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AP U.S. History
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1. Ford's and Carter's presidencies experienced a recession and inflation simultaneously - solved by Keynesian economics
Stagflation
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Essex case
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
2. 'Dark horse' Democratic candidate; acquired majority of the western US (Mexican Cession - Texas Annexation - Oregon Country) - lowered tariffs - created Independent Treasury
Panic of 1893
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
James K. Polk
3. Decision under Sherman Anti-Trust Act shot down by Supreme Court — sugar refining was manufacturing rather than trade/commerce
British strengths and weaknesses
New Jersey Plan
United States vs. EC Knight Company
AFL-CIO (1955)
4. Due to parents unhappy with encouraged segregation of schools - Supreme Court instituted forced busing policies (using school buses as a method of integration)
Bay of Pigs invasion
Forced busing
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
The Glorious Revolution
5. Supreme Court legalized the 'separate but equal' philosophy
Battle of Gettysburg
Vertical and horizontal integration
Henry Ford's assembly line
Plessy v. Ferguson
6. Law meant to evolve as society evolves - opposed conservative majority
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
New Lights vs. Old Lights
John Smith
William T. Sherman
7. Full American independence - territory west of Appalachian ceded to America - loyalists to be compensated for seized property - fishing rights off of Newfoundland
Vietcong
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Treaty of Paris (1783)
8. Required separate and distinct ballots for presidential and vice presidential candidates
Peace Corps
12th Amendment
Berlin Airlift
Cotton Gin
9. 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
Deregulation
National Labor Union
John C. Calhoun
Robert E. Lee
10. Intervention in Mexican Revolution (Madero overthrew dictator Diaz) to overthrow Madero out of fear of property confiscation - General Huerta (seen as 'brute' by Wilson - sought new leader) replaced Madero
Moral Diplomacy
Pinkertons
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
New Freedom
11. Douglas was able to reconcile the Dred Scott Decision with popular sovereignty; voters would be able to exclude slavery by not allowing laws that treated slaves as property
First American strategy in WWII
Freeport Doctrine
'Atlanta Compromise'
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
12. Reluctant to give colonists their own government - preferred to appoint royal governors
Herbert Hoover's Food Administration
Underground Railroad
King James I - King Charles
Potsdam Conference (1945)
13. Strong patriotism and need to conform to try to avoid blame during red scare - non-churchgoers - unmarried - and critics suspected as communists
Conformity in the 1950s
Moral Diplomacy
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
Harriet Tubman
14. Tax cuts to increase population spending (help economy) - drastic cutting back on government programs due to lack of funds
James K. Polk
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
Quarantine Speech - 1937
15. Racism riots against Mexican laborers (imported for jobs)
Connecticut Compromise
Zoot Suit riots
1968 as 'the year of shocks'
Karl Marx Das Kapital
16. Key to English-Native American relationship - died in England in 1617
Pocahontas
Church of England
Harlem Renaissance
Ku Klux Klan
17. Goods able to be transferred from New York to New Orleans by inland waterways
Second Great Awakening
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
Erie Canal
18. Another part of Nixon's out-of-Vietnam plan - destroy supply routes to North Vietnam through Cambodia
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
Bombing and invasion of Cambodia
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Committees of Correspondence
19. Commission on civil rights to attempt to guarantee the ballot to blacks; showed government's changing views of race relations
Karl Marx Das Kapital
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
War hawks
Free silver
20. George Wallace vs. Nixon vs. Humphrey; very narrow popular vote triumph to Nixon (although he had clear majority of electoral votes)
Marcus Garvey
Gains for women
United States vs. EC Knight Company
1968 Presidential Election
21. Kennedy vs. Nixon - Kennedy (due to televised charisma) won over Nixon (pale and nervous)
Election of 1960
1992 Election
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
Pet banks
22. Opposed Polk's high-handedness - avid Southern slave owner
Virtual Representation
Boston Tea Party
Fugitive Slave Act
John C. Calhoun
23. Established world organization; Soviet Union pledged to allow democratic procedures in Eastern Europe; pledge broken - led to Cold War
Yalta Conference (1945)
The Loyal Nine
Free silver
Marbury v. Madison
24. Hamilton praised efficient factories with few managers over many workers - promote emigration - employment opportunities - applications of technology
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Essex case
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
25. Withdrawal of American troops from foreign nations (especially Latin America) to improve international relations and unite western hemisphere; Clark Memorandum (rebukes the 'big stick'); peaceful resolution of Mexican oil fields
Robert La Follette
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
Good Neighbor Policy
