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AP U.S. History

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1. Connected the colonies to Britain - opposed to unnecessary unfair taxation; strong influence on Albany Plan






2. Detectives hired by employers as private police force - often used to end strikes






3. Rise in stock prices and speculation - decline of construction industry - mistaken 'trickle-down' economics - reliance on credit






4. 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)






5. 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)






6. 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'






7. Supported expanded money supply - health/safety regulations - benefits for workers and farmers - granger (farmer)-supported






8. Alice Paul; shocked traditionalism - League of Women Voters supported; new organization of women who were now more independent






9. Banned racial discrimination in federal practices; To Secure These Rights called for desegregation - anti-lynching - end of poll taxes






10. The Man Nobody Knows - glorification of business - Jesus as a businessman - relationship between religion and manufacturing






11. Despite CIA-sponsored Soviet resistance - Afghanistan taken by Soviet Union; ended detente between USSR and US






12. Reduced quota - reduced numbers from eastern and southern Europe - Asians banned - Canadians and Latin Americans exempt






13. Increased already high rate of inflation by quadrupling the price of crude oil






14. Southern Christian Leadership Conference - Led boycott - became leader of civil rights movement; urged nonviolent resistance (cf. tactics of Ghandi);






15. Prohibited aiding of belligerent nations - banned civilian involvement; limited power of president during international war - built up armed forces






16. 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






17. Symbol of women workers during the war






18. Political action for religion justified by decreased presence of religion in society; Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition to expand national influence






19. 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






20. Dance music - slave spirituals adapted into improvisation and ragtime; jazz migrated along with blacks in the Great Migration






21. Denounced the 'housewife trap' which caused educated women to hold even themselves inferior to men






22. Huerta's enemy - reluctantly supported by U.S.; U.S. sought Villa's submission due to terrorism - eventually assassinated; Wilson's policy highly unpopular






23. Parks arrested for refusing to give up bus seat to white man - African American leaders called for city-wide boycott of bus system (lasted almost 400 days); Supreme Court ruled segregated buses unconstitutional






24. 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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25. First 'modern' president - moderate who supported progressivism (at times conservative) - bypassed congressional opposition (cf. Jackson) - significant role in world affairs






26. Decisive victory in the War of 1812 by Harrison over Tecumseh - used in Harrison's campaign for presidency






27. Accomplished great number of relief - recovery - and reform efforts; sought practical solutions to the problems by experimentation

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28. Truman tested for communist alliances within government; government employees prohibited from taking part in remotely-communist activities

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29. Proslavery constitution in Kansas - supported by Buchanan - freesoilers against it (victorious) - denied statehood until after secession






30. Helped lead settlement house movement - co-founded NAACP - condemned war and poverty






31. Republican - popular hero of WWII; 'dynamic conservatism' as a middle ground btw. Rep. and Dem.; Interstate Highway System (ulterior motive of weapons transportation); St. Lawrence Seaway opened Great Lakes to Atlantic Ocean via locks; Depts. Of Heal






32. Held in New York - agreed to not import British goods until Stamp Act was repealed






33. Challenged New Englanders to completely separate Church from State - as the State would corrupt the church






34. Nixon led movement to Hiss's indictment; convicted of perjury - Nixon gained national prominence






35. September 1949 - US no longer held monopoly; two atomic powers






36. Banned racial discrimination and segregation (public) - bias by federal government; enforced by Equal Employment Opportunity Commission






37. Abolished national origins quotas - dramatically increased immigration (especially from Asia and Latin America)






38. Prohibited discrimination in any government-related work; increased black employment






39. Activist government to serve all citizens (cf. Alexander Hamilton); founded New Republic magazine






40. Exemplary Christian community - rich to show charity - held to Calvinistic beliefs

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41. Provided for evacuation of English troops from posts in the Great Lakes

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42. Cherokees - Choctaws - Creeks - Chickasaws - and Seminoles; 'civilized' due to their intermarriage with whites - forced out of their homelands by expansion






43. First African-American in major league baseball






44. Similar to Navigation; raised money to pay colonial officials by American taxes; led to Boston boycott of English luxuries






45. Military hero from War of 1812; elected president 1840 - died of pneumonia a month later - gave presidency to Tyler






46. Sets of programs geared towards minorities and oft-discriminated populations






47. Focused on the 'Common Man;' removal of Indians - removal of federal deposits in BUS - annexation of territory - liberal use of veto

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48. Created in 1961 as example of liberal anticommunism in third world countries; 'reform-minded missionaries of democracy'






49. New generation of writers outside of Protestantism - resentment of ideals betrayed by society; Fitzgerald (despised materialism - Great Gatsby) - Hemingway (disillusionment - war experience) - Lewis (against upper class — Babbit and Mainstreet) - Fau

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50. Anti-Federalists wanted states' rights - bill of rights - unanimous consent - reference to religion - more power to less-rich and common people; Federalists wanted strong central government - more power to experienced - separation of church and state