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APUSH Winter Terms
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History
11th Grade
02/24/2013

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Women's Rights Activists
(List Three)
Definition
Grimke Sisters, Susan B. Anthony,Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Homestead Act
Definition
Settlers can acquire ~160 acres by living for 5 years. Women can own land.
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15th Amendment
Definition
All men can vote
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Seneca Falls
(What happened?)
Definition
Women Suffrage Meeting. Declaration of Rights and Sentiments.
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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
(Year + What Happened)
Definition
1911. 100 women dead.
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19th Amendment
Definition
Women's Suffrage!
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Who opened first birth control clinic in US?
Definition
Margaret Sanger, 1916.
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First black newspaper
Definition
Freedom's Journal, 1829.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
Definition
Both states choose status by popular sovereignty. Causes Bleeding Kansas
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Freedmen's Bureau
(Year?)
Definition
1865
Term
Battle of Little Big Horn
(Who derped hardcore?)
Definition
General Custer
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Chinese Exclusion Act
(Year?)
Definition
1882
Term
Gold Standard
(Year switched to?)
Definition
1873
Term
Seward's Folly
(Year + What happened?)
Definition
1867, Seward buys Alaska.
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McKinley Tariff
Definition
1890. 48%.
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Roosevelt Corollary
Definition
Add-on to Monroe Doctrine, US can act as police in Western hemisphere. 1905.
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Root-Takahira Agreement
Definition
US-Japan. US promises not to interfere with Japanese takeover of Korea. Secret. 1908.
Term
Ford's Model-T
(Year?)
Definition
1908
Term
Gag Resolution
Definition
1836. Andrew Jackson. No anti-slavery talk in Congress.
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Treasury Bill of 1840/Divorce Bill
Definition
Spreads money out from central bank, shuts down road building projects, sells tools.
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Election of 1840
Definition
Dem- Van Buren, Whig- Harrison, Liberty- James Birney. Harrison wins, dies from pneumonia. John Tyler pres.
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Prigg vs. Pennsylvania
Definition
1842. Officials must help retrieve runaway slaves.
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Election of 1844
Definition
Dem- James Polk, Whig- Henry Clay, Liberty- James Birney. Polk wins.
Term
Mr. Polk's War
Definition
1846. Vs. Mexico.
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Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Definition
Ends US vs. Mexico war. $100 mill to Mexico in exchange for land above Rio Grande.
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Gadsden Purchase
Definition
1853. That strip of land in southern New Mexico.
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Election of 1848
Definition
Dem- Lewis Cass, Whig- Zachary Taylor, Free Soil- Van Buren. Taylor wins.
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Election of 1852
Definition
Dem- Franklin Pierce, Whig- Winfield Scott, Free Soil- John P. Hale. Pierce wins.
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1850 Compromise
Definition
States choose status through popular sovereignty, tougher fugitive slave act.
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Election of 1856
Definition
Dem- James Buchanan, Repub- John C. Freemont, Know-Nothing- Millard Fillmore. Buchanan wins.
Term
Election of 1860
Definition
Dem (North)- Douglas, Dem (South)- Breckinridge, Repub- Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln wins.
Term
What year did SC secede?
Definition
1860
Term
Civil War
(Years?)
Definition
1861-1865
Term
Emancipation Proclamation
(Year?)
Definition
1863
Term
Where did the Confederacy surrender?
Definition
Appomattox Courthouse
Term
Ku Klux Klan
(Year, Founder?)
Definition
1865, Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Term
Civil Rights Act
Definition
1866. Full rights to all native-born US citizens (except natives)
Term
14th Amendment
Definition
Guarantees civil rights
Term
Year Lincoln was shot?
Definition
1865
Term
Burlingame Treaty
Definition
1868. Unrestricted immigration from China.
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Election of 1872
Definition
Lib- Grant, Repub- Horace Greeley. Grant wins.
Term
Election of 1876
Definition
Repub- Hutherford B. Hayes, Dem- Samuel J. Tilden. Screwy one.
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Compromise of 1877
Definition
Over election. Hayes becomes pres. Cannot run for second term. Troops leave South.
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Jim Crowe Laws
Definition
Keeping blacks down
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Pendleton Act
Definition
Most government positions require exam to be passed
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Election of 1880
Definition
Repub- James Garfield, Dem- Hancock. Garfield wins, shot. VP Chester A. Arthur pres.
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Election of 1884
Definition
Repub- Blaine, Dem- Grover Cleveland. Cleveland wins.
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Election of 1888
Definition
Dem- Cleveland, Repub- Harrison. Harrison wins bc wealth backup.
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Wabash Case
Definition
1886. Govt cannot deal w/ interstate commerce.
Term
Wounded Knee
Definition
Massacre of 3k Natives by US army
Term
Election of 1892
Definition
Cleveland wins.
Term
Election of 1896
Definition
Repub- William McKinley, Dem- Williams Jennings Bryan. McKinley wins.
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Open Door Policy
(Year + With whom?)
Definition
1898, with China.
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Election of 1900
Definition
McKinley reelected, shot. Roosevelt pres.
Term
Election of 1904
Definition
Roosevelt wins again.
Term
Election of 1908
Definition
Taft wins.
Term
Pure Food and Drug Act
Definition
1906. Labeling for products. Bc Sinclair's "The Jungle."
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Meat Inspection Act
Definition
1906. Obv.
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Election of 1912
Definition
Wilson wins.
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Zimmerman Telegram
Definition
Intercepted by US 1917. Germany wants Mexico to attack US.
Term
Election of 1920
Definition
Harding wins. Dies in office, Coolidge succeeds.
Term
18th Amendment
Definition
Prohibition
Term
WWI
(Years?)
Definition
1914-1918
Term
Election of 1928
Definition
Hoover wins.
Term
Wall Street Crash
Definition
1929. Great Depression begins.
Term
Virginia Slave Code
Definition
1705. One drop of black blood= slave.
Term
Dawes Severalty Act
Definition
1887. Division of Native land into plots.
Term
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Definition
Separate but equal is equal.
Term
Munn vs. Illinois
Definition
Certain companies, such as RR, can be regulated by states
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Dred Scott vs. Sandford
Definition
US Government cannot regulate slave laws in territories. Slaves are not citizens.
Term
Muller vs. Oregon
Definition
Limited work hours for women
Term
Cherokee Nation vs. Georgia
Definition
Cherokee Nation is a dependent nation. US is its ward.
Term
Lochner vs. NY
Definition
Max working hours don't exist
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