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AP U.S. History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Unconstitutionalized the NRA due to delegation of legislative authority from Congress to executive
Schechter v. U.S Court case
'Big BM' Haywood
Non-conformity
Immigration Act of 1965
2. Economic recession (collapse of savings-and-loan industry - increasing deficit due to Reagan tax cuts - retail decreased - higher crime rate)
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3. Helped lead settlement house movement - co-founded NAACP - condemned war and poverty
John D. Rockefeller
Secretary of State John Hay
Jane Addams
Anaconda plan
4. Sought to eliminate spheres of influence and avoid European monopolies in China; unaccepted by the powers in mind
Jane Addams
Midnight judges
Invasion of Iraq
Open Door Policy
5. Symbol of women workers during the war
Rosie the Riveter
Election of 1960
'Wage slaves'
Pendleton Civil Service Act
6. Truman tested for communist alliances within government; government employees prohibited from taking part in remotely-communist activities
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7. 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)
Fair Deal
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
Henry David Thoreau
Knights of Labor
8. Required separate and distinct ballots for presidential and vice presidential candidates
1968 Presidential Election
Detente - realpolitik
Reaganomics
12th Amendment
9. Calvinist - devised concept of 'city on a hill' ('A Model of Christian Charity'); founded highly successful towns in Massachusetts Bay
League of Nations
Whigs (Patriots)
British strengths and weaknesses
John Winthrop
10. 'Corrupt bargain' and backroom deal for JQ Adams to win over Jackson
Election of 1824
New Federalism
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Commerce Compromise
11. No further introduction of slaves into Missouri - all children born to slaves to become free at 25
Standard Oil Trust
Tallmadge Amendment
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
William Jennings Bryan
12. Gore promising with experience - Bush appealing by family influence and plans for presidency (tax cuts - education reform - defense - &c.)
Republican Party
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
Hull House
Bush v. Gore (2000)
13. Preservation of New Deal - attempt at additions; raised minimum wage - public housing - old-age insurance extension - agricultural price supports (lowering of farm price)
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
Fair Deal
Bracero program
Affirmative Action
14. Most numerous in New England - fought for independence
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Whigs (Patriots)
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
Creel Committee
15. Appealed to many conservatives - especially southerners (opposed massive protests and integration)
XYZ Affair
Citizen Genet
Fair Labor Standards Act
George Wallace - American
16. Lee invaded Pennsylvania - bloodiest battle of the war - Confederate Pickett's Charge (disastrous) - Lee forced to retreat (not pursued by Meade) - South doomed to never invade North again - Gettysburg Address given by Lincoln (nation over union)
Rationing
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Tea Act (1773)
Battle of Gettysburg
17. Economic prosperity of American society following WWII; doubling of national income - jobs to women - defense industry's support of economy
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18. Due to parents unhappy with encouraged segregation of schools - Supreme Court instituted forced busing policies (using school buses as a method of integration)
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Fair Labor Standards Act
Forced busing
19. Required of members of the Puritan Church; took the place of baptism required by the Catholic Church
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
President Ronald Reagan
Conversion Experience
Ike's Farewell Speech
20. Government to buy silver to back money in addition to gold
Panic of 1893
Deportations of Mexicans
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
Humanitarian diplomacy
21. Meant to provide evacuation opportunity for Americans in Cuba; internal accidental explosion blamed on Spanish mines - leading to Spanish¬ American War
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Explosion of USS Maine
American Federation of Labor
Spanish American War (1898)
22. Mexicans held siege on the Alamo (in San Antonio) - Texans lost great number of people - 'Remember the Alamo'
The Alamo
Richard Nixon (R)
Compromise of 1850
Nullification
23. Decisive victory to Reagan due to his appeal over Carter (now unpopular due to lack of success in the presidency
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
Bonus Army
Election of 1980
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
24. Goods able to be transferred from New York to New Orleans by inland waterways
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe (1989)
Erie Canal
Navigation Acts
Treaty of Paris (1783)
25. 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
Hoovervilles
Salvation Army
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Pearl Harbor
