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AP U.S. History
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1. Gives Congress the power to pass laws it deems necessary to enforce the Constitution
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2. CIA attempt to institute Cuban support to overthrow Castro; cover-up uncovered - became representation of Cuban resistance to American aggression
Good Neighbor Policy
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
Bay of Pigs invasion
Sputnik
3. Calvinist - devised concept of 'city on a hill' ('A Model of Christian Charity'); founded highly successful towns in Massachusetts Bay
Truman's Loyalty Program
Causes of the depression
Booker T. Washington
John Winthrop
4. Introduced work ethic to Jamestown colony - sanitation - diplomat to local Native American tribes; had fought Spanish and Turks
John Smith
Pan-Americanism
President Harry Truman
Butler v. U.S. Court case
5. Fear of Japanese-Americans as traitors - sent off (by law) to internment camps; removal of deemed threats in military areas
David Riesman
'Yellow dog contracts'
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Japanese internment
6. Admiral Dewey defeated Spanish initially; American troops (aided by Aguinaldo's insurgents) captured Manila - leading to annexation
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
Salvation Army
Bush v. Gore (2000)
'Bleeding Kansas'
7. Settled in Pennsylvania - believed the 'Inner Light' could speak through any person and ran religious services without ministers
Nativism
William Penn and the Quakers
Freeport Doctrine
John Brown
8. Kent State University students protesting against invasion of Cambodia - not allowed to demonstrate - violence (murder) caused by guardsmen
Pan-Americanism
American society during the Revolution
Compromise of 1877
Kent State Protest
9. Southern states (especially South Carolina) believed that they had the right to judge federal laws unconstitutional and therefore not enforce them
American Federation of Labor
John C. Calhoun
Platt Amendment
Nullification Controversy
10. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - collective bargaining rights - closed shops permitted (where workers must join unions) - outlawed anti-union tactics
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
'City on a Hill'
George Wallace - American
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
11. 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)
'Bleeding Kansas'
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
New Federalism
12. Proclamation of 1793 response to French attempts for alliance with US
Republican Party
Charles Lindbergh
Independent Treasury Bill
Neutrality
13. September 1949 - US no longer held monopoly; two atomic powers
'Wage slaves'
Soviet atomic bomb
1968 as 'the year of shocks'
Tammany Hall
14. Introduced the 'trickle-down' economics theory in order to promote business and increase money available for speculation
James G. Blaine
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
Berlin Airlift
Dawes Plan (1924)
15. Nixon led movement to Hiss's indictment; convicted of perjury - Nixon gained national prominence
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
Japanese internment
Conformity in the 1950s
16. Satirized wealthy captains of industry - workers and engineers as better leaders of society
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
Korean War
17. Dance music - slave spirituals adapted into improvisation and ragtime; jazz migrated along with blacks in the Great Migration
Adams-Onis Treaty
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
Liberty Party
Jazz
18. (The Lonely Crowd) 'outer directed' Americans conforming to peer pressure on moral and social issues - rather than independently thinking on morals
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
Peace Corps
Tories (Loyalists)
David Riesman
19. Public treaties - free trade - free seas - reduced armament burdens - anti-imperialism - independence to minorities - international organization
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20. Intervention in Mexican Revolution (Madero overthrew dictator Diaz) to overthrow Madero out of fear of property confiscation - General Huerta (seen as 'brute' by Wilson - sought new leader) replaced Madero
Underground Railroad
Affirmative Action
Moral Diplomacy
Horace Mann
21. Military hero from War of 1812; elected president 1840 - died of pneumonia a month later - gave presidency to Tyler
William Henry Harrison
Ulysses S. Grant
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Conservatism
22. Bomb thrown at protest rally - police shot protestors - caused great animosity in employers for workers' unions
Conscription policies
Japanese internment
Haymarket Bombing
Women's Christian Temperance Union
23. Established by 'General' William Booth - uniformed volunteers provided food - shelter - and employment to families - attracted poor with lively preaching and marching bands in order to instill middle-class virtues
Salvation Army
New Federalism
Dollar Diplomacy'
Judiciary Act of 1789
24. Editor of The Liberator (strongly abolitionist newspaper calling for immediate abolition of slavery) - fought for feminist movement ('Am I not a woman and a sister' picture of slave woman)
Hartford Convention
William Lloyd Garrison
Independent Treasury Bill
Civil Rights Cases
25. Remainder of Florida sold by Spain to US - boundary of Mexico defined
Camp David Accords
Adams-Onis Treaty
Boston Massacre
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
26. Influence of African-American blues - music of the younger generation (gap between them and their parents)
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27. Decision under Sherman Anti-Trust Act shot down by Supreme Court — sugar refining was manufacturing rather than trade/commerce
Andy Warhol
Robert E. Lee
United States vs. EC Knight Company
Federalism
28. Attacked people for being communist by association and unsubstantiated claims - against Truman - Marshall - and Ike; downfall came with attack on the military (condemned by Senate); led hysteria of the red scare
Quebec Acts
Lewis and Clark expedition
McCarthyism
Consumerism
29. Mandated the toleration of all Christian denominations in Maryland - even though Maryland was founded for Catholics (but majority was protestant)
Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Association (YMCA & YWCA)
Judiciary Act of 1789
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
'Baby Boom'
30. FDR and Churchill agreed to defeat Germany first rather than concentrate on Japan
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
Square Deal
First American strategy in WWII
'Affluent Society'
31. Part of 'First' New Deal Program - subsidies to farmers to decrease production and thus increase prices
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Berlin Airlift
Vertical and horizontal integration
Charles Lindbergh
32. Scarce supplies (food and clothing) - army motivated by von Steuben
Valley Forge
Church of England
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA)
33. Brown aimed to create an armed slave rebellion and establish black free state; Brown executed and became martyr in the North
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
'City on a Hill'
Harpers Ferry (1859)
Louis Sullivan
34. Often debtors sold to slave traders by African kings seeking riches; Columbian Exchange
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Atlantic slave trade
Karl Marx Das Kapital
Warren Court
35. Mistreated farmers - fear of monocracy - forced people to think about central government
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36. Avoided league of Nations - opposed Latin American involvement
Isolationism
Stagflation
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
Battle of Gettysburg
37. 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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38. Efficient working methods to increase productivity; usually resulted in lower wages (hated by workers) - power to managers
Liberty Party
Deportations of Mexicans
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
George Kennan
39. Kennedy vs. Nixon - Kennedy (due to televised charisma) won over Nixon (pale and nervous)
Bonus Army
'Silent Majority'
Election of 1960
First American strategy in WWII
40. Elvis Presley - Marilyn Monroe - James Dean - Beatniks — rebelled against conservative conformity of the rest of the country (esp. targeted youth)
Articles of Confederation
Non-conformity
Wilmot Proviso
New Lights vs. Old Lights
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)
Ngo Dinh Diem
Warren Court
'New Left'
Neutrality
42. British soldiers shot into crowd of snowball fight; two of nine soldiers (defended by John Adams) found guilty of manslaughter
Bruce Barton
James Monroe
Bombing and invasion of Cambodia
Boston Massacre
43. George Wallace vs. Nixon vs. Humphrey; very narrow popular vote triumph to Nixon (although he had clear majority of electoral votes)
1968 Presidential Election
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
George Whitefield
Reaganomics
44. Allowed Parliament to completely legislate over the colonies - limited colonists' say
Ike's Farewell Speech
'Bleeding Kansas'
Declaratory Act
Specie
45. McKinley reluctant; armed intervention to free Cuba from Spain; Roosevelt's 'Rough Riders' made attack on Spanish at Cuba
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
Spanish American War (1898)
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Indentured servants
46. Blacks denied admission to all-white school; overturned Plessy v. Ferguson - negating 'separate but equal' - ordered integration of schools as soon as possible; white southerners protested (refused to attend integrated schools)
Tea Act (1773)
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Henry Ford's assembly line
John Dewey
47. Protected rights of individual from the power of the central government
Tammany Hall
Macon's Bill No. 2
Bill of Rights
Dawes Plan (1924)
48. The principle that a state should decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
Popular Sovereignty
Pinkertons
Robert La Follette
49. Effectively ended spoils system and established civil service exams for all government positions - under Pres. Garfield
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
Mercantilism
Pendleton Civil Service Act
50. Spread quickly; opposed everything that was not White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) (and conservative) - Stephenson's faults and jail sentence led to demise
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
Herbert Hoover's Food Administration
Ku Klux Klan
Knights of Labor