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AP U.S. History
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1. Efficient working methods to increase productivity; usually resulted in lower wages (hated by workers) - power to managers
Deportations of Mexicans
Hoover's policy of voluntarism
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
Jane Addams
2. British citizenship outnumbered colonies' - large navy and professional army; exhausted resources (Hessians hired) - national debt
Henry David Thoreau
British strengths and weaknesses
Nullification
Alexander Hamilton
3. 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
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Nullification Controversy
US acquisitions
Neutrality
4. Mistreated farmers - fear of monocracy - forced people to think about central government
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5. Left primary open to Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy - both promising to end the controversial war
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6. Western Pennsylvanian farmers' violent protest against whiskey excise tax - Washington sent large army to put down revolt - protests to be limited to non-violent
'Gentlemen's Agreement' (1908)
Vietnamization
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
Whiskey Rebellion
7. First shots are fired at Charleston - North Carolina
Warren Court
Conscription policies
Barbary Pirates
Fort Sumter
8. Lee's attack on Maryland in hopes that he could take it from the Union - bloodiest day of the war - stalemate - McClellan replaced by Burnside - stalemate - South would never be so close to victory again
Battle of Antietam
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
Mercantilism
Farmers'Alliance movement
9. Maine as free state - Missouri as slave state - slavery prohibited north of 36°30'
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Gains for women
GI Bill of Rights
Dawes Plan (1924)
10. Unprecedented sudden growth spurt of American population (especially urban and suburban areas)
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11. Radical Calvinists against the Church of England; Separatists (Pilgrims) argued for a break from the Church of England - led the Mayflower - and established the settlement at Plymouth
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
Plessy v. Ferguson
McCarthyism
12. River traffic - road building - canals (esp. Erie) - rise of NYC
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Dominion of New England
Transportation Revolution
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
13. Preservation of New Deal - attempt at additions; raised minimum wage - public housing - old-age insurance extension - agricultural price supports (lowering of farm price)
'Trail of Tears'
Convict-lease system
Jane Addams
Fair Deal
14. Activist government to serve all citizens (cf. Alexander Hamilton); founded New Republic magazine
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
Pan-Americanism
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
Religious Right
15. Black rights leader - heavily influenced by Malcolm X (advocated black separatism rather than integration)
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
George Wallace - American
James G. Blaine
Battle of Tippecanoe
16. Founded by William Sylvis (1866); supported 8-hour workday - convict labor - federal department of labor - banking reform - immigration restrictions to increase wages - women; excluded blacks
National Labor Union
Scopes Trial
William T. Sherman
Maysville Road Veto
17. LBJ's flood of proposals to Congress for the beautification and amelioration of American society (War on Poverty - Medicare - public education spending - public television (PBS) - National Endowments for the Humanities and Arts (NEH - NEA))
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18. Group of Bostonians in opposition to the Stamp Act - sought to drive stamp distributors from the city
The Loyal Nine
Forced busing
New York City draft riots (1863)
Emergency Banking Relief Act
19. The Man Nobody Knows - glorification of business - Jesus as a businessman - relationship between religion and manufacturing
Henry David Thoreau
William H. Taft
Bruce Barton
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
20. Pop art - mass production of art by screening
Free silver
Muckrakers
Andy Warhol
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
21. Protected rights of individual from the power of the central government
Bill of Rights
1968 Presidential Election
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
22. Proslavery constitution in Kansas - supported by Buchanan - freesoilers against it (victorious) - denied statehood until after secession
William H. Taft
Lecompton Constitution
The Federalist Papers
Ku Klux Klan
23. Northern Securities Company (JP Morgan and James G. Hill - railroads) seen by Roosevelt as 'bad' trust - Supreme Court upheld his first trust-bust
William T. Sherman
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Northern Securities Case
Currency Act
24. 'No taxation without representation -' introduced by Patrick Henry
Know-Nothing (American) Party
Battle of Tippecanoe
Virginia Resolves
Federalists and Republicans
25. Taxes on all legal documents to support British troops - not approved by colonists through their representatives
Reaganomics
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
