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AP U.S. History
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1. Republican - popular hero of WWII; 'dynamic conservatism' as a middle ground btw. Rep. and Dem.; Interstate Highway System (ulterior motive of weapons transportation); St. Lawrence Seaway opened Great Lakes to Atlantic Ocean via locks; Depts. Of Heal
Farm crisis
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Salutary Neglect
Dred Scott v. Sandford
2. United States aided South Vietnam in its war of power struggle against North Vietnam - the Vietcong - USSR - and China
Vietnam War
U-2 Incident
Religious Right
The Great Awakening
3. Introduced his 'New Deal -' won election by a relative landslide (he was not Hoover - whom the public now did not trust)
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Lowell mill/system
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
President Franklin Roosevelt
4. Efficient working methods to increase productivity; usually resulted in lower wages (hated by workers) - power to managers
Virginia Resolves
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
'Silent Majority'
United States vs. EC Knight Company
5. Introduced work ethic to Jamestown colony - sanitation - diplomat to local Native American tribes; had fought Spanish and Turks
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
Critics of FDR
Cotton Gin
John Smith
6. Congress authorized LBJ to repel and prevent aggression against US troops in Vietnam - used as a blank check (perhaps too much - caused protests)
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Wilmot Proviso
Martin Luther King Jr.
Dawes Plan (1924)
7. Black Muslim worked to raise black spirits and pride (cf. Marcus Garvey); emphasized black institutions rather than mere desegregation - blacks to gain freedom at any cost
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
Mercantilism
New Nationalism
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
8. Head of federal Division of Forestry - contributed to Roosevelt's natural conservation efforts
John Dewey
Gifford Pinchot
Mayflower Compact
Virtual Representation
9. Worked towards asylums for the mentally insane - worked alongside Mann
Dorothea Dix
Transportation Revolution
Theodore Roosevelt
Spoils System
10. Capitalism would become productive when uninhibited by taxes and regulation
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
Reaganomics
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Isolationism
11. Judges appointed to Supreme Court by Adams in the last days of his presidency to force them upon Jefferson - Marshall among those appointed
'Hundred days'
Midnight judges
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
French and Indian War
12. Women must gain economic rights in order to impact society (cf. rising divorce rates)
Stamp Act Congress
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
Interstate Commerce Act
13. Runaway slave - well-known speaker on the condition of slavery - worked with Garrison and Wendell Phillips - founder of The North Star
Frederick Douglass
Specie
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
Social Darwinism
14. Ideas of Wilson: small enterprise - states' rights - more active government - trust busting - left social issues up to the states
Wilson's 14 points
Transcendentalism
New Freedom
President John F. Kennedy
15. '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
Bruce Barton
Farm crisis
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
16. 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
Battle of Yorktown
Palmer Raids
Pearl Harbor
Judiciary Act of 1789
17. Blacks denied admission to all-white school; overturned Plessy v. Ferguson - negating 'separate but equal' - ordered integration of schools as soon as possible; white southerners protested (refused to attend integrated schools)
Popular Sovereignty
Reaganomics
Henry Ford's assembly line
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
18. Secretly sponsored peace negotiations so as to prevent Japanese or Russian monopoly on Asia; concerned with safety of Philippines
New Harmony
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
Ulysses S. Grant
19. Hamilton praised efficient factories with few managers over many workers - promote emigration - employment opportunities - applications of technology
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
Vietnamization
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Dawes Plan (1924)
20. 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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21. Taxes on all legal documents to support British troops - not approved by colonists through their representatives
Stamp Act
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
Dawes Plan (1924)
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
22. Due to parents unhappy with encouraged segregation of schools - Supreme Court instituted forced busing policies (using school buses as a method of integration)
Conscription policies
Townshend Act (1767)
Election of 1824
Forced busing
23. French threat at the borders was no longer present - therefore the colonies didn't need English protection; more independent stand against Britain
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
French and Indian War
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
President John F. Kennedy
24. British-occupied cities - new governments - fighting by any with experience - loaned money - African-Americans and Native Americans involved
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
Deists
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
American society during the Revolution
25. Elvis Presley - Marilyn Monroe - James Dean - Beatniks — rebelled against conservative conformity of the rest of the country (esp. targeted youth)
United States vs. EC Knight Company
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Non-conformity
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
26. 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
Coxey's Army
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Social Gospel movement
Cuban Missile Crisis
27. Planes hijacked by terrorists for destruction; blame pinned on Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden - sought out in attempt to completely destroy terrorism
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
Navigation Acts
Salvation Army
28. Lee's chief lieutenant and premier cavalry officer
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29. Sought to encourage domestic American manufacturing
Moral Diplomacy
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
Non-Intercourse Act
Dred Scott v. Sandford
30. Led by Francis Willard - powerful 'interest group' following the civil war - urged women's suffrage - led to Prohibition
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31. Dance music - slave spirituals adapted into improvisation and ragtime; jazz migrated along with blacks in the Great Migration
Stock market crash (1929)
Jazz
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
Open Door Policy
32. Rejection of negative portrayals of women (language - entertainment) - increased quality and use of education - more job opportunities - acceptance into military
Okies' and 'Arkies'
Gains for women
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
New York City draft riots (1863)
33. Victorian standards confined women to the home to create an artistic environment as a statement of cultural aspirations
Isolationism
Cult of domesticity
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
Convict-lease system
34. In Brook Farm Community - lived in seclusion for two years writing Walden and On Civil Disobedience - proved that man could provide for himself without materialistic wants
Henry David Thoreau
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Stock market crash (1929)
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
35. Decided to punish war crimes - established program for de-Nazification of Germany
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Liberty Party
George Wallace - American
36. Lee's attack on Maryland in hopes that he could take it from the Union - bloodiest day of the war - stalemate - McClellan replaced by Burnside - stalemate - South would never be so close to victory again
Battle of Antietam
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
John Brown
James Meredith
37. American commander-in-chief; first president - set precedents for future presidents - put down Whiskey Rebellion (enforced Whiskey Tax) - managed first presidential cabinet - carefully used power of executive to avoid monarchial style rule
Mikhail Gorbachev
George Washington
Immigration Act of 1965
Henry Clay and the American System
38. Part of transportation revolution - from Cumberland MD to Wheeling WVa - toll road network; stimulated Western expansion
Sugar Act
Jackie Robinson
National Road
William Henry Harrison
39. Reluctant to give colonists their own government - preferred to appoint royal governors
King James I - King Charles
Valley Forge
The Loyal Nine
New Nationalism
40. Political muckraking cartoonist - refused bribes to stop criticism
Compromise of 1850
Affirmative Action
American society during the Revolution
Thomas Nast
41. Often debtors sold to slave traders by African kings seeking riches; Columbian Exchange
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
'Gentlemen's Agreement' (1908)
Atlantic slave trade
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
42. Clay and Calhoun - eager for war with Britain (War of 1812)
Transcendentalism
'Evil Empire' speech - 'Star Wars'
War hawks
John D. Rockefeller
43. 'Southern Strategy' lured many southern Democrats to the Republican party (esp. due to southern opposition to Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Soviet atomic bomb
Richard Nixon (R)
Era of Good Feelings
William Penn and the Quakers
44. Symbol of women workers during the war
William Marcy
Social Darwinism
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
Rosie the Riveter
45. Prohibited colonies from issuing paper money - destabilized colonial economy
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
Currency Act
James Oglethorpe
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
46. Fought for old Southern way of life (states' rights) - attempted to gain higher standing within Democratic party; aimed to deny Truman enough electoral votes to avoid his reelection by nominating Strom Thurmond (SC governor)
Dixiecrats - 1948
Regionalist and naturalist writers
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
47. Proslavery constitution in Kansas - supported by Buchanan - freesoilers against it (victorious) - denied statehood until after secession
Tet Offensive (1968)
Lecompton Constitution
'Affluent Society'
Virtual Representation
48. 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
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
Burned-Over District
Shays's Rebellion
Elastic Clause ('necessary and proper')
49. Cherokee tribe forced to move from southern Appalachians to reservations in current-day Oklahoma - high death toll
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50. Bush vs. Clinton vs. Perot; focus on stagnancy of economy and problems of middle class (Clinton)
Andy Warhol
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
Benjamin Franklin
1992 Election