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AP U.S. History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Influence of African-American blues - music of the younger generation (gap between them and their parents)
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2. Victorian standards confined women to the home to create an artistic environment as a statement of cultural aspirations
'Graying of America'
Impressment
Cult of domesticity
Keynesian economics
3. American general Horatio Gates was victorious over British general Burgoyne
John Smith
Battle of Saratoga
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
George Whitefield
4. Created by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst; aimed to excite American imperialist interests; media bias - subjective representation of events
Tories (Loyalists)
'Trail of Tears'
Whiskey Rebellion
Yellow journalism
5. Left primary open to Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy - both promising to end the controversial war
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6. Standard Oil Company - Ruthless business tactics (survival of the fittest)
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
John D. Rockefeller
'Graying of America'
7. 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
King James I - King Charles
The Homefront
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
8. Soviet leader undergoing tensions on superpower and domestic level
Immigration Act of 1965
Mikhail Gorbachev
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
Independent Treasury Bill
9. Held in New York - agreed to not import British goods until Stamp Act was repealed
12th Amendment
Great Migration
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Stamp Act Congress
10. The Union planned a blockade that would not allow supplies of any sort into the Confederacy; control the Mississippi and Atlantic/Gulf of Mexico
Battle of Saratoga
Hudson River School
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
Anaconda plan
11. No further introduction of slaves into Missouri - all children born to slaves to become free at 25
Tallmadge Amendment
Vertical and horizontal integration
Dawes Plan (1924)
Jonathan Edwards
12. December 1814 - Opposed War of 1812 - called for one-term presidency - northern states threatened to secede if their views were left unconsidered next to those of southern and western states - supported nullification - end of Federalist Party
Nativism
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hartford Convention
Emergency Banking Relief Act
13. Civil Rights Act of 1875 declared unconstitutional by Supreme Court - as the fourteenth amendment protected people from governmental infringement of rights and had no effect on acts of private citizens
Gays in the military
12th Amendment
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
Civil Rights Cases
14. Bicameral congressional representation based on population
12th Amendment
Virginia Plan
James Meredith
Invasion of Iraq
15. Stated the United States was destined to span the breadth of the entire continent with as much land as possible - advocated by Polk
Manifest Destiny
Munn v. Illinois
Alien and Sedition Acts
Bombing and invasion of Cambodia
16. 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)
Panic of 1893
Schechter v. U.S Court case
'New Left'
17. Vetoed by Jackson on the count that government funds for the Maysville Road would only benefit one state
Maysville Road Veto
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
Federalists and Republicans
Deregulation
18. In Brook Farm Community - literary nationalist - transcendentalist (nascent ideas of God and freedom) - wrote 'The American Scholar'
Five Civilized Tribes
'Evil Empire' speech - 'Star Wars'
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
19. Committee on Public Information; aimed to sell America and the world on Wilson's war goals; propaganda - censorship - 'four-minute men' speeches - 'Liberty Leagues' (spy on community)
Platt Amendment
Yeoman Farmers
Creel Committee
Domino theory
20. First female cabinet member
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
Hoover's policy of voluntarism
Tariff of Abominations
21. 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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22. Made it illegal to transport women across state borders for 'immoral purposes -' violated by black boxer Jack Johnson (w/ white woman)
Mann Act
Marshall Plan
Anaconda plan
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
23. Gives Congress the power to pass laws it deems necessary to enforce the Constitution
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24. 'Trustbuster' (busted twice as many as Roosevelt) - conservation and irrigation efforts - Postal Savings Bank System - Payne-Aldrich Tariff (reduction of tariff - caused Republican split)
Vietnamization
William H. Taft
James G. Blaine
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
25. Despite CIA-sponsored Soviet resistance - Afghanistan taken by Soviet Union; ended detente between USSR and US
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
Ku Klux Klan
Rock `n' Roll
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
