APUSH Review
Laws, Politics, Movers, & Shakers
Amendments
What does the 26th Amendment do?
Give 18 year olds the vote.
What Amendment gave women the right to
vote?
19th
What amendment abolished slavery?
13th
What did the 14th amendment do?
Citizenship for AfricanAmericans
What else does the 14th Amendment do?
Privacy & due process rights
for all Americans
What did the 16th amendment do?
Federal income tax
What does the 5th Amendment do?
Right to not incriminate
yourself.
The 6th, 7th, & 8th amendments all deal with
your rights when you are…
Arrested & tried for a crime
Why have there been more supreme court
decisions about the 1st amendment than any
other amendment?
Freedom of speech, religion, &
assembly.
What amendment allowed for the direct
election of senators?
17th
The 3rd & 4th amendments were created
based on British abuses concerning the
home. What were they?
Quartering of Troops &
unreasonable searches of
homes.
What civil rights era amendment failed to be
ratified by being short 3 states?
ERA.
What Amendment gave 18 year olds the
right to vote?
26th.
Political Parties
Feared the tyranny of the elite.
Federalist or Democratic Republican?
Democratic Republicans
Was split apart by the election of 1824 .
Federalist or Democratic Republican?
Democratic Republicans
Founded by Alexander Hamilton
Federalist or Democratic Republican?
Federalist
Pro- British foreign policy
Federalist or Democratic Republican?
Federalist
Vision of the Future:
Agrarian Democracy
Federalist or Democratic Republican?
Democratic Republicans
What 3rd party was formed in the 1890’s to
address the concerns of the farmers?
Populist Party
When the south stormed out of the
Democratic convention in 1948, they chose
Strom Thurmond to run as a…
Dixiecrat
In what election did John Bell represent the
Constitutional Union party?
Election of 1860.
What party was created to oppose Andrew
Jackson?
Whigs
Who was the first Republican president?
Abraham Lincoln
TR ran for a third term as president under
the Progressive Party that was nicknamed
the…
Bull Moose Party
The No Nothing or American Party was
against what two groups?
Immigrants & Catholics.
The Democratic Party considers two
presidents as their founders, and celebrates
this at the _______ _______ dinner.
Jefferson Jackson
Elections
1796
What is the significance of this election?
Peaceful transfer of power from
one person to another.
1800
What is the significance of this election?
Peaceful transfer of power from
one political party to another.
1824
What is the significance of this election?
Decided in House of
Representatives.
1860
What is the significance of this election?
Lincoln’s Election caused the
south to secede from the union.
1876
What is the significance of this election?
Disputed electoral results in 4 states
resulting a committee making a deal where
by the Republican Hayes became President
& the army pulled out of the south.
1932
What is the significance of this election?
FDR elected for 1st of 4 times:
Democrats gain control of
Presidency & Congress.
1968
What is the significance of this election?
Assassination of Robert Kennedy &
violence at the Democratic Convention in
Chicago led to Nixon being elected.
1980
What is the significance of this election?
Reagan’s election brings the
start of the Conservative
Revolution.
Laws (laws that are
passed are called Acts)
What law late in the 1940’s limited the power
of Labor Unions?
Taft-Hartley Act
What two laws in the Gilded Age limited the
power of monopolies?
Sherman & Clayton Anti-trust
Acts
After Garfield was assassinated by a
disgruntled office seeker, Congress passed
this law to create the civil service.
Pendleton Act
This law outlawed segregation &
discrimination in public places?
Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Jefferson sought to avoid war by stopping
all U.S. European trade?
Embargo Act
Several times in American history, Congress
has passed laws limiting criticism of the
government. This crime is called….
Sedition
Another name for a law is Ordinance. What
did the 2 Land Ordinances passed during
the Articles of Confederation do?
1785: Survey & Sale of Public Land
1787: Method for a territory
to become a State
What colonial legislation by the British
caused the colonists to organize their 1st
boycott? When was this?
Stamp Act, 1765
What book caused the passage of the Meat
Act & Pure Food & Drug Act?
The Jungle
Laws are also bills. What 20th century bill
revived the middle class after it’s collapse
during the Great Depression?
G.I. Bill
What method of transportation did the
Interstate Commerce Act regulate?
Railroads
What law broke up Indian Reservations in
order to assimilate Native Americans and
take away more land?
Dawes Act.
What law caused a mini Civil War in Kansas
in the 1850’s?
Kansas Nebraska Act
The Volstead Act made it a crime to…
Sell Alcohol.
Catholics & Protestants could practice their
religion in this colony because of this law.
Maryland Toleration Act
The core of the New Deal was these 2 laws.
AAA & NRA.
The Keating-Owen Act regulated what kind
of labor?
Child
In 1924, the National Origins Act allowed
immigrants into the U.S. based on the’
______________ system
quota
What President passed Medicare &
Medicaid?
LBJ
In 1862, the northern dominated Congress
passed this law that resulted in rapid
settlement of the American West.
Homestead Act
Great Britain limited colonial trade in these
laws that were the heart of Mercantilism.
Navigation Acts
Movers & Shakers
(People who changed our government)
Lincoln said she started the Civil War.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
She led the fight against lynching during the
Progressive Era.
Ida B. Wells Barnett
His 1831 uprising caused terror throughout
the south.
Nat Turner
He convinced Lincoln to let African
Americans serve in the Union Army.
Frederick Douglass
His newspaper The Liberator started the
Abolitionist Movement.
William Lloyd Garrison
These two women led the Women’s
Movement of the 1960’s.
Betty Friedan & Gloria Steniem
Give me liberty or give me Death!
Patrick Henry.
Thou shall not crucify mankind upon a Cross
of Gold!
William Jennings Bryan
Started the SCLC in Montgomery, Alabama.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Led the final suffragette battles.
Alice Paul
Most wanted Revolutionary rebels in
Massachusetts were these 2 men.
Sam Adams & John Hancock
This Great Compromiser kept the country
together from 1820 to 1850.
Henry Clay
His 2 major inventions changed the
economies of the north & the south.
Eli Whitney
In Kansas and Virginia he led violent
rebellions against slavery?
John Brown
Jonathan Edwards & George Whitefield
started the…
Great Awakening
They spread Progressive reforms by the
power of their words.
Muckrakers
He reshaped modern business structure as
he sought to wipe out his competition.
John D. Rockfeller
His inventions revolutionized 20th century
communication.
Thomas Edison or
Alexander Graham Bell
The music world was “all shook up” by this
rock & roller who popularized black music in
the 50’s.
Elvis Presley
The Hatchet lady from Kansas who fought
the evil of alcohol.
Carry Nation
Cold War paranoia grew after this couple
were convicted of leaking nuclear secrets
to the Russians.
Julius & Ethel Rosenberg
These two Native American Leaders
attempted to stop white expansion by
organizing the tribes of the northwest in
1763 and 1812
Pontiac & Tecumseh
His false charges fueled Cold War paranoia.
Joseph McCarthy
He build the canal with his Big Stick.
Teddy Roosevelt