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AP U.S. History
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1. Northern factory workers who were discarded when too old to work (unlike the slaves who were still kept fed and clothed in their old age)
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2. Jackson used personal friends as unofficial advisors over his official cabinet
Kitchen Cabinet
Navigation Acts
Robert La Follette
Farm crisis
3. Agreement between US and Britain to remove armed fleets from the Great Lakes
Emancipation Proclamation
Second Great Awakening
'City on a Hill'
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
4. Ended exclusion of homosexuals from military; due to controversy - compromise of 'don't ask - don't tell' instituted
Thomas Nast
Non-Intercourse Act
Gays in the military
Nativism
5. 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)
Knights of Labor
Virginia Resolves
Watergate Scandal
Harpers Ferry (1859)
6. Coxey and unemployed followers marched on Washington for support in unemployment relief by inflationary public works program
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7. Newt Gingrich (Republican congressman) planned for success of Republican party in upcoming election by pledging tax cuts - congressional term limits - tougher crime laws - balanced budget amendment - popular reforms &c.
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8. Required of members of the Puritan Church; took the place of baptism required by the Catholic Church
Warren Court
Nativism
Conversion Experience
President Lyndon B. Johnson
9. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - Harold Icicles - provided public construction projects
Farm crisis
Soviet atomic bomb
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Public Works Administration (PWA)
10. Allowed sale of weaponry to democracies on 'cash-and-carry' basis - avoided full-blown war; danger zones proclaimed; solved American unemployment crisis
Thomas Edison
Neutrality Act - 1939
Ngo Dinh Diem
President Jimmy Carter
11. Unemployment jitters; expelled Teamster union (resorted to gangsterism); height of power of workers' unions
Tories (Loyalists)
AFL-CIO (1955)
Haymarket Bombing
Deregulation
12. 'Corrupt bargain' and backroom deal for JQ Adams to win over Jackson
Virtual Representation
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
Election of 1824
Dawes Plan (1924)
13. Preservation of New Deal - attempt at additions; raised minimum wage - public housing - old-age insurance extension - agricultural price supports (lowering of farm price)
William H. Taft
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
Fair Deal
William Penn and the Quakers
14. Interracial group of protestors who aimed to dramatize the violations of the call for desegregation; harsh treatment by southern whites provoked Kennedy to more strictly enforce desegregation
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
Non-Intercourse Act
United States vs. EC Knight Company
15. The principle that a state should decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery
Popular Sovereignty
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
Isolationism
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
16. Middle class; white flight from urban areas due to black migration; government supported insurance for homeowners and builders
U-2 Incident
McCarthyism
Suburbia
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
17. Storage of Soviet missiles in Cuba (threat of nuclear war); Krushchev demanded that US never invade Cuba and remove forces from Turkey; mutual compliance with each other's demands
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
Cuban Missile Crisis
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
18. Small oil companies sold stock and authority to Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company (consolidation) - cornered world petroleum market
Worcester v. Georgia
Jamestown
Sons of Liberty
Standard Oil Trust
19. Fines and imprisonment for aiding the enemy or hindering U.S. military; forbade any form of criticism of the government and military
Social Reciprocity
Hudson River School
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
Espionage Act and Sedition Act
20. Anti-communist crusades due to fear of radicalism spurred by Bolshevik rebellion
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21. Fought for human rights in Africa - Panama Canal returned to Panama - relations with China resolved
Convict-lease system
Humanitarian diplomacy
Andrew Carnegie
California Gold Rush
22. Increase working output by standardizing procedures and rewarding those who worked fast; efficiency
The Enlightenment
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
New Jersey Plan
Lewis and Clark expedition
23. Accomplished great number of relief - recovery - and reform efforts; sought practical solutions to the problems by experimentation
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24. Jane Addams's pioneer settlement house (center for women's activism and social reform) in Chicago
John C. Calhoun
Hull House
John Smith
Spoils System
25. U.S. would ensure that Cuba would be protected from European powers and maintain a place in Cuban affairs; provided coal and naval stations
Church of England
Platt Amendment
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Eugene V. Debs
26. Powerful speaker - toured the country and inspired many into Christianity
George Whitefield
Whiskey Rebellion
New Jersey Plan
Election of 1960
27. Selective Service Act to require men to register with few exceptions; women and blacks drafted/enlisted - highly successful
Theodore Roosevelt
Conscription policies
Manifest Destiny
Declaratory Act
28. George Wallace vs. Nixon vs. Humphrey; very narrow popular vote triumph to Nixon (although he had clear majority of electoral votes)
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
1968 Presidential Election
Kent State Protest
William and Mary
29. 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)
Square Deal
George Kennan
Secretary of State John Hay
Isolationism
30. Led by Francis Willard - powerful 'interest group' following the civil war - urged women's suffrage - led to Prohibition
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31. First African-American in major league baseball
'Bleeding Kansas'
Marshall Court (all cases)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Jackie Robinson
32. Parliament took minor actions in the colonies - allowing them to experiment with and become accustomed to self-government - international trade agreements
Salutary Neglect
Gays in the military
Causes of the depression
'Evil Empire' speech - 'Star Wars'
33. Established world organization; Soviet Union pledged to allow democratic procedures in Eastern Europe; pledge broken - led to Cold War
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
Election of 1980
Yalta Conference (1945)
The Homefront
34. Ended the Dominion of New England - gave power back to colonies
Social Reciprocity
William and Mary
Pinkertons
The Glorious Revolution
35. Prejudiced jury sentenced them to death - caused riots around the world - new trial denied
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
New Freedom
36. Proponent of gradual gain of equal rights for African-Americans
Bank of the United States
James Oglethorpe
John C. Calhoun
Booker T. Washington
37. Won battles in the West and raised northern morale (esp. Shiloh - Fort Henry - and Fort Donelson) - made Union commanding general
Ulysses S. Grant
Detente - realpolitik
Citizen Genet
Isolationism
38. Lee's chief lieutenant and premier cavalry officer
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39. 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
Northern Securities Case
Populist Party
Manifest Destiny
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
40. Efficient working methods to increase productivity; usually resulted in lower wages (hated by workers) - power to managers
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
The Enlightenment
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
Fair Labor Standards Act
41. Speech given by BTW to ease whites' fears of integration - assuring them that separate but equal was acceptable - ideas challenged by DuBois
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42. Tax cuts to increase population spending (help economy) - drastic cutting back on government programs due to lack of funds
California Gold Rush
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
Mann Act
Yeoman Farmers
43. British passenger liner secretly carrying ammunition sunk by German u-boat - included American passengers
Lusitania
Rationing
James Monroe
US acquisitions
44. Philosophy that deficit spending during a depression would increase purchasing power and stimulate economy; FDR disagreed with the policy at first and borrowed money to cover deficits
Fugitive Slave Act
Hartford Convention
Keynesian economics
New Federalism
45. Southern states (especially South Carolina) believed that they had the right to judge federal laws unconstitutional and therefore not enforce them
Ulysses S. Grant
Thomas Edison
Nullification Controversy
Martin Luther King Jr.
46. Rebels felt the governor of Virginia failed to protect the frontier from the Native Americans
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47. Vetoed by Jackson on the count that government funds for the Maysville Road would only benefit one state
'Great Society'
Maysville Road Veto
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Whigs (Patriots)
48. Loose interpretation allowed for implied powers of Congress (such as the National Bank) - strict interpretation implied few powers to Congress
President Franklin Roosevelt
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
Strict vs. Loose interpretation of the Constitution
Dominion of New England
49. Relied on voluntary compliance (no formal laws) - propaganda; high prices set on commodities to encourage production - Prohibition
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50. Overthrow of the Taliban - in search of bin Laden
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
Sputnik
'Wage slaves'
Rosenbergs
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