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AP U.S. History

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1. Strong patriotism and need to conform to try to avoid blame during red scare - non-churchgoers - unmarried - and critics suspected as communists






2. Beginnings of trusts (destruction of competition); vertical- controlling every aspect of production (control quality - eliminate middlemen - Rockefeller); horizontal- consolidating with competitors to monopolize a market (highly detrimental)






3. Formed by white progressives - adopted goals of Niagara Movement - in response to Springfield Race Riots






4. Opposed Polk's high-handedness - avid Southern slave owner






5. Edmond Genet contributed to polarization of the new nation by creating his American Foreign Legion in the south - which was directed to attack Spanish garrisons in New Orleans and St. Augustine






6. 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






7. Radical Calvinists against the Church of England; Separatists (Pilgrims) argued for a break from the Church of England - led the Mayflower - and established the settlement at Plymouth






8. Began by Edwards to return to Puritanism - increased overall religious involvement - gave women more active roles in religion - more and more ministers sprouted up throughout the country; mainly affected towns and cities






9. Belief in minimal government so as to allow the people their own free reign - lower taxes to stimulate economy - &c.






10. Opposed Polk's high-handedness - avid Southern slave-owner (right to own property - slaves as property)






11. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - collective bargaining rights - closed shops permitted (where workers must join unions) - outlawed anti-union tactics






12. Black veteran escorted to be enrolled in Univ. of Miss. by military (school reluctant - cf. Little Rock Nine)






13. Despite CIA-sponsored Soviet resistance - Afghanistan taken by Soviet Union; ended detente between USSR and US






14. 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






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

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16. Relied on voluntary compliance (no formal laws) - propaganda; high prices set on commodities to encourage production - Prohibition

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17. Organized and controlled resistance against Parliamentary acts in less violent ways (strength of martyrdom) - advocated nonimportation






18. Blacks denied admission to all-white school; overturned Plessy v. Ferguson - negating 'separate but equal' - ordered integration of schools as soon as possible; white southerners protested (refused to attend integrated schools)






19. Dance music - slave spirituals adapted into improvisation and ragtime; jazz migrated along with blacks in the Great Migration






20. Supported expanded money supply - health/safety regulations - benefits for workers and farmers - granger (farmer)-supported






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






22. Needed to protect new Pacific acquisitions - U.S. took over the project from the French after overcoming Clatyton¬ Bulwer Treaty (prohibited exclusive control of canal) with the Hay¬ Pauncefote Treaty






23. Reduced quota - reduced numbers from eastern and southern Europe - Asians banned - Canadians and Latin Americans exempt






24. Goods able to be transferred from New York to New Orleans by inland waterways






25. Created Federal Reserve System - regional banks set up for twelve separate districts - final authority of each bank lay with the Federal Reserve Board - paper money to be issued 'Federal Reserve Notes'






26. Taught American landscape painting rather than Classical subjects






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






28. 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






29. Anti-communist crusades due to fear of radicalism spurred by Bolshevik rebellion

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30. Led railroad workers in Pullman Strike - arrested; Supreme Court (decision in re Debs) legalized use of injunction (court order) against unions and strikes






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

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32. Launched in 1958 by Ike; successful launch of American satellite (Explorer I); massive arms builup






33. Attacked public figures (Hollywood - New-Dealers - liberals) to root out communist spies






34. Satirized wealthy captains of industry - workers and engineers as better leaders of society






35. Emphasis on human reason - logic - and science (acquired - not nascent - knowledge); increased followers of Christianity






36. States could refuse to enforce the federal laws they deemed unconstitutional






37. Leader of IWW - from Western Federation of Miners

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38. Government would hold its revenues rather than deposit them in banks - thus keeping the funds away from private corporations; 'America's Second Declaration of Independence'






39. Hamilton praised efficient factories with few managers over many workers - promote emigration - employment opportunities - applications of technology






40. Former French subjects in Canada allowed to keep Catholicism - while American colonists expected to participate in the Church of England






41. U.S. felt it was its duty to 'watch out' for the interests of other countries in the Western hemisphere; provided justification for invasions of Latin America.






42. Fought for return to colonial rule - usually conservative (educated and wealthy






43. Americans concerned with economic depression; sought to avoid European involvement - no apparent immediate threats






44. Led Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: threatened a siege on DC if FDR did not agree to end discrimination in military






45. Spurred by Great Migration - large-scale riots - lynchings - &c.

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46. McKinley reluctant; armed intervention to free Cuba from Spain; Roosevelt's 'Rough Riders' made attack on Spanish at Cuba






47. Increased tariff on sugar (and other imports) - attempted to harder enforce existing tariffs






48. Single tax on speculated land to ameliorate industrialization misery






49. Symbol of women workers during the war






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