APUSH Mnemonics Quiz #2

MRCaN - M Massachusetts Bay Colony

MRCaN - R Rhode Island

MRCaN - C Connecticut

MRCaN - N New Hampshire

2 New Dramatic Preachers - New Y New York

2 New Dramatic Preachers - New J New Jersey

2 New Dramatic Preachers - D Delaware

2 New Dramatic Preachers - P Pennsylvania

Virginia Goes 2C Mary - V Virginia

Virginia Goes 2C Mary - G Georgia

Virginia Goes 2C Mary - N C North Carolina

Virginia Goes 2C Mary - S C South Carolina

Virginia Goes 2C Mary - M Maryland

Pretty Proclamation of 1763

Silly Stamp Act 1765

Tammy Townshend Act 1767

Baked Boston Massacre 1770

Tea Tea Act 1773

Cookies Committees of Correspondence

Inside Intolerable Act 1774

Freshly First Continental Congress 1774

Layered Lexington and Concord 1775

Spicy Second Continental Congress 1775

Dough Declaration of Independence 1776

A Articles of Confederation, unicameral (1 house)

R Ratification debate between federalists and antifederalists

T Treaty of Paris, 1783

I Interstate Commerce Problems (depression in 1780s)

C Constitutional Convention, 1787

L Land legislation (Land Ordinance of 1785; NW Ordinance of 1787)

E England, France, Spain, and Barbary Corsairs challenged US in foreign affairs

S Shays’ Rebellion

B Bank of the US

E Excise tax on whiskey

F Funding at par

A Assumption of state debts

T Tariffs

Big Bill of Rights

Jolly Judiciary Act of 1789

Hamilton Hamilton’s Financial Plan, 1789-91 (BEFAT)

Found French Revolution

Nervous Neutrality Proclamation of 1793

Jefferson Jay Treaty, 1795

Entering Election of 1796 (2 Parties: Federalists and Democratic-Republicans)

X-Men’s XYZ Affair, 1797

Quarter's Quasi-War, 1798-1800

Angering Alien and Sedition Acts, 1798

White Washington’s Legacy

Republicans Revolution of 1800

G Gallatin - Secretary of the treasury who reduces the national debt

I Impeachment of Samuel Chase, 1804

H Hamilton’s plan kept by Jefferson (except excise taxes)

A Agrarian Empire (westward expansion)

T Tripolitan War

E Embargo Act, 1807

L Louisiana Purchase, 1803

A Army reduced in size (Federalists lose major center of power)

M Marbury vs. Madison, 1803

B Burr Conspiracies (1804 in New York and 1806 in the West)

W War Hawks

H Hartford Convention, 1814

I Impressment

T Treaty of Ghent, 1815

E Embargo Act, 1807

N New Orleans

NKNICKSS New Democracy

NKNICKSS Killing of the BUS

NKNICKSS Nullification Controversy

NKNICKSS Indian Removal

NKNICKSS Creation of 2-Party System

NKNICKSS Kitchen Cabinet (cabinet crisis; break with Jackson and Calhoun)

NKNICKSS Spoils System

NKNICKSS Sectionalism

A Abolitionism

Totally Temperence

Wicked Women’s Suffrage

Elephant Education

Made Mental Institutions

Pigs Prison Reform

Devour Debtor’s Prisons

Worms Wilderness Utopias

C California

O Oregon

I Independent Treasury System (revives Van Buren’s banking system)

L Lower Tariff (Walker Tariff, 1846)

Pop Popular sovereignty in mexican cession

F Fugitive Slave Law

A Abolition of slave trade in Washington, D.C (it doesn’t end slavery there)

C California enters as a free state

T Texas agrees to accept money in return for abandoning claims to New Mexico territory

T Texas

O Oregon

M Mexican Cession

Miss Missouri Compromise, 1820

Nelly Nullification Controversy, 1832

Gagged Gag Rule, 1836

When Wilmot Proviso, 1848

Clay’s Compromise of 1850

Kangaroo Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854

Bit “Bleeding Kansas”

Dumb Dred Scott Case, 1857

John’s John Brown, 1859

Ear Election of 1860

BIT - B BUS (2nd)

BIT - I Internal Improvements

BIT - T Tariff of 1816

TRIC - T Textile

TRIC - R Railroads

TRIC - I Iron

TRIC - C Coal

ROSE - R Railroad (transcontinental)

ROSE - O Oil

ROSE - S Steel

ROSE - E Electricity

A Abolitionism

P Pacific Railway Act

History Homestead Act

Makes Morrill Tariff

Me Morrill Land Grant Act

Nauseous National Banking Act

1st R Relief

2nd R Recovery

3rd R Reform

1) Control of Corporations Anthracite Coal Strike (1902), Northern Securities Co. (1902), Dept. of Commerce and Labor; Bureau of Corporations

2) Consumer Protection Meat Inspection Act (1906); Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)

3) Conservation Newlands Reclamation Act (1902); National Parks

Brave Brown v. Board of Education, 1954

Martin Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955

Leads Little Rock Crisis, 1957

Green Greensboro sit-in, 1960

Freedom Freedom Riders, 1961

Junkies James Meredith, 1962

Until University of Alabama, 1962

Birmingham Birmingham March, 1963

Marchers March on Washington, 1963

Claim Civil Rights Act of 1964

Victory Voting Rights Act of 1965

Against Affirmative Action

Bigoted Black Power (Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, Black Panthers)

Freaks Focused busing, 1971

Truman’s Truman Doctrine, 1947

Muscles Marshall Plan, ‘47-48

Brought Berlin Crisis, ‘48-49

Nasty NATO, ‘49

Red Red Scare, ‘46-54

China China becomes communist, ‘49

Across A-bomb for Soviets, ‘49

Korea Korean War, ‘50-53

H Higher Tariffs

A Anti-Labor

L Laissez Faire

T Trickle Down Economics

Revolted Red Scare, 1919

Republicans Return to Isolationism

Voted Volunteerism

No Nativism Increased

Making Migration of African Americans to the North

Wilson’s Women’s roles increased

European Economic Growth

Peace Prohibition of Alcohol

Crumble Civil Liberties Violated

Miserably Millions of Americans fought in Europe

1st T Tariffs

2nd T Tbank Monopoly

3rd T Trusts

Silly Socialism (anti)

Purple Political Machines (anti)

Turkeys Trusts (anti)

Can’t Child Labor (anti)

Chase Conservation

Very Voting Reform

White Working/Living Conditions

Chickens Consumer Protection

While Women’s Suffrage

Fighting Federal Reserve System

Pink Prohibition of Alcohol

Iguanas Income Tax (progressive/graduated)

C Clayton Antitrust Act

U Underwood Tariff

1st F Federal Reserve Act

2nd F Federal Trade Commission