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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
Henry David Thoreau
King James I - King Charles
William Marcy
2. Mexicans held siege on the Alamo (in San Antonio) - Texans lost great number of people - 'Remember the Alamo'
Writs of Assistance
Harlem Renaissance
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
The Alamo
3. Opposed Polk's high-handedness - avid Southern slave owner
Religious Right
John C. Calhoun
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Declining death rate
4. South divided into 5 military districts; states to guarantee full suffrage for blacks; ratify 14th amendment
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
Marshall Court (all cases)
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
5. Advocated by Roger Sherman - proposed two independently-voting senators per state and representation in the House based on population
Roe v. Wade
Connecticut Compromise
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
6. Belief in minimal government so as to allow the people their own free reign - lower taxes to stimulate economy - &c.
Citizen Genet
Pan-Americanism
Conservatism
Samuel Gompers
7. Committee on Public Information; aimed to sell America and the world on Wilson's war goals; propaganda - censorship - 'four-minute men' speeches - 'Liberty Leagues' (spy on community)
'Red Scare' (1919)
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
Theodore Roosevelt
Creel Committee
8. Executed for leaking atomic secrets to Soviets - avowed communists
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
CIA overthrow of Iran (1953)
Rosenbergs
The Federalist Papers
9. Protected rights of individual from the power of the central government
Bill of Rights
Camp David Accords
The Enlightenment
McCarthyism
10. Young women employed by Lowell's textile company - housed in dormitories
Truman's Loyalty Program
Harpers Ferry (1859)
Lowell mill/system
Transcendentalism
11. Fear of Japanese-Americans as traitors - sent off (by law) to internment camps; removal of deemed threats in military areas
Quarantine Speech - 1937
Isolationism
John Smith
Japanese internment
12. Radical Calvinists against the Church of England; Separatists (Pilgrims) argued for a break from the Church of England - led the Mayflower - and established the settlement at Plymouth
Maysville Road Veto
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
Court Packing
'Atlanta Compromise'
13. FDR's plan (although vague during the campaign) to restart the economy and pull America out of the Great Depression
New Deal
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
Palmer Raids
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
14. Challenged New Englanders to completely separate Church from State - as the State would corrupt the church
Federal Reserve Act
Roger Williams
Social Reciprocity
Essex case
15. 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
Citizen Genet
The Half-Way Covenant
Church of England
James K. Polk
16. Settlers to pay the expenses of a servant's voyage and be granted land for each person they brought over; headright system
Bracero program
Indentured servants
Warren Court
New York City draft riots (1863)
17. Tried to rule as absolute monarchs without using Parliament - little to no sympathy for colonial legislatures
Cuban Missile Crisis
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Charles II - James II
American society during the Revolution
18. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - Harold Icicles - provided public construction projects
Shays's Rebellion
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Convict-lease system
Dorothea Dix
19. Key to English-Native American relationship - died in England in 1617
Roe v. Wade
Henry Clay and the American System
Charles II - James II
Pocahontas
20. Philosophy that deficit spending during a depression would increase purchasing power and stimulate economy; FDR disagreed with the policy at first and borrowed money to cover deficits
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
Keynesian economics
Jackie Robinson
Camp David Accords
21. North African Muslim rulers solved budget problems through piracy and tributes in Mediterranean - obtained fees from most European powers
