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AP U.S. History
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1. September 1949 - US no longer held monopoly; two atomic powers
Social Reciprocity
George Wallace - American
Deists
Soviet atomic bomb
2. Believed that God created the universe to act through natural laws; Franklin - Jefferson - Paine
The Loyal Nine
Deists
'Great Society'
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
3. Helped lead settlement house movement - co-founded NAACP - condemned war and poverty
Jane Addams
Marcus Garvey
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
John Smith
4. Stock prices fell drastically; without buyers - the stocks became essentially worthless; cause bank crashes - &c.
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
Coxey's Army
Stock market crash (1929)
Battle of Gettysburg
5. 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
Panama Canal
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
Good Neighbor Policy
Farmers'Alliance movement
6. 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)
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
Stephen Austin
7. New Lights brought new ideas - rejected by Old Lights; both sought out institutions independent of each other
New Lights vs. Old Lights
Reaganomics
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
Ngo Dinh Diem
8. Americans feared Soviet infiltration into Latin America - placed secret police and military forces to prevent it
Sugar Act
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
Herbert Hoover's Food Administration
Yeoman Farmers
9. Admiral Dewey defeated Spanish initially; American troops (aided by Aguinaldo's insurgents) captured Manila - leading to annexation
Horace Mann
Rosenbergs
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
James Monroe
10. Influence of African-American blues - music of the younger generation (gap between them and their parents)
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11. Bank tightened loan policies - depression rose throughout the country - hurt western farmers greatly
Connecticut Compromise
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
Invasion of Iraq
Panic of 1819
12. Craft unions that left the Knights (1886) - led by Gompers - women left out of recruitment efforts
American Federation of Labor
Great Migration
Jim Crow laws
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
13. The principle that a state should decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery
Popular Sovereignty
Good Neighbor Policy
John C. Calhoun
George Kennan
14. 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
Fair Deal
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
Panic of 1893
Ike's Farewell Speech
15. British-occupied cities - new governments - fighting by any with experience - loaned money - African-Americans and Native Americans involved
James Monroe
American society during the Revolution
John Winthrop
'Yellow dog contracts'
16. Government ensured readjustment rights to GIs after WWI unrest - loans to veterans for higher education and mortgages (contributed to economic prosperity)
Social Reciprocity
Unrestricted submarine warfare
GI Bill of Rights
Interstate Commerce Act
17. Workers unable to escape (locked into factory) - all died; further encouraged reform movements for working conditions
Creel Committee
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
New Freedom
Hudson River School
18. States could refuse to enforce the federal laws they deemed unconstitutional
Nullification
Mayflower Compact
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
Moral Diplomacy
19. Brown aimed to create an armed slave rebellion and establish black free state; Brown executed and became martyr in the North
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
'Brain trust'
Report on Public Credit
Harpers Ferry (1859)
20. Formed in response to Kansas-Nebraska Act - banned in the South - John C Fremont first presidential candidate
Commerce Compromise
Whiskey Rebellion
Keynesian economics
Republican Party
21. Decisive victory to Reagan due to his appeal over Carter (now unpopular due to lack of success in the presidency
Good Neighbor Policy
Election of 1980
1968 as 'the year of shocks'
Explosion of USS Maine
22. Stated the United States was destined to span the breadth of the entire continent with as much land as possible - advocated by Polk
Wilson's 14 points
John L. Lewis
Manifest Destiny
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
23. Scarce supplies (food and clothing) - army motivated by von Steuben
Regionalist and naturalist writers
Valley Forge
Energy Crisis - OPEC
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
24. Helped approval ratings - not removed from office despite all the efforts of Republican congressmen
Clinton impeachment (1997)
Writs of Assistance
Macon's Bill No. 2
William Marcy
25. In reaction to the Boston Tea Party; closing of Boston Harbor - revocation of Massachusetts charter (power to governor) - murder in the name of royal authority would be tried in England or another colony
Berlin Airlift
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
Federal Reserve Act
Square Deal
26. Puritan minister - led revivals - stressed immediate repentance - wrote 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God'
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Jonathan Edwards
Dixiecrats - 1948
Yellow journalism
27. River traffic - road building - canals (esp. Erie) - rise of NYC
Second Great Awakening
Transportation Revolution
Cotton Gin
Gays in the military
28. Strong patriotism and need to conform to try to avoid blame during red scare - non-churchgoers - unmarried - and critics suspected as communists
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
Washington's Farewell Address
Conformity in the 1950s
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
29. Anti-Federalists wanted states' rights - bill of rights - unanimous consent - reference to religion - more power to less-rich and common people; Federalists wanted strong central government - more power to experienced - separation of church and state
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
Hudson River School
Jackson's Presidency
30. Opposed to all immigration - strongly anti-Catholic
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
Open Door Policy
Know-Nothing (American) Party
Farm crisis
31. New Englanders who did not wish to relate their conversion experiences could become half-way saints so that their children would be able to have the opportunity to be saints
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
The Half-Way Covenant
Stock market crash (1929)
32. Guerilla army sponsored by CIA to attack procommunist revolutionaries in Nicaragua; fear of another Vietnam
New Nationalism
Kitchen Cabinet
Nicaraguan Contras
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
33. Gorbachev announced Soviet withdrawal of power from all of Eastern Europe - including Berlin (wall torn down - free movement - &c.)
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe (1989)
William T. Sherman
Rosie the Riveter
Marbury v. Madison
34. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - Harry Hopkins; provide work for unemployed and construct public works - &c. through Emergency Relief Appropriation Act; much like Civil Works Administration
The Glorious Revolution
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Civil Rights Cases
Albany Plan of Union
35. Slaves could not sue in federal courts (blacks no longer considered citizens) - slaves could not be taken from masters except by the law - Missouri Compromise unconstitutional - Congress not able to prohibit slavery in a state
Election of 1824
'Graying of America'
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
Dred Scott v. Sandford
36. In Brook Farm Community - lived in seclusion for two years writing Walden and On Civil Disobedience - proved that man could provide for himself without materialistic wants
Ho Chi Minh
The Great Awakening
Henry David Thoreau
Woodrow Wilson
37. Most numerous in New England - fought for independence
Whigs (Patriots)
Midnight judges
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
38. First permanent English settlement in the Americas (1607) - along James River
Jamestown
'New Left'
Economic transition
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
39. Proposed by Hamilton to repair war debts; selling of securities and federal lands - assumption of state debts - set up the first National Bank
Salutary Neglect
Harlem Renaissance
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
Report on Public Credit
40. Women must gain economic rights in order to impact society (cf. rising divorce rates)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Monroe Doctrine
41. Led railroad workers in Pullman Strike - arrested; Supreme Court (decision in re Debs) legalized use of injunction (court order) against unions and strikes
Declining death rate
William Penn and the Quakers
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Eugene V. Debs
42. Provided housing and recreation to city youth - imposing Protestant morals - unable to reach out to all youth
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43. 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
McCarthyism
Salvation Army
Muckrakers
Cult of domesticity
44. Reluctant to give colonists their own government - preferred to appoint royal governors
Platt Amendment
Gifford Pinchot
Hoover's policy of voluntarism
King James I - King Charles
45. First Utopian society - by Robert Owen
Standard Oil Trust
The Half-Way Covenant
New Harmony
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
46. Worked towards asylums for the mentally insane - worked alongside Mann
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Andrew Carnegie
Dorothea Dix
47. Left primary open to Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy - both promising to end the controversial war
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48. Led by Francis Willard - powerful 'interest group' following the civil war - urged women's suffrage - led to Prohibition
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49. FDR's inner circle of experts rather than just politicians in the cabinet
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50. Committee on Public Information; aimed to sell America and the world on Wilson's war goals; propaganda - censorship - 'four-minute men' speeches - 'Liberty Leagues' (spy on community)
Tet Offensive (1968)
Panama Canal
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
Creel Committee