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AP U.S. History
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1. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - employed young jobless men with government projects on work relief and environment
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Affirmative Action
War hawks
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
2. Stock prices fell drastically; without buyers - the stocks became essentially worthless; cause bank crashes - &c.
Battle of Gettysburg
Hull House
Stock market crash (1929)
Gays in the military
3. Fought for old Southern way of life (states' rights) - attempted to gain higher standing within Democratic party; aimed to deny Truman enough electoral votes to avoid his reelection by nominating Strom Thurmond (SC governor)
Hoover's policy of voluntarism
Battle of Gettysburg
Declining death rate
Dixiecrats - 1948
4. Prohibited exports (and imports) based in American ports - most controversial Jefferson legislation
William and Mary
Marshall Court (all cases)
Embargo Act (1807)
Battle of Yorktown
5. Proponent of gradual gain of equal rights for African-Americans
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
Booker T. Washington
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
6. Lee's attack on Maryland in hopes that he could take it from the Union - bloodiest day of the war - stalemate - McClellan replaced by Burnside - stalemate - South would never be so close to victory again
Battle of Antietam
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
Berlin Wall
7. Destroyed by Jackson on the grounds that it was unconstitutional and too much power for a federal institution
Bank of the United States
Declining death rate
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Sugar Act
8. Known as 'wartime food czar;' created recreation policies and reintroduced leisure culture and conservation ethic to get Americans escaping the cities and improve tourism - etc.
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
Teapot Dome scandal
The Glorious Revolution
James Meredith
9. Tax cuts to increase population spending (help economy) - drastic cutting back on government programs due to lack of funds
Hartford Convention
Charles Lindbergh
Haymarket Bombing
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
10. 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)
Kitchen Cabinet
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
11. FDR and Churchill agreed to defeat Germany first rather than concentrate on Japan
Transcendentalism
Regionalist and naturalist writers
Deregulation
First American strategy in WWII
12. Brought in Mexicans for temporary jobs - concentrated in southern CA - given extremely poor working conditions (as they were not American citizens)
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
Eugene V. Debs
Bracero program
13. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark sent by Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Territory on 'Voyage of Discovery'
Neutrality
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Writs of Assistance
Lewis and Clark expedition
14. Helped approval ratings - not removed from office despite all the efforts of Republican congressmen
Clinton impeachment (1997)
Manifest Destiny
Henry Clay and the American System
'Bleeding Kansas'
15. Americans who were forced out of their homes in Oklahoma and Arkansas (respectively) due to the dust storms and drought known as the Dust Bowl
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16. Newt Gingrich (Republican congressman) planned for success of Republican party in upcoming election by pledging tax cuts - congressional term limits - tougher crime laws - balanced budget amendment - popular reforms &c.
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17. Effectively ended spoils system and established civil service exams for all government positions - under Pres. Garfield
Black Panther Party
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Mann Act
18. Gore promising with experience - Bush appealing by family influence and plans for presidency (tax cuts - education reform - defense - &c.)
The Great Awakening
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Samuel Gompers
19. In Brook Farm Community - lived in seclusion for two years writing Walden and On Civil Disobedience - proved that man could provide for himself without materialistic wants
Henry David Thoreau
Benjamin Franklin
Nativism
Washington's Farewell Address
20. Maine as free state - Missouri as slave state - slavery prohibited north of 36°30'
Embargo Act (1807)
'Evil Empire' speech - 'Star Wars'
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
21. The principle that a state should decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery
'Trail of Tears'
The Great Awakening
'Bleeding Kansas'
Popular Sovereignty
22. Established colony of Georgia as a place for honest debtors
Connecticut Compromise
James Oglethorpe
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
23. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - used withheld money from payrolls to provide aid to the unemployed - industrial accident victims - and young mothers; principle of government responsibility for social welfare
Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA)
Alexander Hamilton
Social Reciprocity
George Washington
24. Hamilton's plan to solve Revolutionary debt - Assumption highly controversial - pushed his plan through Congress - based on loose interpretation of Constitution
President Jimmy Carter
Bank of the United States
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Immigration Act of 1965
25. Jackson used personal friends as unofficial advisors over his official cabinet
Andy Warhol
Kitchen Cabinet
