APUSH DATES Flashcards
Jamestown Formed
(First English Settlement)
1607
Columbus arrives on America
1492
Emancipation Proclamation
1863
Emancipation Proclamation
1863
Why was the Emancipation Proclamation issued?
To reinvigorate morale during the Civil War.
How long did the Civil War last?
What were its causes?
1861-1865
-Economic Policies
-Cultural Valies
-Role of slavery
Who was Batalome De Las Casas?
Against the Encomiedna system and enslavement of indigengous people.
Declaration of Independence
1776
Declaration of Independence
1776
1791
Bill of Rights is Improved.
What does Dear Charlie, Ever American President Has Been Assasinated?
D -Declaration of Independence
C- Civil War
E-Emancipation Proclamation
A-Attack on Pearl Harbor
Who primarily wrote the declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
Who primarily wrote the declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
Who wrote Common Sense?
Thomas Paine
Who said “Give me Liverty, or Give me Death?”
Patrick Henry
What was the immediate result of the Boston Massacre?
-Propoganda
-Anti-british sentiment
What was the immediate result of the Boston Massacre?
-Propoganda
-Anti-british sentiment
What was the Olive Branch Peittion and when was it issued?
1775
Settle differences between American and the British peacefully.
When were the Intolerable Acts mostly created?
1774
Wht was the Headrights System?
A system that gave more land to those who sponsored indentured servants.
Why did people prefer indentured servants over slaves at first?
Slaves were more costly and with indentured servants, they would be recieving more land.
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese attack on a naval base in Hawaii in 1941.
Reconstruction
1863-1877
Enlightenment (Over the course of two centuries)
1685-1815
Enlightenment (Over the course of two centuries)
1685-1815
Thomas Jefferson’s election marked the start of the….
1800’s - The Revolution of 1800 where Thomas Jefferson defeated the Federalist John Adams.
What did Hamilton advocate for?
-Strong central government
-Taking on the debt the United States owed immediately
-American financial system
What was the mud racker journalist who wrote about how the other side lives?
Jacob Riis
When was the Whiskey Rebellion held?
1794
When was the Second Great Awakening?
1790
When did the first black slaves arrive in the colonies?
1716
What was the Fugitive slave law enacted?
1793
When was the Missouri Compromise?
1820
1856
Bleeding Kansas
1857
Dred Scott. V Sanford
1860
Abraham Lincoln is elected President
Who created the Liberator?
William Lloyd Garrison started the abolitionist movement.
Who created the Liberator?
William Lloyd Garrison started the abolitionist movement.
1848 (Decade after the Trails of Tears)
Seneca Falls Convention
COVERTS Versus OVERT
COVERTS:
-Songs
-Breaking up weapons
-Taking their time
Overt:
-Stono Rebellion
Nat Turner’s Rebellion Result
More fear among Southern abotu slave rebellions by making more restrictions on slaves
Yeoman Farmers
Independent land owners
Yeoman Farmers
Independent land owners
Quartering Act
1765
Boston Massacre
1770
Boston Tea Party
1773 (3 years after the Boston Massacre)
Patriots Versus Loyalists or Tories
Patriots: Wanted representation
Loyalists and Tories: Repected parliament decision
What was the result of the Enlightenment
Natural Rights of
Life
Liberty
and the pursuit of happiness
American Revolution
1765-1791
What was the battle that marked the turning point of the American Revolution?
The battle of Saratoga - proved that America was worthy of French military assistance
Articles of Confederation problems
-not raise funds
-regulate trade
-Conduct foreign policy without the voluntary agreement of the states
-No executive branch
North West Ordinance
1787
-Unformed territories applying for Union
-Abolished slavery
North West Ordinance
1787
-Unformed territories applying for Union
-Abolished slavery
Shay’s Rebellion
Daniel Shay and others could not pay after they returned from the war
-Angry farmers
-Squashed by local militia
-Weakness of the AOC
1st Constitutional Convention date
1787
3/5 Compromise
Representation of enslaved people to balance the North and the South
Federalist Papers Author
James Madison
Alexander Hamilton
John Jay
American Culture After the American Revolution
-Romanticism
-Republican Motherhood
Elastic Clause
Necessary to make Laws on Congress as proper under the Constitution
French Revolution
1789
What did Washington want for the nation?
