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AP U.S. History
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1. Secretly sponsored peace negotiations so as to prevent Japanese or Russian monopoly on Asia; concerned with safety of Philippines
Midnight judges
Economic transition
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
2. Issued by Lincoln following Antietam (close enough to a victory to empower the proclamation) - declared slaves in the Confederacy free (did not include border states) - symbolic gesture to support Union's moral cause in the war
Platt Amendment
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
California Gold Rush
Emancipation Proclamation
3. Held in New York - agreed to not import British goods until Stamp Act was repealed
Stock market crash (1929)
Proclamation of 1763
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
Stamp Act Congress
4. Attempted to boost economy by making loans to banks and insurance companies - hoping to restart them
Olive Branch Petition
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Vertical and horizontal integration
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
5. Border ruffians in election on issue of slavery incited controversy - proslavery group attacked Lawrence - Kansas - Pottawatomie Massacre
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6. Through CIO - led three coal mine strikes (some of the very few strikes during the time period)
New Harmony
John D. Rockefeller
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
John L. Lewis
7. Led railroad workers in Pullman Strike - arrested; Supreme Court (decision in re Debs) legalized use of injunction (court order) against unions and strikes
Charles II - James II
Panic of 1893
Citizen Genet
Eugene V. Debs
8. Mass migration northward; mainly blacks migrating from the southern states into the north hoping for less discrimination
Jay's Treaty
Pinkertons
Great Migration
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
9. Due to parents unhappy with encouraged segregation of schools - Supreme Court instituted forced busing policies (using school buses as a method of integration)
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
Pearl Harbor
Forced busing
Federalists and Republicans
10. U.S. would ensure that Cuba would be protected from European powers and maintain a place in Cuban affairs; provided coal and naval stations
Committees of Correspondence
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Platt Amendment
Thomas Nast
11. Craft unions that left the Knights (1886) - led by Gompers - women left out of recruitment efforts
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
American Federation of Labor
Horace Mann
William T. Sherman
12. Military hero from War of 1812; elected president 1840 - died of pneumonia a month later - gave presidency to Tyler
Declining death rate
Warren Court
New Nationalism
William Henry Harrison
13. Response to Berlin crisis - warned Moscow that threats would be answered with force; Warsaw Pact formed by Soviets in response
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Important WWII Battles
Four Freedoms' speech
New Harmony
14. Belligerent nationalism against other threatening nations
Muckrakers
Jingoism
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Know-Nothing (American) Party
15. 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
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
President John F. Kennedy
Mikhail Gorbachev
16. 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
Hudson River School
Invasion of Iraq
Camp David Accords
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
17. Political action for religion justified by decreased presence of religion in society; Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition to expand national influence
Religious Right
Gains for women
Teapot Dome scandal
United States vs. EC Knight Company
18. Oregon Territory owned jointly with Britain - Polk severed its tie to Britain - forced to settle for compromise south of 49° rather than 54°40'
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19. 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)
Louis Sullivan
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
Regionalist and naturalist writers
Marshall Plan
20. First African-American in major league baseball
Jackie Robinson
Whigs (Patriots)
Hoovervilles
Second Great Awakening
21. Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald (hated his anti-Cuban policies); LBJ instituted Warren Commission to investigate assassination (headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren)
John Brown
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
Declining death rate
22. South to gain removal of last troops from Reconstruction; North wins Hayes as president
Lodge Reservations
Compromise of 1850
Compromise of 1877
Martin Luther King Jr.
23. Prejudiced jury sentenced them to death - caused riots around the world - new trial denied
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
Fugitive Slave Act
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
1992 Election
24. Congress could tax imports but not exports
George Washington
Commerce Compromise
New Freedom
Conformity in the 1950s
25. Appealed to many conservatives - especially southerners (opposed massive protests and integration)
George Wallace - American
Samuel Gompers
Jane Addams
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
26. FDR and Churchill agreed to defeat Germany first rather than concentrate on Japan
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
'New Left'
First American strategy in WWII
27. Anti-Federalists wanted states' rights - bill of rights - unanimous consent - reference to religion - more power to less-rich and common people; Federalists wanted strong central government - more power to experienced - separation of church and state
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Townshend Act (1767)
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
Lodge Reservations
28. Brown aimed to create an armed slave rebellion and establish black free state; Brown executed and became martyr in the North
John Smith
Conversion Experience
Whigs (Patriots)
Harpers Ferry (1859)
29. Committees appointed from different colonies to communicate on matters; asserted rights to self¬government - cooperation between colonies
President Harry Truman
Conformity in the 1950s
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Committees of Correspondence
30. 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
Detente - realpolitik
Citizen Genet
'Great Society'
John C. Calhoun
31. Ensured trade with mother country - nationalism; too restrictive on colonial economy - not voted on by colonists
Mercantilism
Deregulation
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
32. Made it illegal to transport women across state borders for 'immoral purposes -' violated by black boxer Jack Johnson (w/ white woman)
Mercantilism
Judiciary Act of 1789
Mann Act
Robert E. Lee
33. Established free trade zone between Canada - United States and Mexico - net gain in jobs due to opening of Mexican markets
Salutary Neglect
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
Invasion of Iraq
Indian Removal Act
34. 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
Civil Rights Cases
Critics of FDR
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
'Brain trust'
35. Introduced the 'trickle-down' economics theory in order to promote business and increase money available for speculation
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
Rationing
John Dewey
36. Public treaties - free trade - free seas - reduced armament burdens - anti-imperialism - independence to minorities - international organization
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37. Adams - Jefferson - and Burr: Adams lost - Jefferson and Burr tied - Hamilton convinced other Federalists to vote for Jefferson to break the tie
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Harriet Tubman
Election of 1800
Anne Hutchinson
38. Drafting extremely hated by Northerners - sparked by Irish-Americans against the black population - 500 lives lost - many buildings burned
Reaganomics
New York City draft riots (1863)
Consumerism
Economic transition
39. Anti-immigrant - especially against Irish Catholics
Nativism
Forced busing
William and Mary
Pocahontas
40. John Noyes - New York; utopian society for communalism - perfectionism - and complex marriage
Quarantine Speech - 1937
Four Freedoms' speech
Suffolk Resolves
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
41. Head of federal Division of Forestry - contributed to Roosevelt's natural conservation efforts
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
Gifford Pinchot
Pearl Harbor
Black Panther Party
42. 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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43. 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)
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Clinton impeachment (1997)
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
44. Ended the Dominion of New England - gave power back to colonies
William and Mary
National Origins Act (1924)
John C. Calhoun
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
45. Powerful speaker - toured the country and inspired many into Christianity
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
Coxey's Army
George Whitefield
46. Provided country with a break from partisan politics - Missouri Compromise - issued Monroe Doctrine
Sons of Liberty
Samuel Gompers
James Monroe
Alien and Sedition Acts
47. One country that falls into communism will cause surrounding nations to also fall 'like dominos'; spurred by Southeast Asia regimes (esp. Vietnam)
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Domino theory
Second Great Awakening
Sputnik
48. Fearing the rise of labor unions - corporations forced new employees to sign and promise not to be part of a union
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49. Sets of cardboard box houses that epitomized the country's blame on Hoover for the cause of the Depression
Hoovervilles
Bull Moose Party
Deregulation
President Harry Truman
50. Colonies proposed colonial confederation under lighter British rule (crown-appointed president - 'Grand Council'); never took effect
March on Birmingham
Great Migration
Albany Plan of Union
Pinkertons
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