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AP U.S. History
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1. Warned against permanent foreign alliances and political parties - called for unity of the country - established precedent of two-term presidency
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2. Influence of African-American blues - music of the younger generation (gap between them and their parents)
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3. Ike forced to send National Guard to escort black children to school to quell riots and resistance (first time since Reconstruction that troops used in the south to enforce Constitution); resistance by white community (private schools)
Vertical and horizontal integration
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
Thomas Nast
4. Decision under Sherman Anti-Trust Act shot down by Supreme Court — sugar refining was manufacturing rather than trade/commerce
Nativism
United States vs. EC Knight Company
Dixiecrats - 1948
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
5. Darwinian (influenced by jazz age and new scientific ideas) against Fundamentalist (the Bible and Creationism); John Scopes convicted for teaching Darwinism (defended by Clarence Darrow); Scopes found guilty
Scopes Trial
The Homefront
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
6. 10-year moratorium on Chinese immigration to reduce competition for jobs (Chinese willing to work for cheap salaries)
George Washington
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
1992 Election
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
7. William and Mary kicked James II out of England (exiled into France) - allowed more power to the legislatures
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Conservatism
President Franklin Roosevelt
The Glorious Revolution
8. Organized and controlled resistance against Parliamentary acts in less violent ways (strength of martyrdom) - advocated nonimportation
Sons of Liberty
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
Jingoism
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
9. Allowed Parliament to completely legislate over the colonies - limited colonists' say
Declaratory Act
Thomas Edison
Dawes Plan (1924)
Detente - realpolitik
10. Calvinist - devised concept of 'city on a hill' ('A Model of Christian Charity'); founded highly successful towns in Massachusetts Bay
John Winthrop
Boston Tea Party
Martin Luther King Jr.
Karl Marx Das Kapital
11. Georgia cannot enforce American laws on Indian tribes
Zoot Suit riots
Worcester v. Georgia
National Organization of Women
Samuel Gompers
12. Runaway slaves could be caught in the North and be brought back to their masters (they were treated as property — running away was as good as stealing)
Washington's Farewell Address
Benjamin Franklin
Fugitive Slave Act
Hoovervilles
13. Repeat candidate for president - proponent of silver-backing (16:1 platform) - cross of gold speech against gold standard; Democratic candidate (1896)
'Evil Empire' speech - 'Star Wars'
Jane Addams
Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1922 and 1930
William Jennings Bryan
14. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - provided more funds to state and local relief efforts
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
1992 Election
Sputnik
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
15. Led architectural movement to create building designs that reflected buildings' functions - especially in Chicago
Second Great Awakening
Cotton Gin
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Louis Sullivan
16. Made it illegal to transport women across state borders for 'immoral purposes -' violated by black boxer Jack Johnson (w/ white woman)
US economy since WWII (service economy)
New Freedom
Suffolk Resolves
Mann Act
17. (peace btw Egypt and Israel) Followed years of tension - Israel would leave newly acquired lands from war - Egypt would respect Israel's other land claims; accords not completely followed - Sadat (Egypt) assassinated
President Bill Clinton
Virtual Representation
Regionalist and naturalist writers
Camp David Accords
18. 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
Korean War
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
Moral Diplomacy
War hawks
19. Scarce supplies (food and clothing) - army motivated by von Steuben
James Meredith
Valley Forge
Rationing
Election of 1960
20. Head of federal Division of Forestry - contributed to Roosevelt's natural conservation efforts
Lusitania
Ho Chi Minh
Gifford Pinchot
Judiciary Act of 1789
21. 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)
Square Deal
Tammany Hall
California Gold Rush
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
22. Middle class; white flight from urban areas due to black migration; government supported insurance for homeowners and builders
New Deal
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
Suburbia
'Bleeding Kansas'
23. LBJ's flood of proposals to Congress for the beautification and amelioration of American society (War on Poverty - Medicare - public education spending - public television (PBS) - National Endowments for the Humanities and Arts (NEH - NEA))
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24. Congressional support to raid houses of radicals believed to have connections to communism
President Jimmy Carter
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
Palmer Raids
'Silent Majority'
25. James G. Blaine sought to open up Latin American markets to the U.S.; rejected by Latin America due to fear of U.S. dominance and satisfaction with European market
Pan-Americanism
Forced busing
Samuel Gompers
1992 Election
26. Meant to provide evacuation opportunity for Americans in Cuba; internal accidental explosion blamed on Spanish mines - leading to Spanish¬ American War
Explosion of USS Maine
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Charles Lindbergh
Eugene V. Debs
27. Despite near-guaranteed second term - campaign workers burglarized Democratic offices - cover-up unsuccessful - resigned to avoid impeachment
Hoover's policy of voluntarism
Transcendentalism
Ngo Dinh Diem
Watergate Scandal
28. Sets of programs geared towards minorities and oft-discriminated populations
1968 Presidential Election
AFL-CIO (1955)
1968 as 'the year of shocks'
Affirmative Action
29. Republican - popular hero of WWII; 'dynamic conservatism' as a middle ground btw. Rep. and Dem.; Interstate Highway System (ulterior motive of weapons transportation); St. Lawrence Seaway opened Great Lakes to Atlantic Ocean via locks; Depts. Of Heal
Hoovervilles
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Monroe Doctrine
Tallmadge Amendment
30. Black veteran escorted to be enrolled in Univ. of Miss. by military (school reluctant - cf. Little Rock Nine)
Social Gospel movement
Marshall Plan
James Meredith
Detente - realpolitik
31. Editor of The Liberator (strongly abolitionist newspaper calling for immediate abolition of slavery) - fought for feminist movement ('Am I not a woman and a sister' picture of slave woman)
Citizen Genet
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Mercantilism
William Lloyd Garrison
32. Emerged from Farmers' Alliance movement (when subtreasury plan was defeated in Congress) - denounced Eastern Establishment that suppressed the working classes; Ignatius Donnelly (utopian author) - Mary E Lease - Jerry Simpson
Populist Party
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Ike's Farewell Speech
Social Gospel movement
33. Detectives hired by employers as private police force - often used to end strikes
President John F. Kennedy
20-Negro Law
Pinkertons
Popular Sovereignty
34. Used nonviolent protest and boycott to achieve better working conditions for farmers (esp. Mexican-Americans)
Stagflation
Louis Sullivan
Judiciary Act of 1789
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
35. British soldiers shot into crowd of snowball fight; two of nine soldiers (defended by John Adams) found guilty of manslaughter
Nativism
Impressment
Wilmot Proviso
Boston Massacre
36. Belligerent nationalism against other threatening nations
Jingoism
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
Declaratory Act
Panic of 1819
37. Prohibited testing of nuclear bombs above ground to slow the nuclear arms race and the release of nuclear fallout into the atmosphere
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Camp David Accords
1968 Presidential Election
William Lloyd Garrison
38. Attacked people for being communist by association and unsubstantiated claims - against Truman - Marshall - and Ike; downfall came with attack on the military (condemned by Senate); led hysteria of the red scare
McCarthyism
Transportation Revolution
Bank of the United States
Haymarket Bombing
39. Tried to rule as absolute monarchs without using Parliament - little to no sympathy for colonial legislatures
Charles II - James II
William Marcy
Currency Act
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
40. Religious movements - traveling 'meetings -' rise of Baptist and Methodist ministries; Charles G. Finney
Reaganomics
Haymarket Bombing
Second Great Awakening
Ulysses S. Grant
41. Part of the New Left that envisioned 'participatory democracy' (individuals control life-affecting decisions) - end materialism - militarism - and racism; inspired by young black activists
Marshall Plan
William Lloyd Garrison
Northwest Passage
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
42. Unemployment jitters; expelled Teamster union (resorted to gangsterism); height of power of workers' unions
AFL-CIO (1955)
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Jackson's Presidency
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
43. Europeans should not interfere with affairs in Western Hemisphere - Americans to stay out of foreign affairs; supported Washington's goal for US neutrality in Americas
Mikhail Gorbachev
Monroe Doctrine
'Gentlemen's Agreement' (1908)
Neutrality
44. John Brown and his sons slaughtered five men as a response to the election fraud in Lawrence and the caning of Sumner in Congress
Soviet atomic bomb
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
Cuban Missile Crisis
Vietnam War
45. Defined process for territories to become states (population reached 60 -000) - forbade slavery in the new territories
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Association (YMCA & YWCA)
President Bill Clinton
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
46. Under JQ Adams - protectionist tariff - South considered it the source of economic problems - made Jackson appear to advocate free trade
Tariff of Abominations
Court Packing
Republican Party
Neutrality Act - 1939
47. Midway (US Signal Corps - turning point of war in the Pacific) - D-Day (Eisenhower's amphibious invasion of Normandy - led to depletion of German forces) - Stalingrad (Russians defeated Germans - saved Moscow and Leningrad - turning point in Europe)
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Important WWII Battles
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
Indentured servants
48. Started the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) — 'Back to Africa' movement for racial pride and separatism; inspired self-confidence in blacks
Marcus Garvey
Nullification Controversy
Suffolk Resolves
1992 Election
49. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - insured deposits < $5000 - reassured American public of the worth of banks
Herbert Hoover's Food Administration
Okies' and 'Arkies'
Dollar Diplomacy'
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
50. (free speech movement) Youth activists (often liberal arts students) spoke out against Vietnam War - supported widespread liberalization
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