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AP U.S. History
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1. Workers unable to escape (locked into factory) - all died; further encouraged reform movements for working conditions
'Lost Generation'
Ku Klux Klan
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
2. Search warrants on shipping to reduce smuggling; challenged by James Otis
Writs of Assistance
Hudson River School
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
Tories (Loyalists)
3. Decisive victory in the War of 1812 by Harrison over Tecumseh - used in Harrison's campaign for presidency
'Yellow dog contracts'
Battle of Tippecanoe
Humanitarian diplomacy
First American strategy in WWII
4. Decided to punish war crimes - established program for de-Nazification of Germany
Civil Rights Cases
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Albany Plan of Union
Berlin Airlift
5. The Jungle revealed unsanitary nature of meat-packing industry - inspired Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
Upton Sinclair
Harlem Renaissance
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
William H. Taft
6. Territory split into Kansas and Nebraska - popular sovereignty (Kansas slave - Nebraska free); proposed by Stephen A. Douglas
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
7. Government ensured readjustment rights to GIs after WWI unrest - loans to veterans for higher education and mortgages (contributed to economic prosperity)
George Wallace - American
GI Bill of Rights
Anne Hutchinson
John Brown
8. Established colony of Georgia as a place for honest debtors
Henry Ford's assembly line
Vietnamization
James Oglethorpe
Berlin Wall
9. Foundation for self-government laid out by the first Massachusetts settlers before arriving on land
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Mayflower Compact
Pocahontas
Vietcong
10. 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
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
Populist Party
1992 Election
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
11. Proslavery constitution in Kansas - supported by Buchanan - freesoilers against it (victorious) - denied statehood until after secession
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Lecompton Constitution
Forced busing
12. Lowering of income taxes for wealthy (trickle-down economics) - refusal to create higher prices to help farmers (McNary-Haugen Bill)
Ike's Farewell Speech
Jane Addams
Macon's Bill No. 2
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
13. FDR and Churchill agreed to defeat Germany first rather than concentrate on Japan
New Harmony
John Foster Dulles
Korean War
First American strategy in WWII
14. Women must gain economic rights in order to impact society (cf. rising divorce rates)
Townshend Act (1767)
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
15. McKinley reluctant; armed intervention to free Cuba from Spain; Roosevelt's 'Rough Riders' made attack on Spanish at Cuba
Shays's Rebellion
Jonathan Edwards
Stock market crash (1929)
Spanish American War (1898)
16. Party formed from Republican split by Roosevelt - more progressive values - leaving 'Republican Old Guard' to control Republican party
Farmers'Alliance movement
Bull Moose Party
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
17. Unprecedented sudden growth spurt of American population (especially urban and suburban areas)
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18. 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
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
James Meredith
Pearl Harbor
Missouri Compromise (1820)
19. Panama Canal Treaty - diplomacy with China - end of recognition of Taiwan; little accomplished domestically due to conservative opposition - foreign policy more successful; Washington outsider - Experienced high interest rates - inflation - increased
Zimmerman Note
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
Tories (Loyalists)
President Jimmy Carter
20. Family farmers who hired out slaves for the harvest season - self-sufficient - participated in local markets alongside slave owners
Kent State Protest
Yeoman Farmers
Deregulation
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
21. Prohibited colonies from issuing paper money - destabilized colonial economy
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe (1989)
Currency Act
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
Conservatism
22. President to offer military supplies to nations 'vital to the defense of the US'; ended US neutrality (economic war against Germany); Hitler began to sink American ships (limited scale)
Transportation Revolution
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
James Monroe
23. Elvis Presley - Marilyn Monroe - James Dean - Beatniks — rebelled against conservative conformity of the rest of the country (esp. targeted youth)
Non-conformity
'Big BM' Haywood
Social Reciprocity
Great Migration
24. Over Senate seat for Illinois (Douglas victor) - Lincoln stated the country could not remain split over the issue of slavery
President Bill Clinton
Pinkertons
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
25. Rise in stock prices and speculation - decline of construction industry - mistaken 'trickle-down' economics - reliance on credit
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
Free silver
Causes of the depression
26. Prohibited testing of nuclear bombs above ground to slow the nuclear arms race and the release of nuclear fallout into the atmosphere
Haymarket Bombing
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Black Panther Party