Lewis and Clark expedition
William Henry Harrison
26. Brown aimed to create an armed slave rebellion and establish black free state; Brown executed and became martyr in the North
Unrestricted submarine warfare
'Yellow dog contracts'
Harpers Ferry (1859)
Deportations of Mexicans
27. Hired to photograph ordinary Americans experiencing the depression
Quarantine Speech - 1937
Dorothea Lange
Panic of 1819
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
28. Americans could now spend what they had been told to save during the war (disposable income); increased purchasing of luxury items
Consumerism
'New Left'
Tallmadge Amendment
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
29. New Englanders who did not wish to relate their conversion experiences could become half-way saints so that their children would be able to have the opportunity to be saints
Cuban Missile Crisis
Dollar Diplomacy'
Bill of Rights
The Half-Way Covenant
30. Uncovered the 'dirt' on corruption and harsh quality of city/working life; heavily criticized by Theodore Roosevelt; Ida Tarabell (oil companies) - David Graham Phillips (Senate) - Aschen School (child labor — photography) - mass magazines McClure's
Muckrakers
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Gulf War - 'Operation Desert Storm' (1991)
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
31. 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
Immigration Act of 1965
National Organization of Women
Andrew Carnegie
Clinton impeachment (1997)
32. Prohibited use of any devices (e.g. - literacy tests) to deny the right to vote and enforced black suffrage rights
Voting Rights Act of 1965
William and Mary
American society during the Revolution
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
33. First 'modern' president - moderate who supported progressivism (at times conservative) - bypassed congressional opposition (cf. Jackson) - significant role in world affairs
Theodore Roosevelt
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Jonathan Edwards
34. Parliament took minor actions in the colonies - allowing them to experiment with and become accustomed to self-government - international trade agreements
Salutary Neglect
Soviet atomic bomb
Declaratory Act
Palmer Raids
35. President has power to cease trade with any foreign country that violated American neutrality
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36. Edmond Genet contributed to polarization of the new nation by creating his American Foreign Legion in the south - which was directed to attack Spanish garrisons in New Orleans and St. Augustine
Quarantine Speech - 1937
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
Citizen Genet
37. Planes hijacked by terrorists for destruction; blame pinned on Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden - sought out in attempt to completely destroy terrorism
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Watergate Scandal
Lecompton Constitution
Secretary of State John Hay
38. Soviet leader undergoing tensions on superpower and domestic level
Elastic Clause ('necessary and proper')
Mikhail Gorbachev
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Battle of Tippecanoe
39. Connected the colonies to Britain - opposed to unnecessary unfair taxation; strong influence on Albany Plan
John D. Rockefeller
Benjamin Franklin
Ku Klux Klan
Religious Right
40. Bomb thrown at protest rally - police shot protestors - caused great animosity in employers for workers' unions
Compromise of 1877
President Jimmy Carter
Haymarket Bombing
Treaty of Paris (1783)
41. Adams - Jefferson - and Burr: Adams lost - Jefferson and Burr tied - Hamilton convinced other Federalists to vote for Jefferson to break the tie
Spanish American War (1898)
Bombing and invasion of Cambodia
Berlin Wall
Election of 1800
42. Tweed Leader of Tammany Hall - gained large sums of money through the political machine - prosecuted by Samuel Tilden and sent to jail
Rosie the Riveter
Rock `n' Roll
William Marcy
Five Civilized Tribes
43. Spurred by Great Migration - large-scale riots - lynchings - &c.
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44. To make German reparations from WWI more accessible to Germans; evacuation of troops from Germany - reorganization of the Reichsbank - and foreign loans
Coxey's Army
Platt Amendment
Dawes Plan (1924)
Midnight judges
45. Exempted those who owned or oversaw twenty or more slaves from service in the Confederate Army; 'rich man's war but a poor man's fight'
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
Zimmerman Note
Peace Corps
20-Negro Law
46. Society naturally punishes criminals indiscriminantly
Social Reciprocity
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
Energy Crisis - OPEC
Maysville Road Veto
47. Political action for religion justified by decreased presence of religion in society; Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition to expand national influence
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
Religious Right
Election of 1800
Thomas Nast
48. 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
Hoover's policy of voluntarism
New Harmony
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
March on Birmingham
49. Old immigrants from northern and western Europe came seeking better life; new immigrants came from southern and eastern Europe searching for opportunity to escape worse living conditions back home and often did not stay in the US
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
Forced busing
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
Pet banks
50. Effects of pesticides on the environment; changed way Americans viewed their impact on nature
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
Ngo Dinh Diem
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo