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AP U.S. History
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1. Fair amount of troops - short guerilla tactics - strong leaders (Washington); nonprofessional army that could not handle long battles
'Baby Boom'
Pan-Americanism
Burned-Over District
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
2. 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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3. King hosted myriad nonviolent protesting activities to fill jail with protestors - Bill Connor (police commissioner) began violent resistance to protestors
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
George Kennan
March on Birmingham
4. Launched in 1958 by Ike; successful launch of American satellite (Explorer I); massive arms builup
President Harry Truman
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
5. Prohibited discrimination in any government-related work; increased black employment
Dixiecrats - 1948
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
Jackson's Presidency
Shays's Rebellion
6. Organized Seneca Falls Convention - founded (with Anthony) National Women Suffrage Organization
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
Cotton Gin
7. Emphasis on human reason - logic - and science (acquired - not nascent - knowledge); increased followers of Christianity
Martin Luther King Jr.
20-Negro Law
The Enlightenment
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
8. Politely demanded from the king a cease¬fire in Boston - repeal of Coercive Acts -. guarantee of American rights
Election of 1800
Lewis and Clark expedition
'Trail of Tears'
Olive Branch Petition
9. President to offer military supplies to nations 'vital to the defense of the US'; ended US neutrality (economic war against Germany); Hitler began to sink American ships (limited scale)
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Wilmot Proviso
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
Nicaraguan Contras
10. Emphasis on personal salvation - emotional response - and individual faith; women and blacks; nationalism (Manifest Destiny)
New Jersey Plan
William Lloyd Garrison
Second Great Awakening
Battle of Tippecanoe
11. Mass migration northward; mainly blacks migrating from the southern states into the north hoping for less discrimination
Berlin Wall
David Riesman
Great Migration
New Jersey Plan
12. US ambassador to Russia - notified Truman of Soviet ambitions to expand empire and overthrow other political forces; established concern for Soviet policy in Eastern Europe - Germany - and the Middle East
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
George Kennan
Quarantine Speech - 1937
'City on a Hill'
13. (peace btw Egypt and Israel) Followed years of tension - Israel would leave newly acquired lands from war - Egypt would respect Israel's other land claims; accords not completely followed - Sadat (Egypt) assassinated
Immigration Act of 1965
Quebec Acts
Camp David Accords
Free silver
14. Black rights leader - heavily influenced by Malcolm X (advocated black separatism rather than integration)
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
Battle of Tippecanoe
Ulysses S. Grant
George Whitefield
15. Most numerous in New England - fought for independence
Whigs (Patriots)
March on Birmingham
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
Federal Reserve Act
16. British-occupied cities - new governments - fighting by any with experience - loaned money - African-Americans and Native Americans involved
Cuban Missile Crisis
Sputnik
American society during the Revolution
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
17. 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
Fugitive Slave Act
Populist Party
Spoils System
Fort Sumter
18. First shots are fired at Charleston - North Carolina
Fort Sumter
Ho Chi Minh
Reaganomics
Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA)
19. Western Pennsylvanian farmers' violent protest against whiskey excise tax - Washington sent large army to put down revolt - protests to be limited to non-violent
Social Darwinism
Consumerism
Rosenbergs
Whiskey Rebellion
20. 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)
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
The Alamo
Dollar Diplomacy'
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
21. Slavery to be barred in all territory ceded from Mexico; never fully passed Congress
1992 Election
'Baby Boom'
