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AP U.S. History
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1. Judiciary Reorganization Bill; FDR's attempt to put in extra judges who would support him without doubt
Conscription policies
Court Packing
Henry David Thoreau
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
2. Belief in minimal government so as to allow the people their own free reign - lower taxes to stimulate economy - &c.
Independent Treasury Bill
Battle of Saratoga
Conservatism
First American strategy in WWII
3. Exempted those who owned or oversaw twenty or more slaves from service in the Confederate Army; 'rich man's war but a poor man's fight'
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
20-Negro Law
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
Election of 1980
4. Supported abolition - broke off of Anti-Slavery Society
Liberty Party
American society during the Revolution
Spanish American War (1898)
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
5. Started the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) — 'Back to Africa' movement for racial pride and separatism; inspired self-confidence in blacks
Elastic Clause ('necessary and proper')
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
Midnight judges
Marcus Garvey
6. Stressed to the American people British maltreatment and emphasize a need for revolution; appealed to American emotions
Gains for women
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Northern Securities Case
Korean War
7. Meant to keep government unquestioned by critics - particularly of the Federalists
Alien and Sedition Acts
Indentured servants
Gifford Pinchot
Stephen Austin
8. Established federal district courts that followed local procedures - Supreme Court had final jurisdiction; compromise between nationalists and advocates for states' rights
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
Judiciary Act of 1789
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
'Silent Majority'
9. 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
King James I - King Charles
Pendleton Civil Service Act
National Road
10. Worked alongside Josiah Henson to make repeated trips to get slaves out of the South into freedom
The Homefront
Four Freedoms' speech
Harriet Tubman
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
11. Europeans should not interfere with affairs in Western Hemisphere - Americans to stay out of foreign affairs; supported Washington's goal for US neutrality in Americas
Yeoman Farmers
Marbury v. Madison
XYZ Affair
Monroe Doctrine
12. Symbol of women workers during the war
Thomas Nast
Rosenbergs
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Rosie the Riveter
13. The Jungle revealed unsanitary nature of meat-packing industry - inspired Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
The Half-Way Covenant
Spanish American War (1898)
William Lloyd Garrison
Upton Sinclair
14. Attacked industrial elite - called for business regulation - publisher refused works breaking with Victorian ideals
Benjamin Franklin
Pan-Americanism
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
15. Despite near-guaranteed second term - campaign workers burglarized Democratic offices - cover-up unsuccessful - resigned to avoid impeachment
Watergate Scandal
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
Dorothea Lange
16. 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
Dawes Plan (1924)
Moral Diplomacy
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
China turns communist
17. Forbade restraint of trade and did not distinguish good from bad trusts - ineffective due to lack of enforcement mechanism (waited for Clayton Anti-Trust Act)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
National Organization of Women
First American strategy in WWII
Whigs (Patriots)
18. 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
Dred Scott v. Sandford
George Whitefield
John Dewey
Church of England
19. (1) California admitted as free state - (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico - (3) resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries - (4) federal assumption of Texas debt - (5) slave trade abolished in DC - and (6) new fugit
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
Compromise of 1850
Civil Rights Act of 1964
President Harry Truman
20. 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
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
Impressment
Elastic Clause ('necessary and proper')
'Atlanta Compromise'
21. Stressed role of church and religion to improve city life - led by preachers Walter Raushenbusch and Washington Gladen; influenced settlement house movement and Salvation Army
Essex case
William Lloyd Garrison
'Gentlemen's Agreement' (1908)
Social Gospel movement
22. Challenged New Englanders to completely separate Church from State - as the State would corrupt the church
Roger Williams
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
David Riesman
Domino theory
23. Depicted the evils of slavery (splitting of families and physical abuse); increased participation in abolitionist movement - condemned by South
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24. Brought in Mexicans for temporary jobs - concentrated in southern CA - given extremely poor working conditions (as they were not American citizens)
William Henry Harrison
George Washington
Bracero program
William H. Taft
25. Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait despite peace treaty and refusal to abandon Iraqi occupation
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26. Removal of Saddam Hussein - 2003 - Iran - Iraq - and North Korea designated as the 'axis of evil -' institution of democratic government in Iraq to replace Hussein's dictatorship (return to spread and protection of democracy throughout the world - mo
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Invasion of Iraq
Conformity in the 1950s
27. Powerful speaker - toured the country and inspired many into Christianity
Townshend Act (1767)
Stamp Act
Sugar Act
George Whitefield
28. Leader of IWW - from Western Federation of Miners
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29. Belligerent nationalism against other threatening nations
Impressment
Booker T. Washington
Jingoism
Macon's Bill No. 2
30. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - provided more funds to state and local relief efforts
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
James Madison
Cotton Gin
Voting Rights Act of 1965
31. Full American independence - territory west of Appalachian ceded to America - loyalists to be compensated for seized property - fishing rights off of Newfoundland
Hoovervilles
Martin Luther King Jr.
