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AP U.S. History
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1. Attempted to centralize production of war materials; ineffective due to American desire for laissez-faire government
James Madison
AFL-CIO (1955)
War Industries Board
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
2. Opposed Polk's high-handedness - avid Southern slave owner
Mikhail Gorbachev
Economic transition
John C. Calhoun
Energy Crisis - OPEC
3. Government would hold its revenues rather than deposit them in banks - thus keeping the funds away from private corporations; 'America's Second Declaration of Independence'
Lusitania
Independent Treasury Bill
Maysville Road Veto
Yalta Conference (1945)
4. Provided for evacuation of English troops from posts in the Great Lakes
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5. McKinley reluctant; armed intervention to free Cuba from Spain; Roosevelt's 'Rough Riders' made attack on Spanish at Cuba
Lewis and Clark expedition
Spanish American War (1898)
Bonus Army
Impressment
6. Nixon led movement to Hiss's indictment; convicted of perjury - Nixon gained national prominence
Court Packing
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
Ho Chi Minh
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
7. Advocated by Roger Sherman - proposed two independently-voting senators per state and representation in the House based on population
Nullification
William Marcy
Connecticut Compromise
AFL-CIO (1955)
8. Brown aimed to create an armed slave rebellion and establish black free state; Brown executed and became martyr in the North
Election of 1800
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
Harpers Ferry (1859)
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
9. Government ensured readjustment rights to GIs after WWI unrest - loans to veterans for higher education and mortgages (contributed to economic prosperity)
Tallmadge Amendment
Atlantic slave trade
GI Bill of Rights
Gifford Pinchot
10. Agreement between US and Britain to remove armed fleets from the Great Lakes
Okies' and 'Arkies'
Martin Luther King Jr.
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
Charles Lindbergh
11. Foreshadowed in 14 points - hoped to guarantee political independence and integrity of all countries
Deregulation
Bracero program
League of Nations
Hudson River School
12. Vetoed by Jackson on the count that government funds for the Maysville Road would only benefit one state
Sputnik
Indentured servants
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
Maysville Road Veto
13. Spurred by Great Migration - large-scale riots - lynchings - &c.
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14. 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
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
Korean War
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
15. Reagan and Gorbachev agree to remove and destroy nuclear weapons from Eastern and Western Europe; eased international tension and allowed Soviet domestic reforms to take place
1968 Presidential Election
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Pearl Harbor
16. 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
Lecompton Constitution
William Jennings Bryan
Marshall Plan
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
17. Written anonymously by Hamilton - Jay - and Madison; commentary on Constitution - republicanism extended over large territory
Stephen Austin
The Federalist Papers
Fair Labor Standards Act
Tammany Hall
18. Peaceful destruction of British tea in Boston Harbor by colonists disguised as Indians
Boston Tea Party
Butler v. U.S. Court case
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
1968 Presidential Election
19. Reluctant to give colonists their own government - preferred to appoint royal governors
'Evil Empire' speech - 'Star Wars'
Fair Labor Standards Act
King James I - King Charles
Tallmadge Amendment
20. Led Pottawatomie Massacre - extreme abolitionist who believed he was doing God's work
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Boston Massacre
John Brown
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
21. Standard Oil Company - Ruthless business tactics (survival of the fittest)
Stagflation
Know-Nothing (American) Party
John D. Rockefeller
'Evil Empire' speech - 'Star Wars'
22. Considered a hero for his solo crossing of the Atlantic by plane
Harlem Renaissance
Manifest Destiny
Bill of Rights
Charles Lindbergh
23. Fought for human rights in Africa - Panama Canal returned to Panama - relations with China resolved
Isolationism
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
Humanitarian diplomacy
Ku Klux Klan
24. FDR's plan (although vague during the campaign) to restart the economy and pull America out of the Great Depression
New Deal
Harriet Tubman
Immigration Act of 1965
Harpers Ferry (1859)
25. Women must gain economic rights in order to impact society (cf. rising divorce rates)
Sputnik
First American strategy in WWII
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
26. Republican candidate for president in 1884 - quintessence of spoils system; highly disgusted the mugwumps (many Republicans turned to Democrat Cleveland)
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
James G. Blaine
First American strategy in WWII
Compromise of 1877
27. Meant to provide evacuation opportunity for Americans in Cuba; internal accidental explosion blamed on Spanish mines - leading to Spanish¬ American War
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
Dixiecrats - 1948
Explosion of USS Maine
Korean War
28. Southern Christian Leadership Conference - Led boycott - became leader of civil rights movement; urged nonviolent resistance (cf. tactics of Ghandi);
Conformity in the 1950s
Martin Luther King Jr.
