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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
Great Migration
Federal Reserve Act
Five Civilized Tribes
US acquisitions
2. Desegregation (Brown v. Board of Ed) - rights of the accused (Miranda v. Arizona) - voting reforms (Wesberry v. Sanders - Reynolds v. Sims - Katzenbach v Morgan)
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Warren Court
Thomas Edison
3. Writing took a more realistic approach on the world - regionalist writers focused on local life (Sarah Orne Jewett) - naturalist writers focused on economy and psychology (Stephen Crane)
Regionalist and naturalist writers
Yeoman Farmers
Alien and Sedition Acts
Missouri Compromise (1820)
4. Henry Clay aimed to make the US economically independent from Europe (e.g. - support internal improvements - tariff protection - and new national bank)
Standard Oil Trust
Henry Clay and the American System
Great Migration
Korean War
5. Religious movements - traveling 'meetings -' rise of Baptist and Methodist ministries; Charles G. Finney
Second Great Awakening
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
6. Europeans should not interfere with affairs in Western Hemisphere - Americans to stay out of foreign affairs; supported Washington's goal for US neutrality in Americas
The Loyal Nine
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
Battle of Tippecanoe
Monroe Doctrine
7. Effectively ended spoils system and established civil service exams for all government positions - under Pres. Garfield
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Tea Act (1773)
Nativism
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
8. FDR's inner circle of experts rather than just politicians in the cabinet
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9. US provided financial assistance to recover economies in Europe; aimed towards anti-communist governments in France - Italy - and Germany; Eastern European nations prohibited from receiving help from US
Pet banks
Isolationism
Okies' and 'Arkies'
Marshall Plan
10. (1) California admitted as free state - (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico - (3) resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries - (4) federal assumption of Texas debt - (5) slave trade abolished in DC - and (6) new fugit
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
Secretary of State John Hay
Compromise of 1850
Jackie Robinson
11. Scholarly - welfare-reform - 'Contract with America -' impeachment over Monica Lewinski Scandal - War in Kosovo
Sons of Liberty
President Bill Clinton
Karl Marx Das Kapital
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
12. Network of safe houses of white abolitionists used to bring slaves to freedom
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
George Washington
Underground Railroad
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
13. 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
Deportations of Mexicans
Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA)
Adams-Onis Treaty
Macon's Bill No. 2
14. Severe immigration laws to discourage and discriminate against foreigners - believed to erode old-fashioned American values
Nativism
Court Packing
US acquisitions
Farmers'Alliance movement
15. 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
Hudson River School
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
Greenback Party
John D. Rockefeller
16. Westward migration of workers (new economic opportunities - esp. aircraft industry) - high rates of divorce and family/juvenile violence - women encouraged to work in factories - still held inferior to men
Barbary Pirates
The Homefront
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
William H. Taft
17. Bank tightened loan policies - depression rose throughout the country - hurt western farmers greatly
'New Left'
Panic of 1819
Stephen Austin
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
18. 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
'New Left'
Salvation Army
Rosie the Riveter
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
19. Needed to protect new Pacific acquisitions - U.S. took over the project from the French after overcoming Clatyton¬ Bulwer Treaty (prohibited exclusive control of canal) with the Hay¬ Pauncefote Treaty
President John F. Kennedy
Panama Canal
Neutrality
Immigration Act of 1965
20. Opposed Polk's high-handedness - avid Southern slave-owner (right to own property - slaves as property)
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
'Affluent Society'
John C. Calhoun
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
21. Americans at home reminded to conserve materials in all aspects of life to support the military; resulted in saving up of money to cause economic boom after war
Hartford Convention
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Rationing
22. Strong central government - separation of powers - 'extended republic'
James Madison
Macon's Bill No. 2
William H. Taft
Zimmerman Note
23. Populists campaigned for silver-backed money rather than gold-backed - believed to be able to relieve working conditions and exploitation of labor
Free silver
Kitchen Cabinet
Second Great Awakening
James Madison
24. Speech given by BTW to ease whites' fears of integration - assuring them that separate but equal was acceptable - ideas challenged by DuBois
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25. Political muckraking cartoonist - refused bribes to stop criticism
