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AP U.S. History
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1. Decided to punish war crimes - established program for de-Nazification of Germany
Robert La Follette
Peace Corps
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Conscription policies
2. New Englanders who did not wish to relate their conversion experiences could become half-way saints so that their children would be able to have the opportunity to be saints
Gulf War - 'Operation Desert Storm' (1991)
Declaratory Act
The Half-Way Covenant
Worcester v. Georgia
3. Forbade restraint of trade and did not distinguish good from bad trusts - ineffective due to lack of enforcement mechanism (waited for Clayton Anti-Trust Act)
John Dewey
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Bruce Barton
Alexander Hamilton
4. Efficient working methods to increase productivity; usually resulted in lower wages (hated by workers) - power to managers
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
Dominion of New England
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
Marcus Garvey
5. Southern states (especially South Carolina) believed that they had the right to judge federal laws unconstitutional and therefore not enforce them
Declaratory Act
Nullification Controversy
Social Gospel movement
Ho Chi Minh
6. 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
Japanese internment
Whig Party
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
Marbury v. Madison
7. 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
Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1922 and 1930
Social Gospel movement
James Madison
Hartford Convention
8. (The Lonely Crowd) 'outer directed' Americans conforming to peer pressure on moral and social issues - rather than independently thinking on morals
Battle of Gettysburg
The Federalist Papers
Election of 1800
David Riesman
9. Slavery to be barred in all territory ceded from Mexico; never fully passed Congress
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
Wilmot Proviso
Yellow journalism
Midnight judges
10. 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
Industrial Workers of the World
Barbary Pirates
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
Citizen Genet
11. Midway (US Signal Corps - turning point of war in the Pacific) - D-Day (Eisenhower's amphibious invasion of Normandy - led to depletion of German forces) - Stalingrad (Russians defeated Germans - saved Moscow and Leningrad - turning point in Europe)
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
Robert E. Lee
Important WWII Battles
Bill of Rights
12. French threat at the borders was no longer present - therefore the colonies didn't need English protection; more independent stand against Britain
French and Indian War
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
George Wallace - American
Midnight judges
13. Planes hijacked by terrorists for destruction; blame pinned on Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden - sought out in attempt to completely destroy terrorism
William and Mary
Worcester v. Georgia
'Hundred days'
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
14. Selective Service Act to require men to register with few exceptions; women and blacks drafted/enlisted - highly successful
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Nullification Controversy
'City on a Hill'
Conscription policies
15. 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
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
Writs of Assistance
President Jimmy Carter
16. Middle class; white flight from urban areas due to black migration; government supported insurance for homeowners and builders
Suburbia
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
William Penn and the Quakers
17. 'Dark horse' Democratic candidate; acquired majority of the western US (Mexican Cession - Texas Annexation - Oregon Country) - lowered tariffs - created Independent Treasury
James K. Polk
Pendleton Civil Service Act
John C. Calhoun
Social Reciprocity
18. Political action for religion justified by decreased presence of religion in society; Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition to expand national influence
Religious Right
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
Boston Tea Party
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
19. U.S. felt it was its duty to 'watch out' for the interests of other countries in the Western hemisphere; provided justification for invasions of Latin America.
