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AP U.S. History
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1. Natural selection applied to human competition - advocated by Herbert Spencer - William Graham Sumner
Social Darwinism
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
'Red Scare' (1919)
Non-Intercourse Act
2. Accomplished great number of relief - recovery - and reform efforts; sought practical solutions to the problems by experimentation
3. Upheld constitutionality of Espionage Act; Congress right to limit free speech during times of war
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
Japanese internment
William Seward
Reaganomics
4. Another part of Nixon's out-of-Vietnam plan - destroy supply routes to North Vietnam through Cambodia
Tammany Hall
Gifford Pinchot
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
Bombing and invasion of Cambodia
5. US - Britain - Japan - France - and Italy to reduce naval tonnage and halt construction for 10 years; US and Japan to respect Pacific territorial holdings - Kellog-Briand Pact to 'outlaw war'
John Dewey
Yellow journalism
Ku Klux Klan
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
6. Withdrawal of American troops from foreign nations (especially Latin America) to improve international relations and unite western hemisphere; Clark Memorandum (rebukes the 'big stick'); peaceful resolution of Mexican oil fields
Navigation Acts
Good Neighbor Policy
Tea Act (1773)
William H. Taft
7. Prohibited aiding of belligerent nations - banned civilian involvement; limited power of president during international war - built up armed forces
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
Stagflation
GI Bill of Rights
Boston Massacre
8. 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)
9. Led Pottawatomie Massacre - extreme abolitionist who believed he was doing God's work
Indentured servants
John Brown
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
US economy since WWII (service economy)
10. Powerful speaker - toured the country and inspired many into Christianity
Conscription policies
US acquisitions
George Whitefield
Yalta Conference (1945)
11. Jackson used personal friends as unofficial advisors over his official cabinet
Lusitania
March on Birmingham
Kitchen Cabinet
US acquisitions
12. Part of 'First' New Deal Program - subsidies to farmers to decrease production and thus increase prices
Currency Act
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
13. Speech symbolized polarization between conservatives and liberals
14. Germany announced that it would sink all (including American) ships - attempt to involve U.S. in war
'Red Scare' (1919)
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
15. Attacked industrial elite - called for business regulation - publisher refused works breaking with Victorian ideals
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
James G. Blaine
Vietcong
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
16. Belief in minimal government so as to allow the people their own free reign - lower taxes to stimulate economy - &c.
Conservatism
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA)
Yeoman Farmers
17. Supreme Court legalized the 'separate but equal' philosophy
John L. Lewis
'Bleeding Kansas'
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Plessy v. Ferguson
18. Established colony of Georgia as a place for honest debtors
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
Yeoman Farmers
James Oglethorpe
Yellow journalism
19. Through CIO - led three coal mine strikes (some of the very few strikes during the time period)
Gifford Pinchot
James Madison
Deregulation
John L. Lewis
20. Preservation of New Deal - attempt at additions; raised minimum wage - public housing - old-age insurance extension - agricultural price supports (lowering of farm price)
James K. Polk
Fair Deal
William Jennings Bryan
National Road
21. Prohibited testing of nuclear bombs above ground to slow the nuclear arms race and the release of nuclear fallout into the atmosphere
David Riesman
Bank of the United States
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
James K. Polk
22. Fines and imprisonment for aiding the enemy or hindering U.S. military; forbade any form of criticism of the government and military
Dorothea Lange
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
Espionage Act and Sedition Act
Dominion of New England
23. North African Muslim rulers solved budget problems through piracy and tributes in Mediterranean - obtained fees from most European powers
Barbary Pirates
President Ronald Reagan
James Oglethorpe
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
24. Denounced the 'housewife trap' which caused educated women to hold even themselves inferior to men
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
US acquisitions
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
Five Civilized Tribes
