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AP U.S. History
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1. Established federal district courts that followed local procedures - Supreme Court had final jurisdiction; compromise between nationalists and advocates for states' rights
George Kennan
Judiciary Act of 1789
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
'Contract with America' (1994)
2. 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
Jackson's Presidency
Gays in the military
Marshall Plan
Fair Labor Standards Act
3. Supreme Court legalized the 'separate but equal' philosophy
Plessy v. Ferguson
Forced busing
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
4. Overthrow of the Taliban - in search of bin Laden
John C. Calhoun
Detente - realpolitik
George Whitefield
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
5. Avoided league of Nations - opposed Latin American involvement
Warren Court
China turns communist
Roger Williams
Isolationism
6. Despite near-guaranteed second term - campaign workers burglarized Democratic offices - cover-up unsuccessful - resigned to avoid impeachment
Watergate Scandal
Alien and Sedition Acts
Court Packing
California Gold Rush
7. Belligerent nationalism against other threatening nations
Jingoism
Farmers'Alliance movement
Consumerism
'Big BM' Haywood
8. 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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9. Belief in minimal government so as to allow the people their own free reign - lower taxes to stimulate economy - &c.
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
David Riesman
The Great Awakening
Conservatism
10. In response to Japanese discrimination in San Fran schools; Japanese to stop laborers into U.S. - Californians forbidden to ban Japanese from public schools
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11. 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
Horace Mann
Civil Rights Cases
Indian Removal Act
Robert E. Lee
12. 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
Albany Plan of Union
Salvation Army
'Gentlemen's Agreement' (1908)
The Homefront
13. First Utopian society - by Robert Owen
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
Transcendentalism
Benjamin Franklin
New Harmony
14. 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
Fair Deal
Pocahontas
Neutrality Act - 1939
Pearl Harbor
15. Prohibited aiding of belligerent nations - banned civilian involvement; limited power of president during international war - built up armed forces
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
Martin Luther King Jr.
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
16. Jackson was allowed to relocate Indian tribes in the Louisiana Territory
Knights of Labor
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
Indian Removal Act
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
17. Allowed for faster processing of cotton - invented by Eli Whitney - less need for slaves
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
Cotton Gin
Macon's Bill No. 2
Maysville Road Veto
18. Brought in Mexicans for temporary jobs - concentrated in southern CA - given extremely poor working conditions (as they were not American citizens)
Bracero program
Invasion of Iraq
Causes of the depression
Whig Party
19. Emphasis on personal salvation - emotional response - and individual faith; women and blacks; nationalism (Manifest Destiny)
Thomas Edison
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Second Great Awakening
20. 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
'Baby Boom'
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
President John F. Kennedy
21. Stressed to the American people British maltreatment and emphasize a need for revolution; appealed to American emotions
Wilmot Proviso
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Yeoman Farmers
22. 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
Panama Canal
National Organization of Women
Transcendentalism
New Deal
23. Brown aimed to create an armed slave rebellion and establish black free state; Brown executed and became martyr in the North
Good Neighbor Policy
Battle of Antietam
20-Negro Law
Harpers Ferry (1859)
24. Opposed BTW's accommodation policies - called for immediate equality - formed Niagara Movement to support his ideas
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Suffolk Resolves
25. Bank tightened loan policies - depression rose throughout the country - hurt western farmers greatly
Panic of 1819
Albany Plan of Union
Vertical and horizontal integration
Herbert Hoover's Food Administration
26. Pop art - mass production of art by screening
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
Andy Warhol
27. Defined process for territories to become states (population reached 60 -000) - forbade slavery in the new territories
James G. Blaine
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Bay of Pigs invasion
Suffolk Resolves
28. Georgia cannot enforce American laws on Indian tribes
Battle of Saratoga
Worcester v. Georgia
Federalists and Republicans
Burned-Over District
29. Overthrew Pres. Guzman after he nationalized American fruit fields and accepted arms from USSR (communist sympathies)
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
Judiciary Act of 1789
Dawes Plan (1924)
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
30. Exemplary Christian community - rich to show charity - held to Calvinistic beliefs
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31. American U-2 spy plane shot down over USSR (Ike: 'for national security); US suspended further flights - Krushchev demanded apology (refused)
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
Rock `n' Roll
Palmer Raids
U-2 Incident
32. The Jungle revealed unsanitary nature of meat-packing industry - inspired Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
Upton Sinclair
Court Packing
Election of 1960
Whiskey Rebellion
33. Radical Calvinists against the Church of England; Separatists (Pilgrims) argued for a break from the Church of England - led the Mayflower - and established the settlement at Plymouth
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Dixiecrats - 1948
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
34. Satirized wealthy captains of industry - workers and engineers as better leaders of society
Marcus Garvey
Bank of the United States
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
35. Used nonviolent protest and boycott to achieve better working conditions for farmers (esp. Mexican-Americans)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
Charles II - James II
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
36. Speech symbolized polarization between conservatives and liberals
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37. Jackson used personal friends as unofficial advisors over his official cabinet
Pearl Harbor
Townshend Act (1767)
Kitchen Cabinet
Federalists and Republicans
38. Part of transportation revolution - from Cumberland MD to Wheeling WVa - toll road network; stimulated Western expansion
National Road
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
Palmer Raids
39. Proponent of gradual gain of equal rights for African-Americans
Andy Warhol
Booker T. Washington
Economic transition
President Bill Clinton
40. Congress authorized LBJ to repel and prevent aggression against US troops in Vietnam - used as a blank check (perhaps too much - caused protests)
French and Indian War
Election of 1824
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Zimmerman Note
41. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - employed young jobless men with government projects on work relief and environment
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
William T. Sherman
Truman Doctrine
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
42. Established colony of Georgia as a place for honest debtors
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
Pendleton Civil Service Act
James Oglethorpe
Civil Rights Act of 1964
43. John Noyes - New York; utopian society for communalism - perfectionism - and complex marriage
William Lloyd Garrison
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
Midnight judges
44. Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald (hated his anti-Cuban policies); LBJ instituted Warren Commission to investigate assassination (headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren)
Jackie Robinson
Suburbia
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
Clinton impeachment (1997)
45. 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
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
President Jimmy Carter
Republican Party
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
46. King hosted myriad nonviolent protesting activities to fill jail with protestors - Bill Connor (police commissioner) began violent resistance to protestors
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
1992 Election
Ho Chi Minh
March on Birmingham
47. Founded by Betty Friedan - Bella Abzug - and Aileen Hernandez; lobbied for equal opportunity where the EEOC was lacking (gender discrimination); lawsuits and mobilization of public opinion
Potsdam Conference (1945)
National Organization of Women
John Dewey
1968 as 'the year of shocks'
48. Republican - popular hero of WWII; 'dynamic conservatism' as a middle ground btw. Rep. and Dem.; Interstate Highway System (ulterior motive of weapons transportation); St. Lawrence Seaway opened Great Lakes to Atlantic Ocean via locks; Depts. Of Heal
Gifford Pinchot
Charles II - James II
'Red Scare' (1919)
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
49. Nationalists against foreign non-English speaking workers (took jobs away from American men); encouraged to leave the U.S.
Battle of Tippecanoe
Quarantine Speech - 1937
President Jimmy Carter
Deportations of Mexicans
50. Tweed Leader of Tammany Hall - gained large sums of money through the political machine - prosecuted by Samuel Tilden and sent to jail
Square Deal
William Marcy
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
1968 Presidential Election