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AP U.S. History
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1. Repeat candidate for president - proponent of silver-backing (16:1 platform) - cross of gold speech against gold standard; Democratic candidate (1896)
The Federalist Papers
Bull Moose Party
William Jennings Bryan
Marshall Plan
2. Politely demanded from the king a cease¬fire in Boston - repeal of Coercive Acts -. guarantee of American rights
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
Henry Ford's assembly line
Era of Good Feelings
Olive Branch Petition
3. Roosevelt and Pinchot sided on conservation rather than preservation (planned and regulated use of forest lands for public and commercial uses)
Spoils System
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
AFL-CIO (1955)
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
4. Search warrants on shipping to reduce smuggling; challenged by James Otis
John C. Calhoun
Writs of Assistance
Tariff of Abominations
Adams-Onis Treaty
5. Government to buy silver to back money in addition to gold
Nullification Controversy
Anne Hutchinson
Energy Crisis - OPEC
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
6. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - prevented extreme competition - labor management disputes - and over-production; federally coordinated consensus of business leaders (Hugh Johnson) to regulate businesses (wages - limits - working condit
Hull House
Booker T. Washington
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Whigs (Patriots)
7. Brought in Mexicans for temporary jobs - concentrated in southern CA - given extremely poor working conditions (as they were not American citizens)
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
Bracero program
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
Tariff of Abominations
8. Rejection of negative portrayals of women (language - entertainment) - increased quality and use of education - more job opportunities - acceptance into military
Gains for women
Berlin Airlift
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
Civil Rights Cases
9. All English subjects are represented in Parliament - including those not allowed to vote
Virtual Representation
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
Munn v. Illinois
Berlin Wall
10. 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)
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
Herbert Hoover's Food Administration
Bonus Army
Bracero program
11. Border ruffians in election on issue of slavery incited controversy - proslavery group attacked Lawrence - Kansas - Pottawatomie Massacre
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12. Nixon led movement to Hiss's indictment; convicted of perjury - Nixon gained national prominence
Jim Crow laws
'Bleeding Kansas'
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
13. Heavily evangelized to the point there were no more people left to convert to other religions - upstate New York - home to the beginning of Smith's Mormonism movement
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Burned-Over District
Wilmot Proviso
14. States could refuse to enforce the federal laws they deemed unconstitutional
Sons of Liberty
Nullification
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
New York City draft riots (1863)
15. Removal of Saddam Hussein - 2003 - Iran - Iraq - and North Korea designated as the 'axis of evil -' institution of democratic government in Iraq to replace Hussein's dictatorship (return to spread and protection of democracy throughout the world - mo
Boston Tea Party
Upton Sinclair
Harpers Ferry (1859)
Invasion of Iraq
16. 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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17. Opposed to slavery and secession - but stayed loyal to Virginia - despite offer for command of Union Army
Four Freedoms' speech
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
Era of Good Feelings
18. First African-American in major league baseball
Japanese internment
Jackie Robinson
Battle of Tippecanoe
Espionage Act and Sedition Act
19. Military hero from War of 1812; elected president 1840 - died of pneumonia a month later - gave presidency to Tyler
Bill of Rights
Korean War
William Henry Harrison
Regionalist and naturalist writers
20. No further introduction of slaves into Missouri - all children born to slaves to become free at 25
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
John L. Lewis
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
Tallmadge Amendment
21. Opposed to all immigration - strongly anti-Catholic
Conformity in the 1950s
Midnight judges
Know-Nothing (American) Party
James K. Polk
22. Worked towards asylums for the mentally insane - worked alongside Mann
Hartford Convention
Connecticut Compromise
Macon's Bill No. 2
Dorothea Dix
23. King hosted myriad nonviolent protesting activities to fill jail with protestors - Bill Connor (police commissioner) began violent resistance to protestors
President Harry Truman
Tet Offensive (1968)
Battle of Antietam
March on Birmingham
24. (The Lonely Crowd) 'outer directed' Americans conforming to peer pressure on moral and social issues - rather than independently thinking on morals
The Great Awakening
David Riesman
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
Dorothea Dix
25. Taxes on all legal documents to support British troops - not approved by colonists through their representatives
Stamp Act
Election of 1800
Social Reciprocity
Kitchen Cabinet
26. 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
'Big BM' Haywood
Fair Labor Standards Act
Articles of Confederation
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
27. Pop art - mass production of art by screening
Jane Addams
Tammany Hall
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Andy Warhol
28. 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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29. 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)
William Lloyd Garrison
Second Great Awakening
New Federalism
Fugitive Slave Act
30. Drastic cutbacks in regulation of business by the federal government (banks - transportation - communications
Transportation Revolution
Deregulation
First American strategy in WWII
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
31. Acquired Mexican Cession (future California - Arizona - and New Mexico); Mexico acknowledged American annexation of Texas
Northwest Passage
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
32. South to gain removal of last troops from Reconstruction; North wins Hayes as president
Bank of the United States
Gays in the military
Compromise of 1877
Declaratory Act
33. Protestant church led by the king of England - independent of Catholic Church; tended toward Catholicism during reign of Catholic royalty
Stamp Act
'Silent Majority'
President Jimmy Carter
Church of England
34. Vetoed by Jackson on the count that government funds for the Maysville Road would only benefit one state
Neutrality
Maysville Road Veto
'Gentlemen's Agreement' (1908)
Henry David Thoreau
35. Bicameral congressional representation based on population
Transcendentalism
Upton Sinclair
Virginia Plan
Neutrality
36. Risk of too many casualties and high costs for hand-to-hand combat/invasion - Japanese surrender unlikely
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
Isolationism
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
37. Founded by Emerson - strong emphasis on spiritual unity (God - humanity - and nature) - literature with strong references to nature
William Jennings Bryan
Stephen Austin
Transcendentalism
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
38. Slavery to be barred in all territory ceded from Mexico; never fully passed Congress
American society during the Revolution
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
Wilmot Proviso
39. First Utopian society - by Robert Owen
Okies' and 'Arkies'
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
New Harmony
Dred Scott v. Sandford
40. British-occupied cities - new governments - fighting by any with experience - loaned money - African-Americans and Native Americans involved
Nicaraguan Contras
American society during the Revolution
Square Deal
John Dewey
41. Soviets cut Berlin off from the rest of Germany by blockade; US organized airlift to drop supplies into Britain; blockade lifted in May 1949
Benjamin Franklin
'Graying of America'
The Glorious Revolution
Berlin Airlift
42. Influence of African-American blues - music of the younger generation (gap between them and their parents)
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43. Ended the Dominion of New England - gave power back to colonies
William and Mary
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Benjamin Franklin
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
44. Foundation for First Amendment - offered free choice of religion - not influenced by state
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
Bonus Army
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
Commerce Compromise
45. 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)
Era of Good Feelings
William Jennings Bryan
Alien and Sedition Acts
Tammany Hall
46. 'No taxation without representation -' introduced by Patrick Henry
Virginia Resolves
Economic transition
Rosie the Riveter
Berlin Wall
47. First 'modern' president - moderate who supported progressivism (at times conservative) - bypassed congressional opposition (cf. Jackson) - significant role in world affairs
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Anne Hutchinson
Bull Moose Party
Theodore Roosevelt
48. 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
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
War hawks
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
Populist Party
49. Tried to rule as absolute monarchs without using Parliament - little to no sympathy for colonial legislatures
Important WWII Battles
Charles II - James II
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
Populist Party
50. Overthrew Pres. Guzman after he nationalized American fruit fields and accepted arms from USSR (communist sympathies)
Non-conformity
President Jimmy Carter
Macon's Bill No. 2
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)