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AP U.S. History
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1. Clay and Calhoun - eager for war with Britain (War of 1812)
Standard Oil Trust
Causes of the depression
Panic of 1819
War hawks
2. Calvinist - devised concept of 'city on a hill' ('A Model of Christian Charity'); founded highly successful towns in Massachusetts Bay
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
James G. Blaine
John Winthrop
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
3. Women must gain economic rights in order to impact society (cf. rising divorce rates)
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
John Brown
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Civil Rights Act of 1964
4. Soviets cut Berlin off from the rest of Germany by blockade; US organized airlift to drop supplies into Britain; blockade lifted in May 1949
Berlin Airlift
National Labor Union
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
5. Attacked public figures (Hollywood - New-Dealers - liberals) to root out communist spies
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
Woodrow Wilson
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
6. Government compromised to buy and coin $2-4 million/month; government stuck to minimum and inflation did not occur (lower prices); economy grew
The Homefront
Vertical and horizontal integration
Salutary Neglect
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
7. Relied on voluntary compliance (no formal laws) - propaganda; high prices set on commodities to encourage production - Prohibition
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8. Foreshadowed in 14 points - hoped to guarantee political independence and integrity of all countries
Jackie Robinson
League of Nations
McCarthyism
Rosenbergs
9. 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)
Louis Sullivan
Henry David Thoreau
Clinton impeachment (1997)
Vertical and horizontal integration
10. Decisive victory in the War of 1812 by Harrison over Tecumseh - used in Harrison's campaign for presidency
Camp David Accords
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Eugene V. Debs
Battle of Tippecanoe
11. Hamilton praised efficient factories with few managers over many workers - promote emigration - employment opportunities - applications of technology
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
Benjamin Franklin
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
Gays in the military
12. 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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13. Often debtors sold to slave traders by African kings seeking riches; Columbian Exchange
Atlantic slave trade
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
Stamp Act Congress
Good Neighbor Policy
14. Kent State University students protesting against invasion of Cambodia - not allowed to demonstrate - violence (murder) caused by guardsmen
New Lights vs. Old Lights
Kent State Protest
Northern Securities Case
Kitchen Cabinet
15. Prohibited use of any devices (e.g. - literacy tests) to deny the right to vote and enforced black suffrage rights
Black Panther Party
Freeport Doctrine
Harlem Renaissance
Voting Rights Act of 1965
16. Sets of programs geared towards minorities and oft-discriminated populations
William H. Taft
Affirmative Action
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
17. Proponent of gradual gain of equal rights for African-Americans
Alexander Hamilton
Booker T. Washington
Federalists and Republicans
U-2 Incident
18. Speech symbolized polarization between conservatives and liberals
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19. Drafting extremely hated by Northerners - sparked by Irish-Americans against the black population - 500 lives lost - many buildings burned
New York City draft riots (1863)
Virginia Resolves
'Atlanta Compromise'
War Industries Board
20. Preservation of New Deal - attempt at additions; raised minimum wage - public housing - old-age insurance extension - agricultural price supports (lowering of farm price)
Fair Deal
United States vs. EC Knight Company
Conscription policies
Thomas Edison
21. FDR's plan (although vague during the campaign) to restart the economy and pull America out of the Great Depression
New Deal
Scopes Trial
Battle of Yorktown
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
22. Believed to provide shortcut from Atlantic to Pacific - searched for by Giovanni de Verrazano for Francis I in the race to Asian wealth
The Enlightenment
Northwest Passage
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
23. Agreement between US and Britain to remove armed fleets from the Great Lakes
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
John C. Calhoun
Stephen Austin
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
24. Opposed to slavery and secession - but stayed loyal to Virginia - despite offer for command of Union Army
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Great Awakening
Robert E. Lee
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
25. Western Pennsylvanian farmers' violent protest against whiskey excise tax - Washington sent large army to put down revolt - protests to be limited to non-violent
Suburbia
Whiskey Rebellion
China turns communist
Stock market crash (1929)
26. Allowed Parliament to completely legislate over the colonies - limited colonists' say
'Big BM' Haywood
Declaratory Act
National Organization of Women
GI Bill of Rights
27. Known as 'wartime food czar;' created recreation policies and reintroduced leisure culture and conservation ethic to get Americans escaping the cities and improve tourism - etc.
New Freedom
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
Gays in the military
'Evil Empire' speech - 'Star Wars'
28. President to offer military supplies to nations 'vital to the defense of the US'; ended US neutrality (economic war against Germany); Hitler began to sink American ships (limited scale)
Sputnik
Virginia Resolves
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Jazz
29. Europeans should not interfere with affairs in Western Hemisphere - Americans to stay out of foreign affairs; supported Washington's goal for US neutrality in Americas
Suburbia
Monroe Doctrine
Jackie Robinson
Hartford Convention
30. Established free trade zone between Canada - United States and Mexico - net gain in jobs due to opening of Mexican markets
Boston Massacre
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Non-Intercourse Act
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
31. Prohibited aiding of belligerent nations - banned civilian involvement; limited power of president during international war - built up armed forces
Election of 1800
Explosion of USS Maine
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
Federalism
32. Slavery to be barred in all territory ceded from Mexico; never fully passed Congress
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
Wilmot Proviso
Square Deal
Henry David Thoreau
33. 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
National Road
British strengths and weaknesses
Vertical and horizontal integration
The Great Awakening
34. Nixon agreed with USSR to achieve nuclear equality rather than the superiority that threatened the destruction of the world; further reduced tensions between the two countries
Gifford Pinchot
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
Pet banks
35. Support people oppressed by communism and non-democratic governments; worked with democratic governments in Greece - Turkey - and Israel
Truman Doctrine
Martin Luther King Jr.
Stephen Austin
Bank of the United States
36. Believed in expanding federal power on economy - encouraged industrial development; could only gain power on the local level - led by Henry Clay (anti-Jackson)
Whig Party
Virginia Plan
Jackie Robinson
Pet banks
37. Overthrow of the Taliban - in search of bin Laden
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Atlantic slave trade
Creel Committee
38. Stated the United States was destined to span the breadth of the entire continent with as much land as possible - advocated by Polk
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
The Loyal Nine
Reaganomics
Manifest Destiny
39. Border ruffians in election on issue of slavery incited controversy - proslavery group attacked Lawrence - Kansas - Pottawatomie Massacre
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40. 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
President Bill Clinton
President John F. Kennedy
Scopes Trial
Invasion of Iraq
41. Supported Socialists - militant unionists and socialists - advocated strikes and sabotaging politics - aimed for an umbrella union similar to Knights of Labor - ideas too radical for socialist cause
John Winthrop
Federalists and Republicans
Consumerism
Industrial Workers of the World
42. 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
New Lights vs. Old Lights
The Federalist Papers
Tet Offensive (1968)
Standard Oil Trust
43. Belligerent nationalism against other threatening nations
Jingoism
The Great Awakening
President Harry Truman
Republican Party
44. Key to English-Native American relationship - died in England in 1617
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Ngo Dinh Diem
Pocahontas
'New Left'
45. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - provided more funds to state and local relief efforts
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
William Lloyd Garrison
Butler v. U.S. Court case
Election of 1960
46. Jackson used personal friends as unofficial advisors over his official cabinet
Lodge Reservations
Kitchen Cabinet
Peace Corps
President Harry Truman
47. Created by John L. Lewis for unskilled labor - organized 'sit-down strike' against GM to work for recognition
Warren Court
Virginia Resolves
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
48. 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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49. First African-American in major league baseball
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
Marshall Court (all cases)
Jackie Robinson
Detente - realpolitik
50. King hosted myriad nonviolent protesting activities to fill jail with protestors - Bill Connor (police commissioner) began violent resistance to protestors
March on Birmingham
Marcus Garvey
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
Yeoman Farmers