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AP U.S. History
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1. Tried to rule as absolute monarchs without using Parliament - little to no sympathy for colonial legislatures
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
Farmers'Alliance movement
Charles II - James II
Truman Doctrine
2. Government would hold its revenues rather than deposit them in banks - thus keeping the funds away from private corporations; 'America's Second Declaration of Independence'
Independent Treasury Bill
William Jennings Bryan
War Industries Board
Embargo Act (1807)
3. Established colony of Georgia as a place for honest debtors
James Oglethorpe
Yeoman Farmers
Battle of Saratoga
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
4. Agreement between US and Britain to remove armed fleets from the Great Lakes
'Silent Majority'
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
The Loyal Nine
5. Won battles in the West and raised northern morale (esp. Shiloh - Fort Henry - and Fort Donelson) - made Union commanding general
Kent State Protest
Jamestown
Election of 1800
Ulysses S. Grant
6. Huerta's enemy - reluctantly supported by U.S.; U.S. sought Villa's submission due to terrorism - eventually assassinated; Wilson's policy highly unpopular
'Red Scare' (1919)
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
Jazz
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
7. Appealed to many conservatives - especially southerners (opposed massive protests and integration)
Yalta Conference (1945)
Judiciary Act of 1789
George Wallace - American
John Brown
8. Despite CIA-sponsored Soviet resistance - Afghanistan taken by Soviet Union; ended detente between USSR and US
Declining death rate
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Domino theory
9. George Wallace vs. Nixon vs. Humphrey; very narrow popular vote triumph to Nixon (although he had clear majority of electoral votes)
Battle of Tippecanoe
1968 Presidential Election
Energy Crisis - OPEC
Pearl Harbor
10. 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
Elastic Clause ('necessary and proper')
George Washington
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
Henry David Thoreau
11. Ex-Lincoln secretary; worked to gain Open Door Notes' acceptance from the major powers
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
Secretary of State John Hay
CIA overthrow of Iran (1953)
New Federalism
12. Reagan called the Soviet Union an 'evil empire'; Korean passenger plane shot down near Moscow (increased anti-Soviet rhetoric); Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) used space-based lasers as defense from nuclear attack
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13. Small state banks set up by Jackson to keep federal funds out of the National Bank - used until funds were consolidated into a single treasury
Conservatism
Pet banks
Elastic Clause ('necessary and proper')
Invasion of Iraq
14. Victorian standards confined women to the home to create an artistic environment as a statement of cultural aspirations
Atlantic slave trade
Explosion of USS Maine
Cult of domesticity
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
15. Warned of dangerous military-industrial complex (newly-found power of the military to affect the path of democracy)
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16. Another part of Nixon's out-of-Vietnam plan - destroy supply routes to North Vietnam through Cambodia
Bombing and invasion of Cambodia
Mikhail Gorbachev
President Ronald Reagan
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
17. NLF attacked numerous South Vietnamese cities and American embassies - eventually repulsed; spoiled LBJ's record to reelection - resulted in massive protests in US to end the war; atrocities such that war could only end in stalemate
Four Freedoms' speech
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
Charles Lindbergh
Tet Offensive (1968)
18. First female cabinet member
Townshend Act (1767)
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
Second Great Awakening
Sugar Act
19. Prohibited exports (and imports) based in American ports - most controversial Jefferson legislation
U-2 Incident
Embargo Act (1807)
Dollar Diplomacy'
President Jimmy Carter
20. Proclamation of 1793 response to French attempts for alliance with US
Thomas Nast
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA)
Neutrality
21. Supreme Court legalized the 'separate but equal' philosophy
Charles Lindbergh
National Origins Act (1924)
James G. Blaine
Plessy v. Ferguson
22. Calvinist - devised concept of 'city on a hill' ('A Model of Christian Charity'); founded highly successful towns in Massachusetts Bay
Lusitania
Maysville Road Veto
John Winthrop
National Organization of Women
23. Economic recession (collapse of savings-and-loan industry - increasing deficit due to Reagan tax cuts - retail decreased - higher crime rate)
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24. Needed to protect new Pacific acquisitions - U.S. took over the project from the French after overcoming Clatyton¬ Bulwer Treaty (prohibited exclusive control of canal) with the Hay¬ Pauncefote Treaty
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
James Madison
The Enlightenment
Panama Canal
25. Radical Calvinists against the Church of England; Separatists (Pilgrims) argued for a break from the Church of England - led the Mayflower - and established the settlement at Plymouth
Economic transition
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
British strengths and weaknesses
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
26. Influence of African-American blues - music of the younger generation (gap between them and their parents)
