AP US History Exam Flashcards
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| 5918256449 | Samuel Slater | "Father of the factory system". Started a mill and this began child labor. | 0 | |
| 5918265312 | Eli Whitney | invented the cotton gin | 1 | |
| 5918267483 | Elias Howe | created the sewing machine in 1886 | 2 | |
| 5918269690 | Samuel F B Morse | created the telegraph and morse code | 3 | |
| 5918286176 | Robert Fulton | invented steam engine put it on a vessel called the Clermont and it changed water transportation | 4 | |
| 5918272949 | Know-nothings | aka. american party. 1844-1860. strongly opposed immigrants and people of the Catholic religion. | 5 | |
| 5918293773 | Erie Canal | dug by New yorkers. connected Great Lakes with the Hudson River. | 6 | |
| 5918298685 | Charles Finney | one of the greatest revival preachers. encouraged women to pray aloud and helped along the SGA. influenced people with his old-time teachings that were modern and innovative. feminism was also stronger due to him. | 7 | |
| 5918309799 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott | two powerful women that fought for civil and women's rights | 8 | |
| 5918321505 | "Cotton King" (Cotton Kingdom) | cotton made demand for slaves increase. cotton boomed for a long time in the South. | 9 | |
| 5918327051 | American Colonization Society | founded in 1817. main purpose was to transport the blacks back to Africa. | 10 | |
| 5918335990 | John Tyler | president following Harrison after he died of pneumonia. he had 'no political party'. not well-liked by most Americans. | 11 | |
| 5918345242 | Henry Clay | kept being beaten by other presidential candidates. he did all he could to use his politics to his advantage and use the government to get what he wanted out of it. | 12 | |
| 5918357447 | James K. Polk | beat Henry Clay by a small amount. america's first "dark horse" or "surprise" presidential candidate. | 13 | |
| 5918371478 | Federalists | 1791-1816. Platform: strong central government | 14 | |
| 5918376164 | Anti-Federalists | 1788-1800. Platform: power in the states, not the central government. | 15 | |
| 5918383420 | Democratic-Republicans | 1799-1828. Platform: opposed the policies of the Federalist Party. | 16 | |
| 5918388644 | Whigs | 1680-1850. Platform: no absolute monarchy. | 17 | |
| 5918394173 | Liberty Party | 1840-1848. Platform: Anti-slavery. | 18 | |
| 5918423849 | Free Soil | 1848-1858. Platform: Followed Liberty Party (Anti-slavery). | 19 | |
| 5920556488 | Andrew Jackson | President of the United States, elected in 1828. Redneck "Old Hickory" made common people feel listened to and represented. | 20 | |
| 5920565527 | John Q Adams | Lost 1828 election to Jackson. Reminded people of a pompous monarch. People believed he bribed Henry Clay with the position of Secretary of State. | 21 | |
| 5920588532 | Sequoyah | Cherokee Indian who devised a Cherokee alphabet | 22 | |
| 5920592283 | Trail of Tears | Jackson demanded a bodily removal of all remaining eastern tribes beyond the Mississippi. Uprooted more than 100,000 indians | 23 | |
| 5920610464 | Santa Anna | Mexican dictator (much of the problem between Texas/US and Mexico) | 24 | |
| 5920619385 | Texas Revolution | 1836. Texans were sick of having no rights so they declared their own independence and they fought with Mexicans. (Alamo). | 25 | |
| 5920636987 | Hartford Convention | late 1814. Some states from New England came together to discuss the Federalist grievances and how to resolve issues. The convention kept Federalists from rebelling and getting too angry. | 26 | |
| 5920653540 | Henry Clay's American System | strong banking system, a protective tariff, and a network of roads and canals. | 27 | |
| 5920661391 | Treaty of Ghent | 5 American peacemakers met with British envoys in Ghent during 1814, it wasn't easy but they signed a treaty that stated they would stop arguing and restore conquered territory. | 28 | |
| 5920677513 | James Monroe | Elected president in 1816, which crushed the dying-out Federalists. Helped Americans feel good and increased nationalism, but he was not the most distinguished of the first 8 presidents. | 29 | |
| 5920689879 | Missouri Compromise | Congress admitted Missouri as a slave state and free-soil Maine was admitted as a separate state from Massachusetts. | 30 | |
| 5920726669 | Irish and German Immigration | increased urban population=intensified smelly slums, bad policing, bad water, rats, and foul sewage. Gave American new culture changes. Most immigrants found America really nice with "three meals a day", freedom, low taxes, etc. | 31 | |
| 5920752089 | Early Industrialism | Slaves weren't as needed with the cotton gin, women weren't as needed for their sewing because of the sewing machines, children worked at very young ages, and farmers got machinery that simplified and quickened things. | 32 | |
| 5920767238 | America slow to embrace Industrialism | Britain already had a monopoly on textile machinery. Had a hard time producing high-quality products at a cheap cost to compete with Europe. Many people owned land which kept them away from factory working. | 33 | |
| 5920783957 | Transportation and Communication created 1790-1860 | Steamboat (Robert Fulton). Erie Canal (Governor DeWitt Clinton). Telegraph (Samuel Morse). | 34 | |
| 5920813932 | Famous Literature Writers/Poets | Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, James Fenimore Cooper, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, and Herman Mellville | 35 | |
| 5920826236 | Thomas Paine | Wrote the pamphlets and supported Deism in his book The Book of Reason | 36 | |
| 5920835446 | Sugar Act | taxed foreign sugar imported from West Indies. 1764. | 37 | |
| 5920844087 | Stamp Act | taxed legal and commercial documents (marriage licenses, bills of sale, newspapers, playing cards, pamphlets, etc). 1765. | 38 | |
| 5920856526 | George Grenville | Prime Minister of Great Britain (imposed taxes and things on colonists). | 39 | |
| 5920863037 | Sons and Daughters of Liberty | protested and took laws into their own hands. broke down stamp machine and ransacked officials houses. Their actions ignited the Repeal of the Stamp Act | 40 | |
| 5920872418 | Tea Act | Townshend imposed this in 1767. colonists did not take well to it at all. | 41 | |
| 5920882820 | Declaratory Act | Britain's way of keeping control over the colonies. Allowed Parliament to "bind" colonies whenever they felt necessary. | 42 | |
| 5920893848 | Townshend Duties | 1767. Charles Townshend imposed duties on lead, paper, tea, and glass. Upset colonists even more. | 43 | |
| 5920899834 | Boston Massacre | about a 100 Bostonians dressed as Indians snuck onto British ships, throwing the barrels of tea overboard and smashing them. Result was the Intolerable Acts | 44 | |
| 5920913093 | Intolerable Acts | made to chastise Boston, Massachusetts. (Quartering Act, Boston Port Act, officials guilty of killing colonists got to return to Britain for trial, and restrictions on town meetings). | 45 | |
| 5920931855 | First Continental Congress | 1774. Philadelphia summoned this congress so they could discuss resolutions to colonial grievances. Seven weeks long. Created the Association (complete boycott of British goods). | 46 | |
| 5920945938 | Second Continental Congress | Members from each colony came on one day in Philadelphia. Drafted appeals that were rejected. They decided to raise money to form their own army and navy. They put George Washington as the head. (Spearheaded American Revolution). | 47 | |
| 5920960292 | Lexington and Concord | 1775. twenty thousand armed "Minute Men" swarmed around Boston. The battle is very famous, there was a lot of bloodshed. | 48 | |
| 5920971608 | Bunker Hill | 1775. American army seized this hill that stored a lot of gunpowder and artillery. Britain fought back and America held their own for a while. When the gunpowder ran out, they had to abandon the hill. | 49 | |
| 5920995385 | Paine's Common Sense | 1776. one of the most influential pamphlets ever written. justified separation from Britain by using common sense. His main point was "Why should tiny Britain control a country as vast as America?" | 50 | |
| 5921069676 | Saratoga | colonists beat Britain and allowed for Americans to fall on France as an ally. | 51 | |
| 5921083157 | Yorktown | French and Americans armies allied together to defeat some of the British troops in Yorktown. | 52 | |
| 5921086447 | Treaty of Paris | 1783. Ben Franklin, John Adams, and John Lay wrote up this treaty. Britain formally acknowledged the independence of America. The signing of this meant America was fully free from Britain. | 53 | |
| 5921113913 | Articles of Confederation | written in 1781. altered in 1789. original constitution of America. set the stage for the newly free America. | 54 | |
| 5921156973 | Bacon's Rebellion | 1676. Nathaniel Bacon and his following group of freemen got angry at William Berkeley (governor of Virginia) for treating the Indians so well. Thousands of the freemen broke out into a murderous rampage, killing many Indians. | 55 | |
| 5921156974 | Middle Passage | began in the 1500s. it was a long and dangerous transatlantic sea voyage that brought slaves to the New World. | 56 |