Sputnik
Treaty of Paris (1783)
32. Selective Service Act to require men to register with few exceptions; women and blacks drafted/enlisted - highly successful
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
Dawes Plan (1924)
Conscription policies
Conservative backlash against liberalism
33. American general Horatio Gates was victorious over British general Burgoyne
Peace Corps
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
French and Indian War
Battle of Saratoga
34. Allowed Parliament to completely legislate over the colonies - limited colonists' say
Declaratory Act
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
Invasion of Iraq
Mikhail Gorbachev
35. Denounced the 'housewife trap' which caused educated women to hold even themselves inferior to men
Korean War
Ho Chi Minh
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
Booker T. Washington
36. Strong central government - separation of powers - 'extended republic'
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
James Madison
Whigs (Patriots)
George Wallace - American
37. French foreign minister (Talleyrand) demanded bribe in order to meet with American peace commission - made Adams unpopular among the people
Whigs (Patriots)
XYZ Affair
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
38. Appealed to many conservatives - especially southerners (opposed massive protests and integration)
William Marcy
The Federalist Papers
George Wallace - American
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
39. First female cabinet member
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
Clinton impeachment (1997)
Wilson's 14 points
Four Freedoms' speech
40. In Brook Farm Community - literary nationalist - transcendentalist (nascent ideas of God and freedom) - wrote 'The American Scholar'
'Lost Generation'
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jingoism
National Organization of Women
41. Settlers to pay the expenses of a servant's voyage and be granted land for each person they brought over; headright system
Indentured servants
'Wage slaves'
Underground Railroad
Plessy v. Ferguson
42. 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
Conformity in the 1950s
Panic of 1893
Battle of Saratoga
Fugitive Slave Act
43. Uncovered the 'dirt' on corruption and harsh quality of city/working life; heavily criticized by Theodore Roosevelt; Ida Tarabell (oil companies) - David Graham Phillips (Senate) - Aschen School (child labor — photography) - mass magazines McClure's
Muckrakers
McCarthyism
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
Warren Court
44. Opposed BTW's accommodation policies - called for immediate equality - formed Niagara Movement to support his ideas
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
Rosenbergs
King James I - King Charles
Vietnam War
45. Created the Wisconsin Idea (as governor of Wisconsin) — regulated railroad - direct-primary system - increased corporate taxes - reference library for lawmakers
Bacon's Rebellion
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
Robert La Follette
Atlantic slave trade
46. Activist government to serve all citizens (cf. Alexander Hamilton); founded New Republic magazine
William H. Taft
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
Watergate Scandal
'Bleeding Kansas'
47. Colonies proposed colonial confederation under lighter British rule (crown-appointed president - 'Grand Council'); never took effect
Adams-Onis Treaty
Reaganomics
Albany Plan of Union
Battle of Yorktown
48. Authors included Langston Hughes - McKay - Zora Neale Hurston - Countee Cullet — praise and expression of black culture of the time
Northern Securities Case
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
Harlem Renaissance
War hawks
49. Storage of Soviet missiles in Cuba (threat of nuclear war); Krushchev demanded that US never invade Cuba and remove forces from Turkey; mutual compliance with each other's demands
Mayflower Compact
William Lloyd Garrison
Cuban Missile Crisis
Hull House
50. Social ideals to be encouraged in public school (stress on social interaction) - learning by doing
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Emancipation Proclamation
President John F. Kennedy
John Dewey