APUSH Common MC Questions

Puritan motive for colonization

(build a city on a hill, i.e. provide a model)

Motive of those settling Virginia

(seek profit)

1st Great Awakening

(Ivy League colleges founded by New Lights)

Deism Albany Congress, 1754

(Franklin, first attempt to unite colonies failed)

Legal rights of women (during the colonial era) Stamp Act / Stamp Congress Slavery in pre-independence times Indentured servants Proclamation of 1763 Articles of Confederation Bill of Rights
(1st 10 Amendments to Constitution, protecting rights not listed in Constitution)

Attitude of founding fathers towards political parties Hamiltons economic plans Shays Rebellion XYZ Affair Marbury .v. Madison Louisiana Purchase to control mouth of Mississippi Hartford Convention Eli Whitney
(interchangeable parts to rifle, cotton gin)

Henry Clays American System

(high tariffs, U.S. Bank, federal funding of internal improvements)

Monroe Doctrine Andrew Jackson

(supports westward expansion, Indian removal, veto, opposes nullification, U.S. Bank)

Trail of Tears Nullification, John C. Calhoun, Tariff of Abominations (1828) Transcendentalists

(stressed individuality, self-reliance) (The Liberator abolitionist)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

William Lloyd Garrison

Harriet Tubman Underground Railway

(slave is not a citizen, slave is property, Missouri Compromise is dead)

Dred Scott .v. Sanford, 1857 Popular Sovereignty

Kansas-Nebraska Act
(popular sovereignty can exclude slavery anywhere)

Douglass Freeport Doctrine Primary cause of Civil War

(maintain the union)

Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 Radical Reconstruction

(ends Reconstruction in South)

Compromise of 1877 Knights of Labor

(assimilate Indians into mainstream America = kill tribal identity)

Dawes Act, 1887 Social Gospel

(farmers party, wanted free silver) (Hearst, Pulitzer called for war with Spain. Remember the Maine)

Populists

Yellow Press

New Immigration from SE Europe, after Civil War (during the Gilded Age) Open Door Policy W.E.B. Du Bois & Booker T. Washington
(Sinclair Lewis, Mother Jones) (Germanys unrestricted submarine warfare)

Muckrakers

Main reason for US joining WWI Wilsons 14 Points

(Article X)

Bonus Army, 1932 100 Day Congress, New Deal Civilian Conservation Corps Cuban Missile Crisis
(overturned old Plessy .v. Ferguson)

Brown .v. Board of Education

Sputnik, 1957 arms & space race, & education receives greater emphasis in US
(seeking integration of public facilities)

Sit-Ins, 1960, Greensboro, NC Civil Rights Acts 1960, 1964 Malcolm X

Gulf of Tonkin Incident (& Resolution)

(allowed LBJ to escalate Vietnam War)

Watergate Tet Offensive, 1968 Camp David Accords