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AP U.S. History
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1. Often debtors sold to slave traders by African kings seeking riches; Columbian Exchange
Knights of Labor
Atlantic slave trade
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
Andrew Carnegie
2. Acquired Mexican Cession (future California - Arizona - and New Mexico); Mexico acknowledged American annexation of Texas
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Knights of Labor
American society during the Revolution
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
3. Powerful speaker - toured the country and inspired many into Christianity
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
William Seward
Munn v. Illinois
George Whitefield
4. The Man Nobody Knows - glorification of business - Jesus as a businessman - relationship between religion and manufacturing
Causes of the depression
Bruce Barton
Fair Labor Standards Act
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
5. 'Southern Strategy' lured many southern Democrats to the Republican party (esp. due to southern opposition to Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Horace Mann
Richard Nixon (R)
6. Fought for women's rights and abolition - 'Men and women are CREATED EQUAL!'
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
Social Reciprocity
Bull Moose Party
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
7. 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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8. 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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9. Combined Massachusetts - New Hampshire - Connecticut - Rhode Island - and Plymouth (and later Jersey and New York) into one 'supercolony' governed by Sir Edmond Andros - a 'supergovernor'
Dominion of New England
Dorothea Dix
Free silver
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
10. Federalist cause leading up to Hartford Convention
Convict-lease system
Marshall Court (all cases)
Essex case
Rock `n' Roll
11. 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)
Haymarket Bombing
Knights of Labor
Regionalist and naturalist writers
Thomas Edison
12. Congress authorized LBJ to repel and prevent aggression against US troops in Vietnam - used as a blank check (perhaps too much - caused protests)
Hartford Convention
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
'Brain trust'
13. Pop art - mass production of art by screening
Thomas Nast
Andy Warhol
Lodge Reservations
Wilson's 14 points
14. 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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15. Interracial group of protestors who aimed to dramatize the violations of the call for desegregation; harsh treatment by southern whites provoked Kennedy to more strictly enforce desegregation
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
Robert La Follette
John Smith
Know-Nothing (American) Party
16. Group of Bostonians in opposition to the Stamp Act - sought to drive stamp distributors from the city
The Loyal Nine
Regionalist and naturalist writers
Berlin Wall
Populist Party
17. Authors included Langston Hughes - McKay - Zora Neale Hurston - Countee Cullet — praise and expression of black culture of the time
Whiskey Rebellion
Secretary of State John Hay
Suffolk Resolves
Harlem Renaissance
18. Young women employed by Lowell's textile company - housed in dormitories
Berlin Airlift
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Lowell mill/system
Monroe Doctrine
19. Peaceful destruction of British tea in Boston Harbor by colonists disguised as Indians
Boston Tea Party
AFL-CIO (1955)
Gays in the military
Schechter v. U.S Court case
20. Adams - Jefferson - and Burr: Adams lost - Jefferson and Burr tied - Hamilton convinced other Federalists to vote for Jefferson to break the tie
Election of 1800
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
John Brown
21. Made it illegal to transport women across state borders for 'immoral purposes -' violated by black boxer Jack Johnson (w/ white woman)
Keynesian economics
Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Association (YMCA & YWCA)
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
Mann Act
22. Through CIO - led three coal mine strikes (some of the very few strikes during the time period)
Open Door Policy
Knights of Labor
Good Neighbor Policy
John L. Lewis
23. Elvis Presley - Marilyn Monroe - James Dean - Beatniks — rebelled against conservative conformity of the rest of the country (esp. targeted youth)
New York City draft riots (1863)
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
XYZ Affair
Non-conformity
24. Monroe presidency - national unity behind Monroe - post-war boom (foreign demand for cotton - grain - and tobacco) - Depression of 1819 (cheap British imports - tightened credit - affected West the most)
Battle of Tippecanoe
Five Civilized Tribes
Era of Good Feelings
Populist Party
25. King hosted myriad nonviolent protesting activities to fill jail with protestors - Bill Connor (police commissioner) began violent resistance to protestors
President John F. Kennedy
Regionalist and naturalist writers
New Harmony
March on Birmingham
26. Over Senate seat for Illinois (Douglas victor) - Lincoln stated the country could not remain split over the issue of slavery
