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AP U.S. History
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1. Denounced the 'housewife trap' which caused educated women to hold even themselves inferior to men
National Origins Act (1924)
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
Interstate Commerce Act
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
2. Believed that God created the universe to act through natural laws; Franklin - Jefferson - Paine
Jamestown
Deists
Compromise of 1877
'Hundred days'
3. First 'modern' president - moderate who supported progressivism (at times conservative) - bypassed congressional opposition (cf. Jackson) - significant role in world affairs
William Seward
Navigation Acts
Hudson River School
Theodore Roosevelt
4. 'Trustbuster' (busted twice as many as Roosevelt) - conservation and irrigation efforts - Postal Savings Bank System - Payne-Aldrich Tariff (reduction of tariff - caused Republican split)
Nullification
William H. Taft
Elastic Clause ('necessary and proper')
Articles of Confederation
5. Fought for human rights in Africa - Panama Canal returned to Panama - relations with China resolved
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
Battle of Tippecanoe
Tariff of Abominations
Humanitarian diplomacy
6. Supported Socialists - militant unionists and socialists - advocated strikes and sabotaging politics - aimed for an umbrella union similar to Knights of Labor - ideas too radical for socialist cause
Industrial Workers of the World
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
Truman's Loyalty Program
7. 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)
Warren Court
Knights of Labor
Lowell mill/system
Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Association (YMCA & YWCA)
8. Upheld constitutionality of Espionage Act; Congress right to limit free speech during times of war
Manifest Destiny
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
Know-Nothing (American) Party
League of Nations
9. Last major battle; surrender of Cornwallis - led King George III to officially make peace with the colonies
Fair Labor Standards Act
Battle of Yorktown
The Enlightenment
Elastic Clause ('necessary and proper')
10. Opposed to slavery and secession - but stayed loyal to Virginia - despite offer for command of Union Army
Industrial Workers of the World
New Deal
Cult of domesticity
Robert E. Lee
11. The two political parties that formed following Washington's presidency; Federalists for stronger central government - Republicans for stronger state governments
Federalists and Republicans
United States vs. EC Knight Company
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
Interstate Commerce Act
12. Gorbachev decreased nuclear arsenals - Communist Party lost power - Boris Yeltsin (president of Russian Republic) led Muscovites to take control
James Meredith
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
Boston Tea Party
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
13. Formed in response to Kansas-Nebraska Act - banned in the South - John C Fremont first presidential candidate
The Federalist Papers
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Republican Party
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
14. Natural selection applied to human competition - advocated by Herbert Spencer - William Graham Sumner
Social Darwinism
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
Marshall Court (all cases)
Harriet Tubman
15. Rejection of negative portrayals of women (language - entertainment) - increased quality and use of education - more job opportunities - acceptance into military
Maysville Road Veto
Nicaraguan Contras
Cuban Missile Crisis
Gains for women
16. Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson; purchase of Alaska 'Seward's Folly'
American Federation of Labor
Report on Public Credit
Declining death rate
William Seward
17. To make German reparations from WWI more accessible to Germans; evacuation of troops from Germany - reorganization of the Reichsbank - and foreign loans
Cotton Gin
Five Civilized Tribes
Dawes Plan (1924)
Tallmadge Amendment
18. 'Corrupt bargain' and backroom deal for JQ Adams to win over Jackson
Election of 1824
Federalists and Republicans
Theodore Roosevelt
Invasion of Iraq
19. Family farmers who hired out slaves for the harvest season - self-sufficient - participated in local markets alongside slave owners
Critics of FDR
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
Yeoman Farmers
Deregulation
20. 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
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
Upton Sinclair
Panama Canal
Strict vs. Loose interpretation of the Constitution
21. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark sent by Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Territory on 'Voyage of Discovery'
Lewis and Clark expedition
Louis Sullivan
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Second Great Awakening
22. British Navy would take American sailors and force them to work for Britain
Berlin Wall
Impressment
Pearl Harbor
Teapot Dome scandal
23. Clay and Calhoun - eager for war with Britain (War of 1812)
War hawks
Zimmerman Note
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
John C. Calhoun
24. Created the Wisconsin Idea (as governor of Wisconsin) — regulated railroad - direct-primary system - increased corporate taxes - reference library for lawmakers
Robert La Follette
Olive Branch Petition
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
China turns communist
25. American commander-in-chief; first president - set precedents for future presidents - put down Whiskey Rebellion (enforced Whiskey Tax) - managed first presidential cabinet - carefully used power of executive to avoid monarchial style rule
Yalta Conference (1945)
George Washington
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Important WWII Battles
26. Emphasis on human reason - logic - and science (acquired - not nascent - knowledge); increased followers of Christianity
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
The Enlightenment
Bonus Army
Pet banks
27. French threat at the borders was no longer present - therefore the colonies didn't need English protection; more independent stand against Britain
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
Butler v. U.S. Court case
French and Indian War
Knights of Labor
28. French foreign minister (Talleyrand) demanded bribe in order to meet with American peace commission - made Adams unpopular among the people
Free silver
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
Henry Ford's assembly line
XYZ Affair
29. 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)
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Woodrow Wilson
Committees of Correspondence
30. Severe immigration laws to discourage and discriminate against foreigners - believed to erode old-fashioned American values
Emancipation Proclamation
AFL-CIO (1955)
Nativism
Free silver
31. 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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32. Believed in expanding federal power on economy - encouraged industrial development; could only gain power on the local level - led by Henry Clay (anti-Jackson)
Whig Party
Energy Crisis - OPEC
Northern Securities Case
John C. Calhoun
33. 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
Pet banks
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
Public Works Administration (PWA)
The Homefront
34. To service economy in late 20 century (end of industrialism) - Higher focus on services (esp. education) rather than material products
Tammany Hall
Economic transition
US acquisitions
James Madison
35. McKinley reluctant; armed intervention to free Cuba from Spain; Roosevelt's 'Rough Riders' made attack on Spanish at Cuba
Vietnam War
Richard Nixon (R)
Adams-Onis Treaty
Spanish American War (1898)
36. Allowed sale of weaponry to democracies on 'cash-and-carry' basis - avoided full-blown war; danger zones proclaimed; solved American unemployment crisis
Yellow journalism
Lewis and Clark expedition
Neutrality Act - 1939
Social Reciprocity
37. Germany announced that it would sink all (including American) ships - attempt to involve U.S. in war
Battle of Antietam
Election of 1800
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
Unrestricted submarine warfare
38. Hired to photograph ordinary Americans experiencing the depression
Dorothea Lange
Vietnam War
National Origins Act (1924)
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
39. LBJ's flood of proposals to Congress for the beautification and amelioration of American society (War on Poverty - Medicare - public education spending - public television (PBS) - National Endowments for the Humanities and Arts (NEH - NEA))
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40. British-occupied cities - new governments - fighting by any with experience - loaned money - African-Americans and Native Americans involved
Schechter v. U.S Court case
Harpers Ferry (1859)
American society during the Revolution
Dorothea Lange
41. Political action for religion justified by decreased presence of religion in society; Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition to expand national influence
Jim Crow laws
Marshall Plan
US acquisitions
Religious Right
42. One country that falls into communism will cause surrounding nations to also fall 'like dominos'; spurred by Southeast Asia regimes (esp. Vietnam)
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
Domino theory
43. Society naturally punishes criminals indiscriminantly
Deists
Social Reciprocity
Essex case
Energy Crisis - OPEC
44. Allowed Parliament to completely legislate over the colonies - limited colonists' say
Stamp Act Congress
Declaratory Act
Vertical and horizontal integration
Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Association (YMCA & YWCA)
45. Equal representation in unicameral congress
New Jersey Plan
Ulysses S. Grant
Keynesian economics
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
46. Roosevelt and Pinchot sided on conservation rather than preservation (planned and regulated use of forest lands for public and commercial uses)
Eugene V. Debs
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
Robert E. Lee
John C. Calhoun
47. Left primary open to Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy - both promising to end the controversial war
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48. Ended exclusion of homosexuals from military; due to controversy - compromise of 'don't ask - don't tell' instituted
John L. Lewis
Gays in the military
National Road
Jackie Robinson
49. Standard Oil Company - Ruthless business tactics (survival of the fittest)
Henry Ford's assembly line
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
Spanish American War (1898)
John D. Rockefeller
50. 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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