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AP U.S. History
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1. Written anonymously by Hamilton - Jay - and Madison; commentary on Constitution - republicanism extended over large territory
Spoils System
Panama Canal
Anaconda plan
The Federalist Papers
2. Middle class; white flight from urban areas due to black migration; government supported insurance for homeowners and builders
Japanese internment
Suburbia
Declaratory Act
Transcendentalism
3. Argued that states had the right to determine whether or not the laws passed by Congress were constitutional
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Ho Chi Minh
Monroe Doctrine
California Gold Rush
4. 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
Zoot Suit riots
Industrial Workers of the World
Pocahontas
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
5. Severe immigration laws to discourage and discriminate against foreigners - believed to erode old-fashioned American values
'Trail of Tears'
Battle of Tippecanoe
Nativism
Espionage Act and Sedition Act
6. Speech symbolized polarization between conservatives and liberals
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7. Introduced his 'New Deal -' won election by a relative landslide (he was not Hoover - whom the public now did not trust)
Detente - realpolitik
President Franklin Roosevelt
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
Platt Amendment
8. Law meant to evolve as society evolves - opposed conservative majority
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
Fort Sumter
'Wage slaves'
Popular Sovereignty
9. Former French subjects in Canada allowed to keep Catholicism - while American colonists expected to participate in the Church of England
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
Quebec Acts
Navigation Acts
10. Supported expanded money supply - health/safety regulations - benefits for workers and farmers - granger (farmer)-supported
Jazz
Stamp Act
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
Greenback Party
11. Sets of cardboard box houses that epitomized the country's blame on Hoover for the cause of the Depression
Hoovervilles
Thomas Nast
The Half-Way Covenant
Report on Public Credit
12. 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
Neutrality
Salvation Army
Five Civilized Tribes
GI Bill of Rights
13. Another black separatist movement; known for peaceful demonstrations - but more for police shootouts
Black Panther Party
New Lights vs. Old Lights
Creel Committee
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
14. Protestant church led by the king of England - independent of Catholic Church; tended toward Catholicism during reign of Catholic royalty
Berlin Airlift
Church of England
Neutrality Act - 1939
Dred Scott v. Sandford
15. Group of Bostonians in opposition to the Stamp Act - sought to drive stamp distributors from the city
Sugar Act
Proclamation of 1763
The Loyal Nine
Henry David Thoreau
16. First Utopian society - by Robert Owen
Roger Williams
Deregulation
New Harmony
New Deal
17. 'Dark horse' Democratic candidate; acquired majority of the western US (Mexican Cession - Texas Annexation - Oregon Country) - lowered tariffs - created Independent Treasury
Election of 1980
James K. Polk
Scopes Trial
20-Negro Law
18. Hamilton's plan to solve Revolutionary debt - Assumption highly controversial - pushed his plan through Congress - based on loose interpretation of Constitution
Jackie Robinson
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
Explosion of USS Maine
Bank of the United States
19. Mass production of the Model-T - workers as potential consumers (raise wages) - supported other industries and raised employment
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20. 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
Alexander Hamilton
George Kennan
Important WWII Battles
Emancipation Proclamation
21. The Jungle revealed unsanitary nature of meat-packing industry - inspired Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
Bank of the United States
Marshall Court (all cases)
Upton Sinclair
Wilmot Proviso
22. The two political parties that formed following Washington's presidency; Federalists for stronger central government - Republicans for stronger state governments
British strengths and weaknesses
George Washington
US acquisitions
Federalists and Republicans
23. Bomb thrown at protest rally - police shot protestors - caused great animosity in employers for workers' unions
Second Great Awakening
Haymarket Bombing
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
Vertical and horizontal integration
24. The principle that a state should decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery
Popular Sovereignty
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
Church of England
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
25. Launched in 1958 by Ike; successful launch of American satellite (Explorer I); massive arms builup
Haymarket Bombing
Emancipation Proclamation
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
Voting Rights Act of 1965
26. 'No taxation without representation -' introduced by Patrick Henry
Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1922 and 1930
Virginia Resolves
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Gays in the military
27. North African Muslim rulers solved budget problems through piracy and tributes in Mediterranean - obtained fees from most European powers
