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AP U.S. History
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1. 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
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
Battle of Saratoga
Cult of domesticity
Panama Canal
2. Settled in Pennsylvania - believed the 'Inner Light' could speak through any person and ran religious services without ministers
John C. Calhoun
Freeport Doctrine
1968 Presidential Election
William Penn and the Quakers
3. (free speech movement) Youth activists (often liberal arts students) spoke out against Vietnam War - supported widespread liberalization
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4. Economic prosperity of American society following WWII; doubling of national income - jobs to women - defense industry's support of economy
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5. Provided for evacuation of English troops from posts in the Great Lakes
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6. 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
12th Amendment
CIA overthrow of Iran (1953)
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
7. Soviets cut Berlin off from the rest of Germany by blockade; US organized airlift to drop supplies into Britain; blockade lifted in May 1949
Berlin Airlift
Watergate Scandal
Jamestown
Independent Treasury Bill
8. Public treaties - free trade - free seas - reduced armament burdens - anti-imperialism - independence to minorities - international organization
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9. Activist government to serve all citizens (cf. Alexander Hamilton); founded New Republic magazine
Harriet Tubman
Vietnam War
Louis Sullivan
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
10. Standard Oil Company - Ruthless business tactics (survival of the fittest)
Scopes Trial
Invasion of Iraq
John D. Rockefeller
National Labor Union
11. Middle class; white flight from urban areas due to black migration; government supported insurance for homeowners and builders
Suburbia
Open Door Policy
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
20-Negro Law
12. Pushed through northern Georgia - captured Atlanta - 'march to the sea' (total war and destruction) - proceeded to South Carolina
Missouri Compromise (1820)
William T. Sherman
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
Jane Addams
13. Paper money; specie circular decreed that the government would not accept specie for government land
Populist Party
Bay of Pigs invasion
U-2 Incident
Specie
14. Western Pennsylvanian farmers' violent protest against whiskey excise tax - Washington sent large army to put down revolt - protests to be limited to non-violent
Alexander Hamilton
Hoovervilles
New York City draft riots (1863)
Whiskey Rebellion
15. Opposed strikes - producer-consumer cooperation - temperance - welcomed blacks and women (allowing segregation)
Tea Act (1773)
New Freedom
Panama Canal
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
16. Workers unable to escape (locked into factory) - all died; further encouraged reform movements for working conditions
'Wage slaves'
The Loyal Nine
Era of Good Feelings
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
17. Black Muslim worked to raise black spirits and pride (cf. Marcus Garvey); emphasized black institutions rather than mere desegregation - blacks to gain freedom at any cost
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
Andrew Carnegie
'Baby Boom'
18. Supported abolition - broke off of Anti-Slavery Society
Election of 1980
Liberty Party
Soviet atomic bomb
1992 Election
19. 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
British strengths and weaknesses
Keynesian economics
Nicaraguan Contras
Rationing
20. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - insured deposits < $5000 - reassured American public of the worth of banks
Yeoman Farmers
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
James Oglethorpe
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
21. British citizenship outnumbered colonies' - large navy and professional army; exhausted resources (Hessians hired) - national debt
Connecticut Compromise
Tea Act (1773)
Butler v. U.S. Court case
British strengths and weaknesses
22. Worked towards asylums for the mentally insane - worked alongside Mann
Dorothea Dix
Election of 1824
Manifest Destiny
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
23. Part of 'First' New Deal Program - subsidies to farmers to decrease production and thus increase prices
Harpers Ferry (1859)
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Industrial Workers of the World
XYZ Affair
24. 'I have a dream' 25 -000 people (including whites) convened for political rally - MLK's speech to historical event; attempted to push civil rights bill through Congress
Public Works Administration (PWA)
March on Washington
Conservatism
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
25. In Brook Farm Community - literary nationalist - transcendentalist (nascent ideas of God and freedom) - wrote 'The American Scholar'
French and Indian War
Lusitania
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Greenback Party
26. States could refuse to enforce the federal laws they deemed unconstitutional
Nullification
Proclamation of 1763
Manifest Destiny
Vietnam War
27. Mexicans held siege on the Alamo (in San Antonio) - Texans lost great number of people - 'Remember the Alamo'
Suburbia
Election of 1980
William Henry Harrison
The Alamo
28. Held in New York - agreed to not import British goods until Stamp Act was repealed
Watergate Scandal
Monroe Doctrine
Stamp Act Congress
Battle of Antietam
29. Focused on skilled workers (harder to replace than unskilled) - coordinated crafts unions - supported 8¬hour workday and injury liability
Samuel Gompers
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Knights of Labor
Fair Deal
30. Taught American landscape painting rather than Classical subjects
The Enlightenment
Hudson River School
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
Essex case
31. American hostages taken by US hating Shiites upon Shah's flight from uprising - botched rescue attempts
Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Association (YMCA & YWCA)
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
Conscription policies
Booker T. Washington
32. Ensured trade with mother country - nationalism; too restrictive on colonial economy - not voted on by colonists
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
1968 as 'the year of shocks'
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
Mercantilism
33. Prohibited exports (and imports) based in American ports - most controversial Jefferson legislation
Embargo Act (1807)
Social Darwinism
Ulysses S. Grant
Kent State Protest
34. Fought for human rights in Africa - Panama Canal returned to Panama - relations with China resolved
Stagflation
British strengths and weaknesses
Humanitarian diplomacy
Court Packing
35. Severe immigration laws to discourage and discriminate against foreigners - believed to erode old-fashioned American values
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
Pet banks
Fair Deal
Nativism
36. Appealed to many conservatives - especially southerners (opposed massive protests and integration)
Square Deal
Korean War
George Wallace - American
President Lyndon B. Johnson
37. Maine as free state - Missouri as slave state - slavery prohibited north of 36°30'
Quarantine Speech - 1937
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
38. First Utopian society - by Robert Owen
New Harmony
The Federalist Papers
James K. Polk
Manifest Destiny
39. Political action for religion justified by decreased presence of religion in society; Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition to expand national influence
Charles II - James II
Religious Right
Tea Act (1773)
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
40. Connected the colonies to Britain - opposed to unnecessary unfair taxation; strong influence on Albany Plan
Benjamin Franklin
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
41. Black rights leader - heavily influenced by Malcolm X (advocated black separatism rather than integration)
Monroe Doctrine
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
Election of 1824
42. Westward migration of workers (new economic opportunities - esp. aircraft industry) - high rates of divorce and family/juvenile violence - women encouraged to work in factories - still held inferior to men
Embargo Act (1807)
Berlin Airlift
George Wallace - American
The Homefront
43. Jane Addams's pioneer settlement house (center for women's activism and social reform) in Chicago
John C. Calhoun
Five Civilized Tribes
Hull House
Maysville Road Veto
44. Sets of programs geared towards minorities and oft-discriminated populations
Rosenbergs
Panic of 1893
Affirmative Action
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
45. Anti-immigrant - especially against Irish Catholics
Hull House
Eugene V. Debs
Nativism
Salvation Army
46. All English subjects are represented in Parliament - including those not allowed to vote
Virtual Representation
Great Migration
Energy Crisis - OPEC
President Jimmy Carter
47. Prejudiced jury sentenced them to death - caused riots around the world - new trial denied
Strict vs. Loose interpretation of the Constitution
Berlin Wall
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
48. Populists campaigned for silver-backed money rather than gold-backed - believed to be able to relieve working conditions and exploitation of labor
Battle of Gettysburg
Free silver
Conversion Experience
Quebec Acts
49. Germany announced that it would sink all (including American) ships - attempt to involve U.S. in war
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Washington's Farewell Address
William Lloyd Garrison
50. Anti-Federalists wanted states' rights - bill of rights - unanimous consent - reference to religion - more power to less-rich and common people; Federalists wanted strong central government - more power to experienced - separation of church and state
Fair Deal
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe (1989)
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
National Labor Union