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AP U.S. History
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1. Tet Offensive in Vietnam - assassination of MLK and Robert Kennedy (presidential candidate) - Riot of Democratic National Convention (Chicago police beat antiwar protestors) - Black Panthers
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2. First Utopian society - by Robert Owen
Monroe Doctrine
New Harmony
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
American society during the Revolution
3. Executed for leaking atomic secrets to Soviets - avowed communists
Rosenbergs
Camp David Accords
John C. Calhoun
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
4. Supported by women and churches - instituted by Volstead Act - lacked enforcement; bootlegging and speakeasies - Al Capone and John Dillinger — gangsters and organized crime (casual breaking of the law)
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
Nullification Controversy
George Kennan
Great Migration
5. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - hydroelectric power to river valley; brought social and economic development to very poor area
American Federation of Labor
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Watergate Scandal
George Washington
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
U-2 Incident
The Great Awakening
Federalism
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
7. Appealed to many conservatives - especially southerners (opposed massive protests and integration)
Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1922 and 1930
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
George Wallace - American
8. Single tax on speculated land to ameliorate industrialization misery
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
Spanish American War (1898)
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
9. Led railroad workers in Pullman Strike - arrested; Supreme Court (decision in re Debs) legalized use of injunction (court order) against unions and strikes
Deregulation
Marshall Plan
Eugene V. Debs
Fair Labor Standards Act
10. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - Harold Icicles - provided public construction projects
Public Works Administration (PWA)
First American strategy in WWII
Yellow journalism
Samuel Gompers
11. 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.
Zimmerman Note
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
12. Politely demanded from the king a cease¬fire in Boston - repeal of Coercive Acts -. guarantee of American rights
Stock market crash (1929)
Olive Branch Petition
The Enlightenment
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
13. Blacks who went to prison taken out and used for labor in slave-like conditions - enforced southern racial hierarchy
Jingoism
The Alamo
Convict-lease system
Jackson's Presidency
14. Slavery to be barred in all territory ceded from Mexico; never fully passed Congress
Currency Act
Popular Sovereignty
Wilmot Proviso
Connecticut Compromise
15. Judiciary Reorganization Bill; FDR's attempt to put in extra judges who would support him without doubt
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
Court Packing
Lusitania
16. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark sent by Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Territory on 'Voyage of Discovery'
Thomas Edison
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Lewis and Clark expedition
Conservatism
17. Stressed role of church and religion to improve city life - led by preachers Walter Raushenbusch and Washington Gladen; influenced settlement house movement and Salvation Army
Berlin Wall
Robert La Follette
President John F. Kennedy
Social Gospel movement
18. Foundation for First Amendment - offered free choice of religion - not influenced by state
Rosie the Riveter
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe (1989)
Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA)
19. Four-day banking holiday to create controlled inflation - followed by reopening of sound banks - and reorganization of unsound banks
Stamp Act
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
Free silver
20. Private property subject to government regulation when property is devoted to public interest; against railroads
Munn v. Illinois
Vietnam War
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Nullification
21. All English subjects are represented in Parliament - including those not allowed to vote
Articles of Confederation
Peace Corps
Schechter v. U.S Court case
Virtual Representation
22. Government to buy silver to back money in addition to gold
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
Harpers Ferry (1859)
Citizen Genet
23. Created by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst; aimed to excite American imperialist interests; media bias - subjective representation of events
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Yellow journalism
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Marshall Court (all cases)
24. Sets of programs geared towards minorities and oft-discriminated populations
Affirmative Action
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
Fair Labor Standards Act
Wilmot Proviso
25. Cherokees - Choctaws - Creeks - Chickasaws - and Seminoles; 'civilized' due to their intermarriage with whites - forced out of their homelands by expansion
The Glorious Revolution
George Washington
Five Civilized Tribes
Butler v. U.S. Court case
26. (1) California admitted as free state - (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico - (3) resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries - (4) federal assumption of Texas debt - (5) slave trade abolished in DC - and (6) new fugit
