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AP U.S. History
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1. Worked to reform the American education system - abolitionist - prison/asylum reform with Dorothea Dix
Adams-Onis Treaty
Ngo Dinh Diem
Horace Mann
Warren Court
2. To make German reparations from WWI more accessible to Germans; evacuation of troops from Germany - reorganization of the Reichsbank - and foreign loans
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
Vietnam War
Dawes Plan (1924)
3. Created Interstate Commerce Commission to require railroads to publish rates (less discrimination - short/long haul) - first legislation to regulate corporations - ineffective ICC
Committees of Correspondence
Ike's Farewell Speech
Interstate Commerce Act
Thomas Edison
4. Southern Christian Leadership Conference - Led boycott - became leader of civil rights movement; urged nonviolent resistance (cf. tactics of Ghandi);
Washington's Farewell Address
The Loyal Nine
Martin Luther King Jr.
'Atlanta Compromise'
5. Led architectural movement to create building designs that reflected buildings' functions - especially in Chicago
Louis Sullivan
Stamp Act Congress
Ulysses S. Grant
Liberty Party
6. Douglas was able to reconcile the Dred Scott Decision with popular sovereignty; voters would be able to exclude slavery by not allowing laws that treated slaves as property
Robert La Follette
Freeport Doctrine
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
Alexander Hamilton
7. Destroyed by Jackson on the grounds that it was unconstitutional and too much power for a federal institution
Bank of the United States
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
'Brain trust'
Farmers'Alliance movement
8. Planes hijacked by terrorists for destruction; blame pinned on Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden - sought out in attempt to completely destroy terrorism
New Lights vs. Old Lights
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Conscription policies
Compromise of 1850
9. Americans at home reminded to conserve materials in all aspects of life to support the military; resulted in saving up of money to cause economic boom after war
Theodore Roosevelt
'Brain trust'
Vietnam War
Rationing
10. Social ideals to be encouraged in public school (stress on social interaction) - learning by doing
Greenback Party
Soviet atomic bomb
Forced busing
John Dewey
11. Foundation for self-government laid out by the first Massachusetts settlers before arriving on land
Muckrakers
Alexander Hamilton
Mayflower Compact
Boston Tea Party
12. Private property subject to government regulation when property is devoted to public interest; against railroads
Ho Chi Minh
Munn v. Illinois
John Dewey
Schechter v. U.S Court case
13. Lee's chief lieutenant and premier cavalry officer
14. Sewer systems and purification of water
Mayflower Compact
George Kennan
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
Declining death rate
15. Created by John L. Lewis for unskilled labor - organized 'sit-down strike' against GM to work for recognition
James K. Polk
'Baby Boom'
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
16. First shots are fired at Charleston - North Carolina
Jay's Treaty
John C. Calhoun
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
Fort Sumter
17. Strong central government provided by power divided between state and national governments - checks and balances - amendable constitution
Federalism
William Penn and the Quakers
'Contract with America' (1994)
Fair Labor Standards Act
18. Won battles in the West and raised northern morale (esp. Shiloh - Fort Henry - and Fort Donelson) - made Union commanding general
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
Ulysses S. Grant
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
19. The principle that a state should decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery
Popular Sovereignty
Nativism
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
Harpers Ferry (1859)
20. 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
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Midnight judges
Court Packing
Rosie the Riveter
21. Kennedy vs. Nixon - Kennedy (due to televised charisma) won over Nixon (pale and nervous)
'Silent Majority'
Navigation Acts
Election of 1960
Berlin Wall
22. Soviet-aided North Korea attack on South Korea; MacArthur named general on behalf of UN (excluded Russia) - US supplied majority of troops; recapture of South Korea and suppression of North forces to northern border; introduction of Chinese - MacArth
Korean War
Tories (Loyalists)
Quarantine Speech - 1937
Macon's Bill No. 2
23. Warned against permanent foreign alliances and political parties - called for unity of the country - established precedent of two-term presidency
24. Hamilton praised efficient factories with few managers over many workers - promote emigration - employment opportunities - applications of technology
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
First American strategy in WWII
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
Jackson's Presidency
25. Led by Francis Willard - powerful 'interest group' following the civil war - urged women's suffrage - led to Prohibition
26. Head of federal Division of Forestry - contributed to Roosevelt's natural conservation efforts
Moral Diplomacy
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
Standard Oil Trust
Gifford Pinchot