26. Supported Socialists - militant unionists and socialists - advocated strikes and sabotaging politics - aimed for an umbrella union similar to Knights of Labor - ideas too radical for socialist cause
Alexander Hamilton
Industrial Workers of the World
Stephen Austin
Yalta Conference (1945)
27. John Brown and his sons slaughtered five men as a response to the election fraud in Lawrence and the caning of Sumner in Congress
Robert La Follette
Emergency Banking Relief Act
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
28. Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson; purchase of Alaska 'Seward's Folly'
Anaconda plan
William Seward
Committees of Correspondence
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
29. Through CIO - led three coal mine strikes (some of the very few strikes during the time period)
John L. Lewis
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
March on Birmingham
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
30. 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
New Jersey Plan
Declining death rate
King James I - King Charles
31. Black veteran escorted to be enrolled in Univ. of Miss. by military (school reluctant - cf. Little Rock Nine)
James Meredith
Declaratory Act
President Franklin Roosevelt
Karl Marx Das Kapital
32. Proponent of gradual gain of equal rights for African-Americans
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
Gifford Pinchot
Booker T. Washington
Jamestown
33. Fines and imprisonment for aiding the enemy or hindering U.S. military; forbade any form of criticism of the government and military
Espionage Act and Sedition Act
Mikhail Gorbachev
Open Door Policy
New Lights vs. Old Lights
34. Government compromised to buy and coin $2-4 million/month; government stuck to minimum and inflation did not occur (lower prices); economy grew
Non-Intercourse Act
Declining death rate
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
35. Congressional support to raid houses of radicals believed to have connections to communism
Palmer Raids
Gains for women
Pet banks
Four Freedoms' speech
36. The Jungle revealed unsanitary nature of meat-packing industry - inspired Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
Embargo Act (1807)
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
Mayflower Compact
Upton Sinclair
37. American who settled in Texas - one of the leaders for Texan independence from Mexico
Industrial Workers of the World
Explosion of USS Maine
Pan-Americanism
Stephen Austin
38. Pushed through northern Georgia - captured Atlanta - 'march to the sea' (total war and destruction) - proceeded to South Carolina
Robert E. Lee
William T. Sherman
Bank of the United States
Gifford Pinchot
39. First African-American in major league baseball
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
March on Birmingham
Jackie Robinson
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
40. Executed for leaking atomic secrets to Soviets - avowed communists
Roger Williams
Marshall Court (all cases)
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Rosenbergs
41. Achieved an abnormal rise in class system (steel industry) - pioneered vertical integration (controlled Mesabie Range to ship ore to Pittsburgh) - opposed monopolies - used partnership of steel tycoons (Henry Clay Frick as a manager/partner) - Bessem
Andrew Carnegie
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
Keynesian economics
Robert E. Lee
42. Detectives hired by employers as private police force - often used to end strikes
Herbert Hoover's Food Administration
Pinkertons
Jane Addams
McCarthyism
43. Fair amount of troops - short guerilla tactics - strong leaders (Washington); nonprofessional army that could not handle long battles
War Industries Board
Bank of the United States
Hoover's policy of voluntarism
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
44. Introduced the 'trickle-down' economics theory in order to promote business and increase money available for speculation
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Coxey's Army
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
Stock market crash (1929)
45. Worked alongside Josiah Henson to make repeated trips to get slaves out of the South into freedom
Harriet Tubman
Citizen Genet
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
46. Worked to reform the American education system - abolitionist - prison/asylum reform with Dorothea Dix
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Horace Mann
'Big BM' Haywood
Battle of Antietam
47. 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)
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
Essex case
Kansas-Nebraska Act
48. Killed the AAA - although FDR insisted on continuing by creating smaller state-level AAAs
Upton Sinclair
Butler v. U.S. Court case
1992 Election
Court Packing
49. Ended the Dominion of New England - gave power back to colonies
William and Mary
New Nationalism
The Half-Way Covenant
Henry David Thoreau
50. One country that falls into communism will cause surrounding nations to also fall 'like dominos'; spurred by Southeast Asia regimes (esp. Vietnam)
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
20-Negro Law
Domino theory