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AP U.S. History
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1. Gorbachev announced Soviet withdrawal of power from all of Eastern Europe - including Berlin (wall torn down - free movement - &c.)
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe (1989)
Regionalist and naturalist writers
Thomas Edison
Hoover's policy of voluntarism
2. 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
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
The Homefront
Richard Nixon (R)
Deportations of Mexicans
3. Workers unable to escape (locked into factory) - all died; further encouraged reform movements for working conditions
Conformity in the 1950s
Cotton Gin
Jingoism
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
4. Democratic political machine in NYC - 'supported' immigrants and poor people of the city - who were needed for Democratic election victories
Liberty Party
Alien and Sedition Acts
Tammany Hall
Social Reciprocity
5. North African Muslim rulers solved budget problems through piracy and tributes in Mediterranean - obtained fees from most European powers
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Barbary Pirates
National Origins Act (1924)
'Contract with America' (1994)
6. Agreement between US and Britain to remove armed fleets from the Great Lakes
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
Essex case
Dominion of New England
'Red Scare' (1919)
7. Beginnings of trusts (destruction of competition); vertical- controlling every aspect of production (control quality - eliminate middlemen - Rockefeller); horizontal- consolidating with competitors to monopolize a market (highly detrimental)
Whigs (Patriots)
Vertical and horizontal integration
Industrial Workers of the World
Tariff of Abominations
8. Populists campaigned for silver-backed money rather than gold-backed - believed to be able to relieve working conditions and exploitation of labor
Horace Mann
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Bruce Barton
Free silver
9. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - employed young jobless men with government projects on work relief and environment
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Nativism
10. Similar to Navigation; raised money to pay colonial officials by American taxes; led to Boston boycott of English luxuries
'Hundred days'
Report on Public Credit
Conscription policies
Townshend Act (1767)
11. Part of the New Left that envisioned 'participatory democracy' (individuals control life-affecting decisions) - end materialism - militarism - and racism; inspired by young black activists
Virginia Resolves
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Thomas Nast
12. Created Interstate Commerce Commission to require railroads to publish rates (less discrimination - short/long haul) - first legislation to regulate corporations - ineffective ICC
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
Interstate Commerce Act
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
13. Nixon's domestic policy; federal revenues shared with states (revenue sharing) - minimum income proposed
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Open Door Policy
National Road
New Federalism
14. Formed in response to Kansas-Nebraska Act - banned in the South - John C Fremont first presidential candidate
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
Lodge Reservations
Republican Party
United States vs. EC Knight Company
15. Philippines - Hawaii - Puerto Rico - Guam: granted to U.S. at the end of Spanish-American War; Philippines were captured after treaty - and thus not part of spoils - but kept as territory with an inevitable movement for independence; Philippines and
Deists
Roger Williams
US acquisitions
British strengths and weaknesses
16. Standard Oil Company - Ruthless business tactics (survival of the fittest)
Maysville Road Veto
John D. Rockefeller
John Brown
Marbury v. Madison
17. Congressional support to raid houses of radicals believed to have connections to communism
'Affluent Society'
Palmer Raids
Federalists and Republicans
Berlin Wall
18. Banned racial discrimination in federal practices; To Secure These Rights called for desegregation - anti-lynching - end of poll taxes
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
Women's Christian Temperance Union
19. Led a slave rebellion in Virginia - attacked many whites - prompted non-slaveholding Virginians to consider emancipation
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20. Speech symbolized polarization between conservatives and liberals
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21. Lowering of income taxes for wealthy (trickle-down economics) - refusal to create higher prices to help farmers (McNary-Haugen Bill)
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
'New Left'
New Nationalism
22. Rejection of negative portrayals of women (language - entertainment) - increased quality and use of education - more job opportunities - acceptance into military
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Truman Doctrine
Rosenbergs
Gains for women
23. The Union planned a blockade that would not allow supplies of any sort into the Confederacy; control the Mississippi and Atlantic/Gulf of Mexico
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe (1989)
Anaconda plan
Writs of Assistance
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
24. Proclamation of 1793 response to French attempts for alliance with US
Jazz
Five Civilized Tribes
Neutrality
Mercantilism
25. Southern Christian Leadership Conference - Led boycott - became leader of civil rights movement; urged nonviolent resistance (cf. tactics of Ghandi);
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Virginia Resolves
Detente - realpolitik
26. Peaceful destruction of British tea in Boston Harbor by colonists disguised as Indians
Writs of Assistance
Whig Party
Platt Amendment
Boston Tea Party
27. Powerful speaker - toured the country and inspired many into Christianity
George Kennan
George Whitefield
Non-Intercourse Act
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
28. Ex-Lincoln secretary; worked to gain Open Door Notes' acceptance from the major powers
Harriet Tubman
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Secretary of State John Hay
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
29. Small oil companies sold stock and authority to Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company (consolidation) - cornered world petroleum market
The Glorious Revolution
Hull House
Standard Oil Trust
Martin Luther King Jr.
30. Southern and Midwestern farmers expressing discontent - supported free silver and subtreasury plan (cash advance on future crop — farmers had little cash flow during the year) - criticized national banks
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31. Jackson used personal friends as unofficial advisors over his official cabinet
Pearl Harbor
Atlantic slave trade
William Marcy
Kitchen Cabinet
32. Established free trade zone between Canada - United States and Mexico - net gain in jobs due to opening of Mexican markets
Battle of Saratoga
Salutary Neglect
Muckrakers
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
33. Raised tariffs extremely high on manufactured goods; benefited domestic manufacturers - but limited foreign trade
Mikhail Gorbachev
Liberty Party
Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1922 and 1930
George Wallace - American
34. President has power to cease trade with any foreign country that violated American neutrality
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35. Settled in Pennsylvania - believed the 'Inner Light' could speak through any person and ran religious services without ministers
William Penn and the Quakers
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Tariff of Abominations
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
36. Risk of too many casualties and high costs for hand-to-hand combat/invasion - Japanese surrender unlikely
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
Tories (Loyalists)
Harpers Ferry (1859)
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
37. Vetoed by Jackson on the count that government funds for the Maysville Road would only benefit one state
Deregulation
Creel Committee
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
Maysville Road Veto
38. Parliament took minor actions in the colonies - allowing them to experiment with and become accustomed to self-government - international trade agreements
Reaganomics
'Wage slaves'
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Salutary Neglect
39. Loose interpretation allowed for implied powers of Congress (such as the National Bank) - strict interpretation implied few powers to Congress
Judiciary Act of 1789
Conversion Experience
Strict vs. Loose interpretation of the Constitution
Lowell mill/system
40. Considered a hero for his solo crossing of the Atlantic by plane
Monroe Doctrine
Charles Lindbergh
Social Reciprocity
Bush v. Gore (2000)
41. Huerta's enemy - reluctantly supported by U.S.; U.S. sought Villa's submission due to terrorism - eventually assassinated; Wilson's policy highly unpopular
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
Specie
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Navigation Acts
42. Ensured trade with mother country - nationalism; too restrictive on colonial economy - not voted on by colonists
Olive Branch Petition
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
Mercantilism
Berlin Wall
43. Won battles in the West and raised northern morale (esp. Shiloh - Fort Henry - and Fort Donelson) - made Union commanding general
'City on a Hill'
Rationing
Gays in the military
Ulysses S. Grant
44. Created by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst; aimed to excite American imperialist interests; media bias - subjective representation of events
Jingoism
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Yellow journalism
Zoot Suit riots
45. Former French subjects in Canada allowed to keep Catholicism - while American colonists expected to participate in the Church of England
Maysville Road Veto
William Jennings Bryan
Quebec Acts
James Madison
46. Protected rights of individual from the power of the central government
Bill of Rights
Invasion of Iraq
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
Fort Sumter
47. Adams - Jefferson - and Burr: Adams lost - Jefferson and Burr tied - Hamilton convinced other Federalists to vote for Jefferson to break the tie
Four Freedoms' speech
Election of 1800
Tammany Hall
Gays in the military
48. Severe immigration laws to discourage and discriminate against foreigners - believed to erode old-fashioned American values
Dawes Plan (1924)
Nativism
Bay of Pigs invasion
Second Great Awakening
49. Fearing the rise of labor unions - corporations forced new employees to sign and promise not to be part of a union
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50. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - prevented extreme competition - labor management disputes - and over-production; federally coordinated consensus of business leaders (Hugh Johnson) to regulate businesses (wages - limits - working condit
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Jazz
Roger Williams