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AP U.S. History
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1. Dance music - slave spirituals adapted into improvisation and ragtime; jazz migrated along with blacks in the Great Migration
Free silver
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
George Kennan
Jazz
2. Northern factory workers who were discarded when too old to work (unlike the slaves who were still kept fed and clothed in their old age)
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3. 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
Populist Party
American Federation of Labor
Conversion Experience
Knights of Labor
4. Douglas was able to reconcile the Dred Scott Decision with popular sovereignty; voters would be able to exclude slavery by not allowing laws that treated slaves as property
Freeport Doctrine
Stamp Act
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
Knights of Labor
5. Acquired Mexican Cession (future California - Arizona - and New Mexico); Mexico acknowledged American annexation of Texas
Fair Deal
Palmer Raids
Atlantic slave trade
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
6. Father Charles Coughlin (benefited only wealthy people and corporations) - Huey Long ('share our wealth') - Francis Townshend (Old Age Revolving Pension)
Critics of FDR
Stock market crash (1929)
Upton Sinclair
Spoils System
7. Opposed to slavery and secession - but stayed loyal to Virginia - despite offer for command of Union Army
Palmer Raids
Robert E. Lee
Munn v. Illinois
Nat Turner's Rebellion
8. Colonies proposed colonial confederation under lighter British rule (crown-appointed president - 'Grand Council'); never took effect
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
Albany Plan of Union
Commerce Compromise
Tea Act (1773)
9. Started the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) — 'Back to Africa' movement for racial pride and separatism; inspired self-confidence in blacks
Second Great Awakening
Marcus Garvey
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Henry David Thoreau
10. Single tax on speculated land to ameliorate industrialization misery
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
March on Washington
George Washington
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
11. Proclamation of 1793 response to French attempts for alliance with US
Berlin Wall
Neutrality
Roger Williams
Indentured servants
12. British soldiers shot into crowd of snowball fight; two of nine soldiers (defended by John Adams) found guilty of manslaughter
Panama Canal
President John F. Kennedy
Boston Massacre
Henry Ford's assembly line
13. Bomb thrown at protest rally - police shot protestors - caused great animosity in employers for workers' unions
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Compromise of 1850
Haymarket Bombing
Missouri Compromise (1820)
14. Fines and imprisonment for aiding the enemy or hindering U.S. military; forbade any form of criticism of the government and military
Gulf War - 'Operation Desert Storm' (1991)
Jonathan Edwards
Bull Moose Party
Espionage Act and Sedition Act
15. Workers unable to escape (locked into factory) - all died; further encouraged reform movements for working conditions
Salvation Army
Tories (Loyalists)
Yalta Conference (1945)
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
16. Connected the colonies to Britain - opposed to unnecessary unfair taxation; strong influence on Albany Plan
Benjamin Franklin
Vietnamization
Harlem Renaissance
President Ronald Reagan
17. Through CIO - led three coal mine strikes (some of the very few strikes during the time period)
Louis Sullivan
Bank of the United States
John L. Lewis
Creel Committee
18. Catholic communist autocrat of Vietnam - assassinated (with aid of US)
Know-Nothing (American) Party
Battle of Yorktown
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
Ngo Dinh Diem
19. Scholarly - welfare-reform - 'Contract with America -' impeachment over Monica Lewinski Scandal - War in Kosovo
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
Federal Reserve Act
President Bill Clinton
Good Neighbor Policy
20. 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
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Election of 1824
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Panic of 1893
21. Soviet-aided North Korea attack on South Korea; MacArthur named general on behalf of UN (excluded Russia) - US supplied majority of troops; recapture of South Korea and suppression of North forces to northern border; introduction of Chinese - MacArth
Anne Hutchinson
Korean War
Henry Ford's assembly line
Federalists and Republicans
22. Banned racial discrimination and segregation (public) - bias by federal government; enforced by Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
23. 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
Currency Act
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
Henry Ford's assembly line
24. 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
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
Jane Addams
James Monroe
25. Introduced his 'New Deal -' won election by a relative landslide (he was not Hoover - whom the public now did not trust)
Convict-lease system
President Franklin Roosevelt
Nullification Controversy
Ike's Farewell Speech
26. Social ideals to be encouraged in public school (stress on social interaction) - learning by doing
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
