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APUSH Semester Exam Basics
Basic names/ events for the semester exam for APUSH
50
History
10th Grade
01/24/2010

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John Adams
Definition
2nd President.
Alien & Sedition Act
XYZ affair
~1800
Term
Nicholas Biddle
Definition
President of the bank
~1830's
Term
John Brown
Definition
Abolitionist, Led slave revolts with violence
~1859
Term
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Definition
Women's Rights. Led seneca falls with (Lucretia Mott)
~1848
Term
John C. Calhoun
Definition
Nullification
SC Resolutions author.
Anti-Tariff
Vice pres. to Jackson
~1830's
Term
Andrew Carnegie
Definition
Steel
Gospel of wealth
~1880's
Term
Chief Joseph
Definition
Indian Chief
Humanitarian/ Peacemaker
1870's
Term
Henry Clay
Definition
Compromiser
Leader of the Whigs - The anti Jackson party
Term
Buffalo Bill Cody
Definition
Everything to do with the Wild West
~1890's
Term
George Armstrong Custer
Definition
Died in 1876 at the battle of little bighorn Montana
Term
Jefferson Davis
Definition
President of the confederacy
Surrendered at Appotomax Courthouse
1860's
Term
Dorthea Dix
Definition
Reform of Prison and mental health
~1840's
Term
Stephen Douglas
Definition
Lincoln Douglas Debates
Proposed Kansas-Nebraska Acts
Popular sovereignty
~1850
Term
Frederick Douglass
Definition
Wrote Slave Narratives
~1840's
Term
Thomas Edison
Definition
inventions - Lightbulb, Phonograph.
Industrialization
~1880's
Term
Benjamin Franklin
Definition
ambassador, Founding Father,
~1770's-90's
Term
Robert Fulton
Definition
Inventor of Steamboat
Canals came about because of this.
Term
William Lloyd Garrison
Definition
Author of "The Liberator"
Abolitionist
~1830-40's
Term
Ulysses S. Grant
Definition
General of US Army
President during reconstruction
Term
Alexander Hamilton
Definition
National Bank
Financial stability
1780-1800's
Broad Constructionist
Term
Helen Hunt Jackson
Definition
writer, Anti-disrespect of Indians
1890
Term
Anne Hutchinson
Definition
Banned from Massachusetts Bay colony
Religion
1650's
Term
Andrew Jackson
Definition
president
Anti indian
anti bank
anti funding for internal improvements
Anti Henry Clay
Corrupt Bargain Election
1828-
Term
Thomas Jefferson
Definition
Author of Dec. of Ind.
3rd President
Peaceful transfer between parties
Virginia Kentucky Resolutions with James Madison
Strict Constructionist
1790-1810
Term
Robert E. Lee
Definition
General for confederates
1860's
Term
Abraham Lincoln
Definition
Republican President
His election caused secession
Emancipation Proclamation
1860-1865(Death)
Term
James Madison
Definition
War of 1812
fear of Power
Virginia Kentucky Resolutions
1809-1820
Term
John Marshall
Definition
Supreme Court Justice
Marbury v. Madison - Created Judicial Review
early 1800's
Term
George McClellan
Definition
Commander of US army - But had "The slows"
1860's
Term
JP Morgan
Definition
Finance - Banking
Oil and Steel companies
1880's
Term
Samuel Morse
Definition
Telegraph, Morse Code
1830's
Term
Lucretia Mott
Definition
Organized Seneca falls with Eliz. Stanton
Women's rights
1840's (48 exactly)
Term
Thomas Nast
Definition
Cartoonist
Takes down Boss Tweed
1880's-90's
Term
James Oglethorpe
Definition
Founder of Georgia
Intended it to be perfect like Mass. Bay (No Slaves, No alcohol...etc)
1730
Term
Thomas Paine
Definition
Common Sense
1773
Term
William Penn
Definition
Founder of Pennsylvania
Term
James K. Polk
Definition
President - during Mex. American War
Dark Horse Candidate (Underdog)
Manifest Destiny
1844
Term
John D. Rockefeller
Definition
Standard Oil,
Horizontal Consolidation.
1880's
Term
William T. Sherman
Definition
Union Army - total war - Destroy everything, the people, the economy...etc
Burned atlanta
1864
Term
Sitting Bull
Definition
Lakota Chief - died at little bighorn
Shot by his own people
1870-1890(death)
Term
John Smith
Definition
Saved Jamestown
Pocahontas
1607
Term
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Definition
Abolitionist author of fiction novel - Uncle Tom's Cabin
1830's
Term
Charles Sumner
Definition
Senator - Beaten to the ground by a cane.
Radical Republican
1860-70's
Term
Tecumseh
Definition
Defeated at tippecanoe.
Opposed US
Term
Nat Turner
Definition
Leader of Slave Rebellion in Virginia.
Killed some whites, and was hanged
1831
Term
William Marcy (Boss) Tweed
Definition
Political Machine
City Government
1880's
Term
George Washington
Definition
1st Pres.
Did not like the idea of political parties
general in revolution
late 1800's
Term
Eli Whitney
Definition
Cotton Gin
Interchangeable parts
1790
Term
Roger Williams
Definition
Founder of Rhode Island
Religious Tolerance
1640
Term
John Winthrop
Definition
City on a hill - Mass. Bay colony
The perfect colony
1630
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