AP EXAM

Question 0

Called for a confederation of colonies. Join or die.

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Albany Plan of Union

Question 1

What established the concepts of the separation of church and state and the rule of the majority in a colony?

Answer 1

The Mayflower Compact

Question 2

Created in the 2nd Continental Congress. Established policies regarding the settlement and status of newly acquired westward lands.

Answer 2

Articles of Confederation

Question 3

Used Locke’s philosophy of natural rights to express that the citizens should rebel against the British oppression.

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Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

1776

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Banned slavery north of the Ohio River. Proposed that territories with at least 60k people could apply for statehood.

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Northwest Ordinance

Question 5

Argued Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional. States should have the right to declare their own laws unconstitutional. Nullification.

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Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions

Question 6

The state legislature declared the new duties (1828 tariff of abominations) unconstitutional and endorsed a lengthy statement that affirmed nullification.

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South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification

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What is nullification?

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The states rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by Congress.

Question 8

Series of laws passed by the Federalist Congress in 1798 and signed into law by Adams.

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Alien and Sedition Acts

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Laws that included new powers to deport foreigners as well as making it harder for immigrants to vote.

Answer 9

Alien and Sedition Acts

Question 10

1823 Isolationism; “nonintervention” in Latin America and the end of European colonization.

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Monroe Doctrine

Question 11

NY site of a feminist meeting. The Declaration of Sentiments was drafted and demanded true equality for women as well as men.

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Seneca Falls Declaration

Question 12

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.

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Emancipation Proclamation

Question 13

• Free coinage of silver
• gradual income tax
• direct election of senators
• govt regulation of railroads

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Platform of Populist Party

Question 14

Attempt to protect Venezuela from European intervention. The US would aid any Latin American nation experiencing financial trouble.

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Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

Question 15

Terms for settlement of WWI. Large rejected by European nations.

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Wilson’s 14 Points

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Founder of the first English colony, Roanoke.

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Sir Walter Raleigh

Question 17

Husband of Pocahontas and early Jamestown settler. Discovered tobacco as a good source of money.

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John Rolfe

Question 18

Humble farmers who left the established state church and founded Plymouth

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Separatists.

Question 19

Founded Jamestown. Place where people could invest without fear of bankruptcy.

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Joint Stock Company

Question 20

Act of Parliament in Maryland that mandated religious tolerance.

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Act of Toleration

1649

Question 21

Elective representative assembly that marked the beginning of Representative Democracy.

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House of Burgesses 1619

Question 22

Followed the Neutrality Proc. of 1793, called for the removal of British forts in the west.

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Jay’s Treaty

Question 23

Ended the War of 1812. Provided for the end of fighting and the return of conquered territories to their rightful owners.

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Treaty of Ghent 1814

Question 24

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.

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Adams-Onis Treaty 1819

Question 25

Brought Mexican-American War to an end. Granted California and southwest to U.S. paid Mexican govt $15 million in war reparations.

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Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo 1848

Question 26

Kidnapping of American sailors

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Impressment

Question 27

Right of deposits at New Orleans

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Pinckney Treaty

Question 28

Who lead the 1812 war hawks?

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Henry Clay

Question 29

What did the treaty of Ghent end?

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Impressment

Question 30

When does the Federalists party end and why?

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1814, unsupportive of the 1812 war. Hartford convention.

Question 31

What did the Embargo Act increase?

Answer 31

Manufacturing

Question 32

When was the Corrupt Bargain?

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1824

Question 33

What was the Corrupt Bargain?

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Clay got senate to vote for Adams in return for Secretary of State position.

Question 34

Over Cuban Revolution. Human rights issue. "Yellow journalists:" Hearst and Pulitzer. Result: explosion of the USS Maine. Gained: Guam, Puerto Rico, West Indies, Philippines

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Treaty of Paris 1898

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Treaty of Versailles 1919

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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

Question 36

Indentured servants get 50 acres if land after they serve their 7 years.

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Headright System

Question 37

Germany punished with the War Guilt Clause and they had to pay reparations.

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Treaty of Versailles 1919

Question 38

Cause: Indentured servents not being given good land, Governer Berkley. Effect: Berkley fled. No more indentured servents, new source of labor is African slaves

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Bacon's Rebellion 1676

Question 39

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.

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Shay's Rebellion 1786-1787

Question 40

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."

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Whiskey Rebellion 1794-1795

Question 41

The slaves rebelled, made their small freedoms be taken away from them.

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Nat Turner's Rebellion 1831

Question 42

Constitution made into bicameral with Senate and House of Representatives.

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Great Compromise of 1787

Question 43

State ratification slave states=free states. Maine is free: Missouri is slave 36º 30' no slaves above

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Missouri Compromise of 1820

Question 44

Election of 1876 Florida | Hayes says he will end Reconstruction, remove army from South and South redeemed by Democratics.

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Compromise of 1877

Question 45

Royal Colony

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Under control of English crown

Question 46

proprietary colony

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owned by a private individual or company

Question 47

John Calvin

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preacher and persistant reformer, believes predestination, money elongs to a world of work

Question 48

City on a Hill

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John Winthrop tells the other Pilgrims in 1637 that they must be a city on a hill, Massachuettes Bay Colony

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Capitalism

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interest of money

Question 50

Mercantalism

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economic policy that looked upon trade, colonies and the accumulation of wealth as the basis for a countrie's military and political trade

Question 51

Navigation Acts 1650-1673

Answer 51

trade to and from colonies could be carried English or Colonial-built ships. Enforcement: govt agents corrupt ie paid off.