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