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AP US Notecards
An amalgamation of goodness - AP United States History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Federalist | political party 1792-1816; strong and fiscally sound government;supported national bank and Hamiltonian policies; founded by Alexander Hamilton |
| Anti-Federalist | political party late 18th, early 19th centuries; supported states rights and weak government; opposed Hamiltonian Policy; supporters of Thomas Jefferson |
| Democratic-Republican | political party 1792-1824; originally created by Thomas Jefferson to oppose Federalists; strict construction of the Constitution |
| National Republican | political party 1825-1833;formed after the split of the Democratic-Republicans, supporters of John Adams; anti-Jacksonites, run by Henry Clay; backed the American System of internal improvements and a protective tariff; succeeded by the Whig party |
| Republican | Founded in 1854 by anti-slavery expansion activists, the Republican Party surpassed the Whig Party as opposition to the Democratic Party; came to power in 1860 with Abraham Lincoln and presided over the American Civil War and Reconstruction |
| Free Soil | active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections; anti-slavery third party, opposed to western expansion of slavery; nominated Van Buren in 1848; were absorbed by Republican Party in 1854 |
| Greenback | political party 1874-1884; opposed shift from paper money back to species-based on grounds of private business control; supported income tax, eight-hour work day, womens suffrage, and assistance to farmers |
| Bull Moose | Also known as Progressive party; formed by Theodore Roosevelt after he lost Republican nomination to Taft; possibly allowed Woodrow Wilson to win due to the Republican splintering |
| Dixiecrat | Also known as the States' Rights Democratic Party; segregationist, socially conservative political party in the United States; split from Democratic Party in 1948; nominated Strom Thurmond as candidate; slogan was "Segregation Forever!" |
| Socialist | Formed in 1901; nominated Eugene Debs as candidate; support from trade unionists, progressive social reformers, populist farmers, and immigrant communities |
| Democratic | Following the Democratic-Republican Split, formed in the 1830's as followers of Andrew Jackson |
| Whigs | political party from 1833 - 1856; opposed Jacksonian Democracy; supported supremacy of Congress over executive branch |
| Liberty | political party in 1840's; broke away from American Anti-Slavery Society due to conflicts with William L. Garrison's leadership; nominated James Birney; succeeded by the Free Soil Party |
| Know-Nothing | political movement in 1840's and 50's; nativist and anti-Catholic; strove to curb immigration and naturalization; was absorbed into Republican Party |
| Populist | political party late 19th century; popular among Western farmers, mainly for opposition to gold standard; favored a silver standard; nominated W. J. Bryan in 1896, who gave his "Cross of Gold" speech |
| Progressive (1924) | political party of 1924; nominated La Follette to run against Calvin Coolidge; continuation of the 1912 Party known as the Bull Moose Party |
| American Independent | political party of 1968; nominee was George Wallace, who took the Deep South, due to his support of Segregation. Strongest ever third party showing. |
| 1800 Election | Thomas Jefferson defeats John Adams; Aaron Burr becomes Vice-President; first transfer of power between parties from Federalist to Democratic-Republican. |
| 1824 Election | "Corrupt Bargain"; John Q. Adams defeats Andrew Jackson, Crawford, and Henry Clay. Decided in the House of Representatives after noone got a majority; Andrew Jackson had popular vote, but lost when House leader favored Adams |
