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AP U.S. History
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1. Party formed from Republican split by Roosevelt - more progressive values - leaving 'Republican Old Guard' to control Republican party
The Great Awakening
Bull Moose Party
Consumerism
Jay's Treaty
2. Taught American landscape painting rather than Classical subjects
Fugitive Slave Act
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
Critics of FDR
Hudson River School
3. Natural selection applied to human competition - advocated by Herbert Spencer - William Graham Sumner
Pocahontas
Republican Party
Virginia Resolves
Social Darwinism
4. Father Charles Coughlin (benefited only wealthy people and corporations) - Huey Long ('share our wealth') - Francis Townshend (Old Age Revolving Pension)
Citizen Genet
John C. Calhoun
American Federation of Labor
Critics of FDR
5. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - provided more funds to state and local relief efforts
Thomas Nast
Lowell mill/system
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
Marcus Garvey
6. Banned racial discrimination in federal practices; To Secure These Rights called for desegregation - anti-lynching - end of poll taxes
President Harry Truman
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
John D. Rockefeller
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
7. Established free trade zone between Canada - United States and Mexico - net gain in jobs due to opening of Mexican markets
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
New Jersey Plan
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
8. Kennedy vs. Nixon - Kennedy (due to televised charisma) won over Nixon (pale and nervous)
Election of 1960
Federalists and Republicans
Scopes Trial
1968 Presidential Election
9. Southern Christian Leadership Conference - Led boycott - became leader of civil rights movement; urged nonviolent resistance (cf. tactics of Ghandi);
Gains for women
Martin Luther King Jr.
'Gentlemen's Agreement' (1908)
Bank of the United States
10. Supported abolition - broke off of Anti-Slavery Society
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Vertical and horizontal integration
Liberty Party
'New Left'
11. Risk of too many casualties and high costs for hand-to-hand combat/invasion - Japanese surrender unlikely
Knights of Labor
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
Butler v. U.S. Court case
12. Required separate and distinct ballots for presidential and vice presidential candidates
'City on a Hill'
Harpers Ferry (1859)
12th Amendment
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
13. Denounced the 'housewife trap' which caused educated women to hold even themselves inferior to men
New Jersey Plan
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
14. Stressed to the American people British maltreatment and emphasize a need for revolution; appealed to American emotions
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Boston Tea Party
Fair Deal
15. Proslavery constitution in Kansas - supported by Buchanan - freesoilers against it (victorious) - denied statehood until after secession
1968 as 'the year of shocks'
Lecompton Constitution
Upton Sinclair
Emancipation Proclamation
16. Foundation for First Amendment - offered free choice of religion - not influenced by state
Embargo Act (1807)
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
Virginia Resolves
Critics of FDR
17. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - banned child labor - established minimum wage
Fair Labor Standards Act
Mercantilism
New Federalism
William H. Taft
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)
War Industries Board
Report on Public Credit
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Knights of Labor
19. 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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20. Fair amount of troops - short guerilla tactics - strong leaders (Washington); nonprofessional army that could not handle long battles
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
John L. Lewis
Theodore Roosevelt
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
21. Mistreated farmers - fear of monocracy - forced people to think about central government
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22. Authors included Langston Hughes - McKay - Zora Neale Hurston - Countee Cullet — praise and expression of black culture of the time
Frederick Douglass
Watergate Scandal
Bank of the United States
Harlem Renaissance
23. Helped lead settlement house movement - co-founded NAACP - condemned war and poverty
'Graying of America'
Jane Addams
Jonathan Edwards
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
24. U.S. felt it was its duty to 'watch out' for the interests of other countries in the Western hemisphere; provided justification for invasions of Latin America.
Eugene V. Debs
Woodrow Wilson
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
25. Formed by white progressives - adopted goals of Niagara Movement - in response to Springfield Race Riots
Muckrakers
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Valley Forge
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
26. Fines and imprisonment for aiding the enemy or hindering U.S. military; forbade any form of criticism of the government and military
Popular Sovereignty
Espionage Act and Sedition Act
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
Roger Williams
27. 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'
20-Negro Law
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
Rock `n' Roll
Free silver
28. Unprecedented sudden growth spurt of American population (especially urban and suburban areas)
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29. Southern and Midwestern farmers expressing discontent - supported free silver and subtreasury plan (cash advance on future crop — farmers had little cash flow during the year) - criticized national banks
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30. Pushed through northern Georgia - captured Atlanta - 'march to the sea' (total war and destruction) - proceeded to South Carolina
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William T. Sherman
Social Reciprocity
Bill of Rights
31. Removal of Saddam Hussein - 2003 - Iran - Iraq - and North Korea designated as the 'axis of evil -' institution of democratic government in Iraq to replace Hussein's dictatorship (return to spread and protection of democracy throughout the world - mo
Invasion of Iraq
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Regionalist and naturalist writers
Treaty of Paris (1783)
32. Increased tariff on sugar (and other imports) - attempted to harder enforce existing tariffs
Yellow journalism
Neutrality
President John F. Kennedy
Sugar Act
33. Pop art - mass production of art by screening
Andy Warhol
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA)
Vietnamization
34. Created Interstate Commerce Commission to require railroads to publish rates (less discrimination - short/long haul) - first legislation to regulate corporations - ineffective ICC
Isolationism
Interstate Commerce Act
Fugitive Slave Act
'Evil Empire' speech - 'Star Wars'
35. First attempt of Cherokees to gain complete sovereign rule over their nation
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Haymarket Bombing
New Jersey Plan
36. Prohibited use of any devices (e.g. - literacy tests) to deny the right to vote and enforced black suffrage rights
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Enlightenment
'Big BM' Haywood
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
37. Women must gain economic rights in order to impact society (cf. rising divorce rates)
Marshall Court (all cases)
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
March on Birmingham
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
38. King hosted myriad nonviolent protesting activities to fill jail with protestors - Bill Connor (police commissioner) began violent resistance to protestors
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
March on Washington
March on Birmingham
39. Fear of Japanese-Americans as traitors - sent off (by law) to internment camps; removal of deemed threats in military areas
Fort Sumter
American society during the Revolution
Compromise of 1850
Japanese internment
40. Lee's chief lieutenant and premier cavalry officer
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41. Overthrow of the Taliban - in search of bin Laden
Tammany Hall
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Thomas Nast
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
42. Hamilton praised efficient factories with few managers over many workers - promote emigration - employment opportunities - applications of technology
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
The Alamo
43. Committees appointed from different colonies to communicate on matters; asserted rights to self¬government - cooperation between colonies
Washington's Farewell Address
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Butler v. U.S. Court case
Committees of Correspondence
44. Government to buy silver to back money in addition to gold
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
National Origins Act (1924)
Popular Sovereignty
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
45. Caused American hysteria (1957) - fear that Soviets were technologically superior; led Ike to order more rigorous education program to rival Soviets (National Defense Education Act)
New Lights vs. Old Lights
'Hundred days'
Sputnik
Sugar Act
46. New generation of writers outside of Protestantism - resentment of ideals betrayed by society; Fitzgerald (despised materialism - Great Gatsby) - Hemingway (disillusionment - war experience) - Lewis (against upper class — Babbit and Mainstreet) - Fau
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47. Capitalism would become productive when uninhibited by taxes and regulation
Harlem Renaissance
Gains for women
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Reaganomics
48. Newt Gingrich (Republican congressman) planned for success of Republican party in upcoming election by pledging tax cuts - congressional term limits - tougher crime laws - balanced budget amendment - popular reforms &c.
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49. Effectively ended spoils system and established civil service exams for all government positions - under Pres. Garfield
War hawks
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Federalism
50. Law meant to evolve as society evolves - opposed conservative majority
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
Thomas Edison
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)