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AP U.S. History
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1. Speech given by BTW to ease whites' fears of integration - assuring them that separate but equal was acceptable - ideas challenged by DuBois
2. Commission on civil rights to attempt to guarantee the ballot to blacks; showed government's changing views of race relations
Populist Party
Sugar Act
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
Jackie Robinson
3. Led architectural movement to create building designs that reflected buildings' functions - especially in Chicago
William T. Sherman
Louis Sullivan
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Cotton Gin
4. Decided to punish war crimes - established program for de-Nazification of Germany
Good Neighbor Policy
Report on Public Credit
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Herbert Hoover's Food Administration
5. Veterans from WWI sought their pensions before they were too old to use them; they were denied and were run out of Washington (violently - by MacArthur)
Bonus Army
Important WWII Battles
Tories (Loyalists)
Stock market crash (1929)
6. Response to Berlin crisis - warned Moscow that threats would be answered with force; Warsaw Pact formed by Soviets in response
Martin Luther King Jr.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Tet Offensive (1968)
7. Foreshadowed in 14 points - hoped to guarantee political independence and integrity of all countries
League of Nations
Boston Massacre
Salvation Army
Roger Williams
8. 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
President Harry Truman
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
Detente - realpolitik
Invasion of Iraq
9. Huerta's enemy - reluctantly supported by U.S.; U.S. sought Villa's submission due to terrorism - eventually assassinated; Wilson's policy highly unpopular
Strict vs. Loose interpretation of the Constitution
Moral Diplomacy
Cult of domesticity
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
10. Prohibited settlements west of Appalachian - restriction on colonial growth
Conscription policies
James Meredith
James Oglethorpe
Proclamation of 1763
11. Due to parents unhappy with encouraged segregation of schools - Supreme Court instituted forced busing policies (using school buses as a method of integration)
Regionalist and naturalist writers
Forced busing
Important WWII Battles
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
12. United States aided South Vietnam in its war of power struggle against North Vietnam - the Vietcong - USSR - and China
Peace Corps
Industrial Workers of the World
Vietnam War
Stamp Act
13. 14 formal amendments to the treaty for the League of Nations; preserved Monroe Doctrine - Congress desired to keep declaration of war to itself
Neutrality Act - 1939
Burned-Over District
New Lights vs. Old Lights
Lodge Reservations
14. Ended the Dominion of New England - gave power back to colonies
Pan-Americanism
Square Deal
Mann Act
William and Mary
15. National Liberation Front - guerilla militia from south Vietnam fighting alongside the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam)
McCarthyism
Ulysses S. Grant
Berlin Airlift
Vietcong
16. 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)
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Election of 1960
17. Old immigrants from northern and western Europe came seeking better life; new immigrants came from southern and eastern Europe searching for opportunity to escape worse living conditions back home and often did not stay in the US
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
Immigration Act of 1965
Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA)
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
18. Congress authorized LBJ to repel and prevent aggression against US troops in Vietnam - used as a blank check (perhaps too much - caused protests)
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Upton Sinclair
Wilmot Proviso
Adams-Onis Treaty
19. Led by Francis Willard - powerful 'interest group' following the civil war - urged women's suffrage - led to Prohibition
20. (1) California admitted as free state - (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico - (3) resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries - (4) federal assumption of Texas debt - (5) slave trade abolished in DC - and (6) new fugit
James G. Blaine
Isolationism
Soviet atomic bomb
Compromise of 1850
21. 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
Battle of Antietam
Populist Party
Zimmerman Note
Hoover's policy of voluntarism
22. Believed that God created the universe to act through natural laws; Franklin - Jefferson - Paine
Erie Canal
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Deists
Writs of Assistance
23. Abolished national origins quotas - dramatically increased immigration (especially from Asia and Latin America)
Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1922 and 1930
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
Immigration Act of 1965
William Jennings Bryan
24. Sets of programs geared towards minorities and oft-discriminated populations
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
Affirmative Action
New Nationalism
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