| 1860 Election | Abraham Lincoln defeats Breckinridge, Bell, and Douglas. The Democratic Split allowed the Republican Party to gain a victory. |
| 1876 Election | Hayes defeated Tilden after an electoral count of 184 Tilden to 165 Hayes, with 20 votes uncounted. These all went to Hayes after much dispute, in return for his word to withdraw troops from the Reconstruction South. |
| 1896 Election | William McKinley defeats William Jennings Bryan; first "modern campaigning" election - Mark Hanna; realigning election, Western states became important to a win; issues included Gold standard and tariffs. |
| 1912 Election | Wilson defeated Roosevelt and Taft; Teddy Roosevelt splits to Independent (Bull Moose) Party to run for third term; Socialist Party (Eugene Debs) also had a large showing. |
| 1932 Election | Franklin Delano Roosevelt defeats Herbert Hoover; Roosevelt promised reform with New Deal; 1932 Stock Market led to lack of faith in Hoover |
| 1948 Election | Greatest election upset in history; Truman defeats Dewey and Thurmond despite a 3-way party split; Chicago Tribune was so confident it published "Dewey defeats Truman" the day prior, only to have Truman win the election. |
| 1960 Election | John F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon; closest popular vote in history; both candidates born in 20th Century; Kennedy was first Roman-Catholic president |
| 1980 Election | Ronald Reagan defeats Jimmy Carter; aided by Iran hostage crisis and the worsening economy |
| Samuel Adams | |
| John Hancock | |
| Thomas Gage | |
| Charles Cornwallis | |
| Benedict Arnold | |
| Ethan Allen | |
| John Locke | |
| Horatio Gates | |
| Alexander Hamilton | |
| Benjamin Banneker | |
| Henry Knox | |
| Edmond Charles Genet | |
| Eli Whitney | |
| Robert Livinston | |
| William Gregg | |
| Sacajawea | |
| Zebulon Pike | |
| Aaron Burr | |
| Tecumseh | |
| Henry D. Thoreau | |
| Margaret Fuller | |
| Washington Irving | |
| John James Audubon | |
| William H. Harrison | |
| Andrew Jackson | |
| John Fitch | |
| Denmark Vesey | |
| Daniel Webster | |
| John Calhoun | |
| Thomas Hart Benton | |
| Martin Van Buren | |
| Robert Owen | |
| Emma Willard | |
| Dorothea Dix | |
| George Caleb Bingham | |
| William Lloyd Garrison | |
| Frederick Douglass | |
| John Rolfe | |
| Powhatan | |
| William Bradford | |
| Samoset | |
| King Philip | |
| George Calvert | |
| John Berkeley | |
| John Winthrop | |
| David Rittenhouse | |
| James Oglethorpe | |
| Cadwallader Colden | |
| George III | |
| Edmond Burke | |
| Patrick Henry | |
| George Washington | |
| John Adams | |
| John Dickinson | |
| Thomas Hutchinson | |
| John Burgoyne | |
| William Howe | |
| Nathan Hale | |
| Thomas Paine | |
| Nathanael Greene | |
| Francis Marion | |
| James Madison | |
| John Jay | |
| Edmond Randolph | |
| John Singleton Copley | |
| John Marshall | |
| Lewis and Clark | |
| Robert Fulton | |
| John Randolph | |
| James Wilkinson | |
| Francis Scott Key | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| Walt Whitman | |
| Edgar Allen Poe | |
| Stephen Austin | |
| Oliver Perry | |
| Samuel Slater | |
| Richard Arkwright | |
| John Quincy Adams | |
| William Crawford | |
| Henry Clay | |
| Nicholas Biddle | |
| Nat Turner | |
| Mary Lyon | |
| Samuel Howe | |
| Horace Mann | |
| Benjamin Lundy | |
| Theodore Weld | |
| Louis Agassiz | |
| James Polk | |
| Zachary Taylor | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | |
| James Buchanan | |
| Stephen Douglas | |
| John Bell | |
| Abraham Lincoln | |
| Alexander Stephens | |
| Salmon P. Chase | |
| Thaddeus Stevens | |
| James Mason | |
| Albert S. Johnston | |
| George McClellan | |
| Ambrose Burnside | |
| George Meade | |
| Philip Sheridan | |
| Thomas Jackson | |
| Andrew Johnson | |
| Ulysses S. Grant | |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | |
| Thomas Edison | |
| Edward Bellamy | |
| Thorstein Veblen | |
| Booker T. Washington | |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | |
| J.P. Morgan | |
| John D. Rockefeller | |
| Geronimo | |
| Oliver Kelley | |
| Alexander Graham Bell | |
| Samuel Gompers | |
| Jacob Riis | |
| James Weaver | |
| Henry Barnard | |
| Charles Darwin | |
| William Sumner | |
| Charles Pierce | |
| Mark Twain | |
| William Dean Howells | |
| Frederick Jackson Turner | |
| Tom Watson | |
| Alfred Mahan | |
| George Dewey | |
| Louis Sullivan | |
| John Dewey | |
| William R. Hearst | |
| Frank Boas | |
| Lincoln Steffens | |
| Upton Sinclair | |
| Herbert Croly | |
| Frederic Remington | |
| Richard Ballinger | |
| William Taft | |
| Woodrow Wilson | |
| Victoriana Huerta | |
| John Pershing | |
| Winfield Scott | |
| Franklin Pierce | |
| Harriet Tubman | |
| Roger Taney | |
| John Breckinridge | |
| Jefferson Davis | |
| William Seward | |
| Charles Sumner | |
| Clement Vallandigham | |
| John Slidell | |
| Henry Halleck | |
| John Pope | |
| Joseph Hooker | |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | |
| Matthew Brady | |
| Robert E. Lee | |
| William T. Fessenden | |
| Susan B. Anthony | |
| Helen Hunt Jackson | |
| Henry George | |
| Henry Demarest Lloyd | |
| Roscoe Conkling | |
| W.E.B. DuBois | |
| Jay Gould | |
| Andrew Carnegie | |
| Mark Hanna | |
| Red Cloud | |
| Uriah Stephens | |
| Terence Powderly | |
| Dwight Moody | |
| Jane Addams | |
| Washington Gladden | |
| William Jennings Bryan | |
| Herbert Spencer | |
| Lester F. Ward | |
| William James | |
| Bret Harte | |
| Winslow Homer | |
| Jacob Coxey | |
| Mary B. Lease | |
| Thomas Reed | |
| Charles Eliot | |
| Mary Cassatt | |
| Joseph Pulitzer | |
| Theodore Roosevelt | |
| Ida Tarbell | |
| Frank Norris | |
| Joseph Cannon | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | |
| Robert La Follette | |
| Gifford Pinchot | |
| Louis Brandeis | |
| Francho Villa | |
| Venustiano Carranza | |
| Ferdinand Foch | |
| Toleration Act of 1649 | |
| Wool Act | |
| Sugar Act | |
| Declaratory Act | |
| Intolerable or Coercive Acts | |
| Judiciary Act of 1789 | |
| Northwest Ordinance | |
| Alien and Sedition Acts | |
| Bernard Baruch | |
| Charles Evans Hughes | |
| Alice Paul | |
| Herbert Hoover | |
| A. Mitchell Palmer | |
| Jackson Pollock | |
| Andrew Mellon | |
| Harry Sinclair | |
| Charles Forbes | |
| Marcus Garvey | |
| John Scopes | |
| Robert and Helen Lynd | |
| Ernest Hemingway | |
| Countee Cullen | |
| Langston Hughes | |
| Carl Sandberg | |
| William Foster | |
| Franklin Roosevelt | |
| Father Charles Coughlin | |
| Harold Ickes | |
| Harold Rugg | |
| Robert Frost | |
| Eugene Debs | |
| Charles and Mary Beard | |
| John M. Keynes | |
| Margaret Sanger | |
| Warren Harding | |
| Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti | |
| Edward Doheny | |
| Albert Fall | |
| Calvin Coolidge | |
| Charles Lindbergh | |
| Charles Chaplin | |
| H.L. Mencken | |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| Sinclair Lewis | |
| Frank L. Wright | |
| Grant Wood | |
| Norman Thomas | |
| Huey Long | |
| Dr. Francis Townsend | |
| Harry Hopkins | |
| Albert Einstein | |
| John Steinbeck | |
| Frances Perkins | |
| Walt Disney | |
| George Marshall | |
| Chester Nimitz | |
| Harry S. Truman | |
| Alger Hiss | |
| Strom Thurmond | |
| Dwight Eisenhower | |
| Thurgood Marshall | |
| John Foster Dulles | |
| Malcolm X | |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | |
| Betty Freidan | |
| Robert McNamara | |
| Hubert Humphrey | |
| George Wallace | |
| Andy Warhol | |
| Henry Kissinger | |
| Geraldine Ferraro | |
| Gloria Steinem | |
| Shirley Chrisholm | |
| Jerry Falwell | |
| Jimmy Carter | |
| George Bush | |
| Norman Schwarzkopf | |
| George Patton | |
| Douglas MacArthur | |
| Arthur Vandenberg | |
| Joseph McCarthy | |
| Dean Acheson | |
| Adlai Stevenson | |
| Jonas Salk | |
| J.D. Salinger | |
| John F. Kennedy | |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | |
| Dean Rusk | |
| Richard Nixon | |
| Spiro Agnew | |
| Leonard Bernstein | |
| Barbara Jordan | |
| Gerald Ford | |
| Billy Graham | |
| Cesar Chavez | |
| Eldridge Cleaver | |
| Jesse Jackson | |
| Ronald Reagan | |
| Colin Powell | |
| James Baker | |
| Missouri Compromise | |
| 1832 Tariff | |
| Gag Rule | |
| Personal Liberty Laws | |
| 1851 Policy Concentration | |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | |
| Pacific Railway Act | |
| Wade-Davis Bill | |
| Timber and Culture Act | |
| 1882 Exclusion Act | |
| Interstate Commerce Act | |
| Sherman Anti-Trust Act | |
| Sherman Silever Purchase Act | |
| Elkins Act | |
| Meat Inspection Act | |
| Mann-Elikins Act | |
| Federal Trade Commission Act | |
| Clayton Anti-Trust Act | |
| Adamson Act | |
| Smith-Lever Act | |
| Sedition Act | |
| National Origins Act | |
| Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act | |
| Glass-Steagall Act | |
| National Industrial Recovery Act | |
| Tennessee Valley Act | |
| Social Security Act | |
| Fair Labor Standards Act | |
| Smith Act | |
| Elementary and Secondary Education Act | |
| 1964 Civil Rights Act | |
| 1968 Civil Rights Act | |
| Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act | |
| Navigation Acts | |
| Hat Act | |
| Proclamation Act | |
| Stamp Act | |
| Townshend Acts | |
| Quebec Act | |
| Land Ordinance | |
| Hamilton's Financial Program | |
| Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions | |
| 1828 Tariff of Abominations | |
| Force Bill | |
| Compromise Tariff of 1833 | |
| Compromise of 1850 | |
| Dawes Severalty Act | |
| Homestead Act | |
| Morrill Land Grant Act | |
| Bland-Allison Act | |
| Timber and Stone Act | |
| Pendleton Act | |
| McKinley Tariff | |
| Dingley Tariff | |
| Hepburn Act | |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | |
| Payne-Aldrich Act | |
| Federal Reserve Act | |
| Keating-Owen Act | |
| Smith-Hughes Act | |
| Espionage Act | |
| Fordney-McCumber Tariff | |
| McNary-Haugen Bill | |
| Hawley-Smoot Tariff | |
| The Federal Securities Act | |
| 1st Agricultural Adjustment Act | |
| Works Progress Administration | |
| Wagner Act | |
| 2nd Agricultural Adjustment Act | |
| Taft-Hartley Act | |
| National Defense Education Act | |
| Voting Rights Act | |
| War Powers Act | |
| Simpson-Mazolli | |
| 1st Amendment | |
| 2nd Amendment | |
| 3rd Amendment | |
| 4th Amendment | |
| 5th Amendment | |
| 6th Amendment | |
| 7th Amendment | |
| 8th Amendment | |
| 9th Amendment | |
| 10th Amendment | |
| 11th Amendment | |
| 12th Amendment | |
| 13th Amendment | |
| 14th Amendment | |
| 15th Amendment | |
| 16th Amendment | |
| 17th Amendment | |
| 18th Amendment | |
| 19th Amendment | |
| 20th Amendment | |
| 21st Amendment | |
| 22nd Amendment | |
| 23rd Amendment | |
| 24th Amendment | |
| 25th Amendment | |
| 26th Amendment | |
| Treaty of Paris 1763 | |
| Jay Treaty | |
| Treaty of Ghent | |
| Adams-Onis (Transcontinental) Treaty | |
| 1846 Treaty with Great Britain | |
| Clayton-Bulwer Treaty | |
| Treaty of Paris 1899 | |
| Treaty of Versailles | |
| Camp David Accords | |
| XYZ Affairs | |
| Non-Intercourse Act | |
| Monroe Doctrine | |
| Ostend Manifesto | |
| Pan-American Conference | |
| Teller Amendment | |
| Roosevelt Corollary | |
| Platt amendment | |
| Missionary Diplomacy | |
| Washington Conference | |
| Young Plan | |
| London Naval Conference | |
| Stimson Doctrine | |
| Neutrality Acts | |
| Cash and Carry | |
| Lend-Lease Act | |
| Casablanca Conference | |
| Yalta Conference | |
| Potsdam Conference | |
| Containment Policy | |
| Marshall Plan | |
| OAS | |
| Treaty of Paris 1783 | |
| Pinckney Treaty | |
| Rush-Bagot Agreement | |
| Webster-Ashburton Treaty | |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | |
| Treaty of Washington | |
| Hay-Pauncefote Treaty | |
| 1978 Treaty with Panama | |
| Washington's Farewell Address | |
