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AP U.S. History
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1. French threat at the borders was no longer present - therefore the colonies didn't need English protection; more independent stand against Britain
James K. Polk
French and Indian War
Warren Court
Social Reciprocity
2. Halted sale of tribal lands - enabled tribes to regain unallocated lands; repealed Dawes Severalty Act of 1887; helped secure Indians' entry into New Deal associations; led by John Collier
Zoot Suit riots
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
Conformity in the 1950s
Civil Rights Act of 1964
3. Nixon's domestic policy; federal revenues shared with states (revenue sharing) - minimum income proposed
New Federalism
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe (1989)
20-Negro Law
4. NLF attacked numerous South Vietnamese cities and American embassies - eventually repulsed; spoiled LBJ's record to reelection - resulted in massive protests in US to end the war; atrocities such that war could only end in stalemate
Energy Crisis - OPEC
Tet Offensive (1968)
'Brain trust'
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
5. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark sent by Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Territory on 'Voyage of Discovery'
Lewis and Clark expedition
Sputnik
Emergency Banking Relief Act
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
6. 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
March on Washington
Citizen Genet
Declining death rate
Shays's Rebellion
7. Response to Berlin crisis - warned Moscow that threats would be answered with force; Warsaw Pact formed by Soviets in response
Pet banks
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
National Road
'Brain trust'
8. Proponent of gradual gain of equal rights for African-Americans
Booker T. Washington
Farm crisis
California Gold Rush
Sugar Act
9. Social ideals to be encouraged in public school (stress on social interaction) - learning by doing
Robert E. Lee
John Dewey
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Bacon's Rebellion
10. Prohibited use of any devices (e.g. - literacy tests) to deny the right to vote and enforced black suffrage rights
Bank of the United States
Bonus Army
Strict vs. Loose interpretation of the Constitution
Voting Rights Act of 1965
11. State-run economy to provide conflict-free society
The Homefront
Berlin Wall
Yalta Conference (1945)
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
12. Decision under Sherman Anti-Trust Act shot down by Supreme Court — sugar refining was manufacturing rather than trade/commerce
David Riesman
United States vs. EC Knight Company
Richard Nixon (R)
Berlin Wall
13. Westward migration of workers (new economic opportunities - esp. aircraft industry) - high rates of divorce and family/juvenile violence - women encouraged to work in factories - still held inferior to men
March on Washington
Lewis and Clark expedition
The Homefront
Lecompton Constitution
14. Supported abolition - broke off of Anti-Slavery Society
AFL-CIO (1955)
Liberty Party
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Regionalist and naturalist writers
15. Written anonymously by Hamilton - Jay - and Madison; commentary on Constitution - republicanism extended over large territory
McCarthyism
The Federalist Papers
Stock market crash (1929)
Booker T. Washington
16. Government would hold its revenues rather than deposit them in banks - thus keeping the funds away from private corporations; 'America's Second Declaration of Independence'
Vertical and horizontal integration
Independent Treasury Bill
China turns communist
Clinton impeachment (1997)
17. 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)
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
Sputnik
'Trail of Tears'
Emancipation Proclamation
18. Proposed by Hamilton to repair war debts; selling of securities and federal lands - assumption of state debts - set up the first National Bank
Report on Public Credit
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
James Monroe
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
19. Economic prosperity of American society following WWII; doubling of national income - jobs to women - defense industry's support of economy
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20. Created the Wisconsin Idea (as governor of Wisconsin) — regulated railroad - direct-primary system - increased corporate taxes - reference library for lawmakers
Robert La Follette
The Enlightenment
Economic transition
Mann Act
21. Roosevelt's plan that aimed to regulate corporations (Anthracite coal strike - Dept. of Commerce and Labor - Elkins and Hepburn Acts) - protect consumers (meat sanitation) - and conserve natural resources (Newlands Reclamation Act)
Square Deal
Marshall Court (all cases)
Espionage Act and Sedition Act
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
22. (free speech movement) Youth activists (often liberal arts students) spoke out against Vietnam War - supported widespread liberalization
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23. Natural selection applied to human competition - advocated by Herbert Spencer - William Graham Sumner
Fair Labor Standards Act
Ulysses S. Grant
Social Darwinism
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
24. Prohibited colonies from issuing paper money - destabilized colonial economy
Robert La Follette
Currency Act
Cult of domesticity
Fugitive Slave Act
25. Decisive victory to Reagan due to his appeal over Carter (now unpopular due to lack of success in the presidency
Dorothea Lange
Election of 1980
Elastic Clause ('necessary and proper')
'Lost Generation'
26. Taxes on all legal documents to support British troops - not approved by colonists through their representatives
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
Greenback Party
Currency Act
Stamp Act
27. Slavery to be barred in all territory ceded from Mexico; never fully passed Congress
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Wilmot Proviso
Pan-Americanism
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
28. British-occupied cities - new governments - fighting by any with experience - loaned money - African-Americans and Native Americans involved
American society during the Revolution
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
Thomas Nast
Olive Branch Petition
29. Advocated by Roger Sherman - proposed two independently-voting senators per state and representation in the House based on population
Regionalist and naturalist writers
AFL-CIO (1955)
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
Connecticut Compromise
30. Despite CIA-sponsored Soviet resistance - Afghanistan taken by Soviet Union; ended detente between USSR and US
Immigration Act of 1965
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Humanitarian diplomacy
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
31. Settled in Pennsylvania - believed the 'Inner Light' could speak through any person and ran religious services without ministers
Thomas Edison
Navigation Acts
William Penn and the Quakers
The Federalist Papers
32. Allowed sale of weaponry to democracies on 'cash-and-carry' basis - avoided full-blown war; danger zones proclaimed; solved American unemployment crisis
Hoover's policy of voluntarism
Okies' and 'Arkies'
Nullification
Neutrality Act - 1939
33. Risk of too many casualties and high costs for hand-to-hand combat/invasion - Japanese surrender unlikely
Plessy v. Ferguson
Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA)
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
34. 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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35. Anti-communist crusades due to fear of radicalism spurred by Bolshevik rebellion
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36. To make German reparations from WWI more accessible to Germans; evacuation of troops from Germany - reorganization of the Reichsbank - and foreign loans
Dawes Plan (1924)
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
League of Nations
Warren Court
37. Emphasized importance of private charities to help the depression
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38. Gorbachev decreased nuclear arsenals - Communist Party lost power - Boris Yeltsin (president of Russian Republic) led Muscovites to take control
Liberty Party
1992 Election
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
Coxey's Army
39. Dealt with Vietnam War - 'Great Society' program for improvement of American society - antipoverty and anti-discrimination programs
Free silver
Harriet Tubman
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Secretary of State John Hay
40. Opposed BTW's accommodation policies - called for immediate equality - formed Niagara Movement to support his ideas
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Creel Committee
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
41. Americans feared Soviet infiltration into Latin America - placed secret police and military forces to prevent it
Berlin Airlift
Open Door Policy
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
Bacon's Rebellion
42. Required of members of the Puritan Church; took the place of baptism required by the Catholic Church
Conversion Experience
Tet Offensive (1968)
Eugene V. Debs
Invasion of Iraq
43. Parliament took minor actions in the colonies - allowing them to experiment with and become accustomed to self-government - international trade agreements
Manifest Destiny
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
Salutary Neglect
44. Jackson was allowed to relocate Indian tribes in the Louisiana Territory
'Big BM' Haywood
Virtual Representation
'New Left'
Indian Removal Act
45. 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
Lodge Reservations
Good Neighbor Policy
Washington's Farewell Address
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
46. 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)
Fort Sumter
Proclamation of 1763
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
Knights of Labor
47. Defined process for territories to become states (population reached 60 -000) - forbade slavery in the new territories
Yalta Conference (1945)
Camp David Accords
Ngo Dinh Diem
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
48. 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)
Non-Intercourse Act
Dixiecrats - 1948
Robert E. Lee
Dorothea Dix
49. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - employed young jobless men with government projects on work relief and environment
Butler v. U.S. Court case
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Ike's Farewell Speech
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
50. Commission on civil rights to attempt to guarantee the ballot to blacks; showed government's changing views of race relations
William Henry Harrison
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960