AP US History

AP US with Sloan at Pueblo West High School

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Federalists

The party was formed by Alexander Hamilton who had a lose interpretation of the constitution.

anti federalists

Jefferson believed in strict construction, Jackson was an anti federalist and opposed the national bank

Democratic Republican

Jefferson was the first democratic republican

Democratic

all citizens have a say

Whigs

political party which opposed Andrew Jackson

No nothing Party

a nativist group which opposed immigrant groups

Free Soil

opposing the expansion of slavery

1824

John Quincy Adams; the previous years had seen a one party government.

1796

Adams B. Jefferson, Jefferson became the vice president of Adams

1800

Jefferson beats adams, end of federalist party.

Marbury vs Madison

Judicial review,

Amistad

was aUnited States Supreme Court case resulting from the rebellion of slaves on board the Spanish schooner Amistad in 1839.

Dred Scott V. Sanford

people of African descent imported into the United States and held as slaves whether or not they were slaves were not protected by the Constitution and could never be U.S. citizens.

Plessy Vs. Fergusson

Seperate but equal

McCulloch V. Maryland

reinforced implied powers and states cant impede the federal government.

Gibbons V. Ogden

Constitution gives congress the right to regulate interstate commerce.

Dartmouth College V. Woodward

applied contract clause to corporate

Cherokee Nation V Georgia

there was no original jurisdiction because they were independent.

Charles River Bridge

obligation of contract

Original colonies

east coast of US, territory of Britain

36 30 line

the line drawn for the Missouri compromise

54 4o line

a dispute over territory in Oregon caused fight slogans like "54 40 or fight!" Americans believed the territory was their right because of manifest destiny.

49th parallel

Its use as the international border is a result of the Anglo-American Convention of 1818 and the Oregon Treaty of 1846.

Texas

gained from Mexico

Mexican cession

gained from Guadalupe Hidalgo

Oregon

trappers wanted beaver fur

Mississippi River

opens trade

new orleans

final battle of the war of 1812

louisiana purchase

thomas jefferson, expanded size of US

Florida

gained from the treaty of paris

appalachian mountains

proclamation line of 1763

Rocky Mountains

feature of the Oregon trail

national road

first major highway

Columbia river

hydraulic energy

albany plan of the union

proposed by Benjamin Franklin at the Albany congress of representatives. states join or die

Second Great Awakening

100 years after the first, influenced women to move forward with the abolition of slavery.

John Brown's Raid

an attempt by white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt by seizing a United States Arsenal at Harpers Ferry in Virginia

Peculiar Institution

a euphemism for slavery

Anne Hutchinson

Banished and sent to Rhode Island, Puritan

XYZ affair

Adams strain between US and France

Aaron Burr

Was in a duel with Hamilton, killed Hamilton

Peggy Eaton Affair

A wife of one of Jackson's advisers a strain in the jackson administration.

Boston Massacre

First clash of the American Revolution

Whiskey Ring

government

Tweed Ring

Tamney Hall

credit mobiler

scandal during Grant administration involving railroad

impeachment of johnson

1868 after he replaced secretary of war

bloomers

women's garment

seneca falls

deceleration of sentiments. of rights of men and women

Panics of 1819,1837, 1873

domestic responses to economic crisis

Great Awakening

1700s religious revival edwards and whitefield

Boston Tea Party

led by sam adams, sons of liberty

popular Sovereignty

In Kansas, vote to be free or slave

Spoils System

Jackson

the alamo

was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution.All but two of the Texian defenders were killed.

Mexican -American War

The Mexican–American War was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas

Civil War

a sectional war between the states after the cession of south carolina.

shay's rebellion

mistreated veterans of the revolitionary war

Barbary

pirates from north africa of the barbary coast

War of 1812

desire of US expansion between US and Britain

Nullification Crisis

States wanted to declare states unconstitutional

Lexington and Concord

the first military engagements of the revolutionary war

Trenton-Princeton

two related entanglements of the revolutionary war

Saratoga

decided the fate of the British in the Revolutionary war

Yorktown

decisive victory for the US

Detroit

an early battle of the war of 1812

Washington D.C.

The British Army occupied Washington, D.C. and set fire to many public buildings

New Orleans

final major battle of war of 1812

Vera Cruz

a 20-day siege of the key Mexican seaport of Veracruz, during the Mexican-American War.

