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AP U.S. History
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1. Foundation for First Amendment - offered free choice of religion - not influenced by state
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Virtual Representation
2. Political action for religion justified by decreased presence of religion in society; Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition to expand national influence
William and Mary
Religious Right
William Jennings Bryan
Gulf War - 'Operation Desert Storm' (1991)
3. Heavily evangelized to the point there were no more people left to convert to other religions - upstate New York - home to the beginning of Smith's Mormonism movement
Townshend Act (1767)
Manifest Destiny
Conformity in the 1950s
Burned-Over District
4. Court case - unconstitutionalized all state laws prohibiting women's rights to have an abortion performed during the first trimester of pregnancy
Roe v. Wade
Transportation Revolution
Dawes Plan (1924)
Boston Massacre
5. Ex-Lincoln secretary; worked to gain Open Door Notes' acceptance from the major powers
Okies' and 'Arkies'
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Dawes Plan (1924)
Secretary of State John Hay
6. Authors included Langston Hughes - McKay - Zora Neale Hurston - Countee Cullet — praise and expression of black culture of the time
Harlem Renaissance
Roe v. Wade
Maysville Road Veto
Dollar Diplomacy'
7. Search warrants on shipping to reduce smuggling; challenged by James Otis
Secretary of State John Hay
'Atlanta Compromise'
Writs of Assistance
'Wage slaves'
8. Detectives hired by employers as private police force - often used to end strikes
Manifest Destiny
James Madison
Lusitania
Pinkertons
9. Through CIO - led three coal mine strikes (some of the very few strikes during the time period)
Macon's Bill No. 2
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Bank of the United States
John L. Lewis
10. Attacked public figures (Hollywood - New-Dealers - liberals) to root out communist spies
Fort Sumter
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
Okies' and 'Arkies'
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
11. 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
Gulf War - 'Operation Desert Storm' (1991)
William H. Taft
Good Neighbor Policy
United States vs. EC Knight Company
12. Most numerous in New England - fought for independence
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
Mann Act
'Lost Generation'
Whigs (Patriots)
13. Educational and residential segregation; inferior facilities allotted to African-Americans - predominantly in South
Federalism
Jim Crow laws
Nativism
Declaratory Act
14. Prohibited use of any devices (e.g. - literacy tests) to deny the right to vote and enforced black suffrage rights
'Lost Generation'
Yeoman Farmers
War hawks
Voting Rights Act of 1965
15. Effects of pesticides on the environment; changed way Americans viewed their impact on nature
Mann Act
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
Convict-lease system
Virginia Plan
16. 'Southern Strategy' lured many southern Democrats to the Republican party (esp. due to southern opposition to Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Richard Nixon (R)
Conversion Experience
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
William and Mary
17. South to gain removal of last troops from Reconstruction; North wins Hayes as president
Compromise of 1877
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Monroe Doctrine
18. 8000 businesses collapsed (including railroads); due to stock market crash - overbuilding of railroads - heavy farmer loans - economic disruption by labor efforts - agricultural depression; decrease of gold reserves led to Cleveland's repeal of Sherm
Jackie Robinson
Panic of 1893
Zoot Suit riots
CIA overthrow of Iran (1953)
19. Vetoed by Jackson on the count that government funds for the Maysville Road would only benefit one state
Nicaraguan Contras
Maysville Road Veto
Jackson's Presidency
Dawes Plan (1924)
20. Acquired Mexican Cession (future California - Arizona - and New Mexico); Mexico acknowledged American annexation of Texas
Virginia Plan
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
War hawks
Quebec Acts
21. Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald (hated his anti-Cuban policies); LBJ instituted Warren Commission to investigate assassination (headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren)
John Winthrop
Olive Branch Petition
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
David Riesman
22. Panama Canal Treaty - diplomacy with China - end of recognition of Taiwan; little accomplished domestically due to conservative opposition - foreign policy more successful; Washington outsider - Experienced high interest rates - inflation - increased
President Jimmy Carter
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Good Neighbor Policy
Interstate Commerce Act
23. Allowed for faster processing of cotton - invented by Eli Whitney - less need for slaves
New Freedom
William Penn and the Quakers
Wilmot Proviso
Cotton Gin
24. Settlers to pay the expenses of a servant's voyage and be granted land for each person they brought over; headright system
Macon's Bill No. 2
Teapot Dome scandal
Townshend Act (1767)
Indentured servants
25. Judges appointed to Supreme Court by Adams in the last days of his presidency to force them upon Jefferson - Marshall among those appointed
Elastic Clause ('necessary and proper')
Farmers'Alliance movement
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
Midnight judges
26. Severe immigration laws to discourage and discriminate against foreigners - believed to erode old-fashioned American values
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
'Yellow dog contracts'
'Atlanta Compromise'
Nativism
27. Contending communist politician in Vietnam - had more popularity than Diem - took power upon Diem's death
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
John Dewey
'Silent Majority'
Ho Chi Minh
28. Satirized wealthy captains of industry - workers and engineers as better leaders of society
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
Federalists and Republicans
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
29. Held in New York - agreed to not import British goods until Stamp Act was repealed
Stamp Act Congress
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
Federal Reserve Act
Nullification
30. Organized Seneca Falls Convention - founded (with Anthony) National Women Suffrage Organization
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Warren Court
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
31. 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
Elastic Clause ('necessary and proper')
Moral Diplomacy
Essex case
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
32. Colonies proposed colonial confederation under lighter British rule (crown-appointed president - 'Grand Council'); never took effect
Albany Plan of Union
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
33. First president to show positive response to civil rights movement; worked heavily on keeping Soviet spread of communism in check
CIA overthrow of Iran (1953)
William Jennings Bryan
Shays's Rebellion
President Harry Truman
34. Jackson was allowed to relocate Indian tribes in the Louisiana Territory
Jane Addams
Indian Removal Act
New York City draft riots (1863)
Jim Crow laws
35. In response to Japanese discrimination in San Fran schools; Japanese to stop laborers into U.S. - Californians forbidden to ban Japanese from public schools
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36. Installed Shah as dictator - overthrew Moussadegh (communist interests) - in order to resist nationalization British oil holdings
Conservative backlash against liberalism
Neutrality
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
CIA overthrow of Iran (1953)
37. Selective Service Act to require men to register with few exceptions; women and blacks drafted/enlisted - highly successful
Schechter v. U.S Court case
Conscription policies
Federal Reserve Act
Jackson's Presidency
38. Northern Securities Company (JP Morgan and James G. Hill - railroads) seen by Roosevelt as 'bad' trust - Supreme Court upheld his first trust-bust
Northern Securities Case
The Homefront
John D. Rockefeller
Social Darwinism
39. Maine as free state - Missouri as slave state - slavery prohibited north of 36°30'
Battle of Saratoga
Wilson's 14 points
Charles II - James II
Missouri Compromise (1820)
40. Unprecedented sudden growth spurt of American population (especially urban and suburban areas)
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41. Nonviolent protest to college students (NC) being refused lunch service; part of 'sit-in' movement to integrate all aspects of life (hotels - entertainment - &c.)
Rosie the Riveter
Quarantine Speech - 1937
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
42. 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
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
New Jersey Plan
Stock market crash (1929)
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
43. The Union planned a blockade that would not allow supplies of any sort into the Confederacy; control the Mississippi and Atlantic/Gulf of Mexico
Herbert Hoover's Food Administration
Clinton impeachment (1997)
George Kennan
Anaconda plan
44. Made it illegal to transport women across state borders for 'immoral purposes -' violated by black boxer Jack Johnson (w/ white woman)
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
Mann Act
William Henry Harrison
Second Great Awakening
45. Westward migration of workers (new economic opportunities - esp. aircraft industry) - high rates of divorce and family/juvenile violence - women encouraged to work in factories - still held inferior to men
The Homefront
William H. Taft
Judiciary Act of 1789
Benjamin Franklin
46. Republican candidate for president in 1884 - quintessence of spoils system; highly disgusted the mugwumps (many Republicans turned to Democrat Cleveland)
Palmer Raids
Marshall Plan
Teapot Dome scandal
James G. Blaine
47. Southern states (especially South Carolina) believed that they had the right to judge federal laws unconstitutional and therefore not enforce them
Nullification Controversy
Lodge Reservations
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
Japanese internment
48. Craft unions that left the Knights (1886) - led by Gompers - women left out of recruitment efforts
'Atlanta Compromise'
Writs of Assistance
George Wallace - American
American Federation of Labor
49. Puritan minister - led revivals - stressed immediate repentance - wrote 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God'
AFL-CIO (1955)
Deportations of Mexicans
Ulysses S. Grant
Jonathan Edwards
50. Decisive victory in the War of 1812 by Harrison over Tecumseh - used in Harrison's campaign for presidency
Battle of Tippecanoe
Nullification
Secretary of State John Hay
'Graying of America'