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AP U.S. History
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1. Part of the New Left that envisioned 'participatory democracy' (individuals control life-affecting decisions) - end materialism - militarism - and racism; inspired by young black activists
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Barbary Pirates
Declaratory Act
2. Capitalism would become productive when uninhibited by taxes and regulation
John C. Calhoun
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
Reaganomics
Election of 1960
3. In Brook Farm Community - literary nationalist - transcendentalist (nascent ideas of God and freedom) - wrote 'The American Scholar'
United States vs. EC Knight Company
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Soviet atomic bomb
4. Established colony of Georgia as a place for honest debtors
Good Neighbor Policy
James Oglethorpe
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Ku Klux Klan
5. US - Britain - Japan - France - and Italy to reduce naval tonnage and halt construction for 10 years; US and Japan to respect Pacific territorial holdings - Kellog-Briand Pact to 'outlaw war'
New Harmony
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
Virtual Representation
Conservative backlash against liberalism
6. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - collective bargaining rights - closed shops permitted (where workers must join unions) - outlawed anti-union tactics
Ike's Farewell Speech
Freeport Doctrine
Hudson River School
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
7. Exemplary Christian community - rich to show charity - held to Calvinistic beliefs
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8. National Liberation Front - guerilla militia from south Vietnam fighting alongside the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam)
Rationing
'Contract with America' (1994)
Vietcong
'Red Scare' (1919)
9. Response to Berlin crisis - warned Moscow that threats would be answered with force; Warsaw Pact formed by Soviets in response
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Battle of Saratoga
James Madison
Neutrality Act - 1939
10. 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
Moral Diplomacy
Muckrakers
The Federalist Papers
Anne Hutchinson
11. British soldiers shot into crowd of snowball fight; two of nine soldiers (defended by John Adams) found guilty of manslaughter
CIA overthrow of Iran (1953)
Compromise of 1877
Boston Massacre
California Gold Rush
12. Mexicans held siege on the Alamo (in San Antonio) - Texans lost great number of people - 'Remember the Alamo'
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
The Alamo
Hartford Convention
Gays in the military
13. 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
Thomas Edison
Black Panther Party
Marshall Plan
'Graying of America'
14. Political muckraking cartoonist - refused bribes to stop criticism
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Fair Deal
Thomas Nast
15. Beginnings of trusts (destruction of competition); vertical- controlling every aspect of production (control quality - eliminate middlemen - Rockefeller); horizontal- consolidating with competitors to monopolize a market (highly detrimental)
Open Door Policy
William Jennings Bryan
Vertical and horizontal integration
John C. Calhoun
16. 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
'Baby Boom'
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
Vietnam War
Bush v. Gore (2000)
17. Created by John L. Lewis for unskilled labor - organized 'sit-down strike' against GM to work for recognition
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Compromise of 1877
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Scopes Trial
18. Founded by Uriah Stephens (1869); excluded corrupt and well-off; equal female pay - end to child/convict labor - employer-employee relations - proportional income tax; 'bread and butter' unionism (higher wages - shorter hours - better conditions)
Knights of Labor
Hudson River School
Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA)
Bruce Barton
19. Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald (hated his anti-Cuban policies); LBJ instituted Warren Commission to investigate assassination (headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren)
William Lloyd Garrison
Bank of the United States
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
Liberty Party
20. French foreign minister (Talleyrand) demanded bribe in order to meet with American peace commission - made Adams unpopular among the people
XYZ Affair
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
John Dewey
Navigation Acts
21. Strong central government - separation of powers - 'extended republic'
Panic of 1893
Sons of Liberty
Dixiecrats - 1948
James Madison
22. First female cabinet member
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
Whiskey Rebellion
Okies' and 'Arkies'
Embargo Act (1807)
23. Government would protect America's foreign investments with any force needed; under president Taft
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24. Required of members of the Puritan Church; took the place of baptism required by the Catholic Church
William H. Taft
Causes of the depression
Frederick Douglass
Conversion Experience
25. Commission on civil rights to attempt to guarantee the ballot to blacks; showed government's changing views of race relations
