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AP U.S. History
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1. Populists campaigned for silver-backed money rather than gold-backed - believed to be able to relieve working conditions and exploitation of labor
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
Free silver
2. Congress could tax imports but not exports
Commerce Compromise
Non-conformity
Secretary of State John Hay
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
3. Brought in Mexicans for temporary jobs - concentrated in southern CA - given extremely poor working conditions (as they were not American citizens)
Bracero program
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
Stamp Act Congress
Benjamin Franklin
4. First 'modern' president - moderate who supported progressivism (at times conservative) - bypassed congressional opposition (cf. Jackson) - significant role in world affairs
The Loyal Nine
Panama Canal
Theodore Roosevelt
Dollar Diplomacy'
5. US - Britain - Japan - France - and Italy to reduce naval tonnage and halt construction for 10 years; US and Japan to respect Pacific territorial holdings - Kellog-Briand Pact to 'outlaw war'
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
'Graying of America'
Hull House
Popular Sovereignty
6. Created in 1961 as example of liberal anticommunism in third world countries; 'reform-minded missionaries of democracy'
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
Tallmadge Amendment
John Smith
Peace Corps
7. Government would hold its revenues rather than deposit them in banks - thus keeping the funds away from private corporations; 'America's Second Declaration of Independence'
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Independent Treasury Bill
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Quebec Acts
8. Anti-communist crusades due to fear of radicalism spurred by Bolshevik rebellion
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9. Alice Paul; shocked traditionalism - League of Women Voters supported; new organization of women who were now more independent
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Tea Act (1773)
Frederick Douglass
Interstate Commerce Act
10. 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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11. 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
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
Farm crisis
Vertical and horizontal integration
Marshall Plan
12. Last major battle; surrender of Cornwallis - led King George III to officially make peace with the colonies
John Foster Dulles
William Henry Harrison
Election of 1800
Battle of Yorktown
13. Black veteran escorted to be enrolled in Univ. of Miss. by military (school reluctant - cf. Little Rock Nine)
William Seward
War hawks
Okies' and 'Arkies'
James Meredith
14. 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
Nat Turner's Rebellion
New Jersey Plan
Nullification
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
15. Economic prosperity of American society following WWII; doubling of national income - jobs to women - defense industry's support of economy
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16. Party formed from Republican split by Roosevelt - more progressive values - leaving 'Republican Old Guard' to control Republican party
Judiciary Act of 1789
Jingoism
Schechter v. U.S Court case
Bull Moose Party
17. Mexicans held siege on the Alamo (in San Antonio) - Texans lost great number of people - 'Remember the Alamo'
The Alamo
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
Jane Addams
Shays's Rebellion
18. To service economy in late 20 century (end of industrialism) - Higher focus on services (esp. education) rather than material products
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Economic transition
Deists
Henry Ford's assembly line
19. British Navy would take American sailors and force them to work for Britain
The Homefront
Whigs (Patriots)
Impressment
March on Birmingham
20. Upheld constitutionality of Espionage Act; Congress right to limit free speech during times of war
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
Schechter v. U.S Court case
21. Desegregation (Brown v. Board of Ed) - rights of the accused (Miranda v. Arizona) - voting reforms (Wesberry v. Sanders - Reynolds v. Sims - Katzenbach v Morgan)
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Invasion of Iraq
Warren Court
Kitchen Cabinet
22. Part of 'First' New Deal Program - subsidies to farmers to decrease production and thus increase prices
GI Bill of Rights
William H. Taft
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Horace Mann
23. Reluctant to give colonists their own government - preferred to appoint royal governors
Tet Offensive (1968)
King James I - King Charles
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Gifford Pinchot
24. Georgia cannot enforce American laws on Indian tribes
Worcester v. Georgia
President Franklin Roosevelt
Neutrality Act - 1939
Marshall Court (all cases)
25. First African-American in major league baseball
Jackie Robinson
Humanitarian diplomacy
George Whitefield
'Contract with America' (1994)
26. 'No taxation without representation -' introduced by Patrick Henry
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
Isolationism
Scopes Trial
Virginia Resolves
27. December 1814 - Opposed War of 1812 - called for one-term presidency - northern states threatened to secede if their views were left unconsidered next to those of southern and western states - supported nullification - end of Federalist Party
Indentured servants
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
Hartford Convention
McCarthyism
28. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - Harold Icicles - provided public construction projects
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
Cuban Missile Crisis
George Whitefield
Public Works Administration (PWA)
29. FDR encouraged democracies to quarantine their opponents (economic embargos); criticized by isolationists
William T. Sherman
'Affluent Society'
Quarantine Speech - 1937
James Meredith
30. Marbury v. Madison (judicial review) - McChulloch v. Maryland (loose Constitutional interpretation - constitutionality of National Bank - states cannot control government agencies) - Gibbons v. Ogden (interstate commerce controlled by Congress) - Fle
James Meredith
Election of 1800
Battle of Tippecanoe
Marshall Court (all cases)
31. Bicameral congressional representation based on population
Virginia Plan
Truman's Loyalty Program
Shays's Rebellion
Ralph Waldo Emerson
32. First female cabinet member
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
Truman's Loyalty Program
Populist Party
33. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - collective bargaining rights - closed shops permitted (where workers must join unions) - outlawed anti-union tactics
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
Panama Canal
Bracero program
34. Nixon led movement to Hiss's indictment; convicted of perjury - Nixon gained national prominence
The Enlightenment
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
March on Washington
35. Only English and American ships allowed to colonial ports; dissent began in 1763
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
Suffolk Resolves
Navigation Acts
American society during the Revolution
36. Political muckraking cartoonist - refused bribes to stop criticism
President Jimmy Carter
Thomas Nast
Tea Act (1773)
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
37. Established world organization; Soviet Union pledged to allow democratic procedures in Eastern Europe; pledge broken - led to Cold War
President Bill Clinton
Yalta Conference (1945)
Emancipation Proclamation
Ulysses S. Grant
38. Gorbachev announced Soviet withdrawal of power from all of Eastern Europe - including Berlin (wall torn down - free movement - &c.)
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe (1989)
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
39. Allowed Parliament to completely legislate over the colonies - limited colonists' say
Declaratory Act
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
French and Indian War
'Bleeding Kansas'
40. Government ensured readjustment rights to GIs after WWI unrest - loans to veterans for higher education and mortgages (contributed to economic prosperity)
William and Mary
GI Bill of Rights
Munn v. Illinois
Pan-Americanism
41. 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
'New Left'
Liberty Party
Hoover's policy of voluntarism
Citizen Genet
42. Prohibited testing of nuclear bombs above ground to slow the nuclear arms race and the release of nuclear fallout into the atmosphere
Indentured servants
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Religious Right
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
43. Provided for evacuation of English troops from posts in the Great Lakes
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44. Won battles in the West and raised northern morale (esp. Shiloh - Fort Henry - and Fort Donelson) - made Union commanding general
Marshall Court (all cases)
Ulysses S. Grant
President John F. Kennedy
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
45. Commission on civil rights to attempt to guarantee the ballot to blacks; showed government's changing views of race relations
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
46. Through CIO - led three coal mine strikes (some of the very few strikes during the time period)
New York City draft riots (1863)
John L. Lewis
'Contract with America' (1994)
David Riesman
47. Founded by Emerson - strong emphasis on spiritual unity (God - humanity - and nature) - literature with strong references to nature
James Monroe
Hull House
Marshall Court (all cases)
Transcendentalism
48. Network of safe houses of white abolitionists used to bring slaves to freedom
Underground Railroad
Shays's Rebellion
Pet banks
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
49. Japanese bombing of ships in harbor; resulted in FDR's request for declaration of war against Japan; Germany and Italy responded with declarations of war
Pearl Harbor
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
Impressment
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
50. Dealt with Vietnam War - 'Great Society' program for improvement of American society - antipoverty and anti-discrimination programs
Economic transition
President Lyndon B. Johnson
The Half-Way Covenant
12th Amendment
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