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AP U.S. History
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1. Strong patriotism and need to conform to try to avoid blame during red scare - non-churchgoers - unmarried - and critics suspected as communists
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Federalism
Conformity in the 1950s
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
2. Beginnings of trusts (destruction of competition); vertical- controlling every aspect of production (control quality - eliminate middlemen - Rockefeller); horizontal- consolidating with competitors to monopolize a market (highly detrimental)
Vertical and horizontal integration
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Rationing
3. Formed by white progressives - adopted goals of Niagara Movement - in response to Springfield Race Riots
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Freeport Doctrine
Bombing and invasion of Cambodia
4. Opposed Polk's high-handedness - avid Southern slave owner
Pet banks
Stamp Act
John C. Calhoun
Jane Addams
5. Edmond Genet contributed to polarization of the new nation by creating his American Foreign Legion in the south - which was directed to attack Spanish garrisons in New Orleans and St. Augustine
Worcester v. Georgia
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
The Glorious Revolution
Citizen Genet
6. 8000 businesses collapsed (including railroads); due to stock market crash - overbuilding of railroads - heavy farmer loans - economic disruption by labor efforts - agricultural depression; decrease of gold reserves led to Cleveland's repeal of Sherm
Panic of 1893
Stephen Austin
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Alexander Hamilton
7. 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
Popular Sovereignty
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
John C. Calhoun
Hoovervilles
8. 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
The Great Awakening
Nullification
Adams-Onis Treaty
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
9. Belief in minimal government so as to allow the people their own free reign - lower taxes to stimulate economy - &c.
Conservatism
Lowell mill/system
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
Fort Sumter
10. Opposed Polk's high-handedness - avid Southern slave-owner (right to own property - slaves as property)
The Homefront
John C. Calhoun
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
Reaganomics
11. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - collective bargaining rights - closed shops permitted (where workers must join unions) - outlawed anti-union tactics
Bacon's Rebellion
Nativism
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
Karl Marx Das Kapital
12. Black veteran escorted to be enrolled in Univ. of Miss. by military (school reluctant - cf. Little Rock Nine)
James Meredith
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
Consumerism
Bill of Rights
13. Despite CIA-sponsored Soviet resistance - Afghanistan taken by Soviet Union; ended detente between USSR and US
Farmers'Alliance movement
Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1922 and 1930
Marcus Garvey
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
14. States joined for foreign affairs - Congress reigned supreme (lacked executive and judicial) - one vote per state - 2/3 vote for bills - unanimous for amendments; too much power to states - unable to regulate commerce or taxes
Transcendentalism
Articles of Confederation
Charles Lindbergh
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
15. FDR's inner circle of experts rather than just politicians in the cabinet
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16. Relied on voluntary compliance (no formal laws) - propaganda; high prices set on commodities to encourage production - Prohibition
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17. Organized and controlled resistance against Parliamentary acts in less violent ways (strength of martyrdom) - advocated nonimportation
Essex case
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Sons of Liberty
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
18. Blacks denied admission to all-white school; overturned Plessy v. Ferguson - negating 'separate but equal' - ordered integration of schools as soon as possible; white southerners protested (refused to attend integrated schools)
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Articles of Confederation
Pet banks
Clinton impeachment (1997)
19. Dance music - slave spirituals adapted into improvisation and ragtime; jazz migrated along with blacks in the Great Migration
Jazz
William Henry Harrison
Citizen Genet
Interstate Commerce Act
20. Supported expanded money supply - health/safety regulations - benefits for workers and farmers - granger (farmer)-supported
Fugitive Slave Act
New York City draft riots (1863)
Munn v. Illinois
Greenback Party
21. Overthrew Pres. Guzman after he nationalized American fruit fields and accepted arms from USSR (communist sympathies)
Church of England
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
Court Packing
Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA)
22. Needed to protect new Pacific acquisitions - U.S. took over the project from the French after overcoming Clatyton¬ Bulwer Treaty (prohibited exclusive control of canal) with the Hay¬ Pauncefote Treaty
Panama Canal
Henry David Thoreau
Sons of Liberty
