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AP U.S. History
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1. December 1814 - Opposed War of 1812 - called for one-term presidency - northern states threatened to secede if their views were left unconsidered next to those of southern and western states - supported nullification - end of Federalist Party
New Lights vs. Old Lights
Bank of the United States
Hartford Convention
Berlin Airlift
2. 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)
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
Watergate Scandal
Vertical and horizontal integration
'Graying of America'
3. First permanent English settlement in the Americas (1607) - along James River
Jamestown
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
Pinkertons
Writs of Assistance
4. 'Southern Strategy' lured many southern Democrats to the Republican party (esp. due to southern opposition to Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
Warren Court
Marcus Garvey
Richard Nixon (R)
5. Focused on the 'Common Man;' removal of Indians - removal of federal deposits in BUS - annexation of territory - liberal use of veto
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6. Worked to reform the American education system - abolitionist - prison/asylum reform with Dorothea Dix
Jamestown
Federalism
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
Horace Mann
7. South divided into 5 military districts; states to guarantee full suffrage for blacks; ratify 14th amendment
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
Northwest Passage
Cult of domesticity
Jackie Robinson
8. Stressed role of church and religion to improve city life - led by preachers Walter Raushenbusch and Washington Gladen; influenced settlement house movement and Salvation Army
The Half-Way Covenant
Social Gospel movement
Dorothea Lange
Benjamin Franklin
9. Young women employed by Lowell's textile company - housed in dormitories
New Freedom
Pearl Harbor
Lowell mill/system
Federalists and Republicans
10. Similar to Navigation; raised money to pay colonial officials by American taxes; led to Boston boycott of English luxuries
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
'Baby Boom'
Townshend Act (1767)
11. Decided to punish war crimes - established program for de-Nazification of Germany
Kitchen Cabinet
Four Freedoms' speech
Potsdam Conference (1945)
War hawks
12. President to offer military supplies to nations 'vital to the defense of the US'; ended US neutrality (economic war against Germany); Hitler began to sink American ships (limited scale)
William H. Taft
Marcus Garvey
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
1968 Presidential Election
13. First female cabinet member
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
Missouri Compromise (1820)
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Hudson River School
14. 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'
Barbary Pirates
Energy Crisis - OPEC
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
Independent Treasury Bill
15. Banned racial discrimination in federal practices; To Secure These Rights called for desegregation - anti-lynching - end of poll taxes
Embargo Act (1807)
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
Jingoism
Bank of the United States
16. Rebels felt the governor of Virginia failed to protect the frontier from the Native Americans
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17. Remainder of Florida sold by Spain to US - boundary of Mexico defined
Deregulation
Articles of Confederation
Adams-Onis Treaty
Hartford Convention
18. Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait despite peace treaty and refusal to abandon Iraqi occupation
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19. Opposed to slavery and secession - but stayed loyal to Virginia - despite offer for command of Union Army
Midnight judges
'Silent Majority'
Robert E. Lee
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
20. British citizenship outnumbered colonies' - large navy and professional army; exhausted resources (Hessians hired) - national debt
British strengths and weaknesses
Currency Act
'Yellow dog contracts'
Indentured servants
21. Veterans from WWI sought their pensions before they were too old to use them; they were denied and were run out of Washington (violently - by MacArthur)
Bonus Army
Bank of the United States
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
22. Decision under Sherman Anti-Trust Act shot down by Supreme Court — sugar refining was manufacturing rather than trade/commerce
United States vs. EC Knight Company
Second Great Awakening
March on Washington
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
23. James G. Blaine sought to open up Latin American markets to the U.S.; rejected by Latin America due to fear of U.S. dominance and satisfaction with European market
Pan-Americanism
Vietnamization
'Atlanta Compromise'
Jackson's Presidency
24. Risk of too many casualties and high costs for hand-to-hand combat/invasion - Japanese surrender unlikely
Citizen Genet
The Homefront
Rationing
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
25. Advocated by Roger Sherman - proposed two independently-voting senators per state and representation in the House based on population
Kent State Protest
Charles II - James II
Rosenbergs
Connecticut Compromise
26. Believed to provide shortcut from Atlantic to Pacific - searched for by Giovanni de Verrazano for Francis I in the race to Asian wealth
George Whitefield
12th Amendment
Stephen Austin
Northwest Passage
27. Authors included Langston Hughes - McKay - Zora Neale Hurston - Countee Cullet — praise and expression of black culture of the time
Social Reciprocity
President Franklin Roosevelt
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
Harlem Renaissance
28. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - used withheld money from payrolls to provide aid to the unemployed - industrial accident victims - and young mothers; principle of government responsibility for social welfare
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA)
California Gold Rush
Freeport Doctrine
29. Emphasis on human reason - logic - and science (acquired - not nascent - knowledge); increased followers of Christianity
Isolationism
The Enlightenment
Northern Securities Case
Palmer Raids
30. (peace btw Egypt and Israel) Followed years of tension - Israel would leave newly acquired lands from war - Egypt would respect Israel's other land claims; accords not completely followed - Sadat (Egypt) assassinated
George Kennan
Nicaraguan Contras
Anne Hutchinson
Camp David Accords
31. Black rights leader - heavily influenced by Malcolm X (advocated black separatism rather than integration)
Interstate Commerce Act
Conversion Experience
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
32. 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)
Vietnam War
Stamp Act Congress
Adams-Onis Treaty
Fugitive Slave Act
33. Standard Oil Company - Ruthless business tactics (survival of the fittest)
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
John D. Rockefeller
Bacon's Rebellion
League of Nations
34. Created the Wisconsin Idea (as governor of Wisconsin) — regulated railroad - direct-primary system - increased corporate taxes - reference library for lawmakers
Haymarket Bombing
Vertical and horizontal integration
Robert La Follette
Dorothea Dix
35. Destroyed by Jackson on the grounds that it was unconstitutional and too much power for a federal institution
Stagflation
Fort Sumter
Bank of the United States
Embargo Act (1807)
36. 14 formal amendments to the treaty for the League of Nations; preserved Monroe Doctrine - Congress desired to keep declaration of war to itself
Panama Canal
Kent State Protest
Lodge Reservations
Vertical and horizontal integration
37. September 1949 - US no longer held monopoly; two atomic powers
Charles Lindbergh
Soviet atomic bomb
Scopes Trial
War Industries Board
38. Stock prices fell drastically; without buyers - the stocks became essentially worthless; cause bank crashes - &c.
Anne Hutchinson
Vietcong
Stock market crash (1929)
Eugene V. Debs
39. Satirized wealthy captains of industry - workers and engineers as better leaders of society
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
40. Worked towards asylums for the mentally insane - worked alongside Mann
Tammany Hall
Herbert Hoover's Food Administration
The Homefront
Dorothea Dix
41. Network of safe houses of white abolitionists used to bring slaves to freedom
Pinkertons
Hoovervilles
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Underground Railroad
42. 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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43. Attacked people for being communist by association and unsubstantiated claims - against Truman - Marshall - and Ike; downfall came with attack on the military (condemned by Senate); led hysteria of the red scare
Alexander Hamilton
McCarthyism
William H. Taft
Pan-Americanism
44. The two political parties that formed following Washington's presidency; Federalists for stronger central government - Republicans for stronger state governments
The Alamo
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
The Loyal Nine
Federalists and Republicans
45. Began by Edwards to return to Puritanism - increased overall religious involvement - gave women more active roles in religion - more and more ministers sprouted up throughout the country; mainly affected towns and cities
The Great Awakening
20-Negro Law
Proclamation of 1763
Battle of Tippecanoe
46. 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
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
The Loyal Nine
Articles of Confederation
47. 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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48. Led Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: threatened a siege on DC if FDR did not agree to end discrimination in military
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
The Enlightenment
Declining death rate
Spoils System
49. Attempted to centralize production of war materials; ineffective due to American desire for laissez-faire government
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
12th Amendment
War Industries Board
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
50. FDR and Churchill agreed to defeat Germany first rather than concentrate on Japan
First American strategy in WWII
John Smith
Citizen Genet
Bruce Barton
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