APUSH Terms Test

New England Colonies

1620s-1750s

Puritans, John Winthrop, Mayflower Compact, New England Town Meetings, The Importance of Family in New England

Spanish Exploration

1490s-1600s

Pueblo Revolt, Columbian Exchange, Encomienda System, Haciendas, 3Gs (gold, gold, glory)

Southern Colonies

Early 1600s-1750

Reliance on Cash Craps (tobaco), House of Burgesses, Headright System, Gender Imbalance, Bacon’s Rebellion

Events that Led to the American Revolution

1760s/1770s

Boston Tea Party, French and Indian War, Boston Massacre, Intolerable Acts, Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

Articles of Confederation vs Constitution

1770s-1780s

3/5 Compromise, Bill of Rights, Federalists vs Antifederalists, Articles were deemed as being too weak, Virginia Plan/New Jersey Plan

Federalists vs Democratic Republicans

1790s-1810s

Federalists - loose interpretation of the constitution, Federalists - pro national bank, Federalists - preferred strong central government, Federalists sided with British and Democratic Republicans sided with French, War of 1812 kills Federalists

Jeffersonian Presidency

Early 1800s

Louisiana Purchase, Revolution of 1800 (peaceful transfer of power), Democratic Republican, Midnight Judges, Marbury vs Madison

Sectional Tension

1820-1859

Bleeding Kansas, Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act, Mexican American War, Missouri Compromise

Jacksonian Presidency

1820s-1830s

Bank War, Whig Party, Nullification Crisis, King Mob, Indian Removal Act

Manifest Destiny

1820s-1840s

California Gold Rush, Wilmot Proviso, Transcontinental Railroad, 54 40 or Fight, Annexation of Texas

Irish/German Immigration during the 1840s and 1850s

Know Nothing Party, Rise of Nativism, Irish settles in Northeastern cities, NINA, Irish were not abolitionists due to job competition

Civil War

1861-1865

Gettysburg Address, Lincoln suspended Habeus Corpus, New York City draft riots, Emancipation Proclamation, Slave states that remained in the union were border states

Reconstruction

1860s-1870s

Reconstruction Act of 1867 (military districts), Freedman’s Bureau, Reconstruction Amendments (13,14,15), Redeemers, Carpetbaggers

The Growth of Slavery

1619-1860

Cotton Gin, Triangular Trade, Middle Passage, Cotton Belt, Natural Reproduction

Gilded Age (1880s-1890s)

Laissez Faire, Social Darwinism, Gospel of Wealth, Vanderbilt Carnegie and Rockefeller, Monopolies

Progressive Era

Early 1900s

The Jungle - Upton Sinclair, How the Other Half Lives - Jacob Riis, Trust Busting, Meat Inspection Act, Muckrakers

Rise of Labor Unions

Late 1800s

The Knights of Labor, American Federation of Labor, Pullman’s Strike, The Haymarket Square Riot, better working conditions and shorter working days

American Imperialism

1890s-1900s

Spanish American War, Thirst for New Markets, Big Stick Diplomacy, White Man’s Burden, Violation of Core Principles

Roaring 20s

1920s

Speakeasies/Prohibition, flapper culture, harlem renaissance, scopes trial, sacco and vanzetti

WWI

1914-1918

Zimmerman telegram, League of Nations, Woodrow Wilson’s 14 points, treaty of versailles, sedition and espionage act

Great Depression

1920s-1930s

New Deal, Stock Market Crash, 100 Days, Hoovervilles, Alphabet Soup Programs

WWII

1939-1945
Manhattan plan, Japanese internment camps, rosie the riveter, double v campaign, quarantine speech

1950s Red Scare

McCarthyism, HUAC, Hollywood 10, Loyalty Oaths, Containment

Eisenhower

1953-1961

Eisenhower Doctrine, Fear of the military industrial complex, domino theory, suez crisis, sputnik

1950s America

Suburbanization, baby boom, levittown, elvis presley/rock n roll, return of the cult of domesticity

Kennedy

1960s

Cuban Missile Crisis, Bay of Pigs Invasion, Economic Opportunity Act, New Frontier, Civil Rights

Civil Rights Era

1950s-1960s

Brown v Board, Freedom Riders, Black Panther Party, Malcolm X, Little Rock 9

Johnson

1963-1969

The Great Society, War Powers Act, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965

Vietnam

1955-1975

Tet offensive, my lai massacre, pentagon papers, the draft, vietnamization

Second Wave Feminism/Women’s Movement

1960s-1970s

Betty Friedman-Feminine mystique, Equal Rights Act - ERA, National Organization of Women - NOW, Roe v Wade, Title IX

Nixon

1969-1974

Detente, silent majority, environmental protection agency, ping pong diplomacy, pentagon pepers

1970s

energy and economic crisis, SALT I and II, stagflation, counterculture, iranian hostage crisis

Reagan

1981-1989

Reaganomics, moral majority, rise of the new rights, hawkish war policy, small goverment

5 Examples of “Peopling”

1) Great migration of african americans from the south to the north during the war eras of WWI and WWII

2) migration to the sun belt

3) white flight

4) california gold rush

5) trail of tears

4 Examples highlighting the debate between states and the federal government regarding various forms of power

1) little rock 9

2) nullification crisis

3) marshall court

4) kentucky and virginia resolutions

3 terms related to issues concerning the environment

1) creation of EPA under nixon

2) CCC (civilian conservation corps) during the great depression

3) national parks act of 1916 during roosevelt

5 events that challenged cultural/traditional norms

1) support for the ERA

2) flappers and flapper culture

3) roe v wade

4) seneca falls convention

5) civil rights act of 1964

5 terms that directly relate to America’s involvement with the world

1) monroe doctrine

2) NATO

3) league of nations

4) panama canal

5) berlin airlift

4 events or terms that significantly impacted the working life for the average american

1) development of the market economy

2) post WWII economic boom

3) great depression

4) industrial revolution

5) rise of labor unions

5 ideas that change of modify the role and expectations of women within American society

1) republican motherhood

2) Title IX

3) ERA

4) cult of domesticity

5) roe v wade

5 examples that demonstrate a growth in the executive branch

1) andrew jackson’s use of veto power

2) gulf of tonkin resulution

3) fdr’s the new deal

4) lincoln’s suspension of habeus corpus

5) truman doctrine

3 examples when religion played a role within american society

1) 1st and 2nd great awaekning

2) fundamentalism vs science

3) salem witch trials

5 examples of events or ideas that gave rise to political parties

1) heavy german and irish immigration in the 1840s-1850s - anti immigration Know Nothing Party

2) Anti Jacksonian Americans - whig party

3) farmer issues - populist party

4) anti-slavery - republicans

5) civil rights movement - black panther party

5 examples of voting rights expanding or contracting

1) most states eliminated the requirement of property ownership to vote during the Jacksonian era

2) voting rights act of 1965 - outlawed discriminatory voting practices

3) literacy tests

4) 19th amendment

5) changing voting age from 21 to 18 during the vietnam war