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AP U.S. History
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1. North African Muslim rulers solved budget problems through piracy and tributes in Mediterranean - obtained fees from most European powers
Court Packing
Nicaraguan Contras
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
Barbary Pirates
2. Ideas of Wilson: small enterprise - states' rights - more active government - trust busting - left social issues up to the states
New Freedom
Teapot Dome scandal
Election of 1960
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
3. Prohibited discrimination in any government-related work; increased black employment
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
4. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - banned child labor - established minimum wage
Townshend Act (1767)
Mann Act
Knights of Labor
Fair Labor Standards Act
5. Effects of pesticides on the environment; changed way Americans viewed their impact on nature
Marbury v. Madison
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
John C. Calhoun
6. Effectively ended spoils system and established civil service exams for all government positions - under Pres. Garfield
Hudson River School
Lodge Reservations
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Boston Massacre
7. Gorbachev decreased nuclear arsenals - Communist Party lost power - Boris Yeltsin (president of Russian Republic) led Muscovites to take control
American society during the Revolution
James K. Polk
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
William Lloyd Garrison
8. Opposed strikes - producer-consumer cooperation - temperance - welcomed blacks and women (allowing segregation)
Suburbia
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
9. Under JQ Adams - protectionist tariff - South considered it the source of economic problems - made Jackson appear to advocate free trade
Tariff of Abominations
Hartford Convention
Barbary Pirates
XYZ Affair
10. Private property subject to government regulation when property is devoted to public interest; against railroads
Munn v. Illinois
Explosion of USS Maine
Federal Reserve Act
Pendleton Civil Service Act
11. '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
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
Dominion of New England
Spoils System
William Jennings Bryan
12. John Noyes - New York; utopian society for communalism - perfectionism - and complex marriage
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
Ulysses S. Grant
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
13. Stated the United States was destined to span the breadth of the entire continent with as much land as possible - advocated by Polk
Vietnam War
Manifest Destiny
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
Richard Nixon (R)
14. Provided housing and recreation to city youth - imposing Protestant morals - unable to reach out to all youth
15. 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
Battle of Saratoga
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
William and Mary
Isolationism
16. John Marshall declared that the Supreme Court could declare federal laws unconstitutional
Lodge Reservations
Korean War
Marbury v. Madison
John C. Calhoun
17. Old immigrants from northern and western Europe came seeking better life; new immigrants came from southern and eastern Europe searching for opportunity to escape worse living conditions back home and often did not stay in the US
March on Washington
Popular Sovereignty
Unrestricted submarine warfare
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
18. Organize militia - end trade with Britain - refuse to pay taxes to Britain
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Thomas Edison
Suffolk Resolves
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
19. Calvinist - devised concept of 'city on a hill' ('A Model of Christian Charity'); founded highly successful towns in Massachusetts Bay
John Winthrop
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Cotton Gin
Pet banks
20. Ford's and Carter's presidencies experienced a recession and inflation simultaneously - solved by Keynesian economics
'Big BM' Haywood
Truman's Loyalty Program
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe (1989)
Stagflation
21. John Brown and his sons slaughtered five men as a response to the election fraud in Lawrence and the caning of Sumner in Congress
Scopes Trial
The Glorious Revolution
Liberty Party
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
22. Panama Canal Treaty - diplomacy with China - end of recognition of Taiwan; little accomplished domestically due to conservative opposition - foreign policy more successful; Washington outsider - Experienced high interest rates - inflation - increased
Jingoism
Domino theory
President Jimmy Carter
'Affluent Society'
23. Beginnings of trusts (destruction of competition); vertical- controlling every aspect of production (control quality - eliminate middlemen - Rockefeller); horizontal- consolidating with competitors to monopolize a market (highly detrimental)
Conversion Experience
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Andy Warhol
Vertical and horizontal integration
24. Formed by white progressives - adopted goals of Niagara Movement - in response to Springfield Race Riots
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Marshall Plan
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Haymarket Bombing
25. Black rights leader - heavily influenced by Malcolm X (advocated black separatism rather than integration)
William Penn and the Quakers
Bank of the United States
William H. Taft
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
26. 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
27. Jane Addams's pioneer settlement house (center for women's activism and social reform) in Chicago
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Northwest Passage
Korean War
Hull House
28. Standard Oil Company - Ruthless business tactics (survival of the fittest)
Important WWII Battles
Monroe Doctrine
John D. Rockefeller
Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1922 and 1930
29. 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
Tet Offensive (1968)
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
Pan-Americanism
Marshall Plan
30. Fought for return to colonial rule - usually conservative (educated and wealthy
Tories (Loyalists)
George Washington
Elastic Clause ('necessary and proper')
XYZ Affair
31. Led a slave rebellion in Virginia - attacked many whites - prompted non-slaveholding Virginians to consider emancipation
32. Overthrew Pres. Guzman after he nationalized American fruit fields and accepted arms from USSR (communist sympathies)
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
1968 Presidential Election
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
Henry Clay and the American System
33. Relied on voluntary compliance (no formal laws) - propaganda; high prices set on commodities to encourage production - Prohibition
34. Forbade restraint of trade and did not distinguish good from bad trusts - ineffective due to lack of enforcement mechanism (waited for Clayton Anti-Trust Act)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Jonathan Edwards
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
Soviet atomic bomb
35. First Utopian society - by Robert Owen
New Harmony
Ho Chi Minh
National Origins Act (1924)
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
36. Sought to eliminate spheres of influence and avoid European monopolies in China; unaccepted by the powers in mind
Great Migration
Open Door Policy
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1922 and 1930
37. Increase working output by standardizing procedures and rewarding those who worked fast; efficiency
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
Thomas Nast
38. Avoided league of Nations - opposed Latin American involvement
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
Townshend Act (1767)
Isolationism
39. Maine as free state - Missouri as slave state - slavery prohibited north of 36°30'
March on Birmingham
Harriet Tubman
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Henry Ford's assembly line
40. Advocated by Roger Sherman - proposed two independently-voting senators per state and representation in the House based on population
AFL-CIO (1955)
Henry David Thoreau
Connecticut Compromise
James Madison
41. Tet Offensive in Vietnam - assassination of MLK and Robert Kennedy (presidential candidate) - Riot of Democratic National Convention (Chicago police beat antiwar protestors) - Black Panthers
42. First female cabinet member
Valley Forge
Fort Sumter
Religious Right
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
43. Held in New York - agreed to not import British goods until Stamp Act was repealed
Roger Williams
'Silent Majority'
Suffolk Resolves
Stamp Act Congress
44. Appealed to many conservatives - especially southerners (opposed massive protests and integration)
Emergency Banking Relief Act
George Wallace - American
Fort Sumter
Nullification Controversy
45. Often debtors sold to slave traders by African kings seeking riches; Columbian Exchange
Tariff of Abominations
New Harmony
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
Atlantic slave trade
46. Rise in stock prices and speculation - decline of construction industry - mistaken 'trickle-down' economics - reliance on credit
Causes of the depression
Soviet atomic bomb
Jackson's Presidency
Second Great Awakening
47. Germany announced that it would sink all (including American) ships - attempt to involve U.S. in war
Unrestricted submarine warfare
AFL-CIO (1955)
President John F. Kennedy
1968 as 'the year of shocks'
48. In Brook Farm Community - literary nationalist - transcendentalist (nascent ideas of God and freedom) - wrote 'The American Scholar'
Ralph Waldo Emerson
John D. Rockefeller
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
James Madison
49. Agricultural depression as precursor to the depression; unheeded omen of problems in the economic structure (prices too low — too much supply for the demand)
Civil Rights Cases
Standard Oil Trust
Explosion of USS Maine
Farm crisis
50. Dealt with Vietnam War - 'Great Society' program for improvement of American society - antipoverty and anti-discrimination programs
Martin Luther King Jr.
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Lusitania