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AP U.S. History
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1. Mass migration northward; mainly blacks migrating from the southern states into the north hoping for less discrimination
Virginia Plan
Articles of Confederation
US acquisitions
Great Migration
2. Banned racial discrimination in federal practices; To Secure These Rights called for desegregation - anti-lynching - end of poll taxes
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Hoover's policy of voluntarism
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
3. Social ideals to be encouraged in public school (stress on social interaction) - learning by doing
John Dewey
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
4. Needed to protect new Pacific acquisitions - U.S. took over the project from the French after overcoming Clatyton¬ Bulwer Treaty (prohibited exclusive control of canal) with the Hay¬ Pauncefote Treaty
Quarantine Speech - 1937
Panama Canal
Korean War
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
5. Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait despite peace treaty and refusal to abandon Iraqi occupation
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6. Fought for return to colonial rule - usually conservative (educated and wealthy
Berlin Airlift
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Conservatism
Tories (Loyalists)
7. 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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8. Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald (hated his anti-Cuban policies); LBJ instituted Warren Commission to investigate assassination (headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren)
Roger Williams
Religious Right
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
Upton Sinclair
9. In reaction to the Boston Tea Party; closing of Boston Harbor - revocation of Massachusetts charter (power to governor) - murder in the name of royal authority would be tried in England or another colony
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
Bay of Pigs invasion
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
Church of England
10. Belligerent nationalism against other threatening nations
Emancipation Proclamation
Whiskey Rebellion
Jingoism
Jim Crow laws
11. Speech symbolized polarization between conservatives and liberals
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12. Equal representation in unicameral congress
Cuban Missile Crisis
John Smith
Civil Rights Act of 1964
New Jersey Plan
13. CIA attempt to institute Cuban support to overthrow Castro; cover-up uncovered - became representation of Cuban resistance to American aggression
Transportation Revolution
Fair Deal
Bay of Pigs invasion
Yalta Conference (1945)
14. Overthrow of the Taliban - in search of bin Laden
Jazz
Battle of Tippecanoe
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
Palmer Raids
15. First president to show positive response to civil rights movement; worked heavily on keeping Soviet spread of communism in check
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
Townshend Act (1767)
President Harry Truman
16. Part of transportation revolution - from Cumberland MD to Wheeling WVa - toll road network; stimulated Western expansion
Non-conformity
National Road
Fort Sumter
Zimmerman Note
17. Halted sale of tribal lands - enabled tribes to regain unallocated lands; repealed Dawes Severalty Act of 1887; helped secure Indians' entry into New Deal associations; led by John Collier
Kent State Protest
'Wage slaves'
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
18. Planes hijacked by terrorists for destruction; blame pinned on Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden - sought out in attempt to completely destroy terrorism
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Conservative backlash against liberalism
Social Gospel movement
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
19. In Brook Farm Community - literary nationalist - transcendentalist (nascent ideas of God and freedom) - wrote 'The American Scholar'
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Salvation Army
Standard Oil Trust
Ralph Waldo Emerson
20. Religious movements - traveling 'meetings -' rise of Baptist and Methodist ministries; Charles G. Finney
'Atlanta Compromise'
Second Great Awakening
Tammany Hall
President Bill Clinton
21. 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
William Penn and the Quakers
David Riesman
Economic transition
Scopes Trial
22. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - used withheld money from payrolls to provide aid to the unemployed - industrial accident victims - and young mothers; principle of government responsibility for social welfare
The Great Awakening
Social Darwinism
Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA)
Northwest Passage
23. Withdrawal of American troops from foreign nations (especially Latin America) to improve international relations and unite western hemisphere; Clark Memorandum (rebukes the 'big stick'); peaceful resolution of Mexican oil fields
Good Neighbor Policy
President John F. Kennedy
National Origins Act (1924)
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
24. Monroe presidency - national unity behind Monroe - post-war boom (foreign demand for cotton - grain - and tobacco) - Depression of 1819 (cheap British imports - tightened credit - affected West the most)
Dawes Plan (1924)
Era of Good Feelings
March on Washington
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
