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AP U.S. History
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1. Required separate and distinct ballots for presidential and vice presidential candidates
Bruce Barton
12th Amendment
Four Freedoms' speech
New Deal
2. Prohibited testing of nuclear bombs above ground to slow the nuclear arms race and the release of nuclear fallout into the atmosphere
Emergency Banking Relief Act
British strengths and weaknesses
Report on Public Credit
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
3. First African-American in major league baseball
King James I - King Charles
Munn v. Illinois
Jackie Robinson
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
4. Only English and American ships allowed to colonial ports; dissent began in 1763
Yalta Conference (1945)
Stock market crash (1929)
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Navigation Acts
5. US - Britain - Japan - France - and Italy to reduce naval tonnage and halt construction for 10 years; US and Japan to respect Pacific territorial holdings - Kellog-Briand Pact to 'outlaw war'
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
Macon's Bill No. 2
War Industries Board
6. Executed for leaking atomic secrets to Soviets - avowed communists
Committees of Correspondence
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
Rosenbergs
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
7. Caused American hysteria (1957) - fear that Soviets were technologically superior; led Ike to order more rigorous education program to rival Soviets (National Defense Education Act)
Jim Crow laws
Sputnik
Vietnamization
20-Negro Law
8. (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
Church of England
John C. Calhoun
Compromise of 1850
Mayflower Compact
9. 8000 businesses collapsed (including railroads); due to stock market crash - overbuilding of railroads - heavy farmer loans - economic disruption by labor efforts - agricultural depression; decrease of gold reserves led to Cleveland's repeal of Sherm
Jonathan Edwards
Panic of 1893
President Jimmy Carter
Impressment
10. Full American independence - territory west of Appalachian ceded to America - loyalists to be compensated for seized property - fishing rights off of Newfoundland
Upton Sinclair
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Henry Ford's assembly line
11. King hosted myriad nonviolent protesting activities to fill jail with protestors - Bill Connor (police commissioner) began violent resistance to protestors
'Baby Boom'
March on Birmingham
The Half-Way Covenant
Battle of Saratoga
12. British Navy would take American sailors and force them to work for Britain
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
John C. Calhoun
Impressment
13. 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'
Washington's Farewell Address
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Federal Reserve Act
14. Lowering of income taxes for wealthy (trickle-down economics) - refusal to create higher prices to help farmers (McNary-Haugen Bill)
Midnight judges
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
US acquisitions
15. Agricultural depression as precursor to the depression; unheeded omen of problems in the economic structure (prices too low — too much supply for the demand)
Secretary of State John Hay
Non-Intercourse Act
Farm crisis
20-Negro Law
16. Protected rights of individual from the power of the central government
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
Underground Railroad
Bill of Rights
Moral Diplomacy
17. Killed the AAA - although FDR insisted on continuing by creating smaller state-level AAAs
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
Zimmerman Note
Butler v. U.S. Court case
The Half-Way Covenant
18. Fought for human rights in Africa - Panama Canal returned to Panama - relations with China resolved
Humanitarian diplomacy
George Wallace - American
James Monroe
Japanese internment
19. Written by Calhoun - regarding tariff nullification
Convict-lease system
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
Causes of the depression
Dominion of New England
20. (peace btw Egypt and Israel) Followed years of tension - Israel would leave newly acquired lands from war - Egypt would respect Israel's other land claims; accords not completely followed - Sadat (Egypt) assassinated
Haymarket Bombing
Anne Hutchinson
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Camp David Accords
21. New Lights brought new ideas - rejected by Old Lights; both sought out institutions independent of each other
Marbury v. Madison
New Lights vs. Old Lights
'Wage slaves'
Judiciary Act of 1789
22. Supreme Court legalized the 'separate but equal' philosophy
Nativism
George Wallace - American
Ku Klux Klan
Plessy v. Ferguson
23. Believed to provide shortcut from Atlantic to Pacific - searched for by Giovanni de Verrazano for Francis I in the race to Asian wealth
Northwest Passage
Stagflation
Dollar Diplomacy'
Charles Lindbergh
24. Opposed Polk's high-handedness - avid Southern slave owner
John C. Calhoun
Northwest Passage
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Ike's Farewell Speech
25. Nixon's domestic policy; federal revenues shared with states (revenue sharing) - minimum income proposed
Wilmot Proviso
New Federalism
William Henry Harrison
James G. Blaine
26. Group of Bostonians in opposition to the Stamp Act - sought to drive stamp distributors from the city
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
Jay's Treaty
Hartford Convention
The Loyal Nine
