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AP U.S. History
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1. Nixon's domestic policy; federal revenues shared with states (revenue sharing) - minimum income proposed
Plessy v. Ferguson
New Federalism
Battle of Antietam
Bill of Rights
2. Relied on voluntary compliance (no formal laws) - propaganda; high prices set on commodities to encourage production - Prohibition
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3. Supported abolition - broke off of Anti-Slavery Society
Dorothea Dix
Theodore Roosevelt
Liberty Party
Samuel Gompers
4. Prejudiced jury sentenced them to death - caused riots around the world - new trial denied
George Kennan
Warren Court
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
5. Secretly sponsored peace negotiations so as to prevent Japanese or Russian monopoly on Asia; concerned with safety of Philippines
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
John D. Rockefeller
The Homefront
Economic transition
6. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - Harold Icicles - provided public construction projects
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Essex case
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
7. Held in New York - agreed to not import British goods until Stamp Act was repealed
Five Civilized Tribes
Stamp Act Congress
Thomas Edison
Hoovervilles
8. FDR and Churchill agreed to defeat Germany first rather than concentrate on Japan
First American strategy in WWII
Nativism
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
9. Advocated by Roger Sherman - proposed two independently-voting senators per state and representation in the House based on population
Harpers Ferry (1859)
New Lights vs. Old Lights
Gulf War - 'Operation Desert Storm' (1991)
Connecticut Compromise
10. Risk of too many casualties and high costs for hand-to-hand combat/invasion - Japanese surrender unlikely
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Federal Reserve Act
Albany Plan of Union
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
11. Federalist cause leading up to Hartford Convention
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
Essex case
Alien and Sedition Acts
Worcester v. Georgia
12. Meant to provide evacuation opportunity for Americans in Cuba; internal accidental explosion blamed on Spanish mines - leading to Spanish¬ American War
John Brown
Explosion of USS Maine
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Teapot Dome scandal
13. Over Senate seat for Illinois (Douglas victor) - Lincoln stated the country could not remain split over the issue of slavery
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
President Franklin Roosevelt
New Lights vs. Old Lights
Consumerism
14. Unprecedented sudden growth spurt of American population (especially urban and suburban areas)
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15. Provided for evacuation of English troops from posts in the Great Lakes
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16. British soldiers shot into crowd of snowball fight; two of nine soldiers (defended by John Adams) found guilty of manslaughter
Writs of Assistance
Boston Massacre
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Association (YMCA & YWCA)
17. Alice Paul; shocked traditionalism - League of Women Voters supported; new organization of women who were now more independent
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
18. River traffic - road building - canals (esp. Erie) - rise of NYC
'Atlanta Compromise'
Transportation Revolution
John Smith
1968 as 'the year of shocks'
19. Speech given by BTW to ease whites' fears of integration - assuring them that separate but equal was acceptable - ideas challenged by DuBois
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20. US provided financial assistance to recover economies in Europe; aimed towards anti-communist governments in France - Italy - and Germany; Eastern European nations prohibited from receiving help from US
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Munn v. Illinois
Federal Reserve Act
Marshall Plan
21. Allowed for faster processing of cotton - invented by Eli Whitney - less need for slaves
Cotton Gin
Nativism
Upton Sinclair
Alexander Hamilton
22. First Utopian society - by Robert Owen
Indian Removal Act
Elastic Clause ('necessary and proper')
New Harmony
Conversion Experience
23. Calvinist - devised concept of 'city on a hill' ('A Model of Christian Charity'); founded highly successful towns in Massachusetts Bay
John Winthrop
Interstate Commerce Act
Court Packing
Tories (Loyalists)
24. Americans feared Soviet infiltration into Latin America - placed secret police and military forces to prevent it
Impressment
Albany Plan of Union
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
California Gold Rush
25. Single tax on speculated land to ameliorate industrialization misery
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
Vertical and horizontal integration
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
26. To service economy in late 20 century (end of industrialism) - Higher focus on services (esp. education) rather than material products
Yalta Conference (1945)
Economic transition
'Great Society'
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
