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AP U.S. History
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1. Panama Canal Treaty - diplomacy with China - end of recognition of Taiwan; little accomplished domestically due to conservative opposition - foreign policy more successful; Washington outsider - Experienced high interest rates - inflation - increased
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
President Jimmy Carter
President Bill Clinton
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
2. Father Charles Coughlin (benefited only wealthy people and corporations) - Huey Long ('share our wealth') - Francis Townshend (Old Age Revolving Pension)
Critics of FDR
Jackie Robinson
Nativism
President Franklin Roosevelt
3. Known as 'wartime food czar;' created recreation policies and reintroduced leisure culture and conservation ethic to get Americans escaping the cities and improve tourism - etc.
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
Plessy v. Ferguson
Second Great Awakening
4. Drastic cutbacks in regulation of business by the federal government (banks - transportation - communications
Deregulation
Rock `n' Roll
Neutrality
Suffolk Resolves
5. 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
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Knights of Labor
Social Reciprocity
National Organization of Women
6. Warned against permanent foreign alliances and political parties - called for unity of the country - established precedent of two-term presidency
7. Hired to photograph ordinary Americans experiencing the depression
Dorothea Lange
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
8. Prohibited colonies from issuing paper money - destabilized colonial economy
Judiciary Act of 1789
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
Currency Act
9. Issued by Lincoln following Antietam (close enough to a victory to empower the proclamation) - declared slaves in the Confederacy free (did not include border states) - symbolic gesture to support Union's moral cause in the war
Pearl Harbor
Emancipation Proclamation
Midnight judges
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
10. 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
Stagflation
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
American society during the Revolution
Korean War
11. Similar to Navigation; raised money to pay colonial officials by American taxes; led to Boston boycott of English luxuries
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Liberty Party
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Townshend Act (1767)
12. Parks arrested for refusing to give up bus seat to white man - African American leaders called for city-wide boycott of bus system (lasted almost 400 days); Supreme Court ruled segregated buses unconstitutional
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Macon's Bill No. 2
Harpers Ferry (1859)
13. Increase working output by standardizing procedures and rewarding those who worked fast; efficiency
Pan-Americanism
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
Conservative backlash against liberalism
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
14. (The Lonely Crowd) 'outer directed' Americans conforming to peer pressure on moral and social issues - rather than independently thinking on morals
Kansas-Nebraska Act
William Jennings Bryan
William and Mary
David Riesman
15. American commander-in-chief; first president - set precedents for future presidents - put down Whiskey Rebellion (enforced Whiskey Tax) - managed first presidential cabinet - carefully used power of executive to avoid monarchial style rule
New Federalism
Forced busing
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
George Washington
16. John Brown and his sons slaughtered five men as a response to the election fraud in Lawrence and the caning of Sumner in Congress
President Ronald Reagan
National Origins Act (1924)
Affirmative Action
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
17. Government to buy silver to back money in addition to gold
Bull Moose Party
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
Battle of Gettysburg
Invasion of Iraq
18. The principle that a state should decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery
Popular Sovereignty
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
19. Runaway slave - well-known speaker on the condition of slavery - worked with Garrison and Wendell Phillips - founder of The North Star
Federal Reserve Act
McCarthyism
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
Frederick Douglass
20. First 'modern' president - moderate who supported progressivism (at times conservative) - bypassed congressional opposition (cf. Jackson) - significant role in world affairs
Theodore Roosevelt
Lowell mill/system
Rosie the Riveter
Manifest Destiny
21. Slavery to be barred in all territory ceded from Mexico; never fully passed Congress
Cuban Missile Crisis
Forced busing
Wilmot Proviso
Gulf War - 'Operation Desert Storm' (1991)
22. Intervention in Mexican Revolution (Madero overthrew dictator Diaz) to overthrow Madero out of fear of property confiscation - General Huerta (seen as 'brute' by Wilson - sought new leader) replaced Madero
Schechter v. U.S Court case
Moral Diplomacy
'New Left'
Soviet atomic bomb
23. Mass migration northward; mainly blacks migrating from the southern states into the north hoping for less discrimination
Creel Committee
Embargo Act (1807)
Great Migration
Non-conformity
24. First shots are fired at Charleston - North Carolina
Rosenbergs
Fort Sumter
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Conservatism
25. Federal government to increase power over economy and society by means of progressive reforms - developed by Roosevelt (after presidency)
Great Migration
New Nationalism
Proclamation of 1763
New Harmony
26. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - banned child labor - established minimum wage
Regionalist and naturalist writers
John Brown
March on Washington
Fair Labor Standards Act
27. Offered a New Deal (reminiscent of FDR) of smaller government - reduced taxes - and free enterprise; Washington outsider
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
Bank of the United States
President Ronald Reagan
Bull Moose Party
28. Emphasis on human reason - logic - and science (acquired - not nascent - knowledge); increased followers of Christianity
Vertical and horizontal integration
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
The Homefront
The Enlightenment
29. Exempted those who owned or oversaw twenty or more slaves from service in the Confederate Army; 'rich man's war but a poor man's fight'
'Great Society'
Federal Reserve Act
Thomas Nast
20-Negro Law
30. Attacked public figures (Hollywood - New-Dealers - liberals) to root out communist spies
George Kennan
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
Camp David Accords
Great Migration
31. Highest peacetime deficit in US history (due to lower tax rates for high-income taxpayers - spent too much money attempting to reduce price supports to farmers)
Henry Ford's assembly line
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Hoover's policy of voluntarism
Gays in the military
32. Law meant to evolve as society evolves - opposed conservative majority
Committees of Correspondence
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
Plessy v. Ferguson
1968 as 'the year of shocks'
33. Leader of IWW - from Western Federation of Miners
34. Economic prosperity of American society following WWII; doubling of national income - jobs to women - defense industry's support of economy
35. Advocated by Roger Sherman - proposed two independently-voting senators per state and representation in the House based on population
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Lecompton Constitution
Frederick Douglass
Connecticut Compromise
36. Equal representation in unicameral congress
Hull House
Know-Nothing (American) Party
New Jersey Plan
Platt Amendment
37. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - employed young jobless men with government projects on work relief and environment
New Jersey Plan
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
New Lights vs. Old Lights
Vertical and horizontal integration
38. John Noyes - New York; utopian society for communalism - perfectionism - and complex marriage
Theodore Roosevelt
Emancipation Proclamation
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
39. Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson; purchase of Alaska 'Seward's Folly'
William Seward
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe (1989)
Sputnik
Gains for women
40. Created the Wisconsin Idea (as governor of Wisconsin) — regulated railroad - direct-primary system - increased corporate taxes - reference library for lawmakers
Robert La Follette
'Silent Majority'
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
George Kennan
41. 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
Rationing
National Labor Union
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
42. Attempted to centralize production of war materials; ineffective due to American desire for laissez-faire government
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
Olive Branch Petition
Spoils System
War Industries Board
43. Often debtors sold to slave traders by African kings seeking riches; Columbian Exchange
Atlantic slave trade
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
Committees of Correspondence
44. Supported abolition - broke off of Anti-Slavery Society
Liberty Party
Rock `n' Roll
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Stagflation
45. Runaway slaves could be caught in the North and be brought back to their masters (they were treated as property — running away was as good as stealing)
Ku Klux Klan
Fugitive Slave Act
John Brown
Affirmative Action
46. Interracial group of protestors who aimed to dramatize the violations of the call for desegregation; harsh treatment by southern whites provoked Kennedy to more strictly enforce desegregation
Independent Treasury Bill
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
New Lights vs. Old Lights
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
47. Admiral Dewey defeated Spanish initially; American troops (aided by Aguinaldo's insurgents) captured Manila - leading to annexation
Election of 1980
Whiskey Rebellion
China turns communist
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
48. Government compromised to buy and coin $2-4 million/month; government stuck to minimum and inflation did not occur (lower prices); economy grew
Whig Party
'New Left'
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
John C. Calhoun
49. Attacked industrial elite - called for business regulation - publisher refused works breaking with Victorian ideals
New Federalism
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
Bill of Rights
50. Fought for women's rights and abolition - 'Men and women are CREATED EQUAL!'
William Penn and the Quakers
French and Indian War
Social Reciprocity
Angelina and Sarah Grimke