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AP U.S. History
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1. Educational and residential segregation; inferior facilities allotted to African-Americans - predominantly in South
Jim Crow laws
Cotton Gin
Emancipation Proclamation
James Monroe
2. Victorian standards confined women to the home to create an artistic environment as a statement of cultural aspirations
Cult of domesticity
Upton Sinclair
Truman's Loyalty Program
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
3. Organized and controlled resistance against Parliamentary acts in less violent ways (strength of martyrdom) - advocated nonimportation
Sons of Liberty
'Big BM' Haywood
President Franklin Roosevelt
National Labor Union
4. The two political parties that formed following Washington's presidency; Federalists for stronger central government - Republicans for stronger state governments
Andy Warhol
Conversion Experience
Battle of Gettysburg
Federalists and Republicans
5. Fair amount of troops - short guerilla tactics - strong leaders (Washington); nonprofessional army that could not handle long battles
Federalists and Republicans
Pinkertons
'City on a Hill'
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
6. Detectives hired by employers as private police force - often used to end strikes
Pinkertons
Black Panther Party
George Washington
Deregulation
7. Decided to punish war crimes - established program for de-Nazification of Germany
1968 as 'the year of shocks'
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
William Penn and the Quakers
Potsdam Conference (1945)
8. Speech symbolized polarization between conservatives and liberals
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9. Left primary open to Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy - both promising to end the controversial war
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10. First African-American in major league baseball
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Jackie Robinson
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Wilson's 14 points
11. Stated the United States was destined to span the breadth of the entire continent with as much land as possible - advocated by Polk
William and Mary
Manifest Destiny
Vertical and horizontal integration
Pan-Americanism
12. French threat at the borders was no longer present - therefore the colonies didn't need English protection; more independent stand against Britain
French and Indian War
Jackie Robinson
Alien and Sedition Acts
Indentured servants
13. Coxey and unemployed followers marched on Washington for support in unemployment relief by inflationary public works program
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14. Worked towards asylums for the mentally insane - worked alongside Mann
Dorothea Dix
National Organization of Women
Dorothea Lange
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
15. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - insured deposits < $5000 - reassured American public of the worth of banks
Cotton Gin
Declining death rate
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Battle of Gettysburg
16. American general Horatio Gates was victorious over British general Burgoyne
Battle of Saratoga
Dixiecrats - 1948
Thomas Nast
Public Works Administration (PWA)
17. Taxes on all legal documents to support British troops - not approved by colonists through their representatives
Northern Securities Case
George Washington
William Henry Harrison
Stamp Act
18. Brought in Mexicans for temporary jobs - concentrated in southern CA - given extremely poor working conditions (as they were not American citizens)
Tallmadge Amendment
Bracero program
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
Mayflower Compact
19. Monroe presidency - national unity behind Monroe - post-war boom (foreign demand for cotton - grain - and tobacco) - Depression of 1819 (cheap British imports - tightened credit - affected West the most)
William Penn and the Quakers
Bruce Barton
Era of Good Feelings
Warren Court
20. Foreshadowed in 14 points - hoped to guarantee political independence and integrity of all countries
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Henry Ford's assembly line
John C. Calhoun
League of Nations
21. Writing took a more realistic approach on the world - regionalist writers focused on local life (Sarah Orne Jewett) - naturalist writers focused on economy and psychology (Stephen Crane)
Regionalist and naturalist writers
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
Civil Rights Cases
Soviet atomic bomb
22. Tried to rule as absolute monarchs without using Parliament - little to no sympathy for colonial legislatures
Charles II - James II
John C. Calhoun
'Silent Majority'
Energy Crisis - OPEC
23. Provided for evacuation of English troops from posts in the Great Lakes
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24. Populists campaigned for silver-backed money rather than gold-backed - believed to be able to relieve working conditions and exploitation of labor
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Free silver
Jamestown
Popular Sovereignty
25. 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
Greenback Party
US acquisitions
National Road
The Homefront
