AP EXAM Flashcards
Called for a confederation of colonies. Join or die.
Albany Plan of Union
What established the concepts of the separation of church and state and the rule of the majority in a colony?
The Mayflower Compact
Created in the 2nd Continental Congress. Established policies regarding the settlement and status of newly acquired westward lands.
Articles of Confederation
Used Locke’s philosophy of natural rights to express that the citizens should rebel against the British oppression.
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
1776
Banned slavery north of the Ohio River. Proposed that territories with at least 60k people could apply for statehood.
Northwest Ordinance
Argued Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional. States should have the right to declare their own laws unconstitutional. Nullification.
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
The state legislature declared the new duties (1828 tariff of abominations) unconstitutional and endorsed a lengthy statement that affirmed nullification.
South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification
What is nullification?
The states rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by Congress.
Series of laws passed by the Federalist Congress in 1798 and signed into law by Adams.
Alien and Sedition Acts
Laws that included new powers to deport foreigners as well as making it harder for immigrants to vote.
Alien and Sedition Acts
1823 Isolationism; “nonintervention” in Latin America and the end of European colonization.
Monroe Doctrine
NY site of a feminist meeting. The Declaration of Sentiments was drafted and demanded true equality for women as well as men.
Seneca Falls Declaration
Declared all slaves in Confederate states free but slavery in boarder states was still legal. It boosted the morale of the union troops and supporters at home.
Emancipation Proclamation
- Free coinage of silver
- gradual income tax
- direct election of senators
- govt regulation of railroads
Platform of Populist Party
Attempt to protect Venezuela from European intervention. The US would aid any Latin American nation experiencing financial trouble.
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Terms for settlement of WWI. Large rejected by European nations.
Wilson’s 14 Points
Founder of the first English colony, Roanoke.
Sir Walter Raleigh
Husband of Pocahontas and early Jamestown settler. Discovered tobacco as a good source of money.
John Rolfe
Humble farmers who left the established state church and founded Plymouth
Separatists.
Founded Jamestown. Place where people could invest without fear of bankruptcy.
Joint Stock Company
Act of Parliament in Maryland that mandated religious tolerance.
Act of Toleration
1649
Elective representative assembly that marked the beginning of Representative Democracy.
House of Burgesses 1619
Followed the Neutrality Proc. of 1793, called for the removal of British forts in the west.
Jay’s Treaty
Ended the War of 1812. Provided for the end of fighting and the return of conquered territories to their rightful owners.
Treaty of Ghent 1814
A treaty which provided for the United States purchase of Florida from Spain in 1819, and which gained Spain’s guarantee that it would relinquish its claims in the Oregon Territory.
Adams-Onis Treaty 1819
Brought Mexican-American War to an end. Granted California and southwest to U.S. paid Mexican govt $15 million in war reparations.
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo 1848
Kidnapping of American sailors
Impressment
Right of deposits at New Orleans
Pinckney Treaty
Who lead the 1812 war hawks?
Henry Clay
What did the treaty of Ghent end?
Impressment
When does the Federalists party end and why?
1814, unsupportive of the 1812 war. Hartford convention.
What did the Embargo Act increase?
Manufacturing
When was the Corrupt Bargain?
1824
What was the Corrupt Bargain?
Clay got senate to vote for Adams in return for Secretary of State position.
Over Cuban Revolution.
Human rights issue.
“Yellow journalists:” Hearst and Pulitzer.
Result: explosion of the USS Maine.
Gained: Guam, Puerto Rico, West Indies, Philippines
Treaty of Paris 1898
Treaty of Versailles 1919
Punishment of Germany by War Guilt Clause and had to pay all of war reparations.
League of Nations established as part of Wilson’s 14 points.
Treaty of WWII
Indentured servants get 50 acres if land after they serve their 7 years.
Headright System
Germany punished with the War Guilt Clause and they had to pay reparations.
Treaty of Versailles 1919
Cause: Indentured servents not being given good land, Governer Berkley.
Effect: Berkley fled.
No more indentured servents, new source of labor is African slaves
Bacon’s Rebellion 1676
Cause: farmers and ex-soldiers couldn’t pay their taxes in Massachusetts because they were never paid for serving in the military.
Effect: they took over the armory and the courthouse.
The Articles of Confederation were weak, came up with the Constitution.
Shay’s Rebellion 1786-1787
Tax on whisky making, the people didn’t pay the taxes. Washington sent troops into Penn. with 15 thousand soldiers to prove “Strong central government.”
Whiskey Rebellion 1794-1795
The slaves rebelled, made their small freedoms be taken away from them.
Nat Turner’s Rebellion 1831
Constitution made into bicameral with Senate and House of Representatives.
Great Compromise of 1787
State ratification
slave states=free states.
Maine is free: Missouri is slave
36º 30’ no slaves above
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Election of 1876 Florida
Hayes says he will end Reconstruction, remove army from South and South redeemed by Democratics.
Compromise of 1877
Royal Colony
Under control of English crown
proprietary colony
owned by a private individual or company
John Calvin
preacher and persistant reformer, believes predestination, money elongs to a world of work
City on a Hill
John Winthrop tells the other Pilgrims in 1637 that they must be a city on a hill, Massachuettes Bay Colony
Capitalism
interest of money
Mercantalism
economic policy that looked upon trade, colonies and the accumulation of wealth as the basis for a countrie’s military and political trade
Navigation Acts 1650-1673
trade to and from colonies could be carried English or Colonial-built ships.
Enforcement: govt agents corrupt ie paid off.
