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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






2. Introduced his 'New Deal -' won election by a relative landslide (he was not Hoover - whom the public now did not trust)






3. Private property subject to government regulation when property is devoted to public interest; against railroads






4. Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald (hated his anti-Cuban policies); LBJ instituted Warren Commission to investigate assassination (headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren)






5. Ended the Dominion of New England - gave power back to colonies






6. Electric light - phonograph - mimeograph - Dictaphone - moving pictures






7. Held in New York - agreed to not import British goods until Stamp Act was repealed






8. Challenged New Englanders to completely separate Church from State - as the State would corrupt the church






9. Jane Addams's pioneer settlement house (center for women's activism and social reform) in Chicago






10. Northern Securities Company (JP Morgan and James G. Hill - railroads) seen by Roosevelt as 'bad' trust - Supreme Court upheld his first trust-bust






11. Beginnings of trusts (destruction of competition); vertical- controlling every aspect of production (control quality - eliminate middlemen - Rockefeller); horizontal- consolidating with competitors to monopolize a market (highly detrimental)






12. States could refuse to enforce the federal laws they deemed unconstitutional






13. First president to show positive response to civil rights movement; worked heavily on keeping Soviet spread of communism in check






14. Organized Seneca Falls Convention - founded (with Anthony) National Women Suffrage Organization






15. Americans feared Soviet infiltration into Latin America - placed secret police and military forces to prevent it






16. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - hydroelectric power to river valley; brought social and economic development to very poor area






17. Black rights leader - heavily influenced by Malcolm X (advocated black separatism rather than integration)






18. Congress could tax imports but not exports






19. Considered a hero for his solo crossing of the Atlantic by plane






20. Emphasis on personal salvation - emotional response - and individual faith; women and blacks; nationalism (Manifest Destiny)






21. Preservation of New Deal - attempt at additions; raised minimum wage - public housing - old-age insurance extension - agricultural price supports (lowering of farm price)






22. Argued that states had the right to determine whether or not the laws passed by Congress were constitutional






23. British citizenship outnumbered colonies' - large navy and professional army; exhausted resources (Hessians hired) - national debt






24. No further introduction of slaves into Missouri - all children born to slaves to become free at 25






25. Effects of pesticides on the environment; changed way Americans viewed their impact on nature






26. Government ensured readjustment rights to GIs after WWI unrest - loans to veterans for higher education and mortgages (contributed to economic prosperity)






27. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark sent by Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Territory on 'Voyage of Discovery'






28. Lee invaded Pennsylvania - bloodiest battle of the war - Confederate Pickett's Charge (disastrous) - Lee forced to retreat (not pursued by Meade) - South doomed to never invade North again - Gettysburg Address given by Lincoln (nation over union)






29. Military hero from War of 1812; elected president 1840 - died of pneumonia a month later - gave presidency to Tyler






30. Drastic cutbacks in regulation of business by the federal government (banks - transportation - communications






31. Republican candidate for president in 1884 - quintessence of spoils system; highly disgusted the mugwumps (many Republicans turned to Democrat Cleveland)






32. Taught American landscape painting rather than Classical subjects






33. 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






34. Fearing the rise of labor unions - corporations forced new employees to sign and promise not to be part of a union

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35. Roosevelt's plan that aimed to regulate corporations (Anthracite coal strike - Dept. of Commerce and Labor - Elkins and Hepburn Acts) - protect consumers (meat sanitation) - and conserve natural resources (Newlands Reclamation Act)






36. Authors included Langston Hughes - McKay - Zora Neale Hurston - Countee Cullet — praise and expression of black culture of the time






37. 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






38. In Brook Farm Community - literary nationalist - transcendentalist (nascent ideas of God and freedom) - wrote 'The American Scholar'






39. Cherokees - Choctaws - Creeks - Chickasaws - and Seminoles; 'civilized' due to their intermarriage with whites - forced out of their homelands by expansion






40. Created Interstate Commerce Commission to require railroads to publish rates (less discrimination - short/long haul) - first legislation to regulate corporations - ineffective ICC






41. Equal representation in unicameral congress






42. FDR's inner circle of experts rather than just politicians in the cabinet

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43. Lee's attack on Maryland in hopes that he could take it from the Union - bloodiest day of the war - stalemate - McClellan replaced by Burnside - stalemate - South would never be so close to victory again






44. Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait despite peace treaty and refusal to abandon Iraqi occupation

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45. Middle class; white flight from urban areas due to black migration; government supported insurance for homeowners and builders






46. 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






47. Key to English-Native American relationship - died in England in 1617






48. 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






49. Western Pennsylvanian farmers' violent protest against whiskey excise tax - Washington sent large army to put down revolt - protests to be limited to non-violent






50. Government compromised to buy and coin $2-4 million/month; government stuck to minimum and inflation did not occur (lower prices); economy grew







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