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AP U.S. History
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1. Fought for return to colonial rule - usually conservative (educated and wealthy
Mercantilism
New Federalism
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Tories (Loyalists)
2. No further introduction of slaves into Missouri - all children born to slaves to become free at 25
Tallmadge Amendment
Mann Act
Essex case
'Bleeding Kansas'
3. Allowed for faster processing of cotton - invented by Eli Whitney - less need for slaves
Bonus Army
Pinkertons
Rosie the Riveter
Cotton Gin
4. Brown aimed to create an armed slave rebellion and establish black free state; Brown executed and became martyr in the North
Townshend Act (1767)
Harpers Ferry (1859)
Navigation Acts
Invasion of Iraq
5. Mexicans held siege on the Alamo (in San Antonio) - Texans lost great number of people - 'Remember the Alamo'
Kitchen Cabinet
The Alamo
Wilmot Proviso
Boston Massacre
6. Through CIO - led three coal mine strikes (some of the very few strikes during the time period)
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
George Wallace - American
John L. Lewis
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
7. (free speech movement) Youth activists (often liberal arts students) spoke out against Vietnam War - supported widespread liberalization
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8. Intended to save British East India Company from bankruptcy - could sell directly to consumers rather than through wholesalers (lowered prices to compete with smuggled tea)
Tea Act (1773)
Battle of Yorktown
John C. Calhoun
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
9. States joined for foreign affairs - Congress reigned supreme (lacked executive and judicial) - one vote per state - 2/3 vote for bills - unanimous for amendments; too much power to states - unable to regulate commerce or taxes
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
Important WWII Battles
Articles of Confederation
Monroe Doctrine
10. State-run economy to provide conflict-free society
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
John Smith
Coxey's Army
'Contract with America' (1994)
11. Ended the Dominion of New England - gave power back to colonies
Tea Act (1773)
William and Mary
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
New Federalism
12. Sewer systems and purification of water
New Federalism
Rock `n' Roll
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
Declining death rate
13. Foundation for First Amendment - offered free choice of religion - not influenced by state
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Virginia Plan
Strict vs. Loose interpretation of the Constitution
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
14. 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'
20-Negro Law
Stagflation
War Industries Board
Schechter v. U.S Court case
15. Worked towards asylums for the mentally insane - worked alongside Mann
Salutary Neglect
Gays in the military
Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Lange
16. Created in 1961 as example of liberal anticommunism in third world countries; 'reform-minded missionaries of democracy'
Peace Corps
Fair Deal
Tet Offensive (1968)
Civil Rights Cases
17. In reaction to the Boston Tea Party; closing of Boston Harbor - revocation of Massachusetts charter (power to governor) - murder in the name of royal authority would be tried in England or another colony
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
James Oglethorpe
Good Neighbor Policy
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
18. Provided for evacuation of English troops from posts in the Great Lakes
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19. Anti-Federalists wanted states' rights - bill of rights - unanimous consent - reference to religion - more power to less-rich and common people; Federalists wanted strong central government - more power to experienced - separation of church and state
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
Connecticut Compromise
Yalta Conference (1945)
20. Search warrants on shipping to reduce smuggling; challenged by James Otis
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
Writs of Assistance
Nicaraguan Contras
Peace Corps
21. Stressed to the American people British maltreatment and emphasize a need for revolution; appealed to American emotions
Spoils System
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Haymarket Bombing
22. Equal representation in unicameral congress
Warren Court
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
New Jersey Plan
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
23. Launched in 1958 by Ike; successful launch of American satellite (Explorer I); massive arms builup
Bush v. Gore (2000)
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
GI Bill of Rights
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
24. Left primary open to Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy - both promising to end the controversial war
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25. The Man Nobody Knows - glorification of business - Jesus as a businessman - relationship between religion and manufacturing
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
Bruce Barton
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Open Door Policy
