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AP U.S. History

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1. Allowed Parliament to completely legislate over the colonies - limited colonists' say






2. Part of 'First' New Deal Program - subsidies to farmers to decrease production and thus increase prices






3. Americans feared Soviet infiltration into Latin America - placed secret police and military forces to prevent it






4. Hamilton's plan to solve Revolutionary debt - Assumption highly controversial - pushed his plan through Congress - based on loose interpretation of Constitution






5. Stated the United States was destined to span the breadth of the entire continent with as much land as possible - advocated by Polk






6. Overthrew Pres. Guzman after he nationalized American fruit fields and accepted arms from USSR (communist sympathies)






7. South to gain removal of last troops from Reconstruction; North wins Hayes as president






8. Anti-immigrant - especially against Irish Catholics






9. Opposed to all immigration - strongly anti-Catholic






10. Beginnings of trusts (destruction of competition); vertical- controlling every aspect of production (control quality - eliminate middlemen - Rockefeller); horizontal- consolidating with competitors to monopolize a market (highly detrimental)






11. 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)






12. 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






13. Soviet leader undergoing tensions on superpower and domestic level






14. First attempt of Cherokees to gain complete sovereign rule over their nation






15. Part of Nixon's tri-faceted plan to honorably remove troops from Vietnam; wean the South Vietnamese off of American support - gradually reducing number of American troops present






16. Father Charles Coughlin (benefited only wealthy people and corporations) - Huey Long ('share our wealth') - Francis Townshend (Old Age Revolving Pension)






17. Established by 'General' William Booth - uniformed volunteers provided food - shelter - and employment to families - attracted poor with lively preaching and marching bands in order to instill middle-class virtues






18. Cherokees - Choctaws - Creeks - Chickasaws - and Seminoles; 'civilized' due to their intermarriage with whites - forced out of their homelands by expansion






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






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






21. Emphasis on personal salvation - emotional response - and individual faith; women and blacks; nationalism (Manifest Destiny)






22. CIA attempt to institute Cuban support to overthrow Castro; cover-up uncovered - became representation of Cuban resistance to American aggression






23. Focused on the 'Common Man;' removal of Indians - removal of federal deposits in BUS - annexation of territory - liberal use of veto

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

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25. Warned of dangerous military-industrial complex (newly-found power of the military to affect the path of democracy)

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26. 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






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






28. Congress authorized LBJ to repel and prevent aggression against US troops in Vietnam - used as a blank check (perhaps too much - caused protests)






29. Prohibited colonies from issuing paper money - destabilized colonial economy






30. Destroyed by Jackson on the grounds that it was unconstitutional and too much power for a federal institution






31. Accomplished great number of relief - recovery - and reform efforts; sought practical solutions to the problems by experimentation

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32. John Noyes - New York; utopian society for communalism - perfectionism - and complex marriage






33. Black rights leader - heavily influenced by Malcolm X (advocated black separatism rather than integration)






34. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - collective bargaining rights - closed shops permitted (where workers must join unions) - outlawed anti-union tactics






35. Tet Offensive in Vietnam - assassination of MLK and Robert Kennedy (presidential candidate) - Riot of Democratic National Convention (Chicago police beat antiwar protestors) - Black Panthers

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36. Americans could now spend what they had been told to save during the war (disposable income); increased purchasing of luxury items






37. Preservation of New Deal - attempt at additions; raised minimum wage - public housing - old-age insurance extension - agricultural price supports (lowering of farm price)






38. Lee's attack on Maryland in hopes that he could take it from the Union - bloodiest day of the war - stalemate - McClellan replaced by Burnside - stalemate - South would never be so close to victory again






39. Taxes on all legal documents to support British troops - not approved by colonists through their representatives






40. Fines and imprisonment for aiding the enemy or hindering U.S. military; forbade any form of criticism of the government and military






41. Strong patriotism and need to conform to try to avoid blame during red scare - non-churchgoers - unmarried - and critics suspected as communists






42. 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)






43. Led railroad workers in Pullman Strike - arrested; Supreme Court (decision in re Debs) legalized use of injunction (court order) against unions and strikes






44. For women's rights - organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton - modeled requests after the Declaration of Independence






45. No further introduction of slaves into Missouri - all children born to slaves to become free at 25






46. Mistreated farmers - fear of monocracy - forced people to think about central government

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47. Bomb thrown at protest rally - police shot protestors - caused great animosity in employers for workers' unions






48. Established colony of Georgia as a place for honest debtors






49. Prohibited exports (and imports) based in American ports - most controversial Jefferson legislation






50. American hostages taken by US hating Shiites upon Shah's flight from uprising - botched rescue attempts