-No political parties
-Do not hold biases
-Do not intervene in foreign affairs
XYZ Affair
Also known as the Quazi-war
Virginia and Kentucky Solutions
Nullify not favorable laws by the federal government
Indian Trade and Intercourse Act
American Indians and British resulted in more conflicts with the Americans
Pickney Treaty
Divide between American and Spanish territory
Who was the first and only Confederate president?
Jefferson Davis
What did King Cotton mean?
Economic and Political Importance of cotton production
Who wrote the Gospel of Wealth?
Andrew Carnegie
“The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced”
Andrew Carnegie
Who was the owner of the stand oil company?
John D. Rockefeller
What did John D. Rockefeller use to dominate the industry?
Horizantal integration.
Strict Constructionist Example
Thomas Jefferson
Only follow the Constitution
Louisiana Purchase
1803
Indians are removed further westward
Industrial Revolution time period
1760-1840
John Marshall Marbury Versus Madison created….
Judicial Review
Gilded Age Term was coined by
Mark Twain
Charle’s Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection
Only the fit will survive
Who was Vanderbilt?
Wealthy businessmen from railroads and shipping
What was the economic status of the Gilded Age?
-More jobs
-The larger gap between the wealthy and poor
-Improved standard of living
-Child labor
-Working class has more deaths and premature
-Labor Unions
-Immigrants replace many workers
Labor Unions tactics
-Boycotts
-Strikes
-Slowdown
The Great Railroad Strike date
and causes
1877
Better working conditions for railroad employees
Pullman Strike and Panic of 1893
Labor Union strike for better pau wages
Names of Labor Unions
-Knights of Labor 1881 (VERY INCLUSIVE)
-American Union of Labor
Haymarket Riot
1886
-8 hour workday boycott where a bomb was released and the Knights of Labor were blamed for vioence
American Federation of Labor
-Artisan crafters
-Higher wages, safer working conditions
Who created the Hull House?
Jane Addams
Why did people gravitate towards socialism?
-People own and regulate society
-Capitalism solution
-
Who started the socialist Party
Eugene V. Debbs
Social gospel
-Christian principles to everything that was in society
NAWSA
Woman’s Suffrage Movement
Temperance Movement
Fight against the consumption of alcohol
Temperance Movement
Fight against the consumption of alcohol
Women’s Temperance Union
1874
“Bulldog running at the feet of the nation barking at things Jesus didn’t like”
Carrie Nation with the hatchet
Laissez Faire
Leave alone economics
Adams Onis Treaty
Florida
When was the panic in the 1890’?
1893
Tamaney Hall
New York polticial Machiene
Who was the first and only President of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
What in the world is the New South?
(Name
-More industry and competition with the North
-Mostly agricultural
-Share-cropping
-Segregation
Compromise that resulted after federal troops left the south date
1877
Plessy Versus Ferguson information
1896
-Louisianna
-Separate rail cars
-Racial segregation but make sure that the rail cars are equal
-Separate but equal
Jim Crow Laws
Segregated many aspects of life and public facilities after the Civil War
Ida B. Wells
Against lynching and Jim Crow Laws
Booker T. Washington
Self-sufficient African Americans s that they could be more involved in politics
Frederick Douglass
American abolitionists and activists
Technological Innovations in the Gilded Age.
-National marketplace by railroads
-More connected economy
-Chinese immigrants work on railroads
-Land grants and loan subsidies
-Transcontinental Railroads
-Bessemer Process (Larger skyscrapers)
-Coal and Oil
-Telegraphs and telephone
-Better communication
-Transatlantic cable
Industrialism Capitalism in the Gilded Age
-Rise of monopolies and trusts
-Railroad, steel, and industries
Steel company owner during the Gilded Age
Andrew Carnegie
(Vertical Integration)
What did the Proclamation Line do?
1763
-Ends the French and Indian war and prevents colonists from intervening in Native American affairs
When was the AOC made?
1777
Clinton signed these two things
-Don’t ask don’t tell
-DOMA (Defensive Marriage Act)
