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AP U.S. History
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1. Government ensured readjustment rights to GIs after WWI unrest - loans to veterans for higher education and mortgages (contributed to economic prosperity)
'Wage slaves'
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
GI Bill of Rights
Truman's Loyalty Program
2. Used nonviolent protest and boycott to achieve better working conditions for farmers (esp. Mexican-Americans)
Transcendentalism
Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1922 and 1930
Bank of the United States
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
3. Led architectural movement to create building designs that reflected buildings' functions - especially in Chicago
Louis Sullivan
William T. Sherman
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Social Gospel movement
4. 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
Navigation Acts
President Jimmy Carter
Vietnamization
'Wage slaves'
5. Removal of Saddam Hussein - 2003 - Iran - Iraq - and North Korea designated as the 'axis of evil -' institution of democratic government in Iraq to replace Hussein's dictatorship (return to spread and protection of democracy throughout the world - mo
Jazz
Invasion of Iraq
Thomas Nast
New Harmony
6. Achieved an abnormal rise in class system (steel industry) - pioneered vertical integration (controlled Mesabie Range to ship ore to Pittsburgh) - opposed monopolies - used partnership of steel tycoons (Henry Clay Frick as a manager/partner) - Bessem
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Court Packing
Valley Forge
Andrew Carnegie
7. Protestant church led by the king of England - independent of Catholic Church; tended toward Catholicism during reign of Catholic royalty
Election of 1980
Standard Oil Trust
Church of England
The Great Awakening
8. Offered a New Deal (reminiscent of FDR) of smaller government - reduced taxes - and free enterprise; Washington outsider
Atlantic slave trade
President Ronald Reagan
Bruce Barton
Regionalist and naturalist writers
9. 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
Hartford Convention
American society during the Revolution
Neutrality
Civil Rights Act of 1964
10. Highest peacetime deficit in US history (due to lower tax rates for high-income taxpayers - spent too much money attempting to reduce price supports to farmers)
'Wage slaves'
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
John D. Rockefeller
11. 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
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
Alexander Hamilton
Thomas Nast
California Gold Rush
12. 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
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
Religious Right
The Great Awakening
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
13. Public treaties - free trade - free seas - reduced armament burdens - anti-imperialism - independence to minorities - international organization
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14. Economic recession (collapse of savings-and-loan industry - increasing deficit due to Reagan tax cuts - retail decreased - higher crime rate)
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15. Henry Clay aimed to make the US economically independent from Europe (e.g. - support internal improvements - tariff protection - and new national bank)
Ike's Farewell Speech
Secretary of State John Hay
Henry Clay and the American System
The Glorious Revolution
16. Foundation for self-government laid out by the first Massachusetts settlers before arriving on land
Mayflower Compact
Theodore Roosevelt
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
17. Soviets cut Berlin off from the rest of Germany by blockade; US organized airlift to drop supplies into Britain; blockade lifted in May 1949
Berlin Airlift
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Whiskey Rebellion
Conformity in the 1950s
18. Led a slave rebellion in Virginia - attacked many whites - prompted non-slaveholding Virginians to consider emancipation
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19. Speech given by BTW to ease whites' fears of integration - assuring them that separate but equal was acceptable - ideas challenged by DuBois
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20. Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald (hated his anti-Cuban policies); LBJ instituted Warren Commission to investigate assassination (headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren)
Tariff of Abominations
President John F. Kennedy
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
21. Parliament took minor actions in the colonies - allowing them to experiment with and become accustomed to self-government - international trade agreements
Compromise of 1850
Salutary Neglect
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Lowell mill/system
22. Intervention in Mexican Revolution (Madero overthrew dictator Diaz) to overthrow Madero out of fear of property confiscation - General Huerta (seen as 'brute' by Wilson - sought new leader) replaced Madero
Moral Diplomacy
Thomas Edison
William Seward
Robert La Follette
23. Increased tariff on sugar (and other imports) - attempted to harder enforce existing tariffs
Independent Treasury Bill
John Dewey
Sugar Act
Battle of Gettysburg
24. Colonies proposed colonial confederation under lighter British rule (crown-appointed president - 'Grand Council'); never took effect
