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AP U.S. History

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1. Americans feared Soviet infiltration into Latin America - placed secret police and military forces to prevent it






2. Increased already high rate of inflation by quadrupling the price of crude oil






3. Offered a New Deal (reminiscent of FDR) of smaller government - reduced taxes - and free enterprise; Washington outsider






4. Focused on skilled workers (harder to replace than unskilled) - coordinated crafts unions - supported 8¬hour workday and injury liability






5. Judges appointed to Supreme Court by Adams in the last days of his presidency to force them upon Jefferson - Marshall among those appointed






6. Drafting extremely hated by Northerners - sparked by Irish-Americans against the black population - 500 lives lost - many buildings burned






7. Used nonviolent protest and boycott to achieve better working conditions for farmers (esp. Mexican-Americans)






8. Opposed to all immigration - strongly anti-Catholic






9. Speech symbolized polarization between conservatives and liberals

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10. Congressional support to raid houses of radicals believed to have connections to communism






11. Agricultural depression as precursor to the depression; unheeded omen of problems in the economic structure (prices too low — too much supply for the demand)






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






13. Acquired Mexican Cession (future California - Arizona - and New Mexico); Mexico acknowledged American annexation of Texas






14. Intervention in Mexican Revolution (Madero overthrew dictator Diaz) to overthrow Madero out of fear of property confiscation - General Huerta (seen as 'brute' by Wilson - sought new leader) replaced Madero






15. Loose interpretation allowed for implied powers of Congress (such as the National Bank) - strict interpretation implied few powers to Congress






16. Soviet leader undergoing tensions on superpower and domestic level






17. Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald (hated his anti-Cuban policies); LBJ instituted Warren Commission to investigate assassination (headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren)






18. Founded by Uriah Stephens (1869); excluded corrupt and well-off; equal female pay - end to child/convict labor - employer-employee relations - proportional income tax; 'bread and butter' unionism (higher wages - shorter hours - better conditions)






19. Exempted those who owned or oversaw twenty or more slaves from service in the Confederate Army; 'rich man's war but a poor man's fight'






20. Despite near-guaranteed second term - campaign workers burglarized Democratic offices - cover-up unsuccessful - resigned to avoid impeachment






21. Killed the AAA - although FDR insisted on continuing by creating smaller state-level AAAs






22. Prohibited exports (and imports) based in American ports - most controversial Jefferson legislation






23. Religious movements - traveling 'meetings -' rise of Baptist and Methodist ministries; Charles G. Finney






24. 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






25. Philosophy that deficit spending during a depression would increase purchasing power and stimulate economy; FDR disagreed with the policy at first and borrowed money to cover deficits






26. John Noyes - New York; utopian society for communalism - perfectionism - and complex marriage






27. Issued by Lincoln following Antietam (close enough to a victory to empower the proclamation) - declared slaves in the Confederacy free (did not include border states) - symbolic gesture to support Union's moral cause in the war






28. First president to show positive response to civil rights movement; worked heavily on keeping Soviet spread of communism in check






29. Pop art - mass production of art by screening






30. Sets of programs geared towards minorities and oft-discriminated populations






31. Congress could tax imports but not exports






32. Activist government to serve all citizens (cf. Alexander Hamilton); founded New Republic magazine






33. Hamilton's plan to solve Revolutionary debt - Assumption highly controversial - pushed his plan through Congress - based on loose interpretation of Constitution






34. Mass migration northward; mainly blacks migrating from the southern states into the north hoping for less discrimination






35. Parliament took minor actions in the colonies - allowing them to experiment with and become accustomed to self-government - international trade agreements






36. Often debtors sold to slave traders by African kings seeking riches; Columbian Exchange






37. 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'






38. Government ensured readjustment rights to GIs after WWI unrest - loans to veterans for higher education and mortgages (contributed to economic prosperity)






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






40. Advocated by Roger Sherman - proposed two independently-voting senators per state and representation in the House based on population






41. Tax cuts to increase population spending (help economy) - drastic cutting back on government programs due to lack of funds






42. Banned racial discrimination and segregation (public) - bias by federal government; enforced by Equal Employment Opportunity Commission






43. Mass production of the Model-T - workers as potential consumers (raise wages) - supported other industries and raised employment

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44. Cherokee tribe forced to move from southern Appalachians to reservations in current-day Oklahoma - high death toll

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45. Overthrow of the Taliban - in search of bin Laden






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






47. Opposed BTW's accommodation policies - called for immediate equality - formed Niagara Movement to support his ideas






48. 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






49. Former French subjects in Canada allowed to keep Catholicism - while American colonists expected to participate in the Church of England






50. Started the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) — 'Back to Africa' movement for racial pride and separatism; inspired self-confidence in blacks