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AP U.S. History
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1. Private property subject to government regulation when property is devoted to public interest; against railroads
Munn v. Illinois
Wilmot Proviso
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
New Nationalism
2. Executed for leaking atomic secrets to Soviets - avowed communists
Popular Sovereignty
Coxey's Army
Rosenbergs
Industrial Workers of the World
3. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - hydroelectric power to river valley; brought social and economic development to very poor area
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Specie
Knights of Labor
4. Accomplished great number of relief - recovery - and reform efforts; sought practical solutions to the problems by experimentation
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5. New generation of writers outside of Protestantism - resentment of ideals betrayed by society; Fitzgerald (despised materialism - Great Gatsby) - Hemingway (disillusionment - war experience) - Lewis (against upper class — Babbit and Mainstreet) - Fau
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6. Overthrow of the Taliban - in search of bin Laden
President Harry Truman
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
Sputnik
March on Birmingham
7. Second youngest president - entered presidency as tensions of the Cold War increased; unable to get major initiatives through Congress due to conservative bloc; tax cuts (economic stimulation); reluctantly gets involved in civil rights; emphasizes Sp
'City on a Hill'
Herbert Hoover's Food Administration
Bruce Barton
President John F. Kennedy
8. Pop art - mass production of art by screening
The Loyal Nine
Andy Warhol
Five Civilized Tribes
Charles II - James II
9. Often debtors sold to slave traders by African kings seeking riches; Columbian Exchange
Whigs (Patriots)
Atlantic slave trade
Gains for women
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
10. Established world organization; Soviet Union pledged to allow democratic procedures in Eastern Europe; pledge broken - led to Cold War
Yalta Conference (1945)
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
Clinton impeachment (1997)
New Federalism
11. First permanent English settlement in the Americas (1607) - along James River
Jamestown
'Red Scare' (1919)
Hull House
Mann Act
12. Banned racial discrimination in federal practices; To Secure These Rights called for desegregation - anti-lynching - end of poll taxes
Quebec Acts
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
Virginia Plan
13. Established colony of Georgia as a place for honest debtors
President Jimmy Carter
James Oglethorpe
Transportation Revolution
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
14. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - Harold Icicles - provided public construction projects
Clinton impeachment (1997)
Critics of FDR
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Deportations of Mexicans
15. Settled in Pennsylvania - believed the 'Inner Light' could speak through any person and ran religious services without ministers
William Penn and the Quakers
Good Neighbor Policy
'Bleeding Kansas'
'Brain trust'
16. Emphasis on human reason - logic - and science (acquired - not nascent - knowledge); increased followers of Christianity
The Enlightenment
1968 Presidential Election
Alien and Sedition Acts
AFL-CIO (1955)
17. Hired to photograph ordinary Americans experiencing the depression
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
Dorothea Lange
Kansas-Nebraska Act
William Seward
18. Established free trade zone between Canada - United States and Mexico - net gain in jobs due to opening of Mexican markets
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Mayflower Compact
Conservatism
19. Bicameral congressional representation based on population
Virginia Plan
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Ulysses S. Grant
Battle of Yorktown
20. Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait despite peace treaty and refusal to abandon Iraqi occupation
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21. The two political parties that formed following Washington's presidency; Federalists for stronger central government - Republicans for stronger state governments
Federalists and Republicans
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
The Alamo
Panic of 1893
22. British Navy would take American sailors and force them to work for Britain
Charles II - James II
Interstate Commerce Act
Impressment
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
23. Darwinian (influenced by jazz age and new scientific ideas) against Fundamentalist (the Bible and Creationism); John Scopes convicted for teaching Darwinism (defended by Clarence Darrow); Scopes found guilty
Scopes Trial
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
Conformity in the 1950s
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
24. Colonies proposed colonial confederation under lighter British rule (crown-appointed president - 'Grand Council'); never took effect
Harpers Ferry (1859)
Lowell mill/system
20-Negro Law
Albany Plan of Union
25. Introduced work ethic to Jamestown colony - sanitation - diplomat to local Native American tribes; had fought Spanish and Turks
Albany Plan of Union
John Smith
Gulf War - 'Operation Desert Storm' (1991)