Stamp Act
Treaty of Paris (1783)
26. Democratic political machine in NYC - 'supported' immigrants and poor people of the city - who were needed for Democratic election victories
Deregulation
Tammany Hall
Booker T. Washington
Erie Canal
27. Craft unions that left the Knights (1886) - led by Gompers - women left out of recruitment efforts
Unrestricted submarine warfare
American Federation of Labor
Specie
Virginia Plan
28. Hamilton praised efficient factories with few managers over many workers - promote emigration - employment opportunities - applications of technology
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
Second Great Awakening
Black Panther Party
Stephen Austin
29. Pushed through northern Georgia - captured Atlanta - 'march to the sea' (total war and destruction) - proceeded to South Carolina
William T. Sherman
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
'Evil Empire' speech - 'Star Wars'
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
30. Worked alongside Josiah Henson to make repeated trips to get slaves out of the South into freedom
Fort Sumter
Harriet Tubman
William Seward
Woodrow Wilson
31. Worked towards asylums for the mentally insane - worked alongside Mann
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
Dorothea Dix
Pan-Americanism
Tallmadge Amendment
32. Paper money; specie circular decreed that the government would not accept specie for government land
Mann Act
Specie
Fort Sumter
Lecompton Constitution
33. Created Federal Reserve System - regional banks set up for twelve separate districts - final authority of each bank lay with the Federal Reserve Board - paper money to be issued 'Federal Reserve Notes'
First American strategy in WWII
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Federal Reserve Act
34. Rise in stock prices and speculation - decline of construction industry - mistaken 'trickle-down' economics - reliance on credit
Bracero program
Dixiecrats - 1948
Causes of the depression
Stamp Act Congress
35. Established federal district courts that followed local procedures - Supreme Court had final jurisdiction; compromise between nationalists and advocates for states' rights
Church of England
Judiciary Act of 1789
Frederick Douglass
Important WWII Battles
36. Gives Congress the power to pass laws it deems necessary to enforce the Constitution
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37. 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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38. Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald (hated his anti-Cuban policies); LBJ instituted Warren Commission to investigate assassination (headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren)
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
Great Migration
Vietcong
Compromise of 1877
39. Fear of Japanese-Americans as traitors - sent off (by law) to internment camps; removal of deemed threats in military areas
Compromise of 1877
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Japanese internment
Fugitive Slave Act
40. Fought for human rights in Africa - Panama Canal returned to Panama - relations with China resolved
Humanitarian diplomacy
Peace Corps
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
Freeport Doctrine
41. Helped lead settlement house movement - co-founded NAACP - condemned war and poverty
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
Jane Addams
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
Charles II - James II
42. Politely demanded from the king a cease¬fire in Boston - repeal of Coercive Acts -. guarantee of American rights
Important WWII Battles
'Lost Generation'
Anaconda plan
Olive Branch Petition
43. FDR and Churchill agreed to defeat Germany first rather than concentrate on Japan
Compromise of 1850
Emergency Banking Relief Act
John D. Rockefeller
First American strategy in WWII
44. Halted sale of tribal lands - enabled tribes to regain unallocated lands; repealed Dawes Severalty Act of 1887; helped secure Indians' entry into New Deal associations; led by John Collier
Lodge Reservations
Peace Corps
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
Election of 1824
45. FDR's inner circle of experts rather than just politicians in the cabinet
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46. Prohibited testing of nuclear bombs above ground to slow the nuclear arms race and the release of nuclear fallout into the atmosphere
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Fair Labor Standards Act
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
47. North African Muslim rulers solved budget problems through piracy and tributes in Mediterranean - obtained fees from most European powers
Barbary Pirates
Camp David Accords
Quebec Acts
Whiskey Rebellion
48. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - hydroelectric power to river valley; brought social and economic development to very poor area
Boston Tea Party
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Explosion of USS Maine
49. Agreement between US and Britain to remove armed fleets from the Great Lakes
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
National Road
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Gains for women
50. Written anonymously by Hamilton - Jay - and Madison; commentary on Constitution - republicanism extended over large territory
Greenback Party
Panic of 1893
The Federalist Papers
Pendleton Civil Service Act