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AP U.S. History
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1. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - provided more funds to state and local relief efforts
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
President Ronald Reagan
Neutrality
Ho Chi Minh
2. Monroe presidency - national unity behind Monroe - post-war boom (foreign demand for cotton - grain - and tobacco) - Depression of 1819 (cheap British imports - tightened credit - affected West the most)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
Era of Good Feelings
James Monroe
3. Key to English-Native American relationship - died in England in 1617
Federalists and Republicans
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Pocahontas
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
4. Congress authorized LBJ to repel and prevent aggression against US troops in Vietnam - used as a blank check (perhaps too much - caused protests)
Conformity in the 1950s
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
Neutrality Act - 1939
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
5. Influence of African-American blues - music of the younger generation (gap between them and their parents)
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6. Fought for human rights in Africa - Panama Canal returned to Panama - relations with China resolved
Whiskey Rebellion
Humanitarian diplomacy
Nullification Controversy
Kansas-Nebraska Act
7. Head of federal Division of Forestry - contributed to Roosevelt's natural conservation efforts
Platt Amendment
John L. Lewis
Eugene V. Debs
Gifford Pinchot
8. Family farmers who hired out slaves for the harvest season - self-sufficient - participated in local markets alongside slave owners
Know-Nothing (American) Party
Monroe Doctrine
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Yeoman Farmers
9. Helped approval ratings - not removed from office despite all the efforts of Republican congressmen
Adams-Onis Treaty
Isolationism
Clinton impeachment (1997)
Yalta Conference (1945)
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. Old immigrants from northern and western Europe came seeking better life; new immigrants came from southern and eastern Europe searching for opportunity to escape worse living conditions back home and often did not stay in the US
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
Energy Crisis - OPEC
William Jennings Bryan
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
12. Destroyed by Jackson on the grounds that it was unconstitutional and too much power for a federal institution
Transcendentalism
Bank of the United States
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
'Big BM' Haywood
13. Heavily evangelized to the point there were no more people left to convert to other religions - upstate New York - home to the beginning of Smith's Mormonism movement
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
Burned-Over District
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
Immigration Act of 1965
14. First Utopian society - by Robert Owen
Jazz
New Harmony
William Henry Harrison
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
15. Led Pottawatomie Massacre - extreme abolitionist who believed he was doing God's work
Economic transition
John Brown
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Commerce Compromise
16. Government to buy silver to back money in addition to gold
Declaratory Act
James Madison
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
17. 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)
Virginia Resolves
Fugitive Slave Act
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Jackson's Presidency
18. September 1949 - US no longer held monopoly; two atomic powers
Second Great Awakening
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
William and Mary
Soviet atomic bomb
19. Government compromised to buy and coin $2-4 million/month; government stuck to minimum and inflation did not occur (lower prices); economy grew
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Upton Sinclair
Pinkertons
20. Prohibited use of any devices (e.g. - literacy tests) to deny the right to vote and enforced black suffrage rights
Vietnamization
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Jazz
21. Network of safe houses of white abolitionists used to bring slaves to freedom
Atlantic slave trade
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Hoovervilles
Underground Railroad
22. US ambassador to Russia - notified Truman of Soviet ambitions to expand empire and overthrow other political forces; established concern for Soviet policy in Eastern Europe - Germany - and the Middle East
GI Bill of Rights
George Kennan
Eugene V. Debs
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
23. Committees appointed from different colonies to communicate on matters; asserted rights to self¬government - cooperation between colonies
Committees of Correspondence
George Wallace - American
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
Hoovervilles
24. Loose interpretation allowed for implied powers of Congress (such as the National Bank) - strict interpretation implied few powers to Congress
McCarthyism
Moral Diplomacy
Strict vs. Loose interpretation of the Constitution
Battle of Saratoga
25. Depicted the evils of slavery (splitting of families and physical abuse); increased participation in abolitionist movement - condemned by South
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26. Fought for old Southern way of life (states' rights) - attempted to gain higher standing within Democratic party; aimed to deny Truman enough electoral votes to avoid his reelection by nominating Strom Thurmond (SC governor)
The Great Awakening
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
Consumerism
Dixiecrats - 1948
27. Republican candidate for president in 1884 - quintessence of spoils system; highly disgusted the mugwumps (many Republicans turned to Democrat Cleveland)
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
Jamestown
James G. Blaine
William H. Taft
28. '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
March on Washington
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Dollar Diplomacy'
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
29. 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
Regionalist and naturalist writers
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
Robert La Follette
30. Due to threat of nuclear war - Soviets erected wall to separate East Berlin from West Berlin (end exodus of intellect to west); symbol of communist denial of freedom
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
Berlin Wall
Macon's Bill No. 2
Invasion of Iraq
31. Highest peacetime deficit in US history (due to lower tax rates for high-income taxpayers - spent too much money attempting to reduce price supports to farmers)
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
Booker T. Washington
Marbury v. Madison
32. Foundation for First Amendment - offered free choice of religion - not influenced by state
Marbury v. Madison
Federalism
Ho Chi Minh
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
33. Focused on skilled workers (harder to replace than unskilled) - coordinated crafts unions - supported 8¬hour workday and injury liability
New Jersey Plan
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
Critics of FDR
Samuel Gompers
34. Protected rights of individual from the power of the central government
Voting Rights Act of 1965
New Freedom
Bill of Rights
'Red Scare' (1919)
35. Part of 'First' New Deal Program - subsidies to farmers to decrease production and thus increase prices
1968 as 'the year of shocks'
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Yellow journalism
Woodrow Wilson
36. Brown aimed to create an armed slave rebellion and establish black free state; Brown executed and became martyr in the North
Federalists and Republicans
The Alamo
John Smith
Harpers Ferry (1859)
37. Judges appointed to Supreme Court by Adams in the last days of his presidency to force them upon Jefferson - Marshall among those appointed
Impressment
Midnight judges
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
Potsdam Conference (1945)
38. Executed for leaking atomic secrets to Soviets - avowed communists
Court Packing
Nullification Controversy
Rosenbergs
Dollar Diplomacy'
39. Northern Securities Company (JP Morgan and James G. Hill - railroads) seen by Roosevelt as 'bad' trust - Supreme Court upheld his first trust-bust
Northern Securities Case
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
Palmer Raids
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
40. Kent State University students protesting against invasion of Cambodia - not allowed to demonstrate - violence (murder) caused by guardsmen
Kent State Protest
Burned-Over District
Tet Offensive (1968)
John L. Lewis
41. National Liberation Front - guerilla militia from south Vietnam fighting alongside the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam)
'Gentlemen's Agreement' (1908)
Upton Sinclair
Vietcong
Berlin Wall
42. 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
Washington's Farewell Address
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mikhail Gorbachev
Wilson's 14 points
43. Anti-immigrant - especially against Irish Catholics
Keynesian economics
Election of 1960
Nativism
William H. Taft
44. American general Horatio Gates was victorious over British general Burgoyne
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Peace Corps
Battle of Saratoga
George Whitefield
45. Part of Nixon's tri-faceted plan to honorably remove troops from Vietnam; wean the South Vietnamese off of American support - gradually reducing number of American troops present
Okies' and 'Arkies'
AFL-CIO (1955)
Vietnamization
John Dewey
46. Reagan and Gorbachev agree to remove and destroy nuclear weapons from Eastern and Western Europe; eased international tension and allowed Soviet domestic reforms to take place
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
47. Federalist cause leading up to Hartford Convention
Alexander Hamilton
Essex case
Energy Crisis - OPEC
Zoot Suit riots
48. Slavery to be barred in all territory ceded from Mexico; never fully passed Congress
Wilmot Proviso
Boston Massacre
Dorothea Lange
Ralph Waldo Emerson
49. Supreme Court legalized the 'separate but equal' philosophy
'Great Society'
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
Plessy v. Ferguson
'Contract with America' (1994)
50. Radical Calvinists against the Church of England; Separatists (Pilgrims) argued for a break from the Church of England - led the Mayflower - and established the settlement at Plymouth
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
Sugar Act
Ngo Dinh Diem
Currency Act