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AP U.S. History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. First African-American in major league baseball
Jackie Robinson
Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA)
Compromise of 1850
'Atlanta Compromise'
2. 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
Civil Rights Cases
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Conformity in the 1950s
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
3. Led Pottawatomie Massacre - extreme abolitionist who believed he was doing God's work
John Brown
First American strategy in WWII
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
4. Created Interstate Commerce Commission to require railroads to publish rates (less discrimination - short/long haul) - first legislation to regulate corporations - ineffective ICC
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Hudson River School
Good Neighbor Policy
Interstate Commerce Act
5. (free speech movement) Youth activists (often liberal arts students) spoke out against Vietnam War - supported widespread liberalization
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6. Law meant to evolve as society evolves - opposed conservative majority
Truman's Loyalty Program
Square Deal
American Federation of Labor
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
7. Allowed sale of weaponry to democracies on 'cash-and-carry' basis - avoided full-blown war; danger zones proclaimed; solved American unemployment crisis
Neutrality Act - 1939
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Herbert Hoover's Food Administration
Popular Sovereignty
8. 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
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
President Jimmy Carter
The Alamo
Samuel Gompers
9. Americans at home reminded to conserve materials in all aspects of life to support the military; resulted in saving up of money to cause economic boom after war
Nullification
Navigation Acts
Rationing
Woodrow Wilson
10. Focused on the 'Common Man;' removal of Indians - removal of federal deposits in BUS - annexation of territory - liberal use of veto
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11. In reaction to the Boston Tea Party; closing of Boston Harbor - revocation of Massachusetts charter (power to governor) - murder in the name of royal authority would be tried in England or another colony
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
Jackie Robinson
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
Declining death rate
12. Newt Gingrich (Republican congressman) planned for success of Republican party in upcoming election by pledging tax cuts - congressional term limits - tougher crime laws - balanced budget amendment - popular reforms &c.
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13. Provided country with a break from partisan politics - Missouri Compromise - issued Monroe Doctrine
James Monroe
Nativism
GI Bill of Rights
Thomas Nast
14. Small state banks set up by Jackson to keep federal funds out of the National Bank - used until funds were consolidated into a single treasury
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
Pet banks
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
15. Adams - Jefferson - and Burr: Adams lost - Jefferson and Burr tied - Hamilton convinced other Federalists to vote for Jefferson to break the tie
Palmer Raids
Dollar Diplomacy'
Election of 1800
Spanish American War (1898)
16. Educational and residential segregation; inferior facilities allotted to African-Americans - predominantly in South
Causes of the depression
Jim Crow laws
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
17. Republican - popular hero of WWII; 'dynamic conservatism' as a middle ground btw. Rep. and Dem.; Interstate Highway System (ulterior motive of weapons transportation); St. Lawrence Seaway opened Great Lakes to Atlantic Ocean via locks; Depts. Of Heal
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Black Panther Party
National Organization of Women
William Jennings Bryan
18. Fearing the rise of labor unions - corporations forced new employees to sign and promise not to be part of a union
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19. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - Harry Hopkins; provide work for unemployed and construct public works - &c. through Emergency Relief Appropriation Act; much like Civil Works Administration
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Bonus Army
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
20. Organized and controlled resistance against Parliamentary acts in less violent ways (strength of martyrdom) - advocated nonimportation
Black Panther Party
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
Sons of Liberty
Jamestown
21. Effectively ended spoils system and established civil service exams for all government positions - under Pres. Garfield
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Proclamation of 1763
22. Installed Shah as dictator - overthrew Moussadegh (communist interests) - in order to resist nationalization British oil holdings
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
CIA overthrow of Iran (1953)
Jingoism
23. Search warrants on shipping to reduce smuggling; challenged by James Otis
Soviet atomic bomb
Upton Sinclair
Writs of Assistance
Espionage Act and Sedition Act
24. All English subjects are represented in Parliament - including those not allowed to vote
Bombing and invasion of Cambodia
Liberty Party
Virtual Representation
Missouri Compromise (1820)
25. Nonviolent protest to college students (NC) being refused lunch service; part of 'sit-in' movement to integrate all aspects of life (hotels - entertainment - &c.)
