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AP U.S. History
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1. Connected the colonies to Britain - opposed to unnecessary unfair taxation; strong influence on Albany Plan
Benjamin Franklin
Pet banks
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
Neutrality
2. Detectives hired by employers as private police force - often used to end strikes
Bill of Rights
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Pinkertons
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
3. Rise in stock prices and speculation - decline of construction industry - mistaken 'trickle-down' economics - reliance on credit
Causes of the depression
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
President John F. Kennedy
Battle of Tippecanoe
4. Ike forced to send National Guard to escort black children to school to quell riots and resistance (first time since Reconstruction that troops used in the south to enforce Constitution); resistance by white community (private schools)
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
Woodrow Wilson
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
5. Committee on Public Information; aimed to sell America and the world on Wilson's war goals; propaganda - censorship - 'four-minute men' speeches - 'Liberty Leagues' (spy on community)
Thomas Nast
Creel Committee
Alien and Sedition Acts
War Industries Board
6. Combined Massachusetts - New Hampshire - Connecticut - Rhode Island - and Plymouth (and later Jersey and New York) into one 'supercolony' governed by Sir Edmond Andros - a 'supergovernor'
Dominion of New England
Conscription policies
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
Neutrality
7. Supported expanded money supply - health/safety regulations - benefits for workers and farmers - granger (farmer)-supported
Greenback Party
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Richard Nixon (R)
8. Alice Paul; shocked traditionalism - League of Women Voters supported; new organization of women who were now more independent
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Woodrow Wilson
Albany Plan of Union
9. Banned racial discrimination in federal practices; To Secure These Rights called for desegregation - anti-lynching - end of poll taxes
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
Vietnamization
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
10. The Man Nobody Knows - glorification of business - Jesus as a businessman - relationship between religion and manufacturing
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
Benjamin Franklin
Watergate Scandal
Bruce Barton
11. Despite CIA-sponsored Soviet resistance - Afghanistan taken by Soviet Union; ended detente between USSR and US
Eugene V. Debs
New Federalism
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
12. Reduced quota - reduced numbers from eastern and southern Europe - Asians banned - Canadians and Latin Americans exempt
Herbert Hoover's Food Administration
President Ronald Reagan
National Origins Act (1924)
Truman's Loyalty Program
13. Increased already high rate of inflation by quadrupling the price of crude oil
Washington's Farewell Address
Conservatism
Ho Chi Minh
Energy Crisis - OPEC
14. Southern Christian Leadership Conference - Led boycott - became leader of civil rights movement; urged nonviolent resistance (cf. tactics of Ghandi);
Martin Luther King Jr.
The Federalist Papers
Coxey's Army
Boston Tea Party
15. Prohibited aiding of belligerent nations - banned civilian involvement; limited power of president during international war - built up armed forces
Dorothea Lange
Virginia Plan
Good Neighbor Policy
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
16. 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
'Wage slaves'
Writs of Assistance
Citizen Genet
Liberty Party
17. Symbol of women workers during the war
Conservative backlash against liberalism
Rosie the Riveter
Writs of Assistance
Woodrow Wilson
18. Political action for religion justified by decreased presence of religion in society; Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition to expand national influence
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
Religious Right
John C. Calhoun
19. Small state banks set up by Jackson to keep federal funds out of the National Bank - used until funds were consolidated into a single treasury
Pet banks
Schechter v. U.S Court case
Boston Tea Party
Virginia Resolves
20. Dance music - slave spirituals adapted into improvisation and ragtime; jazz migrated along with blacks in the Great Migration
Transportation Revolution
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
Jazz
New Harmony
21. Denounced the 'housewife trap' which caused educated women to hold even themselves inferior to men
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
British strengths and weaknesses
'Yellow dog contracts'
22. Huerta's enemy - reluctantly supported by U.S.; U.S. sought Villa's submission due to terrorism - eventually assassinated; Wilson's policy highly unpopular
'Contract with America' (1994)
Tallmadge Amendment
Jingoism
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
23. Parks arrested for refusing to give up bus seat to white man - African American leaders called for city-wide boycott of bus system (lasted almost 400 days); Supreme Court ruled segregated buses unconstitutional
Sons of Liberty
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Compromise of 1877
Rosenbergs
24. Northern factory workers who were discarded when too old to work (unlike the slaves who were still kept fed and clothed in their old age)
