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AP U.S. History
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1. Created by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst; aimed to excite American imperialist interests; media bias - subjective representation of events
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
Dixiecrats - 1948
Yellow journalism
Missouri Compromise (1820)
2. 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
William Lloyd Garrison
Panama Canal
Detente - realpolitik
'New Left'
3. Head of federal Division of Forestry - contributed to Roosevelt's natural conservation efforts
Transcendentalism
Gifford Pinchot
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Pet banks
4. Secretary of state - policy to liberate captive people in Eastern Europe by political pressure and propaganda; massive retaliation to counter SovietlChinese aggression with nuclear weapons; brinksmanship to be persistent to solve crises (even to the
Stagflation
John Foster Dulles
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
Battle of Tippecanoe
5. No further introduction of slaves into Missouri - all children born to slaves to become free at 25
Herbert Hoover's Food Administration
Nullification Controversy
Berlin Airlift
Tallmadge Amendment
6. Key to English-Native American relationship - died in England in 1617
Jamestown
Pocahontas
Gains for women
Declining death rate
7. Clay and Calhoun - eager for war with Britain (War of 1812)
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
War hawks
Panama Canal
Barbary Pirates
8. The Jungle revealed unsanitary nature of meat-packing industry - inspired Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
Nativism
Federalists and Republicans
Forced busing
Upton Sinclair
9. Effectively ended spoils system and established civil service exams for all government positions - under Pres. Garfield
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Deportations of Mexicans
Warren Court
'Wage slaves'
10. Civil Rights Act of 1875 declared unconstitutional by Supreme Court - as the fourteenth amendment protected people from governmental infringement of rights and had no effect on acts of private citizens
Civil Rights Cases
Jackson's Presidency
Kitchen Cabinet
Rosenbergs
11. Won battles in the West and raised northern morale (esp. Shiloh - Fort Henry - and Fort Donelson) - made Union commanding general
'City on a Hill'
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
Spanish American War (1898)
Ulysses S. Grant
12. Jackson used personal friends as unofficial advisors over his official cabinet
Berlin Wall
McCarthyism
Kitchen Cabinet
Hoovervilles
13. Americans feared Soviet infiltration into Latin America - placed secret police and military forces to prevent it
Affirmative Action
Washington's Farewell Address
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
14. Government ensured readjustment rights to GIs after WWI unrest - loans to veterans for higher education and mortgages (contributed to economic prosperity)
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
GI Bill of Rights
New Harmony
Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA)
15. Fought for women's rights and abolition - 'Men and women are CREATED EQUAL!'
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
Vietcong
16. Congress authorized LBJ to repel and prevent aggression against US troops in Vietnam - used as a blank check (perhaps too much - caused protests)
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
Wilmot Proviso
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
17. Strong patriotism and need to conform to try to avoid blame during red scare - non-churchgoers - unmarried - and critics suspected as communists
Gays in the military
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Ngo Dinh Diem
Conformity in the 1950s
18. Fought for return to colonial rule - usually conservative (educated and wealthy
Rationing
Tories (Loyalists)
Essex case
Commerce Compromise
19. Over Senate seat for Illinois (Douglas victor) - Lincoln stated the country could not remain split over the issue of slavery
Second Great Awakening
Suffolk Resolves
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
20. Killed the AAA - although FDR insisted on continuing by creating smaller state-level AAAs
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Jamestown
Butler v. U.S. Court case
21. Political action for religion justified by decreased presence of religion in society; Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition to expand national influence
Religious Right
Indentured servants
Spoils System
Freeport Doctrine
22. 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
Keynesian economics
Pet banks
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
Harpers Ferry (1859)
23. Runaway slaves could be caught in the North and be brought back to their masters (they were treated as property — running away was as good as stealing)
American society during the Revolution
President Franklin Roosevelt
Fugitive Slave Act
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
24. Attempted to boost economy by making loans to banks and insurance companies - hoping to restart them
Cult of domesticity
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
25. In Brook Farm Community - lived in seclusion for two years writing Walden and On Civil Disobedience - proved that man could provide for himself without materialistic wants
National Organization of Women
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
Convict-lease system
Henry David Thoreau
26. French foreign minister (Talleyrand) demanded bribe in order to meet with American peace commission - made Adams unpopular among the people
Peace Corps
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
XYZ Affair
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
27. Mass migration northward; mainly blacks migrating from the southern states into the north hoping for less discrimination
The Homefront
John Foster Dulles
Indian Removal Act
Great Migration
28. Stock prices fell drastically; without buyers - the stocks became essentially worthless; cause bank crashes - &c.
Stock market crash (1929)
Maysville Road Veto
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
George Whitefield
29. Organized and controlled resistance against Parliamentary acts in less violent ways (strength of martyrdom) - advocated nonimportation
Sons of Liberty
Interstate Commerce Act
Palmer Raids
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
30. Scarce supplies (food and clothing) - army motivated by von Steuben
Underground Railroad
Gulf War - 'Operation Desert Storm' (1991)
Harlem Renaissance
Valley Forge
31. John Noyes - New York; utopian society for communalism - perfectionism - and complex marriage
Black Panther Party
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
James Madison
Pet banks
32. Prohibited colonies from issuing paper money - destabilized colonial economy
Currency Act
The Loyal Nine
Conformity in the 1950s
Worcester v. Georgia
33. Highest peacetime deficit in US history (due to lower tax rates for high-income taxpayers - spent too much money attempting to reduce price supports to farmers)
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Henry Ford's assembly line
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Battle of Yorktown
34. Proponent of gradual gain of equal rights for African-Americans
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Booker T. Washington
Nullification Controversy
Conformity in the 1950s
35. Selective Service Act to require men to register with few exceptions; women and blacks drafted/enlisted - highly successful
Northern Securities Case
Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Conscription policies
36. River traffic - road building - canals (esp. Erie) - rise of NYC
Battle of Gettysburg
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
Transportation Revolution
37. Nationalists against foreign non-English speaking workers (took jobs away from American men); encouraged to leave the U.S.
Energy Crisis - OPEC
Teapot Dome scandal
Deportations of Mexicans
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
38. Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald (hated his anti-Cuban policies); LBJ instituted Warren Commission to investigate assassination (headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren)
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe (1989)
China turns communist
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
William T. Sherman
39. Former French subjects in Canada allowed to keep Catholicism - while American colonists expected to participate in the Church of England
Quebec Acts
Hoovervilles
Freeport Doctrine
President Jimmy Carter
40. 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
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
Northern Securities Case
Emancipation Proclamation
Dorothea Lange
41. Foundation for self-government laid out by the first Massachusetts settlers before arriving on land
Mayflower Compact
Frederick Douglass
Conscription policies
Wilson's 14 points
42. 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)
Knights of Labor
Vietnam War
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
William Seward
43. Despite CIA-sponsored Soviet resistance - Afghanistan taken by Soviet Union; ended detente between USSR and US
Quebec Acts
CIA overthrow of Iran (1953)
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Bacon's Rebellion
44. Craft unions that left the Knights (1886) - led by Gompers - women left out of recruitment efforts
Benjamin Franklin
Virtual Representation
American Federation of Labor
Harriet Tubman
45. Tweed Leader of Tammany Hall - gained large sums of money through the political machine - prosecuted by Samuel Tilden and sent to jail
William Marcy
Fair Labor Standards Act
Bank of the United States
Anaconda plan
46. Warned of dangerous military-industrial complex (newly-found power of the military to affect the path of democracy)
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47. 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
Independent Treasury Bill
Truman Doctrine
Cuban Missile Crisis
'Wage slaves'
48. (free speech movement) Youth activists (often liberal arts students) spoke out against Vietnam War - supported widespread liberalization
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49. Desegregation (Brown v. Board of Ed) - rights of the accused (Miranda v. Arizona) - voting reforms (Wesberry v. Sanders - Reynolds v. Sims - Katzenbach v Morgan)
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Alexander Hamilton
Warren Court
CIA overthrow of Iran (1953)
50. Sewer systems and purification of water
Know-Nothing (American) Party
Declining death rate
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)