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AP U.S. History

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






2. Accomplished great number of relief - recovery - and reform efforts; sought practical solutions to the problems by experimentation


3. Upheld constitutionality of Espionage Act; Congress right to limit free speech during times of war






4. Another part of Nixon's out-of-Vietnam plan - destroy supply routes to North Vietnam through Cambodia






5. US - Britain - Japan - France - and Italy to reduce naval tonnage and halt construction for 10 years; US and Japan to respect Pacific territorial holdings - Kellog-Briand Pact to 'outlaw war'






6. Withdrawal of American troops from foreign nations (especially Latin America) to improve international relations and unite western hemisphere; Clark Memorandum (rebukes the 'big stick'); peaceful resolution of Mexican oil fields






7. Prohibited aiding of belligerent nations - banned civilian involvement; limited power of president during international war - built up armed forces






8. 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)


9. Led Pottawatomie Massacre - extreme abolitionist who believed he was doing God's work






10. Powerful speaker - toured the country and inspired many into Christianity






11. Jackson used personal friends as unofficial advisors over his official cabinet






12. Part of 'First' New Deal Program - subsidies to farmers to decrease production and thus increase prices






13. Speech symbolized polarization between conservatives and liberals


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






15. Attacked industrial elite - called for business regulation - publisher refused works breaking with Victorian ideals






16. Belief in minimal government so as to allow the people their own free reign - lower taxes to stimulate economy - &c.






17. Supreme Court legalized the 'separate but equal' philosophy






18. Established colony of Georgia as a place for honest debtors






19. Through CIO - led three coal mine strikes (some of the very few strikes during the time period)






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






21. Prohibited testing of nuclear bombs above ground to slow the nuclear arms race and the release of nuclear fallout into the atmosphere






22. Fines and imprisonment for aiding the enemy or hindering U.S. military; forbade any form of criticism of the government and military






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






24. Denounced the 'housewife trap' which caused educated women to hold even themselves inferior to men






25. Similar to Navigation; raised money to pay colonial officials by American taxes; led to Boston boycott of English luxuries






26. Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson; purchase of Alaska 'Seward's Folly'






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






28. For women's rights - organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton - modeled requests after the Declaration of Independence






29. Paper money; specie circular decreed that the government would not accept specie for government land






30. Reduced quota - reduced numbers from eastern and southern Europe - Asians banned - Canadians and Latin Americans exempt






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






32. Worked to reform the American education system - abolitionist - prison/asylum reform with Dorothea Dix






33. Ended the Dominion of New England - gave power back to colonies






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






35. September 1949 - US no longer held monopoly; two atomic powers






36. Avoided league of Nations - opposed Latin American involvement






37. Established by 'General' William Booth - uniformed volunteers provided food - shelter - and employment to families - attracted poor with lively preaching and marching bands in order to instill middle-class virtues






38. Colonies proposed colonial confederation under lighter British rule (crown-appointed president - 'Grand Council'); never took effect






39. Prohibited settlements west of Appalachian - restriction on colonial growth






40. The Jungle revealed unsanitary nature of meat-packing industry - inspired Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)






41. Electric light - phonograph - mimeograph - Dictaphone - moving pictures






42. Key to English-Native American relationship - died in England in 1617






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






44. Leader of IWW - from Western Federation of Miners


45. Established free trade zone between Canada - United States and Mexico - net gain in jobs due to opening of Mexican markets






46. Spurred by Great Migration - large-scale riots - lynchings - &c.


47. Northern Securities Company (JP Morgan and James G. Hill - railroads) seen by Roosevelt as 'bad' trust - Supreme Court upheld his first trust-bust






48. Japanese bombing of ships in harbor; resulted in FDR's request for declaration of war against Japan; Germany and Italy responded with declarations of war






49. McKinley reluctant; armed intervention to free Cuba from Spain; Roosevelt's 'Rough Riders' made attack on Spanish at Cuba






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