Atlantic slave trade
26. Stock prices fell drastically; without buyers - the stocks became essentially worthless; cause bank crashes - &c.
James Madison
Stock market crash (1929)
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
United States vs. EC Knight Company
27. Soviets cut Berlin off from the rest of Germany by blockade; US organized airlift to drop supplies into Britain; blockade lifted in May 1949
Court Packing
Cult of domesticity
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
Berlin Airlift
28. Tried to rule as absolute monarchs without using Parliament - little to no sympathy for colonial legislatures
Charles II - James II
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
Thomas Edison
Citizen Genet
29. Created the Wisconsin Idea (as governor of Wisconsin) — regulated railroad - direct-primary system - increased corporate taxes - reference library for lawmakers
Robert La Follette
Embargo Act (1807)
Cotton Gin
Yellow journalism
30. Written by Calhoun - regarding tariff nullification
Muckrakers
Nativism
Knights of Labor
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
31. Despite near-guaranteed second term - campaign workers burglarized Democratic offices - cover-up unsuccessful - resigned to avoid impeachment
Watergate Scandal
'Silent Majority'
Quarantine Speech - 1937
Henry Clay and the American System
32. Connected the colonies to Britain - opposed to unnecessary unfair taxation; strong influence on Albany Plan
Benjamin Franklin
The Homefront
Four Freedoms' speech
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
33. FDR asked for increased authority to aid Britain; freedom of speech/expression - of religion - from want - from fear; resulted in Lend-Lease
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34. Judiciary Reorganization Bill; FDR's attempt to put in extra judges who would support him without doubt
Salvation Army
Square Deal
Court Packing
Charles Lindbergh
35. American general Horatio Gates was victorious over British general Burgoyne
Battle of Saratoga
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
Currency Act
Dollar Diplomacy'
36. Opposed strikes - producer-consumer cooperation - temperance - welcomed blacks and women (allowing segregation)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
New Deal
Alien and Sedition Acts
37. Authors included Langston Hughes - McKay - Zora Neale Hurston - Countee Cullet — praise and expression of black culture of the time
Harlem Renaissance
Quebec Acts
William Seward
Upton Sinclair
38. Parliament took minor actions in the colonies - allowing them to experiment with and become accustomed to self-government - international trade agreements
Tea Act (1773)
Declaratory Act
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Salutary Neglect
39. (free speech movement) Youth activists (often liberal arts students) spoke out against Vietnam War - supported widespread liberalization
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40. Repeat candidate for president - proponent of silver-backing (16:1 platform) - cross of gold speech against gold standard; Democratic candidate (1896)
Dollar Diplomacy'
William Jennings Bryan
Marshall Court (all cases)
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
41. 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
Court Packing
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
XYZ Affair
League of Nations
42. National Liberation Front - guerilla militia from south Vietnam fighting alongside the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam)
Jim Crow laws
Citizen Genet
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
Vietcong
43. Commission on civil rights to attempt to guarantee the ballot to blacks; showed government's changing views of race relations
Election of 1824
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
Spanish American War (1898)
Essex case
44. Destroyed by Jackson on the grounds that it was unconstitutional and too much power for a federal institution
Jim Crow laws
Anaconda plan
Bank of the United States
Bonus Army
45. Europeans should not interfere with affairs in Western Hemisphere - Americans to stay out of foreign affairs; supported Washington's goal for US neutrality in Americas
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Monroe Doctrine
Sputnik
Bacon's Rebellion
46. Tax cuts to increase population spending (help economy) - drastic cutting back on government programs due to lack of funds
Whigs (Patriots)
Worcester v. Georgia
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
Creel Committee
47. Standard Oil Company - Ruthless business tactics (survival of the fittest)
Great Migration
Sputnik
Northern Securities Case
John D. Rockefeller
48. 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'
Lusitania
California Gold Rush
Compromise of 1877
Independent Treasury Bill
49. American hostages taken by US hating Shiites upon Shah's flight from uprising - botched rescue attempts
Tories (Loyalists)
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
Truman's Loyalty Program
Consumerism
50. Worked alongside Josiah Henson to make repeated trips to get slaves out of the South into freedom
Harriet Tubman
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
Cult of domesticity
'City on a Hill'