William Penn and the Quakers
Albany Plan of Union
Alexander Hamilton
Worcester v. Georgia
25. First president to show positive response to civil rights movement; worked heavily on keeping Soviet spread of communism in check
Mikhail Gorbachev
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
President Harry Truman
William Marcy
26. Upheld constitutionality of Espionage Act; Congress right to limit free speech during times of war
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
27. Parks arrested for refusing to give up bus seat to white man - African American leaders called for city-wide boycott of bus system (lasted almost 400 days); Supreme Court ruled segregated buses unconstitutional
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Black Panther Party
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Bacon's Rebellion
28. 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)
Currency Act
Vertical and horizontal integration
Cotton Gin
Washington's Farewell Address
29. The principle that a state should decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Popular Sovereignty
New Federalism
Compromise of 1850
30. Established free trade zone between Canada - United States and Mexico - net gain in jobs due to opening of Mexican markets
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
Bull Moose Party
Bonus Army
William Marcy
31. Effects of pesticides on the environment; changed way Americans viewed their impact on nature
Invasion of Iraq
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
Judiciary Act of 1789
Dollar Diplomacy'
32. Religious movements - traveling 'meetings -' rise of Baptist and Methodist ministries; Charles G. Finney
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe (1989)
Haymarket Bombing
Second Great Awakening
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
33. Ended the Dominion of New England - gave power back to colonies
Macon's Bill No. 2
William and Mary
Elastic Clause ('necessary and proper')
Greenback Party
34. Opposed Polk's high-handedness - avid Southern slave owner
John C. Calhoun
Tea Act (1773)
William Seward
The Homefront
35. Small state banks set up by Jackson to keep federal funds out of the National Bank - used until funds were consolidated into a single treasury
Henry Clay and the American System
Samuel Gompers
Pet banks
John Smith
36. Often debtors sold to slave traders by African kings seeking riches; Columbian Exchange
Currency Act
War hawks
Atlantic slave trade
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
37. Response to Berlin crisis - warned Moscow that threats would be answered with force; Warsaw Pact formed by Soviets in response
Townshend Act (1767)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
The Enlightenment
38. 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
Good Neighbor Policy
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Jay's Treaty
Reaganomics
39. North African Muslim rulers solved budget problems through piracy and tributes in Mediterranean - obtained fees from most European powers
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
Macon's Bill No. 2
Barbary Pirates
40. NLF attacked numerous South Vietnamese cities and American embassies - eventually repulsed; spoiled LBJ's record to reelection - resulted in massive protests in US to end the war; atrocities such that war could only end in stalemate
Convict-lease system
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1992 Election
Tet Offensive (1968)
41. Government to buy silver to back money in addition to gold
'Wage slaves'
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
Sugar Act
Atlantic slave trade
42. Meant to provide evacuation opportunity for Americans in Cuba; internal accidental explosion blamed on Spanish mines - leading to Spanish¬ American War
Lusitania
Church of England
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Explosion of USS Maine
43. Started the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) — 'Back to Africa' movement for racial pride and separatism; inspired self-confidence in blacks
Marcus Garvey
Jay's Treaty
Conservatism
Jazz
44. Needed to protect new Pacific acquisitions - U.S. took over the project from the French after overcoming Clatyton¬ Bulwer Treaty (prohibited exclusive control of canal) with the Hay¬ Pauncefote Treaty
Tea Act (1773)
Upton Sinclair
Panama Canal
Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Association (YMCA & YWCA)
45. Sets of programs geared towards minorities and oft-discriminated populations
Pinkertons
Transportation Revolution
Affirmative Action
Tallmadge Amendment
46. Worked alongside Josiah Henson to make repeated trips to get slaves out of the South into freedom
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
Navigation Acts
Roger Williams
Harriet Tubman
47. Western Pennsylvanian farmers' violent protest against whiskey excise tax - Washington sent large army to put down revolt - protests to be limited to non-violent
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
James Monroe
Whiskey Rebellion
48. Relied on voluntary compliance (no formal laws) - propaganda; high prices set on commodities to encourage production - Prohibition
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49. Goods able to be transferred from New York to New Orleans by inland waterways
Erie Canal
Bonus Army
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Federal Reserve Act
50. Leader of IWW - from Western Federation of Miners
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