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AP U.S. History
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1. Focused on the 'Common Man;' removal of Indians - removal of federal deposits in BUS - annexation of territory - liberal use of veto
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2. Party formed from Republican split by Roosevelt - more progressive values - leaving 'Republican Old Guard' to control Republican party
Salvation Army
Bull Moose Party
Republican Party
Committees of Correspondence
3. Tried to rule as absolute monarchs without using Parliament - little to no sympathy for colonial legislatures
Humanitarian diplomacy
Ngo Dinh Diem
Charles II - James II
Five Civilized Tribes
4. CIA attempt to institute Cuban support to overthrow Castro; cover-up uncovered - became representation of Cuban resistance to American aggression
Vietnamization
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Marcus Garvey
Bay of Pigs invasion
5. Soviet leader undergoing tensions on superpower and domestic level
Mikhail Gorbachev
Conservative backlash against liberalism
Connecticut Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
6. States could refuse to enforce the federal laws they deemed unconstitutional
Five Civilized Tribes
William Henry Harrison
Citizen Genet
Nullification
7. Powerful speaker - toured the country and inspired many into Christianity
Frederick Douglass
Harlem Renaissance
Currency Act
George Whitefield
8. Executed for leaking atomic secrets to Soviets - avowed communists
Kent State Protest
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
Election of 1980
Rosenbergs
9. Reluctant to give colonists their own government - preferred to appoint royal governors
Kitchen Cabinet
King James I - King Charles
New Deal
Essex case
10. Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald (hated his anti-Cuban policies); LBJ instituted Warren Commission to investigate assassination (headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren)
John C. Calhoun
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
'Red Scare' (1919)
11. John Marshall declared that the Supreme Court could declare federal laws unconstitutional
Rationing
Marbury v. Madison
Shays's Rebellion
Conservative backlash against liberalism
12. President has power to cease trade with any foreign country that violated American neutrality
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13. Created by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst; aimed to excite American imperialist interests; media bias - subjective representation of events
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
Great Migration
Yellow journalism
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
14. Installed Shah as dictator - overthrew Moussadegh (communist interests) - in order to resist nationalization British oil holdings
CIA overthrow of Iran (1953)
'Red Scare' (1919)
Worcester v. Georgia
Jonathan Edwards
15. American general Horatio Gates was victorious over British general Burgoyne
Jane Addams
Second Great Awakening
Jingoism
Battle of Saratoga
16. Strong patriotism and need to conform to try to avoid blame during red scare - non-churchgoers - unmarried - and critics suspected as communists
Reaganomics
Theodore Roosevelt
Conformity in the 1950s
Espionage Act and Sedition Act
17. Equal representation in unicameral congress
Indentured servants
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
Nat Turner's Rebellion
New Jersey Plan
18. George Wallace vs. Nixon vs. Humphrey; very narrow popular vote triumph to Nixon (although he had clear majority of electoral votes)
The Alamo
Marshall Plan
1968 Presidential Election
Munn v. Illinois
19. Supported abolition - broke off of Anti-Slavery Society
Liberty Party
'Great Society'
President Ronald Reagan
Munn v. Illinois
20. Connected the colonies to Britain - opposed to unnecessary unfair taxation; strong influence on Albany Plan
Dorothea Dix
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Benjamin Franklin
President Harry Truman
21. Created in 1961 as example of liberal anticommunism in third world countries; 'reform-minded missionaries of democracy'
Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Association (YMCA & YWCA)
Peace Corps
U-2 Incident
Popular Sovereignty
22. Foreshadowed in 14 points - hoped to guarantee political independence and integrity of all countries
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
Freeport Doctrine
League of Nations
James Madison
23. '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
Spoils System
Specie
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
Marshall Plan
24. Edmond Genet contributed to polarization of the new nation by creating his American Foreign Legion in the south - which was directed to attack Spanish garrisons in New Orleans and St. Augustine
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Hoover's policy of voluntarism
Tariff of Abominations
Citizen Genet
25. Huerta's enemy - reluctantly supported by U.S.; U.S. sought Villa's submission due to terrorism - eventually assassinated; Wilson's policy highly unpopular
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Warren Court
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
Tories (Loyalists)
26. Private property subject to government regulation when property is devoted to public interest; against railroads
Second Great Awakening
Panama Canal
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
Munn v. Illinois
27. Destroyed by Jackson on the grounds that it was unconstitutional and too much power for a federal institution
Bank of the United States
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
New Jersey Plan
XYZ Affair
