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AP U.S. History
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1. Powerful speaker - toured the country and inspired many into Christianity
George Whitefield
'Gentlemen's Agreement' (1908)
Stephen Austin
Immigration Act of 1965
2. Pop art - mass production of art by screening
Andy Warhol
Tammany Hall
New Nationalism
Kent State Protest
3. Attempted to boost economy by making loans to banks and insurance companies - hoping to restart them
Nullification
Conservative backlash against liberalism
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Harlem Renaissance
4. Worked alongside Josiah Henson to make repeated trips to get slaves out of the South into freedom
Transcendentalism
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
Harriet Tubman
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
5. Private property subject to government regulation when property is devoted to public interest; against railroads
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
Kent State Protest
Munn v. Illinois
Louis Sullivan
6. Soviets cut Berlin off from the rest of Germany by blockade; US organized airlift to drop supplies into Britain; blockade lifted in May 1949
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
Dawes Plan (1924)
Humanitarian diplomacy
Berlin Airlift
7. 'No taxation without representation -' introduced by Patrick Henry
Jamestown
Yalta Conference (1945)
Virginia Resolves
Boston Massacre
8. Written by Calhoun - regarding tariff nullification
Palmer Raids
Impressment
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
Quarantine Speech - 1937
9. Scarce supplies (food and clothing) - army motivated by von Steuben
Gulf War - 'Operation Desert Storm' (1991)
Valley Forge
Black Panther Party
Hoovervilles
10. Halted sale of tribal lands - enabled tribes to regain unallocated lands; repealed Dawes Severalty Act of 1887; helped secure Indians' entry into New Deal associations; led by John Collier
The Federalist Papers
Five Civilized Tribes
Conversion Experience
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
11. Editor of The Liberator (strongly abolitionist newspaper calling for immediate abolition of slavery) - fought for feminist movement ('Am I not a woman and a sister' picture of slave woman)
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
William Lloyd Garrison
Writs of Assistance
'City on a Hill'
12. Challenged New Englanders to completely separate Church from State - as the State would corrupt the church
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Roger Williams
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
13. Kent State University students protesting against invasion of Cambodia - not allowed to demonstrate - violence (murder) caused by guardsmen
National Labor Union
David Riesman
Kent State Protest
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
14. Judiciary Reorganization Bill; FDR's attempt to put in extra judges who would support him without doubt
Wilson's 14 points
Court Packing
Marcus Garvey
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
15. FDR's inner circle of experts rather than just politicians in the cabinet
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16. Detente achieved with USSR and China by withdrawal from Vietnam; realpolitik shed the use of doctrines and policies - instead using China and USSR in alternative ways to achieve other goals (pitting China and USSR against each other - as communist na
Detente - realpolitik
Non-Intercourse Act
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
17. Prohibited settlements west of Appalachian - restriction on colonial growth
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
Alien and Sedition Acts
Proclamation of 1763
Bonus Army
18. Four-day banking holiday to create controlled inflation - followed by reopening of sound banks - and reorganization of unsound banks
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Suffolk Resolves
'Bleeding Kansas'
Emergency Banking Relief Act
19. 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
'Brain trust'
Barbary Pirates
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
20. Increased already high rate of inflation by quadrupling the price of crude oil
Energy Crisis - OPEC
Barbary Pirates
William Jennings Bryan
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
21. Jackson was allowed to relocate Indian tribes in the Louisiana Territory
Interstate Commerce Act
John Dewey
Era of Good Feelings
Indian Removal Act
22. John Noyes - New York; utopian society for communalism - perfectionism - and complex marriage
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
William Jennings Bryan
American Federation of Labor
23. Edmond Genet contributed to polarization of the new nation by creating his American Foreign Legion in the south - which was directed to attack Spanish garrisons in New Orleans and St. Augustine
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
Citizen Genet
Wilson's 14 points
Pendleton Civil Service Act
24. 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
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
Liberty Party
Vietnamization
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
