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AP U.S. History
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1. Worked alongside Josiah Henson to make repeated trips to get slaves out of the South into freedom
Thomas Nast
Harriet Tubman
John Smith
New Jersey Plan
2. Helped lead settlement house movement - co-founded NAACP - condemned war and poverty
Jane Addams
Sugar Act
John C. Calhoun
James Oglethorpe
3. Caused American hysteria (1957) - fear that Soviets were technologically superior; led Ike to order more rigorous education program to rival Soviets (National Defense Education Act)
Barbary Pirates
Whiskey Rebellion
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
Sputnik
4. Belief in minimal government so as to allow the people their own free reign - lower taxes to stimulate economy - &c.
William Henry Harrison
Conservatism
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
Olive Branch Petition
5. Highest peacetime deficit in US history (due to lower tax rates for high-income taxpayers - spent too much money attempting to reduce price supports to farmers)
Jane Addams
Important WWII Battles
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Tea Act (1773)
6. Foundation for self-government laid out by the first Massachusetts settlers before arriving on land
Schechter v. U.S Court case
Open Door Policy
John Smith
Mayflower Compact
7. Nonviolent protest to college students (NC) being refused lunch service; part of 'sit-in' movement to integrate all aspects of life (hotels - entertainment - &c.)
Specie
William Marcy
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
Report on Public Credit
8. Despite CIA-sponsored Soviet resistance - Afghanistan taken by Soviet Union; ended detente between USSR and US
'Hundred days'
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Potsdam Conference (1945)
9. 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
'Contract with America' (1994)
Populist Party
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
James G. Blaine
10. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - Harold Icicles - provided public construction projects
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Battle of Gettysburg
New Federalism
Public Works Administration (PWA)
11. Drastic cutbacks in regulation of business by the federal government (banks - transportation - communications
Lodge Reservations
Ngo Dinh Diem
'Bleeding Kansas'
Deregulation
12. Stated the United States was destined to span the breadth of the entire continent with as much land as possible - advocated by Polk
British strengths and weaknesses
Know-Nothing (American) Party
Farmers'Alliance movement
Manifest Destiny
13. Republican candidate for president in 1884 - quintessence of spoils system; highly disgusted the mugwumps (many Republicans turned to Democrat Cleveland)
James G. Blaine
'Contract with America' (1994)
Bracero program
War Industries Board
14. Protected rights of individual from the power of the central government
US acquisitions
Bill of Rights
Marcus Garvey
Upton Sinclair
15. Interracial group of protestors who aimed to dramatize the violations of the call for desegregation; harsh treatment by southern whites provoked Kennedy to more strictly enforce desegregation
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
Great Migration
Rationing
16. Ensured trade with mother country - nationalism; too restrictive on colonial economy - not voted on by colonists
Hudson River School
'Lost Generation'
Mayflower Compact
Mercantilism
17. '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
March on Washington
'New Left'
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Keynesian economics
18. Activist government to serve all citizens (cf. Alexander Hamilton); founded New Republic magazine
Federal Reserve Act
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
19. Part of Nixon's tri-faceted plan to honorably remove troops from Vietnam; wean the South Vietnamese off of American support - gradually reducing number of American troops present
Vietnamization
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
Bank of the United States
Civil Rights Act of 1964
20. Reluctant to give colonists their own government - preferred to appoint royal governors
King James I - King Charles
Economic transition
Hoovervilles
Erie Canal
21. Proslavery constitution in Kansas - supported by Buchanan - freesoilers against it (victorious) - denied statehood until after secession
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Yellow journalism
Lecompton Constitution
Tariff of Abominations
22. Formed in response to Kansas-Nebraska Act - banned in the South - John C Fremont first presidential candidate
George Whitefield
Republican Party
Andrew Carnegie
'New Left'
23. Gold discovery in Sutter's Mill in 1848 resulted in huge mass of adventurers in 1849 - led to application for statehood - opened question of slavery in the West
'City on a Hill'
Worcester v. Georgia
California Gold Rush
Peace Corps
24. Attempted to centralize production of war materials; ineffective due to American desire for laissez-faire government
War Industries Board
Report on Public Credit
New Federalism
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
25. Worked to reform the American education system - abolitionist - prison/asylum reform with Dorothea Dix
William and Mary
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
Horace Mann
U-2 Incident
26. States could refuse to enforce the federal laws they deemed unconstitutional
Nullification
The Alamo
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Dred Scott v. Sandford
27. Dance music - slave spirituals adapted into improvisation and ragtime; jazz migrated along with blacks in the Great Migration
James G. Blaine
Jazz
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
'Contract with America' (1994)
28. 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)
Barbary Pirates
National Labor Union
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
John D. Rockefeller
29. Clay and Calhoun - eager for war with Britain (War of 1812)
War hawks
Scopes Trial
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
Marshall Court (all cases)
30. First female cabinet member
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
'Hundred days'
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe (1989)
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
31. Huerta's enemy - reluctantly supported by U.S.; U.S. sought Villa's submission due to terrorism - eventually assassinated; Wilson's policy highly unpopular
President Franklin Roosevelt
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
Booker T. Washington
32. Emphasized importance of private charities to help the depression
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33. American general Horatio Gates was victorious over British general Burgoyne
'Silent Majority'
Korean War
Battle of Saratoga
Robert La Follette
34. Fear of Japanese-Americans as traitors - sent off (by law) to internment camps; removal of deemed threats in military areas
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
President Jimmy Carter
Japanese internment
Wilmot Proviso
35. Opposed to slavery and secession - but stayed loyal to Virginia - despite offer for command of Union Army
Robert E. Lee
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
Valley Forge
Anne Hutchinson
36. 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
Pearl Harbor
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
Vietcong
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
37. Decisive victory to Reagan due to his appeal over Carter (now unpopular due to lack of success in the presidency
Butler v. U.S. Court case
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
Election of 1980
Lodge Reservations
38. Detectives hired by employers as private police force - often used to end strikes
John Foster Dulles
Wilmot Proviso
Pinkertons
Quebec Acts
39. Lowering of income taxes for wealthy (trickle-down economics) - refusal to create higher prices to help farmers (McNary-Haugen Bill)
Andrew Carnegie
Currency Act
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
George Washington
40. Pushed through northern Georgia - captured Atlanta - 'march to the sea' (total war and destruction) - proceeded to South Carolina
Tammany Hall
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Bank of the United States
William T. Sherman
41. Economic prosperity of American society following WWII; doubling of national income - jobs to women - defense industry's support of economy
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42. McKinley reluctant; armed intervention to free Cuba from Spain; Roosevelt's 'Rough Riders' made attack on Spanish at Cuba
Pan-Americanism
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
Spanish American War (1898)
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
43. Colonies proposed colonial confederation under lighter British rule (crown-appointed president - 'Grand Council'); never took effect
Albany Plan of Union
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
'Affluent Society'
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
44. Organized and controlled resistance against Parliamentary acts in less violent ways (strength of martyrdom) - advocated nonimportation
Sons of Liberty
Burned-Over District
Jonathan Edwards
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
45. Challenged New England Calvinist ministers' authority - as they taught the good works for salvation of Catholicism
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
Lowell mill/system
Anne Hutchinson
46. Young women employed by Lowell's textile company - housed in dormitories
'Yellow dog contracts'
Energy Crisis - OPEC
Lowell mill/system
Election of 1980
47. Lee's chief lieutenant and premier cavalry officer
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48. Reduced quota - reduced numbers from eastern and southern Europe - Asians banned - Canadians and Latin Americans exempt
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
Horace Mann
National Origins Act (1924)
Dawes Plan (1924)
49. Republican - popular hero of WWII; 'dynamic conservatism' as a middle ground btw. Rep. and Dem.; Interstate Highway System (ulterior motive of weapons transportation); St. Lawrence Seaway opened Great Lakes to Atlantic Ocean via locks; Depts. Of Heal
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Liberty Party
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
50. Small state banks set up by Jackson to keep federal funds out of the National Bank - used until funds were consolidated into a single treasury
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
Pet banks
Munn v. Illinois
Bay of Pigs invasion