AP US History Doctrines, Plans, Policies, Compromises, Bills, Act

Reagan Doctrine

described the Reagan administration for supporting anticommunist overt and covert strategies

Truman Doctrine

(1947) Requested congress to for money to support Greece and Turkey from totalitarian regimes

Monroe Doctrine

(1823) Warned Foreign nations to not interfere with the Western hemisphere, the US would come to aid targeted nations

Stimson Doctrine

US response to Japan’s violation of the Open Door policy

Marshall Plan

(1947) aka European Recovery Plan; aimed to aid countries for four years

Eisenhower Doctrine

Allowed Middle Eastern countries to request military and economic aid from the US

Open Door Policy

US and other European countries declared China be available for all trading with everyone.

Missouri Compromise

The decision to draw the 36’30’ line the allowed for slavery in the south and no slavery in the north. Maine became a free state, and Missouri became a slave state

Compromise of 1850

5 Parts: Admit California as a free state and open Utah and New Mexico

Compromise of 1877

The agreement that southern Democrats will vote for Hayes if they remove troops from the South

Wade Davis Bill

(1864) Lincoln declared that southern states could readmitted to the union is 10% of male population took an oath to recognize the freedom of former slaves

Sherman’s Anti Trust Act

Trust busted, allowed the government to dissolve monopolies

Interstate Commerce Act

addressed the problem of railroad monopolies by setting guidelines for how the railroads could do business (Vanderbilt)

Navigation Act

Only allowed America ships to send goods to the Britain

Proclamation of 1763

Established after the French and Indian war which banned the settlement of colonist past the Appalachian Mountains because Britain wanted to avoid conflict

Coercive act

aka Intolerable act (1774) the acts which punished the colonies for the Boston Tea Party

Jay’s Treaty

(1794) To get rid of Britain on the Western Frontier and stop British impressment (kidnapping US soldiers for British use)

Pinckney Treaty

(1795) Alliance b/w Spain and the US to open up the Mississippi River valley to duty free trade

Treaty of Paris

(1783) ended the America Revolution and America was independent

Alien & Sedition Act

(1798) Signed by John Adams; to deport aliens and censor news paper of government slander

Kansas Nebraska Act

(1854) to divide Nebraska territory into two and allow settlers in each territory to determine whether or not to allow slavery → led to citizens traveling to the territories to sway decision but became violent (Bleeding Kansas)

Teller Amendment

(1898) Part of Congress resolution to authorizing war; stated that after the US helped Cuba against the Spanish did not have any intentions of taking control over Cuba (would allow Cuba to run independently) → Platt amendment that adjusted the conditions which the US would leave Cuba, even after they won the war

Great Compromise

Settled the argument between the New Jersey and the Virginia plan over representation by population or state. Lead to a bicameral congress (the House and the Senate)

Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo

Established the Rio Grande as the border between Texas and Mexico

Freedmen’s Bureau

(1865) Following the Civil War, a welfare agency to aid Black and White Americans after the war

Dawes Act

Divided Native American Land in Parcels and allocated them to Native Americans. Upon receiving land they would become a citizen and subjected them to taxation. Wanted to Assimilate them into American culture

Indian Removal Act

(1830) Issued by Andrew Jackson to remove Native Americans from their land a relocate them West → led to the Trail of Tears