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AP U.S. History
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1. Opposed Polk's high-handedness - avid Southern slave-owner (right to own property - slaves as property)
Theodore Roosevelt
Soviet atomic bomb
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
John C. Calhoun
2. Ensured trade with mother country - nationalism; too restrictive on colonial economy - not voted on by colonists
Embargo Act (1807)
1968 as 'the year of shocks'
Benjamin Franklin
Mercantilism
3. 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)
Albany Plan of Union
Fugitive Slave Act
Gifford Pinchot
Voting Rights Act of 1965
4. Clay and Calhoun - eager for war with Britain (War of 1812)
War hawks
Bay of Pigs invasion
Watergate Scandal
Marcus Garvey
5. Standard Oil Company - Ruthless business tactics (survival of the fittest)
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
Olive Branch Petition
John D. Rockefeller
Rosenbergs
6. Gore promising with experience - Bush appealing by family influence and plans for presidency (tax cuts - education reform - defense - &c.)
Truman Doctrine
The Federalist Papers
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Potsdam Conference (1945)
7. Religious movements - traveling 'meetings -' rise of Baptist and Methodist ministries; Charles G. Finney
'Atlanta Compromise'
Isolationism
Bombing and invasion of Cambodia
Second Great Awakening
8. Spurred by Great Migration - large-scale riots - lynchings - &c.
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9. Warned of dangerous military-industrial complex (newly-found power of the military to affect the path of democracy)
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10. Monroe presidency - national unity behind Monroe - post-war boom (foreign demand for cotton - grain - and tobacco) - Depression of 1819 (cheap British imports - tightened credit - affected West the most)
Dollar Diplomacy'
Era of Good Feelings
New Federalism
Bruce Barton
11. 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)
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Kitchen Cabinet
Olive Branch Petition
James Monroe
12. 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
Marbury v. Madison
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
Citizen Genet
Fair Deal
13. Fought for human rights in Africa - Panama Canal returned to Panama - relations with China resolved
Salvation Army
Humanitarian diplomacy
George Kennan
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
14. Cherokee tribe forced to move from southern Appalachians to reservations in current-day Oklahoma - high death toll
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15. Argued that states had the right to determine whether or not the laws passed by Congress were constitutional
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Tea Act (1773)
Palmer Raids
16. Calvinist - devised concept of 'city on a hill' ('A Model of Christian Charity'); founded highly successful towns in Massachusetts Bay
Karl Marx Das Kapital
John Winthrop
Election of 1824
Sugar Act
17. Stock prices fell drastically; without buyers - the stocks became essentially worthless; cause bank crashes - &c.
Cuban Missile Crisis
'Red Scare' (1919)
New York City draft riots (1863)
Stock market crash (1929)
18. Offered a New Deal (reminiscent of FDR) of smaller government - reduced taxes - and free enterprise; Washington outsider
Fugitive Slave Act
'Brain trust'
Federalism
President Ronald Reagan
19. Symbol of women workers during the war
Stamp Act
Robert La Follette
Rosie the Riveter
Impressment
20. Georgia cannot enforce American laws on Indian tribes
Platt Amendment
Suffolk Resolves
Stamp Act
Worcester v. Georgia
21. Efficient working methods to increase productivity; usually resulted in lower wages (hated by workers) - power to managers
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
President John F. Kennedy
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
20-Negro Law
22. 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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23. North African Muslim rulers solved budget problems through piracy and tributes in Mediterranean - obtained fees from most European powers
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
Barbary Pirates
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
24. 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
Freeport Doctrine
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
Interstate Commerce Act
Roger Williams
25. Founded by Betty Friedan - Bella Abzug - and Aileen Hernandez; lobbied for equal opportunity where the EEOC was lacking (gender discrimination); lawsuits and mobilization of public opinion
National Organization of Women
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Emancipation Proclamation
26. Opposed to slavery and secession - but stayed loyal to Virginia - despite offer for command of Union Army
'Contract with America' (1994)
Sons of Liberty
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
Robert E. Lee
27. Attempted to centralize production of war materials; ineffective due to American desire for laissez-faire government
Tories (Loyalists)
War Industries Board
Townshend Act (1767)
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
28. Ideas of Wilson: small enterprise - states' rights - more active government - trust busting - left social issues up to the states
Vietcong
New Freedom
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
Maysville Road Veto
29. Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson; purchase of Alaska 'Seward's Folly'
William Seward
Civil Rights Act of 1964
'Affluent Society'
John Dewey
30. Introduced the 'trickle-down' economics theory in order to promote business and increase money available for speculation
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
Era of Good Feelings
Barbary Pirates
'Graying of America'
31. River traffic - road building - canals (esp. Erie) - rise of NYC
Five Civilized Tribes
Transportation Revolution
New Freedom
US acquisitions
32. Taxes on all legal documents to support British troops - not approved by colonists through their representatives
Citizen Genet
Moral Diplomacy
'Baby Boom'
Stamp Act
33. Formed by white progressives - adopted goals of Niagara Movement - in response to Springfield Race Riots
Popular Sovereignty
Rock `n' Roll
Judiciary Act of 1789
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
34. Beginnings of trusts (destruction of competition); vertical- controlling every aspect of production (control quality - eliminate middlemen - Rockefeller); horizontal- consolidating with competitors to monopolize a market (highly detrimental)
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Vertical and horizontal integration
Causes of the depression
Marshall Plan
35. Foundation for self-government laid out by the first Massachusetts settlers before arriving on land
Mayflower Compact
Indian Removal Act
King James I - King Charles
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
36. Nationalists against foreign non-English speaking workers (took jobs away from American men); encouraged to leave the U.S.
Deportations of Mexicans
Nativism
Four Freedoms' speech
Judiciary Act of 1789
37. U.S. felt it was its duty to 'watch out' for the interests of other countries in the Western hemisphere; provided justification for invasions of Latin America.
Berlin Wall
Haymarket Bombing
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
'New Left'
38. Supreme Court legalized the 'separate but equal' philosophy
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
Plessy v. Ferguson
'Wage slaves'
Midnight judges
39. Americans who were forced out of their homes in Oklahoma and Arkansas (respectively) due to the dust storms and drought known as the Dust Bowl
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40. Tried to rule as absolute monarchs without using Parliament - little to no sympathy for colonial legislatures
William Henry Harrison
Charles II - James II
Citizen Genet
John D. Rockefeller
41. Vetoed by Jackson on the count that government funds for the Maysville Road would only benefit one state
Maysville Road Veto
James Monroe
Stamp Act Congress
Elastic Clause ('necessary and proper')
42. Taught American landscape painting rather than Classical subjects
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
Hudson River School
Detente - realpolitik
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
43. Committees appointed from different colonies to communicate on matters; asserted rights to self¬government - cooperation between colonies
Erie Canal
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
Haymarket Bombing
Committees of Correspondence
44. Head of federal Division of Forestry - contributed to Roosevelt's natural conservation efforts
Gifford Pinchot
Valley Forge
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
Secretary of State John Hay
45. Rebels felt the governor of Virginia failed to protect the frontier from the Native Americans
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46. Natural selection applied to human competition - advocated by Herbert Spencer - William Graham Sumner
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
Lusitania
John Winthrop
Social Darwinism
47. Opposed BTW's accommodation policies - called for immediate equality - formed Niagara Movement to support his ideas
Court Packing
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
48. Uncovered the 'dirt' on corruption and harsh quality of city/working life; heavily criticized by Theodore Roosevelt; Ida Tarabell (oil companies) - David Graham Phillips (Senate) - Aschen School (child labor — photography) - mass magazines McClure's
Muckrakers
Non-conformity
Harpers Ferry (1859)
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
49. Full American independence - territory west of Appalachian ceded to America - loyalists to be compensated for seized property - fishing rights off of Newfoundland
Louis Sullivan
National Road
John Dewey
Treaty of Paris (1783)
50. Achieved an abnormal rise in class system (steel industry) - pioneered vertical integration (controlled Mesabie Range to ship ore to Pittsburgh) - opposed monopolies - used partnership of steel tycoons (Henry Clay Frick as a manager/partner) - Bessem
Moral Diplomacy
James Monroe
Andrew Carnegie
Impressment