25. Removal of Saddam Hussein - 2003 - Iran - Iraq - and North Korea designated as the 'axis of evil -' institution of democratic government in Iraq to replace Hussein's dictatorship (return to spread and protection of democracy throughout the world - mo
Standard Oil Trust
Tammany Hall
Dorothea Lange
Invasion of Iraq
26. Forbade restraint of trade and did not distinguish good from bad trusts - ineffective due to lack of enforcement mechanism (waited for Clayton Anti-Trust Act)
Theodore Roosevelt
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Social Gospel movement
27. Republican - popular hero of WWII; 'dynamic conservatism' as a middle ground btw. Rep. and Dem.; Interstate Highway System (ulterior motive of weapons transportation); St. Lawrence Seaway opened Great Lakes to Atlantic Ocean via locks; Depts. Of Heal
Transcendentalism
Bank of the United States
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
28. Craft unions that left the Knights (1886) - led by Gompers - women left out of recruitment efforts
'Trail of Tears'
American Federation of Labor
McCarthyism
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
29. Anti-immigrant - especially against Irish Catholics
Panama Canal
Nativism
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
30. Calvinist - devised concept of 'city on a hill' ('A Model of Christian Charity'); founded highly successful towns in Massachusetts Bay
Tammany Hall
John Winthrop
John Dewey
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
31. British-occupied cities - new governments - fighting by any with experience - loaned money - African-Americans and Native Americans involved
Charles II - James II
Horace Mann
American society during the Revolution
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
32. Congress could tax imports but not exports
President Jimmy Carter
Social Reciprocity
Commerce Compromise
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
33. In response to Japanese discrimination in San Fran schools; Japanese to stop laborers into U.S. - Californians forbidden to ban Japanese from public schools
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34. Congressional support to raid houses of radicals believed to have connections to communism
Citizen Genet
Palmer Raids
William H. Taft
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
35. Committees appointed from different colonies to communicate on matters; asserted rights to self¬government - cooperation between colonies
Tariff of Abominations
James Meredith
Committees of Correspondence
Jonathan Edwards
36. Hamilton's plan to solve Revolutionary debt - Assumption highly controversial - pushed his plan through Congress - based on loose interpretation of Constitution
Bank of the United States
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
Roger Williams
Gulf War - 'Operation Desert Storm' (1991)
37. Old immigrants from northern and western Europe came seeking better life; new immigrants came from southern and eastern Europe searching for opportunity to escape worse living conditions back home and often did not stay in the US
New Nationalism
Eugene V. Debs
Hoover's policy of voluntarism
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
38. States could refuse to enforce the federal laws they deemed unconstitutional
China turns communist
Election of 1960
Muckrakers
Nullification
39. (free speech movement) Youth activists (often liberal arts students) spoke out against Vietnam War - supported widespread liberalization
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40. Georgia cannot enforce American laws on Indian tribes
Navigation Acts
Quebec Acts
Worcester v. Georgia
Transportation Revolution
41. Desegregation (Brown v. Board of Ed) - rights of the accused (Miranda v. Arizona) - voting reforms (Wesberry v. Sanders - Reynolds v. Sims - Katzenbach v Morgan)
William H. Taft
Warren Court
Cotton Gin
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
42. Law meant to evolve as society evolves - opposed conservative majority
Butler v. U.S. Court case
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
Karl Marx Das Kapital
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
43. Led by Francis Willard - powerful 'interest group' following the civil war - urged women's suffrage - led to Prohibition
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44. Satirized wealthy captains of industry - workers and engineers as better leaders of society
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
Bruce Barton
Election of 1960
Berlin Wall
45. Under JQ Adams - protectionist tariff - South considered it the source of economic problems - made Jackson appear to advocate free trade
Truman's Loyalty Program
John Dewey
George Wallace - American
Tariff of Abominations
46. Mexicans held siege on the Alamo (in San Antonio) - Texans lost great number of people - 'Remember the Alamo'
Nicaraguan Contras
Marbury v. Madison
The Alamo
Non-conformity
47. Supported expanded money supply - health/safety regulations - benefits for workers and farmers - granger (farmer)-supported
Greenback Party
New York City draft riots (1863)
Whig Party
Ngo Dinh Diem
48. To service economy in late 20 century (end of industrialism) - Higher focus on services (esp. education) rather than material products
Marcus Garvey
Camp David Accords
Dollar Diplomacy'
Economic transition
49. Protestant church led by the king of England - independent of Catholic Church; tended toward Catholicism during reign of Catholic royalty
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
George Washington
William and Mary
Church of England
50. Unemployment jitters; expelled Teamster union (resorted to gangsterism); height of power of workers' unions
William Jennings Bryan
Lusitania
AFL-CIO (1955)
United States vs. EC Knight Company