AP US History Flashcards
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7963490581 | suffrage | the right to vote in political elections | 0 | |
7963492747 | andrew jackson | general and political leader, war of 1812, he defeated british in battle of new orleans | 1 | |
7963495523 | whigs | members of the british reforming and constitutional party that sought supremacy of parliament | 2 | |
7963501143 | second national bank | second federally authorized hamiltonian national bank in the u.s | 3 | |
7963506042 | tariff of abominations | protective tariff passed by the congress of the u.s | 4 | |
7963511509 | second great awakening | protestant religious revival during early 19th century | 5 | |
7963515177 | romanticism | movement in the arts and literature that originted in the late 18th century | 6 | |
7963521131 | temperance | abstinence from alcoholic drink | 7 | |
7963527484 | seneca falls convention | first women's rights convention | 8 | |
7963529654 | marbury vs. madison | a case decided by the supreme court under chief justice john marshall | 9 | |
7963532938 | jacksonian democrats | movement for more democracy | 10 | |
7963534882 | henry clay | whig political leader known for his efforts to keep the u.s one nation despite controversy over slavery | 11 | |
7963544576 | internal improvements | term used historically in the u.s for public works | 12 | |
7963550426 | market revolution | historical models which argues that there was a drastic change of the economy | 13 | |
7963552749 | utopian movements | imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable quantities for its citizens | 14 | |
7963558165 | perfectionism | refusal to accept any standard sort of perfection | 15 | |
7963561766 | gradual emancipation | one of the first attempts by a gov't in the u.s to begin abolition of slavery | 16 | |
7963566150 | john marshall | american politician | 17 | |
7963570538 | william lloyd garrison | prominent american abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer | 18 | |
7963573867 | henry david thoreau | american essayist, poet, philosopher, and historian | 19 | |
7963578069 | frederick douglass | abolitionist | 20 | |
7963580126 | joseph smith | religious leader who founded mormon church | 21 | |
7963589566 | interchangeable parts | made to specifications that ensure that they are so nearly identical that they will fit into any assembly of the same type | 22 | |
7963601662 | american system | he policy of promoting industry in the U.S. by adoption of a high protective tariff | 23 | |
7963603858 | lowell girls | young female workers who came to work in industrial corporations in Lowell | 24 | |
7963603859 | separate spheres | public dichotomy is an ideology | 25 | |
7963603860 | cotton gin | a machine for separating cotton from its seeds | 26 | |
7963605754 | erie canal | canal in New York | 27 | |
7963655096 | louisiana purchase | acquisition of the Louisiana territory | 28 | |
7963658135 | missouri compromise | settlement of a dispute between slave and free states | 29 | |
7963658136 | indian removal act | law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Indian tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their lands | 30 | |
7963658137 | monroe doctrine | originated by President James Monroe in 1823, that any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the US | 31 | |
7963660533 | trail of tears | route along which the United States government forced several tribes of Native Americans to migrate to reservations west of the Mississippi River | 32 |