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AP U.S. History
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1. Spurred by Great Migration - large-scale riots - lynchings - &c.
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2. FDR's inner circle of experts rather than just politicians in the cabinet
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3. Contending communist politician in Vietnam - had more popularity than Diem - took power upon Diem's death
Schechter v. U.S Court case
Ho Chi Minh
1968 Presidential Election
Soviet atomic bomb
4. Increase working output by standardizing procedures and rewarding those who worked fast; efficiency
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe (1989)
Charles Lindbergh
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
5. Commission on civil rights to attempt to guarantee the ballot to blacks; showed government's changing views of race relations
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
Treaty of Paris (1783)
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
6. Government ensured readjustment rights to GIs after WWI unrest - loans to veterans for higher education and mortgages (contributed to economic prosperity)
Economic transition
James Oglethorpe
GI Bill of Rights
Warren Court
7. Proclamation of 1793 response to French attempts for alliance with US
Neutrality
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
Moral Diplomacy
8. (free speech movement) Youth activists (often liberal arts students) spoke out against Vietnam War - supported widespread liberalization
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9. Challenged New Englanders to completely separate Church from State - as the State would corrupt the church
Warren Court
Roger Williams
Frederick Douglass
Platt Amendment
10. Ideas of Wilson: small enterprise - states' rights - more active government - trust busting - left social issues up to the states
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Mann Act
New Freedom
11. Rebels felt the governor of Virginia failed to protect the frontier from the Native Americans
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12. Vetoed by Jackson on the count that government funds for the Maysville Road would only benefit one state
Samuel Gompers
Maysville Road Veto
Tet Offensive (1968)
Espionage Act and Sedition Act
13. Hired to photograph ordinary Americans experiencing the depression
Rosenbergs
Dorothea Lange
Muckrakers
New Freedom
14. Reagan and Gorbachev agree to remove and destroy nuclear weapons from Eastern and Western Europe; eased international tension and allowed Soviet domestic reforms to take place
Dorothea Lange
Independent Treasury Bill
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
20-Negro Law
15. Intercepted by Britain; Germany proposed alliance with Mexico - using bribe of return of TX - NM - and AZ; Japan included in alliance
Zimmerman Note
David Riesman
Palmer Raids
Monroe Doctrine
16. First attempt of Cherokees to gain complete sovereign rule over their nation
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
Anne Hutchinson
Industrial Workers of the World
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
17. 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
Industrial Workers of the World
Dominion of New England
Creel Committee
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
18. Lee's chief lieutenant and premier cavalry officer
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19. Stressed to the American people British maltreatment and emphasize a need for revolution; appealed to American emotions
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Explosion of USS Maine
John D. Rockefeller
The Federalist Papers
20. Desegregation (Brown v. Board of Ed) - rights of the accused (Miranda v. Arizona) - voting reforms (Wesberry v. Sanders - Reynolds v. Sims - Katzenbach v Morgan)
Independent Treasury Bill
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
Warren Court
John Dewey
21. King hosted myriad nonviolent protesting activities to fill jail with protestors - Bill Connor (police commissioner) began violent resistance to protestors
March on Birmingham
Suburbia
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
22. Killed the AAA - although FDR insisted on continuing by creating smaller state-level AAAs
Spoils System
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Butler v. U.S. Court case
James Meredith
23. 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
Know-Nothing (American) Party
Whigs (Patriots)
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
24. Society naturally punishes criminals indiscriminantly
Stephen Austin
Social Reciprocity
Pet banks
Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1922 and 1930
25. Southern Christian Leadership Conference - Led boycott - became leader of civil rights movement; urged nonviolent resistance (cf. tactics of Ghandi);
'Evil Empire' speech - 'Star Wars'
War Industries Board
Jackson's Presidency
Martin Luther King Jr.
26. Mao Zedong (communist) defeated nationalist forces of Kai-Shek (supported by US); seen as defeat for US - not officially fully recognized until 1973
China turns communist
Federalism
Liberty Party
Yalta Conference (1945)
27. Americans who were forced out of their homes in Oklahoma and Arkansas (respectively) due to the dust storms and drought known as the Dust Bowl
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28. Court case - unconstitutionalized all state laws prohibiting women's rights to have an abortion performed during the first trimester of pregnancy
Jingoism
Roe v. Wade
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
Freeport Doctrine
29. Believed to provide shortcut from Atlantic to Pacific - searched for by Giovanni de Verrazano for Francis I in the race to Asian wealth
Convict-lease system
Northwest Passage
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Freeport Doctrine
30. Emphasis on personal salvation - emotional response - and individual faith; women and blacks; nationalism (Manifest Destiny)
Whiskey Rebellion
Second Great Awakening
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
'Hundred days'
31. Denounced the 'housewife trap' which caused educated women to hold even themselves inferior to men
Lodge Reservations
Bank of the United States
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
32. 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'
Marshall Court (all cases)
Tet Offensive (1968)
Dominion of New England
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
33. Under JQ Adams - protectionist tariff - South considered it the source of economic problems - made Jackson appear to advocate free trade
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
James Meredith
Tariff of Abominations
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
34. No further introduction of slaves into Missouri - all children born to slaves to become free at 25
Ralph Waldo Emerson
National Organization of Women
Tallmadge Amendment
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
35. 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'
Potsdam Conference (1945)
20-Negro Law
Four Freedoms' speech
Alien and Sedition Acts
36. Military hero from War of 1812; elected president 1840 - died of pneumonia a month later - gave presidency to Tyler
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
William Henry Harrison
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
Townshend Act (1767)
37. Created by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst; aimed to excite American imperialist interests; media bias - subjective representation of events
Yellow journalism
Gulf War - 'Operation Desert Storm' (1991)
Harriet Tubman
George Washington
38. 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)
Immigration Act of 1965
Henry Clay and the American System
Regionalist and naturalist writers
Tea Act (1773)
39. All English subjects are represented in Parliament - including those not allowed to vote
Virtual Representation
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
Panama Canal
40. 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
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Jane Addams
Social Darwinism
Voting Rights Act of 1965
41. Founded by Betty Friedan - Bella Abzug - and Aileen Hernandez; lobbied for equal opportunity where the EEOC was lacking (gender discrimination); lawsuits and mobilization of public opinion
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
Detente - realpolitik
Articles of Confederation
National Organization of Women
42. Influence of African-American blues - music of the younger generation (gap between them and their parents)
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43. CIA attempt to institute Cuban support to overthrow Castro; cover-up uncovered - became representation of Cuban resistance to American aggression
Bay of Pigs invasion
Soviet atomic bomb
John L. Lewis
Nativism
44. Dance music - slave spirituals adapted into improvisation and ragtime; jazz migrated along with blacks in the Great Migration
Jazz
Election of 1980
Dixiecrats - 1948
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
45. Led a slave rebellion in Virginia - attacked many whites - prompted non-slaveholding Virginians to consider emancipation
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46. Henry Clay aimed to make the US economically independent from Europe (e.g. - support internal improvements - tariff protection - and new national bank)
Hudson River School
Transcendentalism
March on Birmingham
Henry Clay and the American System
47. Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson; purchase of Alaska 'Seward's Folly'
William Seward
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
Vietnam War
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
48. U.S. felt it was its duty to 'watch out' for the interests of other countries in the Western hemisphere; provided justification for invasions of Latin America.
Yeoman Farmers
Frederick Douglass
'Baby Boom'
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
49. Educational and residential segregation; inferior facilities allotted to African-Americans - predominantly in South
John D. Rockefeller
Jim Crow laws
Martin Luther King Jr.
Kitchen Cabinet
50. Prejudiced jury sentenced them to death - caused riots around the world - new trial denied
Harlem Renaissance
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
Panama Canal
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial