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AP U.S. History
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1. Mass migration northward; mainly blacks migrating from the southern states into the north hoping for less discrimination
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
Church of England
Great Migration
Cult of domesticity
2. Known as 'wartime food czar;' created recreation policies and reintroduced leisure culture and conservation ethic to get Americans escaping the cities and improve tourism - etc.
William H. Taft
Judiciary Act of 1789
Sons of Liberty
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
3. Meant to keep government unquestioned by critics - particularly of the Federalists
James K. Polk
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Alien and Sedition Acts
Greenback Party
4. The two political parties that formed following Washington's presidency; Federalists for stronger central government - Republicans for stronger state governments
Federalists and Republicans
Creel Committee
Stagflation
Rationing
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)
George Whitefield
Regionalist and naturalist writers
Creel Committee
Stephen Austin
6. Established world organization; Soviet Union pledged to allow democratic procedures in Eastern Europe; pledge broken - led to Cold War
Fort Sumter
Keynesian economics
Yalta Conference (1945)
Critics of FDR
7. Nonviolent protest to college students (NC) being refused lunch service; part of 'sit-in' movement to integrate all aspects of life (hotels - entertainment - &c.)
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
Roger Williams
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Lecompton Constitution
8. 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
Platt Amendment
Battle of Antietam
Virginia Resolves
Charles Lindbergh
9. Private property subject to government regulation when property is devoted to public interest; against railroads
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
Roger Williams
Northern Securities Case
Munn v. Illinois
10. Drafting extremely hated by Northerners - sparked by Irish-Americans against the black population - 500 lives lost - many buildings burned
Boston Tea Party
Election of 1800
Election of 1980
New York City draft riots (1863)
11. Unprecedented sudden growth spurt of American population (especially urban and suburban areas)
12. Considered a hero for his solo crossing of the Atlantic by plane
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Charles Lindbergh
James Madison
Harriet Tubman
13. 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
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
Booker T. Washington
'Wage slaves'
Virginia Plan
14. Mexicans held siege on the Alamo (in San Antonio) - Texans lost great number of people - 'Remember the Alamo'
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
The Alamo
1992 Election
Second Great Awakening
15. Fair amount of troops - short guerilla tactics - strong leaders (Washington); nonprofessional army that could not handle long battles
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
Nat Turner's Rebellion
16. One country that falls into communism will cause surrounding nations to also fall 'like dominos'; spurred by Southeast Asia regimes (esp. Vietnam)
Munn v. Illinois
Domino theory
James K. Polk
John Smith
17. Created by John L. Lewis for unskilled labor - organized 'sit-down strike' against GM to work for recognition
California Gold Rush
Vietcong
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
18. Federal government to increase power over economy and society by means of progressive reforms - developed by Roosevelt (after presidency)
Nativism
New Nationalism
Elastic Clause ('necessary and proper')
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
19. Prohibited testing of nuclear bombs above ground to slow the nuclear arms race and the release of nuclear fallout into the atmosphere
Farmers'Alliance movement
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
League of Nations
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
20. Equal representation in unicameral congress
Monroe Doctrine
New Jersey Plan
Bank of the United States
Nat Turner's Rebellion
21. Catholic communist autocrat of Vietnam - assassinated (with aid of US)
Louis Sullivan
Neutrality Act - 1939
Second Great Awakening
Ngo Dinh Diem
22. 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
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Good Neighbor Policy
Invasion of Iraq
Woodrow Wilson
23. Slavery to be barred in all territory ceded from Mexico; never fully passed Congress
Harriet Tubman
Pearl Harbor
Wilmot Proviso
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
24. Mass production of the Model-T - workers as potential consumers (raise wages) - supported other industries and raised employment
25. First permanent English settlement in the Americas (1607) - along James River
Marshall Court (all cases)
Boston Massacre
Jamestown
Cuban Missile Crisis
26. Executed for leaking atomic secrets to Soviets - avowed communists
Rosenbergs
Samuel Gompers
Specie
Emancipation Proclamation
27. Established colony of Georgia as a place for honest debtors
Virtual Representation
Deregulation
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
James Oglethorpe
28. Depicted the evils of slavery (splitting of families and physical abuse); increased participation in abolitionist movement - condemned by South
29. NLF attacked numerous South Vietnamese cities and American embassies - eventually repulsed; spoiled LBJ's record to reelection - resulted in massive protests in US to end the war; atrocities such that war could only end in stalemate
'Great Society'
Tet Offensive (1968)
Essex case
The Federalist Papers
30. Proclamation of 1793 response to French attempts for alliance with US
GI Bill of Rights
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Neutrality
31. US ambassador to Russia - notified Truman of Soviet ambitions to expand empire and overthrow other political forces; established concern for Soviet policy in Eastern Europe - Germany - and the Middle East
George Kennan
Truman Doctrine
Virtual Representation
Stamp Act Congress
32. Opposed to slavery and secession - but stayed loyal to Virginia - despite offer for command of Union Army
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
Lecompton Constitution
Open Door Policy
Robert E. Lee
33. '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
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
New Jersey Plan
March on Washington
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
34. Led railroad workers in Pullman Strike - arrested; Supreme Court (decision in re Debs) legalized use of injunction (court order) against unions and strikes
Conservative backlash against liberalism
Bull Moose Party
Eugene V. Debs
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
35. Group of Bostonians in opposition to the Stamp Act - sought to drive stamp distributors from the city
Harriet Tubman
Bacon's Rebellion
The Loyal Nine
Independent Treasury Bill
36. Standard Oil Company - Ruthless business tactics (survival of the fittest)
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
John D. Rockefeller
George Whitefield
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
37. States could refuse to enforce the federal laws they deemed unconstitutional
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Erie Canal
Nullification
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
38. Similar to Navigation; raised money to pay colonial officials by American taxes; led to Boston boycott of English luxuries
'Contract with America' (1994)
Midnight judges
Townshend Act (1767)
Pet banks
39. Belligerent nationalism against other threatening nations
Jingoism
George Wallace - American
The Federalist Papers
National Organization of Women
40. Tet Offensive in Vietnam - assassination of MLK and Robert Kennedy (presidential candidate) - Riot of Democratic National Convention (Chicago police beat antiwar protestors) - Black Panthers
41. Decided to punish war crimes - established program for de-Nazification of Germany
Andrew Carnegie
Impressment
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Era of Good Feelings
42. Strong patriotism and need to conform to try to avoid blame during red scare - non-churchgoers - unmarried - and critics suspected as communists
Forced busing
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
Conformity in the 1950s
Harriet Tubman
43. Territory split into Kansas and Nebraska - popular sovereignty (Kansas slave - Nebraska free); proposed by Stephen A. Douglas
Domino theory
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Anne Hutchinson
Moral Diplomacy
44. Populists campaigned for silver-backed money rather than gold-backed - believed to be able to relieve working conditions and exploitation of labor
King James I - King Charles
Gays in the military
Free silver
Missouri Compromise (1820)
45. Led Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: threatened a siege on DC if FDR did not agree to end discrimination in military
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
Strict vs. Loose interpretation of the Constitution
Judiciary Act of 1789
Public Works Administration (PWA)
46. Mao Zedong (communist) defeated nationalist forces of Kai-Shek (supported by US); seen as defeat for US - not officially fully recognized until 1973
China turns communist
Boston Massacre
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
Compromise of 1877
47. Radical Calvinists against the Church of England; Separatists (Pilgrims) argued for a break from the Church of England - led the Mayflower - and established the settlement at Plymouth
Alexander Hamilton
Virtual Representation
GI Bill of Rights
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
48. Victorian standards confined women to the home to create an artistic environment as a statement of cultural aspirations
'Lost Generation'
The Federalist Papers
Conscription policies
Cult of domesticity
49. Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald (hated his anti-Cuban policies); LBJ instituted Warren Commission to investigate assassination (headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren)
Battle of Gettysburg
Tet Offensive (1968)
Jim Crow laws
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
50. Attempted to boost economy by making loans to banks and insurance companies - hoping to restart them
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
Clinton impeachment (1997)
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)