27. Believed to provide shortcut from Atlantic to Pacific - searched for by Giovanni de Verrazano for Francis I in the race to Asian wealth
Northwest Passage
John C. Calhoun
Hudson River School
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
28. Efficient working methods to increase productivity; usually resulted in lower wages (hated by workers) - power to managers
Richard Nixon (R)
Truman's Loyalty Program
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
29. Established colony of Georgia as a place for honest debtors
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
James Oglethorpe
30. Goods able to be transferred from New York to New Orleans by inland waterways
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Great Migration
Indian Removal Act
Erie Canal
31. Populists campaigned for silver-backed money rather than gold-backed - believed to be able to relieve working conditions and exploitation of labor
Teapot Dome scandal
Anaconda plan
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Free silver
32. Parks arrested for refusing to give up bus seat to white man - African American leaders called for city-wide boycott of bus system (lasted almost 400 days); Supreme Court ruled segregated buses unconstitutional
Forced busing
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Deportations of Mexicans
33. Ensured trade with mother country - nationalism; too restrictive on colonial economy - not voted on by colonists
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
Whig Party
Mercantilism
Liberty Party
34. Anti-immigrant - especially against Irish Catholics
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Jackie Robinson
Populist Party
Nativism
35. In Brook Farm Community - literary nationalist - transcendentalist (nascent ideas of God and freedom) - wrote 'The American Scholar'
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
Panic of 1819
Henry Ford's assembly line
36. Lee invaded Pennsylvania - bloodiest battle of the war - Confederate Pickett's Charge (disastrous) - Lee forced to retreat (not pursued by Meade) - South doomed to never invade North again - Gettysburg Address given by Lincoln (nation over union)
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Open Door Policy
John Winthrop
Battle of Gettysburg
37. Rise in stock prices and speculation - decline of construction industry - mistaken 'trickle-down' economics - reliance on credit
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
Social Gospel movement
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
Causes of the depression
38. 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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39. Middle class; white flight from urban areas due to black migration; government supported insurance for homeowners and builders
Underground Railroad
Pinkertons
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Suburbia
40. Emerged from Farmers' Alliance movement (when subtreasury plan was defeated in Congress) - denounced Eastern Establishment that suppressed the working classes; Ignatius Donnelly (utopian author) - Mary E Lease - Jerry Simpson
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
Transportation Revolution
Populist Party
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
41. First African-American in major league baseball
Jackie Robinson
Japanese internment
William Jennings Bryan
President Lyndon B. Johnson
42. Acquired Mexican Cession (future California - Arizona - and New Mexico); Mexico acknowledged American annexation of Texas
Cult of domesticity
War Industries Board
Peace Corps
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
43. Another black separatist movement; known for peaceful demonstrations - but more for police shootouts
Declining death rate
President Franklin Roosevelt
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
Black Panther Party
44. Border ruffians in election on issue of slavery incited controversy - proslavery group attacked Lawrence - Kansas - Pottawatomie Massacre
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45. Tax cuts to increase population spending (help economy) - drastic cutting back on government programs due to lack of funds
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
The Loyal Nine
James G. Blaine
46. Kent State University students protesting against invasion of Cambodia - not allowed to demonstrate - violence (murder) caused by guardsmen
Kent State Protest
National Organization of Women
Deregulation
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
47. Written anonymously by Hamilton - Jay - and Madison; commentary on Constitution - republicanism extended over large territory
The Federalist Papers
Marbury v. Madison
Transcendentalism
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
48. Attacked public figures (Hollywood - New-Dealers - liberals) to root out communist spies
Maysville Road Veto
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
Social Darwinism
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
49. Led railroad workers in Pullman Strike - arrested; Supreme Court (decision in re Debs) legalized use of injunction (court order) against unions and strikes
Henry Clay and the American System
Wilson's 14 points
Eugene V. Debs
Atlantic slave trade
50. First female cabinet member
Gifford Pinchot
March on Birmingham
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
China turns communist