James G. Blaine
John Dewey
Kansas-Nebraska Act
27. Severe immigration laws to discourage and discriminate against foreigners - believed to erode old-fashioned American values
National Origins Act (1924)
Nativism
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
Bracero program
28. Banned racial discrimination in federal practices; To Secure These Rights called for desegregation - anti-lynching - end of poll taxes
Free silver
Virtual Representation
Great Migration
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
29. Marbury v. Madison (judicial review) - McChulloch v. Maryland (loose Constitutional interpretation - constitutionality of National Bank - states cannot control government agencies) - Gibbons v. Ogden (interstate commerce controlled by Congress) - Fle
Marshall Court (all cases)
Vertical and horizontal integration
Jamestown
Know-Nothing (American) Party
30. Authors included Langston Hughes - McKay - Zora Neale Hurston - Countee Cullet — praise and expression of black culture of the time
'Evil Empire' speech - 'Star Wars'
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
Harlem Renaissance
31. McKinley reluctant; armed intervention to free Cuba from Spain; Roosevelt's 'Rough Riders' made attack on Spanish at Cuba
Spanish American War (1898)
Wilmot Proviso
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
Liberty Party
32. Dealt with Vietnam War - 'Great Society' program for improvement of American society - antipoverty and anti-discrimination programs
Invasion of Iraq
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
Neutrality Act - 1939
President Lyndon B. Johnson
33. 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
Knights of Labor
Nativism
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
34. Democratic candidate 1912 - stood for antitrust - monetary change - and tariff reduction; far less active than Roosevelt - Clayton Anti-trust Act (to enforce Sherman) - Child Labor Act
Upton Sinclair
Woodrow Wilson
Bank of the United States
Consumerism
35. U.S. would ensure that Cuba would be protected from European powers and maintain a place in Cuban affairs; provided coal and naval stations
Platt Amendment
Atlantic slave trade
Church of England
Bonus Army
36. Guerilla army sponsored by CIA to attack procommunist revolutionaries in Nicaragua; fear of another Vietnam
Nullification
Nicaraguan Contras
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
37. Issued by Lincoln following Antietam (close enough to a victory to empower the proclamation) - declared slaves in the Confederacy free (did not include border states) - symbolic gesture to support Union's moral cause in the war
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
Platt Amendment
Conscription policies
Emancipation Proclamation
38. Standard Oil Company - Ruthless business tactics (survival of the fittest)
Bruce Barton
Know-Nothing (American) Party
James Meredith
John D. Rockefeller
39. River traffic - road building - canals (esp. Erie) - rise of NYC
Panama Canal
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
Transportation Revolution
William and Mary
40. Committee on Public Information; aimed to sell America and the world on Wilson's war goals; propaganda - censorship - 'four-minute men' speeches - 'Liberty Leagues' (spy on community)
Bill of Rights
'City on a Hill'
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
Creel Committee
41. Exemplary Christian community - rich to show charity - held to Calvinistic beliefs
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42. Founded by Betty Friedan - Bella Abzug - and Aileen Hernandez; lobbied for equal opportunity where the EEOC was lacking (gender discrimination); lawsuits and mobilization of public opinion
National Organization of Women
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
'Red Scare' (1919)
43. 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.
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
Rationing
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Roger Williams
44. Settlers to pay the expenses of a servant's voyage and be granted land for each person they brought over; headright system
Invasion of Iraq
James G. Blaine
Indentured servants
Adams-Onis Treaty
45. Bank tightened loan policies - depression rose throughout the country - hurt western farmers greatly
Whigs (Patriots)
Bombing and invasion of Cambodia
Panic of 1819
Popular Sovereignty
46. Prohibited settlements west of Appalachian - restriction on colonial growth
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
Proclamation of 1763
John Brown
President Franklin Roosevelt
47. Led by Francis Willard - powerful 'interest group' following the civil war - urged women's suffrage - led to Prohibition
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48. Required of members of the Puritan Church; took the place of baptism required by the Catholic Church
20-Negro Law
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Conversion Experience
William and Mary
49. State-run economy to provide conflict-free society
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Harpers Ferry (1859)
John C. Calhoun
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
50. Defined process for territories to become states (population reached 60 -000) - forbade slavery in the new territories
'Contract with America' (1994)
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Vietnamization
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)