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AP U.S. History

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1. Efficient working methods to increase productivity; usually resulted in lower wages (hated by workers) - power to managers






2. British citizenship outnumbered colonies' - large navy and professional army; exhausted resources (Hessians hired) - national debt






3. Philippines - Hawaii - Puerto Rico - Guam: granted to U.S. at the end of Spanish-American War; Philippines were captured after treaty - and thus not part of spoils - but kept as territory with an inevitable movement for independence; Philippines and






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

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5. Left primary open to Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy - both promising to end the controversial war

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6. Western Pennsylvanian farmers' violent protest against whiskey excise tax - Washington sent large army to put down revolt - protests to be limited to non-violent






7. First shots are fired at Charleston - North Carolina






8. 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






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






10. Unprecedented sudden growth spurt of American population (especially urban and suburban areas)

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11. Radical Calvinists against the Church of England; Separatists (Pilgrims) argued for a break from the Church of England - led the Mayflower - and established the settlement at Plymouth






12. River traffic - road building - canals (esp. Erie) - rise of NYC






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






14. Activist government to serve all citizens (cf. Alexander Hamilton); founded New Republic magazine






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






16. Founded by William Sylvis (1866); supported 8-hour workday - convict labor - federal department of labor - banking reform - immigration restrictions to increase wages - women; excluded blacks






17. LBJ's flood of proposals to Congress for the beautification and amelioration of American society (War on Poverty - Medicare - public education spending - public television (PBS) - National Endowments for the Humanities and Arts (NEH - NEA))

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18. Group of Bostonians in opposition to the Stamp Act - sought to drive stamp distributors from the city






19. The Man Nobody Knows - glorification of business - Jesus as a businessman - relationship between religion and manufacturing






20. Pop art - mass production of art by screening






21. Protected rights of individual from the power of the central government






22. Proslavery constitution in Kansas - supported by Buchanan - freesoilers against it (victorious) - denied statehood until after secession






23. Northern Securities Company (JP Morgan and James G. Hill - railroads) seen by Roosevelt as 'bad' trust - Supreme Court upheld his first trust-bust






24. 'No taxation without representation -' introduced by Patrick Henry






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






26. Democratic political machine in NYC - 'supported' immigrants and poor people of the city - who were needed for Democratic election victories






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






28. Hamilton praised efficient factories with few managers over many workers - promote emigration - employment opportunities - applications of technology






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






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






31. Worked towards asylums for the mentally insane - worked alongside Mann






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






33. 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'






34. Rise in stock prices and speculation - decline of construction industry - mistaken 'trickle-down' economics - reliance on credit






35. Established federal district courts that followed local procedures - Supreme Court had final jurisdiction; compromise between nationalists and advocates for states' rights






36. Gives Congress the power to pass laws it deems necessary to enforce the Constitution

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37. Americans who were forced out of their homes in Oklahoma and Arkansas (respectively) due to the dust storms and drought known as the Dust Bowl

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38. Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald (hated his anti-Cuban policies); LBJ instituted Warren Commission to investigate assassination (headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren)






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






40. Fought for human rights in Africa - Panama Canal returned to Panama - relations with China resolved






41. Helped lead settlement house movement - co-founded NAACP - condemned war and poverty






42. Politely demanded from the king a cease¬fire in Boston - repeal of Coercive Acts -. guarantee of American rights






43. FDR and Churchill agreed to defeat Germany first rather than concentrate on Japan






44. Halted sale of tribal lands - enabled tribes to regain unallocated lands; repealed Dawes Severalty Act of 1887; helped secure Indians' entry into New Deal associations; led by John Collier






45. FDR's inner circle of experts rather than just politicians in the cabinet

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46. Prohibited testing of nuclear bombs above ground to slow the nuclear arms race and the release of nuclear fallout into the atmosphere






47. North African Muslim rulers solved budget problems through piracy and tributes in Mediterranean - obtained fees from most European powers






48. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - hydroelectric power to river valley; brought social and economic development to very poor area






49. Agreement between US and Britain to remove armed fleets from the Great Lakes






50. Written anonymously by Hamilton - Jay - and Madison; commentary on Constitution - republicanism extended over large territory