Mexico City

capital of mexico

Bull Run

first major battle of the civil war

Antietam

was another first major battle of the civil war

Shiloh

P. G. T. Beauregard launched a surprise attack on Grant there. The Confederates achieved considerable success on the first day, but were ultimately defeated on the second day.

Gettysburg

largest number of casualties in the civil war in one day

Vicksburg

was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War.

Salutary Neglect

Britain neglected interest with the US

Treaty of Paris 1763

ended french and indian war

1784

ended american revolutionary war

Washington's farewell address

warned against foreign entanglements,

Jay's treaty

increased trade between the countries

Pinckeny Treaty

established friendship between the US and Spain

Treaty of Ghent

The treaty released all prisoners and restored all war lands and boats, resulting in several changes. Returned to the United States were approximately 10,000,000 acres

Embargo Act

American laws restricting American ships from engaging in foreign trade

Macon's Bill No. 2

intended to motivate Britain and France to stop seizing American vessels during the Napoleonic Wars.

Rush Bagot Treaty

The treaty provided for a large demilitarization of the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain, where many British naval arrangements and forts still remained.

Adams Onis Treaty

between the United States and Spain in 1819 that gave Florida to the U.S.

Treaty of Guadalupe

recieved colorado, california, arizona, new mexico

Monroe Doctrine

Britain could not be involved with the US' affairs

Manifest Destiny

the idea that it was the us' destiny to expand from sea to sea

articles of confederation

specified how the US government was supposed to operate

Constitutional Convention

first intended to revise the articles of confederation

Bill of Rights

the first ten amendments

New Jersey Plan

state representation of congress wouldn't be based on population

3/5 Compromise

Slaves equaled 3/5 of a person in the congressional count

impeachment

the process of removing a president from office

The Virginia Plan

representation based on population

The Great Compromise

results in us senate and house of representatives

Slave Trade

trade from slaves from Africa sold to parts of north and south america

Federalist Papers

85 articles advocating the ratification of the constitution.

Amendments 11-15

equal protection

Ratification

Is the approval of the constitution

Checks and Balances

president can veto, congress can overide

Executive Branch

sole authority and responsibility for the daily administration of the statebureaucracy.

Legislative Branch

pass, amend, and repeal laws

Judicial Branch

interprets and applies the laws

John Locke

life, liberty, and property

Navigation Acts

restricted the use of foreign shipping

Proclamation Act

organize Great Britain's new North American empire and to stabilize relations with Native North Americans through regulation of trade, settlement, and land purchases on the western frontier.

Sugar Act

A tax in the colonies

Stamp Act

tax on written documents

Declatory Act

repealed the stamp act

Townshend Acts

raise revenues in the colonies

Intolerable acts

the acts triggered outrage in the colonies

Judiciary Act of 1789

"judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court,"

Land Ordinance

raise money through the sale of land in the largely unmapped territory west of the original states acquired at the 1783 (Treaty of Paris)

Northwest Ordinance

the creation of the Northwest Territory as the first organized territory of the United States out of the region south of the Great Lakes, north and west of the Ohio River, and east of the Mississippi River.

Bank of the US

A centralized national bank proposed by Hamilton

Alien and sedition Acts

against immigrants who would support jefferson

Virginia and Kentucky resolutions

did not abide by the alien and sedition acts

Missouri Compromise

the regulation of slavery in the western territories

1828 tariff of abominations

protect industries in the northern United States which were being driven out of business by low-priced imported goodsby putting a tax on them.

1832 tariff

reduced tariffs to remedy the conflict created by the tariff of 1828

Force Bill

expands presidential power

Compromise of 1850

avoided secession or civil war at the time and reduced sectional conflict for four years.

Kansas Nebraska Act

popular sovereignty

Process of Reconstruction

Birth of a nation, KKK,

Spot Resolution

requested President James K. Polk to provide Congress with the exact location (the "spot") upon which blood was spilt on American soil, as Polk had claimed in 1846 when asking Congress to declare war on Mexico.

1882 Exclusion Act

exclusion of Chinese immigrants

Morrill Land Grant

pass of land grant colleges

Sherman anti trust act

trust busting act clay is stronger

John Smith

settler from the old world, arrogant attitude towards colonists forced them to work to eat

John Rolfe

married Pocahontas

Pocahontas

married John Rolfe was an indian princess, moved to the old world

Powhatan

Pocahontas' father, chief

William Bradford

Plymouth governor

Squanto

taught settlers how to farm

William Penn

founder of the territory of Pennsylvania

William Berkeley

governor of Virginia

John Winthrop

founder of the massachusetts bay colony

Cotton Mather

Salem Witch Trials

Pontiac

An Ottawa leader during the Pontiac rebellion.

