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AP U.S. History
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1. 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
Civil Rights Cases
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Federalism
John Winthrop
2. Tet Offensive in Vietnam - assassination of MLK and Robert Kennedy (presidential candidate) - Riot of Democratic National Convention (Chicago police beat antiwar protestors) - Black Panthers
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3. Abolished national origins quotas - dramatically increased immigration (especially from Asia and Latin America)
Emancipation Proclamation
Muckrakers
Immigration Act of 1965
'Evil Empire' speech - 'Star Wars'
4. (free speech movement) Youth activists (often liberal arts students) spoke out against Vietnam War - supported widespread liberalization
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5. Paper money; specie circular decreed that the government would not accept specie for government land
Salvation Army
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
Era of Good Feelings
Specie
6. Peaceful destruction of British tea in Boston Harbor by colonists disguised as Indians
Humanitarian diplomacy
Boston Tea Party
Knights of Labor
Midnight judges
7. Fines and imprisonment for aiding the enemy or hindering U.S. military; forbade any form of criticism of the government and military
Battle of Saratoga
Espionage Act and Sedition Act
French and Indian War
Currency Act
8. Soviet-aided North Korea attack on South Korea; MacArthur named general on behalf of UN (excluded Russia) - US supplied majority of troops; recapture of South Korea and suppression of North forces to northern border; introduction of Chinese - MacArth
Korean War
Dawes Plan (1924)
Interstate Commerce Act
Writs of Assistance
9. Pushed for Assumption (federal government to assume state debts) - pushed creation of the National Bank (most controversial) - loose interpretation of Constitution - leader of Federalist Party
American Federation of Labor
Jackie Robinson
Alexander Hamilton
National Road
10. Sewer systems and purification of water
Declining death rate
Warren Court
New York City draft riots (1863)
Salvation Army
11. Banned racial discrimination in federal practices; To Secure These Rights called for desegregation - anti-lynching - end of poll taxes
Jackson's Presidency
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
Spanish American War (1898)
Spoils System
12. 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
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
Rationing
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
13. 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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14. No further introduction of slaves into Missouri - all children born to slaves to become free at 25
Fort Sumter
Tallmadge Amendment
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
Bill of Rights
15. The Jungle revealed unsanitary nature of meat-packing industry - inspired Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
Clinton impeachment (1997)
Thomas Nast
Dorothea Lange
Upton Sinclair
16. FDR's inner circle of experts rather than just politicians in the cabinet
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17. Court case - unconstitutionalized all state laws prohibiting women's rights to have an abortion performed during the first trimester of pregnancy
Greenback Party
Marshall Plan
'Wage slaves'
Roe v. Wade
18. Proslavery constitution in Kansas - supported by Buchanan - freesoilers against it (victorious) - denied statehood until after secession
Lecompton Constitution
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
National Road
19. Written anonymously by Hamilton - Jay - and Madison; commentary on Constitution - republicanism extended over large territory
The Federalist Papers
Ulysses S. Grant
Jonathan Edwards
Stamp Act
20. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - employed young jobless men with government projects on work relief and environment
Fugitive Slave Act
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Mann Act
Forced busing
21. Guerilla army sponsored by CIA to attack procommunist revolutionaries in Nicaragua; fear of another Vietnam
Nativism
Bull Moose Party
Alien and Sedition Acts
Nicaraguan Contras
22. 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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23. 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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24. Federalist cause leading up to Hartford Convention
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
Battle of Tippecanoe
Essex case
Dominion of New England
25. Exemplary Christian community - rich to show charity - held to Calvinistic beliefs
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26. Prohibited settlements west of Appalachian - restriction on colonial growth
Anne Hutchinson
Proclamation of 1763
Bull Moose Party
Roger Williams
27. Blacks denied admission to all-white school; overturned Plessy v. Ferguson - negating 'separate but equal' - ordered integration of schools as soon as possible; white southerners protested (refused to attend integrated schools)
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Transportation Revolution
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
Voting Rights Act of 1965
28. Formed in response to Kansas-Nebraska Act - banned in the South - John C Fremont first presidential candidate
Suburbia
John Foster Dulles
Religious Right
Republican Party
29. Black rights leader - heavily influenced by Malcolm X (advocated black separatism rather than integration)
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
Japanese internment
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
Knights of Labor
30. Opposed strikes - producer-consumer cooperation - temperance - welcomed blacks and women (allowing segregation)
Civil Rights Cases
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
31. Due to parents unhappy with encouraged segregation of schools - Supreme Court instituted forced busing policies (using school buses as a method of integration)
Forced busing
Boston Massacre
Zimmerman Note
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
32. 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
The Great Awakening
American Federation of Labor
Watergate Scandal
Indian Removal Act
33. Gold discovery in Sutter's Mill in 1848 resulted in huge mass of adventurers in 1849 - led to application for statehood - opened question of slavery in the West
Hudson River School
California Gold Rush
XYZ Affair
Japanese internment
34. States could refuse to enforce the federal laws they deemed unconstitutional
Nullification
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
Albany Plan of Union
35. Decisive victory to Reagan due to his appeal over Carter (now unpopular due to lack of success in the presidency
Fort Sumter
Suffolk Resolves
Election of 1980
Martin Luther King Jr.
36. Settlers to pay the expenses of a servant's voyage and be granted land for each person they brought over; headright system
National Labor Union
Indentured servants
Mikhail Gorbachev
Virginia Resolves
37. Bush vs. Clinton vs. Perot; focus on stagnancy of economy and problems of middle class (Clinton)
1992 Election
Conformity in the 1950s
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
38. Writing took a more realistic approach on the world - regionalist writers focused on local life (Sarah Orne Jewett) - naturalist writers focused on economy and psychology (Stephen Crane)
Gifford Pinchot
The Alamo
Regionalist and naturalist writers
Lodge Reservations
39. River traffic - road building - canals (esp. Erie) - rise of NYC
Theodore Roosevelt
Transportation Revolution
Economic transition
Cult of domesticity
40. Preservation of New Deal - attempt at additions; raised minimum wage - public housing - old-age insurance extension - agricultural price supports (lowering of farm price)
Fair Deal
Barbary Pirates
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
Committees of Correspondence
41. John Noyes - New York; utopian society for communalism - perfectionism - and complex marriage
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
Sugar Act
XYZ Affair
Okies' and 'Arkies'
42. Allowed for faster processing of cotton - invented by Eli Whitney - less need for slaves
Cotton Gin
Essex case
President Jimmy Carter
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
43. To make German reparations from WWI more accessible to Germans; evacuation of troops from Germany - reorganization of the Reichsbank - and foreign loans
Dawes Plan (1924)
Henry Ford's assembly line
Rock `n' Roll
'Big BM' Haywood
44. Douglas was able to reconcile the Dred Scott Decision with popular sovereignty; voters would be able to exclude slavery by not allowing laws that treated slaves as property
Kent State Protest
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Freeport Doctrine
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
45. Response to Berlin crisis - warned Moscow that threats would be answered with force; Warsaw Pact formed by Soviets in response
Non-Intercourse Act
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
George Whitefield
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
46. British passenger liner secretly carrying ammunition sunk by German u-boat - included American passengers
Economic transition
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
George Wallace - American
Lusitania
47. Soviets cut Berlin off from the rest of Germany by blockade; US organized airlift to drop supplies into Britain; blockade lifted in May 1949
'Baby Boom'
Berlin Airlift
Underground Railroad
James K. Polk
48. Brown aimed to create an armed slave rebellion and establish black free state; Brown executed and became martyr in the North
Second Great Awakening
Federalists and Republicans
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Harpers Ferry (1859)
49. Tried to rule as absolute monarchs without using Parliament - little to no sympathy for colonial legislatures
John Winthrop
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
John Dewey
Charles II - James II
50. Selective Service Act to require men to register with few exceptions; women and blacks drafted/enlisted - highly successful
Henry Ford's assembly line
Social Gospel movement
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
Conscription policies