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AP U.S. History
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1. 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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2. Government would protect America's foreign investments with any force needed; under president Taft
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3. Sewer systems and purification of water
Rationing
Declining death rate
Samuel Gompers
Pearl Harbor
4. John Brown and his sons slaughtered five men as a response to the election fraud in Lawrence and the caning of Sumner in Congress
Quebec Acts
Reaganomics
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
William Jennings Bryan
5. Banned racial discrimination and segregation (public) - bias by federal government; enforced by Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
James G. Blaine
Ike's Farewell Speech
Vietcong
Civil Rights Act of 1964
6. Focused on skilled workers (harder to replace than unskilled) - coordinated crafts unions - supported 8¬hour workday and injury liability
Gulf War - 'Operation Desert Storm' (1991)
Samuel Gompers
Camp David Accords
Tet Offensive (1968)
7. Created Federal Reserve System - regional banks set up for twelve separate districts - final authority of each bank lay with the Federal Reserve Board - paper money to be issued 'Federal Reserve Notes'
James Meredith
Federal Reserve Act
Social Darwinism
Lodge Reservations
8. Unconstitutionalized the NRA due to delegation of legislative authority from Congress to executive
Schechter v. U.S Court case
Nullification
Fugitive Slave Act
Public Works Administration (PWA)
9. Group of Bostonians in opposition to the Stamp Act - sought to drive stamp distributors from the city
Isolationism
The Loyal Nine
Declining death rate
Conscription policies
10. Craft unions that left the Knights (1886) - led by Gompers - women left out of recruitment efforts
Marshall Court (all cases)
Federal Reserve Act
American Federation of Labor
New Nationalism
11. Gives Congress the power to pass laws it deems necessary to enforce the Constitution
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12. Tax cuts to increase population spending (help economy) - drastic cutting back on government programs due to lack of funds
US acquisitions
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
Stephen Austin
Critics of FDR
13. Rise in stock prices and speculation - decline of construction industry - mistaken 'trickle-down' economics - reliance on credit
The Federalist Papers
Harriet Tubman
Causes of the depression
Compromise of 1850
14. 'I have a dream' 25 -000 people (including whites) convened for political rally - MLK's speech to historical event; attempted to push civil rights bill through Congress
Berlin Airlift
President Lyndon B. Johnson
March on Washington
The Enlightenment
15. Tweed Leader of Tammany Hall - gained large sums of money through the political machine - prosecuted by Samuel Tilden and sent to jail
Judiciary Act of 1789
Isolationism
William Marcy
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
16. 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
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Writs of Assistance
Election of 1800
Populist Party
17. Selective Service Act to require men to register with few exceptions; women and blacks drafted/enlisted - highly successful
Federalism
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
Transcendentalism
Conscription policies
18. Preservation of New Deal - attempt at additions; raised minimum wage - public housing - old-age insurance extension - agricultural price supports (lowering of farm price)
Fair Deal
Federalism
Erie Canal
Era of Good Feelings
19. Exemplary Christian community - rich to show charity - held to Calvinistic beliefs
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20. Worked alongside Josiah Henson to make repeated trips to get slaves out of the South into freedom
Causes of the depression
Harriet Tubman
Fair Labor Standards Act
Ike's Farewell Speech
21. Americans concerned with economic depression; sought to avoid European involvement - no apparent immediate threats
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
Tallmadge Amendment
King James I - King Charles
Coxey's Army
22. Opposed strikes - producer-consumer cooperation - temperance - welcomed blacks and women (allowing segregation)
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
Thomas Nast
Soviet atomic bomb
23. William and Mary kicked James II out of England (exiled into France) - allowed more power to the legislatures
The Glorious Revolution
Stephen Austin
Jingoism
Jay's Treaty
24. Advocated by Roger Sherman - proposed two independently-voting senators per state and representation in the House based on population
Connecticut Compromise
Battle of Yorktown
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
25. Racism riots against Mexican laborers (imported for jobs)
John Dewey
John L. Lewis
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Zoot Suit riots
26. Republican - popular hero of WWII; 'dynamic conservatism' as a middle ground btw. Rep. and Dem.; Interstate Highway System (ulterior motive of weapons transportation); St. Lawrence Seaway opened Great Lakes to Atlantic Ocean via locks; Depts. Of Heal
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
Jay's Treaty
William Marcy
27. New Lights brought new ideas - rejected by Old Lights; both sought out institutions independent of each other
Pan-Americanism
Panic of 1819
New Lights vs. Old Lights
John D. Rockefeller
28. Republican candidate for president in 1884 - quintessence of spoils system; highly disgusted the mugwumps (many Republicans turned to Democrat Cleveland)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
