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AP U.S. History
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1. American who settled in Texas - one of the leaders for Texan independence from Mexico
Gays in the military
Stephen Austin
James Madison
Battle of Tippecanoe
2. Court case - unconstitutionalized all state laws prohibiting women's rights to have an abortion performed during the first trimester of pregnancy
Roe v. Wade
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Truman Doctrine
Roger Williams
3. Fear of Japanese-Americans as traitors - sent off (by law) to internment camps; removal of deemed threats in military areas
'New Left'
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
Japanese internment
Henry Clay and the American System
4. Runaway slaves could be caught in the North and be brought back to their masters (they were treated as property — running away was as good as stealing)
French and Indian War
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
Fugitive Slave Act
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
5. Runaway slave - well-known speaker on the condition of slavery - worked with Garrison and Wendell Phillips - founder of The North Star
Fort Sumter
Frederick Douglass
Theodore Roosevelt
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
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
The Enlightenment
Election of 1800
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA)
7. Established federal district courts that followed local procedures - Supreme Court had final jurisdiction; compromise between nationalists and advocates for states' rights
Judiciary Act of 1789
XYZ Affair
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
Dorothea Dix
8. Increase working output by standardizing procedures and rewarding those who worked fast; efficiency
'Trail of Tears'
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
President Ronald Reagan
Northwest Passage
9. Unconstitutionalized the NRA due to delegation of legislative authority from Congress to executive
Whig Party
Bank of the United States
Haymarket Bombing
Schechter v. U.S Court case
10. Fought for human rights in Africa - Panama Canal returned to Panama - relations with China resolved
Humanitarian diplomacy
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
Martin Luther King Jr.
China turns communist
11. Influence of African-American blues - music of the younger generation (gap between them and their parents)
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12. Led a slave rebellion in Virginia - attacked many whites - prompted non-slaveholding Virginians to consider emancipation
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13. Northern Securities Company (JP Morgan and James G. Hill - railroads) seen by Roosevelt as 'bad' trust - Supreme Court upheld his first trust-bust
The Half-Way Covenant
James Madison
Neutrality
Northern Securities Case
14. Led architectural movement to create building designs that reflected buildings' functions - especially in Chicago
New Lights vs. Old Lights
Louis Sullivan
Japanese internment
Boston Tea Party
15. First permanent English settlement in the Americas (1607) - along James River
Ike's Farewell Speech
Jamestown
Open Door Policy
Greenback Party
16. Darwinian (influenced by jazz age and new scientific ideas) against Fundamentalist (the Bible and Creationism); John Scopes convicted for teaching Darwinism (defended by Clarence Darrow); Scopes found guilty
John Winthrop
Panic of 1819
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Scopes Trial
17. Hired to photograph ordinary Americans experiencing the depression
Eugene V. Debs
Dorothea Lange
Court Packing
Olive Branch Petition
18. Coxey and unemployed followers marched on Washington for support in unemployment relief by inflationary public works program
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19. No further introduction of slaves into Missouri - all children born to slaves to become free at 25
Tallmadge Amendment
Free silver
Consumerism
Japanese internment
20. 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
Virginia Plan
Albany Plan of Union
George Kennan
Lecompton Constitution
21. Worked to reform the American education system - abolitionist - prison/asylum reform with Dorothea Dix
Horace Mann
Panic of 1893
The Alamo
Quebec Acts
22. Belligerent nationalism against other threatening nations
Thomas Nast
Stamp Act
Jingoism
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
23. Prohibited aiding of belligerent nations - banned civilian involvement; limited power of president during international war - built up armed forces
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
Committees of Correspondence
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
24. Spread quickly; opposed everything that was not White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) (and conservative) - Stephenson's faults and jail sentence led to demise
Ku Klux Klan
Stock market crash (1929)
Erie Canal
'Baby Boom'
25. Mass production of the Model-T - workers as potential consumers (raise wages) - supported other industries and raised employment
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26. Westward migration of workers (new economic opportunities - esp. aircraft industry) - high rates of divorce and family/juvenile violence - women encouraged to work in factories - still held inferior to men
The Homefront
Conversion Experience
Hudson River School
William H. Taft
27. Single tax on speculated land to ameliorate industrialization misery
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
Jazz
Spoils System
Erie Canal
28. Natural selection applied to human competition - advocated by Herbert Spencer - William Graham Sumner
Indentured servants
Harpers Ferry (1859)
Election of 1824
Social Darwinism
29. Americans who were forced out of their homes in Oklahoma and Arkansas (respectively) due to the dust storms and drought known as the Dust Bowl
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30. September 1949 - US no longer held monopoly; two atomic powers
Soviet atomic bomb
Gifford Pinchot
Gulf War - 'Operation Desert Storm' (1991)
Creel Committee
31. Pushed for Assumption (federal government to assume state debts) - pushed creation of the National Bank (most controversial) - loose interpretation of Constitution - leader of Federalist Party
Republican Party
Alexander Hamilton
Causes of the depression
James Madison
32. Stronger union of states - equal and population-based representation - simple majority vote (with presidential veto) - regulation of foreign and interstate commerce - execution by president - power to enact taxes - federal courts - easier amendment p
Ulysses S. Grant
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Eugene V. Debs
33. Hamilton praised efficient factories with few managers over many workers - promote emigration - employment opportunities - applications of technology
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
Federalism
Dixiecrats - 1948
Secretary of State John Hay
34. Congress could tax imports but not exports
Espionage Act and Sedition Act
New Lights vs. Old Lights
Commerce Compromise
Judiciary Act of 1789
35. Prejudiced jury sentenced them to death - caused riots around the world - new trial denied
Jackie Robinson
Compromise of 1850
The Great Awakening
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
36. State-run economy to provide conflict-free society
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
XYZ Affair
Townshend Act (1767)
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
37. Led railroad workers in Pullman Strike - arrested; Supreme Court (decision in re Debs) legalized use of injunction (court order) against unions and strikes
Kent State Protest
Marbury v. Madison
Eugene V. Debs
New York City draft riots (1863)
38. Federal government to increase power over economy and society by means of progressive reforms - developed by Roosevelt (after presidency)
Square Deal
New Nationalism
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
Robert E. Lee
39. Stressed to the American people British maltreatment and emphasize a need for revolution; appealed to American emotions
Hull House
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Barbary Pirates
Panic of 1893
40. Reluctant to give colonists their own government - preferred to appoint royal governors
Vertical and horizontal integration
King James I - King Charles
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
'Trail of Tears'
41. Slaves could not sue in federal courts (blacks no longer considered citizens) - slaves could not be taken from masters except by the law - Missouri Compromise unconstitutional - Congress not able to prohibit slavery in a state
20-Negro Law
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Dred Scott v. Sandford
42. French foreign minister (Talleyrand) demanded bribe in order to meet with American peace commission - made Adams unpopular among the people
Pinkertons
Virginia Plan
National Organization of Women
XYZ Affair
43. Rejection of negative portrayals of women (language - entertainment) - increased quality and use of education - more job opportunities - acceptance into military
Energy Crisis - OPEC
GI Bill of Rights
Gains for women
'Bleeding Kansas'
44. 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)
Jazz
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Square Deal
45. Speech given by BTW to ease whites' fears of integration - assuring them that separate but equal was acceptable - ideas challenged by DuBois
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46. Government compromised to buy and coin $2-4 million/month; government stuck to minimum and inflation did not occur (lower prices); economy grew
Virtual Representation
Erie Canal
Immigration Act of 1965
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
47. Catholic communist autocrat of Vietnam - assassinated (with aid of US)
Wilson's 14 points
Ngo Dinh Diem
Tammany Hall
Harlem Renaissance
48. 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
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
XYZ Affair
Bonus Army
Impressment
49. Proponent of gradual gain of equal rights for African-Americans
Essex case
Booker T. Washington
Writs of Assistance
Creel Committee
50. Drastic cutbacks in regulation of business by the federal government (banks - transportation - communications
Deregulation
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
Midnight judges
Battle of Tippecanoe