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AP U.S. History
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1. Emphasis on human reason - logic - and science (acquired - not nascent - knowledge); increased followers of Christianity
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
Neutrality
Five Civilized Tribes
The Enlightenment
2. Economic prosperity of American society following WWII; doubling of national income - jobs to women - defense industry's support of economy
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3. American commander-in-chief; first president - set precedents for future presidents - put down Whiskey Rebellion (enforced Whiskey Tax) - managed first presidential cabinet - carefully used power of executive to avoid monarchial style rule
Warren Court
George Washington
Stock market crash (1929)
Federal Reserve Act
4. Westward migration of workers (new economic opportunities - esp. aircraft industry) - high rates of divorce and family/juvenile violence - women encouraged to work in factories - still held inferior to men
Consumerism
1992 Election
The Homefront
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
5. Banned racial discrimination in federal practices; To Secure These Rights called for desegregation - anti-lynching - end of poll taxes
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
Teapot Dome scandal
New York City draft riots (1863)
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
6. Proponent of gradual gain of equal rights for African-Americans
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
Booker T. Washington
Compromise of 1877
7. Nixon's domestic policy; federal revenues shared with states (revenue sharing) - minimum income proposed
Burned-Over District
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
John D. Rockefeller
New Federalism
8. Emphasized importance of private charities to help the depression
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9. Catholic communist autocrat of Vietnam - assassinated (with aid of US)
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
John Foster Dulles
Ngo Dinh Diem
Deists
10. Philippines - Hawaii - Puerto Rico - Guam: granted to U.S. at the end of Spanish-American War; Philippines were captured after treaty - and thus not part of spoils - but kept as territory with an inevitable movement for independence; Philippines and
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
US acquisitions
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
11. National Liberation Front - guerilla militia from south Vietnam fighting alongside the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam)
Lowell mill/system
Vietcong
Peace Corps
Declaratory Act
12. The Jungle revealed unsanitary nature of meat-packing industry - inspired Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
Wilmot Proviso
'Affluent Society'
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Upton Sinclair
13. Federalist cause leading up to Hartford Convention
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Essex case
William T. Sherman
Warren Court
14. Ford's and Carter's presidencies experienced a recession and inflation simultaneously - solved by Keynesian economics
Explosion of USS Maine
President Jimmy Carter
Martin Luther King Jr.
Stagflation
15. Opposed BTW's accommodation policies - called for immediate equality - formed Niagara Movement to support his ideas
Greenback Party
Jim Crow laws
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
16. Allowed Parliament to completely legislate over the colonies - limited colonists' say
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Pan-Americanism
Declaratory Act
U-2 Incident
17. Executed for leaking atomic secrets to Soviets - avowed communists
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Conservatism
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Rosenbergs
18. Prohibited settlements west of Appalachian - restriction on colonial growth
Proclamation of 1763
Henry Clay and the American System
Populist Party
Battle of Gettysburg
19. Prohibited testing of nuclear bombs above ground to slow the nuclear arms race and the release of nuclear fallout into the atmosphere
Energy Crisis - OPEC
Committees of Correspondence
Battle of Saratoga
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
20. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark sent by Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Territory on 'Voyage of Discovery'
National Labor Union
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
Lewis and Clark expedition
Federal Reserve Act
21. Full American independence - territory west of Appalachian ceded to America - loyalists to be compensated for seized property - fishing rights off of Newfoundland
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Scopes Trial
Hull House
Treaty of Paris (1783)
22. Japanese bombing of ships in harbor; resulted in FDR's request for declaration of war against Japan; Germany and Italy responded with declarations of war
Pearl Harbor
Battle of Antietam
The Enlightenment
Olive Branch Petition
23. Issued by Lincoln following Antietam (close enough to a victory to empower the proclamation) - declared slaves in the Confederacy free (did not include border states) - symbolic gesture to support Union's moral cause in the war
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Roger Williams
Nativism
Emancipation Proclamation
24. Runaway slaves could be caught in the North and be brought back to their masters (they were treated as property — running away was as good as stealing)
Fugitive Slave Act
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
Warren Court
25. Began by Edwards to return to Puritanism - increased overall religious involvement - gave women more active roles in religion - more and more ministers sprouted up throughout the country; mainly affected towns and cities
Popular Sovereignty
The Great Awakening
'Brain trust'
King James I - King Charles
26. Mass production of the Model-T - workers as potential consumers (raise wages) - supported other industries and raised employment
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27. 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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28. Supreme Court legalized the 'separate but equal' philosophy
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
William Marcy
Plessy v. Ferguson
29. American U-2 spy plane shot down over USSR (Ike: 'for national security); US suspended further flights - Krushchev demanded apology (refused)
Sugar Act
Northwest Passage
Vietnamization
U-2 Incident
30. Judges appointed to Supreme Court by Adams in the last days of his presidency to force them upon Jefferson - Marshall among those appointed
John Brown
Quarantine Speech - 1937
Midnight judges
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
31. 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
Marcus Garvey
Ngo Dinh Diem
Commerce Compromise
32. Settled in Pennsylvania - believed the 'Inner Light' could speak through any person and ran religious services without ministers
Gains for women
Atlantic slave trade
Yeoman Farmers
William Penn and the Quakers
33. Organized and controlled resistance against Parliamentary acts in less violent ways (strength of martyrdom) - advocated nonimportation
Sons of Liberty
Jingoism
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
34. Decided to punish war crimes - established program for de-Nazification of Germany
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Henry David Thoreau
Election of 1800
Hartford Convention
35. Nationalists against foreign non-English speaking workers (took jobs away from American men); encouraged to leave the U.S.
Deportations of Mexicans
Kent State Protest
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
36. Led a slave rebellion in Virginia - attacked many whites - prompted non-slaveholding Virginians to consider emancipation
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37. Abolished national origins quotas - dramatically increased immigration (especially from Asia and Latin America)
China turns communist
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Immigration Act of 1965
Karl Marx Das Kapital
38. Unprecedented sudden growth spurt of American population (especially urban and suburban areas)
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39. Alice Paul; shocked traditionalism - League of Women Voters supported; new organization of women who were now more independent
Rationing
Kitchen Cabinet
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Deportations of Mexicans
40. Depicted the evils of slavery (splitting of families and physical abuse); increased participation in abolitionist movement - condemned by South
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41. In reaction to the Boston Tea Party; closing of Boston Harbor - revocation of Massachusetts charter (power to governor) - murder in the name of royal authority would be tried in England or another colony
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
Spoils System
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Treaty of Paris (1783)
42. Worked to reform the American education system - abolitionist - prison/asylum reform with Dorothea Dix
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
'Contract with America' (1994)
Horace Mann
Missouri Compromise (1820)
43. Raised tariffs extremely high on manufactured goods; benefited domestic manufacturers - but limited foreign trade
Deportations of Mexicans
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1922 and 1930
44. 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
Platt Amendment
Moral Diplomacy
Pan-Americanism
National Labor Union
45. Proslavery constitution in Kansas - supported by Buchanan - freesoilers against it (victorious) - denied statehood until after secession
'Trail of Tears'
Espionage Act and Sedition Act
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Lecompton Constitution
46. Opposed strikes - producer-consumer cooperation - temperance - welcomed blacks and women (allowing segregation)
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
Independent Treasury Bill
Soviet atomic bomb
The Great Awakening
47. Workers unable to escape (locked into factory) - all died; further encouraged reform movements for working conditions
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Hoovervilles
Secretary of State John Hay
48. Henry Clay aimed to make the US economically independent from Europe (e.g. - support internal improvements - tariff protection - and new national bank)
Ike's Farewell Speech
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
Stagflation
Henry Clay and the American System
49. Fought for old Southern way of life (states' rights) - attempted to gain higher standing within Democratic party; aimed to deny Truman enough electoral votes to avoid his reelection by nominating Strom Thurmond (SC governor)
Hoovervilles
Thomas Edison
Dixiecrats - 1948
Berlin Wall
50. Congressional support to raid houses of radicals believed to have connections to communism
Lewis and Clark expedition
First American strategy in WWII
Nativism
Palmer Raids