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AP U.S. History
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1. In Brook Farm Community - literary nationalist - transcendentalist (nascent ideas of God and freedom) - wrote 'The American Scholar'
Proclamation of 1763
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
Ho Chi Minh
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. Organized and controlled resistance against Parliamentary acts in less violent ways (strength of martyrdom) - advocated nonimportation
Sons of Liberty
George Kennan
Louis Sullivan
Women's Christian Temperance Union
3. 10-year moratorium on Chinese immigration to reduce competition for jobs (Chinese willing to work for cheap salaries)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
Gifford Pinchot
4. Led architectural movement to create building designs that reflected buildings' functions - especially in Chicago
Louis Sullivan
Keynesian economics
Square Deal
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
5. Believed to provide shortcut from Atlantic to Pacific - searched for by Giovanni de Verrazano for Francis I in the race to Asian wealth
Tallmadge Amendment
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
Northwest Passage
Vietnam War
6. Decisive victory to Reagan due to his appeal over Carter (now unpopular due to lack of success in the presidency
Election of 1980
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Impressment
William Penn and the Quakers
7. Fought for women's rights and abolition - 'Men and women are CREATED EQUAL!'
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Espionage Act and Sedition Act
Martin Luther King Jr.
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
8. Fought for return to colonial rule - usually conservative (educated and wealthy
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Jamestown
Tories (Loyalists)
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
9. Taught American landscape painting rather than Classical subjects
Rosenbergs
Hudson River School
George Whitefield
James Oglethorpe
10. Northern Securities Company (JP Morgan and James G. Hill - railroads) seen by Roosevelt as 'bad' trust - Supreme Court upheld his first trust-bust
Northern Securities Case
Roger Williams
Burned-Over District
Mayflower Compact
11. Launched in 1958 by Ike; successful launch of American satellite (Explorer I); massive arms builup
Cotton Gin
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
Lewis and Clark expedition
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
12. Attacked people for being communist by association and unsubstantiated claims - against Truman - Marshall - and Ike; downfall came with attack on the military (condemned by Senate); led hysteria of the red scare
Albany Plan of Union
McCarthyism
William and Mary
Wilson's 14 points
13. Proclamation of 1793 response to French attempts for alliance with US
The Great Awakening
Neutrality
Boston Tea Party
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
14. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - employed young jobless men with government projects on work relief and environment
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
U-2 Incident
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Bombing and invasion of Cambodia
15. Emphasized importance of private charities to help the depression
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16. Small state banks set up by Jackson to keep federal funds out of the National Bank - used until funds were consolidated into a single treasury
Second Great Awakening
Pet banks
New Deal
Wilmot Proviso
17. Brown aimed to create an armed slave rebellion and establish black free state; Brown executed and became martyr in the North
James Oglethorpe
Stagflation
Fair Deal
Harpers Ferry (1859)
18. Part of transportation revolution - from Cumberland MD to Wheeling WVa - toll road network; stimulated Western expansion
'Hundred days'
Church of England
National Road
Ulysses S. Grant
19. Spread quickly; opposed everything that was not White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) (and conservative) - Stephenson's faults and jail sentence led to demise
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rosenbergs
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
Ku Klux Klan
20. 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'
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Independent Treasury Bill
Stock market crash (1929)
Dred Scott v. Sandford
21. Four-day banking holiday to create controlled inflation - followed by reopening of sound banks - and reorganization of unsound banks
Richard Nixon (R)
John Brown
New Freedom
Emergency Banking Relief Act
22. Destroyed by Jackson on the grounds that it was unconstitutional and too much power for a federal institution
Emancipation Proclamation
Kansas-Nebraska Act
'Graying of America'
Bank of the United States
23. Used nonviolent protest and boycott to achieve better working conditions for farmers (esp. Mexican-Americans)
John L. Lewis
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
24. Mao Zedong (communist) defeated nationalist forces of Kai-Shek (supported by US); seen as defeat for US - not officially fully recognized until 1973
The Half-Way Covenant
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
China turns communist
Compromise of 1850
25. New generation of writers outside of Protestantism - resentment of ideals betrayed by society; Fitzgerald (despised materialism - Great Gatsby) - Hemingway (disillusionment - war experience) - Lewis (against upper class — Babbit and Mainstreet) - Fau
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26. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - provided more funds to state and local relief efforts
Invasion of Iraq
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
John Winthrop
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
27. Efficient working methods to increase productivity; usually resulted in lower wages (hated by workers) - power to managers
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
James Monroe
'Lost Generation'
Rock `n' Roll
28. Territory split into Kansas and Nebraska - popular sovereignty (Kansas slave - Nebraska free); proposed by Stephen A. Douglas
Currency Act
Panic of 1819
Rationing
Kansas-Nebraska Act
29. Darwinian (influenced by jazz age and new scientific ideas) against Fundamentalist (the Bible and Creationism); John Scopes convicted for teaching Darwinism (defended by Clarence Darrow); Scopes found guilty
Stock market crash (1929)
Scopes Trial
Yeoman Farmers
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
30. Nonviolent protest to college students (NC) being refused lunch service; part of 'sit-in' movement to integrate all aspects of life (hotels - entertainment - &c.)
