APUSH - First Semester Final Review

Colonial America

100

These 18th century movements challenged traditional structures of authority through reason and faith.

Enlightenment & Great Awakening

200

This cash crop allowed the Chesapeake colonies to flourish economically and expand geographically.

Tobacco

300

The goal of this policy was to increase Massachusetts Bay's declining church membership.

Half-Way Covenant

400

This British economic policy of strictly regulating trade with its colonies was implemented through the Navigation Acts.

Mercantilism

500

This person was banished from Massachusetts Bay for challenging gender roles and religious orthodoxy.

Anne Hutchinson

The Constitution & Early Republic

100

This failed constitution lacked executive power and sufficient power of taxation.

Articles of Confederation

200

This agreement resolved the dispute between equal representation in Congress (New Jersey plan) and proportional representation (Virginia plan).

Connecticut Compromise (Great Compromise)

300

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay wrote these famous documents in an effort to persuade the American public to ratify the new Constitution.

The Federalist Papers

400

Federalist President John Adams sought to silence the voice of the rival Democratic-Republican party through this legislation.

Alien & Sedition Acts

500

This policy outlined the process for admitting new states into the union.

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Westward Expansion & Early Industrialization

100

This president is associated with revolutionizing American democracy through increased voter participation and the spoils system.

Andrew Jackson

200

This policy regulated slavery in the territory acquired in the Louisiana purchase by prohibiting it north of the 36°30′ parallel.

Missouri Compromise

300

The system of manufacturing products with interchangeable parts and Henry Clay's program of internal improvements share this common name.

The "American system"

400

This semi-secret political party was built upon the idea of nativism and strongly opposed Irish immigration

Know-Nothing Party (American Party)

500

He was the "Manifest Destiny President" or "Napoleon of the Stump."

James K. Polk

The Civil War& Reconstruction

100

These laws limiting the freedom and economic opportunities of African Americans were prohibited by the 14th Amendment.

Black Codes

200

This law was included in the Compromise of 1850 and greatly empowered Southern slave owners to recapture slaves who had fled to the North.

Fugitive Slave Law (Act)

300

This is the name for the enduring conflict between pro- and anti-slavery following the Kansas-Nebraska Acts. John Brown's Pottawatomie Massacre occurred during it.

Bleeding Kansas

400

This battle was the turning point in the Civil War - it showed the capability of Grant and prevented the Confederates from ever going on the offensive again.

Battle of Vicksburg

500

This controversial deal resulted in the military's withdrawal from the south and Republican Rutherford B. Hayes winning the presidency.

Compromise of 1877 (Corrupt Bargain II)

Famous Thinkers & Reformers

100

This thinker emphasized simplicity, self-reliance and the divine value of nature.

Henry David Thoreau

200

Man who founded the Mormon faith and was ultimately killed for challenging traditional Christian dogma.

Joseph Smith

300

This "founding mother" was one of America's first feminist and reminded her husband to "remember the ladies" when considering the values to be written intro the Declaration of Independence.

Abigail Adams

400

She participated in the Seneca Falls Convention and was advocate for both womens' rights and the rights of African Americans.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

500

This woman led a campaign to reform prisons and insane asylums.

Dorothea Dix