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AP U.S. History

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1. Americans who were forced out of their homes in Oklahoma and Arkansas (respectively) due to the dust storms and drought known as the Dust Bowl

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






3. Founded by William Sylvis (1866); supported 8-hour workday - convict labor - federal department of labor - banking reform - immigration restrictions to increase wages - women; excluded blacks






4. Mass production of the Model-T - workers as potential consumers (raise wages) - supported other industries and raised employment

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5. 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






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






7. Created by John L. Lewis for unskilled labor - organized 'sit-down strike' against GM to work for recognition






8. British-occupied cities - new governments - fighting by any with experience - loaned money - African-Americans and Native Americans involved






9. Settlers to pay the expenses of a servant's voyage and be granted land for each person they brought over; headright system






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






11. Most numerous in New England - fought for independence






12. Fair amount of troops - short guerilla tactics - strong leaders (Washington); nonprofessional army that could not handle long battles






13. Ex-Lincoln secretary; worked to gain Open Door Notes' acceptance from the major powers






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






15. Advocated by Roger Sherman - proposed two independently-voting senators per state and representation in the House based on population






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






17. Protestant church led by the king of England - independent of Catholic Church; tended toward Catholicism during reign of Catholic royalty






18. 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)






19. Committees appointed from different colonies to communicate on matters; asserted rights to self¬government - cooperation between colonies






20. Fear of Japanese-Americans as traitors - sent off (by law) to internment camps; removal of deemed threats in military areas






21. Henry Clay aimed to make the US economically independent from Europe (e.g. - support internal improvements - tariff protection - and new national bank)






22. 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






23. Nationalists against foreign non-English speaking workers (took jobs away from American men); encouraged to leave the U.S.






24. 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






25. Nonviolent protest to college students (NC) being refused lunch service; part of 'sit-in' movement to integrate all aspects of life (hotels - entertainment - &c.)






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






27. 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)






28. Argued that states had the right to determine whether or not the laws passed by Congress were constitutional






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






30. Congressional support to raid houses of radicals believed to have connections to communism






31. Exemplary Christian community - rich to show charity - held to Calvinistic beliefs

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32. Bush vs. Clinton vs. Perot; focus on stagnancy of economy and problems of middle class (Clinton)






33. Raised tariffs extremely high on manufactured goods; benefited domestic manufacturers - but limited foreign trade






34. US provided financial assistance to recover economies in Europe; aimed towards anti-communist governments in France - Italy - and Germany; Eastern European nations prohibited from receiving help from US






35. Heavily evangelized to the point there were no more people left to convert to other religions - upstate New York - home to the beginning of Smith's Mormonism movement






36. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - prevented extreme competition - labor management disputes - and over-production; federally coordinated consensus of business leaders (Hugh Johnson) to regulate businesses (wages - limits - working condit






37. 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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38. Gore promising with experience - Bush appealing by family influence and plans for presidency (tax cuts - education reform - defense - &c.)






39. Prohibited discrimination in any government-related work; increased black employment






40. Depicted the evils of slavery (splitting of families and physical abuse); increased participation in abolitionist movement - condemned by South

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41. In response to Japanese discrimination in San Fran schools; Japanese to stop laborers into U.S. - Californians forbidden to ban Japanese from public schools

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42. Westward migration of workers (new economic opportunities - esp. aircraft industry) - high rates of divorce and family/juvenile violence - women encouraged to work in factories - still held inferior to men






43. State-run economy to provide conflict-free society






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






45. Alice Paul; shocked traditionalism - League of Women Voters supported; new organization of women who were now more independent






46. To make German reparations from WWI more accessible to Germans; evacuation of troops from Germany - reorganization of the Reichsbank - and foreign loans






47. Over Senate seat for Illinois (Douglas victor) - Lincoln stated the country could not remain split over the issue of slavery






48. Accomplished great number of relief - recovery - and reform efforts; sought practical solutions to the problems by experimentation

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49. Believed in expanding federal power on economy - encouraged industrial development; could only gain power on the local level - led by Henry Clay (anti-Jackson)






50. Influence of African-American blues - music of the younger generation (gap between them and their parents)

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