Jazz
23. Reduced quota - reduced numbers from eastern and southern Europe - Asians banned - Canadians and Latin Americans exempt
National Origins Act (1924)
'Contract with America' (1994)
Wilmot Proviso
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
24. Goods able to be transferred from New York to New Orleans by inland waterways
Humanitarian diplomacy
Erie Canal
Invasion of Iraq
Non-conformity
25. 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'
Consumerism
John Winthrop
Conservative backlash against liberalism
Federal Reserve Act
26. Taught American landscape painting rather than Classical subjects
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
Hudson River School
Panic of 1893
Nicaraguan Contras
27. Cherokees - Choctaws - Creeks - Chickasaws - and Seminoles; 'civilized' due to their intermarriage with whites - forced out of their homelands by expansion
James G. Blaine
Five Civilized Tribes
Harlem Renaissance
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
28. 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
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
Theodore Roosevelt
John Brown
Moral Diplomacy
29. Anti-communist crusades due to fear of radicalism spurred by Bolshevik rebellion
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30. Led railroad workers in Pullman Strike - arrested; Supreme Court (decision in re Debs) legalized use of injunction (court order) against unions and strikes
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Eugene V. Debs
Battle of Yorktown
Ho Chi Minh
31. Public treaties - free trade - free seas - reduced armament burdens - anti-imperialism - independence to minorities - international organization
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32. Launched in 1958 by Ike; successful launch of American satellite (Explorer I); massive arms builup
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Hoovervilles
'New Left'
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
33. Attacked public figures (Hollywood - New-Dealers - liberals) to root out communist spies
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
Schechter v. U.S Court case
20-Negro Law
Detente - realpolitik
34. Satirized wealthy captains of industry - workers and engineers as better leaders of society
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
John Smith
New Freedom
35. Emphasis on human reason - logic - and science (acquired - not nascent - knowledge); increased followers of Christianity
Pan-Americanism
Emancipation Proclamation
The Enlightenment
Whiskey Rebellion
36. States could refuse to enforce the federal laws they deemed unconstitutional
Nullification
Civil Rights Act of 1964
James Oglethorpe
John Smith
37. Leader of IWW - from Western Federation of Miners
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38. Government would hold its revenues rather than deposit them in banks - thus keeping the funds away from private corporations; 'America's Second Declaration of Independence'
Battle of Tippecanoe
Independent Treasury Bill
Whiskey Rebellion
Haymarket Bombing
39. Hamilton praised efficient factories with few managers over many workers - promote emigration - employment opportunities - applications of technology
Tariff of Abominations
Northern Securities Case
Ulysses S. Grant
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
40. Former French subjects in Canada allowed to keep Catholicism - while American colonists expected to participate in the Church of England
McCarthyism
Quebec Acts
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Bill of Rights
41. 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.
Social Darwinism
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Battle of Antietam
Eugene V. Debs
42. Fought for return to colonial rule - usually conservative (educated and wealthy
Tories (Loyalists)
Karl Marx Das Kapital
Detente - realpolitik
Roe v. Wade
43. Americans concerned with economic depression; sought to avoid European involvement - no apparent immediate threats
New Nationalism
Free silver
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
44. Led Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: threatened a siege on DC if FDR did not agree to end discrimination in military
Olive Branch Petition
First American strategy in WWII
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
President Jimmy Carter
45. Spurred by Great Migration - large-scale riots - lynchings - &c.
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46. McKinley reluctant; armed intervention to free Cuba from Spain; Roosevelt's 'Rough Riders' made attack on Spanish at Cuba
Election of 1800
Spanish American War (1898)
The Great Awakening
'Affluent Society'
47. Increased tariff on sugar (and other imports) - attempted to harder enforce existing tariffs
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
March on Birmingham
Sugar Act
Strict vs. Loose interpretation of the Constitution
48. Single tax on speculated land to ameliorate industrialization misery
Townshend Act (1767)
Boston Massacre
Muckrakers
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
49. Symbol of women workers during the war
National Road
1968 as 'the year of shocks'
Five Civilized Tribes
Rosie the Riveter
50. Effects of pesticides on the environment; changed way Americans viewed their impact on nature
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
Jim Crow laws
Boston Tea Party
Truman Doctrine