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AP U.S. History

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1. Tet Offensive in Vietnam - assassination of MLK and Robert Kennedy (presidential candidate) - Riot of Democratic National Convention (Chicago police beat antiwar protestors) - Black Panthers

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2. First Utopian society - by Robert Owen






3. Executed for leaking atomic secrets to Soviets - avowed communists






4. Supported by women and churches - instituted by Volstead Act - lacked enforcement; bootlegging and speakeasies - Al Capone and John Dillinger — gangsters and organized crime (casual breaking of the law)






5. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - hydroelectric power to river valley; brought social and economic development to very poor area






6. Began by Edwards to return to Puritanism - increased overall religious involvement - gave women more active roles in religion - more and more ministers sprouted up throughout the country; mainly affected towns and cities






7. Appealed to many conservatives - especially southerners (opposed massive protests and integration)






8. Single tax on speculated land to ameliorate industrialization misery






9. Led railroad workers in Pullman Strike - arrested; Supreme Court (decision in re Debs) legalized use of injunction (court order) against unions and strikes






10. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - Harold Icicles - provided public construction projects






11. Known as 'wartime food czar;' created recreation policies and reintroduced leisure culture and conservation ethic to get Americans escaping the cities and improve tourism - etc.






12. Politely demanded from the king a cease¬fire in Boston - repeal of Coercive Acts -. guarantee of American rights






13. Blacks who went to prison taken out and used for labor in slave-like conditions - enforced southern racial hierarchy






14. Slavery to be barred in all territory ceded from Mexico; never fully passed Congress






15. Judiciary Reorganization Bill; FDR's attempt to put in extra judges who would support him without doubt






16. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark sent by Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Territory on 'Voyage of Discovery'






17. 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






18. Foundation for First Amendment - offered free choice of religion - not influenced by state






19. Four-day banking holiday to create controlled inflation - followed by reopening of sound banks - and reorganization of unsound banks






20. Private property subject to government regulation when property is devoted to public interest; against railroads






21. All English subjects are represented in Parliament - including those not allowed to vote






22. Government to buy silver to back money in addition to gold






23. Created by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst; aimed to excite American imperialist interests; media bias - subjective representation of events






24. Sets of programs geared towards minorities and oft-discriminated populations






25. Cherokees - Choctaws - Creeks - Chickasaws - and Seminoles; 'civilized' due to their intermarriage with whites - forced out of their homelands by expansion






26. (1) California admitted as free state - (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico - (3) resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries - (4) federal assumption of Texas debt - (5) slave trade abolished in DC - and (6) new fugit






27. John Noyes - New York; utopian society for communalism - perfectionism - and complex marriage






28. States could refuse to enforce the federal laws they deemed unconstitutional






29. Led by Francis Willard - powerful 'interest group' following the civil war - urged women's suffrage - led to Prohibition

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30. 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






31. Repeat candidate for president - proponent of silver-backing (16:1 platform) - cross of gold speech against gold standard; Democratic candidate (1896)






32. Mass migration northward; mainly blacks migrating from the southern states into the north hoping for less discrimination






33. 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






34. Emphasis on human reason - logic - and science (acquired - not nascent - knowledge); increased followers of Christianity






35. 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






36. Catholic communist autocrat of Vietnam - assassinated (with aid of US)






37. U.S. would ensure that Cuba would be protected from European powers and maintain a place in Cuban affairs; provided coal and naval stations






38. Dance music - slave spirituals adapted into improvisation and ragtime; jazz migrated along with blacks in the Great Migration






39. Effects of pesticides on the environment; changed way Americans viewed their impact on nature






40. Relied on voluntary compliance (no formal laws) - propaganda; high prices set on commodities to encourage production - Prohibition

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41. Political action for religion justified by decreased presence of religion in society; Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition to expand national influence






42. The Jungle revealed unsanitary nature of meat-packing industry - inspired Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)






43. '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






44. Government compromised to buy and coin $2-4 million/month; government stuck to minimum and inflation did not occur (lower prices); economy grew






45. Agricultural depression as precursor to the depression; unheeded omen of problems in the economic structure (prices too low — too much supply for the demand)






46. South to gain removal of last troops from Reconstruction; North wins Hayes as president






47. Believed to provide shortcut from Atlantic to Pacific - searched for by Giovanni de Verrazano for Francis I in the race to Asian wealth






48. George Wallace vs. Nixon vs. Humphrey; very narrow popular vote triumph to Nixon (although he had clear majority of electoral votes)






49. Tried to rule as absolute monarchs without using Parliament - little to no sympathy for colonial legislatures






50. Warned against permanent foreign alliances and political parties - called for unity of the country - established precedent of two-term presidency

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