Vietnam War
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
Dorothea Lange
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
27. 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
Domino theory
Black Panther Party
Vietnamization
National Labor Union
28. Fought for human rights in Africa - Panama Canal returned to Panama - relations with China resolved
Charles Lindbergh
Spoils System
Church of England
Humanitarian diplomacy
29. US ambassador to Russia - notified Truman of Soviet ambitions to expand empire and overthrow other political forces; established concern for Soviet policy in Eastern Europe - Germany - and the Middle East
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
Watergate Scandal
George Kennan
30. Philosophy that deficit spending during a depression would increase purchasing power and stimulate economy; FDR disagreed with the policy at first and borrowed money to cover deficits
Fugitive Slave Act
Stamp Act Congress
Keynesian economics
Zoot Suit riots
31. Capitalism would become productive when uninhibited by taxes and regulation
President Jimmy Carter
Reaganomics
President John F. Kennedy
Vertical and horizontal integration
32. Led architectural movement to create building designs that reflected buildings' functions - especially in Chicago
Indian Removal Act
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Louis Sullivan
33. 8000 businesses collapsed (including railroads); due to stock market crash - overbuilding of railroads - heavy farmer loans - economic disruption by labor efforts - agricultural depression; decrease of gold reserves led to Cleveland's repeal of Sherm
Panic of 1893
New Harmony
William and Mary
Berlin Wall
34. Guerilla army sponsored by CIA to attack procommunist revolutionaries in Nicaragua; fear of another Vietnam
Second Great Awakening
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Nicaraguan Contras
Palmer Raids
35. Satirized wealthy captains of industry - workers and engineers as better leaders of society
Truman's Loyalty Program
McCarthyism
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
Louis Sullivan
36. 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
Invasion of Iraq
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Cuban Missile Crisis
37. Organize militia - end trade with Britain - refuse to pay taxes to Britain
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
Suffolk Resolves
Compromise of 1850
Dollar Diplomacy'
38. One country that falls into communism will cause surrounding nations to also fall 'like dominos'; spurred by Southeast Asia regimes (esp. Vietnam)
Roger Williams
Domino theory
Interstate Commerce Act
Hoover's policy of voluntarism
39. Speech symbolized polarization between conservatives and liberals
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40. Politely demanded from the king a cease¬fire in Boston - repeal of Coercive Acts -. guarantee of American rights
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Olive Branch Petition
'Affluent Society'
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
41. Gorbachev decreased nuclear arsenals - Communist Party lost power - Boris Yeltsin (president of Russian Republic) led Muscovites to take control
John Winthrop
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
Connecticut Compromise
Alien and Sedition Acts
42. Established by 'General' William Booth - uniformed volunteers provided food - shelter - and employment to families - attracted poor with lively preaching and marching bands in order to instill middle-class virtues
'Great Society'
Salvation Army
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
George Kennan
43. Cherokees - Choctaws - Creeks - Chickasaws - and Seminoles; 'civilized' due to their intermarriage with whites - forced out of their homelands by expansion
John C. Calhoun
Five Civilized Tribes
Know-Nothing (American) Party
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
44. 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)
The Great Awakening
Sputnik
Convict-lease system
45. Repeat candidate for president - proponent of silver-backing (16:1 platform) - cross of gold speech against gold standard; Democratic candidate (1896)
National Labor Union
William Jennings Bryan
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
Martin Luther King Jr.
46. Planes hijacked by terrorists for destruction; blame pinned on Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden - sought out in attempt to completely destroy terrorism
William Seward
Marshall Plan
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Ike's Farewell Speech
47. Warned of dangerous military-industrial complex (newly-found power of the military to affect the path of democracy)
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48. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - provided more funds to state and local relief efforts
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
Nullification Controversy
Townshend Act (1767)
Stagflation
49. Gore promising with experience - Bush appealing by family influence and plans for presidency (tax cuts - education reform - defense - &c.)
Henry David Thoreau
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Gains for women
Second Great Awakening
50. First Utopian society - by Robert Owen
Hull House
Knights of Labor
New Harmony
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists