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AP U.S. History
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1. French foreign minister (Talleyrand) demanded bribe in order to meet with American peace commission - made Adams unpopular among the people
Bracero program
Whig Party
Ralph Waldo Emerson
XYZ Affair
2. Unconstitutionalized the NRA due to delegation of legislative authority from Congress to executive
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
Schechter v. U.S Court case
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
XYZ Affair
3. Installed Shah as dictator - overthrew Moussadegh (communist interests) - in order to resist nationalization British oil holdings
Northern Securities Case
CIA overthrow of Iran (1953)
Spanish American War (1898)
Wilson's 14 points
4. Slavery to be barred in all territory ceded from Mexico; never fully passed Congress
Tallmadge Amendment
Tea Act (1773)
Wilmot Proviso
Nullification Controversy
5. Father Charles Coughlin (benefited only wealthy people and corporations) - Huey Long ('share our wealth') - Francis Townshend (Old Age Revolving Pension)
Shays's Rebellion
Japanese internment
Critics of FDR
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
6. 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
Bruce Barton
Plessy v. Ferguson
George Washington
Wilmot Proviso
7. Small oil companies sold stock and authority to Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company (consolidation) - cornered world petroleum market
Election of 1960
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Navigation Acts
Standard Oil Trust
8. Made it illegal to transport women across state borders for 'immoral purposes -' violated by black boxer Jack Johnson (w/ white woman)
Mann Act
Karl Marx Das Kapital
Vietnam War
Court Packing
9. Supported expanded money supply - health/safety regulations - benefits for workers and farmers - granger (farmer)-supported
Greenback Party
Church of England
Jonathan Edwards
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
10. In response to Japanese discrimination in San Fran schools; Japanese to stop laborers into U.S. - Californians forbidden to ban Japanese from public schools
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11. William and Mary kicked James II out of England (exiled into France) - allowed more power to the legislatures
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
12th Amendment
Nullification Controversy
The Glorious Revolution
12. First permanent English settlement in the Americas (1607) - along James River
Marcus Garvey
Judiciary Act of 1789
John C. Calhoun
Jamestown
13. Created Federal Reserve System - regional banks set up for twelve separate districts - final authority of each bank lay with the Federal Reserve Board - paper money to be issued 'Federal Reserve Notes'
War Industries Board
Tet Offensive (1968)
Federal Reserve Act
Suburbia
14. Founded by Emerson - strong emphasis on spiritual unity (God - humanity - and nature) - literature with strong references to nature
Frederick Douglass
Transcendentalism
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
Transportation Revolution
15. Launched in 1958 by Ike; successful launch of American satellite (Explorer I); massive arms builup
Federal Reserve Act
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
'Yellow dog contracts'
16. Remainder of Florida sold by Spain to US - boundary of Mexico defined
Adams-Onis Treaty
Compromise of 1877
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
Independent Treasury Bill
17. Killed the AAA - although FDR insisted on continuing by creating smaller state-level AAAs
Battle of Antietam
Anne Hutchinson
Butler v. U.S. Court case
Robert La Follette
18. Last major battle; surrender of Cornwallis - led King George III to officially make peace with the colonies
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Battle of Yorktown
George Kennan
Committees of Correspondence
19. Truman tested for communist alliances within government; government employees prohibited from taking part in remotely-communist activities
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20. 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
The Homefront
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
GI Bill of Rights
21. Opposed Polk's high-handedness - avid Southern slave owner
Farm crisis
Transcendentalism
John C. Calhoun
Pearl Harbor
22. Head of federal Division of Forestry - contributed to Roosevelt's natural conservation efforts
Warren Court
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
Hull House
Gifford Pinchot
23. Exemplary Christian community - rich to show charity - held to Calvinistic beliefs
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24. Despite near-guaranteed second term - campaign workers burglarized Democratic offices - cover-up unsuccessful - resigned to avoid impeachment
Burned-Over District
Northwest Passage
Watergate Scandal
President Ronald Reagan
25. John Noyes - New York; utopian society for communalism - perfectionism - and complex marriage
Marcus Garvey
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
Hoovervilles
26. Due to parents unhappy with encouraged segregation of schools - Supreme Court instituted forced busing policies (using school buses as a method of integration)
'Brain trust'
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Forced busing
27. Depicted the evils of slavery (splitting of families and physical abuse); increased participation in abolitionist movement - condemned by South
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28. Scholarly - welfare-reform - 'Contract with America -' impeachment over Monica Lewinski Scandal - War in Kosovo
President Bill Clinton
'Brain trust'
Lewis and Clark expedition
Barbary Pirates
29. Decisive victory to Reagan due to his appeal over Carter (now unpopular due to lack of success in the presidency
Lowell mill/system
Impressment
Election of 1980
Sugar Act
30. Pushed through northern Georgia - captured Atlanta - 'march to the sea' (total war and destruction) - proceeded to South Carolina
Keynesian economics
Henry Ford's assembly line
Butler v. U.S. Court case
William T. Sherman
31. Civil Rights Act of 1875 declared unconstitutional by Supreme Court - as the fourteenth amendment protected people from governmental infringement of rights and had no effect on acts of private citizens
Virginia Plan
Independent Treasury Bill
National Labor Union
Civil Rights Cases
32. Southern states (especially South Carolina) believed that they had the right to judge federal laws unconstitutional and therefore not enforce them
Spanish American War (1898)
Rosie the Riveter
President Franklin Roosevelt
Nullification Controversy
33. Attempted to centralize production of war materials; ineffective due to American desire for laissez-faire government
War Industries Board
Gays in the military
Bay of Pigs invasion
Pan-Americanism
34. Introduced work ethic to Jamestown colony - sanitation - diplomat to local Native American tribes; had fought Spanish and Turks
Barbary Pirates
John Brown
Specie
John Smith
35. Government ensured readjustment rights to GIs after WWI unrest - loans to veterans for higher education and mortgages (contributed to economic prosperity)
Lodge Reservations
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
GI Bill of Rights
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
36. Natural selection applied to human competition - advocated by Herbert Spencer - William Graham Sumner
Charles II - James II
Samuel Gompers
Social Darwinism
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
37. Written anonymously by Hamilton - Jay - and Madison; commentary on Constitution - republicanism extended over large territory
The Federalist Papers
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Maysville Road Veto
John D. Rockefeller
38. Considered a hero for his solo crossing of the Atlantic by plane
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
Five Civilized Tribes
Charles Lindbergh
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
39. Worked alongside Josiah Henson to make repeated trips to get slaves out of the South into freedom
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
Theodore Roosevelt
Harriet Tubman
Hull House
40. 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
March on Birmingham
Declining death rate
President John F. Kennedy
Good Neighbor Policy
41. Northern Securities Company (JP Morgan and James G. Hill - railroads) seen by Roosevelt as 'bad' trust - Supreme Court upheld his first trust-bust
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
Truman Doctrine
Northern Securities Case
Nativism
42. Four-day banking holiday to create controlled inflation - followed by reopening of sound banks - and reorganization of unsound banks
Panic of 1819
Invasion of Iraq
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
Emergency Banking Relief Act
43. Prohibited settlements west of Appalachian - restriction on colonial growth
McCarthyism
Stock market crash (1929)
Proclamation of 1763
Pearl Harbor
44. Worked to reform the American education system - abolitionist - prison/asylum reform with Dorothea Dix
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
Horace Mann
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
Declining death rate
45. Left primary open to Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy - both promising to end the controversial war
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46. Prohibited aiding of belligerent nations - banned civilian involvement; limited power of president during international war - built up armed forces
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
'Baby Boom'
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Dorothea Lange
47. Catholic communist autocrat of Vietnam - assassinated (with aid of US)
Espionage Act and Sedition Act
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
Republican Party
Ngo Dinh Diem
48. American U-2 spy plane shot down over USSR (Ike: 'for national security); US suspended further flights - Krushchev demanded apology (refused)
Nullification
U-2 Incident
'New Left'
Pendleton Civil Service Act
49. Opposed to all immigration - strongly anti-Catholic
Know-Nothing (American) Party
Bank of the United States
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
Quarantine Speech - 1937
50. Jackson was allowed to relocate Indian tribes in the Louisiana Territory
Mercantilism
Indian Removal Act
U-2 Incident
Currency Act