AH1 Final Exam Review

Amendments/Court Cases

100

Abolished slavery and gave citizenship and suffrage to African Americans

What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?

200

The Supreme Court decided that slaves were property and did not have the citizenship right to sue in court

What is Dred Scott v Sanford? 

300

Established judicial review as the role of the Supreme Court

What is Marbury v Madison?

400

Case that established implied powers- states can not tax a federal government institution; federal government is supreme

What is McCulloch v Maryland?

500

The addition to the Constitution that was demanded before Antifederalists would agree to ratify the document 

What are the Bill of Rights?

Documents in US History

100

First official government of the US that provided a very weak national government

What is the Articles of Confederation?

200

Shifted the war aims from preserving the Union to ending slavery in order to weaken the Confederacy 

What is the Emancipation Proclamation?

300

First examples of American self government and democracy

What are the Mayflower Compact and the Virginia House of Burgesses?

400

Key document from the women's rights movement demanding that women should be guaranteed the same rights as men

What is the Declaration of Sentiments?

500

Collection of political essays encouraging support for the ratification of the Constitution; written by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay

What are the Federalist Papers?

Reform Movements

100

Political movement that called for government regulation of big business, a graduated income tax, and secret and less corrupt elections

What is Populism?

200

Movement led by William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass 

What is the Abolitionist Movement?

300

Leader of the Education Movement during the Antebellum period

Who is Horace Mann?

400

Movement led mainly by religious women's organizations that foreshadowed the passing of the 18th Amendment

What is the Temperance Movement?

500

Two main leaders of the women's suffrage movement during the Antebellum period

Who are Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton?

US Foreign Policy

100

Caused by salutary neglect, the Proclamation Line, and Mercantilism

What is the American Revolution?

200

Peace agreement that ended the Mexican American War

What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

300

Warned Europeans against interference in the Western hemisphere

What is the Monroe Doctrine?

400

Resulted in an increase in US manufacturing, weakening of the Federalist Party, and Andrew Jackson becoming a war hero

What is the War of 1812?

500

President that encouraged expansion (Manifest Destiny) and supported a war with Mexico

Who is James K Polk?

US Legislation/ Compromises

100

Ended Reconstruction after Rutherford B Hayes was elected president 

What is the Compromise of 1877?

200

Brought Maine in as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. Created the 36 30 line that would not allow slavery to spread north of the line.

What is the Missouri Compromise?

300

Law that overturned the Missouri Compromise and led to violence as pro and anti-slavery forces fought over the spread of slavery 

What is the Kansas- Nebraska Act?

400

Compromise that brought California into the Union as a free state, remainder of Mexican Cession was divided into two territories where the future of slavery would be determined by popular sovereignty, a stronger Fugitive Slave Act, and the abolishment of the slave trade in DC

What is the Compromise of 1850?

500

Constitutional Compromise that created a bicameral legislature (House of Representatives and Senate)

What is the Great (Connecticut) Compromise?