APUSH MnemonicsColonial Regions

MR. CaN: Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire2 New Dramatic Preachers: New York, New Jersey, Delaware, PennsylvaniaVirginia Goes 2C Mary: Virginia, Georgia, North & South Carolina, Maryland

Road to American Revolution (1763-1776)Pretty: Proclamation of 1763Silly: Stamp Act 1765Tammy: Townshend Acts 1767Baked: Boston Massacre 1770Tea: Tea Act 1773Cookies: Committees of CorrespondenceInside: Intolerable Acts 1774Freshly: First Continental Congress 1774Layered: Lexington and Concord 1775Spicy: Second Continental Congress 1775Dough: Declaration of Independence 1776

Articles (1780s): ARTICLES A: Articles of Confederation; structureR: Ratification debates between Anti-Feds and FedsT: Treaty of Paris 1783I: Interstate commerce problems (depression in 1780s)C: Constitutional Convention 1787L: Land legislation (land ordinance 1785; NW ordinance 1787)E: England, France, Spain, Barbary Corsairs challenged U.S. in foreign affairsS: Shay’s Rebellion

Federalist Era (1789-1800)Big: Bill of RightsJolly: Judiciary Act 1789Hamilton: Hamilton’s financial plan, 1789-91 (BE FAT)Found: French RevolutionNervous: Neutrality Proclamation 1793Jefferson: Jay’s Treaty 1795Entering: Election of 1796 (2 parties; Feds & Demo-Repub.)X-Men’s: XYZ Affair 1797Quarters: Quasi War (1798-1800)Angering: Alien and Sedition Acts 1789White: Washington’s legacyRepublicans: Revolution of 1800

Hamilton’s Financial Plan (during Washington’s Presidency): BE FAT B: Bank of the U.S. (BUS)E: Excise taxes on whiskeyF: Funding at parA: Assumption of state debtsT: Tariffs

Jefferson’s Presidency (1801-1809): “G” I HATE LAMB “G”: Gallatin – Secretary of the Treasury who reduced national debtI: Impeachment of Samuel Chase 1804H: Hamilton’s plan kept by Jefferson (except for excise taxes)A: Agrarian empire (westward expansion)T: Tripolitan War (Tripoli – Barbary Coast)E: Embargo Act 1807L: Louisiana Purchase 1803A: Army reduced in size (feds lose major center of power)M: Marbury v. Madison 1803B: Burr’s Conspiracies (1804 in NY; 1806 in the West)

War of 1812: WHITEN (knowing about the War of 1812 can WHITEN your teeth )W: War HawksH: Hartford Convention 1814I: ImpressmentT: Treaty of Ghent 1815E: Embargo Act 1803N: New Orleans

Clay’s “American System”: BIT B: Bank of U.S.I: Internal improvementsT: Tariffs

1 st and 2 nd Industrial Revolution: Remember to play a “ TRIC ” on “ ROSE ” because she is very gullible!

Textiles Railroads (transcontinental)Railroads OilIron SteelCoal Electricity

Jacksonian Democracy: “government by the people” ( New KNICKSS ) 1820s-1830s New: New DemocracyK: Killing of the BUSN: Nullification ControversyI: Indian Removal ActC: Creation of 2-party systemK: Kitchen cabinet (cabinet crisis; break with Jackson and Calhoun)S: Spoils systemS: Sectionalism

President Polk’s “Jacksonian” program (“Young Hickory”): 1840s COIL C: CaliforniaO: OregonI: Independent treasury system (revives Van Buren’s banking system)L: Lower tariffs (Walker tariff 1846)

“Manifest Destiny”: 1840s TOM T: TexasO: OregonM: Mexican cession

Sectionalism and causes of the Civil WarMiss: Missouri Compromise of 1820Nully: Nullification controversy 1832Gagged: Gag rule 1836When: Wilmot Proviso 1848Clay’s: Compromise of 1850Kangaroo: Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854Bit: “Bleeding Kansas”Dumb: Dred Scott case 1857John’s: John Brown 1859Ear: election of 1860

Compromise of 1850: Pop FACT Pop: Popular sovereignty in the Mexican cessionF: Fugitive Slave LawA: Abolition of slave trade in WA, D.C. (slavery doesn’t END there!)C: California enters as a free stateT: Texas agrees to accept money in return for abandoning claims to

New Mexican territory

Second Great Awakening: reforms inspired by “perfectionism” (Puritan ideal)A: AbolitionismTotally: TemperanceWicked: Women’s suffrageElephant: EducationMade: Mental institutionsPigs: Prison reformsDevour: Debtor’s prisonsWorms: Wilderness utopias

Republican Agenda during the Civil War (1861-1865)A: AbolitionismP: Pacific Railway ActHistory: Homestead ActMakes: Morrill TariffMe: Morrill Land Grant ActNauseous: National Banking Act