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AP U.S. History
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1. Considered a hero for his solo crossing of the Atlantic by plane
Square Deal
William Henry Harrison
Samuel Gompers
Charles Lindbergh
2. Decisive victory to Reagan due to his appeal over Carter (now unpopular due to lack of success in the presidency
Martin Luther King Jr.
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
Election of 1980
Quarantine Speech - 1937
3. Victorian standards confined women to the home to create an artistic environment as a statement of cultural aspirations
Cult of domesticity
Boston Tea Party
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Albany Plan of Union
4. Brown aimed to create an armed slave rebellion and establish black free state; Brown executed and became martyr in the North
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
Bay of Pigs invasion
Harpers Ferry (1859)
Zoot Suit riots
5. Desegregation (Brown v. Board of Ed) - rights of the accused (Miranda v. Arizona) - voting reforms (Wesberry v. Sanders - Reynolds v. Sims - Katzenbach v Morgan)
Warren Court
New Deal
Hull House
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
6. 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
Hoovervilles
Wilmot Proviso
Tea Act (1773)
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
7. Jane Addams's pioneer settlement house (center for women's activism and social reform) in Chicago
Valley Forge
Pinkertons
Hull House
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
8. Prohibited testing of nuclear bombs above ground to slow the nuclear arms race and the release of nuclear fallout into the atmosphere
Domino theory
William Lloyd Garrison
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
9. French foreign minister (Talleyrand) demanded bribe in order to meet with American peace commission - made Adams unpopular among the people
Kitchen Cabinet
Andy Warhol
Writs of Assistance
XYZ Affair
10. Destroyed by Jackson on the grounds that it was unconstitutional and too much power for a federal institution
Currency Act
Bank of the United States
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Camp David Accords
11. Settlers to pay the expenses of a servant's voyage and be granted land for each person they brought over; headright system
Adams-Onis Treaty
Indentured servants
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Association (YMCA & YWCA)
12. Marbury v. Madison (judicial review) - McChulloch v. Maryland (loose Constitutional interpretation - constitutionality of National Bank - states cannot control government agencies) - Gibbons v. Ogden (interstate commerce controlled by Congress) - Fle
James Madison
Palmer Raids
Marshall Court (all cases)
Mercantilism
13. 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
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
Commerce Compromise
Good Neighbor Policy
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
14. Settled in Pennsylvania - believed the 'Inner Light' could speak through any person and ran religious services without ministers
President Franklin Roosevelt
William Penn and the Quakers
Explosion of USS Maine
Reaganomics
15. Georgia cannot enforce American laws on Indian tribes
Worcester v. Georgia
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
Standard Oil Trust
Roger Williams
16. Supported by women and churches - instituted by Volstead Act - lacked enforcement; bootlegging and speakeasies - Al Capone and John Dillinger — gangsters and organized crime (casual breaking of the law)
Suffolk Resolves
Yalta Conference (1945)
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
Truman Doctrine
17. Overthrow of the Taliban - in search of bin Laden
Federal Reserve Act
Scopes Trial
Hartford Convention
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
18. Territory split into Kansas and Nebraska - popular sovereignty (Kansas slave - Nebraska free); proposed by Stephen A. Douglas
New York City draft riots (1863)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Interstate Commerce Act
Watergate Scandal
19. Prohibited discrimination in any government-related work; increased black employment
Pocahontas
Scopes Trial
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
20. Workers unable to escape (locked into factory) - all died; further encouraged reform movements for working conditions
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
Republican Party
21. Started the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) — 'Back to Africa' movement for racial pride and separatism; inspired self-confidence in blacks
United States vs. EC Knight Company
Wilmot Proviso
Marcus Garvey
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
22. Stronger union of states - equal and population-based representation - simple majority vote (with presidential veto) - regulation of foreign and interstate commerce - execution by president - power to enact taxes - federal courts - easier amendment p
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
Muckrakers
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
23. Unconstitutionalized the NRA due to delegation of legislative authority from Congress to executive
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Schechter v. U.S Court case
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
Richard Nixon (R)
24. Activist government to serve all citizens (cf. Alexander Hamilton); founded New Republic magazine
Great Migration
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
Lusitania
Ngo Dinh Diem
