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AP U.S. History
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1. Former French subjects in Canada allowed to keep Catholicism - while American colonists expected to participate in the Church of England
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
League of Nations
Quebec Acts
Conservatism
2. Brown aimed to create an armed slave rebellion and establish black free state; Brown executed and became martyr in the North
Harpers Ferry (1859)
Warren Court
Manifest Destiny
Bull Moose Party
3. Colonies proposed colonial confederation under lighter British rule (crown-appointed president - 'Grand Council'); never took effect
Marshall Plan
Albany Plan of Union
Vietnamization
Nativism
4. Acquired Mexican Cession (future California - Arizona - and New Mexico); Mexico acknowledged American annexation of Texas
Thomas Edison
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Harriet Tubman
'Baby Boom'
5. Executed for leaking atomic secrets to Soviets - avowed communists
Rosenbergs
'Trail of Tears'
Square Deal
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
6. Led Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: threatened a siege on DC if FDR did not agree to end discrimination in military
Munn v. Illinois
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
Vertical and horizontal integration
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
7. Established colony of Georgia as a place for honest debtors
Pocahontas
James Oglethorpe
President Bill Clinton
Warren Court
8. Ended exclusion of homosexuals from military; due to controversy - compromise of 'don't ask - don't tell' instituted
Gays in the military
Civil Rights Cases
Bonus Army
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
9. Strong central government provided by power divided between state and national governments - checks and balances - amendable constitution
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
French and Indian War
Federalism
Election of 1824
10. 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)
Marcus Garvey
Dixiecrats - 1948
Camp David Accords
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
11. Advocated by Roger Sherman - proposed two independently-voting senators per state and representation in the House based on population
'Great Society'
Connecticut Compromise
Midnight judges
XYZ Affair
12. Stated the United States was destined to span the breadth of the entire continent with as much land as possible - advocated by Polk
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Manifest Destiny
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
Japanese internment
13. Educational and residential segregation; inferior facilities allotted to African-Americans - predominantly in South
Jim Crow laws
March on Birmingham
California Gold Rush
Lusitania
14. River traffic - road building - canals (esp. Erie) - rise of NYC
Federalism
Transportation Revolution
Pan-Americanism
'Gentlemen's Agreement' (1908)
15. Written by Calhoun - regarding tariff nullification
The Federalist Papers
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
Gulf War - 'Operation Desert Storm' (1991)
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
16. Government to buy silver to back money in addition to gold
1968 as 'the year of shocks'
Good Neighbor Policy
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
Federalism
17. Decisive victory in the War of 1812 by Harrison over Tecumseh - used in Harrison's campaign for presidency
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Battle of Tippecanoe
Wilson's 14 points
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
18. Opposed BTW's accommodation policies - called for immediate equality - formed Niagara Movement to support his ideas
Alexander Hamilton
Bay of Pigs invasion
Creel Committee
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
19. Jackson used personal friends as unofficial advisors over his official cabinet
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
Secretary of State John Hay
Kitchen Cabinet
20. Fair amount of troops - short guerilla tactics - strong leaders (Washington); nonprofessional army that could not handle long battles
Energy Crisis - OPEC
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
Pearl Harbor
Jingoism
21. 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
'Great Society'
Emancipation Proclamation
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
Marshall Court (all cases)
22. Radical Calvinists against the Church of England; Separatists (Pilgrims) argued for a break from the Church of England - led the Mayflower - and established the settlement at Plymouth
Yellow journalism
Detente - realpolitik
Mann Act
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
23. American U-2 spy plane shot down over USSR (Ike: 'for national security); US suspended further flights - Krushchev demanded apology (refused)
Zimmerman Note
U-2 Incident
Pendleton Civil Service Act
'Yellow dog contracts'
24. Belligerent nationalism against other threatening nations
Jingoism
Regionalist and naturalist writers
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Clinton impeachment (1997)
25. Unprecedented sudden growth spurt of American population (especially urban and suburban areas)
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26. Fought for human rights in Africa - Panama Canal returned to Panama - relations with China resolved
Humanitarian diplomacy
