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AP U.S. History

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1. Old immigrants from northern and western Europe came seeking better life; new immigrants came from southern and eastern Europe searching for opportunity to escape worse living conditions back home and often did not stay in the US






2. Court case - unconstitutionalized all state laws prohibiting women's rights to have an abortion performed during the first trimester of pregnancy






3. Efficient working methods to increase productivity; usually resulted in lower wages (hated by workers) - power to managers






4. Democratic political machine in NYC - 'supported' immigrants and poor people of the city - who were needed for Democratic election victories






5. FDR's inner circle of experts rather than just politicians in the cabinet

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6. Required of members of the Puritan Church; took the place of baptism required by the Catholic Church






7. The principle that a state should decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery






8. Provided country with a break from partisan politics - Missouri Compromise - issued Monroe Doctrine






9. John Marshall declared that the Supreme Court could declare federal laws unconstitutional






10. Working class exploited for profit - proletariat (workers) to revolt and inherit all society






11. Overthrew Pres. Guzman after he nationalized American fruit fields and accepted arms from USSR (communist sympathies)






12. 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






13. 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






14. Meant to provide evacuation opportunity for Americans in Cuba; internal accidental explosion blamed on Spanish mines - leading to Spanish¬ American War






15. Proposed by Hamilton to repair war debts; selling of securities and federal lands - assumption of state debts - set up the first National Bank






16. Left primary open to Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy - both promising to end the controversial war

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17. Germany announced that it would sink all (including American) ships - attempt to involve U.S. in war






18. Father Charles Coughlin (benefited only wealthy people and corporations) - Huey Long ('share our wealth') - Francis Townshend (Old Age Revolving Pension)






19. Believed to provide shortcut from Atlantic to Pacific - searched for by Giovanni de Verrazano for Francis I in the race to Asian wealth






20. Soviet-aided North Korea attack on South Korea; MacArthur named general on behalf of UN (excluded Russia) - US supplied majority of troops; recapture of South Korea and suppression of North forces to northern border; introduction of Chinese - MacArth






21. One country that falls into communism will cause surrounding nations to also fall 'like dominos'; spurred by Southeast Asia regimes (esp. Vietnam)






22. Brought in Mexicans for temporary jobs - concentrated in southern CA - given extremely poor working conditions (as they were not American citizens)






23. Powerful speaker - toured the country and inspired many into Christianity






24. 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)






25. 'Rotation in office;' Jackson felt that one should spend a single term in office and return to private citizenship - those who held power too long would become corrupt and political appointments made by new officials was essential for democracy






26. First permanent English settlement in the Americas (1607) - along James River






27. Introduced the 'trickle-down' economics theory in order to promote business and increase money available for speculation






28. The Man Nobody Knows - glorification of business - Jesus as a businessman - relationship between religion and manufacturing






29. Effects of pesticides on the environment; changed way Americans viewed their impact on nature






30. 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






31. Strong central government - separation of powers - 'extended republic'






32. Started the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) — 'Back to Africa' movement for racial pride and separatism; inspired self-confidence in blacks






33. Selective Service Act to require men to register with few exceptions; women and blacks drafted/enlisted - highly successful






34. Another part of Nixon's out-of-Vietnam plan - destroy supply routes to North Vietnam through Cambodia






35. Republican - popular hero of WWII; 'dynamic conservatism' as a middle ground btw. Rep. and Dem.; Interstate Highway System (ulterior motive of weapons transportation); St. Lawrence Seaway opened Great Lakes to Atlantic Ocean via locks; Depts. Of Heal






36. Held in New York - agreed to not import British goods until Stamp Act was repealed






37. Party formed from Republican split by Roosevelt - more progressive values - leaving 'Republican Old Guard' to control Republican party






38. Cherokees - Choctaws - Creeks - Chickasaws - and Seminoles; 'civilized' due to their intermarriage with whites - forced out of their homelands by expansion






39. Reagan and Gorbachev agree to remove and destroy nuclear weapons from Eastern and Western Europe; eased international tension and allowed Soviet domestic reforms to take place






40. Territory split into Kansas and Nebraska - popular sovereignty (Kansas slave - Nebraska free); proposed by Stephen A. Douglas






41. Remainder of Florida sold by Spain to US - boundary of Mexico defined






42. Group of Bostonians in opposition to the Stamp Act - sought to drive stamp distributors from the city






43. Clay and Calhoun - eager for war with Britain (War of 1812)






44. The Union planned a blockade that would not allow supplies of any sort into the Confederacy; control the Mississippi and Atlantic/Gulf of Mexico






45. 8000 businesses collapsed (including railroads); due to stock market crash - overbuilding of railroads - heavy farmer loans - economic disruption by labor efforts - agricultural depression; decrease of gold reserves led to Cleveland's repeal of Sherm






46. Drastic cutbacks in regulation of business by the federal government (banks - transportation - communications






47. Public treaties - free trade - free seas - reduced armament burdens - anti-imperialism - independence to minorities - international organization

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48. Runaway slave - well-known speaker on the condition of slavery - worked with Garrison and Wendell Phillips - founder of The North Star






49. Known as 'wartime food czar;' created recreation policies and reintroduced leisure culture and conservation ethic to get Americans escaping the cities and improve tourism - etc.






50. Jackson was allowed to relocate Indian tribes in the Louisiana Territory