced by the British on their North American colonies. It required colonist to provide adequate housing and basic necessities like food and drink to British soldiers.20
7684589222Stamp Act, 1765Direct tax imposed on the colonists by Parliament which increased the money colonists paid on printed goods. Purpose was to pay for British soldiers stationed in North America after the French and Indian War. Protests against this tax often turned violent, intimidating the tax collectors, so it was never efficiently collected.21
7684589223Sons/Daughter of LibertyA radical political organization for colonial independence which formed in 1765 after the passage of the Stamp Act. They incited riots and burned the customs houses where the stamped British paper was kept. After the repeal of the Stamp Act, many of the local chapters formed the Committees of Correspondence which continued to promote opposition to British policies towards the colonies. The Sons leaders included Samuel Adams and Paul Revere.22
7684589224Declaratory ActAct passed in 1766 after the repeal of the stamp act; stated that Parliament had authority over the colonies and the right to tax and pass legislation "in all cases whatsoever."23
7684589225Boston MassacreThe first bloodshed of the American Revolution (1770), as British guards at the Boston Customs House opened fire on a crowd killing five Americans24
7684589226Committee Correspondenceshadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution.25
7684589227Intolerable Actsin response to Boston Tea Party, 4 acts passed in 1774, Port of Boston closed, reduced power of assemblies in colonies, permitted royal officers to be tried elsewhere, provided for quartering of troop's in barns and empty houses26
7684589228First Continental CongressThe First Continental Congress convened on September 5, 1774, to protest the Intolerable Acts. The congress endorsed the Suffolk Resolves, voted for a boycott of British imports, and sent a petition to King George III, conceding to Parliament the power of regulation of commerce but stringently objecting to its arbitrary taxation and unfair judicial system.27
7684589229Second Continental CongressConvened in May 1775, the Congress opposed the drastic move toward complete independence from Britain. In an effort to reach a reconciliation, the Congress offered peace under the conditions that there be a cease-fire in Boston, that the Coercive Acts be repealed, and that negotiations begin immediately. King George III rejected the petition.28
7684589230Lexington and ConcordApril 8, 1775: Gage leads 700 soldiers to confiscate colonial weapons and arrest Adam, and Hancock; April 19, 1775: 70 armed militia face British at Lexington (shot heard around the world); British retreat to Boston, suffer nearly 300 casualties along the way (concord)29
7684589231Common Sense1776: a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that claimed the colonies had a right to be an independent nation30
7684589232Loyalist and patriotsloyalist: American colonists who remained loyal to Britain and opposed the war for independence. Patriots: American colonists who were determined to fight the British until American independence was won31
7684589233SaratogaA battle that took place in New York where the Continental Army defeated the British. It proved to be the turning point of the war. This battle ultimately had France to openly support the colonies with military forces in addition to the supplies and money already being sent.32
7684589234Treaty of Paris, 1783agreement signed by British and American leaders that stated the United States of America was a free and independent country33
7684589235state constitutionsStates wrote a new constitution to replace their colonial charters after they declared independence. Most called for bicameral legislature and a governor (usually one year term for elected officials). You had to own property or pay a certain amount of tax to vote. Individual liberties protected people (including freedom of religion), but did not separate church and state.34
7684589236Articles of Confederation1st Constitution of the U.S. 1781-1788 (weaknesses-no executive, no judicial, no power to tax, no power to regulate trade)35
7684589238Northwest Ordinance 1787A major success of the Articles of Confederation. Set up the framework of a government for the Northwest territory. The Ordinance provided that the Territory would be divided into 3 to 5 states, outlawed slavery in the Territory, and set 60,000 as the minimum population for statehood36
7684589239Shays' RebellionRebellion led by Daniel Shays of farmers in western Massachusetts in 1786-1787, protesting mortgage foreclosures. It highlighted the need for a strong national government just as the call for the Constitutional Convention went out.37
7684589240Virginia Plan"Large state" proposal for the new constitution, calling for proportional representation in both houses of a bicameral Congress. The plan favored larger states and thus prompted smaller states to come back with their own plan for apportioning representation.38
7684589241New Jersey PlanNew Jersey delegate William Paterson's plan of government, in which states got an equal number of representatives in Congress39
7684589242Great Compromise1787; This compromise was between the large and small states of the colonies. The Great Compromise resolved that there would be representation by population in the House of Representatives, and equal representation would exist in the Senate. Each state, regardless of size, would have 2 senators. All tax bills and revenues would originate in the House. This compromise combined the needs of both large and small states and formed a fair and sensible resolution to their problems.40
7684589243Three-fifths CompromiseAgreement that each slave counted as three-fifths of a person in determining representation in the House for representation and taxation purposes (negated by the 13th amendment)41
7684589244Electoral CollegeA certain number of electors from each state proportional to and seemingly representative of that state's population. each elector chooses a candidate believing they are representing their constituency's choice. The candidate who receives a higher proportion of electoral votes within a state receives all the electoral votes for that state.42
7684589245CabinetAdvisory council for the president consisting of the heads of the executive departments, the vice president, and a few other officials selected by the president.43
7684589246Bill of RightsAlthough the Anti-Federalists failed to block the ratification of the Constitution, they did ensure that the Bill of Rights would be created to protect individuals from government interference and possible tyranny. The Bill of Rights, drafted by a group led by James Madison, consisted of the first ten amendments to the Constitution, which guaranteed the civil rights of American citizens.44
7684589247Bank of the United StatesProposed by Alexander Hamilton as the basis of his economic plan. He proposed a powerful private institution, in which the government was the major stockholder. This would be a way to collect and amass the various taxes collected. It would also provide a strong and stable national currency. Jefferson vehemently opposed the bank; he thought it was un-constitutional. nevertheless, it was created. This issue brought about the issue of implied powers. It also helped start political parties, this being one of the major issues of the day.45
7684589248strict/loose interpretationstrict interpretation: whatever is not mentioned specifically in the Constitution cannot be done loose interpretation: A broad way of interpreting the Constitution that allows the Federal Government to take actions that the Constitution doesn't forbid it from taking. Favored by Alexander Hamilton as a way of creating the National Bank.46
7684589249implied powersPowers not specifically mentioned in the constitution47
7684589250Whiskey RebellionIn 1794, farmers in Pennsylvania rebelled against Hamilton's excise tax on whiskey, and several federal officers were killed in the riots caused by their attempts to serve arrest warrants on the offenders. In October, 1794, the army, led by Washington, put down the rebellion. The incident showed that the new government under the Constitution could react swiftly and effectively to such a problem, in contrast to the inability of the government under the Articles of Confederation to deal with Shay's Rebellion.48
7684589251Jay's Treaty, 1794Treaty signed in 1794 between the U.S. And Britain in which Britain sought to improve trade relations and agreed to withdraw from forts in the northwest territory49
7684589252Pinckney's Treaty, 1795Gave Americans free navigation of the Mississippi and trade at New Orleans50
7684589253Farewell Address, 17961796 speech by Washington urging US to maintain neutrality and avoid permanent alliances with European nations51
7684589254XYZ Affair1798 - A commission had been sent to France in 1797 to discuss the disputes that had arisen out of the U.S.'s refusal to honor the Franco-American Treaty of 1778. President Adams had also criticized the French Revolution, so France began to break off relations with the U.S. Adams sent delegates to meet with French foreign minister Talleyrand in the hopes of working things out. Talleyrand's three agents told the American delegates that they could meet with Talleyrand only in exchange for a very large bribe. The Americans did not pay the bribe, and in 1798 Adams made the incident public, substituting the letters "X, Y and Z" for the names of the three French agents in his report to Congress.52

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