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ap history
(guizz unit1-8 review pt2)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| I1767,ndirect taxes levied on imported materials (e.g. glass, lead, paint, paper) | Townshend Acts |
| Well known for popularizing tobacco in England and thus, saving the colonies. | Walter Raleigh |
| 1787 rebellion of debt-ridden Massachusetts, farmers protesting, increased state taxes | Shays' Rebellion |
| English philosopher, foundation of modern philosophical empiricism and political liberalism, was an inspirer of both the European Enlightenment and the Constitution of the United States. | John Locke |
| Spanish social reformer, focused on the atrocities committed by colonizers against the native populations. | Bartolomé de Las Casas |
| The philosophy that Americans had a God-given right to expand across the North American continent to the West Coast (by any means necessary). | Manifest Destiny |
| 1820-1821, series of agreements passed in Congress to maintain the balance of free and slave states | Missouri Compromise |
| 1857,A slave in the US, unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters, some consider it one of the worst decisions ever made by the Supreme Court. | Dred Scott |
| This event spurred the planter class to cling more tightly to power, exposed the growing power of the colony's former indentured servants, referred to as "the giddy multitude." | Bacon's Rebellion |
| 1859,A militant American abolitionist, raid on the federal arsenal, made him a martyr to the antislavery cause, heightening sectional animosities, that led to the Civil War. | John Brown |
| Women's role after the American Revolution, belief that the patriots' daughters should be raised to uphold the ideals of republicanism, in order to pass on republican values to the next generation. | Republican motherhood |
| A series of interactions and adaptations among societies across the Atlantic, some even deadly. | Columbian Exchange |
| Amendment to the Constitution of the United States which freed slaves across the United States and is considered one of the three Civil War Amendments. | 13th amendment |
| The Supreme Court's ability to declare a law or act of Congress unconstitutional; this precedent was a famous element of Marbury v. Madison. | Judicial Review |
| A document, adopted by the Second Continental Congress in 1777, finally approved by the states in 1781, outlined the new form of government for the United States. | Articles of Confederation |
| A system in which land owners give farm workers seed, land, and tools in return for a part of the crops they raise, this system would create a cycle of poverty that former slaves would never escape. | Sharecropping |
| uprising that afforded the new U.S. gov its first opportunity to establish federal authority by military means, as officials moved into western Pennsylvania to quell an uprising of settlers rebelling against the liquor tax. | Whiskey Rebellion |
| Boston patriot ,politician of the American Revolution, leader of the Massachusetts “radicals,” delegate to the Continental Congress, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. | Sam Adams |
| British colonial region, founded primarily by Puritans seeking to establish a community of like-minded religious believers, known for its close-knit, homogenous society and thriving mixed economy. | New England |
| A revival of religious feeling in the American colonies during the 1730s and 1750s. | Great Awakening |
| British colonial region which relied on the cultivation of tobacco, based on white indentured servants and African chattel | Chesapeake |
| 1795 treaty that defined the boundaries of the United States with the Spanish colonies and guaranteed the United States navigation rights on the Mississippi River. | Pinckney Treaty |
| A law, enacted in 1830, that forced Native American peoples east of the Mississippi to move to the lands of the West. | Indian Removal Act |
| Business in which investors pool their wealth for a common purpose (like founding a colony). | joint-stock company |
| Representatives discussed relations with the Native American tribes on common defensive measures during the French and Indian War, | Albany Congress |
| A pre-Civil War set of measures designed to unify the nation and strengthen the economy by means of protective tariffs, a national bank, and such internal improvements | American System |
| American leader in the women’s rights movement .in 1848 formulated the first organized demand for woman suffrage in the United States. | Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| An unsuccessful proposal of a series of measures intended to stall the start of the Civil War. | Crittenden Plan |
| Amendment to the Constitution of the United States that granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves who had been emancipated after the Civil War | 14th amendment |
| American educator, social reformer, and humanitarian whose devotion to the welfare of the mentally ill led to widespread reforms in the United States and abroad. | Dorothea Dix |
| The name given to the American Party, formed in the 1850s, to curtail the political influence of immigrants. | Know Nothing Party |
| African American who was one of the most eminent human rights leaders of the 19th century. His oratorical and literary brilliance thrust him into the forefront of the U.S. abolition movement, a | Frederick Douglass |
| The response to the Boston Tea Party by Parliament in 1774 that included a series of measures, such as closing the Boston Harbor, the Quartering Act, and placing Boston under martial law. | Intolerable Acts |
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