26. Midway (US Signal Corps - turning point of war in the Pacific) - D-Day (Eisenhower's amphibious invasion of Normandy - led to depletion of German forces) - Stalingrad (Russians defeated Germans - saved Moscow and Leningrad - turning point in Europe)
Important WWII Battles
Quarantine Speech - 1937
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
Second Great Awakening
27. Over Senate seat for Illinois (Douglas victor) - Lincoln stated the country could not remain split over the issue of slavery
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
Schechter v. U.S Court case
William Lloyd Garrison
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
28. Economic prosperity of American society following WWII; doubling of national income - jobs to women - defense industry's support of economy
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29. 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
Federalism
William and Mary
Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA)
Berlin Wall
30. 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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31. 10-year moratorium on Chinese immigration to reduce competition for jobs (Chinese willing to work for cheap salaries)
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Okies' and 'Arkies'
Rosie the Riveter
The Glorious Revolution
32. Achieved an abnormal rise in class system (steel industry) - pioneered vertical integration (controlled Mesabie Range to ship ore to Pittsburgh) - opposed monopolies - used partnership of steel tycoons (Henry Clay Frick as a manager/partner) - Bessem
Domino theory
Compromise of 1877
Andrew Carnegie
Jackie Robinson
33. Part of Nixon's tri-faceted plan to honorably remove troops from Vietnam; wean the South Vietnamese off of American support - gradually reducing number of American troops present
Zoot Suit riots
Suburbia
Vietnamization
Rationing
34. Colonies proposed colonial confederation under lighter British rule (crown-appointed president - 'Grand Council'); never took effect
New Jersey Plan
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Albany Plan of Union
Election of 1800
35. American who settled in Texas - one of the leaders for Texan independence from Mexico
New York City draft riots (1863)
Pocahontas
Stephen Austin
Tariff of Abominations
36. Activist government to serve all citizens (cf. Alexander Hamilton); founded New Republic magazine
Underground Railroad
Korean War
Harpers Ferry (1859)
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
37. 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)
Declaratory Act
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
38. Believed to provide shortcut from Atlantic to Pacific - searched for by Giovanni de Verrazano for Francis I in the race to Asian wealth
Northwest Passage
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
Manifest Destiny
Battle of Antietam
39. Clay and Calhoun - eager for war with Britain (War of 1812)
Era of Good Feelings
Horace Mann
War hawks
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
40. 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'
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
Tallmadge Amendment
Deportations of Mexicans
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
41. Party formed from Republican split by Roosevelt - more progressive values - leaving 'Republican Old Guard' to control Republican party
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
US acquisitions
Bull Moose Party
Dixiecrats - 1948
42. 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
American Federation of Labor
George Washington
Macon's Bill No. 2
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
43. Social ideals to be encouraged in public school (stress on social interaction) - learning by doing
Charles Lindbergh
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
John Dewey
Watergate Scandal
44. Emphasis on human reason - logic - and science (acquired - not nascent - knowledge); increased followers of Christianity
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
The Enlightenment
CIA overthrow of Iran (1953)
45. The Man Nobody Knows - glorification of business - Jesus as a businessman - relationship between religion and manufacturing
Religious Right
'Trail of Tears'
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
Bruce Barton
46. Americans feared Soviet infiltration into Latin America - placed secret police and military forces to prevent it
Soviet atomic bomb
Mikhail Gorbachev
Connecticut Compromise
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
47. Supreme Court legalized the 'separate but equal' philosophy
Non-conformity
Great Migration
Tet Offensive (1968)
Plessy v. Ferguson
48. Nationalists against foreign non-English speaking workers (took jobs away from American men); encouraged to leave the U.S.
Camp David Accords
Tea Act (1773)
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
Deportations of Mexicans
49. Protected rights of individual from the power of the central government
Bill of Rights
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Pocahontas
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
50. Small oil companies sold stock and authority to Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company (consolidation) - cornered world petroleum market
Deportations of Mexicans
Standard Oil Trust
20-Negro Law
New Deal