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AP U.S. History
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1. 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
Humanitarian diplomacy
Election of 1824
Panama Canal
Marshall Court (all cases)
2. Written anonymously by Hamilton - Jay - and Madison; commentary on Constitution - republicanism extended over large territory
The Half-Way Covenant
Harriet Tubman
The Federalist Papers
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
3. Fair amount of troops - short guerilla tactics - strong leaders (Washington); nonprofessional army that could not handle long battles
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
Declining death rate
Wilson's 14 points
Bruce Barton
4. American who settled in Texas - one of the leaders for Texan independence from Mexico
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Stephen Austin
AFL-CIO (1955)
5. Network of safe houses of white abolitionists used to bring slaves to freedom
Creel Committee
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
Underground Railroad
6. 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
Scopes Trial
'Great Society'
Conservatism
7. Through CIO - led three coal mine strikes (some of the very few strikes during the time period)
Hoover's policy of voluntarism
James Monroe
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
John L. Lewis
8. Detectives hired by employers as private police force - often used to end strikes
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
Fugitive Slave Act
Pinkertons
Farm crisis
9. 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
Wilson's 14 points
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
Citizen Genet
Invasion of Iraq
10. Introduced work ethic to Jamestown colony - sanitation - diplomat to local Native American tribes; had fought Spanish and Turks
John Smith
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
Wilson's 14 points
Truman's Loyalty Program
11. Paper money; specie circular decreed that the government would not accept specie for government land
Jingoism
Specie
Midnight judges
The Glorious Revolution
12. Created Interstate Commerce Commission to require railroads to publish rates (less discrimination - short/long haul) - first legislation to regulate corporations - ineffective ICC
Robert La Follette
Interstate Commerce Act
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
13. Government would protect America's foreign investments with any force needed; under president Taft
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14. River traffic - road building - canals (esp. Erie) - rise of NYC
Monroe Doctrine
'Red Scare' (1919)
Transportation Revolution
Bacon's Rebellion
15. Fought for return to colonial rule - usually conservative (educated and wealthy
Mercantilism
Thomas Nast
Tories (Loyalists)
Truman's Loyalty Program
16. 'Corrupt bargain' and backroom deal for JQ Adams to win over Jackson
National Origins Act (1924)
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
Election of 1824
Mercantilism
17. Gives Congress the power to pass laws it deems necessary to enforce the Constitution
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18. Increased tariff on sugar (and other imports) - attempted to harder enforce existing tariffs
'Great Society'
Robert E. Lee
Sugar Act
Yellow journalism
19. Young women employed by Lowell's textile company - housed in dormitories
National Labor Union
Lowell mill/system
Secretary of State John Hay
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
20. Attacked public figures (Hollywood - New-Dealers - liberals) to root out communist spies
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
Battle of Tippecanoe
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
Sons of Liberty
21. Lee's attack on Maryland in hopes that he could take it from the Union - bloodiest day of the war - stalemate - McClellan replaced by Burnside - stalemate - South would never be so close to victory again
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
Battle of Antietam
National Labor Union
Great Migration
22. Achieved an abnormal rise in class system (steel industry) - pioneered vertical integration (controlled Mesabie Range to ship ore to Pittsburgh) - opposed monopolies - used partnership of steel tycoons (Henry Clay Frick as a manager/partner) - Bessem
Kitchen Cabinet
Andrew Carnegie
Haymarket Bombing
Greenback Party
23. Emphasis on personal salvation - emotional response - and individual faith; women and blacks; nationalism (Manifest Destiny)
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Alien and Sedition Acts
Second Great Awakening
War hawks
24. Government would hold its revenues rather than deposit them in banks - thus keeping the funds away from private corporations; 'America's Second Declaration of Independence'
Open Door Policy
Independent Treasury Bill
Nativism
Transportation Revolution
25. 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
Marshall Plan
Tories (Loyalists)
Truman Doctrine
'Graying of America'
26. Established world organization; Soviet Union pledged to allow democratic procedures in Eastern Europe; pledge broken - led to Cold War
Yalta Conference (1945)
David Riesman
Fort Sumter
Hudson River School
27. Sewer systems and purification of water
Declining death rate
Horace Mann
Virginia Resolves
Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1922 and 1930
28. Georgia cannot enforce American laws on Indian tribes
Worcester v. Georgia
Hoovervilles
Zimmerman Note
Rosenbergs
29. Mexicans held siege on the Alamo (in San Antonio) - Texans lost great number of people - 'Remember the Alamo'
The Alamo
Causes of the depression
Dorothea Dix
Plessy v. Ferguson
30. (1) California admitted as free state - (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico - (3) resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries - (4) federal assumption of Texas debt - (5) slave trade abolished in DC - and (6) new fugit
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
Compromise of 1850
Detente - realpolitik
Free silver
31. Warned of dangerous military-industrial complex (newly-found power of the military to affect the path of democracy)
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32. Made it illegal to transport women across state borders for 'immoral purposes -' violated by black boxer Jack Johnson (w/ white woman)
Know-Nothing (American) Party
Charles II - James II
Mann Act
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
33. Americans at home reminded to conserve materials in all aspects of life to support the military; resulted in saving up of money to cause economic boom after war
Rationing
Humanitarian diplomacy
Jackson's Presidency
Important WWII Battles
34. (The Lonely Crowd) 'outer directed' Americans conforming to peer pressure on moral and social issues - rather than independently thinking on morals
Explosion of USS Maine
Wilmot Proviso
David Riesman
1968 as 'the year of shocks'
35. Increased already high rate of inflation by quadrupling the price of crude oil
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
Pan-Americanism
Energy Crisis - OPEC
Stock market crash (1929)
36. Taxes on all legal documents to support British troops - not approved by colonists through their representatives
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Stamp Act
Yalta Conference (1945)
Dollar Diplomacy'
37. 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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38. To make German reparations from WWI more accessible to Germans; evacuation of troops from Germany - reorganization of the Reichsbank - and foreign loans
Dawes Plan (1924)
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Okies' and 'Arkies'
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
39. Small state banks set up by Jackson to keep federal funds out of the National Bank - used until funds were consolidated into a single treasury
Nullification
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Mann Act
Pet banks
40. Clay and Calhoun - eager for war with Britain (War of 1812)
Bombing and invasion of Cambodia
War hawks
Panic of 1893
Erie Canal
41. Planes hijacked by terrorists for destruction; blame pinned on Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden - sought out in attempt to completely destroy terrorism
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Panic of 1893
'Trail of Tears'
President Franklin Roosevelt
42. Worked towards asylums for the mentally insane - worked alongside Mann
Dorothea Dix
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
Committees of Correspondence
Yellow journalism
43. Supreme Court legalized the 'separate but equal' philosophy
Plessy v. Ferguson
Vietnamization
'Atlanta Compromise'
1968 as 'the year of shocks'
44. Rejection of negative portrayals of women (language - entertainment) - increased quality and use of education - more job opportunities - acceptance into military
Gains for women
Spoils System
Square Deal
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
45. Edmond Genet contributed to polarization of the new nation by creating his American Foreign Legion in the south - which was directed to attack Spanish garrisons in New Orleans and St. Augustine
Citizen Genet
Wilson's 14 points
Conservatism
Pet banks
46. 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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47. 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
Jamestown
Washington's Farewell Address
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
48. Writing took a more realistic approach on the world - regionalist writers focused on local life (Sarah Orne Jewett) - naturalist writers focused on economy and psychology (Stephen Crane)
National Road
Regionalist and naturalist writers
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
Federalism
49. For women's rights - organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton - modeled requests after the Declaration of Independence
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
Conservative backlash against liberalism
50. Soviet-aided North Korea attack on South Korea; MacArthur named general on behalf of UN (excluded Russia) - US supplied majority of troops; recapture of South Korea and suppression of North forces to northern border; introduction of Chinese - MacArth
Bank of the United States
Kitchen Cabinet
Korean War
'Graying of America'
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