Benjamin Franklin
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Civil Rights Cases
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
20. Offered a New Deal (reminiscent of FDR) of smaller government - reduced taxes - and free enterprise; Washington outsider
Lusitania
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
Humanitarian diplomacy
President Ronald Reagan
21. Created in 1961 as example of liberal anticommunism in third world countries; 'reform-minded missionaries of democracy'
12th Amendment
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
Peace Corps
Civil Rights Act of 1964
22. Lee's chief lieutenant and premier cavalry officer
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23. Removal of Saddam Hussein - 2003 - Iran - Iraq - and North Korea designated as the 'axis of evil -' institution of democratic government in Iraq to replace Hussein's dictatorship (return to spread and protection of democracy throughout the world - mo
Critics of FDR
U-2 Incident
Invasion of Iraq
Gays in the military
24. 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
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
Battle of Antietam
Report on Public Credit
25. Secretary of state - policy to liberate captive people in Eastern Europe by political pressure and propaganda; massive retaliation to counter SovietlChinese aggression with nuclear weapons; brinksmanship to be persistent to solve crises (even to the
Munn v. Illinois
Harlem Renaissance
Election of 1980
John Foster Dulles
26. British Navy would take American sailors and force them to work for Britain
'Wage slaves'
Kent State Protest
Compromise of 1877
Impressment
27. Religious movements - traveling 'meetings -' rise of Baptist and Methodist ministries; Charles G. Finney
Panama Canal
Eugene V. Debs
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
Second Great Awakening
28. Due to parents unhappy with encouraged segregation of schools - Supreme Court instituted forced busing policies (using school buses as a method of integration)
Battle of Antietam
Ku Klux Klan
Forced busing
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
29. 10-year moratorium on Chinese immigration to reduce competition for jobs (Chinese willing to work for cheap salaries)
Keynesian economics
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Truman Doctrine
'Gentlemen's Agreement' (1908)
30. 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
Election of 1960
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
Salutary Neglect
31. Influence of African-American blues - music of the younger generation (gap between them and their parents)
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32. Attacked public figures (Hollywood - New-Dealers - liberals) to root out communist spies
Charles Lindbergh
Burned-Over District
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
Roger Williams
33. Georgia cannot enforce American laws on Indian tribes
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
Harpers Ferry (1859)
Worcester v. Georgia
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
34. Raised tariffs extremely high on manufactured goods; benefited domestic manufacturers - but limited foreign trade
William Marcy
New Freedom
Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1922 and 1930
Know-Nothing (American) Party
35. Opposed Polk's high-handedness - avid Southern slave-owner (right to own property - slaves as property)
Lodge Reservations
Stamp Act Congress
Humanitarian diplomacy
John C. Calhoun
36. Henry Clay aimed to make the US economically independent from Europe (e.g. - support internal improvements - tariff protection - and new national bank)
Henry Clay and the American System
Sputnik
Whig Party
Platt Amendment
37. Reagan called the Soviet Union an 'evil empire'; Korean passenger plane shot down near Moscow (increased anti-Soviet rhetoric); Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) used space-based lasers as defense from nuclear attack
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38. Allowed Parliament to completely legislate over the colonies - limited colonists' say
Declaratory Act
Energy Crisis - OPEC
Henry Ford's assembly line
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
39. Conservatives like Reagan benefited from denouncing the New Left and excessive antiwar protests; gave him political prominence
Connecticut Compromise
Conservative backlash against liberalism
Midnight judges
Burned-Over District
40. Often debtors sold to slave traders by African kings seeking riches; Columbian Exchange
Jackson's Presidency
Atlantic slave trade
President Harry Truman
Explosion of USS Maine
41. 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
Vietnam War
George Washington
Connecticut Compromise
42. Elvis Presley - Marilyn Monroe - James Dean - Beatniks — rebelled against conservative conformity of the rest of the country (esp. targeted youth)
Non-conformity
Suburbia
Bracero program
Palmer Raids
43. Drastic cutbacks in regulation of business by the federal government (banks - transportation - communications
Deregulation
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
Populist Party
44. Uncovered the 'dirt' on corruption and harsh quality of city/working life; heavily criticized by Theodore Roosevelt; Ida Tarabell (oil companies) - David Graham Phillips (Senate) - Aschen School (child labor — photography) - mass magazines McClure's
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Pocahontas
Muckrakers
'Big BM' Haywood
45. Opposed to all immigration - strongly anti-Catholic
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Hartford Convention
Bill of Rights
Know-Nothing (American) Party
46. Banned racial discrimination in federal practices; To Secure These Rights called for desegregation - anti-lynching - end of poll taxes
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
1968 Presidential Election
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
47. Mandated the toleration of all Christian denominations in Maryland - even though Maryland was founded for Catholics (but majority was protestant)
Secretary of State John Hay
John Foster Dulles
Bacon's Rebellion
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
48. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - hydroelectric power to river valley; brought social and economic development to very poor area
John Smith
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Federalists and Republicans
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
49. Pushed for Assumption (federal government to assume state debts) - pushed creation of the National Bank (most controversial) - loose interpretation of Constitution - leader of Federalist Party
Conservatism
President John F. Kennedy
'Brain trust'
Alexander Hamilton
50. Held in New York - agreed to not import British goods until Stamp Act was repealed
Stamp Act Congress
Kitchen Cabinet
Sputnik
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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