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AP U.S. History
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1. Upheld constitutionality of Espionage Act; Congress right to limit free speech during times of war
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
Regionalist and naturalist writers
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Transcendentalism
2. Ideas of Wilson: small enterprise - states' rights - more active government - trust busting - left social issues up to the states
Charles Lindbergh
New Freedom
Jane Addams
1968 as 'the year of shocks'
3. Introduced his 'New Deal -' won election by a relative landslide (he was not Hoover - whom the public now did not trust)
Bank of the United States
Open Door Policy
President Franklin Roosevelt
'Baby Boom'
4. Calvinist - devised concept of 'city on a hill' ('A Model of Christian Charity'); founded highly successful towns in Massachusetts Bay
John Smith
President Bill Clinton
John Winthrop
Isolationism
5. For women's rights - organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton - modeled requests after the Declaration of Independence
President Ronald Reagan
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
Yalta Conference (1945)
Marshall Plan
6. Led Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: threatened a siege on DC if FDR did not agree to end discrimination in military
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
7. Economic prosperity of American society following WWII; doubling of national income - jobs to women - defense industry's support of economy
8. Vetoed by Jackson on the count that government funds for the Maysville Road would only benefit one state
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
The Federalist Papers
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Maysville Road Veto
9. FDR's inner circle of experts rather than just politicians in the cabinet
10. Established colony of Georgia as a place for honest debtors
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
Indian Removal Act
Battle of Antietam
James Oglethorpe
11. 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
Panama Canal
Soviet atomic bomb
Vietnamization
Anaconda plan
12. Avoided league of Nations - opposed Latin American involvement
John C. Calhoun
Isolationism
Moral Diplomacy
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
13. Opposed BTW's accommodation policies - called for immediate equality - formed Niagara Movement to support his ideas
Henry David Thoreau
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
Eugene V. Debs
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
14. Despite near-guaranteed second term - campaign workers burglarized Democratic offices - cover-up unsuccessful - resigned to avoid impeachment
Bacon's Rebellion
Dollar Diplomacy'
Watergate Scandal
Herbert Hoover's Food Administration
15. Search warrants on shipping to reduce smuggling; challenged by James Otis
Writs of Assistance
Public Works Administration (PWA)
William Marcy
Kitchen Cabinet
16. Leader of IWW - from Western Federation of Miners
17. Gorbachev decreased nuclear arsenals - Communist Party lost power - Boris Yeltsin (president of Russian Republic) led Muscovites to take control
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
Domino theory
Proclamation of 1763
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
18. Advocated by Roger Sherman - proposed two independently-voting senators per state and representation in the House based on population
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Connecticut Compromise
19. Planes hijacked by terrorists for destruction; blame pinned on Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden - sought out in attempt to completely destroy terrorism
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Bay of Pigs invasion
Nativism
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
20. Dealt with Vietnam War - 'Great Society' program for improvement of American society - antipoverty and anti-discrimination programs
Muckrakers
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
21. South divided into 5 military districts; states to guarantee full suffrage for blacks; ratify 14th amendment
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
US acquisitions
Harlem Renaissance
Scopes Trial
22. 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
23. Mass migration northward; mainly blacks migrating from the southern states into the north hoping for less discrimination
Sons of Liberty
Great Migration
Nat Turner's Rebellion
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
24. One country that falls into communism will cause surrounding nations to also fall 'like dominos'; spurred by Southeast Asia regimes (esp. Vietnam)
Populist Party
Richard Nixon (R)
Marcus Garvey
Domino theory
25. Held in New York - agreed to not import British goods until Stamp Act was repealed
Stamp Act Congress
Economic transition
Nullification Controversy
Bank of the United States
26. American hostages taken by US hating Shiites upon Shah's flight from uprising - botched rescue attempts
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Mann Act
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
27. Prohibited testing of nuclear bombs above ground to slow the nuclear arms race and the release of nuclear fallout into the atmosphere
Bull Moose Party
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
Liberty Party
28. Small oil companies sold stock and authority to Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company (consolidation) - cornered world petroleum market
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Standard Oil Trust
Suburbia
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
29. Offered a New Deal (reminiscent of FDR) of smaller government - reduced taxes - and free enterprise; Washington outsider
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
President Ronald Reagan
William Marcy
Neutrality Act - 1939
30. Issued by Lincoln following Antietam (close enough to a victory to empower the proclamation) - declared slaves in the Confederacy free (did not include border states) - symbolic gesture to support Union's moral cause in the war
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Emancipation Proclamation
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
31. Opposed strikes - producer-consumer cooperation - temperance - welcomed blacks and women (allowing segregation)
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
John C. Calhoun
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
Tallmadge Amendment
32. 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
Battle of Antietam
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
Non-conformity
Bank of the United States
33. United States aided South Vietnam in its war of power struggle against North Vietnam - the Vietcong - USSR - and China
Jingoism
Vietnam War
Independent Treasury Bill
Martin Luther King Jr.
