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AP U.S. History
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1. Helped approval ratings - not removed from office despite all the efforts of Republican congressmen
Mercantilism
Clinton impeachment (1997)
National Origins Act (1924)
Salutary Neglect
2. Northern factory workers who were discarded when too old to work (unlike the slaves who were still kept fed and clothed in their old age)
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3. Meant to provide evacuation opportunity for Americans in Cuba; internal accidental explosion blamed on Spanish mines - leading to Spanish¬ American War
Explosion of USS Maine
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
Citizen Genet
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
4. Opposed Polk's high-handedness - avid Southern slave-owner (right to own property - slaves as property)
Indian Removal Act
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
John C. Calhoun
Deregulation
5. First attempt of Cherokees to gain complete sovereign rule over their nation
John Smith
Richard Nixon (R)
James Monroe
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
6. Risk of too many casualties and high costs for hand-to-hand combat/invasion - Japanese surrender unlikely
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
7. Authors included Langston Hughes - McKay - Zora Neale Hurston - Countee Cullet — praise and expression of black culture of the time
Harlem Renaissance
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
Deregulation
8. Drafting extremely hated by Northerners - sparked by Irish-Americans against the black population - 500 lives lost - many buildings burned
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Indian Removal Act
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
New York City draft riots (1863)
9. U.S. would ensure that Cuba would be protected from European powers and maintain a place in Cuban affairs; provided coal and naval stations
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Platt Amendment
'Graying of America'
Suburbia
10. Parks arrested for refusing to give up bus seat to white man - African American leaders called for city-wide boycott of bus system (lasted almost 400 days); Supreme Court ruled segregated buses unconstitutional
William Henry Harrison
Vietnamization
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Alien and Sedition Acts
11. Powerful speaker - toured the country and inspired many into Christianity
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
George Whitefield
Midnight judges
Virginia Resolves
12. New Englanders who did not wish to relate their conversion experiences could become half-way saints so that their children would be able to have the opportunity to be saints
Interstate Commerce Act
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Albany Plan of Union
The Half-Way Covenant
13. CIA attempt to institute Cuban support to overthrow Castro; cover-up uncovered - became representation of Cuban resistance to American aggression
US acquisitions
Energy Crisis - OPEC
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
Bay of Pigs invasion
14. Bomb thrown at protest rally - police shot protestors - caused great animosity in employers for workers' unions
Horace Mann
Hull House
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Haymarket Bombing
15. Raised tariffs extremely high on manufactured goods; benefited domestic manufacturers - but limited foreign trade
Stagflation
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1922 and 1930
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
16. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - Harry Hopkins; provide work for unemployed and construct public works - &c. through Emergency Relief Appropriation Act; much like Civil Works Administration
Adams-Onis Treaty
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
17. Acquired Mexican Cession (future California - Arizona - and New Mexico); Mexico acknowledged American annexation of Texas
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
18. Exemplary Christian community - rich to show charity - held to Calvinistic beliefs
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19. Argued that states had the right to determine whether or not the laws passed by Congress were constitutional
Dorothea Lange
Cult of domesticity
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Midnight judges
20. Despite near-guaranteed second term - campaign workers burglarized Democratic offices - cover-up unsuccessful - resigned to avoid impeachment
Townshend Act (1767)
Muckrakers
New Jersey Plan
Watergate Scandal
21. John Noyes - New York; utopian society for communalism - perfectionism - and complex marriage
Frederick Douglass
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
Ike's Farewell Speech
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
22. Henry Clay aimed to make the US economically independent from Europe (e.g. - support internal improvements - tariff protection - and new national bank)
Northern Securities Case
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Henry Clay and the American System
Whiskey Rebellion
23. Society naturally punishes criminals indiscriminantly
Social Reciprocity
Vietnamization
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
Scopes Trial
24. Sewer systems and purification of water
Keynesian economics
Declining death rate
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
