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AP U.S. History
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1. Political muckraking cartoonist - refused bribes to stop criticism
The Loyal Nine
Booker T. Washington
Coxey's Army
Thomas Nast
2. Foundation for First Amendment - offered free choice of religion - not influenced by state
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
New Lights vs. Old Lights
Great Migration
Women's Christian Temperance Union
3. Government would protect America's foreign investments with any force needed; under president Taft
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4. Committees appointed from different colonies to communicate on matters; asserted rights to self¬government - cooperation between colonies
William T. Sherman
Nativism
'Lost Generation'
Committees of Correspondence
5. Party formed from Republican split by Roosevelt - more progressive values - leaving 'Republican Old Guard' to control Republican party
Nativism
Reaganomics
Bull Moose Party
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
6. Installed Shah as dictator - overthrew Moussadegh (communist interests) - in order to resist nationalization British oil holdings
Tea Act (1773)
John Brown
CIA overthrow of Iran (1953)
Quarantine Speech - 1937
7. Committee on Public Information; aimed to sell America and the world on Wilson's war goals; propaganda - censorship - 'four-minute men' speeches - 'Liberty Leagues' (spy on community)
Butler v. U.S. Court case
Creel Committee
Nullification Controversy
Indentured servants
8. Founded by Emerson - strong emphasis on spiritual unity (God - humanity - and nature) - literature with strong references to nature
Okies' and 'Arkies'
Dollar Diplomacy'
Transcendentalism
Eugene V. Debs
9. Helped lead settlement house movement - co-founded NAACP - condemned war and poverty
Jane Addams
Election of 1960
George Wallace - American
John Dewey
10. River traffic - road building - canals (esp. Erie) - rise of NYC
Spanish American War (1898)
Transportation Revolution
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Jazz
11. 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
Salvation Army
Northwest Passage
Townshend Act (1767)
Popular Sovereignty
12. 'Southern Strategy' lured many southern Democrats to the Republican party (esp. due to southern opposition to Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Lewis and Clark expedition
Burned-Over District
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Richard Nixon (R)
13. Attempted to centralize production of war materials; ineffective due to American desire for laissez-faire government
Articles of Confederation
War Industries Board
Fort Sumter
Civil Rights Cases
14. Drastic cutbacks in regulation of business by the federal government (banks - transportation - communications
Social Darwinism
Second Great Awakening
Deregulation
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
15. Goods able to be transferred from New York to New Orleans by inland waterways
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
Erie Canal
Charles II - James II
The Homefront
16. Head of federal Division of Forestry - contributed to Roosevelt's natural conservation efforts
Gifford Pinchot
Deists
Popular Sovereignty
'New Left'
17. Raised tariffs extremely high on manufactured goods; benefited domestic manufacturers - but limited foreign trade
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1922 and 1930
Harpers Ferry (1859)
US economy since WWII (service economy)
18. Last major battle; surrender of Cornwallis - led King George III to officially make peace with the colonies
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Korean War
George Kennan
Battle of Yorktown
19. Leader of IWW - from Western Federation of Miners
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20. Opposed Polk's high-handedness - avid Southern slave-owner (right to own property - slaves as property)
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
Important WWII Battles
John C. Calhoun
Voting Rights Act of 1965
21. Believed to provide shortcut from Atlantic to Pacific - searched for by Giovanni de Verrazano for Francis I in the race to Asian wealth
John Winthrop
Regionalist and naturalist writers
Northwest Passage
Butler v. U.S. Court case
22. John Marshall declared that the Supreme Court could declare federal laws unconstitutional
George Wallace - American
Marbury v. Madison
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
23. Republican candidate for president in 1884 - quintessence of spoils system; highly disgusted the mugwumps (many Republicans turned to Democrat Cleveland)
Pocahontas
Non-Intercourse Act
Sugar Act
James G. Blaine
24. Overthrew Pres. Guzman after he nationalized American fruit fields and accepted arms from USSR (communist sympathies)
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
Forced busing
Nativism
Theodore Roosevelt
25. Part of transportation revolution - from Cumberland MD to Wheeling WVa - toll road network; stimulated Western expansion
Federalists and Republicans
Bank of the United States
National Road
John Dewey
26. Selective Service Act to require men to register with few exceptions; women and blacks drafted/enlisted - highly successful
Conscription policies
President Bill Clinton
Specie
Charles II - James II
27. Admiral Dewey defeated Spanish initially; American troops (aided by Aguinaldo's insurgents) captured Manila - leading to annexation
Benjamin Franklin
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
Farmers'Alliance movement
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
28. Loose interpretation allowed for implied powers of Congress (such as the National Bank) - strict interpretation implied few powers to Congress
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
Strict vs. Loose interpretation of the Constitution
Herbert Hoover's Food Administration
29. Defined process for territories to become states (population reached 60 -000) - forbade slavery in the new territories
The Federalist Papers
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Battle of Yorktown
Camp David Accords
30. Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson; purchase of Alaska 'Seward's Folly'
1992 Election
William Seward
Causes of the depression
Hudson River School
31. Another black separatist movement; known for peaceful demonstrations - but more for police shootouts
Black Panther Party
Freeport Doctrine
President Lyndon B. Johnson
King James I - King Charles
32. Response to Berlin crisis - warned Moscow that threats would be answered with force; Warsaw Pact formed by Soviets in response
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
'Brain trust'
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
33. Four-day banking holiday to create controlled inflation - followed by reopening of sound banks - and reorganization of unsound banks
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
Emergency Banking Relief Act
34. First African-American in major league baseball
Jackie Robinson
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
Charles Lindbergh
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
35. 'Corrupt bargain' and backroom deal for JQ Adams to win over Jackson
British strengths and weaknesses
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
Populist Party
Election of 1824
36. (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
Henry David Thoreau
March on Washington
Richard Nixon (R)
Camp David Accords
37. Effects of pesticides on the environment; changed way Americans viewed their impact on nature
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
American society during the Revolution
Reaganomics
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
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Explosion of USS Maine
Free silver
39. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - employed young jobless men with government projects on work relief and environment
William Henry Harrison
Jackie Robinson
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Truman's Loyalty Program
40. Made it illegal to transport women across state borders for 'immoral purposes -' violated by black boxer Jack Johnson (w/ white woman)
Thomas Nast
Mann Act
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
41. Satirized wealthy captains of industry - workers and engineers as better leaders of society
Great Migration
George Whitefield
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
New Federalism
42. Territory split into Kansas and Nebraska - popular sovereignty (Kansas slave - Nebraska free); proposed by Stephen A. Douglas
Suffolk Resolves
New Freedom
Kansas-Nebraska Act
'Red Scare' (1919)
43. Depicted the evils of slavery (splitting of families and physical abuse); increased participation in abolitionist movement - condemned by South
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44. Created Interstate Commerce Commission to require railroads to publish rates (less discrimination - short/long haul) - first legislation to regulate corporations - ineffective ICC
William Lloyd Garrison
Interstate Commerce Act
Louis Sullivan
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
45. Supported abolition - broke off of Anti-Slavery Society
Liberty Party
Jazz
Atlantic slave trade
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
46. Ensured trade with mother country - nationalism; too restrictive on colonial economy - not voted on by colonists
Martin Luther King Jr.
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
Mercantilism
Federalists and Republicans
47. 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)
Vertical and horizontal integration
John L. Lewis
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
New Harmony
48. Nationalists against foreign non-English speaking workers (took jobs away from American men); encouraged to leave the U.S.
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
Deportations of Mexicans
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
Sugar Act
49. Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait despite peace treaty and refusal to abandon Iraqi occupation
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50. Introduced the 'trickle-down' economics theory in order to promote business and increase money available for speculation
March on Birmingham
John C. Calhoun
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
Bacon's Rebellion
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