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AP U.S. History
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1. American who settled in Texas - one of the leaders for Texan independence from Mexico
Battle of Antietam
Stamp Act
Stephen Austin
James Oglethorpe
2. Fearing the rise of labor unions - corporations forced new employees to sign and promise not to be part of a union
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3. Led by Francis Willard - powerful 'interest group' following the civil war - urged women's suffrage - led to Prohibition
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4. 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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5. Court case - unconstitutionalized all state laws prohibiting women's rights to have an abortion performed during the first trimester of pregnancy
Bombing and invasion of Cambodia
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Roe v. Wade
Burned-Over District
6. Emerged from Farmers' Alliance movement (when subtreasury plan was defeated in Congress) - denounced Eastern Establishment that suppressed the working classes; Ignatius Donnelly (utopian author) - Mary E Lease - Jerry Simpson
Connecticut Compromise
Populist Party
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
Spanish American War (1898)
7. Speech symbolized polarization between conservatives and liberals
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8. Established colony of Georgia as a place for honest debtors
US acquisitions
James Oglethorpe
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
9. Attacked public figures (Hollywood - New-Dealers - liberals) to root out communist spies
Economic transition
'Lost Generation'
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
Deists
10. Civil Rights Act of 1875 declared unconstitutional by Supreme Court - as the fourteenth amendment protected people from governmental infringement of rights and had no effect on acts of private citizens
James Madison
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Wilson's 14 points
Civil Rights Cases
11. Natural selection applied to human competition - advocated by Herbert Spencer - William Graham Sumner
John C. Calhoun
Deregulation
Social Darwinism
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
12. Part of transportation revolution - from Cumberland MD to Wheeling WVa - toll road network; stimulated Western expansion
National Road
Farm crisis
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
William H. Taft
13. Rejection of negative portrayals of women (language - entertainment) - increased quality and use of education - more job opportunities - acceptance into military
Gains for women
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
Lecompton Constitution
Alexander Hamilton
14. Conservatives like Reagan benefited from denouncing the New Left and excessive antiwar protests; gave him political prominence
New Federalism
Conservative backlash against liberalism
Strict vs. Loose interpretation of the Constitution
Barbary Pirates
15. 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
National Road
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
Pan-Americanism
Peace Corps
16. NLF attacked numerous South Vietnamese cities and American embassies - eventually repulsed; spoiled LBJ's record to reelection - resulted in massive protests in US to end the war; atrocities such that war could only end in stalemate
National Labor Union
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Tet Offensive (1968)
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
17. Prejudiced jury sentenced them to death - caused riots around the world - new trial denied
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
Deists
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
18. Powerful speaker - toured the country and inspired many into Christianity
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
George Whitefield
Lowell mill/system
Pet banks
19. Overthrow of the Taliban - in search of bin Laden
The Great Awakening
Social Reciprocity
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
Quarantine Speech - 1937
20. Warned of dangerous military-industrial complex (newly-found power of the military to affect the path of democracy)
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21. 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 Federalist Papers
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Social Gospel movement
Free silver
22. Risk of too many casualties and high costs for hand-to-hand combat/invasion - Japanese surrender unlikely
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Kent State Protest
23. Political muckraking cartoonist - refused bribes to stop criticism
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Thomas Nast
'Silent Majority'
Free silver
24. Panama Canal Treaty - diplomacy with China - end of recognition of Taiwan; little accomplished domestically due to conservative opposition - foreign policy more successful; Washington outsider - Experienced high interest rates - inflation - increased
Adams-Onis Treaty
The Great Awakening
1992 Election
President Jimmy Carter
25. Brought in Mexicans for temporary jobs - concentrated in southern CA - given extremely poor working conditions (as they were not American citizens)
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
Bracero program
Elastic Clause ('necessary and proper')
Albany Plan of Union
26. Overthrew Pres. Guzman after he nationalized American fruit fields and accepted arms from USSR (communist sympathies)
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Election of 1800
27. Search warrants on shipping to reduce smuggling; challenged by James Otis
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Writs of Assistance
Spanish American War (1898)
Schechter v. U.S Court case
28. Jackson was allowed to relocate Indian tribes in the Louisiana Territory
'Affluent Society'
Indian Removal Act
Rosie the Riveter
Immigration Act of 1965
29. Used nonviolent protest and boycott to achieve better working conditions for farmers (esp. Mexican-Americans)
Four Freedoms' speech
Suburbia
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
30. Young women employed by Lowell's textile company - housed in dormitories
Berlin Wall
Hudson River School
Lowell mill/system
Salutary Neglect
31. Prohibited discrimination in any government-related work; increased black employment
Indentured servants
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
Transcendentalism
Spoils System
32. Intercepted by Britain; Germany proposed alliance with Mexico - using bribe of return of TX - NM - and AZ; Japan included in alliance
Panama Canal
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
Second Great Awakening
Zimmerman Note
33. 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
Energy Crisis - OPEC
Whig Party
Emancipation Proclamation
Hartford Convention
34. Due to parents unhappy with encouraged segregation of schools - Supreme Court instituted forced busing policies (using school buses as a method of integration)
Bacon's Rebellion
Forced busing
20-Negro Law
March on Washington
35. Marbury v. Madison (judicial review) - McChulloch v. Maryland (loose Constitutional interpretation - constitutionality of National Bank - states cannot control government agencies) - Gibbons v. Ogden (interstate commerce controlled by Congress) - Fle
Marshall Court (all cases)
Connecticut Compromise
James Oglethorpe
Monroe Doctrine
36. Soviet leader undergoing tensions on superpower and domestic level
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
Truman's Loyalty Program
Mikhail Gorbachev
Virtual Representation
37. FDR encouraged democracies to quarantine their opponents (economic embargos); criticized by isolationists
Quarantine Speech - 1937
Free silver
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
Stagflation
38. All English subjects are represented in Parliament - including those not allowed to vote
Hull House
Virtual Representation
Consumerism
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
39. Founded by Emerson - strong emphasis on spiritual unity (God - humanity - and nature) - literature with strong references to nature
Albany Plan of Union
Charles Lindbergh
Jay's Treaty
Transcendentalism
40. King hosted myriad nonviolent protesting activities to fill jail with protestors - Bill Connor (police commissioner) began violent resistance to protestors
Fort Sumter
Berlin Wall
Ike's Farewell Speech
March on Birmingham
41. Helped approval ratings - not removed from office despite all the efforts of Republican congressmen
Navigation Acts
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
Bonus Army
Clinton impeachment (1997)
42. Bomb thrown at protest rally - police shot protestors - caused great animosity in employers for workers' unions
Bank of the United States
Tea Act (1773)
Karl Marx Das Kapital
Haymarket Bombing
43. Catholic communist autocrat of Vietnam - assassinated (with aid of US)
Anaconda plan
Lewis and Clark expedition
Ngo Dinh Diem
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
44. Elvis Presley - Marilyn Monroe - James Dean - Beatniks — rebelled against conservative conformity of the rest of the country (esp. targeted youth)
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
Non-conformity
Korean War
45. Speech given by BTW to ease whites' fears of integration - assuring them that separate but equal was acceptable - ideas challenged by DuBois
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46. Nixon's domestic policy; federal revenues shared with states (revenue sharing) - minimum income proposed
Anne Hutchinson
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
New Federalism
47. The principle that a state should decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery
Immigration Act of 1965
National Origins Act (1924)
Salutary Neglect
Popular Sovereignty
48. Introduced his 'New Deal -' won election by a relative landslide (he was not Hoover - whom the public now did not trust)
'City on a Hill'
Nativism
Conservative backlash against liberalism
President Franklin Roosevelt
49. Emphasis on human reason - logic - and science (acquired - not nascent - knowledge); increased followers of Christianity
Andy Warhol
The Enlightenment
'Silent Majority'
Black Panther Party
50. Another black separatist movement; known for peaceful demonstrations - but more for police shootouts
Black Panther Party
Tet Offensive (1968)
Bracero program
New Jersey Plan