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27. Northern Securities Company (JP Morgan and James G. Hill - railroads) seen by Roosevelt as 'bad' trust - Supreme Court upheld his first trust-bust
Northern Securities Case
Ngo Dinh Diem
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
28. Henry Clay aimed to make the US economically independent from Europe (e.g. - support internal improvements - tariff protection - and new national bank)
Booker T. Washington
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Henry Clay and the American System
Pan-Americanism
29. Educational and residential segregation; inferior facilities allotted to African-Americans - predominantly in South
Tea Act (1773)
Jim Crow laws
Jazz
Roger Williams
30. Full American independence - territory west of Appalachian ceded to America - loyalists to be compensated for seized property - fishing rights off of Newfoundland
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
Sons of Liberty
James G. Blaine
Treaty of Paris (1783)
31. Standard Oil Company - Ruthless business tactics (survival of the fittest)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
'Baby Boom'
Indian Removal Act
John D. Rockefeller
32. Accomplished great number of relief - recovery - and reform efforts; sought practical solutions to the problems by experimentation
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33. Former French subjects in Canada allowed to keep Catholicism - while American colonists expected to participate in the Church of England
John D. Rockefeller
Five Civilized Tribes
William Lloyd Garrison
Quebec Acts
34. FDR and Churchill agreed to defeat Germany first rather than concentrate on Japan
Haymarket Bombing
First American strategy in WWII
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
Vietcong
35. Americans could now spend what they had been told to save during the war (disposable income); increased purchasing of luxury items
Battle of Tippecanoe
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Rosenbergs
Consumerism
36. Small oil companies sold stock and authority to Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company (consolidation) - cornered world petroleum market
Standard Oil Trust
Eugene V. Debs
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
Election of 1980
37. Allowed for faster processing of cotton - invented by Eli Whitney - less need for slaves
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Henry Ford's assembly line
Writs of Assistance
Cotton Gin
38. Opposed strikes - producer-consumer cooperation - temperance - welcomed blacks and women (allowing segregation)
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
Shays's Rebellion
Five Civilized Tribes
39. Stock prices fell drastically; without buyers - the stocks became essentially worthless; cause bank crashes - &c.
Stock market crash (1929)
Richard Nixon (R)
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
Haymarket Bombing
40. Part of transportation revolution - from Cumberland MD to Wheeling WVa - toll road network; stimulated Western expansion
National Road
Wilmot Proviso
Benjamin Franklin
Non-Intercourse Act
41. Avoided league of Nations - opposed Latin American involvement
Frederick Douglass
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
Mann Act
Isolationism
42. Founded by Betty Friedan - Bella Abzug - and Aileen Hernandez; lobbied for equal opportunity where the EEOC was lacking (gender discrimination); lawsuits and mobilization of public opinion
Sugar Act
Macon's Bill No. 2
National Organization of Women
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
43. Beginnings of trusts (destruction of competition); vertical- controlling every aspect of production (control quality - eliminate middlemen - Rockefeller); horizontal- consolidating with competitors to monopolize a market (highly detrimental)
'Red Scare' (1919)
Vertical and horizontal integration
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Tallmadge Amendment
44. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark sent by Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Territory on 'Voyage of Discovery'
Underground Railroad
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
Lewis and Clark expedition
45. Created by John L. Lewis for unskilled labor - organized 'sit-down strike' against GM to work for recognition
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
Munn v. Illinois
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
46. Second youngest president - entered presidency as tensions of the Cold War increased; unable to get major initiatives through Congress due to conservative bloc; tax cuts (economic stimulation); reluctantly gets involved in civil rights; emphasizes Sp
'Hundred days'
President John F. Kennedy
Jackson's Presidency
Quebec Acts
47. Effectively ended spoils system and established civil service exams for all government positions - under Pres. Garfield
Tet Offensive (1968)
Era of Good Feelings
U-2 Incident
Pendleton Civil Service Act
48. Highest peacetime deficit in US history (due to lower tax rates for high-income taxpayers - spent too much money attempting to reduce price supports to farmers)
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
John Foster Dulles
First American strategy in WWII
49. Foreshadowed in 14 points - hoped to guarantee political independence and integrity of all countries
James G. Blaine
League of Nations
Industrial Workers of the World
New Jersey Plan
50. Decision under Sherman Anti-Trust Act shot down by Supreme Court — sugar refining was manufacturing rather than trade/commerce
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
Election of 1960
Citizen Genet
United States vs. EC Knight Company