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AP U.S. History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Stronger union of states - equal and population-based representation - simple majority vote (with presidential veto) - regulation of foreign and interstate commerce - execution by president - power to enact taxes - federal courts - easier amendment p
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
William and Mary
Detente - realpolitik
2. CIA attempt to institute Cuban support to overthrow Castro; cover-up uncovered - became representation of Cuban resistance to American aggression
Bay of Pigs invasion
John Brown
Tallmadge Amendment
Consumerism
3. Banned racial discrimination and segregation (public) - bias by federal government; enforced by Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Important WWII Battles
Underground Railroad
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
Civil Rights Act of 1964
4. Huerta's enemy - reluctantly supported by U.S.; U.S. sought Villa's submission due to terrorism - eventually assassinated; Wilson's policy highly unpopular
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
Nicaraguan Contras
Great Migration
5. Populists campaigned for silver-backed money rather than gold-backed - believed to be able to relieve working conditions and exploitation of labor
Free silver
Marshall Plan
Civil Rights Cases
Woodrow Wilson
6. Anti-immigrant - especially against Irish Catholics
Underground Railroad
Stamp Act
Nativism
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
7. Mistreated farmers - fear of monocracy - forced people to think about central government
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8. Settled in Pennsylvania - believed the 'Inner Light' could speak through any person and ran religious services without ministers
Interstate Commerce Act
John Foster Dulles
Square Deal
William Penn and the Quakers
9. Political muckraking cartoonist - refused bribes to stop criticism
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
Thomas Nast
War hawks
Hull House
10. 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
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Ulysses S. Grant
Non-conformity
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
11. Led by Francis Willard - powerful 'interest group' following the civil war - urged women's suffrage - led to Prohibition
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12. 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
Ku Klux Klan
Monroe Doctrine
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
Yalta Conference (1945)
13. Provided country with a break from partisan politics - Missouri Compromise - issued Monroe Doctrine
James Monroe
'Wage slaves'
Robert La Follette
'Trail of Tears'
14. Organized Seneca Falls Convention - founded (with Anthony) National Women Suffrage Organization
Pet banks
Important WWII Battles
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
15. Agreement between US and Britain to remove armed fleets from the Great Lakes
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
Humanitarian diplomacy
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
16. Another part of Nixon's out-of-Vietnam plan - destroy supply routes to North Vietnam through Cambodia
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
Charles II - James II
Bombing and invasion of Cambodia
Four Freedoms' speech
17. Gives Congress the power to pass laws it deems necessary to enforce the Constitution
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18. Attacked industrial elite - called for business regulation - publisher refused works breaking with Victorian ideals
Samuel Gompers
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
'Trail of Tears'
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
19. Established world organization; Soviet Union pledged to allow democratic procedures in Eastern Europe; pledge broken - led to Cold War
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
Tories (Loyalists)
Conscription policies
Yalta Conference (1945)
20. Sought to eliminate spheres of influence and avoid European monopolies in China; unaccepted by the powers in mind
James Meredith
Open Door Policy
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
21. Western Pennsylvanian farmers' violent protest against whiskey excise tax - Washington sent large army to put down revolt - protests to be limited to non-violent
Critics of FDR
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
Whiskey Rebellion
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
22. 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
Social Reciprocity
Citizen Genet
Detente - realpolitik
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
23. Unemployment jitters; expelled Teamster union (resorted to gangsterism); height of power of workers' unions
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
Olive Branch Petition
Bombing and invasion of Cambodia
AFL-CIO (1955)
24. Lee's chief lieutenant and premier cavalry officer
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25. Protected rights of individual from the power of the central government
American Federation of Labor
Bill of Rights
Harpers Ferry (1859)
Social Reciprocity
26. 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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27. Fear of Japanese-Americans as traitors - sent off (by law) to internment camps; removal of deemed threats in military areas
Japanese internment