25. Reagan called the Soviet Union an 'evil empire'; Korean passenger plane shot down near Moscow (increased anti-Soviet rhetoric); Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) used space-based lasers as defense from nuclear attack
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26. Avoided league of Nations - opposed Latin American involvement
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
Soviet atomic bomb
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
Isolationism
27. (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
March on Washington
Writs of Assistance
Compromise of 1850
Indentured servants
28. Introduced his 'New Deal -' won election by a relative landslide (he was not Hoover - whom the public now did not trust)
Currency Act
President Franklin Roosevelt
William T. Sherman
Vietcong
29. Americans concerned with economic depression; sought to avoid European involvement - no apparent immediate threats
Indian Removal Act
Gulf War - 'Operation Desert Storm' (1991)
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
Keynesian economics
30. Ensured trade with mother country - nationalism; too restrictive on colonial economy - not voted on by colonists
Non-Intercourse Act
Nat Turner's Rebellion
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
Mercantilism
31. Prohibited exports (and imports) based in American ports - most controversial Jefferson legislation
Nicaraguan Contras
Embargo Act (1807)
'Wage slaves'
Popular Sovereignty
32. Cherokee tribe forced to move from southern Appalachians to reservations in current-day Oklahoma - high death toll
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33. 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
War Industries Board
Reaganomics
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
Lewis and Clark expedition
34. Authors included Langston Hughes - McKay - Zora Neale Hurston - Countee Cullet — praise and expression of black culture of the time
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
The Enlightenment
Harlem Renaissance
Embargo Act (1807)
35. Capitalism would become productive when uninhibited by taxes and regulation
Marcus Garvey
Judiciary Act of 1789
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
Reaganomics
36. Protestant church led by the king of England - independent of Catholic Church; tended toward Catholicism during reign of Catholic royalty
Sputnik
President Franklin Roosevelt
Wilson's 14 points
Church of England
37. Conservatives like Reagan benefited from denouncing the New Left and excessive antiwar protests; gave him political prominence
King James I - King Charles
Ngo Dinh Diem
Conservative backlash against liberalism
Affirmative Action
38. US provided financial assistance to recover economies in Europe; aimed towards anti-communist governments in France - Italy - and Germany; Eastern European nations prohibited from receiving help from US
Marshall Plan
'Baby Boom'
President Bill Clinton
Alexander Hamilton
39. Government ensured readjustment rights to GIs after WWI unrest - loans to veterans for higher education and mortgages (contributed to economic prosperity)
GI Bill of Rights
'Silent Majority'
Civil Rights Cases
Dorothea Lange
40. 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
China turns communist
Bracero program
William Marcy
Panic of 1893
41. Left primary open to Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy - both promising to end the controversial war
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42. Standard Oil Company - Ruthless business tactics (survival of the fittest)
Compromise of 1850
John D. Rockefeller
Neutrality Act - 1939
Gays in the military
43. Secretly sponsored peace negotiations so as to prevent Japanese or Russian monopoly on Asia; concerned with safety of Philippines
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
'Gentlemen's Agreement' (1908)
44. Taxes on all legal documents to support British troops - not approved by colonists through their representatives
Indian Removal Act
Stamp Act
McCarthyism
Rock `n' Roll
45. United States aided South Vietnam in its war of power struggle against North Vietnam - the Vietcong - USSR - and China
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
Dred Scott v. Sandford
'Bleeding Kansas'
Vietnam War
46. Proposed by Hamilton to repair war debts; selling of securities and federal lands - assumption of state debts - set up the first National Bank
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Stamp Act Congress
Citizen Genet
Report on Public Credit
47. 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)
Benjamin Franklin
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
Knights of Labor
Hudson River School
48. Created in 1961 as example of liberal anticommunism in third world countries; 'reform-minded missionaries of democracy'
Federalists and Republicans
Peace Corps
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
49. British Navy would take American sailors and force them to work for Britain
Dominion of New England
Quebec Acts
Impressment
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
50. Dealt with Vietnam War - 'Great Society' program for improvement of American society - antipoverty and anti-discrimination programs
Essex case
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Humanitarian diplomacy
Boston Tea Party