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AP U.S. History
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1. Needed to protect new Pacific acquisitions - U.S. took over the project from the French after overcoming Clatyton¬ Bulwer Treaty (prohibited exclusive control of canal) with the Hay¬ Pauncefote Treaty
William Lloyd Garrison
Benjamin Franklin
Regionalist and naturalist writers
Panama Canal
2. US provided financial assistance to recover economies in Europe; aimed towards anti-communist governments in France - Italy - and Germany; Eastern European nations prohibited from receiving help from US
Marshall Plan
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Warren Court
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
3. Bank tightened loan policies - depression rose throughout the country - hurt western farmers greatly
Whig Party
Immigration Act of 1965
Panic of 1819
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
4. Economic prosperity of American society following WWII; doubling of national income - jobs to women - defense industry's support of economy
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5. Bicameral congressional representation based on population
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
Virginia Plan
Commerce Compromise
John Smith
6. Economic recession (collapse of savings-and-loan industry - increasing deficit due to Reagan tax cuts - retail decreased - higher crime rate)
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7. Writing took a more realistic approach on the world - regionalist writers focused on local life (Sarah Orne Jewett) - naturalist writers focused on economy and psychology (Stephen Crane)
Whigs (Patriots)
Regionalist and naturalist writers
Peace Corps
GI Bill of Rights
8. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - insured deposits < $5000 - reassured American public of the worth of banks
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
March on Washington
9. Political action for religion justified by decreased presence of religion in society; Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition to expand national influence
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Homefront
Religious Right
10. 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)
Lusitania
New Harmony
George Washington
Tea Act (1773)
11. Roosevelt's plan that aimed to regulate corporations (Anthracite coal strike - Dept. of Commerce and Labor - Elkins and Hepburn Acts) - protect consumers (meat sanitation) - and conserve natural resources (Newlands Reclamation Act)
Cotton Gin
Alien and Sedition Acts
Dominion of New England
Square Deal
12. Sought to encourage domestic American manufacturing
British strengths and weaknesses
Indentured servants
Non-Intercourse Act
Henry Ford's assembly line
13. Taxes on all legal documents to support British troops - not approved by colonists through their representatives
Stamp Act
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Jingoism
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
14. Scholarly - welfare-reform - 'Contract with America -' impeachment over Monica Lewinski Scandal - War in Kosovo
Berlin Airlift
President Bill Clinton
Tariff of Abominations
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
15. Meant to provide evacuation opportunity for Americans in Cuba; internal accidental explosion blamed on Spanish mines - leading to Spanish¬ American War
Explosion of USS Maine
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
Good Neighbor Policy
Energy Crisis - OPEC
16. Won battles in the West and raised northern morale (esp. Shiloh - Fort Henry - and Fort Donelson) - made Union commanding general
Industrial Workers of the World
Ulysses S. Grant
Tallmadge Amendment
Jamestown
17. Destroyed by Jackson on the grounds that it was unconstitutional and too much power for a federal institution
Bank of the United States
Free silver
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
18. Warned of dangerous military-industrial complex (newly-found power of the military to affect the path of democracy)
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19. Government would protect America's foreign investments with any force needed; under president Taft
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20. Storage of Soviet missiles in Cuba (threat of nuclear war); Krushchev demanded that US never invade Cuba and remove forces from Turkey; mutual compliance with each other's demands
Cuban Missile Crisis
Jazz
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe (1989)
Panic of 1819
21. (free speech movement) Youth activists (often liberal arts students) spoke out against Vietnam War - supported widespread liberalization
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22. 'No taxation without representation -' introduced by Patrick Henry
Martin Luther King Jr.
Virginia Resolves
Yalta Conference (1945)
Bombing and invasion of Cambodia
23. Fear of Japanese-Americans as traitors - sent off (by law) to internment camps; removal of deemed threats in military areas
Yellow journalism
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
Japanese internment
Public Works Administration (PWA)
24. Belief in minimal government so as to allow the people their own free reign - lower taxes to stimulate economy - &c.
Albany Plan of Union
March on Birmingham
Conservatism
Charles Lindbergh
25. Allowed Parliament to completely legislate over the colonies - limited colonists' say
Berlin Wall
New Freedom
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
Declaratory Act
26. September 1949 - US no longer held monopoly; two atomic powers
Soviet atomic bomb
Sputnik
Know-Nothing (American) Party
Atlantic slave trade
27. Settlers to pay the expenses of a servant's voyage and be granted land for each person they brought over; headright system
Indentured servants
Anne Hutchinson
Peace Corps
'Affluent Society'
28. Slavery to be barred in all territory ceded from Mexico; never fully passed Congress
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
Wilmot Proviso
Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Association (YMCA & YWCA)
The Half-Way Covenant
29. Relied on voluntary compliance (no formal laws) - propaganda; high prices set on commodities to encourage production - Prohibition
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30. Required of members of the Puritan Church; took the place of baptism required by the Catholic Church
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Conversion Experience
Report on Public Credit
Black Panther Party
31. Strong central government - separation of powers - 'extended republic'
Tammany Hall
James Madison
The Enlightenment
John Winthrop
32. 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
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
King James I - King Charles
Alien and Sedition Acts
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
33. Puritan minister - led revivals - stressed immediate repentance - wrote 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God'
Whiskey Rebellion
Nullification Controversy
Second Great Awakening
Jonathan Edwards
34. Founded by William Sylvis (1866); supported 8-hour workday - convict labor - federal department of labor - banking reform - immigration restrictions to increase wages - women; excluded blacks
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
James G. Blaine
National Labor Union
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
35. Jackson was allowed to relocate Indian tribes in the Louisiana Territory
Tories (Loyalists)
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
Open Door Policy
Indian Removal Act
36. Hamilton praised efficient factories with few managers over many workers - promote emigration - employment opportunities - applications of technology
Pan-Americanism
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
AFL-CIO (1955)
Stamp Act
37. Due to parents unhappy with encouraged segregation of schools - Supreme Court instituted forced busing policies (using school buses as a method of integration)
Marshall Court (all cases)
Invasion of Iraq
Forced busing
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
38. Mass production of the Model-T - workers as potential consumers (raise wages) - supported other industries and raised employment
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39. Dealt with Vietnam War - 'Great Society' program for improvement of American society - antipoverty and anti-discrimination programs
AFL-CIO (1955)
President Lyndon B. Johnson
The Homefront
Mikhail Gorbachev
40. Populists campaigned for silver-backed money rather than gold-backed - believed to be able to relieve working conditions and exploitation of labor
Richard Nixon (R)
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
Free silver
Conservatism
41. Supported Socialists - militant unionists and socialists - advocated strikes and sabotaging politics - aimed for an umbrella union similar to Knights of Labor - ideas too radical for socialist cause
'Silent Majority'
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
Truman's Loyalty Program
Industrial Workers of the World
42. Marbury v. Madison (judicial review) - McChulloch v. Maryland (loose Constitutional interpretation - constitutionality of National Bank - states cannot control government agencies) - Gibbons v. Ogden (interstate commerce controlled by Congress) - Fle
Yeoman Farmers
Marshall Court (all cases)
War Industries Board
Kent State Protest
43. Albert Fall accused of accepting bribes for access to government oil in Teapot Dome - Wyoming
Manifest Destiny
Ngo Dinh Diem
Teapot Dome scandal
Second Great Awakening
44. Banned racial discrimination in federal practices; To Secure These Rights called for desegregation - anti-lynching - end of poll taxes
John D. Rockefeller
'Trail of Tears'
King James I - King Charles
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
45. Congress could tax imports but not exports
Jim Crow laws
Commerce Compromise
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
46. Only English and American ships allowed to colonial ports; dissent began in 1763
Navigation Acts
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
William Jennings Bryan
47. Republican candidate for president in 1884 - quintessence of spoils system; highly disgusted the mugwumps (many Republicans turned to Democrat Cleveland)
March on Birmingham
Charles Lindbergh
James G. Blaine
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
48. Federalist cause leading up to Hartford Convention
Teapot Dome scandal
Election of 1960
'Silent Majority'
Essex case
49. Full American independence - territory west of Appalachian ceded to America - loyalists to be compensated for seized property - fishing rights off of Newfoundland
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
William Jennings Bryan
Burned-Over District
Treaty of Paris (1783)
50. Known as 'wartime food czar;' created recreation policies and reintroduced leisure culture and conservation ethic to get Americans escaping the cities and improve tourism - etc.
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique