Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
APUSH Vocab
Important Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mercantilism | Economic philosophy where a mother country seeks to increase its wealth and power by establishing trade with its colonies. |
| Columbian Exchange | The exchange of plants and animals between the New World and Europe. |
| Half-Way Covenant | Established by the Puritans to ease the requirements for church membership. Allowed for the baptism of children of a baptized Puritan. |
| Enlightenment | 1700 philosophy that stressed that reason could be used to better the human condition. Thomas Jefferson |
| Deism | A belief that God created the universe, but allows it to operate through the laws of nature. Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin |
| First Great Awakening | Wave of religious revivals that spread across the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s. |
| Republican Government | The belief that the government should be based off the consent of the people. Inspired the American Revolution. |
| Separation of Powers | Refers to the division of power between the legislative, judicial, and executive branches of government. Advocated by Alexander Hamilton. |
| Checks n' Balances | The system in which each branch of the government can check the power of the other three branches. |
| Judicial Review | The Supreme Court can strike down an act of Congress by declaring it unconstitutional. Established in the case of Marbury v Madison. |
| American System | Henry Clay advocates for an American System to unite the country. Consists of a protective tariff, a national bank, and internal improvements (<--Unsuccessful). |
| Transcendentalism | Philosophical and literary movement of the 1800s that emphasized a simple life and celebrating the truth found in nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. |
| Perfectionism | The belief that humans can use conscious acts to will to create cooperative communities. Utopian Societies: Brook Farm, Oneida, New Harmony. |
| Second Great Awakening | Wave of religious revivals that spread across the American colonies in the 1800s and 1730s. Middle class women make Americans aware of the moral issues posed by slavery. |
| Jacksonian Democracy | Political beliefs associated with Jackson and his followers. Believed in the common man and appointed political supporters to government positions. |
| Nullification | Legal theory that state can nullify any federal law. |
| Manifest Destiny | 1800s belief that the United States has the God-given right to expand westward to the Pacific Ocean. |
| Popular Sovereignty | A principle that states that settlers of a given territory have the right to decide whether or not slavery will exist there. Caused questions to arise over the expansion of slavery. Kansas |
| Jim Crow Laws | Post-Civil war laws designed to discriminate against African Americans. |
| Social Gospel | An 1800s reform movement that stated that Christians have the responsibility to confront social problems. |
| Gospel of Wealth | An 1800a belief that the rich were the guardians of the society's wealth. It is the rich-man's duty to serve society in human ways. Andrew Carnegie. |
| Social Darwinism | An 1800s belief that there is natural evolutionary process where the fittest will survive. Used by wealthy business leaders to justify their success. John Rockefeller |
| Frontier Thesis | Refers to the argument by Frederick Turner that stated that the frontier experience helped make the United States more democratic. Emphasized the importance of cheap, unsettled land. |
| New Immigrants | A massive wave of immigrants who can to American from Southern and Eastern Europe. (Olds Immigrants: North and West) |
| Nativism | Favored the interests of native-born citizens of immigrants'. Political party was the Know-Nothings. Anti Irish/German Catholics. |
| Muckrakers | 1900s journalists who exposed the illegal business practices, social injustices, and corrupt urban political bosses (Tweed). Upton Sinclair, Jacob Riis, and Ida Tarbell. |
| Taylorism | System of scientific management developed by Frederick Taylor. Develop a disciplined labor source by eliminating wasted motion (more efficient). |
| Vertical Integration | When a company controls both the production and distribution of its products. Andrew Carnegie |
| Horizontal Integration | When a company gains control over all other companies that produce the same product. |
| Hoovervilles | Slums or shantytowns inhabited by unemployed and homeless during the Great Depression. |
| Laissez-Faire Economics | Economic belief stating that the economic activities should by largely free of government interference. |
| Isolationism | U.S. foreign policy calling for America to avoid entangling political alliances. Drew support from Washington's Farewell Address. Neutrality Acts of 1930s |
| Containment | U.S. Cold War foreign policy designed to contain or block the spread of Soviet influence. George Kennan (Diplomat and Soviet specialist) wrote an article advocating for a U.S. policy for the containment of Soviet influence. |
| McCarthyism | The making of public accusations without sufficient evidence. McCarthy played on the fear of American. Claimed that communists had infiltrated the U.S. State Dept. Created paranormal. Ended with his accusation of the US Army. |
| Domino Theory | A belief during the Cold War that if one country falls to communism, that its neighbors would also fall. |
| Massive Retaliation | Dulles Plan. Eisenhower's doctrine created by John Dulles. If the U.S. is attacked, they will retaliate with massive force (nuclear). |
| Black Power | 1960s movement that advocated for African Americans to establish control of their economic and political life. Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, and Huey Newton. |
| Hawk | Supported the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Believed that America should increase military force to win the war. |
| Dove | Opposed the war in Vietnam. Believed that the U.S. should withdrawn all forces from Vietnam. |
| Détente | The time of relaxed tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union/China. Introduced by Kissinger and President Nixon. EX: SALT, expanded trade with Soviets, and Nixon's visits to Moscow and China. |
| Reaganomics | The economic policies of President Reagan. Also called supply-side economics. Hoped to cut taxes, reduce social welfare, and increase military spending. |
Created by:
100000211510631
Popular U.S. History sets