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AP U.S. History
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1. Hamilton's plan to solve Revolutionary debt - Assumption highly controversial - pushed his plan through Congress - based on loose interpretation of Constitution
Henry Clay and the American System
Bank of the United States
Citizen Genet
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
2. Opposed to all immigration - strongly anti-Catholic
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Hoovervilles
Know-Nothing (American) Party
President Bill Clinton
3. 'No taxation without representation -' introduced by Patrick Henry
John Winthrop
Virginia Resolves
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
'Trail of Tears'
4. Clay and Calhoun - eager for war with Britain (War of 1812)
Roger Williams
War hawks
Declaratory Act
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
5. (The Lonely Crowd) 'outer directed' Americans conforming to peer pressure on moral and social issues - rather than independently thinking on morals
Federalists and Republicans
Deists
David Riesman
William Lloyd Garrison
6. United States aided South Vietnam in its war of power struggle against North Vietnam - the Vietcong - USSR - and China
Marshall Plan
Great Migration
Berlin Wall
Vietnam War
7. Panama Canal Treaty - diplomacy with China - end of recognition of Taiwan; little accomplished domestically due to conservative opposition - foreign policy more successful; Washington outsider - Experienced high interest rates - inflation - increased
President Jimmy Carter
Jamestown
Alexander Hamilton
Embargo Act (1807)
8. Emerged from Farmers' Alliance movement (when subtreasury plan was defeated in Congress) - denounced Eastern Establishment that suppressed the working classes; Ignatius Donnelly (utopian author) - Mary E Lease - Jerry Simpson
Lodge Reservations
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
Populist Party
Karl Marx Das Kapital
9. Federalist cause leading up to Hartford Convention
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
Essex case
Detente - realpolitik
National Organization of Women
10. Jane Addams's pioneer settlement house (center for women's activism and social reform) in Chicago
League of Nations
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Bracero program
Hull House
11. In reaction to the Boston Tea Party; closing of Boston Harbor - revocation of Massachusetts charter (power to governor) - murder in the name of royal authority would be tried in England or another colony
Panama Canal
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
First American strategy in WWII
Election of 1800
12. George Wallace vs. Nixon vs. Humphrey; very narrow popular vote triumph to Nixon (although he had clear majority of electoral votes)
Boston Massacre
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
Kansas-Nebraska Act
1968 Presidential Election
13. Judges appointed to Supreme Court by Adams in the last days of his presidency to force them upon Jefferson - Marshall among those appointed
Black Panther Party
Midnight judges
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Lodge Reservations
14. Similar to Navigation; raised money to pay colonial officials by American taxes; led to Boston boycott of English luxuries
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
Townshend Act (1767)
Unrestricted submarine warfare
The Enlightenment
15. 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
Religious Right
Civil Rights Cases
China turns communist
Platt Amendment
16. 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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17. First Utopian society - by Robert Owen
Andy Warhol
New Harmony
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
King James I - King Charles
18. Formed in response to Kansas-Nebraska Act - banned in the South - John C Fremont first presidential candidate
Non-conformity
Ike's Farewell Speech
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
Republican Party
19. Proclamation of 1793 response to French attempts for alliance with US
Neutrality
Thomas Edison
King James I - King Charles
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
20. Agricultural depression as precursor to the depression; unheeded omen of problems in the economic structure (prices too low — too much supply for the demand)
Stamp Act Congress
Yellow journalism
Farm crisis
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
21. 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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22. Established colony of Georgia as a place for honest debtors
Keynesian economics
Navigation Acts
Harpers Ferry (1859)
James Oglethorpe
23. Proponent of gradual gain of equal rights for African-Americans
Booker T. Washington
Religious Right
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
The Great Awakening
24. Craft unions that left the Knights (1886) - led by Gompers - women left out of recruitment efforts
National Labor Union
Sugar Act
Vietnamization
American Federation of Labor
25. Territory split into Kansas and Nebraska - popular sovereignty (Kansas slave - Nebraska free); proposed by Stephen A. Douglas
Andy Warhol
