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AP U.S. History
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1. Jackson was allowed to relocate Indian tribes in the Louisiana Territory
Conformity in the 1950s
Fair Labor Standards Act
Indian Removal Act
Non-conformity
2. Effectively ended spoils system and established civil service exams for all government positions - under Pres. Garfield
Pendleton Civil Service Act
American society during the Revolution
Specie
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
3. Hired to photograph ordinary Americans experiencing the depression
Dorothea Lange
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
Tammany Hall
Marshall Plan
4. Formed in response to Kansas-Nebraska Act - banned in the South - John C Fremont first presidential candidate
Pocahontas
Jingoism
Republican Party
Maysville Road Veto
5. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - employed young jobless men with government projects on work relief and environment
'Wage slaves'
New Nationalism
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
McCarthyism
6. Helped approval ratings - not removed from office despite all the efforts of Republican congressmen
New Freedom
Deportations of Mexicans
Clinton impeachment (1997)
Liberty Party
7. Preservation of New Deal - attempt at additions; raised minimum wage - public housing - old-age insurance extension - agricultural price supports (lowering of farm price)
Fair Deal
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
Karl Marx Das Kapital
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
8. Ideas of Wilson: small enterprise - states' rights - more active government - trust busting - left social issues up to the states
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
Civil Rights Cases
New Freedom
Harriet Tubman
9. Increased tariff on sugar (and other imports) - attempted to harder enforce existing tariffs
Sugar Act
March on Birmingham
March on Washington
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
10. LBJ's flood of proposals to Congress for the beautification and amelioration of American society (War on Poverty - Medicare - public education spending - public television (PBS) - National Endowments for the Humanities and Arts (NEH - NEA))
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11. Sets of programs geared towards minorities and oft-discriminated populations
Affirmative Action
President Harry Truman
James Monroe
Deists
12. Attacked industrial elite - called for business regulation - publisher refused works breaking with Victorian ideals
National Labor Union
Henry David Thoreau
Compromise of 1850
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
13. Capitalism would become productive when uninhibited by taxes and regulation
Reaganomics
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
'Silent Majority'
Vietnamization
14. Second youngest president - entered presidency as tensions of the Cold War increased; unable to get major initiatives through Congress due to conservative bloc; tax cuts (economic stimulation); reluctantly gets involved in civil rights; emphasizes Sp
Convict-lease system
'Evil Empire' speech - 'Star Wars'
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe (1989)
President John F. Kennedy
15. Used nonviolent protest and boycott to achieve better working conditions for farmers (esp. Mexican-Americans)
League of Nations
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Writs of Assistance
16. Mao Zedong (communist) defeated nationalist forces of Kai-Shek (supported by US); seen as defeat for US - not officially fully recognized until 1973
China turns communist
Knights of Labor
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Reaganomics
17. Blacks who went to prison taken out and used for labor in slave-like conditions - enforced southern racial hierarchy
President Franklin Roosevelt
Convict-lease system
Second Great Awakening
Valley Forge
18. Government would protect America's foreign investments with any force needed; under president Taft
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19. In reaction to the Boston Tea Party; closing of Boston Harbor - revocation of Massachusetts charter (power to governor) - murder in the name of royal authority would be tried in England or another colony
Townshend Act (1767)
Election of 1824
New Jersey Plan
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
20. Unconstitutionalized the NRA due to delegation of legislative authority from Congress to executive
'Big BM' Haywood
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Dorothea Lange
Schechter v. U.S Court case
21. Argued that states had the right to determine whether or not the laws passed by Congress were constitutional
Jackson's Presidency
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
22. Ended the Dominion of New England - gave power back to colonies
Commerce Compromise
William and Mary
Andrew Carnegie
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
23. Spread quickly; opposed everything that was not White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) (and conservative) - Stephenson's faults and jail sentence led to demise
Ike's Farewell Speech
Hoovervilles
Ku Klux Klan
Potsdam Conference (1945)
24. Ensured trade with mother country - nationalism; too restrictive on colonial economy - not voted on by colonists
Mercantilism
Election of 1980
Good Neighbor Policy
Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1922 and 1930
