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AP U.S. History
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1. Raised tariffs extremely high on manufactured goods; benefited domestic manufacturers - but limited foreign trade
William Henry Harrison
Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1922 and 1930
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Truman's Loyalty Program
2. Last major battle; surrender of Cornwallis - led King George III to officially make peace with the colonies
Platt Amendment
Battle of Yorktown
'Brain trust'
Monroe Doctrine
3. Often debtors sold to slave traders by African kings seeking riches; Columbian Exchange
Cuban Missile Crisis
Atlantic slave trade
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
4. Mistreated farmers - fear of monocracy - forced people to think about central government
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5. River traffic - road building - canals (esp. Erie) - rise of NYC
Nat Turner's Rebellion
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
Transportation Revolution
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
6. Caused American hysteria (1957) - fear that Soviets were technologically superior; led Ike to order more rigorous education program to rival Soviets (National Defense Education Act)
Black Panther Party
New York City draft riots (1863)
Sputnik
American Federation of Labor
7. Middle class; white flight from urban areas due to black migration; government supported insurance for homeowners and builders
Suburbia
Stamp Act
Spanish American War (1898)
Open Door Policy
8. Depicted the evils of slavery (splitting of families and physical abuse); increased participation in abolitionist movement - condemned by South
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9. Electric light - phonograph - mimeograph - Dictaphone - moving pictures
Thomas Edison
Yalta Conference (1945)
Zimmerman Note
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
10. Rebels felt the governor of Virginia failed to protect the frontier from the Native Americans
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11. 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
12th Amendment
Yalta Conference (1945)
Henry David Thoreau
Olive Branch Petition
12. Coxey and unemployed followers marched on Washington for support in unemployment relief by inflationary public works program
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13. Banned racial discrimination in federal practices; To Secure These Rights called for desegregation - anti-lynching - end of poll taxes
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
Greenback Party
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Lusitania
14. Gold discovery in Sutter's Mill in 1848 resulted in huge mass of adventurers in 1849 - led to application for statehood - opened question of slavery in the West
American society during the Revolution
Boston Tea Party
Freeport Doctrine
California Gold Rush
15. Populists campaigned for silver-backed money rather than gold-backed - believed to be able to relieve working conditions and exploitation of labor
Free silver
Mayflower Compact
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
16. John Marshall declared that the Supreme Court could declare federal laws unconstitutional
Marbury v. Madison
1968 Presidential Election
Domino theory
Battle of Yorktown
17. Philippines - Hawaii - Puerto Rico - Guam: granted to U.S. at the end of Spanish-American War; Philippines were captured after treaty - and thus not part of spoils - but kept as territory with an inevitable movement for independence; Philippines and
The Great Awakening
Conversion Experience
Suffolk Resolves
US acquisitions
18. Provided housing and recreation to city youth - imposing Protestant morals - unable to reach out to all youth
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19. Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson; purchase of Alaska 'Seward's Folly'
Conservatism
William Seward
Dorothea Dix
Plessy v. Ferguson
20. Veterans from WWI sought their pensions before they were too old to use them; they were denied and were run out of Washington (violently - by MacArthur)
John C. Calhoun
Bonus Army
Berlin Airlift
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
21. Intended to save British East India Company from bankruptcy - could sell directly to consumers rather than through wholesalers (lowered prices to compete with smuggled tea)
Tea Act (1773)
Proclamation of 1763
Japanese internment
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
22. Society naturally punishes criminals indiscriminantly
'New Left'
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
President Franklin Roosevelt
Social Reciprocity
23. Protected rights of individual from the power of the central government
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
'Lost Generation'
Bill of Rights
New Nationalism
24. Similar to Navigation; raised money to pay colonial officials by American taxes; led to Boston boycott of English luxuries
Hoover's policy of voluntarism
Jazz
Townshend Act (1767)
Ike's Farewell Speech
25. Agreement between US and Britain to remove armed fleets from the Great Lakes
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
Battle of Yorktown
War Industries Board
'Lost Generation'
26. Increased tariff on sugar (and other imports) - attempted to harder enforce existing tariffs
Schechter v. U.S Court case
Olive Branch Petition
Strict vs. Loose interpretation of the Constitution
Sugar Act
27. One country that falls into communism will cause surrounding nations to also fall 'like dominos'; spurred by Southeast Asia regimes (esp. Vietnam)
Domino theory
Muckrakers
Munn v. Illinois
Battle of Tippecanoe
28. Calvinist - devised concept of 'city on a hill' ('A Model of Christian Charity'); founded highly successful towns in Massachusetts Bay
John Winthrop
'Yellow dog contracts'
Benjamin Franklin
Richard Nixon (R)
29. In Brook Farm Community - literary nationalist - transcendentalist (nascent ideas of God and freedom) - wrote 'The American Scholar'
Valley Forge
Quebec Acts
Free silver
Ralph Waldo Emerson
30. US - Britain - Japan - France - and Italy to reduce naval tonnage and halt construction for 10 years; US and Japan to respect Pacific territorial holdings - Kellog-Briand Pact to 'outlaw war'
Compromise of 1877
Peace Corps
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
Charles Lindbergh
31. Politely demanded from the king a cease¬fire in Boston - repeal of Coercive Acts -. guarantee of American rights
Henry David Thoreau
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe (1989)
Olive Branch Petition
John C. Calhoun
32. Supreme Court legalized the 'separate but equal' philosophy
Washington's Farewell Address
Plessy v. Ferguson
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
Midnight judges
33. Lowering of income taxes for wealthy (trickle-down economics) - refusal to create higher prices to help farmers (McNary-Haugen Bill)
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
David Riesman
Battle of Yorktown
34. Cherokees - Choctaws - Creeks - Chickasaws - and Seminoles; 'civilized' due to their intermarriage with whites - forced out of their homelands by expansion
Whig Party
Five Civilized Tribes
Truman Doctrine
Roe v. Wade
35. First Utopian society - by Robert Owen
New Harmony
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
Essex case
Farmers'Alliance movement
36. 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
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Wilson's 14 points
National Organization of Women
Open Door Policy
37. Rejection of negative portrayals of women (language - entertainment) - increased quality and use of education - more job opportunities - acceptance into military
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
Critics of FDR
Gains for women
Boston Tea Party
38. Single tax on speculated land to ameliorate industrialization misery
Harlem Renaissance
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
39. Pushed through northern Georgia - captured Atlanta - 'march to the sea' (total war and destruction) - proceeded to South Carolina
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
Truman Doctrine
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
William T. Sherman
40. Banned racial discrimination and segregation (public) - bias by federal government; enforced by Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
President Harry Truman
Stamp Act Congress
41. French threat at the borders was no longer present - therefore the colonies didn't need English protection; more independent stand against Britain
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Non-Intercourse Act
AFL-CIO (1955)
French and Indian War
42. Established colony of Georgia as a place for honest debtors
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
James Oglethorpe
Industrial Workers of the World
Navigation Acts
43. Judges appointed to Supreme Court by Adams in the last days of his presidency to force them upon Jefferson - Marshall among those appointed
Bonus Army
Midnight judges
Bull Moose Party
Yellow journalism
44. Equal representation in unicameral congress
Proclamation of 1763
New Jersey Plan
Yalta Conference (1945)
Ho Chi Minh
45. Mandated the toleration of all Christian denominations in Maryland - even though Maryland was founded for Catholics (but majority was protestant)
Conservative backlash against liberalism
Report on Public Credit
Thomas Edison
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
46. Storage of Soviet missiles in Cuba (threat of nuclear war); Krushchev demanded that US never invade Cuba and remove forces from Turkey; mutual compliance with each other's demands
Boston Massacre
Cuban Missile Crisis
Midnight judges
Palmer Raids
47. 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)
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Federal Reserve Act
'Bleeding Kansas'
48. Ended the Dominion of New England - gave power back to colonies
The Glorious Revolution
William and Mary
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
49. Stressed to the American people British maltreatment and emphasize a need for revolution; appealed to American emotions
Embargo Act (1807)
Knights of Labor
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
50. Efficient working methods to increase productivity; usually resulted in lower wages (hated by workers) - power to managers
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
Scopes Trial
United States vs. EC Knight Company
James G. Blaine
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