27. Decided to punish war crimes - established program for de-Nazification of Germany
New Freedom
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
Domino theory
Potsdam Conference (1945)
28. FDR encouraged democracies to quarantine their opponents (economic embargos); criticized by isolationists
Quarantine Speech - 1937
Ku Klux Klan
The Alamo
Marcus Garvey
29. Germany announced that it would sink all (including American) ships - attempt to involve U.S. in war
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
30. Blacks denied admission to all-white school; overturned Plessy v. Ferguson - negating 'separate but equal' - ordered integration of schools as soon as possible; white southerners protested (refused to attend integrated schools)
Specie
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Andrew Carnegie
31. Goods able to be transferred from New York to New Orleans by inland waterways
Pet banks
1968 as 'the year of shocks'
Erie Canal
Zimmerman Note
32. Forbade restraint of trade and did not distinguish good from bad trusts - ineffective due to lack of enforcement mechanism (waited for Clayton Anti-Trust Act)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
XYZ Affair
Watergate Scandal
American Federation of Labor
33. Efficient working methods to increase productivity; usually resulted in lower wages (hated by workers) - power to managers
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
Washington's Farewell Address
John Dewey
Square Deal
34. Meant to provide evacuation opportunity for Americans in Cuba; internal accidental explosion blamed on Spanish mines - leading to Spanish¬ American War
Embargo Act (1807)
Explosion of USS Maine
Monroe Doctrine
Conversion Experience
35. Connected the colonies to Britain - opposed to unnecessary unfair taxation; strong influence on Albany Plan
Indian Removal Act
Stock market crash (1929)
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
Benjamin Franklin
36. Supported Socialists - militant unionists and socialists - advocated strikes and sabotaging politics - aimed for an umbrella union similar to Knights of Labor - ideas too radical for socialist cause
'Hundred days'
Industrial Workers of the World
Election of 1960
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
37. Agreement between US and Britain to remove armed fleets from the Great Lakes
President Bill Clinton
New Jersey Plan
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
38. Interracial group of protestors who aimed to dramatize the violations of the call for desegregation; harsh treatment by southern whites provoked Kennedy to more strictly enforce desegregation
William and Mary
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
Thomas Edison
Shays's Rebellion
39. Lowering of income taxes for wealthy (trickle-down economics) - refusal to create higher prices to help farmers (McNary-Haugen Bill)
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
John Smith
Panic of 1893
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
40. To service economy in late 20 century (end of industrialism) - Higher focus on services (esp. education) rather than material products
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
Bill of Rights
Four Freedoms' speech
Economic transition
41. Sought to eliminate spheres of influence and avoid European monopolies in China; unaccepted by the powers in mind
Tea Act (1773)
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
Open Door Policy
Cult of domesticity
42. British citizenship outnumbered colonies' - large navy and professional army; exhausted resources (Hessians hired) - national debt
George Washington
British strengths and weaknesses
Kent State Protest
Anaconda plan
43. Tet Offensive in Vietnam - assassination of MLK and Robert Kennedy (presidential candidate) - Riot of Democratic National Convention (Chicago police beat antiwar protestors) - Black Panthers
44. NLF attacked numerous South Vietnamese cities and American embassies - eventually repulsed; spoiled LBJ's record to reelection - resulted in massive protests in US to end the war; atrocities such that war could only end in stalemate
George Washington
CIA overthrow of Iran (1953)
Tet Offensive (1968)
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
45. Taxes on all legal documents to support British troops - not approved by colonists through their representatives
John C. Calhoun
Stamp Act
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Thomas Nast
46. Nixon led movement to Hiss's indictment; convicted of perjury - Nixon gained national prominence
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
Booker T. Washington
New Freedom
Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1922 and 1930
47. Introduced his 'New Deal -' won election by a relative landslide (he was not Hoover - whom the public now did not trust)
President Franklin Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
'Graying of America'
Open Door Policy
48. Government would protect America's foreign investments with any force needed; under president Taft
49. Young women employed by Lowell's textile company - housed in dormitories
Farm crisis
Yeoman Farmers
Lowell mill/system
Second Great Awakening
50. Established federal district courts that followed local procedures - Supreme Court had final jurisdiction; compromise between nationalists and advocates for states' rights
Martin Luther King Jr.
Square Deal
Judiciary Act of 1789
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution