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AP U.S. History
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1. Depicted the evils of slavery (splitting of families and physical abuse); increased participation in abolitionist movement - condemned by South
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2. US - Britain - Japan - France - and Italy to reduce naval tonnage and halt construction for 10 years; US and Japan to respect Pacific territorial holdings - Kellog-Briand Pact to 'outlaw war'
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
New York City draft riots (1863)
Horace Mann
3. 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
Ngo Dinh Diem
National Organization of Women
Theodore Roosevelt
'Hundred days'
4. Midway (US Signal Corps - turning point of war in the Pacific) - D-Day (Eisenhower's amphibious invasion of Normandy - led to depletion of German forces) - Stalingrad (Russians defeated Germans - saved Moscow and Leningrad - turning point in Europe)
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
Important WWII Battles
Hartford Convention
George Wallace - American
5. Educational and residential segregation; inferior facilities allotted to African-Americans - predominantly in South
Tories (Loyalists)
President John F. Kennedy
Social Gospel movement
Jim Crow laws
6. Western Pennsylvanian farmers' violent protest against whiskey excise tax - Washington sent large army to put down revolt - protests to be limited to non-violent
Whiskey Rebellion
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
Detente - realpolitik
The Alamo
7. Allowed for faster processing of cotton - invented by Eli Whitney - less need for slaves
Indian Removal Act
Cotton Gin
Farm crisis
Jazz
8. Politely demanded from the king a cease¬fire in Boston - repeal of Coercive Acts -. guarantee of American rights
20-Negro Law
National Organization of Women
Jingoism
Olive Branch Petition
9. Forbade restraint of trade and did not distinguish good from bad trusts - ineffective due to lack of enforcement mechanism (waited for Clayton Anti-Trust Act)
New Deal
Bonus Army
Spanish American War (1898)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
10. Denounced the 'housewife trap' which caused educated women to hold even themselves inferior to men
New Nationalism
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
GI Bill of Rights
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
11. Highest peacetime deficit in US history (due to lower tax rates for high-income taxpayers - spent too much money attempting to reduce price supports to farmers)
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
Woodrow Wilson
Schechter v. U.S Court case
US economy since WWII (service economy)
12. Established free trade zone between Canada - United States and Mexico - net gain in jobs due to opening of Mexican markets
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Wilson's 14 points
Berlin Wall
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
13. Stock prices fell drastically; without buyers - the stocks became essentially worthless; cause bank crashes - &c.
First American strategy in WWII
Stock market crash (1929)
Declaratory Act
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
14. 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
Conservatism
Berlin Wall
Lodge Reservations
15. French threat at the borders was no longer present - therefore the colonies didn't need English protection; more independent stand against Britain
French and Indian War
Andy Warhol
Barbary Pirates
Manifest Destiny
16. Paper money; specie circular decreed that the government would not accept specie for government land
Transportation Revolution
Specie
Washington's Farewell Address
'Bleeding Kansas'
17. Roosevelt's plan that aimed to regulate corporations (Anthracite coal strike - Dept. of Commerce and Labor - Elkins and Hepburn Acts) - protect consumers (meat sanitation) - and conserve natural resources (Newlands Reclamation Act)
Square Deal
The Great Awakening
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act
18. The principle that a state should decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery
'Hundred days'
Popular Sovereignty
Report on Public Credit
Open Door Policy
19. Required of members of the Puritan Church; took the place of baptism required by the Catholic Church
President Bill Clinton
Religious Right
Deists
Conversion Experience
20. Heavily evangelized to the point there were no more people left to convert to other religions - upstate New York - home to the beginning of Smith's Mormonism movement
The Federalist Papers
Burned-Over District
Compromise of 1877
Tammany Hall
21. Introduced work ethic to Jamestown colony - sanitation - diplomat to local Native American tribes; had fought Spanish and Turks
John Smith
CIA overthrow of Iran (1953)
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
King James I - King Charles
22. New Englanders who did not wish to relate their conversion experiences could become half-way saints so that their children would be able to have the opportunity to be saints
The Half-Way Covenant
William and Mary
Liberty Party
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
23. Court case - unconstitutionalized all state laws prohibiting women's rights to have an abortion performed during the first trimester of pregnancy
Berlin Airlift
Roe v. Wade
Gifford Pinchot
Second Great Awakening
24. 'Corrupt bargain' and backroom deal for JQ Adams to win over Jackson
Election of 1824
Frederick Douglass
William T. Sherman
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
