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AP U.S. History

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1. Black veteran escorted to be enrolled in Univ. of Miss. by military (school reluctant - cf. Little Rock Nine)






2. First 'modern' president - moderate who supported progressivism (at times conservative) - bypassed congressional opposition (cf. Jackson) - significant role in world affairs






3. Family farmers who hired out slaves for the harvest season - self-sufficient - participated in local markets alongside slave owners






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






5. Founded by Emerson - strong emphasis on spiritual unity (God - humanity - and nature) - literature with strong references to nature






6. Natural selection applied to human competition - advocated by Herbert Spencer - William Graham Sumner






7. Supreme Court legalized the 'separate but equal' philosophy






8. Agreement between US and Britain to remove armed fleets from the Great Lakes






9. 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






10. Admiral Dewey defeated Spanish initially; American troops (aided by Aguinaldo's insurgents) captured Manila - leading to annexation






11. Alice Paul; shocked traditionalism - League of Women Voters supported; new organization of women who were now more independent






12. Brown aimed to create an armed slave rebellion and establish black free state; Brown executed and became martyr in the North






13. Ended exclusion of homosexuals from military; due to controversy - compromise of 'don't ask - don't tell' instituted






14. Known as 'wartime food czar;' created recreation policies and reintroduced leisure culture and conservation ethic to get Americans escaping the cities and improve tourism - etc.






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






16. Parliament took minor actions in the colonies - allowing them to experiment with and become accustomed to self-government - international trade agreements






17. FDR's plan (although vague during the campaign) to restart the economy and pull America out of the Great Depression






18. Mandated the toleration of all Christian denominations in Maryland - even though Maryland was founded for Catholics (but majority was protestant)






19. Colonies proposed colonial confederation under lighter British rule (crown-appointed president - 'Grand Council'); never took effect






20. Americans who were forced out of their homes in Oklahoma and Arkansas (respectively) due to the dust storms and drought known as the Dust Bowl


21. Exempted those who owned or oversaw twenty or more slaves from service in the Confederate Army; 'rich man's war but a poor man's fight'






22. 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






23. Supported abolition - broke off of Anti-Slavery Society






24. FDR and Churchill agreed to defeat Germany first rather than concentrate on Japan






25. Opposed strikes - producer-consumer cooperation - temperance - welcomed blacks and women (allowing segregation)






26. Dance music - slave spirituals adapted into improvisation and ragtime; jazz migrated along with blacks in the Great Migration






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






28. Left primary open to Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy - both promising to end the controversial war


29. Due to parents unhappy with encouraged segregation of schools - Supreme Court instituted forced busing policies (using school buses as a method of integration)






30. Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald (hated his anti-Cuban policies); LBJ instituted Warren Commission to investigate assassination (headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren)






31. Foundation for self-government laid out by the first Massachusetts settlers before arriving on land






32. Racism riots against Mexican laborers (imported for jobs)






33. Hamilton's plan to solve Revolutionary debt - Assumption highly controversial - pushed his plan through Congress - based on loose interpretation of Constitution






34. Radical Calvinists against the Church of England; Separatists (Pilgrims) argued for a break from the Church of England - led the Mayflower - and established the settlement at Plymouth






35. 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)






36. Decided to punish war crimes - established program for de-Nazification of Germany






37. Over Senate seat for Illinois (Douglas victor) - Lincoln stated the country could not remain split over the issue of slavery






38. Provided for evacuation of English troops from posts in the Great Lakes


39. Brought in Mexicans for temporary jobs - concentrated in southern CA - given extremely poor working conditions (as they were not American citizens)






40. Lee's chief lieutenant and premier cavalry officer


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






42. Working class exploited for profit - proletariat (workers) to revolt and inherit all society






43. First female cabinet member






44. Spurred by Great Migration - large-scale riots - lynchings - &c.


45. Led Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: threatened a siege on DC if FDR did not agree to end discrimination in military






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






47. First shots are fired at Charleston - North Carolina






48. Introduced work ethic to Jamestown colony - sanitation - diplomat to local Native American tribes; had fought Spanish and Turks






49. Mexicans held siege on the Alamo (in San Antonio) - Texans lost great number of people - 'Remember the Alamo'






50. Scholarly - welfare-reform - 'Contract with America -' impeachment over Monica Lewinski Scandal - War in Kosovo