Chesapeake Bay Area - Answer - majority of migrants who moves there were indentured servants, economy based on tobacco, few women, less democratic
Deism - Answer - the belief that God had created the world but allowed it to operate through the laws of nature
exodusters - Answer - african amer...
APUSH AP EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Chesapeake Bay Area - Answer - majority of migrants who moves there were
indentured servants, economy based on tobacco, few women, less democratic
Deism - Answer - the belief that God had created the world but allowed it to operate
through the laws of nature
exodusters - Answer - african americans who fled the violence of the Reconstruction
South in 1879 and 1880 to start a new in Kansas (west)
scalawags - Answer - term used by southerners in the reconstruction era for fellow
southerners who either supported republican reconstruction policies or gained
economically as a result of these policies, A derogatory term for Southerners who were
working with the North to buy up land from desperate Southerners
new south advocates - Answer - recovering from the devastation from the Civil War,
promoted a self-sufficient southern economy built on modern capitalist values, industrial
growth, and improved transportation--supported expansion of southern industry
open door policy - Answer - policy that China should be open to trade with all of the
major powers, including the US, should have equal rights to trade there. This was the
official position toward China as announced by secretary of state john hay in 1899. To
protect US economic interests in China
Greenback Labor Party - Answer - political party of the 1870s and early 1800s,
supported that govt should put more money in circulation and supported 8-hr work day
and female suffrage. received support from farmers. argued that more greenbacks
should be put in circulation to help farmers who were in debt
socialist party - Answer - 3rd party that gained popularity in the early 1900s. dedicated
to the welfare of the working class. called for more radical reforms than the progressives
favored: public ownership of the railroad, utilities, and even major industries such as oil
and steel
progressive party - Answer - called for reforming city government, better conditions for
urban workers, the education of newly arrived immigrants, and the regulation of big
businesses; use government power to regulate industrial production and labor
conditions
Palmer Raids - Answer - related to the fear of communism and radicalism; part of the
red scare; measure to hunt out political radicals and immigrants who were potential
threats to American Security. These raids let to the arrest of nearly 5,000 people and
the deportation of nearly 400
,Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" - Answer - 1962 book that helped launch the national
environmental movement
Missouri Compromise - Answer - an effort to maintain a balance between free and slave
states; admitted Maine to the Union as a free state, Missouri to the Union as a slave
stated, and stated that any part of the Louisiana Territory north of 36 degrees, 30
minutes would be non-slave territory; a victory for antislavery advocates b/c it closed
most of the Louisiana Purchase to slavery
Monroe Doctrine - Answer - maintained that European powers should not pursue any
future colonization in the Americas; stated that the Western Hemisphere was the
hemisphere of the US and not of Europe
Frederick Jackson Turner - Answer - wrote the frontier thesis which states that the
frontier experience played an essential role in shaping the unique character of American
society. It promotes independence and individualism. It was a key factor in the
development of American individualism and democracy
transcendentalism - Answer - Emerson and Thoreau. Argued for a mystical and intuitive
way of thinking as a means for discovering one's inner self and looking for the essence
of God in nature. Suggesting that artistic expression was more important than the
pursuit of wealth
Social Gospel - Answer - late 19th century; preaching that all true Christians should be
concerned with the plight of immigrants and other poor residents of American cities and
should financially support efforts to improve the lives o there poor people---> settlement
houses
Jacob Riis - Answer - involved in the reform movements of the late 19th and 20th
centuries for publicizing poor housing and sanitation in urban tenements; wrote "How
the Other Half Lives"
Cuban Missile Crisis - Answer - Conflict between the US and Soviet Union over Soviet
missiles discovered in Cuba; Soviets eventually removed the missiles under American
pressure; result: Soviets gained none of their objectives while the US emerged
victorious
Taft- Hartley Act - Answer - limited the powers of labor unions; presidents of some
industries can declare an 80-day cooling off period before a strike could actually take
place; allowed owners to sure unions over broken contracts and forced union leaders to
sign anticommunist oaths
Black Panthers - Answer - emphasized developing a greater sense of Black nationalism
and solidarity; protect blacks from police harassment; promoted militant black power;
, Nation of Islam - Answer - also emphasized developing a greater sense of Black
nationalism and solidarity; preached Islamic principles along with black pride and black
separatism
Bacon's Rebellion - Answer - result: tensions between backcountry farmers and the
tidewater gentry were exposed; led to a decline in white indentured servitude and rise in
black slavery; highlighted problems such as: class differences between wealthy planters
and landless or poor farmers & colonial resistance to royal control; signaled that colonial
governors struggled to contain domestic unrest
American System - Answer - economic plan promoted by the Speaker of the House;
promoted vigorous growth of the American economy and the use of protective tariffs to
encourage Americans to buy more domestic goods; a key purpose: to develop a
national economy by improving transportation; consisted of 3 parts (BIT: nation Bank,
Internal improvements, protective Tariffs
Booker T. Washington - Answer - head of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama; argued
that blacks' needs for education an economic progress were important; blacks should
concentrate on learning industrial skills for better wages; work on securing their
economic base
Robert La Follette - Answer - Member of the House, senator and Governor of the state
of Wisconsin, he brought about many democratic reforms in the state's politics,
including the nomination of candidates by direct vote and the regulation of railroad
rates. He also introduced the idea of direct appeal to the electorate on questions of
policy, called the referendum.
Ida. B Wells - Answer - principal public opponent of lynching in the South
1883 Civil Rights Cases - Answer - weakens the protections given to African Americans
under the 14th amendment; court ruled that congress could not legislate against the
racial discrimination practiced by private citizens which included: railroads, hotels, and
other businesses used by the public;
1873 Slaughterhouse Cases - Answer - also weakened the protections black were given
under the 14th amendment; the 15th and 14th amendments do not guarantee federal
protection of individual rights against discrimination by their own state governments-
distinction between state citizenship and national citizenship
mugwumps - Answer - Republican political activists who bolted from the United States
Republican Party by supporting Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland in the United
States presidential election of 1884. They switched parties because they rejected the
financial corruption associated with Republican candidate James G. Blaine.
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