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AP U.S. History

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1. North African Muslim rulers solved budget problems through piracy and tributes in Mediterranean - obtained fees from most European powers






2. Ideas of Wilson: small enterprise - states' rights - more active government - trust busting - left social issues up to the states






3. Prohibited discrimination in any government-related work; increased black employment






4. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - banned child labor - established minimum wage






5. Effects of pesticides on the environment; changed way Americans viewed their impact on nature






6. Effectively ended spoils system and established civil service exams for all government positions - under Pres. Garfield






7. Gorbachev decreased nuclear arsenals - Communist Party lost power - Boris Yeltsin (president of Russian Republic) led Muscovites to take control






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






9. Under JQ Adams - protectionist tariff - South considered it the source of economic problems - made Jackson appear to advocate free trade






10. Private property subject to government regulation when property is devoted to public interest; against railroads






11. '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






12. John Noyes - New York; utopian society for communalism - perfectionism - and complex marriage






13. Stated the United States was destined to span the breadth of the entire continent with as much land as possible - advocated by Polk






14. Provided housing and recreation to city youth - imposing Protestant morals - unable to reach out to all youth


15. Nixon agreed with USSR to achieve nuclear equality rather than the superiority that threatened the destruction of the world; further reduced tensions between the two countries






16. John Marshall declared that the Supreme Court could declare federal laws unconstitutional






17. Old immigrants from northern and western Europe came seeking better life; new immigrants came from southern and eastern Europe searching for opportunity to escape worse living conditions back home and often did not stay in the US






18. Organize militia - end trade with Britain - refuse to pay taxes to Britain






19. Calvinist - devised concept of 'city on a hill' ('A Model of Christian Charity'); founded highly successful towns in Massachusetts Bay






20. Ford's and Carter's presidencies experienced a recession and inflation simultaneously - solved by Keynesian economics






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






22. Panama Canal Treaty - diplomacy with China - end of recognition of Taiwan; little accomplished domestically due to conservative opposition - foreign policy more successful; Washington outsider - Experienced high interest rates - inflation - increased






23. 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)






24. Formed by white progressives - adopted goals of Niagara Movement - in response to Springfield Race Riots






25. Black rights leader - heavily influenced by Malcolm X (advocated black separatism rather than integration)






26. 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


27. Jane Addams's pioneer settlement house (center for women's activism and social reform) in Chicago






28. Standard Oil Company - Ruthless business tactics (survival of the fittest)






29. 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






30. Fought for return to colonial rule - usually conservative (educated and wealthy






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


32. Overthrew Pres. Guzman after he nationalized American fruit fields and accepted arms from USSR (communist sympathies)






33. Relied on voluntary compliance (no formal laws) - propaganda; high prices set on commodities to encourage production - Prohibition


34. 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)






35. First Utopian society - by Robert Owen






36. Sought to eliminate spheres of influence and avoid European monopolies in China; unaccepted by the powers in mind






37. Increase working output by standardizing procedures and rewarding those who worked fast; efficiency






38. Avoided league of Nations - opposed Latin American involvement






39. Maine as free state - Missouri as slave state - slavery prohibited north of 36°30'






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






41. Tet Offensive in Vietnam - assassination of MLK and Robert Kennedy (presidential candidate) - Riot of Democratic National Convention (Chicago police beat antiwar protestors) - Black Panthers


42. First female cabinet member






43. Held in New York - agreed to not import British goods until Stamp Act was repealed






44. Appealed to many conservatives - especially southerners (opposed massive protests and integration)






45. Often debtors sold to slave traders by African kings seeking riches; Columbian Exchange






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






47. Germany announced that it would sink all (including American) ships - attempt to involve U.S. in war






48. In Brook Farm Community - literary nationalist - transcendentalist (nascent ideas of God and freedom) - wrote 'The American Scholar'






49. Agricultural depression as precursor to the depression; unheeded omen of problems in the economic structure (prices too low — too much supply for the demand)






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