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AP U.S. History
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1. Republican - popular hero of WWII; 'dynamic conservatism' as a middle ground btw. Rep. and Dem.; Interstate Highway System (ulterior motive of weapons transportation); St. Lawrence Seaway opened Great Lakes to Atlantic Ocean via locks; Depts. Of Heal
New Deal
Citizen Genet
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Reaganomics
2. Electric light - phonograph - mimeograph - Dictaphone - moving pictures
New Nationalism
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Thomas Edison
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
3. Southern and Midwestern farmers expressing discontent - supported free silver and subtreasury plan (cash advance on future crop — farmers had little cash flow during the year) - criticized national banks
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4. British Navy would take American sailors and force them to work for Britain
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
Impressment
5. Support people oppressed by communism and non-democratic governments; worked with democratic governments in Greece - Turkey - and Israel
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Five Civilized Tribes
Dawes Plan (1924)
Truman Doctrine
6. Colonies proposed colonial confederation under lighter British rule (crown-appointed president - 'Grand Council'); never took effect
Albany Plan of Union
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
Battle of Saratoga
Whiskey Rebellion
7. Selective Service Act to require men to register with few exceptions; women and blacks drafted/enlisted - highly successful
Election of 1980
Conscription policies
Fair Deal
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
8. 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
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
Tea Act (1773)
Plessy v. Ferguson
Industrial Workers of the World
9. Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson; purchase of Alaska 'Seward's Folly'
Harlem Renaissance
American society during the Revolution
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
William Seward
10. Anti-communist crusades due to fear of radicalism spurred by Bolshevik rebellion
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11. Acquired Mexican Cession (future California - Arizona - and New Mexico); Mexico acknowledged American annexation of Texas
Wilmot Proviso
Lewis and Clark expedition
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Forced busing
12. Warned against permanent foreign alliances and political parties - called for unity of the country - established precedent of two-term presidency
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13. Last major battle; surrender of Cornwallis - led King George III to officially make peace with the colonies
William Seward
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Battle of Yorktown
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
14. Allowed Parliament to completely legislate over the colonies - limited colonists' say
Macon's Bill No. 2
Declaratory Act
Regionalist and naturalist writers
Declining death rate
15. Blacks who went to prison taken out and used for labor in slave-like conditions - enforced southern racial hierarchy
Gains for women
Stamp Act Congress
Convict-lease system
'Wage slaves'
16. Held in New York - agreed to not import British goods until Stamp Act was repealed
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe (1989)
Stamp Act Congress
Palmer Raids
17. 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)
New Deal
1968 Presidential Election
Vertical and horizontal integration
Reaganomics
18. Alice Paul; shocked traditionalism - League of Women Voters supported; new organization of women who were now more independent
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Henry David Thoreau
Adams-Onis Treaty
Barbary Pirates
19. Relied on voluntary compliance (no formal laws) - propaganda; high prices set on commodities to encourage production - Prohibition
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20. 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)
Fugitive Slave Act
First American strategy in WWII
Richard Nixon (R)
Open Door Policy
21. One country that falls into communism will cause surrounding nations to also fall 'like dominos'; spurred by Southeast Asia regimes (esp. Vietnam)
Jamestown
Black Panther Party
Domino theory
Northwest Passage
22. 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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23. Introduced work ethic to Jamestown colony - sanitation - diplomat to local Native American tribes; had fought Spanish and Turks
Charles II - James II
John Smith
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
Liberty Party
24. Taxes on all legal documents to support British troops - not approved by colonists through their representatives
Stamp Act
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
Conscription policies
25. Required of members of the Puritan Church; took the place of baptism required by the Catholic Church
Jackson's Presidency
Conversion Experience
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
The Loyal Nine
26. Decision under Sherman Anti-Trust Act shot down by Supreme Court — sugar refining was manufacturing rather than trade/commerce
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Writs of Assistance
United States vs. EC Knight Company
27. Repeat candidate for president - proponent of silver-backing (16:1 platform) - cross of gold speech against gold standard; Democratic candidate (1896)
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
Lodge Reservations
William Jennings Bryan
Conscription policies
28. Parliament took minor actions in the colonies - allowing them to experiment with and become accustomed to self-government - international trade agreements
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Indian Removal Act
Espionage Act and Sedition Act
Salutary Neglect
29. Pushed through northern Georgia - captured Atlanta - 'march to the sea' (total war and destruction) - proceeded to South Carolina