Mikhail Gorbachev
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Energy Crisis - OPEC
27. Northern Securities Company (JP Morgan and James G. Hill - railroads) seen by Roosevelt as 'bad' trust - Supreme Court upheld his first trust-bust
Teapot Dome scandal
Northern Securities Case
Neutrality
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
28. Written anonymously by Hamilton - Jay - and Madison; commentary on Constitution - republicanism extended over large territory
Karl Marx Das Kapital
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Butler v. U.S. Court case
The Federalist Papers
29. Supreme Court legalized the 'separate but equal' philosophy
Plessy v. Ferguson
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Gifford Pinchot
President Harry Truman
30. Congressional support to raid houses of radicals believed to have connections to communism
Stamp Act
Palmer Raids
President Bill Clinton
Isolationism
31. 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
Vietcong
Muckrakers
12th Amendment
US acquisitions
32. Decisive victory to Reagan due to his appeal over Carter (now unpopular due to lack of success in the presidency
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Gulf War - 'Operation Desert Storm' (1991)
Election of 1980
CIA overthrow of Iran (1953)
33. The two political parties that formed following Washington's presidency; Federalists for stronger central government - Republicans for stronger state governments
Federalists and Republicans
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Immigration Act of 1965
Indentured servants
34. Veterans from WWI sought their pensions before they were too old to use them; they were denied and were run out of Washington (violently - by MacArthur)
Bonus Army
Northern Securities Case
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
Warren Court
35. Guerilla army sponsored by CIA to attack procommunist revolutionaries in Nicaragua; fear of another Vietnam
Nicaraguan Contras
New Lights vs. Old Lights
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Frederick Douglass
36. John Noyes - New York; utopian society for communalism - perfectionism - and complex marriage
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Yellow journalism
Virginia Resolves
37. New Englanders who did not wish to relate their conversion experiences could become half-way saints so that their children would be able to have the opportunity to be saints
The Half-Way Covenant
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
Bull Moose Party
38. Europeans should not interfere with affairs in Western Hemisphere - Americans to stay out of foreign affairs; supported Washington's goal for US neutrality in Americas
Butler v. U.S. Court case
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
Monroe Doctrine
39. First Utopian society - by Robert Owen
New Harmony
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
William Marcy
Jonathan Edwards
40. CIA attempt to institute Cuban support to overthrow Castro; cover-up uncovered - became representation of Cuban resistance to American aggression
Japanese internment
George Whitefield
Bay of Pigs invasion
Andrew Carnegie
41. Editor of The Liberator (strongly abolitionist newspaper calling for immediate abolition of slavery) - fought for feminist movement ('Am I not a woman and a sister' picture of slave woman)
Writs of Assistance
Era of Good Feelings
William Lloyd Garrison
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
42. Democratic candidate 1912 - stood for antitrust - monetary change - and tariff reduction; far less active than Roosevelt - Clayton Anti-trust Act (to enforce Sherman) - Child Labor Act
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Important WWII Battles
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Woodrow Wilson
43. Tweed Leader of Tammany Hall - gained large sums of money through the political machine - prosecuted by Samuel Tilden and sent to jail
Standard Oil Trust
William Marcy
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Palmer Raids
44. Standard Oil Company - Ruthless business tactics (survival of the fittest)
John D. Rockefeller
Good Neighbor Policy
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
Convict-lease system
45. Focused on skilled workers (harder to replace than unskilled) - coordinated crafts unions - supported 8¬hour workday and injury liability
Fair Deal
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
Samuel Gompers
46. 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
President Franklin Roosevelt
Pearl Harbor
Bay of Pigs invasion
Rosie the Riveter
47. Foundation for First Amendment - offered free choice of religion - not influenced by state
Impressment
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
Charles Lindbergh
1992 Election
48. Led Pottawatomie Massacre - extreme abolitionist who believed he was doing God's work
Battle of Saratoga
Midnight judges
John Brown
British strengths and weaknesses
49. Attempted to boost economy by making loans to banks and insurance companies - hoping to restart them
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
William Seward
Bank of the United States
Economic transition
50. Caused American hysteria (1957) - fear that Soviets were technologically superior; led Ike to order more rigorous education program to rival Soviets (National Defense Education Act)
Declining death rate
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
Sputnik
Declaratory Act