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AP U.S. History

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1. 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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2. Government would protect America's foreign investments with any force needed; under president Taft

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3. Sewer systems and purification of water






4. John Brown and his sons slaughtered five men as a response to the election fraud in Lawrence and the caning of Sumner in Congress






5. Banned racial discrimination and segregation (public) - bias by federal government; enforced by Equal Employment Opportunity Commission






6. Focused on skilled workers (harder to replace than unskilled) - coordinated crafts unions - supported 8¬hour workday and injury liability






7. Created Federal Reserve System - regional banks set up for twelve separate districts - final authority of each bank lay with the Federal Reserve Board - paper money to be issued 'Federal Reserve Notes'






8. Unconstitutionalized the NRA due to delegation of legislative authority from Congress to executive






9. Group of Bostonians in opposition to the Stamp Act - sought to drive stamp distributors from the city






10. Craft unions that left the Knights (1886) - led by Gompers - women left out of recruitment efforts






11. Gives Congress the power to pass laws it deems necessary to enforce the Constitution

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12. Tax cuts to increase population spending (help economy) - drastic cutting back on government programs due to lack of funds






13. Rise in stock prices and speculation - decline of construction industry - mistaken 'trickle-down' economics - reliance on credit






14. '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






15. Tweed Leader of Tammany Hall - gained large sums of money through the political machine - prosecuted by Samuel Tilden and sent to jail






16. 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






17. Selective Service Act to require men to register with few exceptions; women and blacks drafted/enlisted - highly successful






18. Preservation of New Deal - attempt at additions; raised minimum wage - public housing - old-age insurance extension - agricultural price supports (lowering of farm price)






19. Exemplary Christian community - rich to show charity - held to Calvinistic beliefs

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20. Worked alongside Josiah Henson to make repeated trips to get slaves out of the South into freedom






21. Americans concerned with economic depression; sought to avoid European involvement - no apparent immediate threats






22. Opposed strikes - producer-consumer cooperation - temperance - welcomed blacks and women (allowing segregation)






23. William and Mary kicked James II out of England (exiled into France) - allowed more power to the legislatures






24. Advocated by Roger Sherman - proposed two independently-voting senators per state and representation in the House based on population






25. Racism riots against Mexican laborers (imported for jobs)






26. Republican - popular hero of WWII; 'dynamic conservatism' as a middle ground btw. Rep. and Dem.; Interstate Highway System (ulterior motive of weapons transportation); St. Lawrence Seaway opened Great Lakes to Atlantic Ocean via locks; Depts. Of Heal






27. New Lights brought new ideas - rejected by Old Lights; both sought out institutions independent of each other






28. Republican candidate for president in 1884 - quintessence of spoils system; highly disgusted the mugwumps (many Republicans turned to Democrat Cleveland)






29. Fought for women's rights and abolition - 'Men and women are CREATED EQUAL!'






30. Argued that states had the right to determine whether or not the laws passed by Congress were constitutional






31. Led a slave rebellion in Virginia - attacked many whites - prompted non-slaveholding Virginians to consider emancipation

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32. 'Rotation in office;' Jackson felt that one should spend a single term in office and return to private citizenship - those who held power too long would become corrupt and political appointments made by new officials was essential for democracy






33. British citizenship outnumbered colonies' - large navy and professional army; exhausted resources (Hessians hired) - national debt






34. Dealt with Vietnam War - 'Great Society' program for improvement of American society - antipoverty and anti-discrimination programs






35. Unemployment jitters; expelled Teamster union (resorted to gangsterism); height of power of workers' unions






36. United States aided South Vietnam in its war of power struggle against North Vietnam - the Vietcong - USSR - and China






37. Kennedy vs. Nixon - Kennedy (due to televised charisma) won over Nixon (pale and nervous)






38. Supported abolition - broke off of Anti-Slavery Society






39. Intervention in Mexican Revolution (Madero overthrew dictator Diaz) to overthrow Madero out of fear of property confiscation - General Huerta (seen as 'brute' by Wilson - sought new leader) replaced Madero






40. Decisive victory in the War of 1812 by Harrison over Tecumseh - used in Harrison's campaign for presidency






41. First president to show positive response to civil rights movement; worked heavily on keeping Soviet spread of communism in check






42. To service economy in late 20 century (end of industrialism) - Higher focus on services (esp. education) rather than material products






43. Cherokee tribe forced to move from southern Appalachians to reservations in current-day Oklahoma - high death toll

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44. Natural selection applied to human competition - advocated by Herbert Spencer - William Graham Sumner






45. 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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46. 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






47. Secretly sponsored peace negotiations so as to prevent Japanese or Russian monopoly on Asia; concerned with safety of Philippines






48. Foundation for First Amendment - offered free choice of religion - not influenced by state






49. Dance music - slave spirituals adapted into improvisation and ragtime; jazz migrated along with blacks in the Great Migration






50. Drastic cutbacks in regulation of business by the federal government (banks - transportation - communications