Fair Deal
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
29. New Lights brought new ideas - rejected by Old Lights; both sought out institutions independent of each other
Charles II - James II
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
Harpers Ferry (1859)
New Lights vs. Old Lights
30. Prohibited discrimination in any government-related work; increased black employment
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
National Origins Act (1924)
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
31. Radical Calvinists against the Church of England; Separatists (Pilgrims) argued for a break from the Church of England - led the Mayflower - and established the settlement at Plymouth
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
Salutary Neglect
Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1922 and 1930
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
32. President to offer military supplies to nations 'vital to the defense of the US'; ended US neutrality (economic war against Germany); Hitler began to sink American ships (limited scale)
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Berlin Wall
President Harry Truman
Horace Mann
33. Government to buy silver to back money in addition to gold
Platt Amendment
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
John D. Rockefeller
James Madison
34. Black Muslim worked to raise black spirits and pride (cf. Marcus Garvey); emphasized black institutions rather than mere desegregation - blacks to gain freedom at any cost
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
Monroe Doctrine
Bull Moose Party
Critics of FDR
35. Last major battle; surrender of Cornwallis - led King George III to officially make peace with the colonies
Battle of Yorktown
Jonathan Edwards
Northern Securities Case
New Federalism
36. Severe immigration laws to discourage and discriminate against foreigners - believed to erode old-fashioned American values
Nativism
Vietcong
Interstate Commerce Act
Suburbia
37. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark sent by Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Territory on 'Voyage of Discovery'
Vietnamization
Eugene V. Debs
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Lewis and Clark expedition
38. Prohibited colonies from issuing paper money - destabilized colonial economy
Herbert Hoover's Food Administration
Henry Clay and the American System
Currency Act
Important WWII Battles
39. Civil Rights Act of 1875 declared unconstitutional by Supreme Court - as the fourteenth amendment protected people from governmental infringement of rights and had no effect on acts of private citizens
Civil Rights Cases
National Origins Act (1924)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Washington's Farewell Address
40. Warned against permanent foreign alliances and political parties - called for unity of the country - established precedent of two-term presidency
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41. Southern states (especially South Carolina) believed that they had the right to judge federal laws unconstitutional and therefore not enforce them
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
Impressment
Marbury v. Madison
Nullification Controversy
42. Supreme Court legalized the 'separate but equal' philosophy
Plessy v. Ferguson
Convict-lease system
Consumerism
Declaratory Act
43. Government compromised to buy and coin $2-4 million/month; government stuck to minimum and inflation did not occur (lower prices); economy grew
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
Humanitarian diplomacy
Navigation Acts
Rock `n' Roll
44. Network of safe houses of white abolitionists used to bring slaves to freedom
Underground Railroad
Virginia Resolves
Eugene V. Debs
Marshall Plan
45. Effectively ended spoils system and established civil service exams for all government positions - under Pres. Garfield
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Bacon's Rebellion
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
46. First African-American in major league baseball
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
Lusitania
Jackie Robinson
William Marcy
47. Introduced his 'New Deal -' won election by a relative landslide (he was not Hoover - whom the public now did not trust)
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
President Franklin Roosevelt
'Red Scare' (1919)
Indian Removal Act
48. Blacks who went to prison taken out and used for labor in slave-like conditions - enforced southern racial hierarchy
Liberty Party
Convict-lease system
Detente - realpolitik
British strengths and weaknesses
49. Most numerous in New England - fought for independence
Whigs (Patriots)
Panic of 1893
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
President Franklin Roosevelt
50. Launched in 1958 by Ike; successful launch of American satellite (Explorer I); massive arms builup
President Bill Clinton
William Penn and the Quakers
'Atlanta Compromise'
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)