The AP US History Study Thread

<p>haha wow that's pretty brutal...</p>

<p>here's a question though:
who was thaddeus stevens?</p>

<p>Horrace Greenly!</p>

<p>he was the hardcore one during Reconstruction. He wanted to pretty much disassociate with the south. if the south was a child and he were the father, he'd spank them...hard</p>

<p>What led up to McClellans final dismissal?</p>

<p>Thad=Rad Rep...supported runaways, did some other stuff, mainly led the efforts for the reconstrution of the South in the House? idk exactly what you're looking for.</p>

<p>After Antietam, McClennan was a bioch and did nothing, when he could have easily decimated Lee's army if he had followed him.</p>

<p>what were scalawags? carpetbaggers?</p>

<p>scalawags were white southerners who supported repulicans and carpetbaggers were northerners who moved to the south during reconstruction</p>

<p>what was the decision in gibbons v. ogden?</p>

<p>interstate commerce decision, but i dont remember what happened :(
longtime precursor of the railroad regulation decisions</p>

<p>odgen case was something with ferry boats in NY state....my memory needs jogged</p>

<p>ya, marshall gave the government powers to regulate interstate commerce</p>

<p>what had woodrow wilson been speaking about when he suffered a heart attack and stroke?</p>

<p>Don't know...wasn't it like...I have no idea. I'll get back to you on that one.</p>

<p>Gibbons vs. Ogden: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbons_v._Ogden%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbons_v._Ogden&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Does anyone have a super list of SC cases?</p>

<p>Are all the court cases really important to remember?
For the answer wasn't it Wilson was doing a speaking telling people about the League of Nations and 14 points?</p>

<p>ya, he was trying to get support from the people...it didn't work</p>

<p>To willact: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases&lt;/a>
You can click the links to take you to the different time periods, down below it has a list of "landmark decisions" This has your Dred Scott's, Plessy, Brown vs Board, Marbury, Abington v Schempp, etc</p>

<p>What is Social Darwinism? Transcendentism?</p>

<p>social darwinism: "survival of the fittest"
Transcendentalism: emphasised intutive and spirtual over material and empirical...American philosophy movement based in NE. Self-reliance!</p>

<p>Speaking of Transcendentalism, who wrote 'Walden'? Where was it written?</p>

<p>That was Emerson...I would say it was written on Walden Pond</p>

<p>What did the Hartford Convention do?</p>

<p>It was where the Feds got together to protest the war of 1812, but by the time they did so the war was over!--led to the ultimate demise of the party.</p>

<p>What was King William's War?</p>

<p>it was a colonial war with a mighty Indian chief that they called King William</p>

<p>How did the Stamp Act and Townshend Acts differ?</p>

<p>Stamp Act placed tax on paper goods (cards, newspapers, legal docs), Townshend (intolerable acts) placed duties on lead, glass, paint, tea. I don't know any major differences without looking them up.</p>

<p>Q:This note described Germany's plans to offer Mexico the lands they lost in the Mexican War to the US in return for starting a war with the US during the first world war.</p>

<p>The Zimmerman Note/Telegram</p>

<p>He wrote "Leaves of Grass", commenting on urban life in the early-to-mid 1800s.</p>

<p>And Henry Thourea wrote Walden, not Emerson</p>

<p>Stamp Act was to raise money, Navigation Acts were for punishment.</p>

<p>Thanks darkruler, its easy to get those two confused, i do it frequently</p>

<p>And to answer your question, Walt Whitman wrote Leaves of Grass.</p>

<p>Who was Toussaint Louverture, and how did he affect America?</p>