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AP U.S. History
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1. Focused on skilled workers (harder to replace than unskilled) - coordinated crafts unions - supported 8¬hour workday and injury liability
John L. Lewis
Samuel Gompers
William Jennings Bryan
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
2. 'Corrupt bargain' and backroom deal for JQ Adams to win over Jackson
Strict vs. Loose interpretation of the Constitution
Election of 1824
Stagflation
Gays in the military
3. Standard Oil Company - Ruthless business tactics (survival of the fittest)
Bush v. Gore (2000)
1992 Election
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
John D. Rockefeller
4. Supported Socialists - militant unionists and socialists - advocated strikes and sabotaging politics - aimed for an umbrella union similar to Knights of Labor - ideas too radical for socialist cause
Industrial Workers of the World
Lodge Reservations
Sons of Liberty
'Bleeding Kansas'
5. Cherokees - Choctaws - Creeks - Chickasaws - and Seminoles; 'civilized' due to their intermarriage with whites - forced out of their homelands by expansion
Ralph Waldo Emerson
'Wage slaves'
Five Civilized Tribes
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
6. Gives Congress the power to pass laws it deems necessary to enforce the Constitution
7. Decisive victory to Reagan due to his appeal over Carter (now unpopular due to lack of success in the presidency
Religious Right
Election of 1980
Commerce Compromise
The Loyal Nine
8. Guerilla army sponsored by CIA to attack procommunist revolutionaries in Nicaragua; fear of another Vietnam
Nicaraguan Contras
John Winthrop
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
9. Worked towards asylums for the mentally insane - worked alongside Mann
Dorothea Dix
George Kennan
Shays's Rebellion
'Great Society'
10. Roosevelt and Pinchot sided on conservation rather than preservation (planned and regulated use of forest lands for public and commercial uses)
Sputnik
Yalta Conference (1945)
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
11. Sets of cardboard box houses that epitomized the country's blame on Hoover for the cause of the Depression
Elastic Clause ('necessary and proper')
Hoovervilles
Nat Turner's Rebellion
US economy since WWII (service economy)
12. Unconstitutionalized the NRA due to delegation of legislative authority from Congress to executive
Schechter v. U.S Court case
Good Neighbor Policy
William Marcy
Convict-lease system
13. Reluctant to give colonists their own government - preferred to appoint royal governors
Judiciary Act of 1789
Creel Committee
King James I - King Charles
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
14. Accomplished great number of relief - recovery - and reform efforts; sought practical solutions to the problems by experimentation
15. 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
Berlin Wall
Four Freedoms' speech
Good Neighbor Policy
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
16. Opposed to slavery and secession - but stayed loyal to Virginia - despite offer for command of Union Army
Square Deal
Battle of Gettysburg
Robert E. Lee
Gains for women
17. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - collective bargaining rights - closed shops permitted (where workers must join unions) - outlawed anti-union tactics
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
Mayflower Compact
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Good Neighbor Policy
18. Stressed role of church and religion to improve city life - led by preachers Walter Raushenbusch and Washington Gladen; influenced settlement house movement and Salvation Army
Social Gospel movement
Free silver
Yalta Conference (1945)
Civil Rights Cases
19. Supported expanded money supply - health/safety regulations - benefits for workers and farmers - granger (farmer)-supported
Greenback Party
Rosenbergs
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
20. 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
Compromise of 1850
Populist Party
War Industries Board
Harriet Tubman
21. Group of Bostonians in opposition to the Stamp Act - sought to drive stamp distributors from the city
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
Neutrality
The Loyal Nine
Ralph Waldo Emerson
22. 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)
James Madison
Vertical and horizontal integration
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Association (YMCA & YWCA)
23. George Wallace vs. Nixon vs. Humphrey; very narrow popular vote triumph to Nixon (although he had clear majority of electoral votes)
Marshall Plan
James Oglethorpe
Korean War
1968 Presidential Election
24. Anti-communist crusades due to fear of radicalism spurred by Bolshevik rebellion
25. Network of safe houses of white abolitionists used to bring slaves to freedom
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
John Brown
Underground Railroad
26. Decision under Sherman Anti-Trust Act shot down by Supreme Court — sugar refining was manufacturing rather than trade/commerce
'Lost Generation'
March on Washington
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
United States vs. EC Knight Company
27. Provided housing and recreation to city youth - imposing Protestant morals - unable to reach out to all youth
28. Killed the AAA - although FDR insisted on continuing by creating smaller state-level AAAs
Gays in the military
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
William T. Sherman
Butler v. U.S. Court case
29. Unemployment jitters; expelled Teamster union (resorted to gangsterism); height of power of workers' unions
AFL-CIO (1955)
Knights of Labor
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
California Gold Rush
30. John Noyes - New York; utopian society for communalism - perfectionism - and complex marriage
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
Mann Act
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
31. Government would hold its revenues rather than deposit them in banks - thus keeping the funds away from private corporations; 'America's Second Declaration of Independence'
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
'Baby Boom'
Independent Treasury Bill
Ralph Waldo Emerson
32. The Union planned a blockade that would not allow supplies of any sort into the Confederacy; control the Mississippi and Atlantic/Gulf of Mexico
Anaconda plan
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
Four Freedoms' speech
33. Emphasis on personal salvation - emotional response - and individual faith; women and blacks; nationalism (Manifest Destiny)
Battle of Tippecanoe
Marbury v. Madison
Thomas Nast
Second Great Awakening
34. Pop art - mass production of art by screening
The Federalist Papers
Andy Warhol
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Hoovervilles
35. Fear of Japanese-Americans as traitors - sent off (by law) to internment camps; removal of deemed threats in military areas
Martin Luther King Jr.
Black Panther Party
Japanese internment
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
36. Vetoed by Jackson on the count that government funds for the Maysville Road would only benefit one state
President Jimmy Carter
Second Great Awakening
Maysville Road Veto
Kent State Protest
37. Germany announced that it would sink all (including American) ships - attempt to involve U.S. in war
John D. Rockefeller
Frederick Douglass
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Gulf War - 'Operation Desert Storm' (1991)
38. Stated the United States was destined to span the breadth of the entire continent with as much land as possible - advocated by Polk
Marcus Garvey
Manifest Destiny
Judiciary Act of 1789
Sugar Act
39. Influence of African-American blues - music of the younger generation (gap between them and their parents)
40. Spread quickly; opposed everything that was not White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) (and conservative) - Stephenson's faults and jail sentence led to demise
British strengths and weaknesses
Energy Crisis - OPEC
Vietnamization
Ku Klux Klan
41. Mass migration northward; mainly blacks migrating from the southern states into the north hoping for less discrimination
The Half-Way Covenant
National Origins Act (1924)
Great Migration
Yeoman Farmers
42. Old immigrants from northern and western Europe came seeking better life; new immigrants came from southern and eastern Europe searching for opportunity to escape worse living conditions back home and often did not stay in the US
Judiciary Act of 1789
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
Stephen Austin
43. Nixon agreed with USSR to achieve nuclear equality rather than the superiority that threatened the destruction of the world; further reduced tensions between the two countries
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
Federalism
Vietnam War
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
44. Required separate and distinct ballots for presidential and vice presidential candidates
Stamp Act Congress
Battle of Gettysburg
Gains for women
12th Amendment
45. 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
Horace Mann
Writs of Assistance
Citizen Genet
Wilmot Proviso
46. Victorian standards confined women to the home to create an artistic environment as a statement of cultural aspirations
Bruce Barton
'Affluent Society'
Cult of domesticity
Karl Marx Das Kapital
47. Party formed from Republican split by Roosevelt - more progressive values - leaving 'Republican Old Guard' to control Republican party
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
Bull Moose Party
Square Deal
Industrial Workers of the World
48. Adams - Jefferson - and Burr: Adams lost - Jefferson and Burr tied - Hamilton convinced other Federalists to vote for Jefferson to break the tie
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Berlin Wall
Non-conformity
Election of 1800
49. Former French subjects in Canada allowed to keep Catholicism - while American colonists expected to participate in the Church of England
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Quebec Acts
John C. Calhoun
Henry Ford's assembly line
50. Rise in stock prices and speculation - decline of construction industry - mistaken 'trickle-down' economics - reliance on credit
Dorothea Lange
Causes of the depression
Hartford Convention
Vertical and horizontal integration