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
Roe v. Wade
Five Civilized Tribes
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
31. Proslavery constitution in Kansas - supported by Buchanan - freesoilers against it (victorious) - denied statehood until after secession
Social Darwinism
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
Boston Massacre
Lecompton Constitution
32. Clay and Calhoun - eager for war with Britain (War of 1812)
War hawks
Conformity in the 1950s
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
Mikhail Gorbachev
33. Full American independence - territory west of Appalachian ceded to America - loyalists to be compensated for seized property - fishing rights off of Newfoundland
National Labor Union
March on Birmingham
Whig Party
Treaty of Paris (1783)
34. Equal representation in unicameral congress
Social Darwinism
Yeoman Farmers
New Jersey Plan
President Bill Clinton
35. Effectively ended spoils system and established civil service exams for all government positions - under Pres. Garfield
Bacon's Rebellion
John C. Calhoun
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Bank of the United States
36. Kennedy vs. Nixon - Kennedy (due to televised charisma) won over Nixon (pale and nervous)
'New Left'
Election of 1960
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
Charles II - James II
37. Strong central government - separation of powers - 'extended republic'
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
James Madison
Great Migration
'Silent Majority'
38. Black Muslim worked to raise black spirits and pride (cf. Marcus Garvey); emphasized black institutions rather than mere desegregation - blacks to gain freedom at any cost
George Kennan
Invasion of Iraq
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
Great Migration
39. US - Britain - Japan - France - and Italy to reduce naval tonnage and halt construction for 10 years; US and Japan to respect Pacific territorial holdings - Kellog-Briand Pact to 'outlaw war'
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
John Dewey
Butler v. U.S. Court case
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
40. Key to English-Native American relationship - died in England in 1617
Election of 1800
The Alamo
Pocahontas
Plessy v. Ferguson
41. Held in New York - agreed to not import British goods until Stamp Act was repealed
Stamp Act Congress
Barbary Pirates
Nullification
War Industries Board
42. Black rights leader - heavily influenced by Malcolm X (advocated black separatism rather than integration)
Gulf War - 'Operation Desert Storm' (1991)
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
Jackie Robinson
43. First president to show positive response to civil rights movement; worked heavily on keeping Soviet spread of communism in check
Lewis and Clark expedition
Nativism
Fugitive Slave Act
President Harry Truman
44. States could refuse to enforce the federal laws they deemed unconstitutional
Currency Act
Nullification
'Contract with America' (1994)
Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Association (YMCA & YWCA)
45. American commander-in-chief; first president - set precedents for future presidents - put down Whiskey Rebellion (enforced Whiskey Tax) - managed first presidential cabinet - carefully used power of executive to avoid monarchial style rule
Critics of FDR
Impressment
George Washington
Robert E. Lee
46. First Utopian society - by Robert Owen
New Harmony
Emancipation Proclamation
The Federalist Papers
Teapot Dome scandal
47. Believed that God created the universe to act through natural laws; Franklin - Jefferson - Paine
Washington's Farewell Address
Rosenbergs
Deists
American society during the Revolution
48. Europeans should not interfere with affairs in Western Hemisphere - Americans to stay out of foreign affairs; supported Washington's goal for US neutrality in Americas
Knights of Labor
Monroe Doctrine
Mayflower Compact
The Half-Way Covenant
49. Accomplished great number of relief - recovery - and reform efforts; sought practical solutions to the problems by experimentation
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50. Challenged New Englanders to completely separate Church from State - as the State would corrupt the church
Karl Marx Das Kapital
Marshall Court (all cases)
Roger Williams
Jane Addams