AP US History Review

1. AP US History Review

2. Rebels

3. In 1676, _______’s Rebellion revealed tensions between Virginia’s government and poorer colonists living on the frontier. 1

4. In the _______ rebellion of 1739, 20 whites and 40 rebels were killed. The uprising prompted harsher control of slaves. 2

5. The _________ Revolt of 1680, also known as "Popé's Rebellion," was an uprising of Native Americans against the Spanish in New Mexico. 3

6. ____________’s 1859 raid on the arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia was supposed to set off a slave uprising. Instead, it enraged Southerners and helped cause the Civil War. 4

7. The __________ rebellion of 1794 occurred in Pennsylvania. It was caused by opposition to new taxes and was put down by a large show of federal force. 5

8. In 1831 __________ led a slave uprising in Virginia that resulted in 55 whites being killed. 6

9. In the __________ rebellion of 1786-7, poor Massachusetts farmers revolted against taxes and debt. It helped convince many of the need for a stronger federal government. 7

10. A Lakota chief and holy man under whom the Lakota tribes united in their struggle for survival on the northern plains, ______________ remained defiant toward American military power and contemptuous of American promises to the end.PBS, The West 8

11. ______________ was eventually banished from Massachusetts for her controversial views. She believed that people could communicate directly with God, that salvation was by faith alone, and that many of the clergy were not among the "elect", and entitled to no spiritual authority. 9

12. The ______________ was a protest by the Sons of Liberty against the British East India Company in which they destroyed 342 crates of tea on ships in Boston Harbor in order to protest British taxation. 10

13. Science & Technology

14. The ___________, a 1793 Eli Whitney invention, caused slavery to become much more entrenched in the South. 11

15. Samuel Morse’s ___________ was patented in 1844. It greatly improved communication in the US. 12

16. The ______________, developed by Eli Whitney in 1799, involves using machine tools and templates to make standardized, identical, interchangeable parts 13

17. John Rolfe introduced a variety of ______________ that would grow in the Chesapeake colonies. It became a dominant cash crop in colonial America. 14

18. Robert Fulton was a US engineer and inventor, who was widely credited with developing the first ___________________. 15

19. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park", he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production to the process of invention. Some of the inventions credited to him were not completely original but improvements of earlier patents or were actually works of his numerous employees. Nevertheless, ________________ is considered one of the most prolific inventors in history, holding 1,093 United States patents in his name. 16

20. The _______________ connected the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. It was opened in 1825 facilitating American trade and western development. 17

21. In 1876, Patent # 174,465 was granted covering "the method of, and apparatus for, transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically ... by causing electrical undulations, similar in form to the vibrations of the air accompanying the said vocal or other sound.“ More simply, this is known as the ______________. 18

22. Excess bile, blood and phlegm. Inhaling airborne poisons. Overexcited nerves. For centuries, the medical profession relied on these plausible but almost wholly mistaken ideas of the cause of infectious illness. Few doctors, even by the mid-1800s, realized that different diseases have different causes. Then, between 1879 and 1900, came an explosive burst of scientific discovery suddenly revealed the role of _________ in causing disease. 19

23. During the Civil War, the use of the __________ which replaced the musket ball made traditional warfare tactics deadly and ineffective. 20

24. Quotes & Documents

25. “the conduct of her Government presents a series of acts hostile to the United States as an independent and neutral nation.” James Madison is referring to the nation of ____________ in his war message? 21

26. ".... the right …to over spread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us…It is right such as that of the tree to the space of air and the earth suitable for the full expansion." John O’Sullivan, in 1845 describing the concept of ___________________. 22

27. “But now, after reiterated menaces, __________ has passed the boundary of the United States, has invaded our territory and shed American blood upon the American soil.”James K. Polk, 1846 23

28. “Their object in the ________ is to keep down foreign competition, in order to obtain a monopoly of the domestic market.   The effect on us is to compel us to purchase at a higher price, both what we purchase from them and from others, without receiving a corresponding increase of price for what we sell.”--John C. Calhoun, South Carolina Exposition & Protest , 1828 24

29. “The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward ___________, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny.”Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments, 1848 25

30. “we must Consider that we shall be as a City upon a Hill, the eyes of all people are upon us” This is from ____________’s 1630 sermon to Puritans. 26

31. “It makes little difference, however, where one opens the record of the history of the Indians; every page and every year has its dark stain... Colorado is as greedy and unjust in 1880 as was Georgia in 1830, and Ohio in 1795; and the United States Government breaks promises now as deftly as then, and with an added ingenuity from long practice.”--Written by _______________________ in A Century of Dishonor, 1881 27

32. “But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle…We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.” These words were spoken by _____________ in his first inaugural address and after the nation’s first peaceful transfer of power from one party to another. 28

33. “This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of Wealth: First, to set an example of modest, unostentatious living… to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent upon him; and after doing so to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer…in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial result for the community.”This is __________________ explaining his Gospel of Wealth 29

34. “It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes…every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society-the farmers, mechanics, and laborers-who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain.” This is from Andrew Jackson explaining his 1832 veto of ____________________. 30

35. Terms & Concepts

36. As the principles of liberty and democracy rose in importance to the rebelling colonists, American society gradually came to promote the idea that women needed to clearly understand and embrace these values, so that they could be transmitted to children. This explains the concept of _____________________. 31

37. The _____________ was a religious revival movement in the 1730s and 1740s symbolized by preachers like Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield. 32

38. ______________ is the economic theory that the prosperity of a nation depends upon its supply of capital (represented by gold). The amount of capital is best increased with large exports and low imports. This suggests that the government should advance these goals by playing an active, protectionist role in the economy 33

39. ______________ embodied the vision, popular in the 19th century, of a social order based on different roles for men and women. The political and economic world would be controlled by men. Women would be supreme in domestic life. 34

40. 1) The Americas should be closed to future European colonization and free from European interference.2) The United States' intended to stay neutral in European wars.3) The US would consider any new colonies or interference with independent countries in the Americas as hostile acts toward the United States. This is the ____________________. 35

41. A ___________________ is a judicial order to a prison official ordering that an inmate be brought to the court so it can be determined whether or not that person is imprisoned lawfully and whether or not he should be released from custody. Lincoln suspended this civil liberty during the Civil War. 36

42. _____________ describes British policy toward colonial America in the years before 1763. It is marked by a large degree of colonial autonomy and British non-interference. 37

43. The term ____________ refers to the so-called right of a state to refuse to obey a federal law that is unconstitutional. This concept was explained in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions. 38

44. A system of government in which states are loosely aligned and retain their sovereignty is known as a _____________. 39

45. ___________________ refers to the method of letting the people of a territory decide whether to allow slavery or not. Its use was an attempt to remove the controversial issue from congress. 40

46. Laws

47. The ____________, restricting colonial trade were based on the theory of mercantilism. They required colonists to sell to and buy from Britain. 41

48. Passed in 1798 and signed by John Adams, the ____________ Acts made it a crime to publish "false, scandalous, and malicious writing" against the government or its officials. 1 42

49. Passed in 1854, the ________________ act repealed the MO Compromise and allowed the potential expansion of slavery into new territories. 43

50. The Pacific Railway Act of 1862 gave land grants in the Western United States to the Union Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad to construct a ___________________. 44