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AP U.S. History
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1. Rise in stock prices and speculation - decline of construction industry - mistaken 'trickle-down' economics - reliance on credit
Causes of the depression
Shays's Rebellion
Anaconda plan
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
2. Adams - Jefferson - and Burr: Adams lost - Jefferson and Burr tied - Hamilton convinced other Federalists to vote for Jefferson to break the tie
'New Left'
Boston Tea Party
Election of 1800
John Foster Dulles
3. 'I have a dream' 25 -000 people (including whites) convened for political rally - MLK's speech to historical event; attempted to push civil rights bill through Congress
March on Washington
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe (1989)
Republican Party
Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1922 and 1930
4. Mao Zedong (communist) defeated nationalist forces of Kai-Shek (supported by US); seen as defeat for US - not officially fully recognized until 1973
Critics of FDR
China turns communist
Proclamation of 1763
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
5. Republican candidate for president in 1884 - quintessence of spoils system; highly disgusted the mugwumps (many Republicans turned to Democrat Cleveland)
Second Great Awakening
James G. Blaine
Hudson River School
Mayflower Compact
6. All English subjects are represented in Parliament - including those not allowed to vote
Virtual Representation
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
Japanese internment
Korean War
7. Hamilton's plan to solve Revolutionary debt - Assumption highly controversial - pushed his plan through Congress - based on loose interpretation of Constitution
Emancipation Proclamation
Elastic Clause ('necessary and proper')
Bank of the United States
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
8. Strong patriotism and need to conform to try to avoid blame during red scare - non-churchgoers - unmarried - and critics suspected as communists
United States vs. EC Knight Company
Berlin Wall
Conformity in the 1950s
Industrial Workers of the World
9. Considered a hero for his solo crossing of the Atlantic by plane
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Tet Offensive (1968)
Charles Lindbergh
Bruce Barton
10. 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'
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
'Evil Empire' speech - 'Star Wars'
Federal Reserve Act
Nullification
11. Law meant to evolve as society evolves - opposed conservative majority
Dorothea Lange
Nullification Controversy
'Hundred days'
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
12. Judges appointed to Supreme Court by Adams in the last days of his presidency to force them upon Jefferson - Marshall among those appointed
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Midnight judges
Election of 1824
13. Reluctant to give colonists their own government - preferred to appoint royal governors
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
'Big BM' Haywood
Hoovervilles
King James I - King Charles
14. Decisive victory in the War of 1812 by Harrison over Tecumseh - used in Harrison's campaign for presidency
Fugitive Slave Act
Tammany Hall
Emancipation Proclamation
Battle of Tippecanoe
15. Government to buy silver to back money in addition to gold
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
Federalism
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
16. Founded by Emerson - strong emphasis on spiritual unity (God - humanity - and nature) - literature with strong references to nature
Transcendentalism
John C. Calhoun
Marbury v. Madison
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
17. Destroyed by Jackson on the grounds that it was unconstitutional and too much power for a federal institution
Bank of the United States
Samuel Gompers
Farm crisis
The Alamo
18. Focused on skilled workers (harder to replace than unskilled) - coordinated crafts unions - supported 8¬hour workday and injury liability
Samuel Gompers
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Greenback Party
19. Scarce supplies (food and clothing) - army motivated by von Steuben
Soviet atomic bomb
New Nationalism
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
Valley Forge
20. Supported by women and churches - instituted by Volstead Act - lacked enforcement; bootlegging and speakeasies - Al Capone and John Dillinger — gangsters and organized crime (casual breaking of the law)
Cuban Missile Crisis
U-2 Incident
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
James G. Blaine
21. Ike forced to send National Guard to escort black children to school to quell riots and resistance (first time since Reconstruction that troops used in the south to enforce Constitution); resistance by white community (private schools)
Henry David Thoreau
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
Panama Canal
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
22. Maine as free state - Missouri as slave state - slavery prohibited north of 36°30'
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
John Smith
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
23. Four-day banking holiday to create controlled inflation - followed by reopening of sound banks - and reorganization of unsound banks
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Bracero program
Jackson's Presidency
Pet banks
24. Fought for human rights in Africa - Panama Canal returned to Panama - relations with China resolved
Erie Canal
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
Critics of FDR
Humanitarian diplomacy
