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AP U.S. History
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1. Rejection of negative portrayals of women (language - entertainment) - increased quality and use of education - more job opportunities - acceptance into military
Gains for women
John Foster Dulles
Tet Offensive (1968)
Invasion of Iraq
2. Fair amount of troops - short guerilla tactics - strong leaders (Washington); nonprofessional army that could not handle long battles
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
20-Negro Law
Stagflation
Alien and Sedition Acts
3. Taxes on all legal documents to support British troops - not approved by colonists through their representatives
Japanese internment
Shays's Rebellion
1992 Election
Stamp Act
4. 'Southern Strategy' lured many southern Democrats to the Republican party (esp. due to southern opposition to Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Japanese internment
Zoot Suit riots
Tallmadge Amendment
Richard Nixon (R)
5. The two political parties that formed following Washington's presidency; Federalists for stronger central government - Republicans for stronger state governments
Federalists and Republicans
Ho Chi Minh
Convict-lease system
Women's Christian Temperance Union
6. Tweed Leader of Tammany Hall - gained large sums of money through the political machine - prosecuted by Samuel Tilden and sent to jail
Emancipation Proclamation
James Madison
William Marcy
Hoovervilles
7. British passenger liner secretly carrying ammunition sunk by German u-boat - included American passengers
Okies' and 'Arkies'
Cotton Gin
Lusitania
Alien and Sedition Acts
8. Through CIO - led three coal mine strikes (some of the very few strikes during the time period)
John L. Lewis
Domino theory
Boston Massacre
Emancipation Proclamation
9. Taught American landscape painting rather than Classical subjects
Federalism
Virginia Plan
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
Hudson River School
10. Contending communist politician in Vietnam - had more popularity than Diem - took power upon Diem's death
Ho Chi Minh
Secretary of State John Hay
Bombing and invasion of Cambodia
Harlem Renaissance
11. Launched in 1958 by Ike; successful launch of American satellite (Explorer I); massive arms builup
XYZ Affair
William Penn and the Quakers
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
Bacon's Rebellion
12. King hosted myriad nonviolent protesting activities to fill jail with protestors - Bill Connor (police commissioner) began violent resistance to protestors
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
Interstate Commerce Act
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
March on Birmingham
13. Efficient working methods to increase productivity; usually resulted in lower wages (hated by workers) - power to managers
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
Nullification
'Big BM' Haywood
14. Private property subject to government regulation when property is devoted to public interest; against railroads
Harpers Ferry (1859)
Munn v. Illinois
Invasion of Iraq
Election of 1824
15. Introduced work ethic to Jamestown colony - sanitation - diplomat to local Native American tribes; had fought Spanish and Turks
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
Harpers Ferry (1859)
Palmer Raids
John Smith
16. 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
Boston Tea Party
John Smith
William Penn and the Quakers
Marshall Plan
17. All English subjects are represented in Parliament - including those not allowed to vote
Freeport Doctrine
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Virtual Representation
Rationing
18. Part of Nixon's tri-faceted plan to honorably remove troops from Vietnam; wean the South Vietnamese off of American support - gradually reducing number of American troops present
Citizen Genet
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
Adams-Onis Treaty
Vietnamization
19. Ex-Lincoln secretary; worked to gain Open Door Notes' acceptance from the major powers
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
'Bleeding Kansas'
Secretary of State John Hay
George Kennan
20. Part of transportation revolution - from Cumberland MD to Wheeling WVa - toll road network; stimulated Western expansion
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
Dominion of New England
Virginia Resolves
National Road
21. Opposed strikes - producer-consumer cooperation - temperance - welcomed blacks and women (allowing segregation)
Moral Diplomacy
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
George Kennan
22. Exemplary Christian community - rich to show charity - held to Calvinistic beliefs
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23. Symbol of women workers during the war
Rosie the Riveter
Lewis and Clark expedition
Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1922 and 1930
Religious Right
24. Nixon led movement to Hiss's indictment; convicted of perjury - Nixon gained national prominence
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
Currency Act
Civil Rights Cases
Henry Clay and the American System
25. John Marshall declared that the Supreme Court could declare federal laws unconstitutional
Square Deal
Pet banks
Affirmative Action
Marbury v. Madison
26. 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)
Bruce Barton
Dixiecrats - 1948
Election of 1960
William T. Sherman
27. Newt Gingrich (Republican congressman) planned for success of Republican party in upcoming election by pledging tax cuts - congressional term limits - tougher crime laws - balanced budget amendment - popular reforms &c.
