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AP U.S. History
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1. Western Pennsylvanian farmers' violent protest against whiskey excise tax - Washington sent large army to put down revolt - protests to be limited to non-violent
Burned-Over District
Whiskey Rebellion
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
2. Proposed by Hamilton to repair war debts; selling of securities and federal lands - assumption of state debts - set up the first National Bank
Shays's Rebellion
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Report on Public Credit
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
3. First Utopian society - by Robert Owen
Currency Act
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
New Harmony
Consumerism
4. Support people oppressed by communism and non-democratic governments; worked with democratic governments in Greece - Turkey - and Israel
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
Yeoman Farmers
Second Great Awakening
Truman Doctrine
5. Victorian standards confined women to the home to create an artistic environment as a statement of cultural aspirations
Cult of domesticity
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
The Homefront
Mayflower Compact
6. Paper money; specie circular decreed that the government would not accept specie for government land
New Freedom
Specie
Court Packing
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
7. Detente achieved with USSR and China by withdrawal from Vietnam; realpolitik shed the use of doctrines and policies - instead using China and USSR in alternative ways to achieve other goals (pitting China and USSR against each other - as communist na
Humanitarian diplomacy
Non-conformity
Detente - realpolitik
French and Indian War
8. Network of safe houses of white abolitionists used to bring slaves to freedom
Detente - realpolitik
Underground Railroad
James Meredith
'Atlanta Compromise'
9. Needed to protect new Pacific acquisitions - U.S. took over the project from the French after overcoming Clatyton¬ Bulwer Treaty (prohibited exclusive control of canal) with the Hay¬ Pauncefote Treaty
Pinkertons
American society during the Revolution
Federal Reserve Act
Panama Canal
10. 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)
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Fugitive Slave Act
Rationing
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
11. Bicameral congressional representation based on population
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Virginia Plan
Interstate Commerce Act
William Marcy
12. One country that falls into communism will cause surrounding nations to also fall 'like dominos'; spurred by Southeast Asia regimes (esp. Vietnam)
Jazz
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
Domino theory
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
13. 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'
Independent Treasury Bill
Civil Rights Act of 1964
New Jersey Plan
Cult of domesticity
14. River traffic - road building - canals (esp. Erie) - rise of NYC
James Meredith
Vietnam War
Transportation Revolution
The Glorious Revolution
15. Prohibited discrimination in any government-related work; increased black employment
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Kitchen Cabinet
16. 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)
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
Important WWII Battles
Tammany Hall
Moral Diplomacy
17. Held in New York - agreed to not import British goods until Stamp Act was repealed
Hudson River School
Hoover's policy of voluntarism
Bull Moose Party
Stamp Act Congress
18. Allowed sale of weaponry to democracies on 'cash-and-carry' basis - avoided full-blown war; danger zones proclaimed; solved American unemployment crisis
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
Kitchen Cabinet
Marbury v. Madison
Neutrality Act - 1939
19. 'I have a dream' 25 -000 people (including whites) convened for political rally - MLK's speech to historical event; attempted to push civil rights bill through Congress
March on Washington
Economic transition
Bruce Barton
George Wallace - American
20. Reagan called the Soviet Union an 'evil empire'; Korean passenger plane shot down near Moscow (increased anti-Soviet rhetoric); Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) used space-based lasers as defense from nuclear attack
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21. Unprecedented sudden growth spurt of American population (especially urban and suburban areas)
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22. Group of Bostonians in opposition to the Stamp Act - sought to drive stamp distributors from the city
1992 Election
Maysville Road Veto
The Loyal Nine
Indentured servants
23. 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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24. Remainder of Florida sold by Spain to US - boundary of Mexico defined
Harriet Tubman
Fair Labor Standards Act
Adams-Onis Treaty
James Meredith
25. Ensured trade with mother country - nationalism; too restrictive on colonial economy - not voted on by colonists
Mercantilism
Jonathan Edwards
Election of 1980
Unrestricted submarine warfare
26. George Wallace vs. Nixon vs. Humphrey; very narrow popular vote triumph to Nixon (although he had clear majority of electoral votes)
