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AP U.S. History
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1. Prohibited aiding of belligerent nations - banned civilian involvement; limited power of president during international war - built up armed forces
Keynesian economics
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
John Brown
Bonus Army
2. French foreign minister (Talleyrand) demanded bribe in order to meet with American peace commission - made Adams unpopular among the people
XYZ Affair
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
Plessy v. Ferguson
George Whitefield
3. Political action for religion justified by decreased presence of religion in society; Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition to expand national influence
Religious Right
George Washington
Espionage Act and Sedition Act
John Winthrop
4. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - collective bargaining rights - closed shops permitted (where workers must join unions) - outlawed anti-union tactics
Thomas Edison
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
Great Migration
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
5. First attempt of Cherokees to gain complete sovereign rule over their nation
William Jennings Bryan
The Homefront
Battle of Yorktown
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
6. Desegregation (Brown v. Board of Ed) - rights of the accused (Miranda v. Arizona) - voting reforms (Wesberry v. Sanders - Reynolds v. Sims - Katzenbach v Morgan)
Warren Court
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
Conservative backlash against liberalism
Consumerism
7. Craft unions that left the Knights (1886) - led by Gompers - women left out of recruitment efforts
Embargo Act (1807)
American Federation of Labor
Battle of Yorktown
Manifest Destiny
8. Anti-immigrant - especially against Irish Catholics
Lowell mill/system
Jim Crow laws
Nativism
Consumerism
9. Foreshadowed in 14 points - hoped to guarantee political independence and integrity of all countries
Articles of Confederation
League of Nations
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
10. 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
Burned-Over District
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
Korean War
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
11. 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
The Great Awakening
Boston Tea Party
John Brown
Roe v. Wade
12. 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)
Bonus Army
Convict-lease system
Anne Hutchinson
Explosion of USS Maine
13. Emphasis on human reason - logic - and science (acquired - not nascent - knowledge); increased followers of Christianity
Peace Corps
National Organization of Women
The Enlightenment
Hartford Convention
14. Challenged New Englanders to completely separate Church from State - as the State would corrupt the church
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
Manifest Destiny
Open Door Policy
Roger Williams
15. British passenger liner secretly carrying ammunition sunk by German u-boat - included American passengers
Wilmot Proviso
Lusitania
Battle of Yorktown
Fugitive Slave Act
16. McKinley reluctant; armed intervention to free Cuba from Spain; Roosevelt's 'Rough Riders' made attack on Spanish at Cuba
Spanish American War (1898)
Knights of Labor
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
17. Standard Oil Company - Ruthless business tactics (survival of the fittest)
Cult of domesticity
John D. Rockefeller
Mann Act
Popular Sovereignty
18. Foundation for self-government laid out by the first Massachusetts settlers before arriving on land
Conscription policies
Mayflower Compact
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
'Atlanta Compromise'
19. Overthrow of the Taliban - in search of bin Laden
The Half-Way Covenant
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
James G. Blaine
Anaconda plan
20. French threat at the borders was no longer present - therefore the colonies didn't need English protection; more independent stand against Britain
French and Indian War
Rosenbergs
Judiciary Act of 1789
Macon's Bill No. 2
21. Speech symbolized polarization between conservatives and liberals
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22. Congress authorized LBJ to repel and prevent aggression against US troops in Vietnam - used as a blank check (perhaps too much - caused protests)
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Washington's Farewell Address
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
Declaratory Act
23. Network of safe houses of white abolitionists used to bring slaves to freedom
Panama Canal
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Underground Railroad
Monroe Doctrine
24. 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)
John L. Lewis
Andy Warhol
Jamestown
25. Black rights leader - heavily influenced by Malcolm X (advocated black separatism rather than integration)
Bruce Barton
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
William Jennings Bryan
26. 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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27. Workers unable to escape (locked into factory) - all died; further encouraged reform movements for working conditions
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
'Great Society'
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
28. All English subjects are represented in Parliament - including those not allowed to vote
Virtual Representation
Regionalist and naturalist writers
Berlin Airlift
Election of 1800
29. In Brook Farm Community - literary nationalist - transcendentalist (nascent ideas of God and freedom) - wrote 'The American Scholar'
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
Zoot Suit riots
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
30. Black veteran escorted to be enrolled in Univ. of Miss. by military (school reluctant - cf. Little Rock Nine)
Upton Sinclair
Battle of Yorktown
United States vs. EC Knight Company
James Meredith
31. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - provided more funds to state and local relief efforts
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
New Jersey Plan
32. Contending communist politician in Vietnam - had more popularity than Diem - took power upon Diem's death
James Meredith
Robert E. Lee
Ho Chi Minh
12th Amendment
33. Avoided league of Nations - opposed Latin American involvement
Free silver
Isolationism
Salvation Army
New Federalism
34. LBJ's flood of proposals to Congress for the beautification and amelioration of American society (War on Poverty - Medicare - public education spending - public television (PBS) - National Endowments for the Humanities and Arts (NEH - NEA))
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35. Overthrew Pres. Guzman after he nationalized American fruit fields and accepted arms from USSR (communist sympathies)
Currency Act
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
36. Americans at home reminded to conserve materials in all aspects of life to support the military; resulted in saving up of money to cause economic boom after war
Rationing
Potsdam Conference (1945)
The Enlightenment
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
37. Military hero from War of 1812; elected president 1840 - died of pneumonia a month later - gave presidency to Tyler
Explosion of USS Maine
William Henry Harrison
Election of 1824
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
38. Opposed Polk's high-handedness - avid Southern slave-owner (right to own property - slaves as property)
John C. Calhoun
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Square Deal
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
39. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - used withheld money from payrolls to provide aid to the unemployed - industrial accident victims - and young mothers; principle of government responsibility for social welfare
John Dewey
New Harmony
12th Amendment
Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA)
40. Oregon Territory owned jointly with Britain - Polk severed its tie to Britain - forced to settle for compromise south of 49° rather than 54°40'
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41. British soldiers shot into crowd of snowball fight; two of nine soldiers (defended by John Adams) found guilty of manslaughter
British strengths and weaknesses
Coxey's Army
The Homefront
Boston Massacre
42. Ex-Lincoln secretary; worked to gain Open Door Notes' acceptance from the major powers
Free silver
Secretary of State John Hay
Jim Crow laws
Bank of the United States
43. Organized and controlled resistance against Parliamentary acts in less violent ways (strength of martyrdom) - advocated nonimportation
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Sons of Liberty
King James I - King Charles
44. Natural selection applied to human competition - advocated by Herbert Spencer - William Graham Sumner
'Great Society'
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Social Darwinism
John C. Calhoun
45. 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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46. Part of 'First' New Deal Program - subsidies to farmers to decrease production and thus increase prices
Tet Offensive (1968)
President Franklin Roosevelt
Second Great Awakening
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
47. Led architectural movement to create building designs that reflected buildings' functions - especially in Chicago
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
Louis Sullivan
Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1922 and 1930
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe (1989)
48. Used nonviolent protest and boycott to achieve better working conditions for farmers (esp. Mexican-Americans)
William Penn and the Quakers
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
Transportation Revolution
Committees of Correspondence
49. Hired to photograph ordinary Americans experiencing the depression
'Brain trust'
Panama Canal
Dorothea Lange
Potsdam Conference (1945)
50. 'Southern Strategy' lured many southern Democrats to the Republican party (esp. due to southern opposition to Civil Rights Act of 1964)
William Henry Harrison
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Richard Nixon (R)
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
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