George III

King of Great Britain

William Pitt

led Britain during the seven years war

George Grenville

was dismissed by George III, involved the stamp act in the colonies

Patrick Henry

Led the movement of independence in Virginia during the 1700s.

Thomas Jefferson

diest, strict constructionist

George Washington

general during the french and indian war, first president

Ben Franklin

Diest, scientist, involved in the enlightenment and reason

John Adams

George Washington's vice president, defended the boston masscare soldiers

Abigail Adams

John Adams wife

Samuel Adams

leader of the sons of liberty, cousin to john adams

Thomas Gage

A british general

John Burogyne

British General in the seven years war

Charles Cornwallis

surrendered at the battle of YorkTown

Benedict Arnold

traitor in american revolutionary war

Nathan Hale

solider for the continental army

Thomas Paine

wrote common sense

Hamilton

federalist, proposed national bank, killed in a duel with Aaron Burr

James Madison

fourth president, new republic needed checks and balances

John Jay

Jay's treaty

Edmund Genet

first american flyer to die in world war I

John Marshall

cheif justice of the US

Robert Livingston

mayor of albany

Mariwether Lewis

american explorer of the louisiana purchase

William Clark

american explorer of the louisiana purchase

Robert Fulton

developed the first steam boat

Scajawea

aided the exploration in the lewis and clark exploration

Aaron Burr

killed Hamilton

Tecumseh

native american leader of the shawnee tribe

Francis Scott Key

star spangled banner

Thoreau

transcendentalist

Emerson

transcendentalist

Whitman

American essayist and poet

Edgar Allen Poe

the raven, tale tale heart

Oliver Perry

served in the war of 1812

William Harrison

delegate for maryland in the continental congress

Andrew Jackson

opposed national bank, trail of tears

John Q adams

6th president, son of John Adams

Daniel Webster

influential whig leader

John Calhoun

from south carolina, nullification

Henry Clay

represented kentucky in the senate and house

Martin Van Buren

first president not of British descent, 8th presdient

Nat Turner

american slave who led a rebellion

Dorothea Dix

exposed treatments in mental hospitals

Horace Mann

american educator reformer

William Lloyd Garrison

anti american slavery

Fredrick Douglas

became leader of the abolitionist movement.

Hariet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom's Cabin

The Grimke Sister

women's rights, abolitionists

Harriet Tubman

underground railroad

Lucretia Mott

Firs american "feminist"

Stanton

Seneca falls, women's rights

Brigham Young

mormon

Joseph Smith

Founder of mormonism

John Fremont

first candidate of the anti slavery movement

James Polk

54 40 or fight

Santa Ana

comanche war chief

Zachary Taylor

mexican american war

Franklin Pierce

14th president

Stephen Douglas

lost to lincoln

Roger Taney

delievered the majority opinion in dred scott v sanford

Lincoln

16th president, civil war, assaisnated

Jefferson Davis

leader of the confederacy

Charles Sumner

worked closely with Lincoln

Alexander Stephens

an american politician from Georgia

John Slidell

defender of southern rights

Taddeus Stevens

most powerful leader of the house of reps

George McClellan

major general during the civil war

Ambrose Burnside

railroad executivw

William Sherman

General in the union army

Mathew Brady

documented the civil war

Robert E. lee

general in the civil war

Andrew Johnson

impeached

Bartolome de las casas

spoke against indian death

Bacon

bacon's rebellion

Johnathan edwards

in the hands of an angry god

Onate

governor of newmexico

crispus attucks

first person shot to death in the boston masscare

Lowell Girls

triangle shirtwaist factory fire

Preston Brooks

beat man with the cane

Carnegie

homestead strike, steel

Rockefeller

ludlow, steel

alexander grahm bell

telephone, inventor

Charles Darwin

survival of the fittest

Mark Twain

huck finn, writer, satire

Teddy Roosevelt

meat inspection act, food and drug act

Helen Hunt Jackson

improved treatment of native americans

About this deck

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Created: 2011-04-20
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