28. Political muckraking cartoonist - refused bribes to stop criticism
Teapot Dome scandal
Connecticut Compromise
Thomas Nast
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
29. Detente achieved with USSR and China by withdrawal from Vietnam; realpolitik shed the use of doctrines and policies - instead using China and USSR in alternative ways to achieve other goals (pitting China and USSR against each other - as communist na
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
The Loyal Nine
Detente - realpolitik
Non-Intercourse Act
30. FDR's inner circle of experts rather than just politicians in the cabinet
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31. Repeat candidate for president - proponent of silver-backing (16:1 platform) - cross of gold speech against gold standard; Democratic candidate (1896)
Mayflower Compact
President Bill Clinton
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
William Jennings Bryan
32. Highest peacetime deficit in US history (due to lower tax rates for high-income taxpayers - spent too much money attempting to reduce price supports to farmers)
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Rock `n' Roll
Suburbia
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
33. Detectives hired by employers as private police force - often used to end strikes
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
Kitchen Cabinet
Pinkertons
Japanese internment
34. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - insured deposits < $5000 - reassured American public of the worth of banks
Albany Plan of Union
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Jonathan Edwards
35. Stated the United States was destined to span the breadth of the entire continent with as much land as possible - advocated by Polk
Hull House
Conservative backlash against liberalism
Theodore Roosevelt
Manifest Destiny
36. Japanese bombing of ships in harbor; resulted in FDR's request for declaration of war against Japan; Germany and Italy responded with declarations of war
Hartford Convention
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
Pearl Harbor
Stagflation
37. Acquired Mexican Cession (future California - Arizona - and New Mexico); Mexico acknowledged American annexation of Texas
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
New Freedom
American society during the Revolution
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
38. In Brook Farm Community - lived in seclusion for two years writing Walden and On Civil Disobedience - proved that man could provide for himself without materialistic wants
Suburbia
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
Virginia Resolves
Henry David Thoreau
39. Philippines - Hawaii - Puerto Rico - Guam: granted to U.S. at the end of Spanish-American War; Philippines were captured after treaty - and thus not part of spoils - but kept as territory with an inevitable movement for independence; Philippines and
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
William Lloyd Garrison
US acquisitions
Tariff of Abominations
40. Rejection of negative portrayals of women (language - entertainment) - increased quality and use of education - more job opportunities - acceptance into military
Gains for women
Wilson's 14 points
Watergate Scandal
William Jennings Bryan
41. Border ruffians in election on issue of slavery incited controversy - proslavery group attacked Lawrence - Kansas - Pottawatomie Massacre
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42. Settled in Pennsylvania - believed the 'Inner Light' could speak through any person and ran religious services without ministers
William Penn and the Quakers
George Whitefield
Bruce Barton
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe (1989)
43. Another part of Nixon's out-of-Vietnam plan - destroy supply routes to North Vietnam through Cambodia
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Herbert Hoover's Food Administration
Bombing and invasion of Cambodia
Reaganomics
44. Satirized wealthy captains of industry - workers and engineers as better leaders of society
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
'Great Society'
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
Harlem Renaissance
45. Issued by Lincoln following Antietam (close enough to a victory to empower the proclamation) - declared slaves in the Confederacy free (did not include border states) - symbolic gesture to support Union's moral cause in the war
Emancipation Proclamation
Non-Intercourse Act
Underground Railroad
Federal Reserve Act
46. Southern Christian Leadership Conference - Led boycott - became leader of civil rights movement; urged nonviolent resistance (cf. tactics of Ghandi);
Martin Luther King Jr.
U-2 Incident
Teapot Dome scandal
New Lights vs. Old Lights
47. Middle class; white flight from urban areas due to black migration; government supported insurance for homeowners and builders
U-2 Incident
Yellow journalism
Henry Ford's assembly line
Suburbia
48. Court case - unconstitutionalized all state laws prohibiting women's rights to have an abortion performed during the first trimester of pregnancy
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
Roe v. Wade
49. Parliament took minor actions in the colonies - allowing them to experiment with and become accustomed to self-government - international trade agreements
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
Salutary Neglect
Treaty of Paris (1783)
50. Drastic cutbacks in regulation of business by the federal government (banks - transportation - communications
Deregulation
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
'Red Scare' (1919)
Church of England
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