25. Desegregation (Brown v. Board of Ed) - rights of the accused (Miranda v. Arizona) - voting reforms (Wesberry v. Sanders - Reynolds v. Sims - Katzenbach v Morgan)
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Warren Court
William T. Sherman
Embargo Act (1807)
26. Ex-Lincoln secretary; worked to gain Open Door Notes' acceptance from the major powers
Farm crisis
Sons of Liberty
Secretary of State John Hay
US acquisitions
27. Congressional support to raid houses of radicals believed to have connections to communism
The Glorious Revolution
Plessy v. Ferguson
Palmer Raids
Square Deal
28. Opposed strikes - producer-consumer cooperation - temperance - welcomed blacks and women (allowing segregation)
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
Pinkertons
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
29. 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
Monroe Doctrine
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Scopes Trial
Nicaraguan Contras
30. 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)
31. Prohibited exports (and imports) based in American ports - most controversial Jefferson legislation
Embargo Act (1807)
Olive Branch Petition
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1922 and 1930
32. Denounced the 'housewife trap' which caused educated women to hold even themselves inferior to men
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
Stamp Act Congress
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
XYZ Affair
33. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - employed young jobless men with government projects on work relief and environment
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Sputnik
Indian Removal Act
Gays in the military
34. British-occupied cities - new governments - fighting by any with experience - loaned money - African-Americans and Native Americans involved
'Gentlemen's Agreement' (1908)
American society during the Revolution
James Monroe
President Jimmy Carter
35. Kent State University students protesting against invasion of Cambodia - not allowed to demonstrate - violence (murder) caused by guardsmen
Non-conformity
Hoovervilles
New Deal
Kent State Protest
36. Nixon led movement to Hiss's indictment; convicted of perjury - Nixon gained national prominence
William Penn and the Quakers
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
Wilson's 14 points
James Madison
37. Supported abolition - broke off of Anti-Slavery Society
Harpers Ferry (1859)
Liberty Party
William Penn and the Quakers
Coxey's Army
38. Panama Canal Treaty - diplomacy with China - end of recognition of Taiwan; little accomplished domestically due to conservative opposition - foreign policy more successful; Washington outsider - Experienced high interest rates - inflation - increased
Martin Luther King Jr.
President Jimmy Carter
'Yellow dog contracts'
US acquisitions
39. American who settled in Texas - one of the leaders for Texan independence from Mexico
William Henry Harrison
Roger Williams
Stephen Austin
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
40. 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
Battle of Antietam
McCarthyism
Stamp Act
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
41. Defined process for territories to become states (population reached 60 -000) - forbade slavery in the new territories
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Underground Railroad
William Henry Harrison
Henry Ford's assembly line
42. Proslavery constitution in Kansas - supported by Buchanan - freesoilers against it (victorious) - denied statehood until after secession
Lecompton Constitution
Martin Luther King Jr.
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Jim Crow laws
43. Banned racial discrimination and segregation (public) - bias by federal government; enforced by Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Energy Crisis - OPEC
James Monroe
44. Mass production of the Model-T - workers as potential consumers (raise wages) - supported other industries and raised employment
45. North African Muslim rulers solved budget problems through piracy and tributes in Mediterranean - obtained fees from most European powers
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
Benjamin Franklin
Barbary Pirates
Harlem Renaissance
46. Issued by Lincoln following Antietam (close enough to a victory to empower the proclamation) - declared slaves in the Confederacy free (did not include border states) - symbolic gesture to support Union's moral cause in the war
Albany Plan of Union
XYZ Affair
Haymarket Bombing
Emancipation Proclamation
47. Exemplary Christian community - rich to show charity - held to Calvinistic beliefs
48. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark sent by Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Territory on 'Voyage of Discovery'
Lewis and Clark expedition
New Federalism
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Bank of the United States
49. 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
Anaconda plan
Pan-Americanism
Fugitive Slave Act
Panama Canal
50. Intercepted by Britain; Germany proposed alliance with Mexico - using bribe of return of TX - NM - and AZ; Japan included in alliance
Zimmerman Note
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Reaganomics
Upton Sinclair