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AP U.S. History

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1. US provided financial assistance to recover economies in Europe; aimed towards anti-communist governments in France - Italy - and Germany; Eastern European nations prohibited from receiving help from US






2. Accomplished great number of relief - recovery - and reform efforts; sought practical solutions to the problems by experimentation

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3. The principle that a state should decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery






4. 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






5. Mistreated farmers - fear of monocracy - forced people to think about central government

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6. Germany announced that it would sink all (including American) ships - attempt to involve U.S. in war






7. Cherokee tribe forced to move from southern Appalachians to reservations in current-day Oklahoma - high death toll

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8. Unemployment jitters; expelled Teamster union (resorted to gangsterism); height of power of workers' unions






9. Taxes on all legal documents to support British troops - not approved by colonists through their representatives






10. 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)






11. Denounced the 'housewife trap' which caused educated women to hold even themselves inferior to men






12. Allowed sale of weaponry to democracies on 'cash-and-carry' basis - avoided full-blown war; danger zones proclaimed; solved American unemployment crisis






13. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - banned child labor - established minimum wage






14. Young women employed by Lowell's textile company - housed in dormitories






15. Georgia cannot enforce American laws on Indian tribes






16. Coxey and unemployed followers marched on Washington for support in unemployment relief by inflationary public works program

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

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18. Ideas of Wilson: small enterprise - states' rights - more active government - trust busting - left social issues up to the states






19. Established world organization; Soviet Union pledged to allow democratic procedures in Eastern Europe; pledge broken - led to Cold War






20. Democratic political machine in NYC - 'supported' immigrants and poor people of the city - who were needed for Democratic election victories






21. Elvis Presley - Marilyn Monroe - James Dean - Beatniks — rebelled against conservative conformity of the rest of the country (esp. targeted youth)






22. William and Mary kicked James II out of England (exiled into France) - allowed more power to the legislatures






23. Ford's and Carter's presidencies experienced a recession and inflation simultaneously - solved by Keynesian economics






24. Americans could now spend what they had been told to save during the war (disposable income); increased purchasing of luxury items






25. Craft unions that left the Knights (1886) - led by Gompers - women left out of recruitment efforts






26. Commission on civil rights to attempt to guarantee the ballot to blacks; showed government's changing views of race relations






27. Pop art - mass production of art by screening






28. 14 formal amendments to the treaty for the League of Nations; preserved Monroe Doctrine - Congress desired to keep declaration of war to itself






29. Established colony of Georgia as a place for honest debtors






30. Supported by women and churches - instituted by Volstead Act - lacked enforcement; bootlegging and speakeasies - Al Capone and John Dillinger — gangsters and organized crime (casual breaking of the law)






31. Symbol of women workers during the war






32. Reagan called the Soviet Union an 'evil empire'; Korean passenger plane shot down near Moscow (increased anti-Soviet rhetoric); Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) used space-based lasers as defense from nuclear attack

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33. Focused on skilled workers (harder to replace than unskilled) - coordinated crafts unions - supported 8¬hour workday and injury liability






34. Pushed through northern Georgia - captured Atlanta - 'march to the sea' (total war and destruction) - proceeded to South Carolina






35. Border ruffians in election on issue of slavery incited controversy - proslavery group attacked Lawrence - Kansas - Pottawatomie Massacre

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36. 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'






37. Worked towards asylums for the mentally insane - worked alongside Mann






38. Nixon led movement to Hiss's indictment; convicted of perjury - Nixon gained national prominence






39. U.S. felt it was its duty to 'watch out' for the interests of other countries in the Western hemisphere; provided justification for invasions of Latin America.






40. Response to Berlin crisis - warned Moscow that threats would be answered with force; Warsaw Pact formed by Soviets in response






41. 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






42. Americans concerned with economic depression; sought to avoid European involvement - no apparent immediate threats






43. American U-2 spy plane shot down over USSR (Ike: 'for national security); US suspended further flights - Krushchev demanded apology (refused)






44. Southern Christian Leadership Conference - Led boycott - became leader of civil rights movement; urged nonviolent resistance (cf. tactics of Ghandi);






45. The Jungle revealed unsanitary nature of meat-packing industry - inspired Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)






46. South to gain removal of last troops from Reconstruction; North wins Hayes as president






47. Fought for human rights in Africa - Panama Canal returned to Panama - relations with China resolved






48. Prohibited colonies from issuing paper money - destabilized colonial economy






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






50. Nixon agreed with USSR to achieve nuclear equality rather than the superiority that threatened the destruction of the world; further reduced tensions between the two countries