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AP U.S. History

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1. Unemployment jitters; expelled Teamster union (resorted to gangsterism); height of power of workers' unions






2. Intended to save British East India Company from bankruptcy - could sell directly to consumers rather than through wholesalers (lowered prices to compete with smuggled tea)






3. Gorbachev announced Soviet withdrawal of power from all of Eastern Europe - including Berlin (wall torn down - free movement - &c.)






4. Private property subject to government regulation when property is devoted to public interest; against railroads






5. Exemplary Christian community - rich to show charity - held to Calvinistic beliefs

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6. One country that falls into communism will cause surrounding nations to also fall 'like dominos'; spurred by Southeast Asia regimes (esp. Vietnam)






7. New Englanders who did not wish to relate their conversion experiences could become half-way saints so that their children would be able to have the opportunity to be saints






8. First female cabinet member






9. First attempt of Cherokees to gain complete sovereign rule over their nation






10. Due to threat of nuclear war - Soviets erected wall to separate East Berlin from West Berlin (end exodus of intellect to west); symbol of communist denial of freedom






11. 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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12. John Noyes - New York; utopian society for communalism - perfectionism - and complex marriage






13. Party formed from Republican split by Roosevelt - more progressive values - leaving 'Republican Old Guard' to control Republican party






14. Emphasis on human reason - logic - and science (acquired - not nascent - knowledge); increased followers of Christianity






15. Emerged from Farmers' Alliance movement (when subtreasury plan was defeated in Congress) - denounced Eastern Establishment that suppressed the working classes; Ignatius Donnelly (utopian author) - Mary E Lease - Jerry Simpson






16. Proclamation of 1793 response to French attempts for alliance with US






17. Populists campaigned for silver-backed money rather than gold-backed - believed to be able to relieve working conditions and exploitation of labor






18. British citizenship outnumbered colonies' - large navy and professional army; exhausted resources (Hessians hired) - national debt






19. Ended exclusion of homosexuals from military; due to controversy - compromise of 'don't ask - don't tell' instituted






20. American U-2 spy plane shot down over USSR (Ike: 'for national security); US suspended further flights - Krushchev demanded apology (refused)






21. States could refuse to enforce the federal laws they deemed unconstitutional






22. U.S. felt it was its duty to 'watch out' for the interests of other countries in the Western hemisphere; provided justification for invasions of Latin America.






23. Southern states (especially South Carolina) believed that they had the right to judge federal laws unconstitutional and therefore not enforce them






24. Founded by William Sylvis (1866); supported 8-hour workday - convict labor - federal department of labor - banking reform - immigration restrictions to increase wages - women; excluded blacks






25. Agricultural depression as precursor to the depression; unheeded omen of problems in the economic structure (prices too low — too much supply for the demand)






26. Belief in minimal government so as to allow the people their own free reign - lower taxes to stimulate economy - &c.






27. Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson; purchase of Alaska 'Seward's Folly'






28. British soldiers shot into crowd of snowball fight; two of nine soldiers (defended by John Adams) found guilty of manslaughter






29. Commission on civil rights to attempt to guarantee the ballot to blacks; showed government's changing views of race relations






30. Editor of The Liberator (strongly abolitionist newspaper calling for immediate abolition of slavery) - fought for feminist movement ('Am I not a woman and a sister' picture of slave woman)






31. Kennedy vs. Nixon - Kennedy (due to televised charisma) won over Nixon (pale and nervous)






32. 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






33. Raised tariffs extremely high on manufactured goods; benefited domestic manufacturers - but limited foreign trade






34. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - hydroelectric power to river valley; brought social and economic development to very poor area






35. New generation of writers outside of Protestantism - resentment of ideals betrayed by society; Fitzgerald (despised materialism - Great Gatsby) - Hemingway (disillusionment - war experience) - Lewis (against upper class — Babbit and Mainstreet) - Fau

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36. 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






37. State-run economy to provide conflict-free society






38. Banned racial discrimination in federal practices; To Secure These Rights called for desegregation - anti-lynching - end of poll taxes






39. Caused American hysteria (1957) - fear that Soviets were technologically superior; led Ike to order more rigorous education program to rival Soviets (National Defense Education Act)






40. Decision under Sherman Anti-Trust Act shot down by Supreme Court — sugar refining was manufacturing rather than trade/commerce






41. Goods able to be transferred from New York to New Orleans by inland waterways






42. (1) California admitted as free state - (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico - (3) resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries - (4) federal assumption of Texas debt - (5) slave trade abolished in DC - and (6) new fugit






43. Democratic candidate 1912 - stood for antitrust - monetary change - and tariff reduction; far less active than Roosevelt - Clayton Anti-trust Act (to enforce Sherman) - Child Labor Act






44. Worked towards asylums for the mentally insane - worked alongside Mann






45. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - collective bargaining rights - closed shops permitted (where workers must join unions) - outlawed anti-union tactics






46. 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'






47. States joined for foreign affairs - Congress reigned supreme (lacked executive and judicial) - one vote per state - 2/3 vote for bills - unanimous for amendments; too much power to states - unable to regulate commerce or taxes






48. Introduced his 'New Deal -' won election by a relative landslide (he was not Hoover - whom the public now did not trust)






49. Selective Service Act to require men to register with few exceptions; women and blacks drafted/enlisted - highly successful






50. Hamilton's plan to solve Revolutionary debt - Assumption highly controversial - pushed his plan through Congress - based on loose interpretation of Constitution