Industrial Workers of the World
26. Workers unable to escape (locked into factory) - all died; further encouraged reform movements for working conditions
Knights of Labor
Vertical and horizontal integration
Tories (Loyalists)
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
27. Accomplished great number of relief - recovery - and reform efforts; sought practical solutions to the problems by experimentation
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28. All English subjects are represented in Parliament - including those not allowed to vote
Barbary Pirates
'Trail of Tears'
Virtual Representation
Atlantic slave trade
29. Founded by Uriah Stephens (1869); excluded corrupt and well-off; equal female pay - end to child/convict labor - employer-employee relations - proportional income tax; 'bread and butter' unionism (higher wages - shorter hours - better conditions)
William Seward
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Knights of Labor
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
30. 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'
Vietnam War
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
Adams-Onis Treaty
Independent Treasury Bill
31. British soldiers shot into crowd of snowball fight; two of nine soldiers (defended by John Adams) found guilty of manslaughter
Boston Massacre
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
Tallmadge Amendment
32. Spread quickly; opposed everything that was not White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) (and conservative) - Stephenson's faults and jail sentence led to demise
Horace Mann
French and Indian War
Robert E. Lee
Ku Klux Klan
33. Rejection of negative portrayals of women (language - entertainment) - increased quality and use of education - more job opportunities - acceptance into military
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
Gains for women
Warren Court
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
34. Helped approval ratings - not removed from office despite all the efforts of Republican congressmen
Clinton impeachment (1997)
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
Eugene V. Debs
35. Anti-communist crusades due to fear of radicalism spurred by Bolshevik rebellion
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36. River traffic - road building - canals (esp. Erie) - rise of NYC
Valley Forge
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Transportation Revolution
Bill of Rights
37. 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)
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Zoot Suit riots
Rock `n' Roll
Era of Good Feelings
38. Abolished national origins quotas - dramatically increased immigration (especially from Asia and Latin America)
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Immigration Act of 1965
Sugar Act
39. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - provided more funds to state and local relief efforts
Regionalist and naturalist writers
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
Hartford Convention
Dorothea Dix
40. Overthrow of the Taliban - in search of bin Laden
James Meredith
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
War Industries Board
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
41. Part of the New Left that envisioned 'participatory democracy' (individuals control life-affecting decisions) - end materialism - militarism - and racism; inspired by young black activists
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Anaconda plan
Munn v. Illinois
42. Former French subjects in Canada allowed to keep Catholicism - while American colonists expected to participate in the Church of England
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
George Washington
Quebec Acts
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
43. Used nonviolent protest and boycott to achieve better working conditions for farmers (esp. Mexican-Americans)
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
Harlem Renaissance
The Great Awakening
Bruce Barton
44. 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
James Meredith
'Silent Majority'
President John F. Kennedy
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
45. North African Muslim rulers solved budget problems through piracy and tributes in Mediterranean - obtained fees from most European powers
Townshend Act (1767)
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
William Seward
Barbary Pirates
46. Economic recession (collapse of savings-and-loan industry - increasing deficit due to Reagan tax cuts - retail decreased - higher crime rate)
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47. 'I have a dream' 25 -000 people (including whites) convened for political rally - MLK's speech to historical event; attempted to push civil rights bill through Congress
Salutary Neglect
March on Washington
Second Great Awakening
'Yellow dog contracts'
48. Proposed by Hamilton to repair war debts; selling of securities and federal lands - assumption of state debts - set up the first National Bank
President Bill Clinton
Good Neighbor Policy
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Report on Public Credit
49. Southern states (especially South Carolina) believed that they had the right to judge federal laws unconstitutional and therefore not enforce them
Critics of FDR
Henry Ford's assembly line
Forced busing
Nullification Controversy
50. Bomb thrown at protest rally - police shot protestors - caused great animosity in employers for workers' unions
Free silver
Haymarket Bombing
French and Indian War
U-2 Incident