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AP U.S. History
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1. Blacks who went to prison taken out and used for labor in slave-like conditions - enforced southern racial hierarchy
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
Convict-lease system
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
Public Works Administration (PWA)
2. 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'
McCarthyism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jonathan Edwards
Federal Reserve Act
3. 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
Lowell mill/system
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
American society during the Revolution
Judiciary Act of 1789
4. First permanent English settlement in the Americas (1607) - along James River
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
Jamestown
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
Emergency Banking Relief Act
5. Paper money; specie circular decreed that the government would not accept specie for government land
CIA overthrow of Iran (1953)
Affirmative Action
Declaratory Act
Specie
6. Bomb thrown at protest rally - police shot protestors - caused great animosity in employers for workers' unions
Haymarket Bombing
Jazz
Neutrality
Robert E. Lee
7. Blacks denied admission to all-white school; overturned Plessy v. Ferguson - negating 'separate but equal' - ordered integration of schools as soon as possible; white southerners protested (refused to attend integrated schools)
'Hundred days'
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Korean War
8. Americans feared Soviet infiltration into Latin America - placed secret police and military forces to prevent it
William Penn and the Quakers
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
Albany Plan of Union
9. Emphasis on human reason - logic - and science (acquired - not nascent - knowledge); increased followers of Christianity
Church of England
The Enlightenment
Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1922 and 1930
Energy Crisis - OPEC
10. Prohibited use of any devices (e.g. - literacy tests) to deny the right to vote and enforced black suffrage rights
Voting Rights Act of 1965
George Whitefield
Midnight judges
Conversion Experience
11. Huerta's enemy - reluctantly supported by U.S.; U.S. sought Villa's submission due to terrorism - eventually assassinated; Wilson's policy highly unpopular
Independent Treasury Bill
Richard Nixon (R)
'City on a Hill'
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
12. Attacked industrial elite - called for business regulation - publisher refused works breaking with Victorian ideals
Navigation Acts
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Compromise of 1850
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
13. Gold discovery in Sutter's Mill in 1848 resulted in huge mass of adventurers in 1849 - led to application for statehood - opened question of slavery in the West
California Gold Rush
Harriet Tubman
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
Federalists and Republicans
14. Taught American landscape painting rather than Classical subjects
President John F. Kennedy
Independent Treasury Bill
Hudson River School
Conversion Experience
15. Created Interstate Commerce Commission to require railroads to publish rates (less discrimination - short/long haul) - first legislation to regulate corporations - ineffective ICC
Northern Securities Case
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
Alien and Sedition Acts
Interstate Commerce Act
16. Decisive victory in the War of 1812 by Harrison over Tecumseh - used in Harrison's campaign for presidency
Mayflower Compact
Maysville Road Veto
'Red Scare' (1919)
Battle of Tippecanoe
17. 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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18. Decision under Sherman Anti-Trust Act shot down by Supreme Court — sugar refining was manufacturing rather than trade/commerce
Harpers Ferry (1859)
King James I - King Charles
George Wallace - American
United States vs. EC Knight Company
19. Drafting extremely hated by Northerners - sparked by Irish-Americans against the black population - 500 lives lost - many buildings burned
New York City draft riots (1863)
The Enlightenment
Salvation Army
Second Great Awakening
20. States joined for foreign affairs - Congress reigned supreme (lacked executive and judicial) - one vote per state - 2/3 vote for bills - unanimous for amendments; too much power to states - unable to regulate commerce or taxes
The Loyal Nine
Jingoism
John Winthrop
Articles of Confederation
21. Established by 'General' William Booth - uniformed volunteers provided food - shelter - and employment to families - attracted poor with lively preaching and marching bands in order to instill middle-class virtues
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Conformity in the 1950s
Salvation Army
Bracero program
22. Proponent of gradual gain of equal rights for African-Americans
Schechter v. U.S Court case
Booker T. Washington
Dawes Plan (1924)
Commerce Compromise
23. Cherokees - Choctaws - Creeks - Chickasaws - and Seminoles; 'civilized' due to their intermarriage with whites - forced out of their homelands by expansion
Religious Right
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Five Civilized Tribes
Woodrow Wilson
24. Created the Wisconsin Idea (as governor of Wisconsin) — regulated railroad - direct-primary system - increased corporate taxes - reference library for lawmakers
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
Robert La Follette
'Bleeding Kansas'
Anaconda plan
25. Bush vs. Clinton vs. Perot; focus on stagnancy of economy and problems of middle class (Clinton)
