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AP U.S. History
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1. Depicted the evils of slavery (splitting of families and physical abuse); increased participation in abolitionist movement - condemned by South
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2. Helped lead settlement house movement - co-founded NAACP - condemned war and poverty
President John F. Kennedy
Burned-Over District
Jane Addams
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
3. Douglas was able to reconcile the Dred Scott Decision with popular sovereignty; voters would be able to exclude slavery by not allowing laws that treated slaves as property
Creel Committee
Boston Tea Party
Freeport Doctrine
Secretary of State John Hay
4. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - employed young jobless men with government projects on work relief and environment
Republican Party
Barbary Pirates
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Farm crisis
5. Supported abolition - broke off of Anti-Slavery Society
XYZ Affair
Salvation Army
GI Bill of Rights
Liberty Party
6. Risk of too many casualties and high costs for hand-to-hand combat/invasion - Japanese surrender unlikely
Era of Good Feelings
Palmer Raids
Ike's Farewell Speech
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
7. Agreement between US and Britain to remove armed fleets from the Great Lakes
'Gentlemen's Agreement' (1908)
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
Currency Act
Scopes Trial
8. Young women employed by Lowell's textile company - housed in dormitories
Kitchen Cabinet
Lowell mill/system
Conscription policies
Virtual Representation
9. Led a slave rebellion in Virginia - attacked many whites - prompted non-slaveholding Virginians to consider emancipation
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10. King hosted myriad nonviolent protesting activities to fill jail with protestors - Bill Connor (police commissioner) began violent resistance to protestors
Tariff of Abominations
March on Birmingham
20-Negro Law
Panama Canal
11. Natural selection applied to human competition - advocated by Herbert Spencer - William Graham Sumner
Dollar Diplomacy'
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
George Kennan
Social Darwinism
12. Reduced quota - reduced numbers from eastern and southern Europe - Asians banned - Canadians and Latin Americans exempt
National Origins Act (1924)
George Wallace - American
United States vs. EC Knight Company
Platt Amendment
13. Dance music - slave spirituals adapted into improvisation and ragtime; jazz migrated along with blacks in the Great Migration
Jazz
Shays's Rebellion
Warren Court
New Nationalism
14. Left primary open to Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy - both promising to end the controversial war
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15. Increase working output by standardizing procedures and rewarding those who worked fast; efficiency
President Franklin Roosevelt
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
War Industries Board
National Road
16. Civil Rights Act of 1875 declared unconstitutional by Supreme Court - as the fourteenth amendment protected people from governmental infringement of rights and had no effect on acts of private citizens
Civil Rights Cases
'Baby Boom'
Farm crisis
Valley Forge
17. Ford's and Carter's presidencies experienced a recession and inflation simultaneously - solved by Keynesian economics
Deregulation
Pearl Harbor
Stagflation
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
18. Stock prices fell drastically; without buyers - the stocks became essentially worthless; cause bank crashes - &c.
Nicaraguan Contras
Okies' and 'Arkies'
The Half-Way Covenant
Stock market crash (1929)
19. 'Southern Strategy' lured many southern Democrats to the Republican party (esp. due to southern opposition to Civil Rights Act of 1964)
William and Mary
Richard Nixon (R)
Palmer Raids
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
20. Often debtors sold to slave traders by African kings seeking riches; Columbian Exchange
'New Left'
Japanese internment
Conformity in the 1950s
Atlantic slave trade
21. Focused on the 'Common Man;' removal of Indians - removal of federal deposits in BUS - annexation of territory - liberal use of veto
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22. 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
Alexander Hamilton
Macon's Bill No. 2
Gains for women
23. Unemployment jitters; expelled Teamster union (resorted to gangsterism); height of power of workers' unions
John L. Lewis
Butler v. U.S. Court case
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
AFL-CIO (1955)
24. Lee invaded Pennsylvania - bloodiest battle of the war - Confederate Pickett's Charge (disastrous) - Lee forced to retreat (not pursued by Meade) - South doomed to never invade North again - Gettysburg Address given by Lincoln (nation over union)
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Cuban Missile Crisis
Gays in the military
Battle of Gettysburg
25. Despite near-guaranteed second term - campaign workers burglarized Democratic offices - cover-up unsuccessful - resigned to avoid impeachment
Consumerism
Spoils System
Watergate Scandal
'Baby Boom'
