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AP U.S. History

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1. Spurred by Great Migration - large-scale riots - lynchings - &c.

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2. FDR's inner circle of experts rather than just politicians in the cabinet

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3. Contending communist politician in Vietnam - had more popularity than Diem - took power upon Diem's death






4. Increase working output by standardizing procedures and rewarding those who worked fast; efficiency






5. Commission on civil rights to attempt to guarantee the ballot to blacks; showed government's changing views of race relations






6. Government ensured readjustment rights to GIs after WWI unrest - loans to veterans for higher education and mortgages (contributed to economic prosperity)






7. Proclamation of 1793 response to French attempts for alliance with US






8. (free speech movement) Youth activists (often liberal arts students) spoke out against Vietnam War - supported widespread liberalization

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9. Challenged New Englanders to completely separate Church from State - as the State would corrupt the church






10. Ideas of Wilson: small enterprise - states' rights - more active government - trust busting - left social issues up to the states






11. Rebels felt the governor of Virginia failed to protect the frontier from the Native Americans

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12. Vetoed by Jackson on the count that government funds for the Maysville Road would only benefit one state






13. Hired to photograph ordinary Americans experiencing the depression






14. 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






15. Intercepted by Britain; Germany proposed alliance with Mexico - using bribe of return of TX - NM - and AZ; Japan included in alliance






16. First attempt of Cherokees to gain complete sovereign rule over their nation






17. Supported Socialists - militant unionists and socialists - advocated strikes and sabotaging politics - aimed for an umbrella union similar to Knights of Labor - ideas too radical for socialist cause






18. Lee's chief lieutenant and premier cavalry officer

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19. Stressed to the American people British maltreatment and emphasize a need for revolution; appealed to American emotions






20. Desegregation (Brown v. Board of Ed) - rights of the accused (Miranda v. Arizona) - voting reforms (Wesberry v. Sanders - Reynolds v. Sims - Katzenbach v Morgan)






21. King hosted myriad nonviolent protesting activities to fill jail with protestors - Bill Connor (police commissioner) began violent resistance to protestors






22. Killed the AAA - although FDR insisted on continuing by creating smaller state-level AAAs






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






24. Society naturally punishes criminals indiscriminantly






25. Southern Christian Leadership Conference - Led boycott - became leader of civil rights movement; urged nonviolent resistance (cf. tactics of Ghandi);






26. Mao Zedong (communist) defeated nationalist forces of Kai-Shek (supported by US); seen as defeat for US - not officially fully recognized until 1973






27. Americans who were forced out of their homes in Oklahoma and Arkansas (respectively) due to the dust storms and drought known as the Dust Bowl

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28. Court case - unconstitutionalized all state laws prohibiting women's rights to have an abortion performed during the first trimester of pregnancy






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






30. Emphasis on personal salvation - emotional response - and individual faith; women and blacks; nationalism (Manifest Destiny)






31. Denounced the 'housewife trap' which caused educated women to hold even themselves inferior to men






32. Combined Massachusetts - New Hampshire - Connecticut - Rhode Island - and Plymouth (and later Jersey and New York) into one 'supercolony' governed by Sir Edmond Andros - a 'supergovernor'






33. Under JQ Adams - protectionist tariff - South considered it the source of economic problems - made Jackson appear to advocate free trade






34. No further introduction of slaves into Missouri - all children born to slaves to become free at 25






35. Exempted those who owned or oversaw twenty or more slaves from service in the Confederate Army; 'rich man's war but a poor man's fight'






36. Military hero from War of 1812; elected president 1840 - died of pneumonia a month later - gave presidency to Tyler






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






38. Intended to save British East India Company from bankruptcy - could sell directly to consumers rather than through wholesalers (lowered prices to compete with smuggled tea)






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






40. 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






41. Founded by Betty Friedan - Bella Abzug - and Aileen Hernandez; lobbied for equal opportunity where the EEOC was lacking (gender discrimination); lawsuits and mobilization of public opinion






42. Influence of African-American blues - music of the younger generation (gap between them and their parents)

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43. CIA attempt to institute Cuban support to overthrow Castro; cover-up uncovered - became representation of Cuban resistance to American aggression






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






45. Led a slave rebellion in Virginia - attacked many whites - prompted non-slaveholding Virginians to consider emancipation

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46. Henry Clay aimed to make the US economically independent from Europe (e.g. - support internal improvements - tariff protection - and new national bank)






47. Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson; purchase of Alaska 'Seward's Folly'






48. U.S. felt it was its duty to 'watch out' for the interests of other countries in the Western hemisphere; provided justification for invasions of Latin America.






49. Educational and residential segregation; inferior facilities allotted to African-Americans - predominantly in South






50. Prejudiced jury sentenced them to death - caused riots around the world - new trial denied