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AP U.S. History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Judiciary Reorganization Bill; FDR's attempt to put in extra judges who would support him without doubt
Cuban Missile Crisis
Citizen Genet
George Whitefield
Court Packing
2. Due to parents unhappy with encouraged segregation of schools - Supreme Court instituted forced busing policies (using school buses as a method of integration)
Rock `n' Roll
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
Populist Party
Forced busing
3. Runaway slave - well-known speaker on the condition of slavery - worked with Garrison and Wendell Phillips - founder of The North Star
Lowell mill/system
'Brain trust'
Frederick Douglass
Tariff of Abominations
4. Settled in Pennsylvania - believed the 'Inner Light' could speak through any person and ran religious services without ministers
William Penn and the Quakers
Dixiecrats - 1948
Erie Canal
Declaratory Act
5. Rise in stock prices and speculation - decline of construction industry - mistaken 'trickle-down' economics - reliance on credit
Cult of domesticity
Causes of the depression
Populist Party
Pendleton Civil Service Act
6. First president to show positive response to civil rights movement; worked heavily on keeping Soviet spread of communism in check
Olive Branch Petition
President Harry Truman
King James I - King Charles
William T. Sherman
7. Spurred by Great Migration - large-scale riots - lynchings - &c.
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8. Americans concerned with economic depression; sought to avoid European involvement - no apparent immediate threats
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
Impressment
Tea Act (1773)
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
9. Desegregation (Brown v. Board of Ed) - rights of the accused (Miranda v. Arizona) - voting reforms (Wesberry v. Sanders - Reynolds v. Sims - Katzenbach v Morgan)
Dawes Plan (1924)
The Enlightenment
Warren Court
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
10. Full American independence - territory west of Appalachian ceded to America - loyalists to be compensated for seized property - fishing rights off of Newfoundland
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Federal Reserve Act
'Wage slaves'
11. Ike forced to send National Guard to escort black children to school to quell riots and resistance (first time since Reconstruction that troops used in the south to enforce Constitution); resistance by white community (private schools)
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
Herbert Hoover's Food Administration
Citizen Genet
12. Emphasized importance of private charities to help the depression
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13. Decided to punish war crimes - established program for de-Nazification of Germany
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
Kent State Protest
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Bombing and invasion of Cambodia
14. Germany announced that it would sink all (including American) ships - attempt to involve U.S. in war
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Martin Luther King Jr.
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
15. Exemplary Christian community - rich to show charity - held to Calvinistic beliefs
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16. Opposed to slavery and secession - but stayed loyal to Virginia - despite offer for command of Union Army
Zoot Suit riots
Robert E. Lee
Cuban Missile Crisis
Wilmot Proviso
17. King hosted myriad nonviolent protesting activities to fill jail with protestors - Bill Connor (police commissioner) began violent resistance to protestors
Battle of Saratoga
March on Birmingham
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Harlem Renaissance
18. Southern Christian Leadership Conference - Led boycott - became leader of civil rights movement; urged nonviolent resistance (cf. tactics of Ghandi);
Martin Luther King Jr.
Pocahontas
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
Critics of FDR
19. 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
Worcester v. Georgia
Berlin Airlift
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
Cuban Missile Crisis
20. James G. Blaine sought to open up Latin American markets to the U.S.; rejected by Latin America due to fear of U.S. dominance and satisfaction with European market
Pan-Americanism
Transportation Revolution
Interstate Commerce Act
Benjamin Franklin
21. Opposed Polk's high-handedness - avid Southern slave-owner (right to own property - slaves as property)
Barbary Pirates
Populist Party
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
John C. Calhoun
22. Another part of Nixon's out-of-Vietnam plan - destroy supply routes to North Vietnam through Cambodia
Strict vs. Loose interpretation of the Constitution
Bombing and invasion of Cambodia
Harpers Ferry (1859)
Dorothea Lange
23. Stated the United States was destined to span the breadth of the entire continent with as much land as possible - advocated by Polk
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Manifest Destiny
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
Second Great Awakening
24. Parks arrested for refusing to give up bus seat to white man - African American leaders called for city-wide boycott of bus system (lasted almost 400 days); Supreme Court ruled segregated buses unconstitutional
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Robert E. Lee
XYZ Affair
James Madison
25. To service economy in late 20 century (end of industrialism) - Higher focus on services (esp. education) rather than material products
Virginia Resolves
Economic transition
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Compromise of 1850
26. Secretly sponsored peace negotiations so as to prevent Japanese or Russian monopoly on Asia; concerned with safety of Philippines
National Labor Union
Lusitania
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
Bruce Barton
27. Kent State University students protesting against invasion of Cambodia - not allowed to demonstrate - violence (murder) caused by guardsmen
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Ulysses S. Grant
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
Kent State Protest
28. Northern Securities Company (JP Morgan and James G. Hill - railroads) seen by Roosevelt as 'bad' trust - Supreme Court upheld his first trust-bust
Northern Securities Case
Ku Klux Klan
Virginia Resolves
'Atlanta Compromise'
29. Ex-Lincoln secretary; worked to gain Open Door Notes' acceptance from the major powers
Connecticut Compromise
Indian Removal Act
Secretary of State John Hay
Conversion Experience
30. Part of Nixon's tri-faceted plan to honorably remove troops from Vietnam; wean the South Vietnamese off of American support - gradually reducing number of American troops present
Vietnamization
Adams-Onis Treaty
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
Deists
31. 'Trustbuster' (busted twice as many as Roosevelt) - conservation and irrigation efforts - Postal Savings Bank System - Payne-Aldrich Tariff (reduction of tariff - caused Republican split)
William H. Taft
Tories (Loyalists)
Committees of Correspondence
Japanese internment
32. Detectives hired by employers as private police force - often used to end strikes
James K. Polk
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
Pinkertons
John Smith
33. Father Charles Coughlin (benefited only wealthy people and corporations) - Huey Long ('share our wealth') - Francis Townshend (Old Age Revolving Pension)
Transcendentalism
President Franklin Roosevelt
Critics of FDR
Monroe Doctrine
34. Government to buy silver to back money in addition to gold
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
George Whitefield
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
35. Victorian standards confined women to the home to create an artistic environment as a statement of cultural aspirations
Conscription policies
McCarthyism
John L. Lewis
Cult of domesticity
36. Ideas of Wilson: small enterprise - states' rights - more active government - trust busting - left social issues up to the states
Federal Reserve Act
James K. Polk
New Freedom
Watergate Scandal
37. Unprecedented sudden growth spurt of American population (especially urban and suburban areas)
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38. Provided for evacuation of English troops from posts in the Great Lakes
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39. Organized Seneca Falls Convention - founded (with Anthony) National Women Suffrage Organization
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Bank of the United States
John C. Calhoun
40. Small state banks set up by Jackson to keep federal funds out of the National Bank - used until funds were consolidated into a single treasury
New Freedom
Religious Right
Pet banks
President Harry Truman
41. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - employed young jobless men with government projects on work relief and environment
Olive Branch Petition
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Cuban Missile Crisis
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
42. Agreement between US and Britain to remove armed fleets from the Great Lakes
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
Bank of the United States
California Gold Rush
William Jennings Bryan
43. Only English and American ships allowed to colonial ports; dissent began in 1763
Navigation Acts
Panic of 1893
Battle of Gettysburg
Quarantine Speech - 1937
44. Established world organization; Soviet Union pledged to allow democratic procedures in Eastern Europe; pledge broken - led to Cold War
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Yalta Conference (1945)
Conversion Experience
Ngo Dinh Diem
45. Working class exploited for profit - proletariat (workers) to revolt and inherit all society
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
Fair Labor Standards Act
Karl Marx Das Kapital
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
46. Catholic communist autocrat of Vietnam - assassinated (with aid of US)
Populist Party
Ngo Dinh Diem
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
47. Bank tightened loan policies - depression rose throughout the country - hurt western farmers greatly
Panic of 1819
Bruce Barton
Panic of 1893
Conversion Experience
48. Henry Clay aimed to make the US economically independent from Europe (e.g. - support internal improvements - tariff protection - and new national bank)
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Non-conformity
Clinton impeachment (1997)
Henry Clay and the American System
49. Mexicans held siege on the Alamo (in San Antonio) - Texans lost great number of people - 'Remember the Alamo'
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
Indentured servants
Haymarket Bombing
The Alamo
50. Argued that states had the right to determine whether or not the laws passed by Congress were constitutional
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Virginia Plan
Declining death rate
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)