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AP U.S. History

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1. Germany announced that it would sink all (including American) ships - attempt to involve U.S. in war






2. Provided for evacuation of English troops from posts in the Great Lakes

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

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4. Conservatives like Reagan benefited from denouncing the New Left and excessive antiwar protests; gave him political prominence






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






6. Only English and American ships allowed to colonial ports; dissent began in 1763






7. Judges appointed to Supreme Court by Adams in the last days of his presidency to force them upon Jefferson - Marshall among those appointed






8. Fought for women's rights and abolition - 'Men and women are CREATED EQUAL!'






9. Meant to provide evacuation opportunity for Americans in Cuba; internal accidental explosion blamed on Spanish mines - leading to Spanish¬ American War






10. Lowering of income taxes for wealthy (trickle-down economics) - refusal to create higher prices to help farmers (McNary-Haugen Bill)






11. 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'






12. Maine as free state - Missouri as slave state - slavery prohibited north of 36°30'






13. Proposed by Hamilton to repair war debts; selling of securities and federal lands - assumption of state debts - set up the first National Bank






14. Denounced the 'housewife trap' which caused educated women to hold even themselves inferior to men






15. Supported abolition - broke off of Anti-Slavery Society






16. Nationalists against foreign non-English speaking workers (took jobs away from American men); encouraged to leave the U.S.






17. Despite CIA-sponsored Soviet resistance - Afghanistan taken by Soviet Union; ended detente between USSR and US






18. Worked alongside Josiah Henson to make repeated trips to get slaves out of the South into freedom






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






20. Considered a hero for his solo crossing of the Atlantic by plane






21. Often debtors sold to slave traders by African kings seeking riches; Columbian Exchange






22. 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






23. Equal representation in unicameral congress






24. Emphasis on human reason - logic - and science (acquired - not nascent - knowledge); increased followers of Christianity






25. Introduced his 'New Deal -' won election by a relative landslide (he was not Hoover - whom the public now did not trust)






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. 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






28. Uncovered the 'dirt' on corruption and harsh quality of city/working life; heavily criticized by Theodore Roosevelt; Ida Tarabell (oil companies) - David Graham Phillips (Senate) - Aschen School (child labor — photography) - mass magazines McClure's






29. American who settled in Texas - one of the leaders for Texan independence from Mexico






30. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - used withheld money from payrolls to provide aid to the unemployed - industrial accident victims - and young mothers; principle of government responsibility for social welfare






31. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - banned child labor - established minimum wage






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






33. Last major battle; surrender of Cornwallis - led King George III to officially make peace with the colonies






34. Ford's and Carter's presidencies experienced a recession and inflation simultaneously - solved by Keynesian economics






35. Capitalism would become productive when uninhibited by taxes and regulation






36. Believed that God created the universe to act through natural laws; Franklin - Jefferson - Paine






37. Authors included Langston Hughes - McKay - Zora Neale Hurston - Countee Cullet — praise and expression of black culture of the time






38. Appealed to many conservatives - especially southerners (opposed massive protests and integration)






39. Depicted the evils of slavery (splitting of families and physical abuse); increased participation in abolitionist movement - condemned by South

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






41. 'Trustbuster' (busted twice as many as Roosevelt) - conservation and irrigation efforts - Postal Savings Bank System - Payne-Aldrich Tariff (reduction of tariff - caused Republican split)






42. Slavery to be barred in all territory ceded from Mexico; never fully passed Congress






43. Small oil companies sold stock and authority to Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company (consolidation) - cornered world petroleum market






44. Response to Berlin crisis - warned Moscow that threats would be answered with force; Warsaw Pact formed by Soviets in response






45. In Brook Farm Community - lived in seclusion for two years writing Walden and On Civil Disobedience - proved that man could provide for himself without materialistic wants






46. 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






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






48. 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






49. (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






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