'Atlanta Compromise'
'Gentlemen's Agreement' (1908)
Religious Right
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
26. Believed to provide shortcut from Atlantic to Pacific - searched for by Giovanni de Verrazano for Francis I in the race to Asian wealth
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
Northwest Passage
XYZ Affair
27. Kennedy vs. Nixon - Kennedy (due to televised charisma) won over Nixon (pale and nervous)
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
Election of 1960
Committees of Correspondence
Sugar Act
28. Nationalists against foreign non-English speaking workers (took jobs away from American men); encouraged to leave the U.S.
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
William Seward
Whigs (Patriots)
Deportations of Mexicans
29. Network of safe houses of white abolitionists used to bring slaves to freedom
Writs of Assistance
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Martin Luther King Jr.
Underground Railroad
30. Combined Massachusetts - New Hampshire - Connecticut - Rhode Island - and Plymouth (and later Jersey and New York) into one 'supercolony' governed by Sir Edmond Andros - a 'supergovernor'
Dominion of New England
Black Panther Party
Korean War
Northwest Passage
31. 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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32. Society naturally punishes criminals indiscriminantly
'Hundred days'
Religious Right
Social Reciprocity
Ho Chi Minh
33. 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
US acquisitions
James K. Polk
Cuban Missile Crisis
34. Fair amount of troops - short guerilla tactics - strong leaders (Washington); nonprofessional army that could not handle long battles
Jamestown
Connecticut Compromise
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
35. Connected the colonies to Britain - opposed to unnecessary unfair taxation; strong influence on Albany Plan
Second Great Awakening
Olive Branch Petition
Benjamin Franklin
Virginia Plan
36. Nixon agreed with USSR to achieve nuclear equality rather than the superiority that threatened the destruction of the world; further reduced tensions between the two countries
National Origins Act (1924)
Neutrality
Herbert Hoover's Food Administration
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
37. 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
Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA)
'Bleeding Kansas'
Hoover's policy of voluntarism
Tallmadge Amendment
38. Sewer systems and purification of water
'Contract with America' (1994)
Schechter v. U.S Court case
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Declining death rate
39. US provided financial assistance to recover economies in Europe; aimed towards anti-communist governments in France - Italy - and Germany; Eastern European nations prohibited from receiving help from US
12th Amendment
Battle of Gettysburg
Marshall Plan
Nullification
40. Catholic communist autocrat of Vietnam - assassinated (with aid of US)
Embargo Act (1807)
War Industries Board
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
Ngo Dinh Diem
41. Hired to photograph ordinary Americans experiencing the depression
John C. Calhoun
Stock market crash (1929)
American Federation of Labor
Dorothea Lange
42. Women must gain economic rights in order to impact society (cf. rising divorce rates)
William Penn and the Quakers
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Conformity in the 1950s
Battle of Gettysburg
43. Part of transportation revolution - from Cumberland MD to Wheeling WVa - toll road network; stimulated Western expansion
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
Deists
National Road
John D. Rockefeller
44. Attempted to centralize production of war materials; ineffective due to American desire for laissez-faire government
War Industries Board
Albany Plan of Union
Federalists and Republicans
Tammany Hall
45. Roosevelt and Pinchot sided on conservation rather than preservation (planned and regulated use of forest lands for public and commercial uses)
Court Packing
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
Reaganomics
1968 Presidential Election
46. Ex-Lincoln secretary; worked to gain Open Door Notes' acceptance from the major powers
Zoot Suit riots
Secretary of State John Hay
Report on Public Credit
Knights of Labor
47. Opposed Polk's high-handedness - avid Southern slave-owner (right to own property - slaves as property)
Liberty Party
John C. Calhoun
The Enlightenment
Explosion of USS Maine
48. North African Muslim rulers solved budget problems through piracy and tributes in Mediterranean - obtained fees from most European powers
Barbary Pirates
Greenback Party
Henry David Thoreau
First American strategy in WWII
49. Parliament took minor actions in the colonies - allowing them to experiment with and become accustomed to self-government - international trade agreements
Vertical and horizontal integration
Salutary Neglect
Stagflation
Benjamin Franklin
50. 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
Hull House
John Foster Dulles
Hoovervilles
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty