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AP U.S. History
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1. Unemployment jitters; expelled Teamster union (resorted to gangsterism); height of power of workers' unions
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
McCarthyism
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
AFL-CIO (1955)
2. 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)
Tea Act (1773)
'Lost Generation'
Bay of Pigs invasion
Munn v. Illinois
3. Gorbachev announced Soviet withdrawal of power from all of Eastern Europe - including Berlin (wall torn down - free movement - &c.)
'Contract with America' (1994)
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe (1989)
Salvation Army
Yellow journalism
4. Private property subject to government regulation when property is devoted to public interest; against railroads
Liberty Party
War Industries Board
Munn v. Illinois
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
5. Exemplary Christian community - rich to show charity - held to Calvinistic beliefs
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6. One country that falls into communism will cause surrounding nations to also fall 'like dominos'; spurred by Southeast Asia regimes (esp. Vietnam)
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
Detente - realpolitik
Domino theory
Stamp Act Congress
7. New Englanders who did not wish to relate their conversion experiences could become half-way saints so that their children would be able to have the opportunity to be saints
New York City draft riots (1863)
Bank of the United States
The Half-Way Covenant
Tet Offensive (1968)
8. First female cabinet member
Robert E. Lee
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
President Jimmy Carter
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
9. First attempt of Cherokees to gain complete sovereign rule over their nation
United States vs. EC Knight Company
Jackie Robinson
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Yeoman Farmers
10. 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
President Jimmy Carter
Jane Addams
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
Berlin Wall
11. Speech given by BTW to ease whites' fears of integration - assuring them that separate but equal was acceptable - ideas challenged by DuBois
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12. John Noyes - New York; utopian society for communalism - perfectionism - and complex marriage
Critics of FDR
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
Reaganomics
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
13. Party formed from Republican split by Roosevelt - more progressive values - leaving 'Republican Old Guard' to control Republican party
Marcus Garvey
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Bull Moose Party
Anne Hutchinson
14. Emphasis on human reason - logic - and science (acquired - not nascent - knowledge); increased followers of Christianity
Watergate Scandal
Causes of the depression
The Enlightenment
Jay's Treaty
15. Emerged from Farmers' Alliance movement (when subtreasury plan was defeated in Congress) - denounced Eastern Establishment that suppressed the working classes; Ignatius Donnelly (utopian author) - Mary E Lease - Jerry Simpson
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Deregulation
Bruce Barton
Populist Party
16. Proclamation of 1793 response to French attempts for alliance with US
GI Bill of Rights
Yellow journalism
Dawes Plan (1924)
Neutrality
17. Populists campaigned for silver-backed money rather than gold-backed - believed to be able to relieve working conditions and exploitation of labor
New Freedom
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
Free silver
Potsdam Conference (1945)
18. British citizenship outnumbered colonies' - large navy and professional army; exhausted resources (Hessians hired) - national debt
Stephen Austin
Cuban Missile Crisis
British strengths and weaknesses
Connecticut Compromise
19. Ended exclusion of homosexuals from military; due to controversy - compromise of 'don't ask - don't tell' instituted
Industrial Workers of the World
Albany Plan of Union
Gays in the military
Proclamation of 1763
20. American U-2 spy plane shot down over USSR (Ike: 'for national security); US suspended further flights - Krushchev demanded apology (refused)
Ngo Dinh Diem
U-2 Incident
Andy Warhol
Rock `n' Roll
21. States could refuse to enforce the federal laws they deemed unconstitutional
Gifford Pinchot
Vietnamization
Tammany Hall
Nullification
22. 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.
William H. Taft
Spanish American War (1898)
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
23. Southern states (especially South Carolina) believed that they had the right to judge federal laws unconstitutional and therefore not enforce them
Tea Act (1773)
John C. Calhoun
John Foster Dulles
Nullification Controversy
24. Founded by William Sylvis (1866); supported 8-hour workday - convict labor - federal department of labor - banking reform - immigration restrictions to increase wages - women; excluded blacks
National Labor Union
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Battle of Tippecanoe
Currency Act
25. Agricultural depression as precursor to the depression; unheeded omen of problems in the economic structure (prices too low — too much supply for the demand)
Farm crisis
Vietnam War
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
Creel Committee
26. Belief in minimal government so as to allow the people their own free reign - lower taxes to stimulate economy - &c.
New Jersey Plan
Energy Crisis - OPEC
Conservatism
Yellow journalism
27. Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson; purchase of Alaska 'Seward's Folly'
President Franklin Roosevelt
William Henry Harrison
William Seward
Vertical and horizontal integration
28. British soldiers shot into crowd of snowball fight; two of nine soldiers (defended by John Adams) found guilty of manslaughter
Dorothea Dix
Valley Forge
Boston Massacre
The Federalist Papers
29. Commission on civil rights to attempt to guarantee the ballot to blacks; showed government's changing views of race relations
Horace Mann
Immigration Act of 1965
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
Stock market crash (1929)
30. 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)
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
William Lloyd Garrison
March on Washington
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
31. Kennedy vs. Nixon - Kennedy (due to televised charisma) won over Nixon (pale and nervous)
First American strategy in WWII
Gays in the military
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Election of 1960
32. 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
'Silent Majority'
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Bruce Barton
Citizen Genet
33. Raised tariffs extremely high on manufactured goods; benefited domestic manufacturers - but limited foreign trade
Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1922 and 1930
Immigration Act of 1965
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
First American strategy in WWII
34. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - hydroelectric power to river valley; brought social and economic development to very poor area
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Spoils System
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
35. 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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36. Stronger union of states - equal and population-based representation - simple majority vote (with presidential veto) - regulation of foreign and interstate commerce - execution by president - power to enact taxes - federal courts - easier amendment p
'Trail of Tears'
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
Haymarket Bombing
Soviet atomic bomb
37. State-run economy to provide conflict-free society
Deportations of Mexicans
Detente - realpolitik
Rock `n' Roll
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
38. Banned racial discrimination in federal practices; To Secure These Rights called for desegregation - anti-lynching - end of poll taxes
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
President Bill Clinton
39. 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)
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
Woodrow Wilson
Sputnik
Second Great Awakening
40. Decision under Sherman Anti-Trust Act shot down by Supreme Court — sugar refining was manufacturing rather than trade/commerce
Social Reciprocity
United States vs. EC Knight Company
British strengths and weaknesses
Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1922 and 1930
41. Goods able to be transferred from New York to New Orleans by inland waterways
Bank of the United States
Erie Canal
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
Vietnam War
42. (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
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
Compromise of 1850
Greenback Party
Harriet Tubman
43. Democratic candidate 1912 - stood for antitrust - monetary change - and tariff reduction; far less active than Roosevelt - Clayton Anti-trust Act (to enforce Sherman) - Child Labor Act
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
John Winthrop
Henry Clay and the American System
Woodrow Wilson
44. Worked towards asylums for the mentally insane - worked alongside Mann
Bull Moose Party
Dorothea Dix
John Brown
John Smith
45. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - collective bargaining rights - closed shops permitted (where workers must join unions) - outlawed anti-union tactics
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
Thomas Edison
Burned-Over District
46. 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
Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1922 and 1930
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
47. 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
Jim Crow laws
Articles of Confederation
Henry Clay and the American System
William Jennings Bryan
48. Introduced his 'New Deal -' won election by a relative landslide (he was not Hoover - whom the public now did not trust)
Tallmadge Amendment
Sons of Liberty
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
President Franklin Roosevelt
49. Selective Service Act to require men to register with few exceptions; women and blacks drafted/enlisted - highly successful
Charles II - James II
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Conscription policies
Ike's Farewell Speech
50. Hamilton's plan to solve Revolutionary debt - Assumption highly controversial - pushed his plan through Congress - based on loose interpretation of Constitution
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Bank of the United States
Pinkertons