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AP U.S. History
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1. Scarce supplies (food and clothing) - army motivated by von Steuben
Valley Forge
Conservatism
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
Martin Luther King Jr.
2. American U-2 spy plane shot down over USSR (Ike: 'for national security); US suspended further flights - Krushchev demanded apology (refused)
The Glorious Revolution
U-2 Incident
Peace Corps
William Lloyd Garrison
3. Public treaties - free trade - free seas - reduced armament burdens - anti-imperialism - independence to minorities - international organization
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4. Heavily evangelized to the point there were no more people left to convert to other religions - upstate New York - home to the beginning of Smith's Mormonism movement
Burned-Over District
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Critics of FDR
5. Banned racial discrimination in federal practices; To Secure These Rights called for desegregation - anti-lynching - end of poll taxes
New Jersey Plan
War hawks
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
6. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - used withheld money from payrolls to provide aid to the unemployed - industrial accident victims - and young mothers; principle of government responsibility for social welfare
American Federation of Labor
Church of England
Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA)
Sons of Liberty
7. 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
National Labor Union
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
Judiciary Act of 1789
Stock market crash (1929)
8. Prohibited discrimination in any government-related work; increased black employment
Nullification Controversy
Marshall Plan
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
Martin Luther King Jr.
9. 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
James K. Polk
'Baby Boom'
Boston Tea Party
George Kennan
10. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - Harold Icicles - provided public construction projects
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Ho Chi Minh
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
11. Society naturally punishes criminals indiscriminantly
Social Reciprocity
League of Nations
Horace Mann
Karl Marx Das Kapital
12. Repeat candidate for president - proponent of silver-backing (16:1 platform) - cross of gold speech against gold standard; Democratic candidate (1896)
Quarantine Speech - 1937
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
Boston Massacre
William Jennings Bryan
13. Lee invaded Pennsylvania - bloodiest battle of the war - Confederate Pickett's Charge (disastrous) - Lee forced to retreat (not pursued by Meade) - South doomed to never invade North again - Gettysburg Address given by Lincoln (nation over union)
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
Monroe Doctrine
Boston Massacre
Battle of Gettysburg
14. Jane Addams's pioneer settlement house (center for women's activism and social reform) in Chicago
Populist Party
William Jennings Bryan
California Gold Rush
Hull House
15. Part of transportation revolution - from Cumberland MD to Wheeling WVa - toll road network; stimulated Western expansion
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
National Road
Horace Mann
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
16. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - hydroelectric power to river valley; brought social and economic development to very poor area
Virtual Representation
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
Essex case
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
17. Rebels felt the governor of Virginia failed to protect the frontier from the Native Americans
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18. Search warrants on shipping to reduce smuggling; challenged by James Otis
New York City draft riots (1863)
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
Writs of Assistance
Tea Act (1773)
19. Prohibited aiding of belligerent nations - banned civilian involvement; limited power of president during international war - built up armed forces
Upton Sinclair
George Kennan
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
20. British passenger liner secretly carrying ammunition sunk by German u-boat - included American passengers
Spanish American War (1898)
