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AP U.S. History

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1. 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






2. Risk of too many casualties and high costs for hand-to-hand combat/invasion - Japanese surrender unlikely






3. Stock prices fell drastically; without buyers - the stocks became essentially worthless; cause bank crashes - &c.






4. Women must gain economic rights in order to impact society (cf. rising divorce rates)






5. Formed by white progressives - adopted goals of Niagara Movement - in response to Springfield Race Riots






6. Lee's chief lieutenant and premier cavalry officer

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7. Nonviolent protest to college students (NC) being refused lunch service; part of 'sit-in' movement to integrate all aspects of life (hotels - entertainment - &c.)






8. Beginnings of trusts (destruction of competition); vertical- controlling every aspect of production (control quality - eliminate middlemen - Rockefeller); horizontal- consolidating with competitors to monopolize a market (highly detrimental)






9. Reduced quota - reduced numbers from eastern and southern Europe - Asians banned - Canadians and Latin Americans exempt






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






11. Single tax on speculated land to ameliorate industrialization misery






12. Group of Bostonians in opposition to the Stamp Act - sought to drive stamp distributors from the city






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






14. Speech symbolized polarization between conservatives and liberals

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15. Opposed to all immigration - strongly anti-Catholic






16. Led Pottawatomie Massacre - extreme abolitionist who believed he was doing God's work






17. Created by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst; aimed to excite American imperialist interests; media bias - subjective representation of events






18. Ended the Dominion of New England - gave power back to colonies






19. 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)






20. Challenged New England Calvinist ministers' authority - as they taught the good works for salvation of Catholicism






21. Most numerous in New England - fought for independence






22. Populists campaigned for silver-backed money rather than gold-backed - believed to be able to relieve working conditions and exploitation of labor






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






24. Believed that God created the universe to act through natural laws; Franklin - Jefferson - Paine






25. Belief in minimal government so as to allow the people their own free reign - lower taxes to stimulate economy - &c.






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






27. Ensured trade with mother country - nationalism; too restrictive on colonial economy - not voted on by colonists






28. Puritan minister - led revivals - stressed immediate repentance - wrote 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God'






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

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30. Victorian standards confined women to the home to create an artistic environment as a statement of cultural aspirations






31. Jackson was allowed to relocate Indian tribes in the Louisiana Territory






32. Four-day banking holiday to create controlled inflation - followed by reopening of sound banks - and reorganization of unsound banks






33. One country that falls into communism will cause surrounding nations to also fall 'like dominos'; spurred by Southeast Asia regimes (esp. Vietnam)






34. Northern factory workers who were discarded when too old to work (unlike the slaves who were still kept fed and clothed in their old age)

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35. Electric light - phonograph - mimeograph - Dictaphone - moving pictures






36. 'Southern Strategy' lured many southern Democrats to the Republican party (esp. due to southern opposition to Civil Rights Act of 1964)






37. French threat at the borders was no longer present - therefore the colonies didn't need English protection; more independent stand against Britain






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






39. Northern Securities Company (JP Morgan and James G. Hill - railroads) seen by Roosevelt as 'bad' trust - Supreme Court upheld his first trust-bust






40. Dealt with Vietnam War - 'Great Society' program for improvement of American society - antipoverty and anti-discrimination programs






41. Detectives hired by employers as private police force - often used to end strikes






42. Network of safe houses of white abolitionists used to bring slaves to freedom






43. Severe immigration laws to discourage and discriminate against foreigners - believed to erode old-fashioned American values






44. Jane Addams's pioneer settlement house (center for women's activism and social reform) in Chicago






45. To service economy in late 20 century (end of industrialism) - Higher focus on services (esp. education) rather than material products






46. In Brook Farm Community - lived in seclusion for two years writing Walden and On Civil Disobedience - proved that man could provide for himself without materialistic wants






47. Connected the colonies to Britain - opposed to unnecessary unfair taxation; strong influence on Albany Plan






48. Workers unable to escape (locked into factory) - all died; further encouraged reform movements for working conditions






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






50. Installed Shah as dictator - overthrew Moussadegh (communist interests) - in order to resist nationalization British oil holdings







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