34. Federal government to increase power over economy and society by means of progressive reforms - developed by Roosevelt (after presidency)
William H. Taft
Non-conformity
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
New Nationalism
35. 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
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
Keynesian economics
Populist Party
Rationing
36. Formed in response to Kansas-Nebraska Act - banned in the South - John C Fremont first presidential candidate
Republican Party
Bay of Pigs invasion
'Red Scare' (1919)
Manifest Destiny
37. Killed the AAA - although FDR insisted on continuing by creating smaller state-level AAAs
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
The Homefront
Butler v. U.S. Court case
38. Henry Clay aimed to make the US economically independent from Europe (e.g. - support internal improvements - tariff protection - and new national bank)
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
Henry Clay and the American System
39. Selective Service Act to require men to register with few exceptions; women and blacks drafted/enlisted - highly successful
Battle of Tippecanoe
Conscription policies
Whig Party
Andy Warhol
40. Written anonymously by Hamilton - Jay - and Madison; commentary on Constitution - republicanism extended over large territory
Vietnam War
The Federalist Papers
Citizen Genet
American Federation of Labor
41. Organized Seneca Falls Convention - founded (with Anthony) National Women Suffrage Organization
'Baby Boom'
Eugene V. Debs
New Jersey Plan
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
42. Secretary of state - policy to liberate captive people in Eastern Europe by political pressure and propaganda; massive retaliation to counter SovietlChinese aggression with nuclear weapons; brinksmanship to be persistent to solve crises (even to the
John Foster Dulles
Munn v. Illinois
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
43. In Brook Farm Community - lived in seclusion for two years writing Walden and On Civil Disobedience - proved that man could provide for himself without materialistic wants
Suburbia
Lewis and Clark expedition
Henry David Thoreau
Theodore Roosevelt
44. 'No taxation without representation -' introduced by Patrick Henry
Virginia Resolves
The Great Awakening
Bank of the United States
Camp David Accords
45. First president to show positive response to civil rights movement; worked heavily on keeping Soviet spread of communism in check
Sons of Liberty
California Gold Rush
Black Panther Party
President Harry Truman
46. 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)
Hudson River School
William Lloyd Garrison
Non-conformity
Missouri Compromise (1820)
47. River traffic - road building - canals (esp. Erie) - rise of NYC
Wilson's 14 points
Transportation Revolution
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
48. Risk of too many casualties and high costs for hand-to-hand combat/invasion - Japanese surrender unlikely
President Jimmy Carter
Cuban Missile Crisis
Korean War
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
49. Civil Rights Act of 1875 declared unconstitutional by Supreme Court - as the fourteenth amendment protected people from governmental infringement of rights and had no effect on acts of private citizens
Civil Rights Cases
Election of 1960
Teapot Dome scandal
Clinton impeachment (1997)
50. Lee's chief lieutenant and premier cavalry officer