25. Reduced quota - reduced numbers from eastern and southern Europe - Asians banned - Canadians and Latin Americans exempt
Battle of Antietam
Mikhail Gorbachev
Henry David Thoreau
National Origins Act (1924)
26. 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
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
Whig Party
Invasion of Iraq
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
27. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark sent by Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Territory on 'Voyage of Discovery'
'Bleeding Kansas'
Lewis and Clark expedition
Potsdam Conference (1945)
National Origins Act (1924)
28. Maine as free state - Missouri as slave state - slavery prohibited north of 36°30'
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Social Darwinism
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Embargo Act (1807)
29. Supreme Court legalized the 'separate but equal' philosophy
California Gold Rush
Jamestown
Plessy v. Ferguson
Northern Securities Case
30. Exemplary Christian community - rich to show charity - held to Calvinistic beliefs
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31. Mass production of the Model-T - workers as potential consumers (raise wages) - supported other industries and raised employment
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32. Attempted to centralize production of war materials; ineffective due to American desire for laissez-faire government
Embargo Act (1807)
Indentured servants
War Industries Board
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
33. President has power to cease trade with any foreign country that violated American neutrality
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34. Goods able to be transferred from New York to New Orleans by inland waterways
Erie Canal
Robert E. Lee
Panic of 1893
President Harry Truman
35. Authors included Langston Hughes - McKay - Zora Neale Hurston - Countee Cullet — praise and expression of black culture of the time
New York City draft riots (1863)
Popular Sovereignty
Washington's Farewell Address
Harlem Renaissance
36. (1) California admitted as free state - (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico - (3) resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries - (4) federal assumption of Texas debt - (5) slave trade abolished in DC - and (6) new fugit
Nullification
The Federalist Papers
Compromise of 1850
Peace Corps
37. Network of safe houses of white abolitionists used to bring slaves to freedom
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Underground Railroad
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
38. Banned racial discrimination in federal practices; To Secure These Rights called for desegregation - anti-lynching - end of poll taxes
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Stock market crash (1929)
Peace Corps
39. Jackson was allowed to relocate Indian tribes in the Louisiana Territory
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
Indian Removal Act
William Marcy
40. Religious movements - traveling 'meetings -' rise of Baptist and Methodist ministries; Charles G. Finney
Dollar Diplomacy'
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
Ulysses S. Grant
Second Great Awakening
41. The two political parties that formed following Washington's presidency; Federalists for stronger central government - Republicans for stronger state governments
William Seward
Explosion of USS Maine
Marshall Court (all cases)
Federalists and Republicans
42. First shots are fired at Charleston - North Carolina
Berlin Wall
Five Civilized Tribes
Fort Sumter
President John F. Kennedy
43. 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
President Bill Clinton
Stephen Austin
Proclamation of 1763
44. Detente achieved with USSR and China by withdrawal from Vietnam; realpolitik shed the use of doctrines and policies - instead using China and USSR in alternative ways to achieve other goals (pitting China and USSR against each other - as communist na
Theodore Roosevelt
Suffolk Resolves
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
Detente - realpolitik
45. Established by 'General' William Booth - uniformed volunteers provided food - shelter - and employment to families - attracted poor with lively preaching and marching bands in order to instill middle-class virtues
Bank of the United States
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
Salvation Army
46. Another part of Nixon's out-of-Vietnam plan - destroy supply routes to North Vietnam through Cambodia
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Bombing and invasion of Cambodia
Mann Act
Election of 1980
47. South divided into 5 military districts; states to guarantee full suffrage for blacks; ratify 14th amendment
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
Square Deal
Republican Party
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
48. Ended the Dominion of New England - gave power back to colonies
William and Mary
President Jimmy Carter
1968 as 'the year of shocks'
Bacon's Rebellion
49. Banned racial discrimination and segregation (public) - bias by federal government; enforced by Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
William T. Sherman
AFL-CIO (1955)
Civil Rights Act of 1964
50. Fair amount of troops - short guerilla tactics - strong leaders (Washington); nonprofessional army that could not handle long battles
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
British strengths and weaknesses
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Louis Sullivan