25. Detente achieved with USSR and China by withdrawal from Vietnam; realpolitik shed the use of doctrines and policies - instead using China and USSR in alternative ways to achieve other goals (pitting China and USSR against each other - as communist na
Detente - realpolitik
Essex case
Fair Labor Standards Act
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
26. Abolished national origins quotas - dramatically increased immigration (especially from Asia and Latin America)
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
Detente - realpolitik
Immigration Act of 1965
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
27. Douglas was able to reconcile the Dred Scott Decision with popular sovereignty; voters would be able to exclude slavery by not allowing laws that treated slaves as property
Freeport Doctrine
Independent Treasury Bill
Booker T. Washington
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
28. Border ruffians in election on issue of slavery incited controversy - proslavery group attacked Lawrence - Kansas - Pottawatomie Massacre
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29. Began by Edwards to return to Puritanism - increased overall religious involvement - gave women more active roles in religion - more and more ministers sprouted up throughout the country; mainly affected towns and cities
Anne Hutchinson
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
The Great Awakening
Standard Oil Trust
30. Conservatives like Reagan benefited from denouncing the New Left and excessive antiwar protests; gave him political prominence
Conservative backlash against liberalism
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Stagflation
Free silver
31. 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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32. Americans concerned with economic depression; sought to avoid European involvement - no apparent immediate threats
Farm crisis
Conformity in the 1950s
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
33. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - Harry Hopkins; provide work for unemployed and construct public works - &c. through Emergency Relief Appropriation Act; much like Civil Works Administration
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA)
Missouri Compromise (1820)
34. Under JQ Adams - protectionist tariff - South considered it the source of economic problems - made Jackson appear to advocate free trade
'Trail of Tears'
Tariff of Abominations
Convict-lease system
Robert E. Lee
35. Activist government to serve all citizens (cf. Alexander Hamilton); founded New Republic magazine
Karl Marx Das Kapital
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
Salvation Army
Rosenbergs
36. Soviets cut Berlin off from the rest of Germany by blockade; US organized airlift to drop supplies into Britain; blockade lifted in May 1949
Square Deal
Berlin Airlift
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
President Harry Truman
37. Head of federal Division of Forestry - contributed to Roosevelt's natural conservation efforts
Suffolk Resolves
Gifford Pinchot
John Dewey
Battle of Antietam
38. McKinley reluctant; armed intervention to free Cuba from Spain; Roosevelt's 'Rough Riders' made attack on Spanish at Cuba
Church of England
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
New Harmony
Spanish American War (1898)
39. Strong patriotism and need to conform to try to avoid blame during red scare - non-churchgoers - unmarried - and critics suspected as communists
Sons of Liberty
Conformity in the 1950s
Gulf War - 'Operation Desert Storm' (1991)
Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Association (YMCA & YWCA)
40. Private property subject to government regulation when property is devoted to public interest; against railroads
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
Explosion of USS Maine
Munn v. Illinois
41. 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
'Hundred days'
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
Robert La Follette
John C. Calhoun
42. Often debtors sold to slave traders by African kings seeking riches; Columbian Exchange
Jim Crow laws
George Kennan
Atlantic slave trade
The Alamo
43. Ford's and Carter's presidencies experienced a recession and inflation simultaneously - solved by Keynesian economics
Stagflation
Deregulation
Salutary Neglect
Underground Railroad
44. American hostages taken by US hating Shiites upon Shah's flight from uprising - botched rescue attempts
President Jimmy Carter
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
Boston Tea Party
Henry Ford's assembly line
45. Speech symbolized polarization between conservatives and liberals
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46. Pop art - mass production of art by screening
Virginia Plan
Second Great Awakening
Andy Warhol
Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA)
47. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - provided more funds to state and local relief efforts
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
48. Written by Calhoun - regarding tariff nullification
Battle of Tippecanoe
Black Panther Party
Forced busing
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
49. FDR encouraged democracies to quarantine their opponents (economic embargos); criticized by isolationists
'New Left'
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Quarantine Speech - 1937
Potsdam Conference (1945)
50. FDR's plan (although vague during the campaign) to restart the economy and pull America out of the Great Depression
New Deal
Creel Committee
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
US acquisitions