26. Committees appointed from different colonies to communicate on matters; asserted rights to self¬government - cooperation between colonies
Gains for women
Fair Deal
Committees of Correspondence
The Glorious Revolution
27. Mexicans held siege on the Alamo (in San Antonio) - Texans lost great number of people - 'Remember the Alamo'
Declaratory Act
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Critics of FDR
The Alamo
28. Focused on skilled workers (harder to replace than unskilled) - coordinated crafts unions - supported 8¬hour workday and injury liability
Charles Lindbergh
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
Samuel Gompers
William H. Taft
29. Founded by Betty Friedan - Bella Abzug - and Aileen Hernandez; lobbied for equal opportunity where the EEOC was lacking (gender discrimination); lawsuits and mobilization of public opinion
Church of England
Ulysses S. Grant
National Organization of Women
Andy Warhol
30. Exemplary Christian community - rich to show charity - held to Calvinistic beliefs
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31. FDR's inner circle of experts rather than just politicians in the cabinet
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32. Group of Bostonians in opposition to the Stamp Act - sought to drive stamp distributors from the city
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
The Loyal Nine
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
Teapot Dome scandal
33. Japanese bombing of ships in harbor; resulted in FDR's request for declaration of war against Japan; Germany and Italy responded with declarations of war
'Great Society'
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Pearl Harbor
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
34. Advocated by Roger Sherman - proposed two independently-voting senators per state and representation in the House based on population
20-Negro Law
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
Connecticut Compromise
Cuban Missile Crisis
35. Second youngest president - entered presidency as tensions of the Cold War increased; unable to get major initiatives through Congress due to conservative bloc; tax cuts (economic stimulation); reluctantly gets involved in civil rights; emphasizes Sp
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
Hartford Convention
Rosie the Riveter
President John F. Kennedy
36. Decisive victory to Reagan due to his appeal over Carter (now unpopular due to lack of success in the presidency
Fair Deal
Haymarket Bombing
Election of 1980
Schechter v. U.S Court case
37. Four-day banking holiday to create controlled inflation - followed by reopening of sound banks - and reorganization of unsound banks
Deists
Pearl Harbor
Emergency Banking Relief Act
'Evil Empire' speech - 'Star Wars'
38. Due to parents unhappy with encouraged segregation of schools - Supreme Court instituted forced busing policies (using school buses as a method of integration)
Fair Deal
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Forced busing
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
39. Sought to encourage domestic American manufacturing
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
John D. Rockefeller
Non-Intercourse Act
President Harry Truman
40. Hired to photograph ordinary Americans experiencing the depression
Dorothea Lange
Federal Reserve Act
William H. Taft
Berlin Airlift
41. Founded by Uriah Stephens (1869); excluded corrupt and well-off; equal female pay - end to child/convict labor - employer-employee relations - proportional income tax; 'bread and butter' unionism (higher wages - shorter hours - better conditions)
Karl Marx Das Kapital
Nullification Controversy
Knights of Labor
Thomas Nast
42. Allowed for faster processing of cotton - invented by Eli Whitney - less need for slaves
Yalta Conference (1945)
Cotton Gin
Adams-Onis Treaty
Plessy v. Ferguson
43. Opposed to all immigration - strongly anti-Catholic
Battle of Saratoga
Know-Nothing (American) Party
'Affluent Society'
Clinton impeachment (1997)
44. (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
Connecticut Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Industrial Workers of the World
Ngo Dinh Diem
45. Western Pennsylvanian farmers' violent protest against whiskey excise tax - Washington sent large army to put down revolt - protests to be limited to non-violent
Stamp Act Congress
Whiskey Rebellion
CIA overthrow of Iran (1953)
Peace Corps
46. Political muckraking cartoonist - refused bribes to stop criticism
'Affluent Society'
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Neutrality
Thomas Nast
47. Powerful speaker - toured the country and inspired many into Christianity
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
Booker T. Washington
Manifest Destiny
George Whitefield
48. British Navy would take American sailors and force them to work for Britain
John L. Lewis
Citizen Genet
Nullification
Impressment
49. Bush vs. Clinton vs. Perot; focus on stagnancy of economy and problems of middle class (Clinton)
1992 Election
Booker T. Washington
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Civil Rights Act of 1964
50. Established colony of Georgia as a place for honest debtors
Kent State Protest
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
'Affluent Society'
James Oglethorpe