26. British soldiers shot into crowd of snowball fight; two of nine soldiers (defended by John Adams) found guilty of manslaughter
John Winthrop
Virtual Representation
Boston Massacre
Five Civilized Tribes
27. First president to show positive response to civil rights movement; worked heavily on keeping Soviet spread of communism in check
Fair Labor Standards Act
Secretary of State John Hay
New Jersey Plan
President Harry Truman
28. Withdrawal of American troops from foreign nations (especially Latin America) to improve international relations and unite western hemisphere; Clark Memorandum (rebukes the 'big stick'); peaceful resolution of Mexican oil fields
Gains for women
President John F. Kennedy
Good Neighbor Policy
Stamp Act Congress
29. Group of Bostonians in opposition to the Stamp Act - sought to drive stamp distributors from the city
The Loyal Nine
Deists
Vietnamization
Knights of Labor
30. Government to buy silver to back money in addition to gold
President Harry Truman
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
31. Dealt with Vietnam War - 'Great Society' program for improvement of American society - antipoverty and anti-discrimination programs
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
American society during the Revolution
Henry Clay and the American System
32. Northern factory workers who were discarded when too old to work (unlike the slaves who were still kept fed and clothed in their old age)
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33. Huerta's enemy - reluctantly supported by U.S.; U.S. sought Villa's submission due to terrorism - eventually assassinated; Wilson's policy highly unpopular
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
Bombing and invasion of Cambodia
Compromise of 1877
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
34. 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)
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Economic transition
Vertical and horizontal integration
Citizen Genet
35. American who settled in Texas - one of the leaders for Texan independence from Mexico
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Thomas Nast
Stephen Austin
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
36. Blacks who went to prison taken out and used for labor in slave-like conditions - enforced southern racial hierarchy
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
Convict-lease system
Tammany Hall
American Federation of Labor
37. First shots are fired at Charleston - North Carolina
Zimmerman Note
Scopes Trial
Proclamation of 1763
Fort Sumter
38. 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)
U-2 Incident
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Virtual Representation
Emergency Banking Relief Act
39. Border ruffians in election on issue of slavery incited controversy - proslavery group attacked Lawrence - Kansas - Pottawatomie Massacre
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40. Led Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: threatened a siege on DC if FDR did not agree to end discrimination in military
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
George Washington
Woodrow Wilson
Jackie Robinson
41. First female cabinet member
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
'Atlanta Compromise'
John Winthrop
Good Neighbor Policy
42. Supported Socialists - militant unionists and socialists - advocated strikes and sabotaging politics - aimed for an umbrella union similar to Knights of Labor - ideas too radical for socialist cause
William Penn and the Quakers
Industrial Workers of the World
Elastic Clause ('necessary and proper')
League of Nations
43. New Lights brought new ideas - rejected by Old Lights; both sought out institutions independent of each other
Hudson River School
Kitchen Cabinet
Bull Moose Party
New Lights vs. Old Lights
44. Southern states (especially South Carolina) believed that they had the right to judge federal laws unconstitutional and therefore not enforce them
Battle of Antietam
Nullification Controversy
Civil Rights Cases
Okies' and 'Arkies'
45. Albert Fall accused of accepting bribes for access to government oil in Teapot Dome - Wyoming
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Teapot Dome scandal
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Muckrakers
46. 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
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
Citizen Genet
Dorothea Lange
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
47. Efficient working methods to increase productivity; usually resulted in lower wages (hated by workers) - power to managers
Booker T. Washington
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
48. Maine as free state - Missouri as slave state - slavery prohibited north of 36°30'
John L. Lewis
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
New Freedom
49. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - prevented extreme competition - labor management disputes - and over-production; federally coordinated consensus of business leaders (Hugh Johnson) to regulate businesses (wages - limits - working condit
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Yellow journalism
'Atlanta Compromise'
12th Amendment
50. Taxes on all legal documents to support British troops - not approved by colonists through their representatives
Stamp Act
Four Freedoms' speech
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
Non-Intercourse Act