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
27. George Wallace vs. Nixon vs. Humphrey; very narrow popular vote triumph to Nixon (although he had clear majority of electoral votes)
President Bill Clinton
1968 Presidential Election
Zoot Suit riots
China turns communist
28. Tet Offensive in Vietnam - assassination of MLK and Robert Kennedy (presidential candidate) - Riot of Democratic National Convention (Chicago police beat antiwar protestors) - Black Panthers
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29. Lee invaded Pennsylvania - bloodiest battle of the war - Confederate Pickett's Charge (disastrous) - Lee forced to retreat (not pursued by Meade) - South doomed to never invade North again - Gettysburg Address given by Lincoln (nation over union)
Knights of Labor
James Oglethorpe
Battle of Gettysburg
Emergency Banking Relief Act
30. Ended the Dominion of New England - gave power back to colonies
William and Mary
Panic of 1819
Gifford Pinchot
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
31. Provided country with a break from partisan politics - Missouri Compromise - issued Monroe Doctrine
March on Washington
James Monroe
Lecompton Constitution
'Affluent Society'
32. Believed to provide shortcut from Atlantic to Pacific - searched for by Giovanni de Verrazano for Francis I in the race to Asian wealth
Jamestown
Northwest Passage
1968 Presidential Election
Dorothea Lange
33. Contending communist politician in Vietnam - had more popularity than Diem - took power upon Diem's death
'Evil Empire' speech - 'Star Wars'
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
'Brain trust'
Ho Chi Minh
34. 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
Election of 1800
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
Bull Moose Party
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
35. British soldiers shot into crowd of snowball fight; two of nine soldiers (defended by John Adams) found guilty of manslaughter
Panic of 1893
William Penn and the Quakers
Boston Massacre
Charles II - James II
36. Opposed Polk's high-handedness - avid Southern slave-owner (right to own property - slaves as property)
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
John C. Calhoun
Strict vs. Loose interpretation of the Constitution
'Gentlemen's Agreement' (1908)
37. Attacked people for being communist by association and unsubstantiated claims - against Truman - Marshall - and Ike; downfall came with attack on the military (condemned by Senate); led hysteria of the red scare
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Great Migration
American Federation of Labor
McCarthyism
38. Stressed to the American people British maltreatment and emphasize a need for revolution; appealed to American emotions
George Kennan
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Coxey's Army
Anne Hutchinson
39. Desegregation (Brown v. Board of Ed) - rights of the accused (Miranda v. Arizona) - voting reforms (Wesberry v. Sanders - Reynolds v. Sims - Katzenbach v Morgan)
Virtual Representation
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Warren Court
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
40. 10-year moratorium on Chinese immigration to reduce competition for jobs (Chinese willing to work for cheap salaries)
Lewis and Clark expedition
Battle of Tippecanoe
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Camp David Accords
41. Runaway slave - well-known speaker on the condition of slavery - worked with Garrison and Wendell Phillips - founder of The North Star
Jane Addams
Frederick Douglass
Neutrality
Albany Plan of Union
42. Guerilla army sponsored by CIA to attack procommunist revolutionaries in Nicaragua; fear of another Vietnam
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
Nicaraguan Contras
Barbary Pirates
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
43. Emphasis on personal salvation - emotional response - and individual faith; women and blacks; nationalism (Manifest Destiny)
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
Dominion of New England
French and Indian War
Second Great Awakening
44. United States aided South Vietnam in its war of power struggle against North Vietnam - the Vietcong - USSR - and China
Ho Chi Minh
Vietnam War
Bill of Rights
Ralph Waldo Emerson
45. River traffic - road building - canals (esp. Erie) - rise of NYC
Conversion Experience
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Transportation Revolution
Mayflower Compact
46. Goods able to be transferred from New York to New Orleans by inland waterways
Plessy v. Ferguson
'Atlanta Compromise'
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
Erie Canal
47. Parliament took minor actions in the colonies - allowing them to experiment with and become accustomed to self-government - international trade agreements
Economic transition
American society during the Revolution
Thomas Edison
Salutary Neglect
48. Proclamation of 1793 response to French attempts for alliance with US
Judiciary Act of 1789
Neutrality
Shays's Rebellion
Teapot Dome scandal
49. Relied on voluntary compliance (no formal laws) - propaganda; high prices set on commodities to encourage production - Prohibition
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50. 'Southern Strategy' lured many southern Democrats to the Republican party (esp. due to southern opposition to Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Richard Nixon (R)
Thomas Nast
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
New York City draft riots (1863)
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