New Deal
'New Left'
George Kennan
Thomas Nast
26. John Brown and his sons slaughtered five men as a response to the election fraud in Lawrence and the caning of Sumner in Congress
Specie
Deists
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
Whigs (Patriots)
27. Germany announced that it would sink all (including American) ships - attempt to involve U.S. in war
Washington's Farewell Address
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Yalta Conference (1945)
Unrestricted submarine warfare
28. 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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29. Government to buy silver to back money in addition to gold
Rosie the Riveter
Bill of Rights
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
Stamp Act Congress
30. Focused on skilled workers (harder to replace than unskilled) - coordinated crafts unions - supported 8¬hour workday and injury liability
Frederick Douglass
'Contract with America' (1994)
Social Gospel movement
Samuel Gompers
31. Part of 'First' New Deal Program - subsidies to farmers to decrease production and thus increase prices
Greenback Party
Dollar Diplomacy'
'Lost Generation'
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
32. In Brook Farm Community - literary nationalist - transcendentalist (nascent ideas of God and freedom) - wrote 'The American Scholar'
Korean War
Industrial Workers of the World
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mayflower Compact
33. British passenger liner secretly carrying ammunition sunk by German u-boat - included American passengers
Navigation Acts
Dominion of New England
New Lights vs. Old Lights
Lusitania
34. Four-day banking holiday to create controlled inflation - followed by reopening of sound banks - and reorganization of unsound banks
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Dorothea Dix
Civil Rights Cases
Neutrality
35. In reaction to the Boston Tea Party; closing of Boston Harbor - revocation of Massachusetts charter (power to governor) - murder in the name of royal authority would be tried in England or another colony
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Association (YMCA & YWCA)
Bonus Army
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
36. (The Lonely Crowd) 'outer directed' Americans conforming to peer pressure on moral and social issues - rather than independently thinking on morals
'Wage slaves'
David Riesman
March on Birmingham
'Contract with America' (1994)
37. Avoided league of Nations - opposed Latin American involvement
Isolationism
New Freedom
Conservative backlash against liberalism
12th Amendment
38. Douglas was able to reconcile the Dred Scott Decision with popular sovereignty; voters would be able to exclude slavery by not allowing laws that treated slaves as property
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
Freeport Doctrine
Domino theory
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
39. Secretly sponsored peace negotiations so as to prevent Japanese or Russian monopoly on Asia; concerned with safety of Philippines
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Association (YMCA & YWCA)
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
40. Key to English-Native American relationship - died in England in 1617
Great Migration
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
James Meredith
Pocahontas
41. All English subjects are represented in Parliament - including those not allowed to vote
Creel Committee
Virtual Representation
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Scopes Trial
42. Soviets cut Berlin off from the rest of Germany by blockade; US organized airlift to drop supplies into Britain; blockade lifted in May 1949
Religious Right
McCarthyism
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
Berlin Airlift
43. Believed that God created the universe to act through natural laws; Franklin - Jefferson - Paine
Horace Mann
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
Deists
44. Provided for evacuation of English troops from posts in the Great Lakes
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45. Reagan called the Soviet Union an 'evil empire'; Korean passenger plane shot down near Moscow (increased anti-Soviet rhetoric); Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) used space-based lasers as defense from nuclear attack
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46. Drastic cutbacks in regulation of business by the federal government (banks - transportation - communications
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Deregulation
McCarthyism
47. Stock prices fell drastically; without buyers - the stocks became essentially worthless; cause bank crashes - &c.
Stock market crash (1929)
Underground Railroad
Northwest Passage
Quarantine Speech - 1937
48. Similar to Navigation; raised money to pay colonial officials by American taxes; led to Boston boycott of English luxuries
William Henry Harrison
Townshend Act (1767)
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Fair Labor Standards Act
49. Emphasis on personal salvation - emotional response - and individual faith; women and blacks; nationalism (Manifest Destiny)
Ulysses S. Grant
Zimmerman Note
Barbary Pirates
Second Great Awakening
50. Fear of Japanese-Americans as traitors - sent off (by law) to internment camps; removal of deemed threats in military areas
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
Japanese internment
Townshend Act (1767)