26. Former French subjects in Canada allowed to keep Catholicism - while American colonists expected to participate in the Church of England
Republican Party
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Quebec Acts
'Lost Generation'
27. FDR's plan (although vague during the campaign) to restart the economy and pull America out of the Great Depression
Secretary of State John Hay
Nullification Controversy
Whig Party
New Deal
28. Formed by white progressives - adopted goals of Niagara Movement - in response to Springfield Race Riots
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Connecticut Compromise
Bacon's Rebellion
29. Supreme Court legalized the 'separate but equal' philosophy
Plessy v. Ferguson
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
Fair Deal
Dawes Plan (1924)
30. Achieved an abnormal rise in class system (steel industry) - pioneered vertical integration (controlled Mesabie Range to ship ore to Pittsburgh) - opposed monopolies - used partnership of steel tycoons (Henry Clay Frick as a manager/partner) - Bessem
Andrew Carnegie
Gifford Pinchot
Munn v. Illinois
Church of England
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
The Glorious Revolution
Moral Diplomacy
Erie Canal
New Deal
32. Taxes on all legal documents to support British troops - not approved by colonists through their representatives
Stamp Act
'Wage slaves'
Transcendentalism
Women's Christian Temperance Union
33. Selective Service Act to require men to register with few exceptions; women and blacks drafted/enlisted - highly successful
Henry Clay and the American System
Conscription policies
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
34. One country that falls into communism will cause surrounding nations to also fall 'like dominos'; spurred by Southeast Asia regimes (esp. Vietnam)
McCarthyism
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
Domino theory
35. River traffic - road building - canals (esp. Erie) - rise of NYC
'Wage slaves'
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
20-Negro Law
Transportation Revolution
36. Congress could tax imports but not exports
Marshall Court (all cases)
Roger Williams
Convict-lease system
Commerce Compromise
37. Overthrew Pres. Guzman after he nationalized American fruit fields and accepted arms from USSR (communist sympathies)
Suffolk Resolves
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
New Jersey Plan
Midnight judges
38. Challenged New Englanders to completely separate Church from State - as the State would corrupt the church
Roger Williams
Critics of FDR
Warren Court
President Bill Clinton
39. Southern Christian Leadership Conference - Led boycott - became leader of civil rights movement; urged nonviolent resistance (cf. tactics of Ghandi);
Proclamation of 1763
Martin Luther King Jr.
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Zoot Suit riots
40. Congressional support to raid houses of radicals believed to have connections to communism
Palmer Raids
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Missouri Compromise (1820)
McCarthyism
41. Political action for religion justified by decreased presence of religion in society; Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition to expand national influence
Specie
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Religious Right
Citizen Genet
42. Written by Calhoun - regarding tariff nullification
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
Reaganomics
43. Fair amount of troops - short guerilla tactics - strong leaders (Washington); nonprofessional army that could not handle long battles
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
William and Mary
Gifford Pinchot
Mercantilism
44. Increased tariff on sugar (and other imports) - attempted to harder enforce existing tariffs
Battle of Gettysburg
Virtual Representation
Sugar Act
New York City draft riots (1863)
45. 'I have a dream' 25 -000 people (including whites) convened for political rally - MLK's speech to historical event; attempted to push civil rights bill through Congress
Reaganomics
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
March on Washington
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
46. First African-American in major league baseball
Berlin Airlift
Jackie Robinson
'Red Scare' (1919)
Okies' and 'Arkies'
47. All English subjects are represented in Parliament - including those not allowed to vote
Conscription policies
Affirmative Action
Commerce Compromise
Virtual Representation
48. 'Southern Strategy' lured many southern Democrats to the Republican party (esp. due to southern opposition to Civil Rights Act of 1964)
'Great Society'
James K. Polk
Richard Nixon (R)
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
49. Introduced his 'New Deal -' won election by a relative landslide (he was not Hoover - whom the public now did not trust)
President Franklin Roosevelt
President Ronald Reagan
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
William Penn and the Quakers
50. Appealed to many conservatives - especially southerners (opposed massive protests and integration)
George Wallace - American
Lodge Reservations
Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA)
Albany Plan of Union