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AP U.S. History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Provided housing and recreation to city youth - imposing Protestant morals - unable to reach out to all youth
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2. Court case - unconstitutionalized all state laws prohibiting women's rights to have an abortion performed during the first trimester of pregnancy
Roe v. Wade
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
Humanitarian diplomacy
1968 Presidential Election
3. Capitalism would become productive when uninhibited by taxes and regulation
Reaganomics
Charles Lindbergh
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
Salvation Army
4. The Jungle revealed unsanitary nature of meat-packing industry - inspired Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
United States vs. EC Knight Company
Forced busing
Upton Sinclair
5. Despite near-guaranteed second term - campaign workers burglarized Democratic offices - cover-up unsuccessful - resigned to avoid impeachment
Independent Treasury Bill
Jamestown
Watergate Scandal
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
6. Began by Edwards to return to Puritanism - increased overall religious involvement - gave women more active roles in religion - more and more ministers sprouted up throughout the country; mainly affected towns and cities
Judiciary Act of 1789
The Great Awakening
William Henry Harrison
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
7. Taught American landscape painting rather than Classical subjects
Four Freedoms' speech
Theodore Roosevelt
Hudson River School
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
8. Detectives hired by employers as private police force - often used to end strikes
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Pinkertons
William T. Sherman
Battle of Antietam
9. For women's rights - organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton - modeled requests after the Declaration of Independence
Olive Branch Petition
Harpers Ferry (1859)
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
10. River traffic - road building - canals (esp. Erie) - rise of NYC
Manifest Destiny
Pearl Harbor
Transportation Revolution
Ike's Farewell Speech
11. Stated the United States was destined to span the breadth of the entire continent with as much land as possible - advocated by Polk
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
New York City draft riots (1863)
'Baby Boom'
Manifest Destiny
12. Political action for religion justified by decreased presence of religion in society; Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition to expand national influence
Religious Right
Karl Marx Das Kapital
Church of England
Reaganomics
13. Known as 'wartime food czar;' created recreation policies and reintroduced leisure culture and conservation ethic to get Americans escaping the cities and improve tourism - etc.
Virginia Plan
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Rosie the Riveter
14. Established free trade zone between Canada - United States and Mexico - net gain in jobs due to opening of Mexican markets
Specie
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
Northwest Passage
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
15. Created the Wisconsin Idea (as governor of Wisconsin) — regulated railroad - direct-primary system - increased corporate taxes - reference library for lawmakers
Robert La Follette
John Brown
Mayflower Compact
Muckrakers
16. Left primary open to Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy - both promising to end the controversial war
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17. Abolished national origins quotas - dramatically increased immigration (especially from Asia and Latin America)
Fugitive Slave Act
Immigration Act of 1965
Nativism
Berlin Airlift
18. Government compromised to buy and coin $2-4 million/month; government stuck to minimum and inflation did not occur (lower prices); economy grew
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
Indian Removal Act
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Virginia Resolves
19. Secretly sponsored peace negotiations so as to prevent Japanese or Russian monopoly on Asia; concerned with safety of Philippines
Pet banks
Stock market crash (1929)
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
20. 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)
William Lloyd Garrison
Federalism
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
Battle of Gettysburg
21. Reluctant to give colonists their own government - preferred to appoint royal governors
King James I - King Charles
Energy Crisis - OPEC
The Half-Way Covenant
Battle of Yorktown
22. All English subjects are represented in Parliament - including those not allowed to vote
Virtual Representation
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
Federalism
Essex case
23. American U-2 spy plane shot down over USSR (Ike: 'for national security); US suspended further flights - Krushchev demanded apology (refused)
Dorothea Dix
Albany Plan of Union
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
U-2 Incident
24. George Wallace vs. Nixon vs. Humphrey; very narrow popular vote triumph to Nixon (although he had clear majority of electoral votes)
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
1968 Presidential Election
Thomas Nast
25. Second youngest president - entered presidency as tensions of the Cold War increased; unable to get major initiatives through Congress due to conservative bloc; tax cuts (economic stimulation); reluctantly gets involved in civil rights; emphasizes Sp