| Embargo Act | |
| Macon's Bill, No. 2 | |
| Panama Conference | |
| Seal Controversy | |
| New Manifest Destiny | |
| Open Door Policy | |
| Big Stick Diplomacy | |
| Dollar Diplomacy | |
| Fourteen Points | |
| Dawes Plan | |
| Kellogg-Briand Pact | |
| Clark Memorandum | |
| Good Neighbor Policy | |
| Panay Affair | |
| Destroyers-for-Bases | |
| Atlantic Charter | |
| Dunbarton Oaks Conference | |
| United Nations | |
| Cold War | |
| Truman Doctrine | |
| NATO | |
| SEATO | |
| CENTO | |
| Brinksmanship | |
| Eisenhower Doctrine | |
| Peaceful Coexistence | |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | |
| Desert Storm | |
| Geneva Accords | |
| Domino Theory | |
| Alliance for Progress | |
| Detente | |
| SALT Talks | |
| Great Awakening | |
| Committees of Correspondence | |
| Second Continental Congress | |
| Yazoo Land Frauds | |
| Erie Canal | |
| "54'40'' or Fight" | |
| Shakers | |
| Cooper Unions | |
| John Brown's Raid | |
| Fort sumter | |
| Trent Florida | |
| Merrimac | |
| Congressional Reconstruction | |
| Comstock Lode | |
| Crime of '73 | |
| The Grange | |
| Murchison Letter | |
| American Federation of Labor | |
| Atlanta Compromise | |
| Peabody Fund | |
| Progressives | |
| Court Packing | |
| Black Panthers | |
| American Indian Movement | |
| Albany Plan of Union | |
| Stamp Act Congress | |
| Annapolis Convention | |
| Hartford Convention | |
| Second Great Awakening | |
| Seneca Fals Meeting | |
| Brook Farm | |
| Popular Sovereignty | |
| Freeport Doctrine | |
| Copperheads | |
| Alabama | |
| Presidential Reconstruction | |
| Custer's Last Stand | |
| Promontory Point | |
| Robber Baron | |
| Farmers Alliance | |
| Mulligan Letters | |
| Wounded Knee | |
| Homestead Strike | |
| Slater Fund | |
| Wisconsin Idea | |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | |
| Black Muslims | |
| NASA | |
| Sons of Liberty | |
| First Continental Congress | |
| Essex Junto | |
| National Road | |
| Lyceum Movement | |
| Mormons | |
| Young America | |
| Emigrant Aid Society | |
| Crittenden Compromise | |
| Chivington's Massacre | |
| Monitor | |
| Black Codes | |
| "Bloody Shirt" | |
| Bourbon Democrats | |
| Chautauqua Movement | |
| Mugwumps | |
| Knights of Labor | |
| Populists | |
| Pullman Strike | |
| Muckrakers | |
| New Deal Program | |
| Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) | |
| National Organization for Women | |
| Southern Christian Leader Conference (SCLC) | |
| Marbury v. Madison | |
| Gibbons v. Ogden | |
| Cherokee Nation v. Georgia | |
| Prigg v. Pennsylvania | |
| Ex parte Milligan | |
| Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway Company v. Illinois | |
| United States v. EC Knight Company | |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | |
| Lochner v. New York | |
| Hammer v. Dagenhart | |
| Schecter v. United States | |
| Korematsu v. United States | |
| Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka | |
| Gideon v. Wainwright | |
| Miranda v. Arizona | |
| McCulloch v. Maryland | |
| Dartmouth College v. Woodward | |
| Comonwealth v. Hunt | |
| Dred Scott v. Sandford | |
| Munn v. Illinois | |
| Reagan v. Farmers' Loan and Trust Co. | |
| Muller v. Oregon | |
| Schenk v. United States | |
| United States v. Butler | |
| Ex parte Endo | |
| Yates v. United States | |
| United States v. Richard M. Nixon | |
| Roe et al v. Wade | |
| Appalachians to Mississipi | |
| Florida | |
| Mexican Cession | |
| Alaska | |
| Wake | |
| Guam | |
| Puerto Rico | |
| Panama Canal Zone | |
| Louisiana Purchase | |
| Texas | |
| Gadsden Purchase | |
| Midway | |
| Hawaii | |
| Philippines | |
| American Samoa | |
| Virgin Islands | |
| Peggy Eaton Affair | |
| Whiskey Ring | |
| Teapot Dome Scandal | |
| Sherman Adams | |
| Iran-Contra | |
| Credit Mobilier | |
| Tweed Ring | |
| Veterans' Bureau | |
| Watergate |
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