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AP U.S. History
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1. Germany announced that it would sink all (including American) ships - attempt to involve U.S. in war
The Alamo
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
John D. Rockefeller
2. Japanese bombing of ships in harbor; resulted in FDR's request for declaration of war against Japan; Germany and Italy responded with declarations of war
David Riesman
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
Pearl Harbor
Berlin Wall
3. Decision under Sherman Anti-Trust Act shot down by Supreme Court — sugar refining was manufacturing rather than trade/commerce
United States vs. EC Knight Company
'Wage slaves'
Jonathan Edwards
Boston Massacre
4. CIA attempt to institute Cuban support to overthrow Castro; cover-up uncovered - became representation of Cuban resistance to American aggression
Bay of Pigs invasion
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
Freeport Doctrine
5. Second youngest president - entered presidency as tensions of the Cold War increased; unable to get major initiatives through Congress due to conservative bloc; tax cuts (economic stimulation); reluctantly gets involved in civil rights; emphasizes Sp
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
President John F. Kennedy
New Federalism
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
6. First permanent English settlement in the Americas (1607) - along James River
Jamestown
Wilson's 14 points
Conservative backlash against liberalism
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
7. Written by Calhoun - regarding tariff nullification
The Glorious Revolution
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
Social Reciprocity
8. Committee on Public Information; aimed to sell America and the world on Wilson's war goals; propaganda - censorship - 'four-minute men' speeches - 'Liberty Leagues' (spy on community)
Proclamation of 1763
Creel Committee
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
Haymarket Bombing
9. Opposed BTW's accommodation policies - called for immediate equality - formed Niagara Movement to support his ideas
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
Critics of FDR
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
Compromise of 1850
10. Founded by William Sylvis (1866); supported 8-hour workday - convict labor - federal department of labor - banking reform - immigration restrictions to increase wages - women; excluded blacks
Invasion of Iraq
National Labor Union
Four Freedoms' speech
Ho Chi Minh
11. Preservation of New Deal - attempt at additions; raised minimum wage - public housing - old-age insurance extension - agricultural price supports (lowering of farm price)
Fair Deal
The Enlightenment
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
Keynesian economics
12. Warned of dangerous military-industrial complex (newly-found power of the military to affect the path of democracy)
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13. Hamilton's plan to solve Revolutionary debt - Assumption highly controversial - pushed his plan through Congress - based on loose interpretation of Constitution
William Marcy
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Bank of the United States
14. Democratic political machine in NYC - 'supported' immigrants and poor people of the city - who were needed for Democratic election victories
Transcendentalism
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
Declining death rate
Tammany Hall
15. (free speech movement) Youth activists (often liberal arts students) spoke out against Vietnam War - supported widespread liberalization
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16. 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
Great Migration
Stamp Act Congress
Panama Canal
New Federalism
17. Attempted to boost economy by making loans to banks and insurance companies - hoping to restart them
Ngo Dinh Diem
The Half-Way Covenant
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
'City on a Hill'
18. 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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19. Created Federal Reserve System - regional banks set up for twelve separate districts - final authority of each bank lay with the Federal Reserve Board - paper money to be issued 'Federal Reserve Notes'
Federal Reserve Act
Economic transition
National Organization of Women
Stephen Austin
20. 'Southern Strategy' lured many southern Democrats to the Republican party (esp. due to southern opposition to Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Richard Nixon (R)
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
21. Emphasis on human reason - logic - and science (acquired - not nascent - knowledge); increased followers of Christianity
Bruce Barton
William Seward
Dorothea Dix
The Enlightenment
22. Acquired Mexican Cession (future California - Arizona - and New Mexico); Mexico acknowledged American annexation of Texas
Church of England
Yalta Conference (1945)
First American strategy in WWII
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
23. 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
The Homefront
Jackie Robinson
George Wallace - American
AFL-CIO (1955)
24. Attempted to centralize production of war materials; ineffective due to American desire for laissez-faire government
March on Washington
Berlin Airlift
War Industries Board
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
