Amsco ap Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Unit 2 Terms AMSCO AP Government and Politicsbicameral - correct answers The division of a legislature into two separate assemblies (or houses) pork barrel spending - correct answers The use of government funds for projects designed to please voters or legislators and win votes gerrymandering - correct answers Manipulate the boundaries of (an electoral constituency) so as to favor one party marginal seats - correct answers Political districts in which candidates elected to the House of ...

AMSCO AP US History Chapter 24Great Depression - correct answers This depression of the 1930's lasted far longer, caused more business failures and unemployment, and affected more people - both of the middle class and the working class - than any other preceding period of hard times. Black Thursday - October 24 - correct answers There was an unprecedented volume of selling on Wall Street, and stock prices plunged. The next day hoping to stave off disaster, a group of bankers bought millions ...

AMSCO AP World History Modern- Unit 3Ming Dynasty - correct answers Succeeded Mongol Yuan dynasty in China in 1368; lasted until 1644; initially mounted huge trade expeditions to southern Asia and elsewhere, but later concentrated efforts on internal development within China. Manchu - correct answers Federation of Northeast Asian peoples who founded the Qing Empire. Qing dynasty - correct answers ( CE), the last imperial dynasty of China which was overthrown by revolutionaries; was ruled b...

Amsco AP US History Chapter 22Beginning of the War - correct answers - Serbian terrorist assassinates Archduke Ferdinand - Austria declares war on Serbia - Germany, an ally of Germany, declares war on Russia, an ally of Serbia - Germany declares war on France, an ally of Russia - Britain, as an ally of France, declares war on Germany Causes of the war - correct answers M - militarism A - secret alliances N - nationalism I - imperialism A - assassination of Archduke Ferdinand Archdu...

AMSCO APUSH Chapter 1-15 Exam Questions and Answers

American Indian Societies 1491 CORRECT ANSWER Some time between 10,000 and 40,000 years ago, people may have migrated from Asia to the Americas, across a land bridge that connected Siberia and Alaska. Over a long period of time, successive generations migrated southward to the southern tip of South America. They evolved to hundreds of tribes, spoke different languages, and practiced different cultures. In the 1490s it is estimated that the Native American population was from 50 million to 100 mi...

Amsco APUSH Vocab 100% Correct Asiento System Required the Spanish to pay tax for every slaves they imported to the Americas. Plymouth A town of southeast Massachusetts on Plymouth Bay, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, southeast of Boston. Founded in 1620 by Pilgrims, who supposedly set foot on Plymouth Rock when disembarking from the Mayflower, it was the center of Plymouth Colony. The colony was governed under precepts laid down in the Mayflower Compact until 1691, when it was absorbed by the ...

AMSCO AP World History Modern- Unit 6Imperialism - correct answers A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. Nationalism - correct answers A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country Sino-Japanese War - correct answers a war between China and Japan for influence, power, and territory Formosa - correct answers Chiang and the nationalists were forced to flee to Formosa, a large island off the southern coast of China, after ...

AMSCO AP World History Modern- Unit 9 radio - correct answers a communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic waves Internet - correct answers A global network connecting millions of computers, making it possible to exchange information. Green Revolution - correct answers Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers. Crossbreeding - correct answers when members of different species breed together. genetic engineering - ...

AMSCO AP Psychology - Unit 1 Behaviorism - correct answers A theoretical orientation based on the premise that scientific psychology should study only observable behavior Classical conditioning - correct answers a type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events ego - correct answers allows people to get what they want and desire within the confines set by society empiricism - correct answers the view that knowledge originates in experience and tha...