27. Powerful speaker - toured the country and inspired many into Christianity
Marbury v. Madison
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
George Whitefield
'Affluent Society'
28. Panama Canal Treaty - diplomacy with China - end of recognition of Taiwan; little accomplished domestically due to conservative opposition - foreign policy more successful; Washington outsider - Experienced high interest rates - inflation - increased
Keynesian economics
Barbary Pirates
President Jimmy Carter
United States vs. EC Knight Company
29. Henry Clay aimed to make the US economically independent from Europe (e.g. - support internal improvements - tariff protection - and new national bank)
Transcendentalism
Henry Clay and the American System
Pinkertons
Booker T. Washington
30. Soviet leader undergoing tensions on superpower and domestic level
Mikhail Gorbachev
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
Nullification
'Brain trust'
31. Established federal district courts that followed local procedures - Supreme Court had final jurisdiction; compromise between nationalists and advocates for states' rights
Coxey's Army
Judiciary Act of 1789
Atlantic slave trade
Dorothea Lange
32. Black Muslim worked to raise black spirits and pride (cf. Marcus Garvey); emphasized black institutions rather than mere desegregation - blacks to gain freedom at any cost
Eugene V. Debs
Hoover's policy of voluntarism
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
Four Freedoms' speech
33. Planes hijacked by terrorists for destruction; blame pinned on Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden - sought out in attempt to completely destroy terrorism
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Essex case
Henry David Thoreau
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
34. Halted sale of tribal lands - enabled tribes to regain unallocated lands; repealed Dawes Severalty Act of 1887; helped secure Indians' entry into New Deal associations; led by John Collier
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
Jim Crow laws
35. Allowed sale of weaponry to democracies on 'cash-and-carry' basis - avoided full-blown war; danger zones proclaimed; solved American unemployment crisis
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Four Freedoms' speech
Neutrality Act - 1939
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
36. Court case - unconstitutionalized all state laws prohibiting women's rights to have an abortion performed during the first trimester of pregnancy
Nativism
Judiciary Act of 1789
Roe v. Wade
Andrew Carnegie
37. Lee's chief lieutenant and premier cavalry officer
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38. John Brown and his sons slaughtered five men as a response to the election fraud in Lawrence and the caning of Sumner in Congress
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Roe v. Wade
39. Democratic political machine in NYC - 'supported' immigrants and poor people of the city - who were needed for Democratic election victories
Virginia Resolves
Tammany Hall
Vietnam War
Palmer Raids
40. Bicameral congressional representation based on population
Virginia Plan
Indentured servants
Anaconda plan
Whigs (Patriots)
41. Attacked people for being communist by association and unsubstantiated claims - against Truman - Marshall - and Ike; downfall came with attack on the military (condemned by Senate); led hysteria of the red scare
Bush v. Gore (2000)
McCarthyism
Harlem Renaissance
James Oglethorpe
42. Written anonymously by Hamilton - Jay - and Madison; commentary on Constitution - republicanism extended over large territory
Dorothea Dix
Samuel Gompers
The Federalist Papers
Compromise of 1877
43. 14 formal amendments to the treaty for the League of Nations; preserved Monroe Doctrine - Congress desired to keep declaration of war to itself
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
Lodge Reservations
Explosion of USS Maine
Truman Doctrine
44. Emphasis on personal salvation - emotional response - and individual faith; women and blacks; nationalism (Manifest Destiny)
Booker T. Washington
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
Strict vs. Loose interpretation of the Constitution
Second Great Awakening
45. American hostages taken by US hating Shiites upon Shah's flight from uprising - botched rescue attempts
Domino theory
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Henry Clay and the American System
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
46. 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
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47. Judiciary Reorganization Bill; FDR's attempt to put in extra judges who would support him without doubt
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
Court Packing
Jackson's Presidency
Battle of Antietam
48. Introduced work ethic to Jamestown colony - sanitation - diplomat to local Native American tribes; had fought Spanish and Turks
John Smith
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Compromise of 1850
Martin Luther King Jr.
49. Brought in Mexicans for temporary jobs - concentrated in southern CA - given extremely poor working conditions (as they were not American citizens)
Bracero program
Judiciary Act of 1789
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Suffolk Resolves
50. The two political parties that formed following Washington's presidency; Federalists for stronger central government - Republicans for stronger state governments
The Homefront
Federalists and Republicans
Compromise of 1850
Church of England