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AP U.S. History

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1. Speech given by BTW to ease whites' fears of integration - assuring them that separate but equal was acceptable - ideas challenged by DuBois


2. Commission on civil rights to attempt to guarantee the ballot to blacks; showed government's changing views of race relations






3. Led architectural movement to create building designs that reflected buildings' functions - especially in Chicago






4. Decided to punish war crimes - established program for de-Nazification of Germany






5. Veterans from WWI sought their pensions before they were too old to use them; they were denied and were run out of Washington (violently - by MacArthur)






6. Response to Berlin crisis - warned Moscow that threats would be answered with force; Warsaw Pact formed by Soviets in response






7. Foreshadowed in 14 points - hoped to guarantee political independence and integrity of all countries






8. 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






9. Huerta's enemy - reluctantly supported by U.S.; U.S. sought Villa's submission due to terrorism - eventually assassinated; Wilson's policy highly unpopular






10. Prohibited settlements west of Appalachian - restriction on colonial growth






11. Due to parents unhappy with encouraged segregation of schools - Supreme Court instituted forced busing policies (using school buses as a method of integration)






12. United States aided South Vietnam in its war of power struggle against North Vietnam - the Vietcong - USSR - and China






13. 14 formal amendments to the treaty for the League of Nations; preserved Monroe Doctrine - Congress desired to keep declaration of war to itself






14. Ended the Dominion of New England - gave power back to colonies






15. National Liberation Front - guerilla militia from south Vietnam fighting alongside the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam)






16. Highest peacetime deficit in US history (due to lower tax rates for high-income taxpayers - spent too much money attempting to reduce price supports to farmers)






17. Old immigrants from northern and western Europe came seeking better life; new immigrants came from southern and eastern Europe searching for opportunity to escape worse living conditions back home and often did not stay in the US






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






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


20. (1) California admitted as free state - (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico - (3) resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries - (4) federal assumption of Texas debt - (5) slave trade abolished in DC - and (6) new fugit






21. 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






22. Believed that God created the universe to act through natural laws; Franklin - Jefferson - Paine






23. Abolished national origins quotas - dramatically increased immigration (especially from Asia and Latin America)






24. Sets of programs geared towards minorities and oft-discriminated populations






25. Desegregation (Brown v. Board of Ed) - rights of the accused (Miranda v. Arizona) - voting reforms (Wesberry v. Sanders - Reynolds v. Sims - Katzenbach v Morgan)






26. Ex-Lincoln secretary; worked to gain Open Door Notes' acceptance from the major powers






27. Congressional support to raid houses of radicals believed to have connections to communism






28. Opposed strikes - producer-consumer cooperation - temperance - welcomed blacks and women (allowing segregation)






29. Darwinian (influenced by jazz age and new scientific ideas) against Fundamentalist (the Bible and Creationism); John Scopes convicted for teaching Darwinism (defended by Clarence Darrow); Scopes found guilty






30. 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)


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






32. Denounced the 'housewife trap' which caused educated women to hold even themselves inferior to men






33. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - employed young jobless men with government projects on work relief and environment






34. British-occupied cities - new governments - fighting by any with experience - loaned money - African-Americans and Native Americans involved






35. Kent State University students protesting against invasion of Cambodia - not allowed to demonstrate - violence (murder) caused by guardsmen






36. Nixon led movement to Hiss's indictment; convicted of perjury - Nixon gained national prominence






37. Supported abolition - broke off of Anti-Slavery Society






38. 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






39. American who settled in Texas - one of the leaders for Texan independence from Mexico






40. Attacked people for being communist by association and unsubstantiated claims - against Truman - Marshall - and Ike; downfall came with attack on the military (condemned by Senate); led hysteria of the red scare






41. Defined process for territories to become states (population reached 60 -000) - forbade slavery in the new territories






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






43. Banned racial discrimination and segregation (public) - bias by federal government; enforced by Equal Employment Opportunity Commission






44. Mass production of the Model-T - workers as potential consumers (raise wages) - supported other industries and raised employment


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






46. Issued by Lincoln following Antietam (close enough to a victory to empower the proclamation) - declared slaves in the Confederacy free (did not include border states) - symbolic gesture to support Union's moral cause in the war






47. Exemplary Christian community - rich to show charity - held to Calvinistic beliefs


48. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark sent by Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Territory on 'Voyage of Discovery'






49. Needed to protect new Pacific acquisitions - U.S. took over the project from the French after overcoming Clatyton¬ Bulwer Treaty (prohibited exclusive control of canal) with the Hay¬ Pauncefote Treaty






50. Intercepted by Britain; Germany proposed alliance with Mexico - using bribe of return of TX - NM - and AZ; Japan included in alliance