25. 'Corrupt bargain' and backroom deal for JQ Adams to win over Jackson
James Madison
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
Election of 1824
Emancipation Proclamation
26. Marbury v. Madison (judicial review) - McChulloch v. Maryland (loose Constitutional interpretation - constitutionality of National Bank - states cannot control government agencies) - Gibbons v. Ogden (interstate commerce controlled by Congress) - Fle
Marshall Court (all cases)
Vietnamization
The Loyal Nine
Lowell mill/system
27. Federal government to increase power over economy and society by means of progressive reforms - developed by Roosevelt (after presidency)
New Nationalism
Virginia Resolves
'Big BM' Haywood
Nullification Controversy
28. Formed in response to Kansas-Nebraska Act - banned in the South - John C Fremont first presidential candidate
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
Jim Crow laws
Republican Party
29. Allowed Parliament to completely legislate over the colonies - limited colonists' say
Teapot Dome scandal
Declaratory Act
Secretary of State John Hay
Tet Offensive (1968)
30. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - insured deposits < $5000 - reassured American public of the worth of banks
Forced busing
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Ho Chi Minh
Essex case
31. Educational and residential segregation; inferior facilities allotted to African-Americans - predominantly in South
Tammany Hall
Townshend Act (1767)
Jim Crow laws
'Contract with America' (1994)
32. FDR asked for increased authority to aid Britain; freedom of speech/expression - of religion - from want - from fear; resulted in Lend-Lease
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33. Judiciary Reorganization Bill; FDR's attempt to put in extra judges who would support him without doubt
Jay's Treaty
Court Packing
William Marcy
Hull House
34. Former French subjects in Canada allowed to keep Catholicism - while American colonists expected to participate in the Church of England
Know-Nothing (American) Party
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
California Gold Rush
Quebec Acts
35. Removal of Saddam Hussein - 2003 - Iran - Iraq - and North Korea designated as the 'axis of evil -' institution of democratic government in Iraq to replace Hussein's dictatorship (return to spread and protection of democracy throughout the world - mo
'Red Scare' (1919)
Gays in the military
Invasion of Iraq
McCarthyism
36. Second youngest president - entered presidency as tensions of the Cold War increased; unable to get major initiatives through Congress due to conservative bloc; tax cuts (economic stimulation); reluctantly gets involved in civil rights; emphasizes Sp
Munn v. Illinois
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
Bank of the United States
President John F. Kennedy
37. State-run economy to provide conflict-free society
Transcendentalism
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
Neutrality Act - 1939
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
38. Exemplary Christian community - rich to show charity - held to Calvinistic beliefs
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39. Fines and imprisonment for aiding the enemy or hindering U.S. military; forbade any form of criticism of the government and military
Espionage Act and Sedition Act
Worcester v. Georgia
Harlem Renaissance
Thomas Nast
40. 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)
Battle of Gettysburg
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
Jingoism
George Washington
41. Response to Berlin crisis - warned Moscow that threats would be answered with force; Warsaw Pact formed by Soviets in response
Cuban Missile Crisis
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Whig Party
Sons of Liberty
42. To make German reparations from WWI more accessible to Germans; evacuation of troops from Germany - reorganization of the Reichsbank - and foreign loans
Dawes Plan (1924)
President Ronald Reagan
James K. Polk
Secretary of State John Hay
43. Sought to encourage domestic American manufacturing
Roger Williams
Non-Intercourse Act
Lecompton Constitution
Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Association (YMCA & YWCA)
44. Women must gain economic rights in order to impact society (cf. rising divorce rates)
Conversion Experience
Whig Party
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
1968 Presidential Election
45. 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)
Square Deal
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
'Wage slaves'
John Brown
46. Increased already high rate of inflation by quadrupling the price of crude oil
Henry Ford's assembly line
Jay's Treaty
Energy Crisis - OPEC
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
47. Created by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst; aimed to excite American imperialist interests; media bias - subjective representation of events
Yellow journalism
Affirmative Action
Suburbia
Northern Securities Case
48. Started the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) — 'Back to Africa' movement for racial pride and separatism; inspired self-confidence in blacks
Marcus Garvey
New Lights vs. Old Lights
Truman's Loyalty Program
Indian Removal Act
49. American hostages taken by US hating Shiites upon Shah's flight from uprising - botched rescue attempts
Standard Oil Trust
'New Left'
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
50. Political muckraking cartoonist - refused bribes to stop criticism
Charles II - James II
Thomas Nast
Tories (Loyalists)
Sons of Liberty
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