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AP U.S. History
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1. Allowed sale of weaponry to democracies on 'cash-and-carry' basis - avoided full-blown war; danger zones proclaimed; solved American unemployment crisis
Bombing and invasion of Cambodia
Barbary Pirates
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
Neutrality Act - 1939
2. Created in 1961 as example of liberal anticommunism in third world countries; 'reform-minded missionaries of democracy'
National Road
Peace Corps
Explosion of USS Maine
Underground Railroad
3. Agricultural depression as precursor to the depression; unheeded omen of problems in the economic structure (prices too low — too much supply for the demand)
Rock `n' Roll
Farm crisis
Compromise of 1877
Maysville Road Veto
4. Political action for religion justified by decreased presence of religion in society; Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition to expand national influence
Religious Right
'Affluent Society'
Charles II - James II
Fort Sumter
5. Formed by white progressives - adopted goals of Niagara Movement - in response to Springfield Race Riots
Mann Act
William Jennings Bryan
Knights of Labor
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
6. Due to parents unhappy with encouraged segregation of schools - Supreme Court instituted forced busing policies (using school buses as a method of integration)
Forced busing
James Meredith
Atlantic slave trade
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
7. 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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8. Strong patriotism and need to conform to try to avoid blame during red scare - non-churchgoers - unmarried - and critics suspected as communists
Conformity in the 1950s
March on Washington
William Jennings Bryan
Federalism
9. Gorbachev decreased nuclear arsenals - Communist Party lost power - Boris Yeltsin (president of Russian Republic) led Muscovites to take control
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
'Silent Majority'
Berlin Airlift
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
10. Advocated by Roger Sherman - proposed two independently-voting senators per state and representation in the House based on population
New Jersey Plan
Connecticut Compromise
CIA overthrow of Iran (1953)
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
11. Sets of cardboard box houses that epitomized the country's blame on Hoover for the cause of the Depression
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
Hoovervilles
Energy Crisis - OPEC
12. Taxes on all legal documents to support British troops - not approved by colonists through their representatives
1968 Presidential Election
Stamp Act
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
Greenback Party
13. Acquired Mexican Cession (future California - Arizona - and New Mexico); Mexico acknowledged American annexation of Texas
Bracero program
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
James Madison
14. Proposed by Hamilton to repair war debts; selling of securities and federal lands - assumption of state debts - set up the first National Bank
Mercantilism
Tallmadge Amendment
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Report on Public Credit
15. Opposed Polk's high-handedness - avid Southern slave-owner (right to own property - slaves as property)
'Hundred days'
John Brown
John C. Calhoun
Fair Deal
16. Calvinist - devised concept of 'city on a hill' ('A Model of Christian Charity'); founded highly successful towns in Massachusetts Bay
Adams-Onis Treaty
Popular Sovereignty
William Penn and the Quakers
John Winthrop
17. Supported Socialists - militant unionists and socialists - advocated strikes and sabotaging politics - aimed for an umbrella union similar to Knights of Labor - ideas too radical for socialist cause
Tariff of Abominations
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
'Great Society'
Industrial Workers of the World
18. Tweed Leader of Tammany Hall - gained large sums of money through the political machine - prosecuted by Samuel Tilden and sent to jail
James G. Blaine
William Marcy
Thomas Nast
Martin Luther King Jr.
19. Founded by Betty Friedan - Bella Abzug - and Aileen Hernandez; lobbied for equal opportunity where the EEOC was lacking (gender discrimination); lawsuits and mobilization of public opinion
John Brown
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
National Organization of Women
20. Believed that God created the universe to act through natural laws; Franklin - Jefferson - Paine
William Jennings Bryan
Deists
William T. Sherman
Theodore Roosevelt
21. Full American independence - territory west of Appalachian ceded to America - loyalists to be compensated for seized property - fishing rights off of Newfoundland
Know-Nothing (American) Party
Truman's Loyalty Program
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Election of 1800
22. Led railroad workers in Pullman Strike - arrested; Supreme Court (decision in re Debs) legalized use of injunction (court order) against unions and strikes
Conservative backlash against liberalism
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
John C. Calhoun
Eugene V. Debs
23. Settlers to pay the expenses of a servant's voyage and be granted land for each person they brought over; headright system
Mayflower Compact
Indentured servants
Affirmative Action
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
24. Written anonymously by Hamilton - Jay - and Madison; commentary on Constitution - republicanism extended over large territory
Pendleton Civil Service Act
'Baby Boom'
Affirmative Action
The Federalist Papers
25. The principle that a state should decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery
Popular Sovereignty
Virginia Resolves
Energy Crisis - OPEC
Stamp Act Congress
26. 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)
Salutary Neglect
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Woodrow Wilson
Fugitive Slave Act
27. Forbade restraint of trade and did not distinguish good from bad trusts - ineffective due to lack of enforcement mechanism (waited for Clayton Anti-Trust Act)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
George Washington
28. Protestant church led by the king of England - independent of Catholic Church; tended toward Catholicism during reign of Catholic royalty
Tammany Hall
Commerce Compromise
Strict vs. Loose interpretation of the Constitution
Church of England
29. Editor of The Liberator (strongly abolitionist newspaper calling for immediate abolition of slavery) - fought for feminist movement ('Am I not a woman and a sister' picture of slave woman)
Dominion of New England
Civil Rights Cases
Conformity in the 1950s
William Lloyd Garrison
30. Sewer systems and purification of water
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Lewis and Clark expedition
Alexander Hamilton
Declining death rate
31. 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
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Adams-Onis Treaty
Pan-Americanism
'Gentlemen's Agreement' (1908)
32. Judiciary Reorganization Bill; FDR's attempt to put in extra judges who would support him without doubt
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Convict-lease system
Court Packing
33. 'Corrupt bargain' and backroom deal for JQ Adams to win over Jackson
Fort Sumter
Election of 1824
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
34. 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
Bruce Barton
Hoover's policy of voluntarism
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
Korean War
35. Part of Nixon's tri-faceted plan to honorably remove troops from Vietnam; wean the South Vietnamese off of American support - gradually reducing number of American troops present
Vietnamization
Andy Warhol
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
36. FDR's plan (although vague during the campaign) to restart the economy and pull America out of the Great Depression
Shays's Rebellion
New Deal
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
37. John Marshall declared that the Supreme Court could declare federal laws unconstitutional
'Hundred days'
Marbury v. Madison
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Sugar Act
38. FDR's inner circle of experts rather than just politicians in the cabinet
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39. Created by John L. Lewis for unskilled labor - organized 'sit-down strike' against GM to work for recognition
French and Indian War
Indian Removal Act
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
40. Brown aimed to create an armed slave rebellion and establish black free state; Brown executed and became martyr in the North
Harpers Ferry (1859)
Unrestricted submarine warfare
John C. Calhoun
Barbary Pirates
41. Fought for return to colonial rule - usually conservative (educated and wealthy
Tories (Loyalists)
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Yeoman Farmers
Interstate Commerce Act
42. Henry Clay aimed to make the US economically independent from Europe (e.g. - support internal improvements - tariff protection - and new national bank)
Eugene V. Debs
Henry Clay and the American System
Humanitarian diplomacy
Charles II - James II
43. 'Trustbuster' (busted twice as many as Roosevelt) - conservation and irrigation efforts - Postal Savings Bank System - Payne-Aldrich Tariff (reduction of tariff - caused Republican split)
John D. Rockefeller
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
William H. Taft
44. Stronger union of states - equal and population-based representation - simple majority vote (with presidential veto) - regulation of foreign and interstate commerce - execution by president - power to enact taxes - federal courts - easier amendment p
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
Marshall Plan
Bacon's Rebellion
Marshall Court (all cases)
45. Brought in Mexicans for temporary jobs - concentrated in southern CA - given extremely poor working conditions (as they were not American citizens)
Bracero program
Yellow journalism
Andy Warhol
Butler v. U.S. Court case
46. Intervention in Mexican Revolution (Madero overthrew dictator Diaz) to overthrow Madero out of fear of property confiscation - General Huerta (seen as 'brute' by Wilson - sought new leader) replaced Madero
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
Moral Diplomacy
Spoils System
47. Exempted those who owned or oversaw twenty or more slaves from service in the Confederate Army; 'rich man's war but a poor man's fight'
Stamp Act Congress
New Lights vs. Old Lights
Lodge Reservations
20-Negro Law
48. Achieved an abnormal rise in class system (steel industry) - pioneered vertical integration (controlled Mesabie Range to ship ore to Pittsburgh) - opposed monopolies - used partnership of steel tycoons (Henry Clay Frick as a manager/partner) - Bessem
Japanese internment
Andrew Carnegie
Watergate Scandal
Truman Doctrine
49. Electric light - phonograph - mimeograph - Dictaphone - moving pictures
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
Midnight judges
Thomas Edison
Rosenbergs
50. Northern factory workers who were discarded when too old to work (unlike the slaves who were still kept fed and clothed in their old age)
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