Soviet atomic bomb
Bonus Army
The Homefront
1968 Presidential Election
27. Halted sale of tribal lands - enabled tribes to regain unallocated lands; repealed Dawes Severalty Act of 1887; helped secure Indians' entry into New Deal associations; led by John Collier
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA)
Plessy v. Ferguson
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
28. Created the Wisconsin Idea (as governor of Wisconsin) — regulated railroad - direct-primary system - increased corporate taxes - reference library for lawmakers
Robert La Follette
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
Jonathan Edwards
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
29. Symbol of women workers during the war
Election of 1824
Rosie the Riveter
Conservative backlash against liberalism
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
30. Settled in Pennsylvania - believed the 'Inner Light' could speak through any person and ran religious services without ministers
Virtual Representation
New Harmony
Battle of Gettysburg
William Penn and the Quakers
31. Increased already high rate of inflation by quadrupling the price of crude oil
League of Nations
China turns communist
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
Energy Crisis - OPEC
32. To make German reparations from WWI more accessible to Germans; evacuation of troops from Germany - reorganization of the Reichsbank - and foreign loans
Dawes Plan (1924)
Hoover's policy of voluntarism
Great Migration
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
33. Emphasized importance of private charities to help the depression
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34. Americans concerned with economic depression; sought to avoid European involvement - no apparent immediate threats
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Yeoman Farmers
Fair Labor Standards Act
35. Slavery to be barred in all territory ceded from Mexico; never fully passed Congress
'Atlanta Compromise'
12th Amendment
The Alamo
Wilmot Proviso
36. Guerilla army sponsored by CIA to attack procommunist revolutionaries in Nicaragua; fear of another Vietnam
Nicaraguan Contras
President Bill Clinton
Camp David Accords
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
37. American general Horatio Gates was victorious over British general Burgoyne
Whiskey Rebellion
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Battle of Saratoga
Connecticut Compromise
38. Introduced work ethic to Jamestown colony - sanitation - diplomat to local Native American tribes; had fought Spanish and Turks
Isolationism
James Monroe
William Henry Harrison
John Smith
39. Belligerent nationalism against other threatening nations
Jingoism
Virginia Resolves
Free silver
Open Door Policy
40. Educational and residential segregation; inferior facilities allotted to African-Americans - predominantly in South
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Conservatism
Battle of Antietam
Jim Crow laws
41. Stressed to the American people British maltreatment and emphasize a need for revolution; appealed to American emotions
Secretary of State John Hay
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Dixiecrats - 1948
Atlantic slave trade
42. Judges appointed to Supreme Court by Adams in the last days of his presidency to force them upon Jefferson - Marshall among those appointed
Midnight judges
Alexander Hamilton
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
Manifest Destiny
43. Japanese bombing of ships in harbor; resulted in FDR's request for declaration of war against Japan; Germany and Italy responded with declarations of war
Pearl Harbor
Mercantilism
Conversion Experience
Declining death rate
44. Dealt with Vietnam War - 'Great Society' program for improvement of American society - antipoverty and anti-discrimination programs
President Lyndon B. Johnson
The Great Awakening
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
Battle of Saratoga
45. Congress authorized LBJ to repel and prevent aggression against US troops in Vietnam - used as a blank check (perhaps too much - caused protests)
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
Knights of Labor
Era of Good Feelings
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
46. Mass production of the Model-T - workers as potential consumers (raise wages) - supported other industries and raised employment
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47. Tried to rule as absolute monarchs without using Parliament - little to no sympathy for colonial legislatures
Virginia Resolves
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
Charles II - James II
New Lights vs. Old Lights
48. Meant to keep government unquestioned by critics - particularly of the Federalists
Freeport Doctrine
Tammany Hall
Indentured servants
Alien and Sedition Acts
49. Belief in minimal government so as to allow the people their own free reign - lower taxes to stimulate economy - &c.
Conservatism
Good Neighbor Policy
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
Social Gospel movement
50. Mandated the toleration of all Christian denominations in Maryland - even though Maryland was founded for Catholics (but majority was protestant)
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Tariff of Abominations
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles