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AP U.S. History
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1. 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
Lecompton Constitution
Andrew Carnegie
Cotton Gin
Kent State Protest
2. Americans at home reminded to conserve materials in all aspects of life to support the military; resulted in saving up of money to cause economic boom after war
Rationing
New Lights vs. Old Lights
Civil Rights Cases
The Federalist Papers
3. FDR's plan (although vague during the campaign) to restart the economy and pull America out of the Great Depression
New Deal
Manifest Destiny
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Burned-Over District
4. Agreement between US and Britain to remove armed fleets from the Great Lakes
Whig Party
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
Economic transition
5. Overthrew Pres. Guzman after he nationalized American fruit fields and accepted arms from USSR (communist sympathies)
Bush v. Gore (2000)
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
John Winthrop
Barbary Pirates
6. Contending communist politician in Vietnam - had more popularity than Diem - took power upon Diem's death
Lecompton Constitution
Ike's Farewell Speech
Ho Chi Minh
Energy Crisis - OPEC
7. Anti-Federalists wanted states' rights - bill of rights - unanimous consent - reference to religion - more power to less-rich and common people; Federalists wanted strong central government - more power to experienced - separation of church and state
Nativism
Tea Act (1773)
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
8. Decision under Sherman Anti-Trust Act shot down by Supreme Court — sugar refining was manufacturing rather than trade/commerce
United States vs. EC Knight Company
Freeport Doctrine
'Big BM' Haywood
Bank of the United States
9. Helped approval ratings - not removed from office despite all the efforts of Republican congressmen
Specie
Civil Rights Cases
Rosenbergs
Clinton impeachment (1997)
10. Young women employed by Lowell's textile company - housed in dormitories
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
'City on a Hill'
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
Lowell mill/system
11. Sought to eliminate spheres of influence and avoid European monopolies in China; unaccepted by the powers in mind
Dixiecrats - 1948
Open Door Policy
Harpers Ferry (1859)
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
12. The Man Nobody Knows - glorification of business - Jesus as a businessman - relationship between religion and manufacturing
Bacon's Rebellion
Bruce Barton
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
12th Amendment
13. Roosevelt and Pinchot sided on conservation rather than preservation (planned and regulated use of forest lands for public and commercial uses)
John Winthrop
The Enlightenment
Essex case
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
14. 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
National Origins Act (1924)
Virginia Resolves
Moral Diplomacy
Roe v. Wade
15. Law meant to evolve as society evolves - opposed conservative majority
Energy Crisis - OPEC
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
Impressment
Liberty Party
16. Reduced quota - reduced numbers from eastern and southern Europe - Asians banned - Canadians and Latin Americans exempt
National Origins Act (1924)
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
Vietnamization
William Seward
17. Mass migration northward; mainly blacks migrating from the southern states into the north hoping for less discrimination
China turns communist
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
Great Migration
18. 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)
U-2 Incident
Farm crisis
Vertical and horizontal integration
Social Gospel movement
19. Capitalism would become productive when uninhibited by taxes and regulation
James Monroe
Jamestown
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
Reaganomics
20. Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson; purchase of Alaska 'Seward's Folly'
Whiskey Rebellion
Harlem Renaissance
William Seward
Federalism
21. Part of the New Left that envisioned 'participatory democracy' (individuals control life-affecting decisions) - end materialism - militarism - and racism; inspired by young black activists
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
'Great Society'
Hoover's policy of voluntarism
22. Attacked industrial elite - called for business regulation - publisher refused works breaking with Victorian ideals
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
Bracero program
Spanish American War (1898)
The Glorious Revolution
23. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - provided more funds to state and local relief efforts
Stamp Act
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
Public Works Administration (PWA)
US economy since WWII (service economy)
24. Formed in response to Kansas-Nebraska Act - banned in the South - John C Fremont first presidential candidate
John D. Rockefeller
Republican Party
Social Darwinism
Adams-Onis Treaty
25. Created in 1961 as example of liberal anticommunism in third world countries; 'reform-minded missionaries of democracy'
Committees of Correspondence
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Peace Corps
Mercantilism
26. Former French subjects in Canada allowed to keep Catholicism - while American colonists expected to participate in the Church of England
Quebec Acts
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
Stamp Act
Republican Party
27. Republican candidate for president in 1884 - quintessence of spoils system; highly disgusted the mugwumps (many Republicans turned to Democrat Cleveland)
James G. Blaine
Bill of Rights
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
The Half-Way Covenant
28. 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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29. Led by Francis Willard - powerful 'interest group' following the civil war - urged women's suffrage - led to Prohibition
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30. Sets of cardboard box houses that epitomized the country's blame on Hoover for the cause of the Depression
Writs of Assistance
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
Hoovervilles
31. 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
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
China turns communist
David Riesman
32. Used nonviolent protest and boycott to achieve better working conditions for farmers (esp. Mexican-Americans)
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
New Nationalism
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
33. Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait despite peace treaty and refusal to abandon Iraqi occupation
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34. Second youngest president - entered presidency as tensions of the Cold War increased; unable to get major initiatives through Congress due to conservative bloc; tax cuts (economic stimulation); reluctantly gets involved in civil rights; emphasizes Sp
President John F. Kennedy
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
Second Great Awakening
Deregulation
35. North African Muslim rulers solved budget problems through piracy and tributes in Mediterranean - obtained fees from most European powers
Barbary Pirates
Herbert Hoover's Food Administration
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
President Franklin Roosevelt
36. Jane Addams's pioneer settlement house (center for women's activism and social reform) in Chicago
Hull House
Plessy v. Ferguson
Connecticut Compromise
Jazz
37. Opposed Polk's high-handedness - avid Southern slave owner
Second Great Awakening
John C. Calhoun
Ngo Dinh Diem
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
38. Increased tariff on sugar (and other imports) - attempted to harder enforce existing tariffs
Kitchen Cabinet
Nullification Controversy
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
Sugar Act
39. Judges appointed to Supreme Court by Adams in the last days of his presidency to force them upon Jefferson - Marshall among those appointed
Martin Luther King Jr.
Jazz
Midnight judges
New Nationalism
40. Coxey and unemployed followers marched on Washington for support in unemployment relief by inflationary public works program
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41. Another part of Nixon's out-of-Vietnam plan - destroy supply routes to North Vietnam through Cambodia
Specie
Bombing and invasion of Cambodia
Virginia Plan
Deregulation
42. Victorian standards confined women to the home to create an artistic environment as a statement of cultural aspirations
Andrew Carnegie
Cult of domesticity
Deists
Election of 1800
43. Caused American hysteria (1957) - fear that Soviets were technologically superior; led Ike to order more rigorous education program to rival Soviets (National Defense Education Act)
Sputnik
Virginia Resolves
'Silent Majority'
French and Indian War
44. Required separate and distinct ballots for presidential and vice presidential candidates
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
The Loyal Nine
12th Amendment
45. Truman tested for communist alliances within government; government employees prohibited from taking part in remotely-communist activities
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46. In Brook Farm Community - lived in seclusion for two years writing Walden and On Civil Disobedience - proved that man could provide for himself without materialistic wants
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Henry David Thoreau
Explosion of USS Maine
John Dewey
47. Risk of too many casualties and high costs for hand-to-hand combat/invasion - Japanese surrender unlikely
Conscription policies
Wilmot Proviso
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
48. Taught American landscape painting rather than Classical subjects
Commerce Compromise
'Big BM' Haywood
Hudson River School
Espionage Act and Sedition Act
49. Secretary of state - policy to liberate captive people in Eastern Europe by political pressure and propaganda; massive retaliation to counter SovietlChinese aggression with nuclear weapons; brinksmanship to be persistent to solve crises (even to the
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
John Foster Dulles
'Lost Generation'
Proclamation of 1763
50. 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
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
Five Civilized Tribes
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)