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AP U.S. History
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1. Society naturally punishes criminals indiscriminantly
National Organization of Women
Court Packing
Quebec Acts
Social Reciprocity
2. Launched in 1958 by Ike; successful launch of American satellite (Explorer I); massive arms builup
Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Association (YMCA & YWCA)
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
Citizen Genet
3. 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)
Knights of Labor
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
Invasion of Iraq
March on Birmingham
4. Old immigrants from northern and western Europe came seeking better life; new immigrants came from southern and eastern Europe searching for opportunity to escape worse living conditions back home and often did not stay in the US
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
The Glorious Revolution
5. Border ruffians in election on issue of slavery incited controversy - proslavery group attacked Lawrence - Kansas - Pottawatomie Massacre
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6. States joined for foreign affairs - Congress reigned supreme (lacked executive and judicial) - one vote per state - 2/3 vote for bills - unanimous for amendments; too much power to states - unable to regulate commerce or taxes
Consumerism
Great Migration
Bracero program
Articles of Confederation
7. Network of safe houses of white abolitionists used to bring slaves to freedom
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
Rock `n' Roll
Townshend Act (1767)
Underground Railroad
8. Former French subjects in Canada allowed to keep Catholicism - while American colonists expected to participate in the Church of England
Quebec Acts
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
Yeoman Farmers
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
9. Required of members of the Puritan Church; took the place of baptism required by the Catholic Church
The Great Awakening
Northwest Passage
Conversion Experience
Farm crisis
10. 'No taxation without representation -' introduced by Patrick Henry
President John F. Kennedy
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Virginia Resolves
The Glorious Revolution
11. Tried to rule as absolute monarchs without using Parliament - little to no sympathy for colonial legislatures
Detente - realpolitik
Charles II - James II
George Whitefield
March on Birmingham
12. Law meant to evolve as society evolves - opposed conservative majority
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
Gulf War - 'Operation Desert Storm' (1991)
'Brain trust'
Know-Nothing (American) Party
13. FDR asked for increased authority to aid Britain; freedom of speech/expression - of religion - from want - from fear; resulted in Lend-Lease
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14. Monroe presidency - national unity behind Monroe - post-war boom (foreign demand for cotton - grain - and tobacco) - Depression of 1819 (cheap British imports - tightened credit - affected West the most)
Panic of 1819
Battle of Yorktown
Era of Good Feelings
Mayflower Compact
15. Economic prosperity of American society following WWII; doubling of national income - jobs to women - defense industry's support of economy
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16. Believed to provide shortcut from Atlantic to Pacific - searched for by Giovanni de Verrazano for Francis I in the race to Asian wealth
James Oglethorpe
Northwest Passage
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
Peace Corps
17. Equal representation in unicameral congress
'New Left'
Elastic Clause ('necessary and proper')
1968 as 'the year of shocks'
New Jersey Plan
18. Provided housing and recreation to city youth - imposing Protestant morals - unable to reach out to all youth
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19. Americans concerned with economic depression; sought to avoid European involvement - no apparent immediate threats
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
Dorothea Dix
William Marcy
Deists
20. Henry Clay aimed to make the US economically independent from Europe (e.g. - support internal improvements - tariff protection - and new national bank)
James Oglethorpe
Henry Clay and the American System
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
Midnight judges
21. Organized and controlled resistance against Parliamentary acts in less violent ways (strength of martyrdom) - advocated nonimportation
Valley Forge
Sons of Liberty
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
'Affluent Society'
22. Contending communist politician in Vietnam - had more popularity than Diem - took power upon Diem's death
United States vs. EC Knight Company
Ho Chi Minh
John Smith
'Baby Boom'
23. 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
Midnight judges
Citizen Genet
Ku Klux Klan
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
24. Relied on voluntary compliance (no formal laws) - propaganda; high prices set on commodities to encourage production - Prohibition
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25. Gold discovery in Sutter's Mill in 1848 resulted in huge mass of adventurers in 1849 - led to application for statehood - opened question of slavery in the West
California Gold Rush
Olive Branch Petition
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
Ulysses S. Grant
26. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - Harry Hopkins; provide work for unemployed and construct public works - &c. through Emergency Relief Appropriation Act; much like Civil Works Administration
Compromise of 1877
Bacon's Rebellion
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Benjamin Franklin
27. Lowering of income taxes for wealthy (trickle-down economics) - refusal to create higher prices to help farmers (McNary-Haugen Bill)
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
Zoot Suit riots
'Evil Empire' speech - 'Star Wars'
'Contract with America' (1994)
28. Worked to reform the American education system - abolitionist - prison/asylum reform with Dorothea Dix
Horace Mann
Panama Canal
Articles of Confederation
Lowell mill/system
29. Ford's and Carter's presidencies experienced a recession and inflation simultaneously - solved by Keynesian economics
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
Stagflation
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
30. Women must gain economic rights in order to impact society (cf. rising divorce rates)
Alien and Sedition Acts
Missouri Compromise (1820)
War hawks
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
31. Severe immigration laws to discourage and discriminate against foreigners - believed to erode old-fashioned American values
Nativism
Strict vs. Loose interpretation of the Constitution
Lewis and Clark expedition
Andy Warhol
32. Territory split into Kansas and Nebraska - popular sovereignty (Kansas slave - Nebraska free); proposed by Stephen A. Douglas