Compromise of 1850
Standard Oil Trust
'Brain trust'
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
27. John Noyes - New York; utopian society for communalism - perfectionism - and complex marriage
Election of 1824
Civil Rights Act of 1964
George Kennan
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
28. States could refuse to enforce the federal laws they deemed unconstitutional
Ulysses S. Grant
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
Nullification
29. Led by Francis Willard - powerful 'interest group' following the civil war - urged women's suffrage - led to Prohibition
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30. 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
Truman Doctrine
Roger Williams
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
Battle of Yorktown
31. Repeat candidate for president - proponent of silver-backing (16:1 platform) - cross of gold speech against gold standard; Democratic candidate (1896)
Jackson's Presidency
William Jennings Bryan
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
Pet banks
32. Mass migration northward; mainly blacks migrating from the southern states into the north hoping for less discrimination
'Baby Boom'
Compromise of 1850
Great Migration
New Federalism
33. Emerged from Farmers' Alliance movement (when subtreasury plan was defeated in Congress) - denounced Eastern Establishment that suppressed the working classes; Ignatius Donnelly (utopian author) - Mary E Lease - Jerry Simpson
Panic of 1819
Populist Party
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Causes of the depression
34. Emphasis on human reason - logic - and science (acquired - not nascent - knowledge); increased followers of Christianity
Emancipation Proclamation
The Enlightenment
Anaconda plan
Articles of Confederation
35. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - used withheld money from payrolls to provide aid to the unemployed - industrial accident victims - and young mothers; principle of government responsibility for social welfare
Immigration Act of 1965
Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA)
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
California Gold Rush
36. Catholic communist autocrat of Vietnam - assassinated (with aid of US)
China turns communist
New Lights vs. Old Lights
'Graying of America'
Ngo Dinh Diem
37. U.S. would ensure that Cuba would be protected from European powers and maintain a place in Cuban affairs; provided coal and naval stations
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
Lewis and Clark expedition
Platt Amendment
Dixiecrats - 1948
38. Dance music - slave spirituals adapted into improvisation and ragtime; jazz migrated along with blacks in the Great Migration
Jazz
Clinton impeachment (1997)
Regionalist and naturalist writers
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
39. Effects of pesticides on the environment; changed way Americans viewed their impact on nature
Wilmot Proviso
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
Henry Clay and the American System
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
40. Relied on voluntary compliance (no formal laws) - propaganda; high prices set on commodities to encourage production - Prohibition
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41. Political action for religion justified by decreased presence of religion in society; Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition to expand national influence
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Religious Right
Articles of Confederation
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
42. The Jungle revealed unsanitary nature of meat-packing industry - inspired Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
Federalists and Republicans
Upton Sinclair
Consumerism
Navigation Acts
43. '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
League of Nations
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Spoils System
Knights of Labor
44. Government compromised to buy and coin $2-4 million/month; government stuck to minimum and inflation did not occur (lower prices); economy grew
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
Vertical and horizontal integration
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
Underground Railroad
45. Agricultural depression as precursor to the depression; unheeded omen of problems in the economic structure (prices too low — too much supply for the demand)
Essex case
US acquisitions
Cotton Gin
Farm crisis
46. South to gain removal of last troops from Reconstruction; North wins Hayes as president
Deportations of Mexicans
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
Jingoism
Compromise of 1877
47. Believed to provide shortcut from Atlantic to Pacific - searched for by Giovanni de Verrazano for Francis I in the race to Asian wealth
Woodrow Wilson
American Federation of Labor
John Winthrop
Northwest Passage
48. George Wallace vs. Nixon vs. Humphrey; very narrow popular vote triumph to Nixon (although he had clear majority of electoral votes)
Truman's Loyalty Program
1968 Presidential Election
Election of 1960
Macon's Bill No. 2
49. Tried to rule as absolute monarchs without using Parliament - little to no sympathy for colonial legislatures
Alien and Sedition Acts
Bay of Pigs invasion
Charles II - James II
Fugitive Slave Act
50. Warned against permanent foreign alliances and political parties - called for unity of the country - established precedent of two-term presidency
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