25. Similar to Navigation; raised money to pay colonial officials by American taxes; led to Boston boycott of English luxuries
Jim Crow laws
Conservatism
Maysville Road Veto
Townshend Act (1767)
26. Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson; purchase of Alaska 'Seward's Folly'
US acquisitions
William Seward
1968 Presidential Election
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
27. Fought for return to colonial rule - usually conservative (educated and wealthy
Booker T. Washington
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
Tories (Loyalists)
Election of 1824
28. For women's rights - organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton - modeled requests after the Declaration of Independence
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
U-2 Incident
Thomas Nast
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
29. Paper money; specie circular decreed that the government would not accept specie for government land
Charles Lindbergh
Specie
Marcus Garvey
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
30. Reduced quota - reduced numbers from eastern and southern Europe - Asians banned - Canadians and Latin Americans exempt
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
Berlin Airlift
National Origins Act (1924)
William Marcy
31. Held in New York - agreed to not import British goods until Stamp Act was repealed
New York City draft riots (1863)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stamp Act Congress
John Dewey
32. Worked to reform the American education system - abolitionist - prison/asylum reform with Dorothea Dix
Burned-Over District
Citizen Genet
'Big BM' Haywood
Horace Mann
33. Ended the Dominion of New England - gave power back to colonies
William and Mary
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
New Harmony
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
34. Gorbachev decreased nuclear arsenals - Communist Party lost power - Boris Yeltsin (president of Russian Republic) led Muscovites to take control
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
William Jennings Bryan
John Winthrop
John D. Rockefeller
35. September 1949 - US no longer held monopoly; two atomic powers
Soviet atomic bomb
Neutrality
Industrial Workers of the World
Clinton impeachment (1997)
36. Avoided league of Nations - opposed Latin American involvement
Palmer Raids
Religious Right
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
Isolationism
37. Established by 'General' William Booth - uniformed volunteers provided food - shelter - and employment to families - attracted poor with lively preaching and marching bands in order to instill middle-class virtues
Salvation Army
President Harry Truman
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
38. Colonies proposed colonial confederation under lighter British rule (crown-appointed president - 'Grand Council'); never took effect
Vietcong
Henry David Thoreau
Albany Plan of Union
Jonathan Edwards
39. Prohibited settlements west of Appalachian - restriction on colonial growth
Proclamation of 1763
Liberty Party
Stamp Act
Missouri Compromise (1820)
40. The Jungle revealed unsanitary nature of meat-packing industry - inspired Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
McCarthyism
Upton Sinclair
Independent Treasury Bill
Suburbia
41. Electric light - phonograph - mimeograph - Dictaphone - moving pictures
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
Open Door Policy
Thomas Edison
42. Key to English-Native American relationship - died in England in 1617
President Ronald Reagan
John Brown
Pocahontas
Ulysses S. Grant
43. Supported abolition - broke off of Anti-Slavery Society
Important WWII Battles
Liberty Party
Stephen Austin
William Jennings Bryan
44. Leader of IWW - from Western Federation of Miners
45. Established free trade zone between Canada - United States and Mexico - net gain in jobs due to opening of Mexican markets
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
Fort Sumter
Okies' and 'Arkies'
Panic of 1893
46. Spurred by Great Migration - large-scale riots - lynchings - &c.
47. Northern Securities Company (JP Morgan and James G. Hill - railroads) seen by Roosevelt as 'bad' trust - Supreme Court upheld his first trust-bust
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
Northern Securities Case
National Origins Act (1924)
Tea Act (1773)
48. Japanese bombing of ships in harbor; resulted in FDR's request for declaration of war against Japan; Germany and Italy responded with declarations of war
Pearl Harbor
Black Panther Party
Forced busing
Regionalist and naturalist writers
49. McKinley reluctant; armed intervention to free Cuba from Spain; Roosevelt's 'Rough Riders' made attack on Spanish at Cuba
Spanish American War (1898)
George Wallace - American
Anne Hutchinson
Reaganomics
50. Ford's and Carter's presidencies experienced a recession and inflation simultaneously - solved by Keynesian economics
John Foster Dulles
Stagflation
John D. Rockefeller
Hull House