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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
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
Neutrality
Samuel Gompers
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
2. 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
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
Lusitania
3. In Brook Farm Community - literary nationalist - transcendentalist (nascent ideas of God and freedom) - wrote 'The American Scholar'
Ralph Waldo Emerson
French and Indian War
William Marcy
Sputnik
4. Abolished national origins quotas - dramatically increased immigration (especially from Asia and Latin America)
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Immigration Act of 1965
Shays's Rebellion
5. Sets of programs geared towards minorities and oft-discriminated populations
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
Affirmative Action
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
Stamp Act Congress
6. Believed in expanding federal power on economy - encouraged industrial development; could only gain power on the local level - led by Henry Clay (anti-Jackson)
Vertical and horizontal integration
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
Whig Party
Gains for women
7. Severe immigration laws to discourage and discriminate against foreigners - believed to erode old-fashioned American values
Shays's Rebellion
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
Sputnik
Nativism
8. 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)
Bank of the United States
President Ronald Reagan
Valley Forge
9. Huerta's enemy - reluctantly supported by U.S.; U.S. sought Villa's submission due to terrorism - eventually assassinated; Wilson's policy highly unpopular
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Social Darwinism
President Jimmy Carter
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
10. Nonviolent protest to college students (NC) being refused lunch service; part of 'sit-in' movement to integrate all aspects of life (hotels - entertainment - &c.)
Rosenbergs
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
The Enlightenment
11. Strong patriotism and need to conform to try to avoid blame during red scare - non-churchgoers - unmarried - and critics suspected as communists
George Wallace - American
Munn v. Illinois
Conformity in the 1950s
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
12. Maine as free state - Missouri as slave state - slavery prohibited north of 36°30'
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Voting Rights Act of 1965
'Atlanta Compromise'
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
13. Banned racial discrimination and segregation (public) - bias by federal government; enforced by Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Horace Mann
Yeoman Farmers
Civil Rights Act of 1964
James Monroe
14. First female cabinet member
Adams-Onis Treaty
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Convict-lease system
15. 'No taxation without representation -' introduced by Patrick Henry
Domino theory
Judiciary Act of 1789
Proclamation of 1763
Virginia Resolves
16. Elvis Presley - Marilyn Monroe - James Dean - Beatniks — rebelled against conservative conformity of the rest of the country (esp. targeted youth)
Tea Act (1773)
Ngo Dinh Diem
Non-conformity
Bonus Army
17. Adams - Jefferson - and Burr: Adams lost - Jefferson and Burr tied - Hamilton convinced other Federalists to vote for Jefferson to break the tie
Frederick Douglass
Tea Act (1773)
Election of 1800
Whig Party
18. Stock prices fell drastically; without buyers - the stocks became essentially worthless; cause bank crashes - &c.
XYZ Affair
20-Negro Law
Transcendentalism
Stock market crash (1929)
19. Gold discovery in Sutter's Mill in 1848 resulted in huge mass of adventurers in 1849 - led to application for statehood - opened question of slavery in the West
California Gold Rush
Eugene V. Debs
New Freedom
Dorothea Lange
20. Organized and controlled resistance against Parliamentary acts in less violent ways (strength of martyrdom) - advocated nonimportation
Sons of Liberty
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
American society during the Revolution
United States vs. EC Knight Company
21. Allowed Parliament to completely legislate over the colonies - limited colonists' say
'Wage slaves'
Bracero program
Declaratory Act
Macon's Bill No. 2
22. Attacked industrial elite - called for business regulation - publisher refused works breaking with Victorian ideals
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
Declaratory Act
Cotton Gin
Whigs (Patriots)
23. Established colony of Georgia as a place for honest debtors
James Oglethorpe
Citizen Genet
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
National Road
24. Founded by Betty Friedan - Bella Abzug - and Aileen Hernandez; lobbied for equal opportunity where the EEOC was lacking (gender discrimination); lawsuits and mobilization of public opinion
Women's Christian Temperance Union
National Organization of Women
Harriet Tubman
Public Works Administration (PWA)
25. American hostages taken by US hating Shiites upon Shah's flight from uprising - botched rescue attempts
Harlem Renaissance
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
GI Bill of Rights
26. Activist government to serve all citizens (cf. Alexander Hamilton); founded New Republic magazine
Jackie Robinson
Civil Rights Cases
Republican Party
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
27. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - Harold Icicles - provided public construction projects
National Origins Act (1924)
Freeport Doctrine
Social Gospel movement
Public Works Administration (PWA)
28. 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'
Creel Committee
Mayflower Compact
29. Group of Bostonians in opposition to the Stamp Act - sought to drive stamp distributors from the city
'Brain trust'
XYZ Affair
Barbary Pirates
The Loyal Nine
30. Combined Massachusetts - New Hampshire - Connecticut - Rhode Island - and Plymouth (and later Jersey and New York) into one 'supercolony' governed by Sir Edmond Andros - a 'supergovernor'
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
Battle of Gettysburg
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Dominion of New England
31. Challenged New England Calvinist ministers' authority - as they taught the good works for salvation of Catholicism
'Yellow dog contracts'
Election of 1800
Anne Hutchinson
Butler v. U.S. Court case
32. Hired to photograph ordinary Americans experiencing the depression
Dorothea Lange
The Homefront
Domino theory
Scopes Trial
33. Fearing the rise of labor unions - corporations forced new employees to sign and promise not to be part of a union
34. Formed by white progressives - adopted goals of Niagara Movement - in response to Springfield Race Riots
Indian Removal Act
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Rosie the Riveter
35. Belligerent nationalism against other threatening nations
Jingoism
Yalta Conference (1945)
New York City draft riots (1863)
Salutary Neglect
36. Supreme Court legalized the 'separate but equal' philosophy
George Washington
Invasion of Iraq
Plessy v. Ferguson
Espionage Act and Sedition Act
37. Installed Shah as dictator - overthrew Moussadegh (communist interests) - in order to resist nationalization British oil holdings
CIA overthrow of Iran (1953)
Whig Party
Tea Act (1773)
'Contract with America' (1994)
38. Southern Christian Leadership Conference - Led boycott - became leader of civil rights movement; urged nonviolent resistance (cf. tactics of Ghandi);
John C. Calhoun
Martin Luther King Jr.
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
Potsdam Conference (1945)
39. Republican candidate for president in 1884 - quintessence of spoils system; highly disgusted the mugwumps (many Republicans turned to Democrat Cleveland)
Open Door Policy
James G. Blaine
Citizen Genet
President Lyndon B. Johnson
40. All English subjects are represented in Parliament - including those not allowed to vote
Tariff of Abominations
Virtual Representation
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
41. Increase working output by standardizing procedures and rewarding those who worked fast; efficiency
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
Suffolk Resolves
Election of 1980
Pearl Harbor
42. British soldiers shot into crowd of snowball fight; two of nine soldiers (defended by John Adams) found guilty of manslaughter
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
Citizen Genet
William T. Sherman
Boston Massacre
43. Uncovered the 'dirt' on corruption and harsh quality of city/working life; heavily criticized by Theodore Roosevelt; Ida Tarabell (oil companies) - David Graham Phillips (Senate) - Aschen School (child labor — photography) - mass magazines McClure's
John C. Calhoun
Muckrakers
Suffolk Resolves
Nat Turner's Rebellion
44. Government compromised to buy and coin $2-4 million/month; government stuck to minimum and inflation did not occur (lower prices); economy grew
Andy Warhol
Kitchen Cabinet
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
New Lights vs. Old Lights
45. Darwinian (influenced by jazz age and new scientific ideas) against Fundamentalist (the Bible and Creationism); John Scopes convicted for teaching Darwinism (defended by Clarence Darrow); Scopes found guilty
Tet Offensive (1968)
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
Nicaraguan Contras
Scopes Trial
46. Committee on Public Information; aimed to sell America and the world on Wilson's war goals; propaganda - censorship - 'four-minute men' speeches - 'Liberty Leagues' (spy on community)
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
Creel Committee
Wilmot Proviso
47. Small state banks set up by Jackson to keep federal funds out of the National Bank - used until funds were consolidated into a single treasury
Pet banks
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
48. FDR and Churchill agreed to defeat Germany first rather than concentrate on Japan
Federal Reserve Act
Marbury v. Madison
Pet banks
First American strategy in WWII
49. Influence of African-American blues - music of the younger generation (gap between them and their parents)
50. Prohibited use of any devices (e.g. - literacy tests) to deny the right to vote and enforced black suffrage rights
Committees of Correspondence
Gulf War - 'Operation Desert Storm' (1991)
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Compromise of 1877