The Loyal Nine
Thomas Nast
Deportations of Mexicans
William T. Sherman
30. Worked to reform the American education system - abolitionist - prison/asylum reform with Dorothea Dix
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Rationing
Horace Mann
31. Belief in minimal government so as to allow the people their own free reign - lower taxes to stimulate economy - &c.
Conservatism
Henry Ford's assembly line
Japanese internment
James G. Blaine
32. Influence of African-American blues - music of the younger generation (gap between them and their parents)
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33. Known as 'wartime food czar;' created recreation policies and reintroduced leisure culture and conservation ethic to get Americans escaping the cities and improve tourism - etc.
Nativism
James Meredith
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
34. Made it illegal to transport women across state borders for 'immoral purposes -' violated by black boxer Jack Johnson (w/ white woman)
Mann Act
March on Washington
Marshall Court (all cases)
Battle of Gettysburg
35. Group of Bostonians in opposition to the Stamp Act - sought to drive stamp distributors from the city
Conscription policies
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
Regionalist and naturalist writers
The Loyal Nine
36. Increased tariff on sugar (and other imports) - attempted to harder enforce existing tariffs
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
California Gold Rush
Worcester v. Georgia
Sugar Act
37. Caused American hysteria (1957) - fear that Soviets were technologically superior; led Ike to order more rigorous education program to rival Soviets (National Defense Education Act)
New Lights vs. Old Lights
League of Nations
Sputnik
Nullification Controversy
38. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - insured deposits < $5000 - reassured American public of the worth of banks
Battle of Saratoga
Fort Sumter
Currency Act
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
39. Organized Seneca Falls Convention - founded (with Anthony) National Women Suffrage Organization
Robert La Follette
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
President John F. Kennedy
Marshall Plan
40. 10-year moratorium on Chinese immigration to reduce competition for jobs (Chinese willing to work for cheap salaries)
Teapot Dome scandal
President John F. Kennedy
Writs of Assistance
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
41. Helped approval ratings - not removed from office despite all the efforts of Republican congressmen
Lowell mill/system
Dorothea Dix
President Franklin Roosevelt
Clinton impeachment (1997)
42. Sets of cardboard box houses that epitomized the country's blame on Hoover for the cause of the Depression
Hoovervilles
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
George Wallace - American
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
43. The Union planned a blockade that would not allow supplies of any sort into the Confederacy; control the Mississippi and Atlantic/Gulf of Mexico
Anaconda plan
Anne Hutchinson
Black Panther Party
'Silent Majority'
44. George Wallace vs. Nixon vs. Humphrey; very narrow popular vote triumph to Nixon (although he had clear majority of electoral votes)
Alien and Sedition Acts
Second Great Awakening
Invasion of Iraq
1968 Presidential Election
45. Created in 1961 as example of liberal anticommunism in third world countries; 'reform-minded missionaries of democracy'
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Knights of Labor
Peace Corps
46. Ex-Lincoln secretary; worked to gain Open Door Notes' acceptance from the major powers
12th Amendment
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Secretary of State John Hay
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
47. Ideas of Wilson: small enterprise - states' rights - more active government - trust busting - left social issues up to the states
Non-conformity
Black Panther Party
Okies' and 'Arkies'
New Freedom
48. Opposed strikes - producer-consumer cooperation - temperance - welcomed blacks and women (allowing segregation)
Zoot Suit riots
Mikhail Gorbachev
Battle of Antietam
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
49. Soviet leader undergoing tensions on superpower and domestic level
Mikhail Gorbachev
President Harry Truman
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
'Baby Boom'
50. Clay and Calhoun - eager for war with Britain (War of 1812)
John L. Lewis
Navigation Acts
Critics of FDR
War hawks
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