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AP U.S. History

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1. Fair amount of troops - short guerilla tactics - strong leaders (Washington); nonprofessional army that could not handle long battles






2. Due to parents unhappy with encouraged segregation of schools - Supreme Court instituted forced busing policies (using school buses as a method of integration)






3. Risk of too many casualties and high costs for hand-to-hand combat/invasion - Japanese surrender unlikely






4. Prohibited use of any devices (e.g. - literacy tests) to deny the right to vote and enforced black suffrage rights






5. Mass migration northward; mainly blacks migrating from the southern states into the north hoping for less discrimination






6. Sought to eliminate spheres of influence and avoid European monopolies in China; unaccepted by the powers in mind






7. Territory split into Kansas and Nebraska - popular sovereignty (Kansas slave - Nebraska free); proposed by Stephen A. Douglas






8. Brown aimed to create an armed slave rebellion and establish black free state; Brown executed and became martyr in the North






9. 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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10. Launched in 1958 by Ike; successful launch of American satellite (Explorer I); massive arms builup






11. FDR encouraged democracies to quarantine their opponents (economic embargos); criticized by isolationists






12. Paper money; specie circular decreed that the government would not accept specie for government land






13. Hired to photograph ordinary Americans experiencing the depression






14. Opposed Polk's high-handedness - avid Southern slave owner






15. Led by Francis Willard - powerful 'interest group' following the civil war - urged women's suffrage - led to Prohibition

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16. Southern and Midwestern farmers expressing discontent - supported free silver and subtreasury plan (cash advance on future crop — farmers had little cash flow during the year) - criticized national banks

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17. Fear of Japanese-Americans as traitors - sent off (by law) to internment camps; removal of deemed threats in military areas






18. Reluctant to give colonists their own government - preferred to appoint royal governors






19. Soviet leader undergoing tensions on superpower and domestic level






20. Jackson was allowed to relocate Indian tribes in the Louisiana Territory






21. Economic recession (collapse of savings-and-loan industry - increasing deficit due to Reagan tax cuts - retail decreased - higher crime rate)

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22. Dance music - slave spirituals adapted into improvisation and ragtime; jazz migrated along with blacks in the Great Migration






23. Offered a New Deal (reminiscent of FDR) of smaller government - reduced taxes - and free enterprise; Washington outsider






24. Party formed from Republican split by Roosevelt - more progressive values - leaving 'Republican Old Guard' to control Republican party






25. Proponent of gradual gain of equal rights for African-Americans






26. Pushed for Assumption (federal government to assume state debts) - pushed creation of the National Bank (most controversial) - loose interpretation of Constitution - leader of Federalist Party






27. First African-American in major league baseball






28. Raised tariffs extremely high on manufactured goods; benefited domestic manufacturers - but limited foreign trade






29. Military hero from War of 1812; elected president 1840 - died of pneumonia a month later - gave presidency to Tyler






30. Attempted to centralize production of war materials; ineffective due to American desire for laissez-faire government






31. Desegregation (Brown v. Board of Ed) - rights of the accused (Miranda v. Arizona) - voting reforms (Wesberry v. Sanders - Reynolds v. Sims - Katzenbach v Morgan)






32. Began by Edwards to return to Puritanism - increased overall religious involvement - gave women more active roles in religion - more and more ministers sprouted up throughout the country; mainly affected towns and cities






33. Banned racial discrimination in federal practices; To Secure These Rights called for desegregation - anti-lynching - end of poll taxes






34. Craft unions that left the Knights (1886) - led by Gompers - women left out of recruitment efforts






35. Mandated the toleration of all Christian denominations in Maryland - even though Maryland was founded for Catholics (but majority was protestant)






36. McKinley reluctant; armed intervention to free Cuba from Spain; Roosevelt's 'Rough Riders' made attack on Spanish at Cuba






37. Remainder of Florida sold by Spain to US - boundary of Mexico defined






38. Pushed through northern Georgia - captured Atlanta - 'march to the sea' (total war and destruction) - proceeded to South Carolina






39. Darwinian (influenced by jazz age and new scientific ideas) against Fundamentalist (the Bible and Creationism); John Scopes convicted for teaching Darwinism (defended by Clarence Darrow); Scopes found guilty






40. Head of federal Division of Forestry - contributed to Roosevelt's natural conservation efforts






41. 'Southern Strategy' lured many southern Democrats to the Republican party (esp. due to southern opposition to Civil Rights Act of 1964)






42. Stressed to the American people British maltreatment and emphasize a need for revolution; appealed to American emotions






43. (peace btw Egypt and Israel) Followed years of tension - Israel would leave newly acquired lands from war - Egypt would respect Israel's other land claims; accords not completely followed - Sadat (Egypt) assassinated






44. Allowed for faster processing of cotton - invented by Eli Whitney - less need for slaves






45. Killed the AAA - although FDR insisted on continuing by creating smaller state-level AAAs






46. Equal representation in unicameral congress






47. Settlers to pay the expenses of a servant's voyage and be granted land for each person they brought over; headright system






48. Full American independence - territory west of Appalachian ceded to America - loyalists to be compensated for seized property - fishing rights off of Newfoundland






49. NLF attacked numerous South Vietnamese cities and American embassies - eventually repulsed; spoiled LBJ's record to reelection - resulted in massive protests in US to end the war; atrocities such that war could only end in stalemate






50. Foundation for self-government laid out by the first Massachusetts settlers before arriving on land