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28. New Englanders who did not wish to relate their conversion experiences could become half-way saints so that their children would be able to have the opportunity to be saints
William Seward
Mercantilism
Kitchen Cabinet
The Half-Way Covenant
29. Scholarly - welfare-reform - 'Contract with America -' impeachment over Monica Lewinski Scandal - War in Kosovo
President Bill Clinton
Bonus Army
Conscription policies
McCarthyism
30. Society naturally punishes criminals indiscriminantly
Election of 1800
Social Reciprocity
'Affluent Society'
Albany Plan of Union
31. Jane Addams's pioneer settlement house (center for women's activism and social reform) in Chicago
Atlantic slave trade
Hull House
Salutary Neglect
Roe v. Wade
32. Started the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) — 'Back to Africa' movement for racial pride and separatism; inspired self-confidence in blacks
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Marcus Garvey
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
American Federation of Labor
33. Edmond Genet contributed to polarization of the new nation by creating his American Foreign Legion in the south - which was directed to attack Spanish garrisons in New Orleans and St. Augustine
Quarantine Speech - 1937
Zoot Suit riots
Citizen Genet
Conscription policies
34. December 1814 - Opposed War of 1812 - called for one-term presidency - northern states threatened to secede if their views were left unconsidered next to those of southern and western states - supported nullification - end of Federalist Party
Warren Court
Freeport Doctrine
Battle of Saratoga
Hartford Convention
35. Party formed from Republican split by Roosevelt - more progressive values - leaving 'Republican Old Guard' to control Republican party
President Jimmy Carter
Atlantic slave trade
First American strategy in WWII
Bull Moose Party
36. American general Horatio Gates was victorious over British general Burgoyne
'New Left'
Battle of Saratoga
French and Indian War
Immigration Act of 1965
37. British-occupied cities - new governments - fighting by any with experience - loaned money - African-Americans and Native Americans involved
Cuban Missile Crisis
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
American society during the Revolution
Mann Act
38. Jackson was allowed to relocate Indian tribes in the Louisiana Territory
Reaganomics
Indian Removal Act
Fair Labor Standards Act
New Jersey Plan
39. Government ensured readjustment rights to GIs after WWI unrest - loans to veterans for higher education and mortgages (contributed to economic prosperity)
GI Bill of Rights
Watergate Scandal
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
Bruce Barton
40. Secretary of state - policy to liberate captive people in Eastern Europe by political pressure and propaganda; massive retaliation to counter SovietlChinese aggression with nuclear weapons; brinksmanship to be persistent to solve crises (even to the
John Foster Dulles
'Atlanta Compromise'
Roger Williams
Social Gospel movement
41. States could refuse to enforce the federal laws they deemed unconstitutional
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
Nullification
Soviet atomic bomb
Dawes Plan (1924)
42. Created by John L. Lewis for unskilled labor - organized 'sit-down strike' against GM to work for recognition
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Suburbia
Alexander Hamilton
43. Anti-communist crusades due to fear of radicalism spurred by Bolshevik rebellion
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44. Influence of African-American blues - music of the younger generation (gap between them and their parents)
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45. Protected rights of individual from the power of the central government
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
Battle of Saratoga
Bill of Rights
Quarantine Speech - 1937
46. Storage of Soviet missiles in Cuba (threat of nuclear war); Krushchev demanded that US never invade Cuba and remove forces from Turkey; mutual compliance with each other's demands
Great Migration
Cuban Missile Crisis
Hartford Convention
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
47. North African Muslim rulers solved budget problems through piracy and tributes in Mediterranean - obtained fees from most European powers
Palmer Raids
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Barbary Pirates
Monroe Doctrine
48. Tried to rule as absolute monarchs without using Parliament - little to no sympathy for colonial legislatures
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Charles II - James II
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
49. Southern Christian Leadership Conference - Led boycott - became leader of civil rights movement; urged nonviolent resistance (cf. tactics of Ghandi);
Fugitive Slave Act
Martin Luther King Jr.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Liberty Party
50. Part of 'First' New Deal Program - subsidies to farmers to decrease production and thus increase prices
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Woodrow Wilson
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Battle of Tippecanoe