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AP U.S. History
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1. American who settled in Texas - one of the leaders for Texan independence from Mexico
Virginia Plan
Stephen Austin
Thomas Edison
Peace Corps
2. Roosevelt and Pinchot sided on conservation rather than preservation (planned and regulated use of forest lands for public and commercial uses)
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
Indentured servants
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
Knights of Labor
3. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - Harry Hopkins; provide work for unemployed and construct public works - &c. through Emergency Relief Appropriation Act; much like Civil Works Administration
Navigation Acts
Mikhail Gorbachev
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
4. NLF attacked numerous South Vietnamese cities and American embassies - eventually repulsed; spoiled LBJ's record to reelection - resulted in massive protests in US to end the war; atrocities such that war could only end in stalemate
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
The Homefront
Tet Offensive (1968)
5. Fines and imprisonment for aiding the enemy or hindering U.S. military; forbade any form of criticism of the government and military
Economic transition
'Hundred days'
Espionage Act and Sedition Act
Mercantilism
6. FDR and Churchill agreed to defeat Germany first rather than concentrate on Japan
Zimmerman Note
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
First American strategy in WWII
7. Catholic communist autocrat of Vietnam - assassinated (with aid of US)
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
Ngo Dinh Diem
'Lost Generation'
Embargo Act (1807)
8. Adams - Jefferson - and Burr: Adams lost - Jefferson and Burr tied - Hamilton convinced other Federalists to vote for Jefferson to break the tie
China turns communist
Thomas Edison
Election of 1800
Jim Crow laws
9. 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
U-2 Incident
Robert E. Lee
Vietnamization
George Kennan
10. Marbury v. Madison (judicial review) - McChulloch v. Maryland (loose Constitutional interpretation - constitutionality of National Bank - states cannot control government agencies) - Gibbons v. Ogden (interstate commerce controlled by Congress) - Fle
Marshall Court (all cases)
Compromise of 1877
March on Birmingham
William and Mary
11. Stock prices fell drastically; without buyers - the stocks became essentially worthless; cause bank crashes - &c.
Tet Offensive (1968)
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
Stock market crash (1929)
Freeport Doctrine
12. 10-year moratorium on Chinese immigration to reduce competition for jobs (Chinese willing to work for cheap salaries)
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Articles of Confederation
'New Left'
13. Speech given by BTW to ease whites' fears of integration - assuring them that separate but equal was acceptable - ideas challenged by DuBois
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14. South divided into 5 military districts; states to guarantee full suffrage for blacks; ratify 14th amendment
George Whitefield
Bonus Army
War Industries Board
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
15. Tweed Leader of Tammany Hall - gained large sums of money through the political machine - prosecuted by Samuel Tilden and sent to jail
Missouri Compromise (1820)
William Marcy
Dollar Diplomacy'
Upton Sinclair
16. Small oil companies sold stock and authority to Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company (consolidation) - cornered world petroleum market
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Standard Oil Trust
Salvation Army
Mercantilism
17. Fair amount of troops - short guerilla tactics - strong leaders (Washington); nonprofessional army that could not handle long battles
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Specie
Worcester v. Georgia
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
18. Foreshadowed in 14 points - hoped to guarantee political independence and integrity of all countries
Munn v. Illinois
League of Nations
John C. Calhoun
'Evil Empire' speech - 'Star Wars'
19. Severe immigration laws to discourage and discriminate against foreigners - believed to erode old-fashioned American values
Affirmative Action
Nativism
Muckrakers
Jazz
20. Provided for evacuation of English troops from posts in the Great Lakes
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21. Equal representation in unicameral congress
Reaganomics
Wilson's 14 points
New Jersey Plan
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
22. Philosophy that deficit spending during a depression would increase purchasing power and stimulate economy; FDR disagreed with the policy at first and borrowed money to cover deficits
Articles of Confederation
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
William T. Sherman
Keynesian economics
23. Pop art - mass production of art by screening
Andy Warhol
Korean War
Cult of domesticity
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
24. 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
Upton Sinclair
New Lights vs. Old Lights
Peace Corps
President Jimmy Carter
25. (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
Isolationism
The Great Awakening
Yalta Conference (1945)
Compromise of 1850
