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AP U.S. History
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1. Ended exclusion of homosexuals from military; due to controversy - compromise of 'don't ask - don't tell' instituted
Causes of the depression
The Great Awakening
Benjamin Franklin
Gays in the military
2. 10-year moratorium on Chinese immigration to reduce competition for jobs (Chinese willing to work for cheap salaries)
Jane Addams
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Kitchen Cabinet
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
3. (The Lonely Crowd) 'outer directed' Americans conforming to peer pressure on moral and social issues - rather than independently thinking on morals
Samuel Gompers
David Riesman
'City on a Hill'
Energy Crisis - OPEC
4. Lee's chief lieutenant and premier cavalry officer
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5. Jackson used personal friends as unofficial advisors over his official cabinet
Kitchen Cabinet
John Brown
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
James G. Blaine
6. Women must gain economic rights in order to impact society (cf. rising divorce rates)
Spanish American War (1898)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Olive Branch Petition
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
7. Formed in response to Kansas-Nebraska Act - banned in the South - John C Fremont first presidential candidate
Republican Party
Quarantine Speech - 1937
Theodore Roosevelt
Dawes Plan (1924)
8. Guerilla army sponsored by CIA to attack procommunist revolutionaries in Nicaragua; fear of another Vietnam
Vietnam War
Mayflower Compact
Nicaraguan Contras
Essex case
9. Raised tariffs extremely high on manufactured goods; benefited domestic manufacturers - but limited foreign trade
'Contract with America' (1994)
Lodge Reservations
Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1922 and 1930
The Half-Way Covenant
10. Symbol of women workers during the war
Rosie the Riveter
Haymarket Bombing
Square Deal
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
11. First Utopian society - by Robert Owen
New Harmony
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
Whig Party
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
12. Committees appointed from different colonies to communicate on matters; asserted rights to self¬government - cooperation between colonies
Hudson River School
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
Committees of Correspondence
13. Unprecedented sudden growth spurt of American population (especially urban and suburban areas)
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14. Nixon led movement to Hiss's indictment; convicted of perjury - Nixon gained national prominence
'Big BM' Haywood
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
Tammany Hall
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
15. Runaway slave - well-known speaker on the condition of slavery - worked with Garrison and Wendell Phillips - founder of The North Star
Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Association (YMCA & YWCA)
Frederick Douglass
Worcester v. Georgia
Hoover's policy of voluntarism
16. Slavery to be barred in all territory ceded from Mexico; never fully passed Congress
Wilmot Proviso
Benjamin Franklin
US acquisitions
Bracero program
17. Tweed Leader of Tammany Hall - gained large sums of money through the political machine - prosecuted by Samuel Tilden and sent to jail
William Lloyd Garrison
William Marcy
Causes of the depression
Election of 1824
18. Established federal district courts that followed local procedures - Supreme Court had final jurisdiction; compromise between nationalists and advocates for states' rights
Tories (Loyalists)
Judiciary Act of 1789
John Foster Dulles
Domino theory
19. Rejection of negative portrayals of women (language - entertainment) - increased quality and use of education - more job opportunities - acceptance into military
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe (1989)
Richard Nixon (R)
Gains for women
20. Hamilton praised efficient factories with few managers over many workers - promote emigration - employment opportunities - applications of technology
Conservative backlash against liberalism
Fort Sumter
Nativism
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
21. Despite CIA-sponsored Soviet resistance - Afghanistan taken by Soviet Union; ended detente between USSR and US
XYZ Affair
Bacon's Rebellion
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Farm crisis
22. Law meant to evolve as society evolves - opposed conservative majority
Know-Nothing (American) Party
Muckrakers
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
Wilmot Proviso
23. Detente achieved with USSR and China by withdrawal from Vietnam; realpolitik shed the use of doctrines and policies - instead using China and USSR in alternative ways to achieve other goals (pitting China and USSR against each other - as communist na
Detente - realpolitik
Thomas Nast
'Silent Majority'
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
24. Drafting extremely hated by Northerners - sparked by Irish-Americans against the black population - 500 lives lost - many buildings burned
New York City draft riots (1863)
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
1992 Election
Stamp Act
25. Founded by Betty Friedan - Bella Abzug - and Aileen Hernandez; lobbied for equal opportunity where the EEOC was lacking (gender discrimination); lawsuits and mobilization of public opinion
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
Suburbia
National Organization of Women
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
26. Under JQ Adams - protectionist tariff - South considered it the source of economic problems - made Jackson appear to advocate free trade
George Kennan
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
Tariff of Abominations
27. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - banned child labor - established minimum wage
Vietnamization
Committees of Correspondence
Fair Labor Standards Act
Stamp Act Congress
28. Effectively ended spoils system and established civil service exams for all government positions - under Pres. Garfield
Jim Crow laws
Bay of Pigs invasion
Harlem Renaissance
Pendleton Civil Service Act
29. For women's rights - organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton - modeled requests after the Declaration of Independence
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
President Harry Truman
Battle of Saratoga
Humanitarian diplomacy
30. River traffic - road building - canals (esp. Erie) - rise of NYC
Transportation Revolution
Emergency Banking Relief Act
'Graying of America'
Secretary of State John Hay
31. Opposed Polk's high-handedness - avid Southern slave owner
John C. Calhoun
Yalta Conference (1945)
Greenback Party
Stock market crash (1929)
32. 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
Jim Crow laws
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
Henry David Thoreau
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
33. Led architectural movement to create building designs that reflected buildings' functions - especially in Chicago
National Origins Act (1924)
Woodrow Wilson
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Louis Sullivan
34. Democratic political machine in NYC - 'supported' immigrants and poor people of the city - who were needed for Democratic election victories
Munn v. Illinois
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
Judiciary Act of 1789
Tammany Hall
35. Speech symbolized polarization between conservatives and liberals
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36. Risk of too many casualties and high costs for hand-to-hand combat/invasion - Japanese surrender unlikely
Butler v. U.S. Court case
Peace Corps
Navigation Acts
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
37. 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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38. Decisive victory to Reagan due to his appeal over Carter (now unpopular due to lack of success in the presidency
Louis Sullivan
Schechter v. U.S Court case
Suburbia
Election of 1980
39. 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
Adams-Onis Treaty
Charles Lindbergh
Populist Party
Roger Williams
40. 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
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
Boston Tea Party
Schechter v. U.S Court case
Commerce Compromise
41. Created by John L. Lewis for unskilled labor - organized 'sit-down strike' against GM to work for recognition
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
President John F. Kennedy
42. Single tax on speculated land to ameliorate industrialization misery
Bracero program
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
43. Cherokee tribe forced to move from southern Appalachians to reservations in current-day Oklahoma - high death toll
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44. National Liberation Front - guerilla militia from south Vietnam fighting alongside the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam)
Federal Reserve Act
Report on Public Credit
Vietcong
Nativism
45. Strong central government - separation of powers - 'extended republic'
James Madison
Louis Sullivan
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
'City on a Hill'
46. Kennedy vs. Nixon - Kennedy (due to televised charisma) won over Nixon (pale and nervous)
Woodrow Wilson
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
Free silver
Election of 1960
47. Southern states (especially South Carolina) believed that they had the right to judge federal laws unconstitutional and therefore not enforce them
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Election of 1800
Nullification Controversy
Election of 1960
48. 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
Immigration Act of 1965
Citizen Genet
Jim Crow laws
Plessy v. Ferguson
49. Belief in minimal government so as to allow the people their own free reign - lower taxes to stimulate economy - &c.
US acquisitions
Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1922 and 1930
20-Negro Law
Conservatism
50. Fines and imprisonment for aiding the enemy or hindering U.S. military; forbade any form of criticism of the government and military
James Madison
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
Shays's Rebellion
Espionage Act and Sedition Act