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AP U.S. History

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1. Focused on skilled workers (harder to replace than unskilled) - coordinated crafts unions - supported 8¬hour workday and injury liability






2. 'Corrupt bargain' and backroom deal for JQ Adams to win over Jackson






3. Standard Oil Company - Ruthless business tactics (survival of the fittest)






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






5. Cherokees - Choctaws - Creeks - Chickasaws - and Seminoles; 'civilized' due to their intermarriage with whites - forced out of their homelands by expansion






6. Gives Congress the power to pass laws it deems necessary to enforce the Constitution


7. Decisive victory to Reagan due to his appeal over Carter (now unpopular due to lack of success in the presidency






8. Guerilla army sponsored by CIA to attack procommunist revolutionaries in Nicaragua; fear of another Vietnam






9. Worked towards asylums for the mentally insane - worked alongside Mann






10. Roosevelt and Pinchot sided on conservation rather than preservation (planned and regulated use of forest lands for public and commercial uses)






11. Sets of cardboard box houses that epitomized the country's blame on Hoover for the cause of the Depression






12. Unconstitutionalized the NRA due to delegation of legislative authority from Congress to executive






13. Reluctant to give colonists their own government - preferred to appoint royal governors






14. Accomplished great number of relief - recovery - and reform efforts; sought practical solutions to the problems by experimentation


15. Due to threat of nuclear war - Soviets erected wall to separate East Berlin from West Berlin (end exodus of intellect to west); symbol of communist denial of freedom






16. Opposed to slavery and secession - but stayed loyal to Virginia - despite offer for command of Union Army






17. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - collective bargaining rights - closed shops permitted (where workers must join unions) - outlawed anti-union tactics






18. Stressed role of church and religion to improve city life - led by preachers Walter Raushenbusch and Washington Gladen; influenced settlement house movement and Salvation Army






19. Supported expanded money supply - health/safety regulations - benefits for workers and farmers - granger (farmer)-supported






20. 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






21. Group of Bostonians in opposition to the Stamp Act - sought to drive stamp distributors from the city






22. 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)






23. George Wallace vs. Nixon vs. Humphrey; very narrow popular vote triumph to Nixon (although he had clear majority of electoral votes)






24. Anti-communist crusades due to fear of radicalism spurred by Bolshevik rebellion


25. Network of safe houses of white abolitionists used to bring slaves to freedom






26. Decision under Sherman Anti-Trust Act shot down by Supreme Court — sugar refining was manufacturing rather than trade/commerce






27. Provided housing and recreation to city youth - imposing Protestant morals - unable to reach out to all youth


28. Killed the AAA - although FDR insisted on continuing by creating smaller state-level AAAs






29. Unemployment jitters; expelled Teamster union (resorted to gangsterism); height of power of workers' unions






30. John Noyes - New York; utopian society for communalism - perfectionism - and complex marriage






31. 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'






32. The Union planned a blockade that would not allow supplies of any sort into the Confederacy; control the Mississippi and Atlantic/Gulf of Mexico






33. Emphasis on personal salvation - emotional response - and individual faith; women and blacks; nationalism (Manifest Destiny)






34. Pop art - mass production of art by screening






35. Fear of Japanese-Americans as traitors - sent off (by law) to internment camps; removal of deemed threats in military areas






36. Vetoed by Jackson on the count that government funds for the Maysville Road would only benefit one state






37. Germany announced that it would sink all (including American) ships - attempt to involve U.S. in war






38. Stated the United States was destined to span the breadth of the entire continent with as much land as possible - advocated by Polk






39. Influence of African-American blues - music of the younger generation (gap between them and their parents)


40. Spread quickly; opposed everything that was not White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) (and conservative) - Stephenson's faults and jail sentence led to demise






41. Mass migration northward; mainly blacks migrating from the southern states into the north hoping for less discrimination






42. Old immigrants from northern and western Europe came seeking better life; new immigrants came from southern and eastern Europe searching for opportunity to escape worse living conditions back home and often did not stay in the US






43. Nixon agreed with USSR to achieve nuclear equality rather than the superiority that threatened the destruction of the world; further reduced tensions between the two countries






44. Required separate and distinct ballots for presidential and vice presidential candidates






45. 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






46. Victorian standards confined women to the home to create an artistic environment as a statement of cultural aspirations






47. Party formed from Republican split by Roosevelt - more progressive values - leaving 'Republican Old Guard' to control Republican party






48. Adams - Jefferson - and Burr: Adams lost - Jefferson and Burr tied - Hamilton convinced other Federalists to vote for Jefferson to break the tie






49. Former French subjects in Canada allowed to keep Catholicism - while American colonists expected to participate in the Church of England






50. Rise in stock prices and speculation - decline of construction industry - mistaken 'trickle-down' economics - reliance on credit