26. Father Charles Coughlin (benefited only wealthy people and corporations) - Huey Long ('share our wealth') - Francis Townshend (Old Age Revolving Pension)
Forced busing
Critics of FDR
Berlin Airlift
Black Panther Party
27. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - Harold Icicles - provided public construction projects
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Election of 1800
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
28. Connected the colonies to Britain - opposed to unnecessary unfair taxation; strong influence on Albany Plan
William Seward
Benjamin Franklin
Mann Act
Nativism
29. 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)
Bank of the United States
President Ronald Reagan
Creel Committee
Compromise of 1850
30. Sets of cardboard box houses that epitomized the country's blame on Hoover for the cause of the Depression
Harriet Tubman
Republican Party
Freeport Doctrine
Hoovervilles
31. 14 formal amendments to the treaty for the League of Nations; preserved Monroe Doctrine - Congress desired to keep declaration of war to itself
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
Lodge Reservations
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
Dorothea Lange
32. Bomb thrown at protest rally - police shot protestors - caused great animosity in employers for workers' unions
Report on Public Credit
William Jennings Bryan
Haymarket Bombing
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
33. Forbade restraint of trade and did not distinguish good from bad trusts - ineffective due to lack of enforcement mechanism (waited for Clayton Anti-Trust Act)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
William Henry Harrison
Henry Ford's assembly line
Atlantic slave trade
34. United States aided South Vietnam in its war of power struggle against North Vietnam - the Vietcong - USSR - and China
'City on a Hill'
King James I - King Charles
Panama Canal
Vietnam War
35. Rise in stock prices and speculation - decline of construction industry - mistaken 'trickle-down' economics - reliance on credit
Yalta Conference (1945)
Causes of the depression
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
Fair Deal
36. Government would hold its revenues rather than deposit them in banks - thus keeping the funds away from private corporations; 'America's Second Declaration of Independence'
Independent Treasury Bill
Ike's Farewell Speech
Stamp Act
Pocahontas
37. North African Muslim rulers solved budget problems through piracy and tributes in Mediterranean - obtained fees from most European powers
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Barbary Pirates
Soviet atomic bomb
Wilmot Proviso
38. Territory split into Kansas and Nebraska - popular sovereignty (Kansas slave - Nebraska free); proposed by Stephen A. Douglas
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
The Loyal Nine
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Ulysses S. Grant
39. To make German reparations from WWI more accessible to Germans; evacuation of troops from Germany - reorganization of the Reichsbank - and foreign loans
Court Packing
'Red Scare' (1919)
Albany Plan of Union
Dawes Plan (1924)
40. Fought for human rights in Africa - Panama Canal returned to Panama - relations with China resolved
Humanitarian diplomacy
Whiskey Rebellion
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Samuel Gompers
41. For women's rights - organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton - modeled requests after the Declaration of Independence
Compromise of 1850
Nullification Controversy
Thomas Edison
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
42. Law meant to evolve as society evolves - opposed conservative majority
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
Quarantine Speech - 1937
Dorothea Lange
43. Goods able to be transferred from New York to New Orleans by inland waterways
Yellow journalism
Strict vs. Loose interpretation of the Constitution
Erie Canal
Explosion of USS Maine
44. Upheld constitutionality of Espionage Act; Congress right to limit free speech during times of war
Jim Crow laws
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
Boston Massacre
New Federalism
45. Southern Christian Leadership Conference - Led boycott - became leader of civil rights movement; urged nonviolent resistance (cf. tactics of Ghandi);
Dollar Diplomacy'
Martin Luther King Jr.
Whiskey Rebellion
1968 Presidential Election
46. Attempted to centralize production of war materials; ineffective due to American desire for laissez-faire government
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
War Industries Board
President Ronald Reagan
New Jersey Plan
47. Mistreated farmers - fear of monocracy - forced people to think about central government
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48. Prohibited settlements west of Appalachian - restriction on colonial growth
XYZ Affair
Henry Ford's assembly line
Critics of FDR
Proclamation of 1763
49. Known as 'wartime food czar;' created recreation policies and reintroduced leisure culture and conservation ethic to get Americans escaping the cities and improve tourism - etc.
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
Invasion of Iraq
Muckrakers
50. Activist government to serve all citizens (cf. Alexander Hamilton); founded New Republic magazine
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
Northern Securities Case
Adams-Onis Treaty
US economy since WWII (service economy)