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AP U.S. History
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1. Germany announced that it would sink all (including American) ships - attempt to involve U.S. in war
Cult of domesticity
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
Panic of 1819
2. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - used withheld money from payrolls to provide aid to the unemployed - industrial accident victims - and young mothers; principle of government responsibility for social welfare
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
President Ronald Reagan
Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA)
3. Used nonviolent protest and boycott to achieve better working conditions for farmers (esp. Mexican-Americans)
Freeport Doctrine
Critics of FDR
William Henry Harrison
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
4. Society naturally punishes criminals indiscriminantly
'Lost Generation'
Social Reciprocity
Mann Act
Marbury v. Madison
5. Democratic political machine in NYC - 'supported' immigrants and poor people of the city - who were needed for Democratic election victories
Harlem Renaissance
British strengths and weaknesses
Tammany Hall
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
6. Scholarly - welfare-reform - 'Contract with America -' impeachment over Monica Lewinski Scandal - War in Kosovo
Second Great Awakening
Dominion of New England
President Bill Clinton
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
7. 'Trustbuster' (busted twice as many as Roosevelt) - conservation and irrigation efforts - Postal Savings Bank System - Payne-Aldrich Tariff (reduction of tariff - caused Republican split)
Commerce Compromise
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
William H. Taft
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
8. Fought for return to colonial rule - usually conservative (educated and wealthy
Roger Williams
James Monroe
American society during the Revolution
Tories (Loyalists)
9. Helped lead settlement house movement - co-founded NAACP - condemned war and poverty
Jane Addams
Robert La Follette
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Hoover's policy of voluntarism
10. Due to parents unhappy with encouraged segregation of schools - Supreme Court instituted forced busing policies (using school buses as a method of integration)
Forced busing
Eugene V. Debs
Election of 1960
American society during the Revolution
11. Due to threat of nuclear war - Soviets erected wall to separate East Berlin from West Berlin (end exodus of intellect to west); symbol of communist denial of freedom
Proclamation of 1763
Townshend Act (1767)
Berlin Wall
Black Panther Party
12. Reduced quota - reduced numbers from eastern and southern Europe - Asians banned - Canadians and Latin Americans exempt
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
National Origins Act (1924)
British strengths and weaknesses
Kitchen Cabinet
13. Written by Calhoun - regarding tariff nullification
'Gentlemen's Agreement' (1908)
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
The Homefront
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
14. Gorbachev announced Soviet withdrawal of power from all of Eastern Europe - including Berlin (wall torn down - free movement - &c.)
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe (1989)
Charles Lindbergh
Economic transition
15. Politely demanded from the king a cease¬fire in Boston - repeal of Coercive Acts -. guarantee of American rights
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
XYZ Affair
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
Olive Branch Petition
16. Worked alongside Josiah Henson to make repeated trips to get slaves out of the South into freedom
Bay of Pigs invasion
Harriet Tubman
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Non-conformity
17. Goods able to be transferred from New York to New Orleans by inland waterways
Salvation Army
Gains for women
Erie Canal
Impressment
18. Black rights leader - heavily influenced by Malcolm X (advocated black separatism rather than integration)
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Isolationism
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
19. Repeat candidate for president - proponent of silver-backing (16:1 platform) - cross of gold speech against gold standard; Democratic candidate (1896)
National Organization of Women
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
William Jennings Bryan
William Lloyd Garrison
20. Single tax on speculated land to ameliorate industrialization misery
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
California Gold Rush
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
21. Under JQ Adams - protectionist tariff - South considered it the source of economic problems - made Jackson appear to advocate free trade
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
Spanish American War (1898)
Tariff of Abominations
22. Acquired Mexican Cession (future California - Arizona - and New Mexico); Mexico acknowledged American annexation of Texas
Dollar Diplomacy'
'Baby Boom'
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
23. Americans could now spend what they had been told to save during the war (disposable income); increased purchasing of luxury items
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
Consumerism
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
Boston Tea Party
24. Young women employed by Lowell's textile company - housed in dormitories
Camp David Accords
Lowell mill/system
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Isolationism
25. Scarce supplies (food and clothing) - army motivated by von Steuben
Robert E. Lee
Valley Forge
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
Gays in the military
26. Government to buy silver to back money in addition to gold
Court Packing
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Samuel Gompers
27. Reagan and Gorbachev agree to remove and destroy nuclear weapons from Eastern and Western Europe; eased international tension and allowed Soviet domestic reforms to take place
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
Butler v. U.S. Court case
'Affluent Society'
Henry Clay and the American System
28. First permanent English settlement in the Americas (1607) - along James River
Salvation Army
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Jamestown
Social Reciprocity
29. Believed that God created the universe to act through natural laws; Franklin - Jefferson - Paine
Macon's Bill No. 2
Plessy v. Ferguson
Deists
William H. Taft
30. Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson; purchase of Alaska 'Seward's Folly'
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
Conformity in the 1950s
20-Negro Law
William Seward
31. River traffic - road building - canals (esp. Erie) - rise of NYC
William Seward
Vietnam War
Neutrality Act - 1939
Transportation Revolution
32. Rebels felt the governor of Virginia failed to protect the frontier from the Native Americans
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33. Southern states (especially South Carolina) believed that they had the right to judge federal laws unconstitutional and therefore not enforce them
Era of Good Feelings
Nullification Controversy
The Federalist Papers
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
34. Severe immigration laws to discourage and discriminate against foreigners - believed to erode old-fashioned American values
Pan-Americanism
Haymarket Bombing
Herbert Hoover's Food Administration
Nativism
35. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - hydroelectric power to river valley; brought social and economic development to very poor area
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
Tories (Loyalists)
36. The principle that a state should decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery
Sputnik
U-2 Incident
Popular Sovereignty
Conservatism
37. Bicameral congressional representation based on population
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
Neutrality
Virginia Plan
38. Americans feared Soviet infiltration into Latin America - placed secret police and military forces to prevent it
Pearl Harbor
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
Impressment
Benjamin Franklin
39. Monroe presidency - national unity behind Monroe - post-war boom (foreign demand for cotton - grain - and tobacco) - Depression of 1819 (cheap British imports - tightened credit - affected West the most)
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Suburbia
Era of Good Feelings
40. Father Charles Coughlin (benefited only wealthy people and corporations) - Huey Long ('share our wealth') - Francis Townshend (Old Age Revolving Pension)
Critics of FDR
Era of Good Feelings
John Brown
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
41. Formed in response to Kansas-Nebraska Act - banned in the South - John C Fremont first presidential candidate
Republican Party
Bay of Pigs invasion
Second Great Awakening
Social Reciprocity
42. Mexicans held siege on the Alamo (in San Antonio) - Texans lost great number of people - 'Remember the Alamo'
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
The Alamo
43. Most numerous in New England - fought for independence
Townshend Act (1767)
New Harmony
Whigs (Patriots)
Civil Rights Act of 1964
44. 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
Important WWII Battles
Citizen Genet
Albany Plan of Union
Social Gospel movement
45. Small oil companies sold stock and authority to Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company (consolidation) - cornered world petroleum market
Standard Oil Trust
Liberty Party
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Economic transition
46. National Liberation Front - guerilla militia from south Vietnam fighting alongside the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam)
Berlin Wall
Vietcong
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Domino theory
47. 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)
California Gold Rush
John C. Calhoun
Currency Act
Creel Committee
48. Raised tariffs extremely high on manufactured goods; benefited domestic manufacturers - but limited foreign trade
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1922 and 1930
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
49. Supreme Court legalized the 'separate but equal' philosophy
Citizen Genet
Plessy v. Ferguson
Hudson River School
AFL-CIO (1955)
50. Stressed to the American people British maltreatment and emphasize a need for revolution; appealed to American emotions
Explosion of USS Maine
20-Negro Law
Conservatism
Thomas Paine - Common Sense