New Freedom
Important WWII Battles
Robert E. Lee
28. Denounced the 'housewife trap' which caused educated women to hold even themselves inferior to men
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
'Evil Empire' speech - 'Star Wars'
Espionage Act and Sedition Act
Convict-lease system
29. British citizenship outnumbered colonies' - large navy and professional army; exhausted resources (Hessians hired) - national debt
George Washington
British strengths and weaknesses
Deregulation
Bill of Rights
30. Made it illegal to transport women across state borders for 'immoral purposes -' violated by black boxer Jack Johnson (w/ white woman)
Know-Nothing (American) Party
Mann Act
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
William Henry Harrison
31. (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
Essex case
Compromise of 1850
Commerce Compromise
Nicaraguan Contras
32. Abolished national origins quotas - dramatically increased immigration (especially from Asia and Latin America)
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
The Glorious Revolution
Immigration Act of 1965
The Loyal Nine
33. Parks arrested for refusing to give up bus seat to white man - African American leaders called for city-wide boycott of bus system (lasted almost 400 days); Supreme Court ruled segregated buses unconstitutional
Stock market crash (1929)
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Jamestown
'Lost Generation'
34. In Brook Farm Community - lived in seclusion for two years writing Walden and On Civil Disobedience - proved that man could provide for himself without materialistic wants
Report on Public Credit
Henry David Thoreau
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
35. Admiral Dewey defeated Spanish initially; American troops (aided by Aguinaldo's insurgents) captured Manila - leading to annexation
William and Mary
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
Pearl Harbor
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
36. Executed for leaking atomic secrets to Soviets - avowed communists
'Atlanta Compromise'
Rosenbergs
Olive Branch Petition
New Lights vs. Old Lights
37. Challenged New Englanders to completely separate Church from State - as the State would corrupt the church
William Jennings Bryan
Roger Williams
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
William T. Sherman
38. Runaway slaves could be caught in the North and be brought back to their masters (they were treated as property — running away was as good as stealing)
Fugitive Slave Act
American Federation of Labor
Martin Luther King Jr.
British strengths and weaknesses
39. Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson; purchase of Alaska 'Seward's Folly'
Virginia Plan
United States vs. EC Knight Company
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
William Seward
40. Killed the AAA - although FDR insisted on continuing by creating smaller state-level AAAs
Regionalist and naturalist writers
Maysville Road Veto
Palmer Raids
Butler v. U.S. Court case
41. Educational and residential segregation; inferior facilities allotted to African-Americans - predominantly in South
Tet Offensive (1968)
Harriet Tubman
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
Jim Crow laws
42. Congress authorized LBJ to repel and prevent aggression against US troops in Vietnam - used as a blank check (perhaps too much - caused protests)
Kent State Protest
Freeport Doctrine
George Wallace - American
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
43. Ex-Lincoln secretary; worked to gain Open Door Notes' acceptance from the major powers
Bombing and invasion of Cambodia
Secretary of State John Hay
Berlin Wall
Dollar Diplomacy'
44. King hosted myriad nonviolent protesting activities to fill jail with protestors - Bill Connor (police commissioner) began violent resistance to protestors
Fort Sumter
March on Birmingham
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Clinton impeachment (1997)
45. Issued by Lincoln following Antietam (close enough to a victory to empower the proclamation) - declared slaves in the Confederacy free (did not include border states) - symbolic gesture to support Union's moral cause in the war
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
New Freedom
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Emancipation Proclamation
46. Believed in expanding federal power on economy - encouraged industrial development; could only gain power on the local level - led by Henry Clay (anti-Jackson)
Bombing and invasion of Cambodia
Whig Party
Albany Plan of Union
Know-Nothing (American) Party
47. Southern and Midwestern farmers expressing discontent - supported free silver and subtreasury plan (cash advance on future crop — farmers had little cash flow during the year) - criticized national banks
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48. (free speech movement) Youth activists (often liberal arts students) spoke out against Vietnam War - supported widespread liberalization
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49. Veterans from WWI sought their pensions before they were too old to use them; they were denied and were run out of Washington (violently - by MacArthur)
Platt Amendment
Stephen Austin
Bonus Army
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
50. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - banned child labor - established minimum wage
Fair Labor Standards Act
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Berlin Wall
'Silent Majority'