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AP U.S. History
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1. Issued by Lincoln following Antietam (close enough to a victory to empower the proclamation) - declared slaves in the Confederacy free (did not include border states) - symbolic gesture to support Union's moral cause in the war
Hartford Convention
Emancipation Proclamation
Jingoism
League of Nations
2. Part of Nixon's tri-faceted plan to honorably remove troops from Vietnam; wean the South Vietnamese off of American support - gradually reducing number of American troops present
National Road
Vietnamization
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Deregulation
3. 'Corrupt bargain' and backroom deal for JQ Adams to win over Jackson
The Federalist Papers
Election of 1824
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
4. (peace btw Egypt and Israel) Followed years of tension - Israel would leave newly acquired lands from war - Egypt would respect Israel's other land claims; accords not completely followed - Sadat (Egypt) assassinated
Camp David Accords
War hawks
Berlin Airlift
William T. Sherman
5. Organized and controlled resistance against Parliamentary acts in less violent ways (strength of martyrdom) - advocated nonimportation
John L. Lewis
Writs of Assistance
Dawes Plan (1924)
Sons of Liberty
6. Sets of programs geared towards minorities and oft-discriminated populations
Freeport Doctrine
Affirmative Action
Independent Treasury Bill
Martin Luther King Jr.
7. 'Rotation in office;' Jackson felt that one should spend a single term in office and return to private citizenship - those who held power too long would become corrupt and political appointments made by new officials was essential for democracy
Worcester v. Georgia
Plessy v. Ferguson
Spoils System
Thomas Nast
8. Sets of cardboard box houses that epitomized the country's blame on Hoover for the cause of the Depression
Hoovervilles
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
Civil Rights Cases
Virginia Plan
9. Social ideals to be encouraged in public school (stress on social interaction) - learning by doing
James Monroe
John Dewey
Deregulation
Thomas Nast
10. Stressed role of church and religion to improve city life - led by preachers Walter Raushenbusch and Washington Gladen; influenced settlement house movement and Salvation Army
Social Gospel movement
Conscription policies
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
Voting Rights Act of 1965
11. Soviet-aided North Korea attack on South Korea; MacArthur named general on behalf of UN (excluded Russia) - US supplied majority of troops; recapture of South Korea and suppression of North forces to northern border; introduction of Chinese - MacArth
Korean War
William Penn and the Quakers
War Industries Board
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
12. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - Harry Hopkins; provide work for unemployed and construct public works - &c. through Emergency Relief Appropriation Act; much like Civil Works Administration
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Court Packing
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
13. Spurred by Great Migration - large-scale riots - lynchings - &c.
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14. Often debtors sold to slave traders by African kings seeking riches; Columbian Exchange
Bonus Army
Immigration Act of 1965
Atlantic slave trade
Panic of 1893
15. All English subjects are represented in Parliament - including those not allowed to vote
Virtual Representation
National Origins Act (1924)
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
16. John Brown and his sons slaughtered five men as a response to the election fraud in Lawrence and the caning of Sumner in Congress
Shays's Rebellion
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
Wilson's 14 points
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
17. North African Muslim rulers solved budget problems through piracy and tributes in Mediterranean - obtained fees from most European powers
Barbary Pirates
Conscription policies
Election of 1960
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
18. Organized Seneca Falls Convention - founded (with Anthony) National Women Suffrage Organization
China turns communist
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Olive Branch Petition
Jackson's Presidency
19. Remainder of Florida sold by Spain to US - boundary of Mexico defined
Marshall Court (all cases)
Adams-Onis Treaty
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Detente - realpolitik
20. Alice Paul; shocked traditionalism - League of Women Voters supported; new organization of women who were now more independent
Ku Klux Klan
Stamp Act
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
21. Worked to reform the American education system - abolitionist - prison/asylum reform with Dorothea Dix
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
'New Left'
Horace Mann
William Henry Harrison
22. Sought to eliminate spheres of influence and avoid European monopolies in China; unaccepted by the powers in mind
Open Door Policy
'Hundred days'
Hoovervilles
Virtual Representation
23. Fought for return to colonial rule - usually conservative (educated and wealthy
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
Stagflation
Tories (Loyalists)
Vertical and horizontal integration
24. Runaway slaves could be caught in the North and be brought back to their masters (they were treated as property — running away was as good as stealing)
Indentured servants
Four Freedoms' speech
Fugitive Slave Act
Elastic Clause ('necessary and proper')
25. Rejection of negative portrayals of women (language - entertainment) - increased quality and use of education - more job opportunities - acceptance into military
Dorothea Dix
Non-conformity
War Industries Board
Gains for women
26. Philippines - Hawaii - Puerto Rico - Guam: granted to U.S. at the end of Spanish-American War; Philippines were captured after treaty - and thus not part of spoils - but kept as territory with an inevitable movement for independence; Philippines and
Vietnamization
Yeoman Farmers
Treaty of Paris (1783)
US acquisitions
27. 'Southern Strategy' lured many southern Democrats to the Republican party (esp. due to southern opposition to Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Richard Nixon (R)
Affirmative Action
John Brown
Specie
28. 'Dark horse' Democratic candidate; acquired majority of the western US (Mexican Cession - Texas Annexation - Oregon Country) - lowered tariffs - created Independent Treasury
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bonus Army
James K. Polk
Four Freedoms' speech
29. Marbury v. Madison (judicial review) - McChulloch v. Maryland (loose Constitutional interpretation - constitutionality of National Bank - states cannot control government agencies) - Gibbons v. Ogden (interstate commerce controlled by Congress) - Fle
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
John Winthrop
Transportation Revolution
Marshall Court (all cases)
30. For women's rights - organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton - modeled requests after the Declaration of Independence
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
Farm crisis
Great Migration
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
31. Southern and Midwestern farmers expressing discontent - supported free silver and subtreasury plan (cash advance on future crop — farmers had little cash flow during the year) - criticized national banks
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32. Lee's chief lieutenant and premier cavalry officer
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33. Exempted those who owned or oversaw twenty or more slaves from service in the Confederate Army; 'rich man's war but a poor man's fight'
Thomas Nast
20-Negro Law
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
Whiskey Rebellion
34. Warned against permanent foreign alliances and political parties - called for unity of the country - established precedent of two-term presidency
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35. Won battles in the West and raised northern morale (esp. Shiloh - Fort Henry - and Fort Donelson) - made Union commanding general
William and Mary
Ulysses S. Grant
Election of 1824
Immigration Act of 1965
36. Darwinian (influenced by jazz age and new scientific ideas) against Fundamentalist (the Bible and Creationism); John Scopes convicted for teaching Darwinism (defended by Clarence Darrow); Scopes found guilty
John Brown
Virginia Resolves
Election of 1824
Scopes Trial
37. Brought in Mexicans for temporary jobs - concentrated in southern CA - given extremely poor working conditions (as they were not American citizens)
William Penn and the Quakers
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
Bracero program
Committees of Correspondence
38. Reagan called the Soviet Union an 'evil empire'; Korean passenger plane shot down near Moscow (increased anti-Soviet rhetoric); Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) used space-based lasers as defense from nuclear attack
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39. Runaway slave - well-known speaker on the condition of slavery - worked with Garrison and Wendell Phillips - founder of The North Star
Frederick Douglass
Farmers'Alliance movement
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
Citizen Genet
40. Single tax on speculated land to ameliorate industrialization misery
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
Election of 1800
Impressment
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
41. September 1949 - US no longer held monopoly; two atomic powers
Woodrow Wilson
Vietcong
John C. Calhoun
Soviet atomic bomb
42. Natural selection applied to human competition - advocated by Herbert Spencer - William Graham Sumner
Detente - realpolitik
Social Darwinism
Great Migration
Affirmative Action
43. American U-2 spy plane shot down over USSR (Ike: 'for national security); US suspended further flights - Krushchev demanded apology (refused)
Anne Hutchinson
Burned-Over District
Jamestown
U-2 Incident
44. Defined process for territories to become states (population reached 60 -000) - forbade slavery in the new territories
'Atlanta Compromise'
Liberty Party
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Marshall Court (all cases)
45. James G. Blaine sought to open up Latin American markets to the U.S.; rejected by Latin America due to fear of U.S. dominance and satisfaction with European market
Explosion of USS Maine
Pan-Americanism
Battle of Antietam
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
46. Argued that states had the right to determine whether or not the laws passed by Congress were constitutional
12th Amendment
Election of 1960
National Labor Union
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
47. Jane Addams's pioneer settlement house (center for women's activism and social reform) in Chicago
Hull House
Embargo Act (1807)
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
Domino theory
48. Worked alongside Josiah Henson to make repeated trips to get slaves out of the South into freedom
George Washington
'Brain trust'
Harriet Tubman
Sputnik
49. Ex-Lincoln secretary; worked to gain Open Door Notes' acceptance from the major powers
Secretary of State John Hay
Report on Public Credit
Liberty Party
Manifest Destiny
50. American who settled in Texas - one of the leaders for Texan independence from Mexico
Ho Chi Minh
Warren Court
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
Stephen Austin