25. Middle class; white flight from urban areas due to black migration; government supported insurance for homeowners and builders
Suburbia
Tories (Loyalists)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Alamo
26. Mass migration northward; mainly blacks migrating from the southern states into the north hoping for less discrimination
Conservatism
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
Jonathan Edwards
Great Migration
27. Search warrants on shipping to reduce smuggling; challenged by James Otis
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
President Harry Truman
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
Writs of Assistance
28. Jane Addams's pioneer settlement house (center for women's activism and social reform) in Chicago
Harpers Ferry (1859)
Elastic Clause ('necessary and proper')
Hull House
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
29. Ford's and Carter's presidencies experienced a recession and inflation simultaneously - solved by Keynesian economics
Ulysses S. Grant
William Marcy
United States vs. EC Knight Company
Stagflation
30. Judges appointed to Supreme Court by Adams in the last days of his presidency to force them upon Jefferson - Marshall among those appointed
Midnight judges
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
Social Reciprocity
31. Soviet leader undergoing tensions on superpower and domestic level
Virtual Representation
Mikhail Gorbachev
'Affluent Society'
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
32. Gorbachev decreased nuclear arsenals - Communist Party lost power - Boris Yeltsin (president of Russian Republic) led Muscovites to take control
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Booker T. Washington
33. Catholic communist autocrat of Vietnam - assassinated (with aid of US)
Ngo Dinh Diem
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
34. The principle that a state should decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery
Dixiecrats - 1948
Conservative backlash against liberalism
Proclamation of 1763
Popular Sovereignty
35. First president to show positive response to civil rights movement; worked heavily on keeping Soviet spread of communism in check
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
Consumerism
President Harry Truman
Pearl Harbor
36. 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)
The Homefront
Causes of the depression
Knights of Labor
Salutary Neglect
37. Americans could now spend what they had been told to save during the war (disposable income); increased purchasing of luxury items
Charles Lindbergh
Consumerism
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
Freeport Doctrine
38. Nonviolent protest to college students (NC) being refused lunch service; part of 'sit-in' movement to integrate all aspects of life (hotels - entertainment - &c.)
Transcendentalism
Bill of Rights
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
Embargo Act (1807)
39. States could refuse to enforce the federal laws they deemed unconstitutional
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
National Road
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Nullification
40. Fought for women's rights and abolition - 'Men and women are CREATED EQUAL!'
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
Jackie Robinson
Impressment
Pinkertons
41. Last major battle; surrender of Cornwallis - led King George III to officially make peace with the colonies
Manifest Destiny
Battle of Yorktown
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
42. Civil Rights Act of 1875 declared unconstitutional by Supreme Court - as the fourteenth amendment protected people from governmental infringement of rights and had no effect on acts of private citizens
'Evil Empire' speech - 'Star Wars'
Report on Public Credit
King James I - King Charles
Civil Rights Cases
43. Guerilla army sponsored by CIA to attack procommunist revolutionaries in Nicaragua; fear of another Vietnam
Warren Court
Tammany Hall
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
Nicaraguan Contras
44. Risk of too many casualties and high costs for hand-to-hand combat/invasion - Japanese surrender unlikely
Haymarket Bombing
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
Samuel Gompers
'Trail of Tears'
45. Led by Francis Willard - powerful 'interest group' following the civil war - urged women's suffrage - led to Prohibition
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46. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - prevented extreme competition - labor management disputes - and over-production; federally coordinated consensus of business leaders (Hugh Johnson) to regulate businesses (wages - limits - working condit
Rosenbergs
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
Erie Canal
47. 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'
Bill of Rights
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Tet Offensive (1968)
20-Negro Law
48. Relied on voluntary compliance (no formal laws) - propaganda; high prices set on commodities to encourage production - Prohibition
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49. 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
Salvation Army
Regionalist and naturalist writers
'New Left'
Monroe Doctrine
50. Group of Bostonians in opposition to the Stamp Act - sought to drive stamp distributors from the city
20-Negro Law
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Loyal Nine
'Big BM' Haywood
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