Anaconda plan
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
Barbary Pirates
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
22. Spurred by Great Migration - large-scale riots - lynchings - &c.
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23. Ended the Dominion of New England - gave power back to colonies
Platt Amendment
'Great Society'
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
William and Mary
24. Created in 1961 as example of liberal anticommunism in third world countries; 'reform-minded missionaries of democracy'
Suburbia
Peace Corps
Schechter v. U.S Court case
'Lost Generation'
25. Ensured trade with mother country - nationalism; too restrictive on colonial economy - not voted on by colonists
Mercantilism
Cotton Gin
Vietcong
Transportation Revolution
26. Committees appointed from different colonies to communicate on matters; asserted rights to self¬government - cooperation between colonies
Isolationism
Committees of Correspondence
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
Rosie the Riveter
27. Worked alongside Josiah Henson to make repeated trips to get slaves out of the South into freedom
Burned-Over District
Jackson's Presidency
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
Harriet Tubman
28. Decisive victory in the War of 1812 by Harrison over Tecumseh - used in Harrison's campaign for presidency
Neutrality Act - 1939
Watergate Scandal
Rosenbergs
Battle of Tippecanoe
29. Symbol of women workers during the war
Albany Plan of Union
Rosie the Riveter
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
Teapot Dome scandal
30. Lee invaded Pennsylvania - bloodiest battle of the war - Confederate Pickett's Charge (disastrous) - Lee forced to retreat (not pursued by Meade) - South doomed to never invade North again - Gettysburg Address given by Lincoln (nation over union)
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
Berlin Wall
Battle of Gettysburg
31. Opposed to all immigration - strongly anti-Catholic
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Know-Nothing (American) Party
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
Stock market crash (1929)
32. Severe immigration laws to discourage and discriminate against foreigners - believed to erode old-fashioned American values
Atlantic slave trade
Jonathan Edwards
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Nativism
33. Contending communist politician in Vietnam - had more popularity than Diem - took power upon Diem's death
Vietcong
Ho Chi Minh
'Brain trust'
Lowell mill/system
34. Only English and American ships allowed to colonial ports; dissent began in 1763
Navigation Acts
Emancipation Proclamation
US acquisitions
Thomas Nast
35. Effects of pesticides on the environment; changed way Americans viewed their impact on nature
Social Reciprocity
President Ronald Reagan
Vertical and horizontal integration
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
36. Mao Zedong (communist) defeated nationalist forces of Kai-Shek (supported by US); seen as defeat for US - not officially fully recognized until 1973
Washington's Farewell Address
Independent Treasury Bill
China turns communist
Economic transition
37. States could refuse to enforce the federal laws they deemed unconstitutional
Writs of Assistance
Anne Hutchinson
Nullification
Jonathan Edwards
38. Established by 'General' William Booth - uniformed volunteers provided food - shelter - and employment to families - attracted poor with lively preaching and marching bands in order to instill middle-class virtues
Vietcong
Salvation Army
Bank of the United States
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
39. The Union planned a blockade that would not allow supplies of any sort into the Confederacy; control the Mississippi and Atlantic/Gulf of Mexico
Eugene V. Debs
Bacon's Rebellion
Anaconda plan
Mayflower Compact
40. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - prevented extreme competition - labor management disputes - and over-production; federally coordinated consensus of business leaders (Hugh Johnson) to regulate businesses (wages - limits - working condit
Atlantic slave trade
Coxey's Army
Nativism
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
41. Proslavery constitution in Kansas - supported by Buchanan - freesoilers against it (victorious) - denied statehood until after secession
New Lights vs. Old Lights
Panama Canal
Lecompton Constitution
George Wallace - American
42. Efficient working methods to increase productivity; usually resulted in lower wages (hated by workers) - power to managers
Louis Sullivan
Camp David Accords
War Industries Board
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
43. Bicameral congressional representation based on population
Zoot Suit riots
John Brown
Yellow journalism
Virginia Plan
44. Border ruffians in election on issue of slavery incited controversy - proslavery group attacked Lawrence - Kansas - Pottawatomie Massacre
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45. Puritan minister - led revivals - stressed immediate repentance - wrote 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God'
Jonathan Edwards
Republican Party
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Moral Diplomacy
46. 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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47. Emphasis on human reason - logic - and science (acquired - not nascent - knowledge); increased followers of Christianity
Spoils System
Social Gospel movement
The Enlightenment
Pearl Harbor
48. Paper money; specie circular decreed that the government would not accept specie for government land
Specie
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
Ike's Farewell Speech
Monroe Doctrine
49. Private property subject to government regulation when property is devoted to public interest; against railroads
Shays's Rebellion
Munn v. Illinois
Conformity in the 1950s
Energy Crisis - OPEC
50. Victorian standards confined women to the home to create an artistic environment as a statement of cultural aspirations
Cult of domesticity
Charles Lindbergh
'Wage slaves'
Tallmadge Amendment