20-Negro Law
William Penn and the Quakers
James G. Blaine
29. Fought for women's rights and abolition - 'Men and women are CREATED EQUAL!'
National Organization of Women
'Yellow dog contracts'
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
The Loyal Nine
30. Argued that states had the right to determine whether or not the laws passed by Congress were constitutional
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
Midnight judges
Farmers'Alliance movement
31. Led a slave rebellion in Virginia - attacked many whites - prompted non-slaveholding Virginians to consider emancipation
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32. 'Rotation in office;' Jackson felt that one should spend a single term in office and return to private citizenship - those who held power too long would become corrupt and political appointments made by new officials was essential for democracy
Neutrality Act - 1939
Non-Intercourse Act
Andrew Carnegie
Spoils System
33. British citizenship outnumbered colonies' - large navy and professional army; exhausted resources (Hessians hired) - national debt
Rosie the Riveter
Jane Addams
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
British strengths and weaknesses
34. Dealt with Vietnam War - 'Great Society' program for improvement of American society - antipoverty and anti-discrimination programs
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
Rosenbergs
Election of 1800
35. Unemployment jitters; expelled Teamster union (resorted to gangsterism); height of power of workers' unions
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
Truman Doctrine
Stagflation
AFL-CIO (1955)
36. United States aided South Vietnam in its war of power struggle against North Vietnam - the Vietcong - USSR - and China
Populist Party
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
Vietnam War
37. Kennedy vs. Nixon - Kennedy (due to televised charisma) won over Nixon (pale and nervous)
War hawks
Election of 1960
Frederick Douglass
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
38. Supported abolition - broke off of Anti-Slavery Society
Liberty Party
William H. Taft
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
John C. Calhoun
39. 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
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Moral Diplomacy
Report on Public Credit
Federalism
40. Decisive victory in the War of 1812 by Harrison over Tecumseh - used in Harrison's campaign for presidency
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
William Seward
Battle of Tippecanoe
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
41. First president to show positive response to civil rights movement; worked heavily on keeping Soviet spread of communism in check
Monroe Doctrine
Spanish American War (1898)
President Harry Truman
Roe v. Wade
42. To service economy in late 20 century (end of industrialism) - Higher focus on services (esp. education) rather than material products
Affirmative Action
McCarthyism
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
Economic transition
43. Cherokee tribe forced to move from southern Appalachians to reservations in current-day Oklahoma - high death toll
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44. Natural selection applied to human competition - advocated by Herbert Spencer - William Graham Sumner
Social Darwinism
War hawks
Gulf War - 'Operation Desert Storm' (1991)
James Oglethorpe
45. Americans who were forced out of their homes in Oklahoma and Arkansas (respectively) due to the dust storms and drought known as the Dust Bowl
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46. Lee's attack on Maryland in hopes that he could take it from the Union - bloodiest day of the war - stalemate - McClellan replaced by Burnside - stalemate - South would never be so close to victory again
Battle of Antietam
President Jimmy Carter
Palmer Raids
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
47. Secretly sponsored peace negotiations so as to prevent Japanese or Russian monopoly on Asia; concerned with safety of Philippines
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
Citizen Genet
Camp David Accords
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
48. Foundation for First Amendment - offered free choice of religion - not influenced by state
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1922 and 1930
William Lloyd Garrison
Atlantic slave trade
49. Dance music - slave spirituals adapted into improvisation and ragtime; jazz migrated along with blacks in the Great Migration
Stagflation
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Jazz
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
50. Drastic cutbacks in regulation of business by the federal government (banks - transportation - communications
Virginia Plan
Deregulation
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
'Atlanta Compromise'