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AP U.S. History
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1. McKinley reluctant; armed intervention to free Cuba from Spain; Roosevelt's 'Rough Riders' made attack on Spanish at Cuba
Gains for women
Important WWII Battles
Spanish American War (1898)
Populist Party
2. Selective Service Act to require men to register with few exceptions; women and blacks drafted/enlisted - highly successful
Conscription policies
Connecticut Compromise
New Lights vs. Old Lights
Roe v. Wade
3. Political muckraking cartoonist - refused bribes to stop criticism
Thomas Nast
National Origins Act (1924)
'Gentlemen's Agreement' (1908)
Transportation Revolution
4. Organized and controlled resistance against Parliamentary acts in less violent ways (strength of martyrdom) - advocated nonimportation
Whig Party
Report on Public Credit
Sons of Liberty
John Winthrop
5. New Lights brought new ideas - rejected by Old Lights; both sought out institutions independent of each other
Rationing
Explosion of USS Maine
New Lights vs. Old Lights
Second Great Awakening
6. 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
Lewis and Clark expedition
Humanitarian diplomacy
National Labor Union
William H. Taft
7. Federalist cause leading up to Hartford Convention
Essex case
George Washington
1992 Election
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
8. Proponent of gradual gain of equal rights for African-Americans
Deportations of Mexicans
Booker T. Washington
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Panama Canal
9. Attempted to boost economy by making loans to banks and insurance companies - hoping to restart them
'Yellow dog contracts'
The Glorious Revolution
Regionalist and naturalist writers
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
10. Law meant to evolve as society evolves - opposed conservative majority
John L. Lewis
'Graying of America'
Moral Diplomacy
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
11. Congress authorized LBJ to repel and prevent aggression against US troops in Vietnam - used as a blank check (perhaps too much - caused protests)
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
James Monroe
Freeport Doctrine
12. Contending communist politician in Vietnam - had more popularity than Diem - took power upon Diem's death
Non-conformity
Ku Klux Klan
Ho Chi Minh
William Penn and the Quakers
13. Created in 1961 as example of liberal anticommunism in third world countries; 'reform-minded missionaries of democracy'
Peace Corps
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
George Washington
Consumerism
14. John Marshall declared that the Supreme Court could declare federal laws unconstitutional
Marbury v. Madison
King James I - King Charles
Sugar Act
Church of England
15. Emphasis on personal salvation - emotional response - and individual faith; women and blacks; nationalism (Manifest Destiny)
'Graying of America'
Hudson River School
Second Great Awakening
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
16. Planes hijacked by terrorists for destruction; blame pinned on Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden - sought out in attempt to completely destroy terrorism
Liberty Party
Second Great Awakening
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Election of 1960
17. Jackson used personal friends as unofficial advisors over his official cabinet
Critics of FDR
Kitchen Cabinet
Rock `n' Roll
Federal Reserve Act
18. Fearing the rise of labor unions - corporations forced new employees to sign and promise not to be part of a union
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19. Social ideals to be encouraged in public school (stress on social interaction) - learning by doing
The Half-Way Covenant
Dixiecrats - 1948
John Dewey
Battle of Yorktown
20. 'Corrupt bargain' and backroom deal for JQ Adams to win over Jackson
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
The Alamo
'Great Society'
Election of 1824
21. Taxes on all legal documents to support British troops - not approved by colonists through their representatives
William Seward
Maysville Road Veto
Stamp Act
Nativism
22. 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
Stagflation
Lowell mill/system
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
23. Overthrew Pres. Guzman after he nationalized American fruit fields and accepted arms from USSR (communist sympathies)
'Wage slaves'
Ike's Farewell Speech
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
Virtual Representation
24. Allowed for faster processing of cotton - invented by Eli Whitney - less need for slaves
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
Cotton Gin
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
25. Increase working output by standardizing procedures and rewarding those who worked fast; efficiency
Creel Committee
Jazz
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
'Big BM' Haywood
26. Worked to reform the American education system - abolitionist - prison/asylum reform with Dorothea Dix
Civil Rights Cases
Horace Mann
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
League of Nations
27. U.S. felt it was its duty to 'watch out' for the interests of other countries in the Western hemisphere; provided justification for invasions of Latin America.
