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AP U.S. History
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1. Anti-communist crusades due to fear of radicalism spurred by Bolshevik rebellion
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2. Goods able to be transferred from New York to New Orleans by inland waterways
Pan-Americanism
Erie Canal
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
Treaty of Paris (1783)
3. Foundation for First Amendment - offered free choice of religion - not influenced by state
Warren Court
Social Reciprocity
Reaganomics
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
4. Social ideals to be encouraged in public school (stress on social interaction) - learning by doing
Cuban Missile Crisis
Secretary of State John Hay
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
John Dewey
5. 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)
Secretary of State John Hay
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
Ulysses S. Grant
Vertical and horizontal integration
6. Southern states (especially South Carolina) believed that they had the right to judge federal laws unconstitutional and therefore not enforce them
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
Nullification Controversy
The Alamo
Butler v. U.S. Court case
7. Activist government to serve all citizens (cf. Alexander Hamilton); founded New Republic magazine
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
'Atlanta Compromise'
8. King hosted myriad nonviolent protesting activities to fill jail with protestors - Bill Connor (police commissioner) began violent resistance to protestors
'Evil Empire' speech - 'Star Wars'
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Election of 1980
March on Birmingham
9. Political action for religion justified by decreased presence of religion in society; Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition to expand national influence
Popular Sovereignty
Religious Right
Schechter v. U.S Court case
Clinton impeachment (1997)
10. Fearing the rise of labor unions - corporations forced new employees to sign and promise not to be part of a union
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11. Overthrew Pres. Guzman after he nationalized American fruit fields and accepted arms from USSR (communist sympathies)
Lowell mill/system
Virginia Resolves
Tea Act (1773)
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
12. Through CIO - led three coal mine strikes (some of the very few strikes during the time period)
Nullification
Truman Doctrine
John C. Calhoun
John L. Lewis
13. Craft unions that left the Knights (1886) - led by Gompers - women left out of recruitment efforts
American Federation of Labor
Fair Deal
California Gold Rush
Hull House
14. Most numerous in New England - fought for independence
Great Migration
Thomas Edison
Anne Hutchinson
Whigs (Patriots)
15. Court case - unconstitutionalized all state laws prohibiting women's rights to have an abortion performed during the first trimester of pregnancy
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Non-conformity
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
Roe v. Wade
16. Symbol of women workers during the war
Rosie the Riveter
Embargo Act (1807)
William Marcy
Cotton Gin
17. The Man Nobody Knows - glorification of business - Jesus as a businessman - relationship between religion and manufacturing
Social Gospel movement
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Bruce Barton
Tallmadge Amendment
18. Working class exploited for profit - proletariat (workers) to revolt and inherit all society
Non-Intercourse Act
Whiskey Rebellion
Karl Marx Das Kapital
McCarthyism
19. Intended to save British East India Company from bankruptcy - could sell directly to consumers rather than through wholesalers (lowered prices to compete with smuggled tea)
George Washington
Tea Act (1773)
Okies' and 'Arkies'
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
20. Mao Zedong (communist) defeated nationalist forces of Kai-Shek (supported by US); seen as defeat for US - not officially fully recognized until 1973
China turns communist
William Henry Harrison
Marcus Garvey
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
21. Key to English-Native American relationship - died in England in 1617
Lewis and Clark expedition
Pocahontas
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
Voting Rights Act of 1965
22. Stressed to the American people British maltreatment and emphasize a need for revolution; appealed to American emotions
Good Neighbor Policy
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Suffolk Resolves
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
23. 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
Nullification Controversy
Cuban Missile Crisis
'Big BM' Haywood
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
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
Industrial Workers of the World
James G. Blaine
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
Berlin Wall
25. Protected rights of individual from the power of the central government
Lusitania
Bill of Rights
Dollar Diplomacy'
Emancipation Proclamation
26. New generation of writers outside of Protestantism - resentment of ideals betrayed by society; Fitzgerald (despised materialism - Great Gatsby) - Hemingway (disillusionment - war experience) - Lewis (against upper class — Babbit and Mainstreet) - Fau