President John F. Kennedy
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
Conformity in the 1950s
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
26. Fought for return to colonial rule - usually conservative (educated and wealthy
New Harmony
William Henry Harrison
Open Door Policy
Tories (Loyalists)
27. Mass production of the Model-T - workers as potential consumers (raise wages) - supported other industries and raised employment
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28. British soldiers shot into crowd of snowball fight; two of nine soldiers (defended by John Adams) found guilty of manslaughter
Transportation Revolution
Olive Branch Petition
20-Negro Law
Boston Massacre
29. National Liberation Front - guerilla militia from south Vietnam fighting alongside the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam)
Vietcong
'Affluent Society'
XYZ Affair
Tariff of Abominations
30. Part of the New Left that envisioned 'participatory democracy' (individuals control life-affecting decisions) - end materialism - militarism - and racism; inspired by young black activists
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Eugene V. Debs
Sons of Liberty
Ulysses S. Grant
31. Meant to provide evacuation opportunity for Americans in Cuba; internal accidental explosion blamed on Spanish mines - leading to Spanish¬ American War
Conversion Experience
Judiciary Act of 1789
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
Explosion of USS Maine
32. Challenged New Englanders to completely separate Church from State - as the State would corrupt the church
Roger Williams
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Butler v. U.S. Court case
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
33. Intercepted by Britain; Germany proposed alliance with Mexico - using bribe of return of TX - NM - and AZ; Japan included in alliance
Zimmerman Note
George Wallace - American
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
Jazz
34. Nonviolent protest to college students (NC) being refused lunch service; part of 'sit-in' movement to integrate all aspects of life (hotels - entertainment - &c.)
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
Republican Party
Hoovervilles
Gains for women
35. FDR's inner circle of experts rather than just politicians in the cabinet
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36. Introduced the 'trickle-down' economics theory in order to promote business and increase money available for speculation
Pan-Americanism
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
Marbury v. Madison
Lewis and Clark expedition
37. Clay and Calhoun - eager for war with Britain (War of 1812)
David Riesman
Marcus Garvey
War hawks
National Origins Act (1924)
38. 'Corrupt bargain' and backroom deal for JQ Adams to win over Jackson
Election of 1824
William Penn and the Quakers
Benjamin Franklin
John C. Calhoun
39. James G. Blaine sought to open up Latin American markets to the U.S.; rejected by Latin America due to fear of U.S. dominance and satisfaction with European market
Pan-Americanism
Standard Oil Trust
Writs of Assistance
Virginia Plan
40. Society naturally punishes criminals indiscriminantly
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Social Reciprocity
Muckrakers
Rosie the Riveter
41. Founded by Uriah Stephens (1869); excluded corrupt and well-off; equal female pay - end to child/convict labor - employer-employee relations - proportional income tax; 'bread and butter' unionism (higher wages - shorter hours - better conditions)
Knights of Labor
Sons of Liberty
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
William Jennings Bryan
42. French threat at the borders was no longer present - therefore the colonies didn't need English protection; more independent stand against Britain
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
Indentured servants
New Jersey Plan
French and Indian War
43. 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)
Tea Act (1773)
Rosie the Riveter
March on Birmingham
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
44. Spread quickly; opposed everything that was not White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) (and conservative) - Stephenson's faults and jail sentence led to demise
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Second Great Awakening
Ku Klux Klan
Pinkertons
45. Colonies proposed colonial confederation under lighter British rule (crown-appointed president - 'Grand Council'); never took effect
Independent Treasury Bill
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Albany Plan of Union
Samuel Gompers
46. Relied on voluntary compliance (no formal laws) - propaganda; high prices set on commodities to encourage production - Prohibition
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47. Admiral Dewey defeated Spanish initially; American troops (aided by Aguinaldo's insurgents) captured Manila - leading to annexation
Pearl Harbor
National Origins Act (1924)
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
48. 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
Good Neighbor Policy
'Bleeding Kansas'
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Midnight judges
49. Middle class; white flight from urban areas due to black migration; government supported insurance for homeowners and builders
Suffolk Resolves
Spoils System
Suburbia
Samuel Gompers
50. Provided country with a break from partisan politics - Missouri Compromise - issued Monroe Doctrine
Citizen Genet
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
James Monroe
Virginia Resolves