25. Ideas of Wilson: small enterprise - states' rights - more active government - trust busting - left social issues up to the states
Peace Corps
The Federalist Papers
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
New Freedom
26. 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
Pan-Americanism
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
27. Planes hijacked by terrorists for destruction; blame pinned on Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden - sought out in attempt to completely destroy terrorism
Secretary of State John Hay
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Robert E. Lee
The Loyal Nine
28. Offered a New Deal (reminiscent of FDR) of smaller government - reduced taxes - and free enterprise; Washington outsider
President Ronald Reagan
King James I - King Charles
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
29. Northern factory workers who were discarded when too old to work (unlike the slaves who were still kept fed and clothed in their old age)
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30. Settlers to pay the expenses of a servant's voyage and be granted land for each person they brought over; headright system
New Federalism
Vertical and horizontal integration
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
Indentured servants
31. President has power to cease trade with any foreign country that violated American neutrality
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32. Hamilton praised efficient factories with few managers over many workers - promote emigration - employment opportunities - applications of technology
James Meredith
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
33. 'Dark horse' Democratic candidate; acquired majority of the western US (Mexican Cession - Texas Annexation - Oregon Country) - lowered tariffs - created Independent Treasury
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
James K. Polk
Burned-Over District
34. Reagan and Gorbachev agree to remove and destroy nuclear weapons from Eastern and Western Europe; eased international tension and allowed Soviet domestic reforms to take place
Rosie the Riveter
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
35. Increased already high rate of inflation by quadrupling the price of crude oil
Scopes Trial
Andy Warhol
Election of 1824
Energy Crisis - OPEC
36. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark sent by Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Territory on 'Voyage of Discovery'
Lewis and Clark expedition
Populist Party
King James I - King Charles
Stamp Act Congress
37. Bicameral congressional representation based on population
James Meredith
'Brain trust'
Virginia Plan
Mikhail Gorbachev
38. Unemployment jitters; expelled Teamster union (resorted to gangsterism); height of power of workers' unions
Andy Warhol
New York City draft riots (1863)
Ulysses S. Grant
AFL-CIO (1955)
39. Mass production of the Model-T - workers as potential consumers (raise wages) - supported other industries and raised employment
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40. Public treaties - free trade - free seas - reduced armament burdens - anti-imperialism - independence to minorities - international organization
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41. Slavery to be barred in all territory ceded from Mexico; never fully passed Congress
Wilmot Proviso
Sputnik
Stagflation
Compromise of 1850
42. 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
Non-Intercourse Act
Suffolk Resolves
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Commerce Compromise
43. Prejudiced jury sentenced them to death - caused riots around the world - new trial denied
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
Eugene V. Debs
Peace Corps
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
44. Attacked people for being communist by association and unsubstantiated claims - against Truman - Marshall - and Ike; downfall came with attack on the military (condemned by Senate); led hysteria of the red scare
McCarthyism
Good Neighbor Policy
Battle of Tippecanoe
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
45. Calvinist - devised concept of 'city on a hill' ('A Model of Christian Charity'); founded highly successful towns in Massachusetts Bay
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
1968 as 'the year of shocks'
Liberty Party
John Winthrop
46. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - banned child labor - established minimum wage
Albany Plan of Union
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
Great Migration
Fair Labor Standards Act
47. Fear of Japanese-Americans as traitors - sent off (by law) to internment camps; removal of deemed threats in military areas
XYZ Affair
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Japanese internment
New Federalism
48. Stated the United States was destined to span the breadth of the entire continent with as much land as possible - advocated by Polk
The Alamo
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Manifest Destiny
Ulysses S. Grant
49. Tweed Leader of Tammany Hall - gained large sums of money through the political machine - prosecuted by Samuel Tilden and sent to jail
Second Great Awakening
William Marcy
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
National Road
50. William and Mary kicked James II out of England (exiled into France) - allowed more power to the legislatures
The Glorious Revolution
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Tariff of Abominations
Andy Warhol