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe (1989)
March on Washington
New Nationalism
28. Alice Paul; shocked traditionalism - League of Women Voters supported; new organization of women who were now more independent
Suffolk Resolves
Northwest Passage
Secretary of State John Hay
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
29. Connected the colonies to Britain - opposed to unnecessary unfair taxation; strong influence on Albany Plan
Benjamin Franklin
Navigation Acts
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
30. Ended the Dominion of New England - gave power back to colonies
William and Mary
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
'Silent Majority'
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
31. Founded by Emerson - strong emphasis on spiritual unity (God - humanity - and nature) - literature with strong references to nature
Bruce Barton
Transcendentalism
James G. Blaine
Freeport Doctrine
32. September 1949 - US no longer held monopoly; two atomic powers
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Non-Intercourse Act
Soviet atomic bomb
'Baby Boom'
33. Drafting extremely hated by Northerners - sparked by Irish-Americans against the black population - 500 lives lost - many buildings burned
New York City draft riots (1863)
Citizen Genet
Populist Party
Voting Rights Act of 1965
34. Used nonviolent protest and boycott to achieve better working conditions for farmers (esp. Mexican-Americans)
XYZ Affair
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
New Jersey Plan
Fair Labor Standards Act
35. Albert Fall accused of accepting bribes for access to government oil in Teapot Dome - Wyoming
Frederick Douglass
Atlantic slave trade
Ike's Farewell Speech
Teapot Dome scandal
36. Democratic political machine in NYC - 'supported' immigrants and poor people of the city - who were needed for Democratic election victories
Gays in the military
Dollar Diplomacy'
Tammany Hall
Populist Party
37. Gorbachev decreased nuclear arsenals - Communist Party lost power - Boris Yeltsin (president of Russian Republic) led Muscovites to take control
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
Jonathan Edwards
Kansas-Nebraska Act
38. Introduced his 'New Deal -' won election by a relative landslide (he was not Hoover - whom the public now did not trust)
Second Great Awakening
Explosion of USS Maine
President Franklin Roosevelt
Kitchen Cabinet
39. 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
Maysville Road Veto
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Theodore Roosevelt
Invasion of Iraq
40. Politely demanded from the king a cease¬fire in Boston - repeal of Coercive Acts -. guarantee of American rights
The Federalist Papers
'Silent Majority'
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
Olive Branch Petition
41. 8000 businesses collapsed (including railroads); due to stock market crash - overbuilding of railroads - heavy farmer loans - economic disruption by labor efforts - agricultural depression; decrease of gold reserves led to Cleveland's repeal of Sherm
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Albany Plan of Union
Warren Court
Panic of 1893
42. Efficient working methods to increase productivity; usually resulted in lower wages (hated by workers) - power to managers
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Alien and Sedition Acts
George Kennan
43. Nonviolent protest to college students (NC) being refused lunch service; part of 'sit-in' movement to integrate all aspects of life (hotels - entertainment - &c.)
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Industrial Workers of the World
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
John C. Calhoun
44. Sets of cardboard box houses that epitomized the country's blame on Hoover for the cause of the Depression
March on Birmingham
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
Hoovervilles
Forced busing
45. 'No taxation without representation -' introduced by Patrick Henry
Washington's Farewell Address
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
Virginia Resolves
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
Clinton impeachment (1997)
Emancipation Proclamation
Nativism
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
47. Only English and American ships allowed to colonial ports; dissent began in 1763
Navigation Acts
Soviet atomic bomb
Election of 1960
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
48. The Jungle revealed unsanitary nature of meat-packing industry - inspired Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
Horace Mann
Upton Sinclair
Lusitania
Tammany Hall
49. 'Rotation in office;' Jackson felt that one should spend a single term in office and return to private citizenship - those who held power too long would become corrupt and political appointments made by new officials was essential for democracy
Farm crisis
Dorothea Lange
The Glorious Revolution
Spoils System
50. Opposed to slavery and secession - but stayed loyal to Virginia - despite offer for command of Union Army
Robert E. Lee
Knights of Labor
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
Vietcong