APUSH Midterm Review Flashcards
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boycott
To abstain from using, buying, or dealing with; happens all of the time everywhere all over the world; labor unions, consumer groups, countries boycott products to force a company or government to change its politics.
militia
a military force that is raised from the civil population to supplement a regular army in an emergency.
mercenary
A professional soldier who serves in a foreign army for pay.
blockade
The isolation of a place by hostile ships or troops.
minutemen
a colonist who could be ready in a few minutes to fight the British
Great Compromise
Great Compromise the agreement by which Congress would have two houses, the Senate (where each state gets equal representation-two senators) and the House of Representatives (where representation is based on population).
Protective tariff
Protective Tariff It was a tariff imposing 8% on the value of dutiable imports. It was passed by the first Congress. Revenue was the main goal. It was also designed to protect small industries just getting started. Hamilton wanted more protection for the well-to-do manufacturing groups. Congress still had agriculture and commericial interest dominating. This was part of Hamilton’s economic plan to support the industrialists
Midnight Judges
Judges that were swapped in last minute before a president left office.
Whiskey Rebellion
as a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791, during the presidency of George Washington. The so-called “whiskey tax” was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by the newly formed federal government.
Nullification
Theory promoted by John C. Calhoun and other South Carolinians that said states had the right to disregard federal laws to which they objected
Embargo
Embargo Act The Embargo Act of 1807 was a law passed by Congress forbidding all exportation of goods from the United States.
Nationalism
Political ideology that stresses people’s membership in a nation-a community defined by a common culture and history as well as by territor
Interchangeable Parts
uniform pieces that can be made in large quantities to replace other identical pieces
Spoils System
is a practice in which a political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its supporters, friends and relatives as a reward for working toward victory, and as an incentive to keep working for the party
Sectionalism
a devotion to the interests of one geographic region over the interests of the country as a whole, ultimately led to the Union’s worst crisis: civil war between the North and the South in the early 1860s
Suffrage
The right to vote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
a member of the women’s right’s movement in 1840. She was a mother of seven, and she shocked other feminists by advocating suffrage for women at the first Women’s Right’s Convention in Seneca, New York 1848. Stanton read a “Declaration of Sentiments” which declared “all men and women are created equal.”
Utopias
Between 1830s and 40s hopes for social perfection - utopia - were widespread among evangelical Christians as well as secular humanists. These hopes found expression in various utopian communities and spiritual movements
Temperance
Movement against alcohol
Harriet Beecher Stowe
A nineteenth-century American author best known for Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a powerful novel that inflamed sentiment against slavery.
Dred Scott
Scott was a black slave who had lived with his master for five years in Illinois and Wisconsin territory. He sued for his freedom on the basis of his long residence in free territory. The Dred Scott court decision was handed down by the Supreme Court on March 6,1857. The Supreme Court ruled that Dred Scott was a black slave and not a citizen. Hence, he could not sue in a federal court.
John Brown
An abolitionist who attempted to lead a slave revolt by capturing Armories in southern territory and giving weapons to slaves, was hung in Harpers Ferry after capturing an Armory
Abraham Lincoln
helped preserve the United States by leading the defeat of the secessionist Confederacy; an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery
Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis Jefferson Davis was the President of the Southern Confederate States from 1860 to 1865 after their succession from the Union. During this time, Davis struggled to form a solid government for the states to be governed by.