Wilmot Proviso
Sons of Liberty
22. Spurred by Great Migration - large-scale riots - lynchings - &c.
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23. American general Horatio Gates was victorious over British general Burgoyne
Battle of Saratoga
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
'Atlanta Compromise'
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
24. Established federal district courts that followed local procedures - Supreme Court had final jurisdiction; compromise between nationalists and advocates for states' rights
Judiciary Act of 1789
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
New Nationalism
Alien and Sedition Acts
25. Ex-Lincoln secretary; worked to gain Open Door Notes' acceptance from the major powers
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
Gays in the military
Secretary of State John Hay
Civil Rights Act of 1964
26. Ensured trade with mother country - nationalism; too restrictive on colonial economy - not voted on by colonists
Unrestricted submarine warfare
1968 as 'the year of shocks'
Rock `n' Roll
Mercantilism
27. Part of Nixon's tri-faceted plan to honorably remove troops from Vietnam; wean the South Vietnamese off of American support - gradually reducing number of American troops present
Vietnamization
Coxey's Army
Roe v. Wade
Vertical and horizontal integration
28. FDR's inner circle of experts rather than just politicians in the cabinet
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29. Blacks denied admission to all-white school; overturned Plessy v. Ferguson - negating 'separate but equal' - ordered integration of schools as soon as possible; white southerners protested (refused to attend integrated schools)
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Kent State Protest
John L. Lewis
John D. Rockefeller
30. 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)
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
John C. Calhoun
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
Roe v. Wade
31. Accomplished great number of relief - recovery - and reform efforts; sought practical solutions to the problems by experimentation
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32. 'No taxation without representation -' introduced by Patrick Henry
Munn v. Illinois
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
Virginia Resolves
33. Settled in Pennsylvania - believed the 'Inner Light' could speak through any person and ran religious services without ministers
CIA overthrow of Iran (1953)
President Franklin Roosevelt
William Penn and the Quakers
United States vs. EC Knight Company
34. 'Rotation in office;' Jackson felt that one should spend a single term in office and return to private citizenship - those who held power too long would become corrupt and political appointments made by new officials was essential for democracy
British strengths and weaknesses
Spoils System
Bacon's Rebellion
1968 Presidential Election
35. Emphasized importance of private charities to help the depression
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36. First president to show positive response to civil rights movement; worked heavily on keeping Soviet spread of communism in check
Writs of Assistance
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
President Harry Truman
President Jimmy Carter
37. Tweed Leader of Tammany Hall - gained large sums of money through the political machine - prosecuted by Samuel Tilden and sent to jail
Detente - realpolitik
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
The Half-Way Covenant
William Marcy
38. Stated the United States was destined to span the breadth of the entire continent with as much land as possible - advocated by Polk
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
Manifest Destiny
Women's Christian Temperance Union
39. Repeat candidate for president - proponent of silver-backing (16:1 platform) - cross of gold speech against gold standard; Democratic candidate (1896)
James Monroe
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Ike's Farewell Speech
William Jennings Bryan
40. Withdrawal of American troops from foreign nations (especially Latin America) to improve international relations and unite western hemisphere; Clark Memorandum (rebukes the 'big stick'); peaceful resolution of Mexican oil fields
War hawks
Federalists and Republicans
Cotton Gin
Good Neighbor Policy
41. Racism riots against Mexican laborers (imported for jobs)
Zoot Suit riots
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
Boston Tea Party
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
42. Military hero from War of 1812; elected president 1840 - died of pneumonia a month later - gave presidency to Tyler
12th Amendment
Pet banks
William Henry Harrison
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
43. 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
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
Non-conformity
Liberty Party
Pearl Harbor
44. Achieved an abnormal rise in class system (steel industry) - pioneered vertical integration (controlled Mesabie Range to ship ore to Pittsburgh) - opposed monopolies - used partnership of steel tycoons (Henry Clay Frick as a manager/partner) - Bessem
Navigation Acts
Andy Warhol
Andrew Carnegie
Detente - realpolitik
45. Populists campaigned for silver-backed money rather than gold-backed - believed to be able to relieve working conditions and exploitation of labor
Teapot Dome scandal
Keynesian economics
XYZ Affair
Free silver
46. 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
Marshall Plan
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
Bank of the United States
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
47. Often debtors sold to slave traders by African kings seeking riches; Columbian Exchange
Atlantic slave trade
Virginia Plan
Great Migration
Emancipation Proclamation
48. Northern factory workers who were discarded when too old to work (unlike the slaves who were still kept fed and clothed in their old age)
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49. Rejection of negative portrayals of women (language - entertainment) - increased quality and use of education - more job opportunities - acceptance into military
Gains for women
John C. Calhoun
'Affluent Society'
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
50. Severe immigration laws to discourage and discriminate against foreigners - believed to erode old-fashioned American values
Nativism
National Labor Union
'Graying of America'
Yeoman Farmers