New Freedom
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
Burned-Over District
Dorothea Lange
26. Powerful speaker - toured the country and inspired many into Christianity
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
George Whitefield
Stock market crash (1929)
Fort Sumter
27. Ended the Dominion of New England - gave power back to colonies
American Federation of Labor
William and Mary
Neutrality
Invasion of Iraq
28. Government would hold its revenues rather than deposit them in banks - thus keeping the funds away from private corporations; 'America's Second Declaration of Independence'
New York City draft riots (1863)
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Fair Deal
Independent Treasury Bill
29. Writing took a more realistic approach on the world - regionalist writers focused on local life (Sarah Orne Jewett) - naturalist writers focused on economy and psychology (Stephen Crane)
Bombing and invasion of Cambodia
Regionalist and naturalist writers
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Robert E. Lee
30. Intended to save British East India Company from bankruptcy - could sell directly to consumers rather than through wholesalers (lowered prices to compete with smuggled tea)
Tea Act (1773)
Theodore Roosevelt
Four Freedoms' speech
Marshall Court (all cases)
31. NLF attacked numerous South Vietnamese cities and American embassies - eventually repulsed; spoiled LBJ's record to reelection - resulted in massive protests in US to end the war; atrocities such that war could only end in stalemate
'Brain trust'
Popular Sovereignty
Tet Offensive (1968)
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
32. Established world organization; Soviet Union pledged to allow democratic procedures in Eastern Europe; pledge broken - led to Cold War
Election of 1800
Haymarket Bombing
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Yalta Conference (1945)
33. Protected rights of individual from the power of the central government
Bill of Rights
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
Creel Committee
Federalists and Republicans
34. 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)
Jackson's Presidency
Keynesian economics
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
35. 'Corrupt bargain' and backroom deal for JQ Adams to win over Jackson
Dixiecrats - 1948
Suffolk Resolves
Election of 1824
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
36. Began by Edwards to return to Puritanism - increased overall religious involvement - gave women more active roles in religion - more and more ministers sprouted up throughout the country; mainly affected towns and cities
Harpers Ferry (1859)
Rock `n' Roll
The Great Awakening
Marshall Plan
37. 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'
Hoover's policy of voluntarism
Rosenbergs
Mann Act
20-Negro Law
38. 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)
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
Independent Treasury Bill
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Era of Good Feelings
39. No further introduction of slaves into Missouri - all children born to slaves to become free at 25
Tallmadge Amendment
Bacon's Rebellion
Albany Plan of Union
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
40. Helped lead settlement house movement - co-founded NAACP - condemned war and poverty
Strict vs. Loose interpretation of the Constitution
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
Jane Addams
Jackson's Presidency
41. John Noyes - New York; utopian society for communalism - perfectionism - and complex marriage
Monroe Doctrine
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
Federal Reserve Act
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
42. Working class exploited for profit - proletariat (workers) to revolt and inherit all society
Lodge Reservations
Clinton impeachment (1997)
Karl Marx Das Kapital
Creel Committee
43. South to gain removal of last troops from Reconstruction; North wins Hayes as president
Republican Party
Louis Sullivan
Compromise of 1877
William Seward
44. Symbol of women workers during the war
Shays's Rebellion
Rosie the Riveter
Articles of Confederation
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
45. Left primary open to Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy - both promising to end the controversial war
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46. Mao Zedong (communist) defeated nationalist forces of Kai-Shek (supported by US); seen as defeat for US - not officially fully recognized until 1973
China turns communist
Soviet atomic bomb
20-Negro Law
Tallmadge Amendment
47. Taught American landscape painting rather than Classical subjects
James Oglethorpe
Alexander Hamilton
Hudson River School
Social Darwinism
48. Started the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) — 'Back to Africa' movement for racial pride and separatism; inspired self-confidence in blacks
Election of 1824
Marcus Garvey
James K. Polk
Robert La Follette
49. Mass production of the Model-T - workers as potential consumers (raise wages) - supported other industries and raised employment
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50. Detectives hired by employers as private police force - often used to end strikes
'Baby Boom'
CIA overthrow of Iran (1953)
Pinkertons
George Wallace - American