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25. First 'modern' president - moderate who supported progressivism (at times conservative) - bypassed congressional opposition (cf. Jackson) - significant role in world affairs
'Wage slaves'
James Madison
Theodore Roosevelt
Virginia Plan
26. Decisive victory in the War of 1812 by Harrison over Tecumseh - used in Harrison's campaign for presidency
Battle of Tippecanoe
Jackie Robinson
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
Sugar Act
27. Accomplished great number of relief - recovery - and reform efforts; sought practical solutions to the problems by experimentation
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28. Truman tested for communist alliances within government; government employees prohibited from taking part in remotely-communist activities
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29. Proslavery constitution in Kansas - supported by Buchanan - freesoilers against it (victorious) - denied statehood until after secession
Transportation Revolution
Battle of Tippecanoe
Lecompton Constitution
Critics of FDR
30. Helped lead settlement house movement - co-founded NAACP - condemned war and poverty
Dawes Plan (1924)
William Seward
Jane Addams
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
31. 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
Marcus Garvey
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Clinton impeachment (1997)
Andrew Carnegie
32. Held in New York - agreed to not import British goods until Stamp Act was repealed
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Stagflation
Stamp Act Congress
National Labor Union
33. Challenged New Englanders to completely separate Church from State - as the State would corrupt the church
Roger Williams
William and Mary
'Gentlemen's Agreement' (1908)
Hudson River School
34. Nixon led movement to Hiss's indictment; convicted of perjury - Nixon gained national prominence
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
Bracero program
Sons of Liberty
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
35. September 1949 - US no longer held monopoly; two atomic powers
Quebec Acts
Soviet atomic bomb
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
Wilson's 14 points
36. Banned racial discrimination and segregation (public) - bias by federal government; enforced by Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
New Federalism
Currency Act
War hawks
Civil Rights Act of 1964
37. Abolished national origins quotas - dramatically increased immigration (especially from Asia and Latin America)
Immigration Act of 1965
Mikhail Gorbachev
New Deal
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
38. Prohibited discrimination in any government-related work; increased black employment
Federal Reserve Act
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
Mikhail Gorbachev
Hartford Convention
39. Activist government to serve all citizens (cf. Alexander Hamilton); founded New Republic magazine
William Lloyd Garrison
'Brain trust'
Dollar Diplomacy'
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
40. Exemplary Christian community - rich to show charity - held to Calvinistic beliefs
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41. Provided for evacuation of English troops from posts in the Great Lakes
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42. Cherokees - Choctaws - Creeks - Chickasaws - and Seminoles; 'civilized' due to their intermarriage with whites - forced out of their homelands by expansion
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
Five Civilized Tribes
Sputnik
Bank of the United States
43. First African-American in major league baseball
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
William Seward
Jackie Robinson
Platt Amendment
44. Similar to Navigation; raised money to pay colonial officials by American taxes; led to Boston boycott of English luxuries
Great Migration
Karl Marx Das Kapital
Townshend Act (1767)
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
45. Military hero from War of 1812; elected president 1840 - died of pneumonia a month later - gave presidency to Tyler
Yeoman Farmers
William Henry Harrison
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Farmers'Alliance movement
46. Sets of programs geared towards minorities and oft-discriminated populations
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Affirmative Action
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Cuban Missile Crisis
47. Focused on the 'Common Man;' removal of Indians - removal of federal deposits in BUS - annexation of territory - liberal use of veto
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48. Created in 1961 as example of liberal anticommunism in third world countries; 'reform-minded missionaries of democracy'
Rock `n' Roll
Peace Corps
Battle of Saratoga
Lewis and Clark expedition
49. New generation of writers outside of Protestantism - resentment of ideals betrayed by society; Fitzgerald (despised materialism - Great Gatsby) - Hemingway (disillusionment - war experience) - Lewis (against upper class — Babbit and Mainstreet) - Fau
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50. Anti-Federalists wanted states' rights - bill of rights - unanimous consent - reference to religion - more power to less-rich and common people; Federalists wanted strong central government - more power to experienced - separation of church and state
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
Neutrality Act - 1939
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Kansas-Nebraska Act