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AP U.S. History
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1. Supported expanded money supply - health/safety regulations - benefits for workers and farmers - granger (farmer)-supported
Harlem Renaissance
Liberty Party
Greenback Party
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
2. Allowed for faster processing of cotton - invented by Eli Whitney - less need for slaves
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
Cotton Gin
Embargo Act (1807)
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
3. Government compromised to buy and coin $2-4 million/month; government stuck to minimum and inflation did not occur (lower prices); economy grew
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
Theodore Roosevelt
'Gentlemen's Agreement' (1908)
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
4. Mistreated farmers - fear of monocracy - forced people to think about central government
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5. Four-day banking holiday to create controlled inflation - followed by reopening of sound banks - and reorganization of unsound banks
Emergency Banking Relief Act
'Bleeding Kansas'
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
American society during the Revolution
6. Denounced the 'housewife trap' which caused educated women to hold even themselves inferior to men
1968 as 'the year of shocks'
Dixiecrats - 1948
Bay of Pigs invasion
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
7. Veterans from WWI sought their pensions before they were too old to use them; they were denied and were run out of Washington (violently - by MacArthur)
Bonus Army
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
8. Monroe presidency - national unity behind Monroe - post-war boom (foreign demand for cotton - grain - and tobacco) - Depression of 1819 (cheap British imports - tightened credit - affected West the most)
Era of Good Feelings
Consumerism
James G. Blaine
'Wage slaves'
9. Roosevelt's plan that aimed to regulate corporations (Anthracite coal strike - Dept. of Commerce and Labor - Elkins and Hepburn Acts) - protect consumers (meat sanitation) - and conserve natural resources (Newlands Reclamation Act)
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
Quebec Acts
1968 Presidential Election
Square Deal
10. French threat at the borders was no longer present - therefore the colonies didn't need English protection; more independent stand against Britain
French and Indian War
Herbert Hoover's Food Administration
George Washington
Reaganomics
11. 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'
20-Negro Law
New Lights vs. Old Lights
Fair Labor Standards Act
John Winthrop
12. Bomb thrown at protest rally - police shot protestors - caused great animosity in employers for workers' unions
Haymarket Bombing
Vertical and horizontal integration
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Gifford Pinchot
13. Combined Massachusetts - New Hampshire - Connecticut - Rhode Island - and Plymouth (and later Jersey and New York) into one 'supercolony' governed by Sir Edmond Andros - a 'supergovernor'
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
Nicaraguan Contras
Dominion of New England
Free silver
14. Required separate and distinct ballots for presidential and vice presidential candidates
New Federalism
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
Causes of the depression
12th Amendment
15. Introduced work ethic to Jamestown colony - sanitation - diplomat to local Native American tribes; had fought Spanish and Turks
John Smith
Lowell mill/system
The Loyal Nine
Commerce Compromise
16. Newt Gingrich (Republican congressman) planned for success of Republican party in upcoming election by pledging tax cuts - congressional term limits - tougher crime laws - balanced budget amendment - popular reforms &c.
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17. To service economy in late 20 century (end of industrialism) - Higher focus on services (esp. education) rather than material products
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
Isolationism
Fair Labor Standards Act
Economic transition
18. Written anonymously by Hamilton - Jay - and Madison; commentary on Constitution - republicanism extended over large territory
Mercantilism
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Citizen Genet
The Federalist Papers
19. Emphasis on personal salvation - emotional response - and individual faith; women and blacks; nationalism (Manifest Destiny)
The Glorious Revolution
Second Great Awakening
U-2 Incident
Truman Doctrine
20. Activist government to serve all citizens (cf. Alexander Hamilton); founded New Republic magazine
League of Nations
Court Packing
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
Four Freedoms' speech
21. Racism riots against Mexican laborers (imported for jobs)
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
Connecticut Compromise
Zoot Suit riots
James Meredith
22. 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)
James K. Polk
'Hundred days'
Knights of Labor
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
23. Led Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: threatened a siege on DC if FDR did not agree to end discrimination in military
Cotton Gin
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
Keynesian economics
Religious Right
24. Due to threat of nuclear war - Soviets erected wall to separate East Berlin from West Berlin (end exodus of intellect to west); symbol of communist denial of freedom
Rock `n' Roll
William Jennings Bryan
Panama Canal
Berlin Wall
25. Efficient working methods to increase productivity; usually resulted in lower wages (hated by workers) - power to managers
'Hundred days'
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
Tallmadge Amendment
Church of England
26. Blacks who went to prison taken out and used for labor in slave-like conditions - enforced southern racial hierarchy
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
Mayflower Compact
Convict-lease system
Voting Rights Act of 1965
27. Proponent of gradual gain of equal rights for African-Americans
Booker T. Washington
'Great Society'
Upton Sinclair
Frederick Douglass
28. Led a slave rebellion in Virginia - attacked many whites - prompted non-slaveholding Virginians to consider emancipation
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29. 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
Articles of Confederation
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
Boston Massacre
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
30. 'Southern Strategy' lured many southern Democrats to the Republican party (esp. due to southern opposition to Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Wilmot Proviso
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
New Nationalism
Richard Nixon (R)
31. Intercepted by Britain; Germany proposed alliance with Mexico - using bribe of return of TX - NM - and AZ; Japan included in alliance
Theodore Roosevelt
James G. Blaine
Cuban Missile Crisis
Zimmerman Note
32. River traffic - road building - canals (esp. Erie) - rise of NYC
Dorothea Lange
Transportation Revolution
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
33. Attempted to centralize production of war materials; ineffective due to American desire for laissez-faire government
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
War Industries Board
Anaconda plan
Gays in the military
34. Organized Seneca Falls Convention - founded (with Anthony) National Women Suffrage Organization
Jackie Robinson
Connecticut Compromise
Jane Addams
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
35. 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'
National Organization of Women
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
Independent Treasury Bill
Religious Right
36. Natural selection applied to human competition - advocated by Herbert Spencer - William Graham Sumner
Nicaraguan Contras
Social Darwinism
Greenback Party
Moral Diplomacy
37. Jackson was allowed to relocate Indian tribes in the Louisiana Territory
Battle of Yorktown
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
John Foster Dulles
Indian Removal Act
38. James G. Blaine sought to open up Latin American markets to the U.S.; rejected by Latin America due to fear of U.S. dominance and satisfaction with European market
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
National Road
Pan-Americanism
Yalta Conference (1945)
39. Edmond Genet contributed to polarization of the new nation by creating his American Foreign Legion in the south - which was directed to attack Spanish garrisons in New Orleans and St. Augustine
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
Yellow journalism
Citizen Genet
Albany Plan of Union
40. Ideas of Wilson: small enterprise - states' rights - more active government - trust busting - left social issues up to the states
New Freedom
Sputnik
Dawes Plan (1924)
Dominion of New England
41. Runaway slave - well-known speaker on the condition of slavery - worked with Garrison and Wendell Phillips - founder of The North Star
Frederick Douglass
Conservative backlash against liberalism
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
James Monroe
42. Ensured trade with mother country - nationalism; too restrictive on colonial economy - not voted on by colonists
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
Mercantilism
12th Amendment
The Enlightenment
43. Storage of Soviet missiles in Cuba (threat of nuclear war); Krushchev demanded that US never invade Cuba and remove forces from Turkey; mutual compliance with each other's demands
Cuban Missile Crisis
Salvation Army
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
44. 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)
'Contract with America' (1994)
The Loyal Nine
Battle of Gettysburg
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
45. Hired to photograph ordinary Americans experiencing the depression
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
Dawes Plan (1924)
Suburbia
Dorothea Lange
46. George Wallace vs. Nixon vs. Humphrey; very narrow popular vote triumph to Nixon (although he had clear majority of electoral votes)
John Brown
Religious Right
1968 Presidential Election
Election of 1824
47. 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
XYZ Affair
Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA)
Hoovervilles
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
48. Goods able to be transferred from New York to New Orleans by inland waterways
Roe v. Wade
Japanese internment
Bracero program
Erie Canal
49. Meant to provide evacuation opportunity for Americans in Cuba; internal accidental explosion blamed on Spanish mines - leading to Spanish¬ American War
Midnight judges
New Freedom
Explosion of USS Maine
Second Great Awakening
50. Leader of IWW - from Western Federation of Miners
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