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AP U.S. History
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1. Europeans should not interfere with affairs in Western Hemisphere - Americans to stay out of foreign affairs; supported Washington's goal for US neutrality in Americas
Nativism
Battle of Antietam
Monroe Doctrine
Tea Act (1773)
2. Runaway slave - well-known speaker on the condition of slavery - worked with Garrison and Wendell Phillips - founder of The North Star
Religious Right
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Consumerism
Frederick Douglass
3. Colonies proposed colonial confederation under lighter British rule (crown-appointed president - 'Grand Council'); never took effect
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
Albany Plan of Union
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
Farm crisis
4. Huerta's enemy - reluctantly supported by U.S.; U.S. sought Villa's submission due to terrorism - eventually assassinated; Wilson's policy highly unpopular
Whigs (Patriots)
Marbury v. Madison
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
Jane Addams
5. Mass migration northward; mainly blacks migrating from the southern states into the north hoping for less discrimination
Great Migration
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
War Industries Board
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
6. 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)
Knights of Labor
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
Women's Christian Temperance Union
John C. Calhoun
7. Spread quickly; opposed everything that was not White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) (and conservative) - Stephenson's faults and jail sentence led to demise
Harpers Ferry (1859)
League of Nations
Ku Klux Klan
Jingoism
8. New Lights brought new ideas - rejected by Old Lights; both sought out institutions independent of each other
Church of England
New Lights vs. Old Lights
Knights of Labor
Truman Doctrine
9. Last major battle; surrender of Cornwallis - led King George III to officially make peace with the colonies
Battle of Yorktown
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Platt Amendment
Freeport Doctrine
10. Kent State University students protesting against invasion of Cambodia - not allowed to demonstrate - violence (murder) caused by guardsmen
Tet Offensive (1968)
Kent State Protest
William Marcy
US acquisitions
11. Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson; purchase of Alaska 'Seward's Folly'
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Declaratory Act
Okies' and 'Arkies'
William Seward
12. Formed by white progressives - adopted goals of Niagara Movement - in response to Springfield Race Riots
Open Door Policy
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Knights of Labor
13. French foreign minister (Talleyrand) demanded bribe in order to meet with American peace commission - made Adams unpopular among the people
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
Citizen Genet
Detente - realpolitik
XYZ Affair
14. Focused on the 'Common Man;' removal of Indians - removal of federal deposits in BUS - annexation of territory - liberal use of veto
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15. Satirized wealthy captains of industry - workers and engineers as better leaders of society
McCarthyism
Declaratory Act
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
16. Japanese bombing of ships in harbor; resulted in FDR's request for declaration of war against Japan; Germany and Italy responded with declarations of war
Jonathan Edwards
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Pearl Harbor
17. British citizenship outnumbered colonies' - large navy and professional army; exhausted resources (Hessians hired) - national debt
Booker T. Washington
British strengths and weaknesses
Nullification Controversy
William Jennings Bryan
18. In response to Japanese discrimination in San Fran schools; Japanese to stop laborers into U.S. - Californians forbidden to ban Japanese from public schools
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19. Planes hijacked by terrorists for destruction; blame pinned on Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden - sought out in attempt to completely destroy terrorism