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27. September 1949 - US no longer held monopoly; two atomic powers
Woodrow Wilson
Rosenbergs
Soviet atomic bomb
Writs of Assistance
28. 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
War hawks
Muckrakers
Rationing
Henry David Thoreau
29. Allowed sale of weaponry to democracies on 'cash-and-carry' basis - avoided full-blown war; danger zones proclaimed; solved American unemployment crisis
Palmer Raids
William Seward
Neutrality Act - 1939
Louis Sullivan
30. Pushed through northern Georgia - captured Atlanta - 'march to the sea' (total war and destruction) - proceeded to South Carolina
Era of Good Feelings
'New Left'
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
William T. Sherman
31. In Brook Farm Community - literary nationalist - transcendentalist (nascent ideas of God and freedom) - wrote 'The American Scholar'
William Seward
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Ralph Waldo Emerson
National Labor Union
32. Stated the United States was destined to span the breadth of the entire continent with as much land as possible - advocated by Polk
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Manifest Destiny
Mercantilism
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
33. Prohibited exports (and imports) based in American ports - most controversial Jefferson legislation
Fugitive Slave Act
Embargo Act (1807)
Impressment
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
34. Part of 'First' New Deal Program - subsidies to farmers to decrease production and thus increase prices
Anne Hutchinson
Indian Removal Act
King James I - King Charles
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
35. Needed to protect new Pacific acquisitions - U.S. took over the project from the French after overcoming Clatyton¬ Bulwer Treaty (prohibited exclusive control of canal) with the Hay¬ Pauncefote Treaty
Panama Canal
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
36. Slavery to be barred in all territory ceded from Mexico; never fully passed Congress
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
Sputnik
Wilmot Proviso
'Gentlemen's Agreement' (1908)
37. Brought in Mexicans for temporary jobs - concentrated in southern CA - given extremely poor working conditions (as they were not American citizens)
Pocahontas
Salutary Neglect
Bracero program
Reaganomics
38. Americans could now spend what they had been told to save during the war (disposable income); increased purchasing of luxury items
Stagflation
Townshend Act (1767)
Consumerism
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
39. Allowed for faster processing of cotton - invented by Eli Whitney - less need for slaves
Ike's Farewell Speech
Cotton Gin
Open Door Policy
Suffolk Resolves
40. Response to Berlin crisis - warned Moscow that threats would be answered with force; Warsaw Pact formed by Soviets in response
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Herbert Hoover's Food Administration
Bank of the United States
John Dewey
41. Defined process for territories to become states (population reached 60 -000) - forbade slavery in the new territories
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
'Big BM' Haywood
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
John Brown
42. Created in 1961 as example of liberal anticommunism in third world countries; 'reform-minded missionaries of democracy'
Boston Tea Party
Peace Corps
Freeport Doctrine
Open Door Policy
43. 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
Pan-Americanism
Humanitarian diplomacy
Good Neighbor Policy
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
44. 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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45. Over Senate seat for Illinois (Douglas victor) - Lincoln stated the country could not remain split over the issue of slavery
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Bonus Army
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
46. Founded by Emerson - strong emphasis on spiritual unity (God - humanity - and nature) - literature with strong references to nature
Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA)
Election of 1980
Transcendentalism
Watergate Scandal
47. Soviet-aided North Korea attack on South Korea; MacArthur named general on behalf of UN (excluded Russia) - US supplied majority of troops; recapture of South Korea and suppression of North forces to northern border; introduction of Chinese - MacArth
Korean War
Upton Sinclair
Muckrakers
1968 Presidential Election
48. Detente achieved with USSR and China by withdrawal from Vietnam; realpolitik shed the use of doctrines and policies - instead using China and USSR in alternative ways to achieve other goals (pitting China and USSR against each other - as communist na
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Five Civilized Tribes
Gulf War - 'Operation Desert Storm' (1991)
Detente - realpolitik
49. Sought to encourage domestic American manufacturing
Non-Intercourse Act
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
1968 as 'the year of shocks'
George Kennan
50. Prohibited discrimination in any government-related work; increased black employment
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
Causes of the depression
New Deal