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Barbary Pirates
John C. Calhoun
Election of 1980
28. Focused on skilled workers (harder to replace than unskilled) - coordinated crafts unions - supported 8¬hour workday and injury liability
Samuel Gompers
Currency Act
Shays's Rebellion
Salutary Neglect
29. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - insured deposits < $5000 - reassured American public of the worth of banks
Black Panther Party
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
Teapot Dome scandal
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
30. Established colony of Georgia as a place for honest debtors
Bill of Rights
Olive Branch Petition
Judiciary Act of 1789
James Oglethorpe
31. Blacks denied admission to all-white school; overturned Plessy v. Ferguson - negating 'separate but equal' - ordered integration of schools as soon as possible; white southerners protested (refused to attend integrated schools)
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Camp David Accords
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
32. Edmond Genet contributed to polarization of the new nation by creating his American Foreign Legion in the south - which was directed to attack Spanish garrisons in New Orleans and St. Augustine
Citizen Genet
Yellow journalism
Greenback Party
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
33. All English subjects are represented in Parliament - including those not allowed to vote
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
Conformity in the 1950s
U-2 Incident
Virtual Representation
34. Nationalists against foreign non-English speaking workers (took jobs away from American men); encouraged to leave the U.S.
Conversion Experience
Watergate Scandal
'City on a Hill'
Deportations of Mexicans
35. Formed in response to Kansas-Nebraska Act - banned in the South - John C Fremont first presidential candidate
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
XYZ Affair
Virginia Resolves
Republican Party
36. Foreshadowed in 14 points - hoped to guarantee political independence and integrity of all countries
First American strategy in WWII
League of Nations
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
37. British citizenship outnumbered colonies' - large navy and professional army; exhausted resources (Hessians hired) - national debt
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
12th Amendment
Korean War
British strengths and weaknesses
38. 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'
John Brown
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
Dominion of New England
Ulysses S. Grant
39. King hosted myriad nonviolent protesting activities to fill jail with protestors - Bill Connor (police commissioner) began violent resistance to protestors
Atlantic slave trade
March on Birmingham
Whig Party
'Red Scare' (1919)
40. Political action for religion justified by decreased presence of religion in society; Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition to expand national influence
Religious Right
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
Clinton impeachment (1997)
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
41. Increased tariff on sugar (and other imports) - attempted to harder enforce existing tariffs
Woodrow Wilson
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
Sugar Act
42. 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)
12th Amendment
President John F. Kennedy
Vertical and horizontal integration
James Oglethorpe
43. Prejudiced jury sentenced them to death - caused riots around the world - new trial denied
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
Detente - realpolitik
44. FDR's plan (although vague during the campaign) to restart the economy and pull America out of the Great Depression
Vietnamization
Boston Massacre
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
New Deal
45. Halted sale of tribal lands - enabled tribes to regain unallocated lands; repealed Dawes Severalty Act of 1887; helped secure Indians' entry into New Deal associations; led by John Collier
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
New Lights vs. Old Lights
Horace Mann
1992 Election
46. 14 formal amendments to the treaty for the League of Nations; preserved Monroe Doctrine - Congress desired to keep declaration of war to itself
Embargo Act (1807)
Jane Addams
Soviet atomic bomb
Lodge Reservations
47. Created Interstate Commerce Commission to require railroads to publish rates (less discrimination - short/long haul) - first legislation to regulate corporations - ineffective ICC
Hudson River School
James Meredith
Non-conformity
Interstate Commerce Act
48. South to gain removal of last troops from Reconstruction; North wins Hayes as president
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
Peace Corps
Compromise of 1877
King James I - King Charles
49. Maine as free state - Missouri as slave state - slavery prohibited north of 36°30'
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Teapot Dome scandal
'Red Scare' (1919)
George Kennan
50. Western Pennsylvanian farmers' violent protest against whiskey excise tax - Washington sent large army to put down revolt - protests to be limited to non-violent
Whiskey Rebellion
Indian Removal Act
Hoovervilles
George Kennan
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