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AP U.S. History
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1. Organize militia - end trade with Britain - refuse to pay taxes to Britain
Watergate Scandal
Farmers'Alliance movement
James Madison
Suffolk Resolves
2. Writing took a more realistic approach on the world - regionalist writers focused on local life (Sarah Orne Jewett) - naturalist writers focused on economy and psychology (Stephen Crane)
Affirmative Action
Regionalist and naturalist writers
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
Dorothea Lange
3. 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'
Roe v. Wade
Federal Reserve Act
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Underground Railroad
4. Young women employed by Lowell's textile company - housed in dormitories
Liberty Party
British strengths and weaknesses
Lowell mill/system
Report on Public Credit
5. U.S. felt it was its duty to 'watch out' for the interests of other countries in the Western hemisphere; provided justification for invasions of Latin America.
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
Korean War
Theodore Roosevelt
6. Newt Gingrich (Republican congressman) planned for success of Republican party in upcoming election by pledging tax cuts - congressional term limits - tougher crime laws - balanced budget amendment - popular reforms &c.
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7. Americans feared Soviet infiltration into Latin America - placed secret police and military forces to prevent it
Benjamin Franklin
Bruce Barton
Platt Amendment
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
8. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - insured deposits < $5000 - reassured American public of the worth of banks
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Lusitania
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
9. Democratic political machine in NYC - 'supported' immigrants and poor people of the city - who were needed for Democratic election victories
Writs of Assistance
Industrial Workers of the World
Neutrality Act - 1939
Tammany Hall
10. Offered a New Deal (reminiscent of FDR) of smaller government - reduced taxes - and free enterprise; Washington outsider
President Ronald Reagan
Conversion Experience
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
Battle of Saratoga
11. Often debtors sold to slave traders by African kings seeking riches; Columbian Exchange
Keynesian economics
Atlantic slave trade
William Seward
Court Packing
12. The Jungle revealed unsanitary nature of meat-packing industry - inspired Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
'Evil Empire' speech - 'Star Wars'
Upton Sinclair
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
Church of England
13. Proposed by Hamilton to repair war debts; selling of securities and federal lands - assumption of state debts - set up the first National Bank
Report on Public Credit
Republican Party
Proclamation of 1763
Secretary of State John Hay
14. Sets of programs geared towards minorities and oft-discriminated populations
Affirmative Action
Bracero program
Haymarket Bombing
'Brain trust'
15. Prohibited aiding of belligerent nations - banned civilian involvement; limited power of president during international war - built up armed forces
Elastic Clause ('necessary and proper')
Moral Diplomacy
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
Platt Amendment
16. Under JQ Adams - protectionist tariff - South considered it the source of economic problems - made Jackson appear to advocate free trade
1968 Presidential Election
Tariff of Abominations
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
Essex case
17. Jackson used personal friends as unofficial advisors over his official cabinet
Butler v. U.S. Court case
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
Standard Oil Trust
Kitchen Cabinet
18. Lee's chief lieutenant and premier cavalry officer
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19. Detente achieved with USSR and China by withdrawal from Vietnam; realpolitik shed the use of doctrines and policies - instead using China and USSR in alternative ways to achieve other goals (pitting China and USSR against each other - as communist na
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
Detente - realpolitik
Benjamin Franklin
Charles Lindbergh
20. 'No taxation without representation -' introduced by Patrick Henry
George Whitefield
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
Virginia Resolves
21. Government would protect America's foreign investments with any force needed; under president Taft
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22. Stated the United States was destined to span the breadth of the entire continent with as much land as possible - advocated by Polk
Henry Ford's assembly line
William Henry Harrison
Manifest Destiny
The Great Awakening
23. Political action for religion justified by decreased presence of religion in society; Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition to expand national influence
Gulf War - 'Operation Desert Storm' (1991)
Writs of Assistance
Religious Right
Maysville Road Veto
24. 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)
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Panama Canal
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
25. 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)
