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AP U.S. History
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1. Lee invaded Pennsylvania - bloodiest battle of the war - Confederate Pickett's Charge (disastrous) - Lee forced to retreat (not pursued by Meade) - South doomed to never invade North again - Gettysburg Address given by Lincoln (nation over union)
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
Roger Williams
Maysville Road Veto
Battle of Gettysburg
2. Family farmers who hired out slaves for the harvest season - self-sufficient - participated in local markets alongside slave owners
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
George Whitefield
Yeoman Farmers
Zoot Suit riots
3. Brought in Mexicans for temporary jobs - concentrated in southern CA - given extremely poor working conditions (as they were not American citizens)
Fair Labor Standards Act
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
Battle of Saratoga
Bracero program
4. Provided for evacuation of English troops from posts in the Great Lakes
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5. In Brook Farm Community - lived in seclusion for two years writing Walden and On Civil Disobedience - proved that man could provide for himself without materialistic wants
CIA overthrow of Iran (1953)
Wilmot Proviso
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Henry David Thoreau
6. Judges appointed to Supreme Court by Adams in the last days of his presidency to force them upon Jefferson - Marshall among those appointed
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
Panic of 1819
Clinton impeachment (1997)
Midnight judges
7. Stressed to the American people British maltreatment and emphasize a need for revolution; appealed to American emotions
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Henry Ford's assembly line
'Wage slaves'
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
8. John Marshall declared that the Supreme Court could declare federal laws unconstitutional
Writs of Assistance
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
Marbury v. Madison
Camp David Accords
9. Henry Clay aimed to make the US economically independent from Europe (e.g. - support internal improvements - tariff protection - and new national bank)
French and Indian War
Moral Diplomacy
Panic of 1819
Henry Clay and the American System
10. President to offer military supplies to nations 'vital to the defense of the US'; ended US neutrality (economic war against Germany); Hitler began to sink American ships (limited scale)
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
New York City draft riots (1863)
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
11. Slaves could not sue in federal courts (blacks no longer considered citizens) - slaves could not be taken from masters except by the law - Missouri Compromise unconstitutional - Congress not able to prohibit slavery in a state
Virtual Representation
'Hundred days'
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Great Migration
12. Bush vs. Clinton vs. Perot; focus on stagnancy of economy and problems of middle class (Clinton)
Deregulation
1992 Election
Dorothea Dix
Sputnik
13. Runaway slaves could be caught in the North and be brought back to their masters (they were treated as property — running away was as good as stealing)
Herbert Hoover's Food Administration
Fugitive Slave Act
Harpers Ferry (1859)
Frederick Douglass
14. In response to Japanese discrimination in San Fran schools; Japanese to stop laborers into U.S. - Californians forbidden to ban Japanese from public schools
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15. NLF attacked numerous South Vietnamese cities and American embassies - eventually repulsed; spoiled LBJ's record to reelection - resulted in massive protests in US to end the war; atrocities such that war could only end in stalemate
Tet Offensive (1968)
New Deal
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
Battle of Antietam
16. Blacks who went to prison taken out and used for labor in slave-like conditions - enforced southern racial hierarchy
Battle of Gettysburg
Convict-lease system
Roe v. Wade
Compromise of 1850
17. Appealed to many conservatives - especially southerners (opposed massive protests and integration)
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Good Neighbor Policy
Panic of 1893
George Wallace - American
18. 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
Hartford Convention
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA)
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
19. The Union planned a blockade that would not allow supplies of any sort into the Confederacy; control the Mississippi and Atlantic/Gulf of Mexico
Deregulation
Strict vs. Loose interpretation of the Constitution
Anaconda plan
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
20. Fought for women's rights and abolition - 'Men and women are CREATED EQUAL!'
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
21. Loose interpretation allowed for implied powers of Congress (such as the National Bank) - strict interpretation implied few powers to Congress
Strict vs. Loose interpretation of the Constitution
Panic of 1819
Clinton impeachment (1997)
Gulf War - 'Operation Desert Storm' (1991)
22. Often debtors sold to slave traders by African kings seeking riches; Columbian Exchange
Ku Klux Klan
Atlantic slave trade
Monroe Doctrine
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
23. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - Harold Icicles - provided public construction projects
Adams-Onis Treaty
Korean War
Open Door Policy
Public Works Administration (PWA)
24. British soldiers shot into crowd of snowball fight; two of nine soldiers (defended by John Adams) found guilty of manslaughter
Yellow journalism
Boston Massacre
Zoot Suit riots
Proclamation of 1763
25. Colonies proposed colonial confederation under lighter British rule (crown-appointed president - 'Grand Council'); never took effect
'Evil Empire' speech - 'Star Wars'
Mercantilism
Albany Plan of Union
Forced busing
26. Mandated the toleration of all Christian denominations in Maryland - even though Maryland was founded for Catholics (but majority was protestant)
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
Elastic Clause ('necessary and proper')
Fort Sumter
John Foster Dulles
27. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark sent by Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Territory on 'Voyage of Discovery'
Panic of 1819
Bruce Barton
Lewis and Clark expedition
'Great Society'
28. South to gain removal of last troops from Reconstruction; North wins Hayes as president
American society during the Revolution
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
Transcendentalism
Compromise of 1877
29. Held in New York - agreed to not import British goods until Stamp Act was repealed
Dixiecrats - 1948
Robert La Follette
Stamp Act Congress
Battle of Saratoga
30. Considered a hero for his solo crossing of the Atlantic by plane
Charles Lindbergh
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
John Winthrop
Robert E. Lee
31. Nonviolent protest to college students (NC) being refused lunch service; part of 'sit-in' movement to integrate all aspects of life (hotels - entertainment - &c.)
Dorothea Dix
Battle of Saratoga
Washington's Farewell Address
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
32. Racism riots against Mexican laborers (imported for jobs)
Macon's Bill No. 2
The Alamo
Zoot Suit riots
William H. Taft
33. Prohibited discrimination in any government-related work; increased black employment
Election of 1824
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
Ngo Dinh Diem
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
34. Maine as free state - Missouri as slave state - slavery prohibited north of 36°30'
Warren Court
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Bruce Barton
35. Lowering of income taxes for wealthy (trickle-down economics) - refusal to create higher prices to help farmers (McNary-Haugen Bill)
Battle of Antietam
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
Invasion of Iraq
President Jimmy Carter
36. Capitalism would become productive when uninhibited by taxes and regulation
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Church of England
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
Reaganomics
37. Supported abolition - broke off of Anti-Slavery Society
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Liberty Party
Sons of Liberty
Midnight judges
38. Stronger union of states - equal and population-based representation - simple majority vote (with presidential veto) - regulation of foreign and interstate commerce - execution by president - power to enact taxes - federal courts - easier amendment p
Spoils System
Ho Chi Minh
Tea Act (1773)
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
39. Dealt with Vietnam War - 'Great Society' program for improvement of American society - antipoverty and anti-discrimination programs
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
New Harmony
40. FDR asked for increased authority to aid Britain; freedom of speech/expression - of religion - from want - from fear; resulted in Lend-Lease
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41. Nixon led movement to Hiss's indictment; convicted of perjury - Nixon gained national prominence
National Road
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
Palmer Raids
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe (1989)
42. William and Mary kicked James II out of England (exiled into France) - allowed more power to the legislatures
The Loyal Nine
Emancipation Proclamation
Pendleton Civil Service Act
The Glorious Revolution
43. Offered a New Deal (reminiscent of FDR) of smaller government - reduced taxes - and free enterprise; Washington outsider
Richard Nixon (R)
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
President Ronald Reagan
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
44. Proclamation of 1793 response to French attempts for alliance with US
Neutrality
Townshend Act (1767)
William Lloyd Garrison
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
45. French foreign minister (Talleyrand) demanded bribe in order to meet with American peace commission - made Adams unpopular among the people
XYZ Affair
Ike's Farewell Speech
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
46. Left primary open to Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy - both promising to end the controversial war
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47. Calvinist - devised concept of 'city on a hill' ('A Model of Christian Charity'); founded highly successful towns in Massachusetts Bay
Panic of 1819
Cotton Gin
John Winthrop
Louis Sullivan
48. Unemployment jitters; expelled Teamster union (resorted to gangsterism); height of power of workers' unions
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
AFL-CIO (1955)
Vietnam War
Robert E. Lee
49. 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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50. Society naturally punishes criminals indiscriminantly
Isolationism
Social Reciprocity
Tea Act (1773)
War Industries Board