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Marshall Plan
26. Huerta's enemy - reluctantly supported by U.S.; U.S. sought Villa's submission due to terrorism - eventually assassinated; Wilson's policy highly unpopular
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
27. Activist government to serve all citizens (cf. Alexander Hamilton); founded New Republic magazine
Samuel Gompers
Wilson's 14 points
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
28. New generation of writers outside of Protestantism - resentment of ideals betrayed by society; Fitzgerald (despised materialism - Great Gatsby) - Hemingway (disillusionment - war experience) - Lewis (against upper class — Babbit and Mainstreet) - Fau
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29. Strong patriotism and need to conform to try to avoid blame during red scare - non-churchgoers - unmarried - and critics suspected as communists
Conformity in the 1950s
Stagflation
Woodrow Wilson
Marshall Court (all cases)
30. Attempted to centralize production of war materials; ineffective due to American desire for laissez-faire government
Teapot Dome scandal
Henry Clay and the American System
War Industries Board
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
31. Increase working output by standardizing procedures and rewarding those who worked fast; efficiency
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Election of 1980
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
Jonathan Edwards
32. Speech symbolized polarization between conservatives and liberals
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33. Attempted to boost economy by making loans to banks and insurance companies - hoping to restart them
John C. Calhoun
Woodrow Wilson
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
34. Spurred by Great Migration - large-scale riots - lynchings - &c.
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35. 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'
Nativism
Fort Sumter
Bonus Army
Independent Treasury Bill
36. John Brown and his sons slaughtered five men as a response to the election fraud in Lawrence and the caning of Sumner in Congress
Suffolk Resolves
Salvation Army
Rationing
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
37. Americans at home reminded to conserve materials in all aspects of life to support the military; resulted in saving up of money to cause economic boom after war
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
Marcus Garvey
Rationing
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
38. Started the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) — 'Back to Africa' movement for racial pride and separatism; inspired self-confidence in blacks
Zoot Suit riots
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
Marcus Garvey
Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Association (YMCA & YWCA)
39. Committees appointed from different colonies to communicate on matters; asserted rights to self¬government - cooperation between colonies
Non-conformity
Committees of Correspondence
William Henry Harrison
Tariff of Abominations
40. Overthrow of the Taliban - in search of bin Laden
Kitchen Cabinet
Nativism
Dixiecrats - 1948
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
41. Remainder of Florida sold by Spain to US - boundary of Mexico defined
New Deal
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
Adams-Onis Treaty
Anne Hutchinson
42. Organized and controlled resistance against Parliamentary acts in less violent ways (strength of martyrdom) - advocated nonimportation
Sons of Liberty
Bill of Rights
March on Washington
Liberty Party
43. Prohibited exports (and imports) based in American ports - most controversial Jefferson legislation
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
Nat Turner's Rebellion
The Enlightenment
Embargo Act (1807)
44. 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
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
Pinkertons
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Muckrakers
45. Defined process for territories to become states (population reached 60 -000) - forbade slavery in the new territories
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Benjamin Franklin
Sons of Liberty
Townshend Act (1767)
46. Bicameral congressional representation based on population
Charles Lindbergh
Virginia Plan
Civil Rights Cases
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
47. Unemployment jitters; expelled Teamster union (resorted to gangsterism); height of power of workers' unions
William Jennings Bryan
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
AFL-CIO (1955)
48. Political muckraking cartoonist - refused bribes to stop criticism
Embargo Act (1807)
Stephen Austin
Thomas Nast
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
49. Created Federal Reserve System - regional banks set up for twelve separate districts - final authority of each bank lay with the Federal Reserve Board - paper money to be issued 'Federal Reserve Notes'
Erie Canal
Federal Reserve Act
Rosie the Riveter
US economy since WWII (service economy)
50. Leader of IWW - from Western Federation of Miners
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