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AP US History Final Grab Bag Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Townshend Acts | taxed glass, paint, lead, paper, and tea; was to establish a fund that would pay the salaries of governors and other royal officials in America to take away the assemblie's power of the purse |
| Committees of Correspondence | the colonists' first attempt to maintain close and continuing political cooperation over a wide area. By linking almost every interior community to Boston, the system allowed Samuel Adams to communicate to local committees. |
| Coercive Acts | "Intolerable Acts" closed Boston harbor; restructured Massachussetts government to allow for more direct control by the crown; allowed any who committed murder to be tried in England;Quartering Act of 1765; pushed colonists to rebellion |
| Olive Branch Petition | polite demands for a ceasefire at Boston, repeal of the Coercive Acts; negotiations to establish guarantees of American rights |
| Mercantilism | politics aimed at making a nation economically self-sufficient as possible |
| Battle of Saratoga | 1777- the turning point of the war; American win; showed France that Americans had the power to win the war |
| The Peace of Paris 1783 | awarded the US all lands east of the Mississsippi; ratified American Independence |
| Articles of Confederation | gave each state its own sovereignty; national government was a single chambered Congress elected by state legislatures in which each state had one vote; could not regulate trade or tax; no executive or judicial branch |
| Ordinance of 1785 | established uniform procedures for surveying land in the Northwest Territory |
| Virginia Plan | favorable to large states;called for strong central government; bicameral legislature based on state population |
| New Jersey Plan | unicameral government; each state had fixed numbers of representatives |
| Conneticut Compromise | equal vote for each state in the Upper House and proportional voting in the lower house |
| Marbury vs. Madison | established the power of judicial review |
| Non-intercourse Act | (Madison) opened trade to all nations except Britain and France and authorized Congress to restore trade and with them if they stopped violating neutral rights |
| Treaty of Ghent | (1814) ended war of 1812; US neither gains nor loses territory; boundary fixed between US and Canada; nothing done about impressment |
| XYZ Affair | Adams sent American delegation to meet with French foreign minister Talleyrand; he refuses to meet with them and sends 3 low level men (XYZ) who promised they could see Talleyrand for $; Americans pledge "millions for defense, not one cent for tribute." |
| Wilmont Proviso | forbid slavery from being permitted in any territory acquired by negotiations in the Mexican American war; |
| Adam-Onis Treaty | 1819 Spain gave Florida to the US |
| 13th Amendment | emancipated the slaves |
| 14th Amendment | made all people born or naturalized in the US citizens with rights to equal protection under the law |
| 15th Amendment | prohibits states for forbidding the right to vote due to race color or previous condition of servitude |
| Trenton | After crossing the Delaware, George Washington's men set up an ambush on the Hessian soldiers camped in Trenton; big success; eight days later win Battle of Princedon |
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