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AP U.S. History
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1. Founded by William Sylvis (1866); supported 8-hour workday - convict labor - federal department of labor - banking reform - immigration restrictions to increase wages - women; excluded blacks
National Labor Union
Writs of Assistance
John Smith
Industrial Workers of the World
2. All English subjects are represented in Parliament - including those not allowed to vote
Populist Party
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
Virtual Representation
New Nationalism
3. Mass migration northward; mainly blacks migrating from the southern states into the north hoping for less discrimination
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
President Jimmy Carter
Great Migration
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
4. Forbade restraint of trade and did not distinguish good from bad trusts - ineffective due to lack of enforcement mechanism (waited for Clayton Anti-Trust Act)
Commerce Compromise
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
William Marcy
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
5. Democratic political machine in NYC - 'supported' immigrants and poor people of the city - who were needed for Democratic election victories
Ho Chi Minh
Tammany Hall
The Glorious Revolution
Peace Corps
6. The Man Nobody Knows - glorification of business - Jesus as a businessman - relationship between religion and manufacturing
New Deal
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
Bruce Barton
Social Reciprocity
7. Ended the Dominion of New England - gave power back to colonies
William and Mary
Bonus Army
George Washington
Know-Nothing (American) Party
8. Democratic candidate 1912 - stood for antitrust - monetary change - and tariff reduction; far less active than Roosevelt - Clayton Anti-trust Act (to enforce Sherman) - Child Labor Act
Social Reciprocity
George Kennan
James Oglethorpe
Woodrow Wilson
9. Meant to keep government unquestioned by critics - particularly of the Federalists
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
Alien and Sedition Acts
Jingoism
Transportation Revolution
10. Scholarly - welfare-reform - 'Contract with America -' impeachment over Monica Lewinski Scandal - War in Kosovo
Jonathan Edwards
Farmers'Alliance movement
New Freedom
President Bill Clinton
11. Argued that states had the right to determine whether or not the laws passed by Congress were constitutional
Marshall Court (all cases)
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Thomas Nast
Deportations of Mexicans
12. U.S. felt it was its duty to 'watch out' for the interests of other countries in the Western hemisphere; provided justification for invasions of Latin America.
Tariff of Abominations
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
United States vs. EC Knight Company
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
13. Used nonviolent protest and boycott to achieve better working conditions for farmers (esp. Mexican-Americans)
Whig Party
American society during the Revolution
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
Schechter v. U.S Court case
14. Scarce supplies (food and clothing) - army motivated by von Steuben
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
Valley Forge
Northern Securities Case
Yeoman Farmers
15. William and Mary kicked James II out of England (exiled into France) - allowed more power to the legislatures
Invasion of Iraq
Kitchen Cabinet
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
The Glorious Revolution
16. Offered a New Deal (reminiscent of FDR) of smaller government - reduced taxes - and free enterprise; Washington outsider
Ike's Farewell Speech
'Evil Empire' speech - 'Star Wars'
President Ronald Reagan
Conservatism
17. Issued by Lincoln following Antietam (close enough to a victory to empower the proclamation) - declared slaves in the Confederacy free (did not include border states) - symbolic gesture to support Union's moral cause in the war
Emancipation Proclamation
Albany Plan of Union
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Connecticut Compromise
18. Efficient working methods to increase productivity; usually resulted in lower wages (hated by workers) - power to managers
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
John D. Rockefeller
William Jennings Bryan
Jonathan Edwards
19. Single tax on speculated land to ameliorate industrialization misery
Tet Offensive (1968)
Compromise of 1877
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
20. Created in 1961 as example of liberal anticommunism in third world countries; 'reform-minded missionaries of democracy'
Peace Corps
American society during the Revolution
Mercantilism
Federal Reserve Act
21. Part of the New Left that envisioned 'participatory democracy' (individuals control life-affecting decisions) - end materialism - militarism - and racism; inspired by young black activists
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
'City on a Hill'
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
National Labor Union
22. 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)
Tea Act (1773)
Sputnik
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
Espionage Act and Sedition Act
23. Rebels felt the governor of Virginia failed to protect the frontier from the Native Americans
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24. Populists campaigned for silver-backed money rather than gold-backed - believed to be able to relieve working conditions and exploitation of labor
Free silver
French and Indian War
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Worcester v. Georgia
25. James G. Blaine sought to open up Latin American markets to the U.S.; rejected by Latin America due to fear of U.S. dominance and satisfaction with European market
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
Pan-Americanism
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
26. Brought in Mexicans for temporary jobs - concentrated in southern CA - given extremely poor working conditions (as they were not American citizens)
Election of 1960
Bracero program
Robert La Follette
Mayflower Compact
27. FDR and Churchill agreed to defeat Germany first rather than concentrate on Japan
Compromise of 1877
Indentured servants
First American strategy in WWII
Barbary Pirates
28. Repeat candidate for president - proponent of silver-backing (16:1 platform) - cross of gold speech against gold standard; Democratic candidate (1896)
'Brain trust'
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
William Jennings Bryan
George Kennan
29. Unprecedented sudden growth spurt of American population (especially urban and suburban areas)
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30. Connected the colonies to Britain - opposed to unnecessary unfair taxation; strong influence on Albany Plan
Virtual Representation
Jonathan Edwards
Benjamin Franklin
Panic of 1819
31. Required separate and distinct ballots for presidential and vice presidential candidates
Panama Canal
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
Ike's Farewell Speech
12th Amendment
32. Tweed Leader of Tammany Hall - gained large sums of money through the political machine - prosecuted by Samuel Tilden and sent to jail
William Marcy
Farm crisis
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
Manifest Destiny
33. Banned racial discrimination and segregation (public) - bias by federal government; enforced by Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
'Red Scare' (1919)
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
Civil Rights Act of 1964
34. Conservatives like Reagan benefited from denouncing the New Left and excessive antiwar protests; gave him political prominence
Conservative backlash against liberalism
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
Tea Act (1773)
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
35. Left primary open to Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy - both promising to end the controversial war
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36. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - Harold Icicles - provided public construction projects
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Bracero program
Martin Luther King Jr.
Bonus Army
37. Americans at home reminded to conserve materials in all aspects of life to support the military; resulted in saving up of money to cause economic boom after war
President Bill Clinton
Rationing
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
Deportations of Mexicans
38. Tried to rule as absolute monarchs without using Parliament - little to no sympathy for colonial legislatures
Whig Party
Charles II - James II
20-Negro Law
New Jersey Plan
39. 8000 businesses collapsed (including railroads); due to stock market crash - overbuilding of railroads - heavy farmer loans - economic disruption by labor efforts - agricultural depression; decrease of gold reserves led to Cleveland's repeal of Sherm
Panic of 1893
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
Industrial Workers of the World
40. Another black separatist movement; known for peaceful demonstrations - but more for police shootouts
Pinkertons
Black Panther Party
Sputnik
Specie
41. 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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42. Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald (hated his anti-Cuban policies); LBJ instituted Warren Commission to investigate assassination (headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren)
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
John Smith
Yeoman Farmers
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
43. Removal of Saddam Hussein - 2003 - Iran - Iraq - and North Korea designated as the 'axis of evil -' institution of democratic government in Iraq to replace Hussein's dictatorship (return to spread and protection of democracy throughout the world - mo
Hartford Convention
Tea Act (1773)
Invasion of Iraq
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
44. Most numerous in New England - fought for independence
Monroe Doctrine
Battle of Yorktown
Secretary of State John Hay
Whigs (Patriots)
45. FDR's inner circle of experts rather than just politicians in the cabinet
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46. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - hydroelectric power to river valley; brought social and economic development to very poor area
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
Stamp Act Congress
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
47. Political action for religion justified by decreased presence of religion in society; Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition to expand national influence
Jonathan Edwards
Religious Right
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
Compromise of 1850
48. '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
Marcus Garvey
Dixiecrats - 1948
Religious Right
March on Washington
49. Organize militia - end trade with Britain - refuse to pay taxes to Britain
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
The Federalist Papers
Suffolk Resolves
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
50. Midway (US Signal Corps - turning point of war in the Pacific) - D-Day (Eisenhower's amphibious invasion of Normandy - led to depletion of German forces) - Stalingrad (Russians defeated Germans - saved Moscow and Leningrad - turning point in Europe)
Pocahontas
American society during the Revolution
Important WWII Battles
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader