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AP U.S. History
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1. 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
Marshall Plan
Neutrality
Quebec Acts
'Wage slaves'
2. Speech given by BTW to ease whites' fears of integration - assuring them that separate but equal was acceptable - ideas challenged by DuBois
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3. Formed in response to Kansas-Nebraska Act - banned in the South - John C Fremont first presidential candidate
John Brown
Republican Party
William Lloyd Garrison
Transportation Revolution
4. 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
Cuban Missile Crisis
Suffolk Resolves
President Jimmy Carter
Fair Deal
5. President has power to cease trade with any foreign country that violated American neutrality
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6. Workers unable to escape (locked into factory) - all died; further encouraged reform movements for working conditions
President Franklin Roosevelt
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
Lecompton Constitution
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
7. Pop art - mass production of art by screening
Jamestown
Andy Warhol
Election of 1824
Fair Labor Standards Act
8. Effectively ended spoils system and established civil service exams for all government positions - under Pres. Garfield
Civil Rights Cases
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Impressment
Treaty of Paris (1783)
9. Destroyed by Jackson on the grounds that it was unconstitutional and too much power for a federal institution
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
Monroe Doctrine
Election of 1980
Bank of the United States
10. The Man Nobody Knows - glorification of business - Jesus as a businessman - relationship between religion and manufacturing
Bruce Barton
Shays's Rebellion
United States vs. EC Knight Company
Transportation Revolution
11. Ensured trade with mother country - nationalism; too restrictive on colonial economy - not voted on by colonists
Upton Sinclair
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Mercantilism
Hoover's policy of voluntarism
12. Established by 'General' William Booth - uniformed volunteers provided food - shelter - and employment to families - attracted poor with lively preaching and marching bands in order to instill middle-class virtues
Valley Forge
Salvation Army
New York City draft riots (1863)
Energy Crisis - OPEC
13. Philosophy that deficit spending during a depression would increase purchasing power and stimulate economy; FDR disagreed with the policy at first and borrowed money to cover deficits
Keynesian economics
Boston Tea Party
Dawes Plan (1924)
David Riesman
14. Lee's chief lieutenant and premier cavalry officer
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15. Racism riots against Mexican laborers (imported for jobs)
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Explosion of USS Maine
XYZ Affair
Zoot Suit riots
16. U.S. would ensure that Cuba would be protected from European powers and maintain a place in Cuban affairs; provided coal and naval stations
'Great Society'
Platt Amendment
Affirmative Action
Immigration Act of 1965
17. Black veteran escorted to be enrolled in Univ. of Miss. by military (school reluctant - cf. Little Rock Nine)
James Meredith
Whig Party
'Baby Boom'
Federalists and Republicans
18. Fought for old Southern way of life (states' rights) - attempted to gain higher standing within Democratic party; aimed to deny Truman enough electoral votes to avoid his reelection by nominating Strom Thurmond (SC governor)
Dixiecrats - 1948
'Big BM' Haywood
Stamp Act
Charles II - James II
19. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - banned child labor - established minimum wage
Fair Labor Standards Act
Ulysses S. Grant
Boston Massacre
William Jennings Bryan
20. Society naturally punishes criminals indiscriminantly
Muckrakers
Harriet Tubman
Social Reciprocity
Olive Branch Petition
21. Emphasis on human reason - logic - and science (acquired - not nascent - knowledge); increased followers of Christianity
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
The Enlightenment
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
Declaratory Act
22. Maine as free state - Missouri as slave state - slavery prohibited north of 36°30'
Cotton Gin
Missouri Compromise (1820)
James G. Blaine
British strengths and weaknesses
23. Created the Wisconsin Idea (as governor of Wisconsin) — regulated railroad - direct-primary system - increased corporate taxes - reference library for lawmakers
President Franklin Roosevelt
Robert La Follette
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Battle of Saratoga
24. Created in 1961 as example of liberal anticommunism in third world countries; 'reform-minded missionaries of democracy'
Virginia Resolves
Dixiecrats - 1948
Peace Corps
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
25. Written by Calhoun - regarding tariff nullification
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
British strengths and weaknesses
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
26. Southern and Midwestern farmers expressing discontent - supported free silver and subtreasury plan (cash advance on future crop — farmers had little cash flow during the year) - criticized national banks
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27. Sets of programs geared towards minorities and oft-discriminated populations
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
Sugar Act
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
Affirmative Action
28. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - collective bargaining rights - closed shops permitted (where workers must join unions) - outlawed anti-union tactics
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
Neutrality
Farmers'Alliance movement
29. Second youngest president - entered presidency as tensions of the Cold War increased; unable to get major initiatives through Congress due to conservative bloc; tax cuts (economic stimulation); reluctantly gets involved in civil rights; emphasizes Sp
Vietcong
New Nationalism
President John F. Kennedy
Jane Addams
30. Support people oppressed by communism and non-democratic governments; worked with democratic governments in Greece - Turkey - and Israel
Berlin Wall
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Stephen Austin
Truman Doctrine
31. Opposed Polk's high-handedness - avid Southern slave owner
Midnight judges
John C. Calhoun
Martin Luther King Jr.
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
32. Agricultural depression as precursor to the depression; unheeded omen of problems in the economic structure (prices too low — too much supply for the demand)
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Farm crisis
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
Bonus Army
33. Group of Bostonians in opposition to the Stamp Act - sought to drive stamp distributors from the city
The Loyal Nine
Virginia Resolves
Proclamation of 1763
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
34. Created by John L. Lewis for unskilled labor - organized 'sit-down strike' against GM to work for recognition
Harriet Tubman
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
1968 Presidential Election
Knights of Labor
35. Prohibited aiding of belligerent nations - banned civilian involvement; limited power of president during international war - built up armed forces
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
California Gold Rush
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
Independent Treasury Bill
36. George Wallace vs. Nixon vs. Humphrey; very narrow popular vote triumph to Nixon (although he had clear majority of electoral votes)
Farmers'Alliance movement
President John F. Kennedy
1968 Presidential Election
Transportation Revolution
37. Law meant to evolve as society evolves - opposed conservative majority
Ho Chi Minh
Andy Warhol
Bruce Barton
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
38. 'Trustbuster' (busted twice as many as Roosevelt) - conservation and irrigation efforts - Postal Savings Bank System - Payne-Aldrich Tariff (reduction of tariff - caused Republican split)
Marbury v. Madison
Federal Reserve Act
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
William H. Taft
39. Sets of cardboard box houses that epitomized the country's blame on Hoover for the cause of the Depression
Hoovervilles
Warren Court
Forced busing
Andy Warhol
40. Efficient working methods to increase productivity; usually resulted in lower wages (hated by workers) - power to managers
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
New Federalism
Affirmative Action
Convict-lease system
41. Spurred by Great Migration - large-scale riots - lynchings - &c.
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42. Opposed BTW's accommodation policies - called for immediate equality - formed Niagara Movement to support his ideas
12th Amendment
Tea Act (1773)
Causes of the depression
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
43. 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)
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Henry Ford's assembly line
Thomas Nast
44. 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)
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Populist Party
Jackson's Presidency
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
45. Peaceful destruction of British tea in Boston Harbor by colonists disguised as Indians
Boston Tea Party
McCarthyism
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Virginia Resolves
46. British citizenship outnumbered colonies' - large navy and professional army; exhausted resources (Hessians hired) - national debt
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
British strengths and weaknesses
Salvation Army
47. Banned racial discrimination and segregation (public) - bias by federal government; enforced by Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Shays's Rebellion
McCarthyism
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
48. First African-American in major league baseball
Henry Clay and the American System
Vietnamization
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
Jackie Robinson
49. 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
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
Henry David Thoreau
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Yalta Conference (1945)
50. Jackson used personal friends as unofficial advisors over his official cabinet
1968 Presidential Election
Deportations of Mexicans
Kitchen Cabinet
Potsdam Conference (1945)
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