Nativism
Sputnik
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
Civil Rights Act of 1964
26. U.S. would ensure that Cuba would be protected from European powers and maintain a place in Cuban affairs; provided coal and naval stations
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
Harlem Renaissance
Platt Amendment
Second Great Awakening
27. Efficient working methods to increase productivity; usually resulted in lower wages (hated by workers) - power to managers
Virginia Plan
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
'Hundred days'
Potsdam Conference (1945)
28. Supported expanded money supply - health/safety regulations - benefits for workers and farmers - granger (farmer)-supported
Jonathan Edwards
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Greenback Party
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
29. Helped approval ratings - not removed from office despite all the efforts of Republican congressmen
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Marcus Garvey
Impressment
Clinton impeachment (1997)
30. Emphasis on human reason - logic - and science (acquired - not nascent - knowledge); increased followers of Christianity
John Winthrop
Karl Marx Das Kapital
The Enlightenment
Lodge Reservations
31. (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
Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA)
Dixiecrats - 1948
Camp David Accords
March on Birmingham
32. Last major battle; surrender of Cornwallis - led King George III to officially make peace with the colonies
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
Battle of Yorktown
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
Gifford Pinchot
33. 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
King James I - King Charles
Open Door Policy
National Labor Union
Citizen Genet
34. Court case - unconstitutionalized all state laws prohibiting women's rights to have an abortion performed during the first trimester of pregnancy
US acquisitions
March on Washington
Roe v. Wade
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
35. Opposed strikes - producer-consumer cooperation - temperance - welcomed blacks and women (allowing segregation)
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
36. Provided housing and recreation to city youth - imposing Protestant morals - unable to reach out to all youth
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37. Proslavery constitution in Kansas - supported by Buchanan - freesoilers against it (victorious) - denied statehood until after secession
Writs of Assistance
Teapot Dome scandal
Conformity in the 1950s
Lecompton Constitution
38. Most numerous in New England - fought for independence
Gains for women
Whigs (Patriots)
Citizen Genet
Five Civilized Tribes
39. The two political parties that formed following Washington's presidency; Federalists for stronger central government - Republicans for stronger state governments
Federalists and Republicans
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
Deists
Bracero program
40. Severe immigration laws to discourage and discriminate against foreigners - believed to erode old-fashioned American values
Pet banks
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
William Jennings Bryan
Nativism
41. All English subjects are represented in Parliament - including those not allowed to vote
'City on a Hill'
Battle of Gettysburg
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
Virtual Representation
42. Natural selection applied to human competition - advocated by Herbert Spencer - William Graham Sumner
Social Darwinism
'Yellow dog contracts'
U-2 Incident
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
43. Drafting extremely hated by Northerners - sparked by Irish-Americans against the black population - 500 lives lost - many buildings burned
William Lloyd Garrison
Black Panther Party
New York City draft riots (1863)
China turns communist
44. Rebels felt the governor of Virginia failed to protect the frontier from the Native Americans
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45. First African-American in major league baseball
Regionalist and naturalist writers
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
Critics of FDR
Jackie Robinson
46. Four-day banking holiday to create controlled inflation - followed by reopening of sound banks - and reorganization of unsound banks
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Creel Committee
Ngo Dinh Diem
Macon's Bill No. 2
47. Introduced his 'New Deal -' won election by a relative landslide (he was not Hoover - whom the public now did not trust)
President Franklin Roosevelt
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
Strict vs. Loose interpretation of the Constitution
Pendleton Civil Service Act
48. Prohibited settlements west of Appalachian - restriction on colonial growth
Proclamation of 1763
The Glorious Revolution
Currency Act
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
49. Acquired Mexican Cession (future California - Arizona - and New Mexico); Mexico acknowledged American annexation of Texas
Critics of FDR
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Second Great Awakening
'Graying of America'
50. Public treaties - free trade - free seas - reduced armament burdens - anti-imperialism - independence to minorities - international organization
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