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AP U.S. History
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1. Created in 1961 as example of liberal anticommunism in third world countries; 'reform-minded missionaries of democracy'
Tariff of Abominations
President Bill Clinton
Peace Corps
Horace Mann
2. Economic recession (collapse of savings-and-loan industry - increasing deficit due to Reagan tax cuts - retail decreased - higher crime rate)
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3. President has power to cease trade with any foreign country that violated American neutrality
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4. Kent State University students protesting against invasion of Cambodia - not allowed to demonstrate - violence (murder) caused by guardsmen
AFL-CIO (1955)
Kent State Protest
Shays's Rebellion
Wilmot Proviso
5. Effects of pesticides on the environment; changed way Americans viewed their impact on nature
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
Non-Intercourse Act
Articles of Confederation
Second Great Awakening
6. Influence of African-American blues - music of the younger generation (gap between them and their parents)
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7. Europeans should not interfere with affairs in Western Hemisphere - Americans to stay out of foreign affairs; supported Washington's goal for US neutrality in Americas
Essex case
Monroe Doctrine
United States vs. EC Knight Company
George Washington
8. Foundation for First Amendment - offered free choice of religion - not influenced by state
Suffolk Resolves
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Secretary of State John Hay
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
9. Ford's and Carter's presidencies experienced a recession and inflation simultaneously - solved by Keynesian economics
Muckrakers
Stagflation
Isolationism
Washington's Farewell Address
10. Populists campaigned for silver-backed money rather than gold-backed - believed to be able to relieve working conditions and exploitation of labor
Free silver
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Mayflower Compact
11. Opposed Polk's high-handedness - avid Southern slave-owner (right to own property - slaves as property)
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
John C. Calhoun
Nicaraguan Contras
12. Stressed to the American people British maltreatment and emphasize a need for revolution; appealed to American emotions
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
League of Nations
Embargo Act (1807)
13. Writing took a more realistic approach on the world - regionalist writers focused on local life (Sarah Orne Jewett) - naturalist writers focused on economy and psychology (Stephen Crane)
President John F. Kennedy
Cult of domesticity
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
Regionalist and naturalist writers
14. To service economy in late 20 century (end of industrialism) - Higher focus on services (esp. education) rather than material products
Lodge Reservations
Economic transition
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
Bush v. Gore (2000)
15. Authors included Langston Hughes - McKay - Zora Neale Hurston - Countee Cullet — praise and expression of black culture of the time
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Jay's Treaty
Harlem Renaissance
Monroe Doctrine
16. Nixon's domestic policy; federal revenues shared with states (revenue sharing) - minimum income proposed
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
New Federalism
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
17. Search warrants on shipping to reduce smuggling; challenged by James Otis
Election of 1980
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
Writs of Assistance
Convict-lease system
18. September 1949 - US no longer held monopoly; two atomic powers
Jingoism
Soviet atomic bomb
China turns communist
Henry David Thoreau
19. Intended to save British East India Company from bankruptcy - could sell directly to consumers rather than through wholesalers (lowered prices to compete with smuggled tea)
Elastic Clause ('necessary and proper')
Tea Act (1773)
James K. Polk
Burned-Over District
20. Law meant to evolve as society evolves - opposed conservative majority
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
Specie
President Harry Truman
21. 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)
Virginia Plan
Watergate Scandal
Warren Court
22. Prohibited settlements west of Appalachian - restriction on colonial growth
Marshall Plan
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
Invasion of Iraq
Proclamation of 1763
23. In Brook Farm Community - lived in seclusion for two years writing Walden and On Civil Disobedience - proved that man could provide for himself without materialistic wants
'Contract with America' (1994)
Henry David Thoreau
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
John Smith
24. Loose interpretation allowed for implied powers of Congress (such as the National Bank) - strict interpretation implied few powers to Congress
Wilson's 14 points
First American strategy in WWII
Strict vs. Loose interpretation of the Constitution
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
25. Soviet leader undergoing tensions on superpower and domestic level
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Federalists and Republicans
Mikhail Gorbachev
The Homefront
26. Supported by women and churches - instituted by Volstead Act - lacked enforcement; bootlegging and speakeasies - Al Capone and John Dillinger — gangsters and organized crime (casual breaking of the law)
Immigration Act of 1965
Salutary Neglect
Great Migration
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
27. Henry Clay aimed to make the US economically independent from Europe (e.g. - support internal improvements - tariff protection - and new national bank)
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Henry Clay and the American System
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
28. First shots are fired at Charleston - North Carolina
Era of Good Feelings
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Charles II - James II
Fort Sumter
29. Runaway slave - well-known speaker on the condition of slavery - worked with Garrison and Wendell Phillips - founder of The North Star
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
Standard Oil Trust
Frederick Douglass
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
30. United States aided South Vietnam in its war of power struggle against North Vietnam - the Vietcong - USSR - and China
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Woodrow Wilson
Vietnam War
Japanese internment
31. Georgia cannot enforce American laws on Indian tribes
Hudson River School
Invasion of Iraq
Worcester v. Georgia
Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA)
32. Former French subjects in Canada allowed to keep Catholicism - while American colonists expected to participate in the Church of England
Kent State Protest
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
Quebec Acts
Missouri Compromise (1820)
33. Proclamation of 1793 response to French attempts for alliance with US
Social Darwinism
Neutrality
Barbary Pirates
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
34. Clay and Calhoun - eager for war with Britain (War of 1812)
Consumerism
War hawks
Frederick Douglass
National Labor Union
35. Increased already high rate of inflation by quadrupling the price of crude oil
Vietnam War
Dorothea Lange
Munn v. Illinois
Energy Crisis - OPEC
36. Upheld constitutionality of Espionage Act; Congress right to limit free speech during times of war
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
William Marcy
Connecticut Compromise
Warren Court
37. Coxey and unemployed followers marched on Washington for support in unemployment relief by inflationary public works program
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38. Belief in minimal government so as to allow the people their own free reign - lower taxes to stimulate economy - &c.
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe (1989)
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
Conservatism
39. 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)
Declaratory Act
Liberty Party
Era of Good Feelings
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
40. Supreme Court legalized the 'separate but equal' philosophy
Plessy v. Ferguson
Indentured servants
Lewis and Clark expedition
Cuban Missile Crisis
41. Brought in Mexicans for temporary jobs - concentrated in southern CA - given extremely poor working conditions (as they were not American citizens)
'Big BM' Haywood
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bracero program
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
42. Federalist cause leading up to Hartford Convention
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Monroe Doctrine
Yeoman Farmers
Essex case
43. Lee's attack on Maryland in hopes that he could take it from the Union - bloodiest day of the war - stalemate - McClellan replaced by Burnside - stalemate - South would never be so close to victory again
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
Battle of Antietam
Detente - realpolitik
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
44. Despite CIA-sponsored Soviet resistance - Afghanistan taken by Soviet Union; ended detente between USSR and US
Korean War
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
45. Gore promising with experience - Bush appealing by family influence and plans for presidency (tax cuts - education reform - defense - &c.)
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Embargo Act (1807)
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
46. Anti-immigrant - especially against Irish Catholics
Nativism
Suffolk Resolves
Monroe Doctrine
Dorothea Lange
47. Calvinist - devised concept of 'city on a hill' ('A Model of Christian Charity'); founded highly successful towns in Massachusetts Bay
Tories (Loyalists)
William T. Sherman
John Winthrop
Marcus Garvey
48. Established by 'General' William Booth - uniformed volunteers provided food - shelter - and employment to families - attracted poor with lively preaching and marching bands in order to instill middle-class virtues
Open Door Policy
Salvation Army
Committees of Correspondence
George Whitefield
49. Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait despite peace treaty and refusal to abandon Iraqi occupation
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50. American commander-in-chief; first president - set precedents for future presidents - put down Whiskey Rebellion (enforced Whiskey Tax) - managed first presidential cabinet - carefully used power of executive to avoid monarchial style rule
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
George Washington
Forced busing
Bill of Rights
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