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AP U.S. History
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1. CIA attempt to institute Cuban support to overthrow Castro; cover-up uncovered - became representation of Cuban resistance to American aggression
The Glorious Revolution
Bay of Pigs invasion
Erie Canal
AFL-CIO (1955)
2. Head of federal Division of Forestry - contributed to Roosevelt's natural conservation efforts
The Federalist Papers
Gifford Pinchot
Federalism
Dominion of New England
3. Increase working output by standardizing procedures and rewarding those who worked fast; efficiency
Salvation Army
AFL-CIO (1955)
Commerce Compromise
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
4. Lowering of income taxes for wealthy (trickle-down economics) - refusal to create higher prices to help farmers (McNary-Haugen Bill)
Yeoman Farmers
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
The Alamo
Election of 1824
5. President has power to cease trade with any foreign country that violated American neutrality
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6. 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
Albany Plan of Union
James Meredith
Industrial Workers of the World
Elastic Clause ('necessary and proper')
7. Runaway slaves could be caught in the North and be brought back to their masters (they were treated as property — running away was as good as stealing)
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Federalists and Republicans
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
Fugitive Slave Act
8. Republican - popular hero of WWII; 'dynamic conservatism' as a middle ground btw. Rep. and Dem.; Interstate Highway System (ulterior motive of weapons transportation); St. Lawrence Seaway opened Great Lakes to Atlantic Ocean via locks; Depts. Of Heal
Macon's Bill No. 2
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Creel Committee
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
9. Prohibited colonies from issuing paper money - destabilized colonial economy
Virginia Resolves
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
Currency Act
10. 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)
Vietnam War
Vertical and horizontal integration
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
War hawks
11. Desegregation (Brown v. Board of Ed) - rights of the accused (Miranda v. Arizona) - voting reforms (Wesberry v. Sanders - Reynolds v. Sims - Katzenbach v Morgan)
James Oglethorpe
Yellow journalism
Jackson's Presidency
Warren Court
12. Women must gain economic rights in order to impact society (cf. rising divorce rates)
Panic of 1893
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Henry Clay and the American System
13. One country that falls into communism will cause surrounding nations to also fall 'like dominos'; spurred by Southeast Asia regimes (esp. Vietnam)
Domino theory
Martin Luther King Jr.
Forced busing
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
14. Nationalists against foreign non-English speaking workers (took jobs away from American men); encouraged to leave the U.S.
XYZ Affair
United States vs. EC Knight Company
Fugitive Slave Act
Deportations of Mexicans
15. National Liberation Front - guerilla militia from south Vietnam fighting alongside the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam)
Sugar Act
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Vietcong
16. Gorbachev decreased nuclear arsenals - Communist Party lost power - Boris Yeltsin (president of Russian Republic) led Muscovites to take control
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
Deregulation
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
17. Leader of IWW - from Western Federation of Miners
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18. 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
John Smith
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
Benjamin Franklin
19. Established colony of Georgia as a place for honest debtors
James Oglethorpe
Federalism
First American strategy in WWII
Bay of Pigs invasion
20. (peace btw Egypt and Israel) Followed years of tension - Israel would leave newly acquired lands from war - Egypt would respect Israel's other land claims; accords not completely followed - Sadat (Egypt) assassinated
Rationing
French and Indian War
Camp David Accords
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
21. Father Charles Coughlin (benefited only wealthy people and corporations) - Huey Long ('share our wealth') - Francis Townshend (Old Age Revolving Pension)
William and Mary
Critics of FDR
The Glorious Revolution
James Meredith
22. Northern Securities Company (JP Morgan and James G. Hill - railroads) seen by Roosevelt as 'bad' trust - Supreme Court upheld his first trust-bust
Dollar Diplomacy'
Northern Securities Case
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Thomas Edison
23. First female cabinet member
Suffolk Resolves
George Wallace - American
Neutrality Act - 1939
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
24. 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
Important WWII Battles
Nullification Controversy
Pet banks
President Jimmy Carter
25. Founded by Emerson - strong emphasis on spiritual unity (God - humanity - and nature) - literature with strong references to nature
Transcendentalism
President Jimmy Carter
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
26. Launched in 1958 by Ike; successful launch of American satellite (Explorer I); massive arms builup
James Oglethorpe
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
John Dewey
Convict-lease system
27. Jackson was allowed to relocate Indian tribes in the Louisiana Territory
Samuel Gompers
Pet banks
Indian Removal Act
Truman's Loyalty Program
28. 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)
US economy since WWII (service economy)
George Whitefield
Maysville Road Veto
Gays in the military
29. British Navy would take American sailors and force them to work for Britain
Spoils System
Impressment
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
30. Brought in Mexicans for temporary jobs - concentrated in southern CA - given extremely poor working conditions (as they were not American citizens)
Bracero program
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
The Loyal Nine
Gifford Pinchot
31. Stronger union of states - equal and population-based representation - simple majority vote (with presidential veto) - regulation of foreign and interstate commerce - execution by president - power to enact taxes - federal courts - easier amendment p
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Benjamin Franklin
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
Election of 1800
32. Part of transportation revolution - from Cumberland MD to Wheeling WVa - toll road network; stimulated Western expansion
Japanese internment
National Road
Woodrow Wilson
Roger Williams
33. Soviets cut Berlin off from the rest of Germany by blockade; US organized airlift to drop supplies into Britain; blockade lifted in May 1949
Thomas Nast
Berlin Airlift
Dixiecrats - 1948
Platt Amendment
34. Blacks who went to prison taken out and used for labor in slave-like conditions - enforced southern racial hierarchy
Convict-lease system
1968 Presidential Election
Underground Railroad
Citizen Genet
35. Acquired Mexican Cession (future California - Arizona - and New Mexico); Mexico acknowledged American annexation of Texas
President John F. Kennedy
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Commerce Compromise
Hoovervilles
36. Helped lead settlement house movement - co-founded NAACP - condemned war and poverty
U-2 Incident
James G. Blaine
Richard Nixon (R)
Jane Addams
37. Writing took a more realistic approach on the world - regionalist writers focused on local life (Sarah Orne Jewett) - naturalist writers focused on economy and psychology (Stephen Crane)
The Half-Way Covenant
Social Darwinism
Sputnik
Regionalist and naturalist writers
38. McKinley reluctant; armed intervention to free Cuba from Spain; Roosevelt's 'Rough Riders' made attack on Spanish at Cuba
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
National Road
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Spanish American War (1898)
39. William and Mary kicked James II out of England (exiled into France) - allowed more power to the legislatures
Marcus Garvey
The Glorious Revolution
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
40. Congressional support to raid houses of radicals believed to have connections to communism
John L. Lewis
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
Good Neighbor Policy
Palmer Raids
41. Settlers to pay the expenses of a servant's voyage and be granted land for each person they brought over; headright system
Liberty Party
Marcus Garvey
Standard Oil Trust
Indentured servants
42. To make German reparations from WWI more accessible to Germans; evacuation of troops from Germany - reorganization of the Reichsbank - and foreign loans
Dawes Plan (1924)
Five Civilized Tribes
Second Great Awakening
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
43. Foreshadowed in 14 points - hoped to guarantee political independence and integrity of all countries
Lodge Reservations
Stamp Act Congress
League of Nations
Fugitive Slave Act
44. Judges appointed to Supreme Court by Adams in the last days of his presidency to force them upon Jefferson - Marshall among those appointed
Freeport Doctrine
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Midnight judges
William Jennings Bryan
45. Spurred by Great Migration - large-scale riots - lynchings - &c.
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46. Influence of African-American blues - music of the younger generation (gap between them and their parents)
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47. (The Lonely Crowd) 'outer directed' Americans conforming to peer pressure on moral and social issues - rather than independently thinking on morals
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
David Riesman
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
48. Oregon Territory owned jointly with Britain - Polk severed its tie to Britain - forced to settle for compromise south of 49° rather than 54°40'
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49. Cherokees - Choctaws - Creeks - Chickasaws - and Seminoles; 'civilized' due to their intermarriage with whites - forced out of their homelands by expansion
Conformity in the 1950s
Butler v. U.S. Court case
Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Association (YMCA & YWCA)
Five Civilized Tribes
50. Allowed sale of weaponry to democracies on 'cash-and-carry' basis - avoided full-blown war; danger zones proclaimed; solved American unemployment crisis
Roe v. Wade
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
Neutrality Act - 1939
Declining death rate
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