Economic transition
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Lusitania
21. Belief in minimal government so as to allow the people their own free reign - lower taxes to stimulate economy - &c.
Conservatism
Jane Addams
Haymarket Bombing
Compromise of 1877
22. Hamilton praised efficient factories with few managers over many workers - promote emigration - employment opportunities - applications of technology
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
Whiskey Rebellion
1968 Presidential Election
Lecompton Constitution
23. Fines and imprisonment for aiding the enemy or hindering U.S. military; forbade any form of criticism of the government and military
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Declaratory Act
Espionage Act and Sedition Act
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
24. Family farmers who hired out slaves for the harvest season - self-sufficient - participated in local markets alongside slave owners
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
Yeoman Farmers
Freeport Doctrine
Theodore Roosevelt
25. Increased tariff on sugar (and other imports) - attempted to harder enforce existing tariffs
Burned-Over District
Sugar Act
James Monroe
John L. Lewis
26. Strong central government - separation of powers - 'extended republic'
'Graying of America'
James Madison
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
Federalists and Republicans
27. Small oil companies sold stock and authority to Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company (consolidation) - cornered world petroleum market
Lecompton Constitution
Invasion of Iraq
Standard Oil Trust
Theodore Roosevelt
28. 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
King James I - King Charles
New Jersey Plan
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Citizen Genet
29. Opposed to all immigration - strongly anti-Catholic
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
Know-Nothing (American) Party
Civil Rights Act of 1964
30. Tried to rule as absolute monarchs without using Parliament - little to no sympathy for colonial legislatures
Charles II - James II
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
James Monroe
31. Government compromised to buy and coin $2-4 million/month; government stuck to minimum and inflation did not occur (lower prices); economy grew
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
Hartford Convention
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
British strengths and weaknesses
32. Through CIO - led three coal mine strikes (some of the very few strikes during the time period)
John L. Lewis
March on Washington
Declining death rate
Berlin Airlift
33. Pushed through northern Georgia - captured Atlanta - 'march to the sea' (total war and destruction) - proceeded to South Carolina
Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA)
Yeoman Farmers
'Bleeding Kansas'
William T. Sherman
34. Civil Rights Act of 1875 declared unconstitutional by Supreme Court - as the fourteenth amendment protected people from governmental infringement of rights and had no effect on acts of private citizens
Civil Rights Cases
Palmer Raids
CIA overthrow of Iran (1953)
Cult of domesticity
35. Created Federal Reserve System - regional banks set up for twelve separate districts - final authority of each bank lay with the Federal Reserve Board - paper money to be issued 'Federal Reserve Notes'
Wilson's 14 points
Federal Reserve Act
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe (1989)
League of Nations
36. The Man Nobody Knows - glorification of business - Jesus as a businessman - relationship between religion and manufacturing
Camp David Accords
Bruce Barton
Marshall Court (all cases)
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
37. Considered a hero for his solo crossing of the Atlantic by plane
Charles Lindbergh
National Organization of Women
The Loyal Nine
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
38. Influence of African-American blues - music of the younger generation (gap between them and their parents)
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39. Government to buy silver to back money in addition to gold
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
Virginia Plan
James Monroe
Social Gospel movement
40. Reluctant to give colonists their own government - preferred to appoint royal governors
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
Declaratory Act
King James I - King Charles
Industrial Workers of the World
41. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark sent by Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Territory on 'Voyage of Discovery'
New York City draft riots (1863)
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Lewis and Clark expedition
Know-Nothing (American) Party
42. 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
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
President Jimmy Carter
Soviet atomic bomb
Federalism
43. Politely demanded from the king a cease¬fire in Boston - repeal of Coercive Acts -. guarantee of American rights
Olive Branch Petition
National Road
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
King James I - King Charles
44. Stressed role of church and religion to improve city life - led by preachers Walter Raushenbusch and Washington Gladen; influenced settlement house movement and Salvation Army
British strengths and weaknesses
Robert La Follette
Social Gospel movement
Richard Nixon (R)
45. Exempted those who owned or oversaw twenty or more slaves from service in the Confederate Army; 'rich man's war but a poor man's fight'
Populist Party
20-Negro Law
'Trail of Tears'
Quebec Acts
46. River traffic - road building - canals (esp. Erie) - rise of NYC
John C. Calhoun
President Harry Truman
Popular Sovereignty
Transportation Revolution
47. '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
Spoils System
Court Packing
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Sugar Act
48. Americans could now spend what they had been told to save during the war (disposable income); increased purchasing of luxury items
Consumerism
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Espionage Act and Sedition Act
Critics of FDR
49. Organize militia - end trade with Britain - refuse to pay taxes to Britain
Truman Doctrine
Suffolk Resolves
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
George Kennan
50. Admiral Dewey defeated Spanish initially; American troops (aided by Aguinaldo's insurgents) captured Manila - leading to annexation
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
U-2 Incident
The Homefront
Important WWII Battles