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
1992 Election
'Brain trust'
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
26. In reaction to the Boston Tea Party; closing of Boston Harbor - revocation of Massachusetts charter (power to governor) - murder in the name of royal authority would be tried in England or another colony
Four Freedoms' speech
John D. Rockefeller
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
US economy since WWII (service economy)
27. Maine as free state - Missouri as slave state - slavery prohibited north of 36°30'
Dorothea Dix
Virginia Plan
American society during the Revolution
Missouri Compromise (1820)
28. Part of transportation revolution - from Cumberland MD to Wheeling WVa - toll road network; stimulated Western expansion
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Election of 1824
Important WWII Battles
National Road
29. Despite CIA-sponsored Soviet resistance - Afghanistan taken by Soviet Union; ended detente between USSR and US
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Writs of Assistance
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
30. 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
Pearl Harbor
Albany Plan of Union
Moral Diplomacy
Bull Moose Party
31. Bank tightened loan policies - depression rose throughout the country - hurt western farmers greatly
Deists
Benjamin Franklin
Panic of 1819
James Oglethorpe
32. September 1949 - US no longer held monopoly; two atomic powers
Coxey's Army
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
Federal Reserve Act
Soviet atomic bomb
33. Roosevelt and Pinchot sided on conservation rather than preservation (planned and regulated use of forest lands for public and commercial uses)
China turns communist
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
34. Severe immigration laws to discourage and discriminate against foreigners - believed to erode old-fashioned American values
Tariff of Abominations
Nativism
James K. Polk
Stagflation
35. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - used withheld money from payrolls to provide aid to the unemployed - industrial accident victims - and young mothers; principle of government responsibility for social welfare
Bill of Rights
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA)
36. Political action for religion justified by decreased presence of religion in society; Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition to expand national influence
Mann Act
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
Watergate Scandal
Religious Right
37. Warned against permanent foreign alliances and political parties - called for unity of the country - established precedent of two-term presidency
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38. 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
Freeport Doctrine
Gulf War - 'Operation Desert Storm' (1991)
1968 Presidential Election
War hawks
39. Editor of The Liberator (strongly abolitionist newspaper calling for immediate abolition of slavery) - fought for feminist movement ('Am I not a woman and a sister' picture of slave woman)
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
Charles Lindbergh
'Yellow dog contracts'
William Lloyd Garrison
40. Fair amount of troops - short guerilla tactics - strong leaders (Washington); nonprofessional army that could not handle long battles
Essex case
Pan-Americanism
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
41. Peaceful destruction of British tea in Boston Harbor by colonists disguised as Indians
Secretary of State John Hay
Sugar Act
Declining death rate
Boston Tea Party
42. Republican candidate for president in 1884 - quintessence of spoils system; highly disgusted the mugwumps (many Republicans turned to Democrat Cleveland)
Election of 1980
Neutrality
James G. Blaine
Battle of Saratoga
43. Meant to keep government unquestioned by critics - particularly of the Federalists
Underground Railroad
Alien and Sedition Acts
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
44. Support people oppressed by communism and non-democratic governments; worked with democratic governments in Greece - Turkey - and Israel
War hawks
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Truman Doctrine
Declaratory Act
45. Believed that God created the universe to act through natural laws; Franklin - Jefferson - Paine
Deists
Tammany Hall
United States vs. EC Knight Company
Frederick Douglass
46. Full American independence - territory west of Appalachian ceded to America - loyalists to be compensated for seized property - fishing rights off of Newfoundland
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Tariff of Abominations
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Yeoman Farmers
47. Fought for old Southern way of life (states' rights) - attempted to gain higher standing within Democratic party; aimed to deny Truman enough electoral votes to avoid his reelection by nominating Strom Thurmond (SC governor)
Lodge Reservations
Dixiecrats - 1948
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Battle of Saratoga
48. American who settled in Texas - one of the leaders for Texan independence from Mexico
William Lloyd Garrison
Stephen Austin
Bombing and invasion of Cambodia
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
49. The Man Nobody Knows - glorification of business - Jesus as a businessman - relationship between religion and manufacturing
Bank of the United States
Federal Reserve Act
Bruce Barton
John L. Lewis
50. Americans concerned with economic depression; sought to avoid European involvement - no apparent immediate threats
James K. Polk
Virginia Resolves
Vietnam War
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s