The AP US History Study Thread

<p>Republican </p>

<p>Q:What is the correct name of the Supreme Court case that Evilbooya was reffering to?</p>

<p>Odgen v Gibbons?</p>

<p>and the new part in 1848 was called the Free-Soil Party but later changed to the Republicans, so I guess you were right lol.</p>

<p>Q. What was the major cause of the riots that broke out in New York in 1863?</p>

<p>Drafting kids for the Civil War.</p>

<p>Q: Ostend Manifesto involved which country?</p>

<p>Spain (and Cuba)</p>

<p>Q: What was the major spark of the Spanish American War in the Carribbean?</p>

<p>A: Explosion of the Maine</p>

<p>Q: Which prominent phsychologist shaped 20th century thought following WWI with his study of phsychoanalysis and his theories/findings regarding sexually repressed childhood memories?</p>

<p>Sigmund Freud </p>

<p>Q: Why was France interesting in selling us the Lousiana Purchase for such a good deal?</p>

<p>Napoleon wanted to "bail out" of America and focus on his wars in Europe. Moreover, the slave rebellion in Haiti led by Toussaint L'Ouverture (and Napoleon's unsuccessful attempt to crush it) discouraged French colonial inclinations. </p>

<p>Q: Which homicide case involving two young university students as the murderers sparked national controvesy in the 1920's?</p>

<p>Sacco and Vinseti? I don't think I spelled their names correctly</p>

<p>What event ended Reconstruction in the South?</p>

<p>The last of the Federal occupation troops were removed from the South under the terms of the Great Swap or the Compromise of 1877. As a Result, Hayes was elected, and in April of 1877 he officially withdrew Federal troops, ending Reconstruction and marking the collapse of the Carpetbag Governments.</p>

<p>Q: Henry Grady of the Atlanta Constitution used the term "The New South" to describe what?</p>

<p>It meant that the south could no longer depend on slave labor and would industralize itself become more modern </p>

<p>Alright who can name the four kinds of people in the south before the Civil War, slaves not included.
Kind of like the caste system in India...</p>

<p>Elite Plantation owners, white yeoman farmers, poor whites, freed blacks.</p>

<p>Q: In the election of 1812, "gerrymandering" refers to what political strategy?</p>

<p>sectioning off districts in such a way to favor one political party by ensuring that they win each precinct??</p>

<p>if im right....answer this:</p>

<p>What was President Hoover's immediate response to the Crash of 1929???</p>

<p>Exactly, and the term was derived because the districts ended up looking like salimanders, and the guy who came up with it was named Gerry... hence "gerrymandering"</p>

<p>Hoover initially believed that the economy was sound and would recover through natural economic factors.</p>

<p>Q: The "muckrakers" of the progressive era targetted their criticism primarily on what social ills?</p>

<p>Crime, corruption, waste, fraud and abuse in both the public and private sectors(and of the gov). </p>

<p>Q. Also known as the Battle of Shapsburg to the Southern States during the war of secession, what major battle was seen as the first Southern offensive into the Union.</p>

<p>I think it was... Battle of Antitem.</p>

<p>Whose rights did the Wagner Act deal with?</p>

<p>Labor Unions?</p>

<p>What was the U.S.'s response to the U.S.S.R.'s blockade of West Berlin?</p>

<p>They sent aid and supplies to the Berliners who were trapped through airlifts. </p>

<p>Q. What big scandal greatly tarred Grant's image during his presedency?</p>

<p>Whiskey Ring.</p>

<p>Q. Following it up, which big scandal greatly tarred Harding's presidency?</p>

<p>Teapot Dome</p>

<p>Q. This Allied general led the invasion of North Africa in WWII</p>