25. Philippines - Hawaii - Puerto Rico - Guam: granted to U.S. at the end of Spanish-American War; Philippines were captured after treaty - and thus not part of spoils - but kept as territory with an inevitable movement for independence; Philippines and
'Bleeding Kansas'
Free silver
US acquisitions
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
26. States joined for foreign affairs - Congress reigned supreme (lacked executive and judicial) - one vote per state - 2/3 vote for bills - unanimous for amendments; too much power to states - unable to regulate commerce or taxes
John D. Rockefeller
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Articles of Confederation
Munn v. Illinois
27. Truman tested for communist alliances within government; government employees prohibited from taking part in remotely-communist activities
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28. All English subjects are represented in Parliament - including those not allowed to vote
The Glorious Revolution
Virtual Representation
Writs of Assistance
Underground Railroad
29. Midway (US Signal Corps - turning point of war in the Pacific) - D-Day (Eisenhower's amphibious invasion of Normandy - led to depletion of German forces) - Stalingrad (Russians defeated Germans - saved Moscow and Leningrad - turning point in Europe)
American society during the Revolution
Important WWII Battles
Vertical and horizontal integration
Bracero program
30. Belligerent nationalism against other threatening nations
Stamp Act
Great Migration
President Franklin Roosevelt
Jingoism
31. Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait despite peace treaty and refusal to abandon Iraqi occupation
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32. Strong central government provided by power divided between state and national governments - checks and balances - amendable constitution
Federalism
Kitchen Cabinet
President Ronald Reagan
The Homefront
33. Tet Offensive in Vietnam - assassination of MLK and Robert Kennedy (presidential candidate) - Riot of Democratic National Convention (Chicago police beat antiwar protestors) - Black Panthers
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34. Intended to save British East India Company from bankruptcy - could sell directly to consumers rather than through wholesalers (lowered prices to compete with smuggled tea)
Tea Act (1773)
French and Indian War
Nativism
Pinkertons
35. Gorbachev announced Soviet withdrawal of power from all of Eastern Europe - including Berlin (wall torn down - free movement - &c.)
'Baby Boom'
Articles of Confederation
Proclamation of 1763
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe (1989)
36. Mass production of the Model-T - workers as potential consumers (raise wages) - supported other industries and raised employment
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37. Reduced quota - reduced numbers from eastern and southern Europe - Asians banned - Canadians and Latin Americans exempt
National Origins Act (1924)
Social Gospel movement
Butler v. U.S. Court case
Farm crisis
38. Launched in 1958 by Ike; successful launch of American satellite (Explorer I); massive arms builup
Macon's Bill No. 2
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
Conversion Experience
39. Prohibited discrimination in any government-related work; increased black employment
Vietnamization
Henry Clay and the American System
Stephen Austin
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
40. Key to English-Native American relationship - died in England in 1617
Ike's Farewell Speech
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
Pocahontas
The Loyal Nine
41. Installed Shah as dictator - overthrew Moussadegh (communist interests) - in order to resist nationalization British oil holdings
CIA overthrow of Iran (1953)
Henry Ford's assembly line
Energy Crisis - OPEC
John Brown
42. Mass migration northward; mainly blacks migrating from the southern states into the north hoping for less discrimination
Great Migration
Salvation Army
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
Judiciary Act of 1789
43. Challenged New Englanders to completely separate Church from State - as the State would corrupt the church
Consumerism
Roger Williams
Connecticut Compromise
Ralph Waldo Emerson
44. FDR's inner circle of experts rather than just politicians in the cabinet
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45. (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
Pan-Americanism
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Compromise of 1850
46. Political muckraking cartoonist - refused bribes to stop criticism
Immigration Act of 1965
Articles of Confederation
Richard Nixon (R)
Thomas Nast
47. Scarce supplies (food and clothing) - army motivated by von Steuben
Second Great Awakening
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Valley Forge
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
48. Victorian standards confined women to the home to create an artistic environment as a statement of cultural aspirations
Elastic Clause ('necessary and proper')
Cult of domesticity
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
49. Blacks who went to prison taken out and used for labor in slave-like conditions - enforced southern racial hierarchy
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
Lewis and Clark expedition
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Convict-lease system
50. Working class exploited for profit - proletariat (workers) to revolt and inherit all society
Lodge Reservations
Benjamin Franklin
Fair Labor Standards Act
Karl Marx Das Kapital