Nullification
Quebec Acts
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Olive Branch Petition
33. Belief in minimal government so as to allow the people their own free reign - lower taxes to stimulate economy - &c.
Battle of Antietam
William H. Taft
Pocahontas
Conservatism
34. Opposed BTW's accommodation policies - called for immediate equality - formed Niagara Movement to support his ideas
Shays's Rebellion
Election of 1824
Standard Oil Trust
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
35. Middle class; white flight from urban areas due to black migration; government supported insurance for homeowners and builders
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Fair Labor Standards Act
Tallmadge Amendment
Suburbia
36. Secretly sponsored peace negotiations so as to prevent Japanese or Russian monopoly on Asia; concerned with safety of Philippines
Truman Doctrine
Dawes Plan (1924)
Anne Hutchinson
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
37. (free speech movement) Youth activists (often liberal arts students) spoke out against Vietnam War - supported widespread liberalization
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38. Created by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst; aimed to excite American imperialist interests; media bias - subjective representation of events
'Baby Boom'
New York City draft riots (1863)
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
Yellow journalism
39. Southern Christian Leadership Conference - Led boycott - became leader of civil rights movement; urged nonviolent resistance (cf. tactics of Ghandi);
The Half-Way Covenant
Detente - realpolitik
Espionage Act and Sedition Act
Martin Luther King Jr.
40. 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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41. Kent State University students protesting against invasion of Cambodia - not allowed to demonstrate - violence (murder) caused by guardsmen
Indian Removal Act
Transportation Revolution
Kent State Protest
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
42. Full American independence - territory west of Appalachian ceded to America - loyalists to be compensated for seized property - fishing rights off of Newfoundland
New Freedom
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Social Reciprocity
43. Parks arrested for refusing to give up bus seat to white man - African American leaders called for city-wide boycott of bus system (lasted almost 400 days); Supreme Court ruled segregated buses unconstitutional
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Bacon's Rebellion
1968 Presidential Election
44. American U-2 spy plane shot down over USSR (Ike: 'for national security); US suspended further flights - Krushchev demanded apology (refused)
U-2 Incident
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
Open Door Policy
Elastic Clause ('necessary and proper')
45. 'Trustbuster' (busted twice as many as Roosevelt) - conservation and irrigation efforts - Postal Savings Bank System - Payne-Aldrich Tariff (reduction of tariff - caused Republican split)
Gays in the military
William H. Taft
Connecticut Compromise
Espionage Act and Sedition Act
46. Effectively ended spoils system and established civil service exams for all government positions - under Pres. Garfield
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Jazz
'Baby Boom'
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
47. Electric light - phonograph - mimeograph - Dictaphone - moving pictures
1968 Presidential Election
Dorothea Lange
Thomas Edison
New Harmony
48. Combined Massachusetts - New Hampshire - Connecticut - Rhode Island - and Plymouth (and later Jersey and New York) into one 'supercolony' governed by Sir Edmond Andros - a 'supergovernor'
Dominion of New England
Anaconda plan
Election of 1980
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
49. Desegregation (Brown v. Board of Ed) - rights of the accused (Miranda v. Arizona) - voting reforms (Wesberry v. Sanders - Reynolds v. Sims - Katzenbach v Morgan)
'Graying of America'
Warren Court
'Brain trust'
John C. Calhoun
50. Group of Bostonians in opposition to the Stamp Act - sought to drive stamp distributors from the city
The Loyal Nine
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
Atlantic slave trade
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