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
Eugene V. Debs
20. Increase working output by standardizing procedures and rewarding those who worked fast; efficiency
Knights of Labor
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
James Meredith
Rock `n' Roll
21. Belief in minimal government so as to allow the people their own free reign - lower taxes to stimulate economy - &c.
Lewis and Clark expedition
Critics of FDR
Populist Party
Conservatism
22. Agreement between US and Britain to remove armed fleets from the Great Lakes
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Proclamation of 1763
23. Agricultural depression as precursor to the depression; unheeded omen of problems in the economic structure (prices too low — too much supply for the demand)
Mikhail Gorbachev
Farm crisis
Strict vs. Loose interpretation of the Constitution
Stagflation
24. Federal government to increase power over economy and society by means of progressive reforms - developed by Roosevelt (after presidency)
New Nationalism
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
AFL-CIO (1955)
Wilmot Proviso
25. Nixon led movement to Hiss's indictment; convicted of perjury - Nixon gained national prominence
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Conservative backlash against liberalism
Industrial Workers of the World
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
26. 'Southern Strategy' lured many southern Democrats to the Republican party (esp. due to southern opposition to Civil Rights Act of 1964)
New York City draft riots (1863)
Richard Nixon (R)
Creel Committee
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
27. United States aided South Vietnam in its war of power struggle against North Vietnam - the Vietcong - USSR - and China
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
British strengths and weaknesses
Vietnam War
Battle of Antietam
28. Blacks denied admission to all-white school; overturned Plessy v. Ferguson - negating 'separate but equal' - ordered integration of schools as soon as possible; white southerners protested (refused to attend integrated schools)
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Rock `n' Roll
John C. Calhoun
Haymarket Bombing
29. Taught American landscape painting rather than Classical subjects
Hudson River School
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
Clinton impeachment (1997)
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
30. Prohibited testing of nuclear bombs above ground to slow the nuclear arms race and the release of nuclear fallout into the atmosphere
Interstate Commerce Act
Tallmadge Amendment
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Dorothea Dix
31. Working class exploited for profit - proletariat (workers) to revolt and inherit all society
Karl Marx Das Kapital
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
Republican Party
National Organization of Women
32. Sets of cardboard box houses that epitomized the country's blame on Hoover for the cause of the Depression
Soviet atomic bomb
Conservative backlash against liberalism
Thomas Nast
Hoovervilles
33. 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
John C. Calhoun
Yeoman Farmers
Japanese internment
Populist Party
34. Slavery to be barred in all territory ceded from Mexico; never fully passed Congress
Suffolk Resolves
Second Great Awakening
Pan-Americanism
Wilmot Proviso
35. Judges appointed to Supreme Court by Adams in the last days of his presidency to force them upon Jefferson - Marshall among those appointed
Conversion Experience
Midnight judges
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
36. First 'modern' president - moderate who supported progressivism (at times conservative) - bypassed congressional opposition (cf. Jackson) - significant role in world affairs
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Causes of the depression
Nullification
Theodore Roosevelt
37. Standard Oil Company - Ruthless business tactics (survival of the fittest)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
John D. Rockefeller
Shays's Rebellion
38. Believed that God created the universe to act through natural laws; Franklin - Jefferson - Paine
Camp David Accords
Tea Act (1773)
Explosion of USS Maine
Deists
39. The two political parties that formed following Washington's presidency; Federalists for stronger central government - Republicans for stronger state governments
Stagflation
Federalists and Republicans
Valley Forge
Battle of Tippecanoe
40. Created by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst; aimed to excite American imperialist interests; media bias - subjective representation of events
Yellow journalism
Square Deal
Jingoism
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
41. Organized and controlled resistance against Parliamentary acts in less violent ways (strength of martyrdom) - advocated nonimportation
Sons of Liberty
New Nationalism
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Dorothea Dix
42. 14 formal amendments to the treaty for the League of Nations; preserved Monroe Doctrine - Congress desired to keep declaration of war to itself
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
Lodge Reservations
Liberty Party
Transcendentalism
43. Political action for religion justified by decreased presence of religion in society; Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition to expand national influence
Religious Right
George Whitefield
Korean War
Invasion of Iraq
44. Fair amount of troops - short guerilla tactics - strong leaders (Washington); nonprofessional army that could not handle long battles
Harlem Renaissance
Nativism
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
Election of 1824
45. Protestant church led by the king of England - independent of Catholic Church; tended toward Catholicism during reign of Catholic royalty
Era of Good Feelings
Booker T. Washington
Church of England
Humanitarian diplomacy
46. Opposed to all immigration - strongly anti-Catholic
Good Neighbor Policy
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Know-Nothing (American) Party
Yeoman Farmers
47. Allowed Parliament to completely legislate over the colonies - limited colonists' say
Burned-Over District
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
Declaratory Act
48. Albert Fall accused of accepting bribes for access to government oil in Teapot Dome - Wyoming
Teapot Dome scandal
Interstate Commerce Act
Shays's Rebellion
Upton Sinclair
49. 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
Religious Right
XYZ Affair
Freeport Doctrine
Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA)
50. Hired to photograph ordinary Americans experiencing the depression
Gulf War - 'Operation Desert Storm' (1991)
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Dorothea Lange
Pinkertons
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