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AP U.S. History
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1. Provided housing and recreation to city youth - imposing Protestant morals - unable to reach out to all youth
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2. Tweed Leader of Tammany Hall - gained large sums of money through the political machine - prosecuted by Samuel Tilden and sent to jail
Civil Rights Cases
1992 Election
Bank of the United States
William Marcy
3. 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
March on Washington
Marbury v. Madison
Industrial Workers of the World
4. Began by Edwards to return to Puritanism - increased overall religious involvement - gave women more active roles in religion - more and more ministers sprouted up throughout the country; mainly affected towns and cities
Creel Committee
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
James Meredith
The Great Awakening
5. Proclamation of 1793 response to French attempts for alliance with US
George Wallace - American
Economic transition
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Neutrality
6. One country that falls into communism will cause surrounding nations to also fall 'like dominos'; spurred by Southeast Asia regimes (esp. Vietnam)
War Industries Board
Convict-lease system
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Domino theory
7. Reduced quota - reduced numbers from eastern and southern Europe - Asians banned - Canadians and Latin Americans exempt
Writs of Assistance
National Origins Act (1924)
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
8. Craft unions that left the Knights (1886) - led by Gompers - women left out of recruitment efforts
Underground Railroad
National Origins Act (1924)
Pearl Harbor
American Federation of Labor
9. Tax cuts to increase population spending (help economy) - drastic cutting back on government programs due to lack of funds
National Labor Union
Currency Act
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
10. Worked alongside Josiah Henson to make repeated trips to get slaves out of the South into freedom
Salvation Army
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
Wilmot Proviso
Harriet Tubman
11. Political action for religion justified by decreased presence of religion in society; Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition to expand national influence
Religious Right
New Harmony
Dawes Plan (1924)
Tea Act (1773)
12. Calvinist - devised concept of 'city on a hill' ('A Model of Christian Charity'); founded highly successful towns in Massachusetts Bay
Olive Branch Petition
John Winthrop
Albany Plan of Union
Commerce Compromise
13. Americans feared Soviet infiltration into Latin America - placed secret police and military forces to prevent it
Keynesian economics
Pet banks
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
Burned-Over District
14. Attacked people for being communist by association and unsubstantiated claims - against Truman - Marshall - and Ike; downfall came with attack on the military (condemned by Senate); led hysteria of the red scare
Specie
McCarthyism
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
The Great Awakening
15. Gore promising with experience - Bush appealing by family influence and plans for presidency (tax cuts - education reform - defense - &c.)
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Bush v. Gore (2000)
New Federalism
Tallmadge Amendment
16. (free speech movement) Youth activists (often liberal arts students) spoke out against Vietnam War - supported widespread liberalization
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17. Brought in Mexicans for temporary jobs - concentrated in southern CA - given extremely poor working conditions (as they were not American citizens)
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Bracero program
March on Birmingham
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
18. Natural selection applied to human competition - advocated by Herbert Spencer - William Graham Sumner
Social Darwinism
John Brown
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
Alien and Sedition Acts
19. Challenged New Englanders to completely separate Church from State - as the State would corrupt the church
Embargo Act (1807)
Roger Williams
Ulysses S. Grant
Townshend Act (1767)
20. Working class exploited for profit - proletariat (workers) to revolt and inherit all society
American Federation of Labor
Karl Marx Das Kapital
'Atlanta Compromise'
Henry Ford's assembly line
21. Strong central government provided by power divided between state and national governments - checks and balances - amendable constitution
Whigs (Patriots)
Writs of Assistance
Federalism
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
22. FDR asked for increased authority to aid Britain; freedom of speech/expression - of religion - from want - from fear; resulted in Lend-Lease
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23. 14 formal amendments to the treaty for the League of Nations; preserved Monroe Doctrine - Congress desired to keep declaration of war to itself
Ku Klux Klan
1968 Presidential Election
Essex case
Lodge Reservations
24. Adams - Jefferson - and Burr: Adams lost - Jefferson and Burr tied - Hamilton convinced other Federalists to vote for Jefferson to break the tie
Election of 1800
Compromise of 1877
Nativism
Battle of Saratoga
25. FDR's inner circle of experts rather than just politicians in the cabinet
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26. Tried to rule as absolute monarchs without using Parliament - little to no sympathy for colonial legislatures
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
New Jersey Plan
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
Charles II - James II
27. Warned of dangerous military-industrial complex (newly-found power of the military to affect the path of democracy)
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28. Lee invaded Pennsylvania - bloodiest battle of the war - Confederate Pickett's Charge (disastrous) - Lee forced to retreat (not pursued by Meade) - South doomed to never invade North again - Gettysburg Address given by Lincoln (nation over union)
The Glorious Revolution
Battle of Gettysburg
Okies' and 'Arkies'
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
29. For women's rights - organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton - modeled requests after the Declaration of Independence
U-2 Incident
Jazz
Rock `n' Roll
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
30. Young women employed by Lowell's textile company - housed in dormitories
Indentured servants
Lecompton Constitution
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
Lowell mill/system
31. 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
Essex case
McCarthyism
Battle of Antietam
Citizen Genet
32. Republican candidate for president in 1884 - quintessence of spoils system; highly disgusted the mugwumps (many Republicans turned to Democrat Cleveland)
President Bill Clinton
Election of 1960
James G. Blaine
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
33. Ike forced to send National Guard to escort black children to school to quell riots and resistance (first time since Reconstruction that troops used in the south to enforce Constitution); resistance by white community (private schools)
Religious Right
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
George Washington
Potsdam Conference (1945)
34. Foundation for self-government laid out by the first Massachusetts settlers before arriving on land
Mayflower Compact
The Homefront
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
Gifford Pinchot
35. Hamilton's plan to solve Revolutionary debt - Assumption highly controversial - pushed his plan through Congress - based on loose interpretation of Constitution
Bank of the United States
'Contract with America' (1994)
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
Detente - realpolitik
36. Through CIO - led three coal mine strikes (some of the very few strikes during the time period)
John L. Lewis
Suffolk Resolves
Bull Moose Party
Forced busing
37. Established world organization; Soviet Union pledged to allow democratic procedures in Eastern Europe; pledge broken - led to Cold War
Nicaraguan Contras
Standard Oil Trust
Yalta Conference (1945)
Ngo Dinh Diem
38. Rise in stock prices and speculation - decline of construction industry - mistaken 'trickle-down' economics - reliance on credit
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
Pocahontas
Causes of the depression
Rationing
39. Spread quickly; opposed everything that was not White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) (and conservative) - Stephenson's faults and jail sentence led to demise
Tariff of Abominations
Dixiecrats - 1948
Ku Klux Klan
Keynesian economics
40. Removal of Saddam Hussein - 2003 - Iran - Iraq - and North Korea designated as the 'axis of evil -' institution of democratic government in Iraq to replace Hussein's dictatorship (return to spread and protection of democracy throughout the world - mo
Invasion of Iraq
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
41. Believed in expanding federal power on economy - encouraged industrial development; could only gain power on the local level - led by Henry Clay (anti-Jackson)
Vertical and horizontal integration
Pan-Americanism
Causes of the depression
Whig Party
42. 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)
Secretary of State John Hay
Federalists and Republicans
Affirmative Action
Important WWII Battles
43. Often debtors sold to slave traders by African kings seeking riches; Columbian Exchange
1968 Presidential Election
Second Great Awakening
Atlantic slave trade
Mann Act
44. Mass production of the Model-T - workers as potential consumers (raise wages) - supported other industries and raised employment
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45. Prohibited testing of nuclear bombs above ground to slow the nuclear arms race and the release of nuclear fallout into the atmosphere
Dollar Diplomacy'
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
William Lloyd Garrison
46. Introduced the 'trickle-down' economics theory in order to promote business and increase money available for speculation
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
Dollar Diplomacy'
Hoover's policy of voluntarism
47. Economic recession (collapse of savings-and-loan industry - increasing deficit due to Reagan tax cuts - retail decreased - higher crime rate)
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48. Argued that states had the right to determine whether or not the laws passed by Congress were constitutional
Church of England
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Zimmerman Note
Economic transition
49. Network of safe houses of white abolitionists used to bring slaves to freedom
Underground Railroad
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe (1989)
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
Consumerism
50. Elvis Presley - Marilyn Monroe - James Dean - Beatniks — rebelled against conservative conformity of the rest of the country (esp. targeted youth)
'Atlanta Compromise'
Social Darwinism
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
Non-conformity