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AP U.S. History
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1. Argued that states had the right to determine whether or not the laws passed by Congress were constitutional
New Deal
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Atlantic slave trade
Wilmot Proviso
2. Jane Addams's pioneer settlement house (center for women's activism and social reform) in Chicago
Independent Treasury Bill
Non-conformity
Non-Intercourse Act
Hull House
3. Created in 1961 as example of liberal anticommunism in third world countries; 'reform-minded missionaries of democracy'
Peace Corps
The Federalist Papers
Vietcong
Standard Oil Trust
4. Congress could tax imports but not exports
Robert La Follette
Harpers Ferry (1859)
Commerce Compromise
National Organization of Women
5. Executed for leaking atomic secrets to Soviets - avowed communists
Muckrakers
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Rosenbergs
Eugene V. Debs
6. Brought in Mexicans for temporary jobs - concentrated in southern CA - given extremely poor working conditions (as they were not American citizens)
Louis Sullivan
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Horace Mann
Bracero program
7. Proposed by Hamilton to repair war debts; selling of securities and federal lands - assumption of state debts - set up the first National Bank
Dawes Plan (1924)
Report on Public Credit
Spoils System
Gifford Pinchot
8. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - provided more funds to state and local relief efforts
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
Social Darwinism
Public Works Administration (PWA)
William H. Taft
9. Last major battle; surrender of Cornwallis - led King George III to officially make peace with the colonies
Battle of Yorktown
McCarthyism
Ku Klux Klan
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
10. Part of transportation revolution - from Cumberland MD to Wheeling WVa - toll road network; stimulated Western expansion
William H. Taft
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
National Road
New York City draft riots (1863)
11. Believed in expanding federal power on economy - encouraged industrial development; could only gain power on the local level - led by Henry Clay (anti-Jackson)
Reaganomics
Citizen Genet
Whig Party
Valley Forge
12. Part of 'First' New Deal Program - subsidies to farmers to decrease production and thus increase prices
Causes of the depression
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
John Dewey
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
13. Left primary open to Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy - both promising to end the controversial war
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14. Believed to provide shortcut from Atlantic to Pacific - searched for by Giovanni de Verrazano for Francis I in the race to Asian wealth
Essex case
Northwest Passage
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
Quarantine Speech - 1937
15. Proclamation of 1793 response to French attempts for alliance with US
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Neutrality
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
16. State-run economy to provide conflict-free society
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
Salutary Neglect
Whig Party
17. FDR and Churchill agreed to defeat Germany first rather than concentrate on Japan
Henry Clay and the American System
First American strategy in WWII
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
'Affluent Society'
18. Led Pottawatomie Massacre - extreme abolitionist who believed he was doing God's work
Kent State Protest
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
Church of England
John Brown
19. Prohibited use of any devices (e.g. - literacy tests) to deny the right to vote and enforced black suffrage rights
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
Voting Rights Act of 1965
20. Symbol of women workers during the war
'Big BM' Haywood
Rosie the Riveter
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
Robert E. Lee
21. Colonies proposed colonial confederation under lighter British rule (crown-appointed president - 'Grand Council'); never took effect
Albany Plan of Union
Bacon's Rebellion
Conformity in the 1950s
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
22. Religious movements - traveling 'meetings -' rise of Baptist and Methodist ministries; Charles G. Finney
Woodrow Wilson
Judiciary Act of 1789
Humanitarian diplomacy
Second Great Awakening
23. Powerful speaker - toured the country and inspired many into Christianity
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
Fugitive Slave Act
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
George Whitefield
24. 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
Panic of 1893
'Graying of America'
Pendleton Civil Service Act
The Great Awakening
25. Military hero from War of 1812; elected president 1840 - died of pneumonia a month later - gave presidency to Tyler
Popular Sovereignty
William Henry Harrison
National Road
Rosie the Riveter
26. Democratic political machine in NYC - 'supported' immigrants and poor people of the city - who were needed for Democratic election victories
Tammany Hall
Quarantine Speech - 1937
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
27. Foundation for First Amendment - offered free choice of religion - not influenced by state
Lecompton Constitution
John Dewey
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
'New Left'
28. Provided housing and recreation to city youth - imposing Protestant morals - unable to reach out to all youth
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29. Prohibited exports (and imports) based in American ports - most controversial Jefferson legislation
Embargo Act (1807)
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
Economic transition
'Hundred days'
30. William and Mary kicked James II out of England (exiled into France) - allowed more power to the legislatures
Immigration Act of 1965
The Glorious Revolution
China turns communist
New Deal
31. Goods able to be transferred from New York to New Orleans by inland waterways
French and Indian War
'Bleeding Kansas'
Clinton impeachment (1997)
Erie Canal
32. Mao Zedong (communist) defeated nationalist forces of Kai-Shek (supported by US); seen as defeat for US - not officially fully recognized until 1973
Schechter v. U.S Court case
Sons of Liberty
Five Civilized Tribes
China turns communist
33. Democratic candidate 1912 - stood for antitrust - monetary change - and tariff reduction; far less active than Roosevelt - Clayton Anti-trust Act (to enforce Sherman) - Child Labor Act
Woodrow Wilson
12th Amendment
Voting Rights Act of 1965
James K. Polk
34. Americans feared Soviet infiltration into Latin America - placed secret police and military forces to prevent it
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
Hoover's policy of voluntarism
Robert La Follette
Lowell mill/system
35. Taxes on all legal documents to support British troops - not approved by colonists through their representatives
Jonathan Edwards
Stamp Act
Ulysses S. Grant
Dorothea Dix
36. 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)
Public Works Administration (PWA)
John Brown
Compromise of 1850
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
37. Young women employed by Lowell's textile company - housed in dormitories
The Half-Way Covenant
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Lowell mill/system
38. Judiciary Reorganization Bill; FDR's attempt to put in extra judges who would support him without doubt
First American strategy in WWII
The Half-Way Covenant
Freeport Doctrine
Court Packing
39. Ended the Dominion of New England - gave power back to colonies
Peace Corps
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
William and Mary
'Gentlemen's Agreement' (1908)
40. Repeat candidate for president - proponent of silver-backing (16:1 platform) - cross of gold speech against gold standard; Democratic candidate (1896)
'Yellow dog contracts'
William Jennings Bryan
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
Berlin Airlift
41. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - employed young jobless men with government projects on work relief and environment
Pan-Americanism
Bruce Barton
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
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
Gays in the military
The Homefront
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
Bruce Barton
43. South divided into 5 military districts; states to guarantee full suffrage for blacks; ratify 14th amendment
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Open Door Policy
44. River traffic - road building - canals (esp. Erie) - rise of NYC
Transportation Revolution
Berlin Wall
Farm crisis
'Graying of America'
45. Georgia cannot enforce American laws on Indian tribes
Worcester v. Georgia
Federal Reserve Act
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
46. Founded by Emerson - strong emphasis on spiritual unity (God - humanity - and nature) - literature with strong references to nature
Transcendentalism
'Red Scare' (1919)
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
47. McKinley reluctant; armed intervention to free Cuba from Spain; Roosevelt's 'Rough Riders' made attack on Spanish at Cuba
Writs of Assistance
Adams-Onis Treaty
National Labor Union
Spanish American War (1898)
48. Hamilton praised efficient factories with few managers over many workers - promote emigration - employment opportunities - applications of technology
Panic of 1819
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
John Brown
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
49. Politely demanded from the king a cease¬fire in Boston - repeal of Coercive Acts -. guarantee of American rights
John D. Rockefeller
Panama Canal
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
Olive Branch Petition
50. Catholic communist autocrat of Vietnam - assassinated (with aid of US)
David Riesman
Ngo Dinh Diem
Lecompton Constitution
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)