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AP U.S. History
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1. Supported expanded money supply - health/safety regulations - benefits for workers and farmers - granger (farmer)-supported
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
Greenback Party
Deportations of Mexicans
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
2. Blacks denied admission to all-white school; overturned Plessy v. Ferguson - negating 'separate but equal' - ordered integration of schools as soon as possible; white southerners protested (refused to attend integrated schools)
Richard Nixon (R)
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Battle of Gettysburg
3. Proponent of gradual gain of equal rights for African-Americans
Booker T. Washington
Indentured servants
Ku Klux Klan
Connecticut Compromise
4. 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
Woodrow Wilson
Virginia Plan
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
Energy Crisis - OPEC
5. Effects of pesticides on the environment; changed way Americans viewed their impact on nature
Commerce Compromise
British strengths and weaknesses
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
'Big BM' Haywood
6. Allowed sale of weaponry to democracies on 'cash-and-carry' basis - avoided full-blown war; danger zones proclaimed; solved American unemployment crisis
Causes of the depression
Neutrality Act - 1939
Bombing and invasion of Cambodia
Marcus Garvey
7. British soldiers shot into crowd of snowball fight; two of nine soldiers (defended by John Adams) found guilty of manslaughter
Alexander Hamilton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Boston Massacre
Deportations of Mexicans
8. Family farmers who hired out slaves for the harvest season - self-sufficient - participated in local markets alongside slave owners
Spanish American War (1898)
James Monroe
Yeoman Farmers
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
9. South divided into 5 military districts; states to guarantee full suffrage for blacks; ratify 14th amendment
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
Munn v. Illinois
Nicaraguan Contras
Tories (Loyalists)
10. 'Corrupt bargain' and backroom deal for JQ Adams to win over Jackson
Emancipation Proclamation
Nat Turner's Rebellion
'Brain trust'
Election of 1824
11. Abolished national origins quotas - dramatically increased immigration (especially from Asia and Latin America)
Immigration Act of 1965
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
California Gold Rush
'Graying of America'
12. Private property subject to government regulation when property is devoted to public interest; against railroads
Munn v. Illinois
'Evil Empire' speech - 'Star Wars'
Industrial Workers of the World
Jingoism
13. Increase working output by standardizing procedures and rewarding those who worked fast; efficiency
Robert La Follette
James Meredith
Forced busing
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
14. Part of the New Left that envisioned 'participatory democracy' (individuals control life-affecting decisions) - end materialism - militarism - and racism; inspired by young black activists
Marcus Garvey
Report on Public Credit
William H. Taft
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
15. Tax cuts to increase population spending (help economy) - drastic cutting back on government programs due to lack of funds
American Federation of Labor
The Glorious Revolution
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
Whiskey Rebellion
16. Truman tested for communist alliances within government; government employees prohibited from taking part in remotely-communist activities
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17. Reduced quota - reduced numbers from eastern and southern Europe - Asians banned - Canadians and Latin Americans exempt
Bacon's Rebellion
National Origins Act (1924)
James Madison
'Trail of Tears'
18. 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
Citizen Genet
Boston Tea Party
Munn v. Illinois
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
19. 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
Andy Warhol
Deregulation
Gays in the military
Freeport Doctrine
20. Political muckraking cartoonist - refused bribes to stop criticism
Stock market crash (1929)
Square Deal
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Thomas Nast
21. Search warrants on shipping to reduce smuggling; challenged by James Otis
Hoover's policy of voluntarism
Suffolk Resolves
Writs of Assistance
James Meredith
22. Intercepted by Britain; Germany proposed alliance with Mexico - using bribe of return of TX - NM - and AZ; Japan included in alliance
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Zimmerman Note
Invasion of Iraq
Midnight judges
23. 'No taxation without representation -' introduced by Patrick Henry
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Virginia Resolves
James Oglethorpe
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
24. The principle that a state should decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery
Popular Sovereignty
Albany Plan of Union
Civil Rights Cases
William T. Sherman
25. Contending communist politician in Vietnam - had more popularity than Diem - took power upon Diem's death
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
CIA overthrow of Iran (1953)
Watergate Scandal
Ho Chi Minh
26. First Utopian society - by Robert Owen
King James I - King Charles
New Harmony
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
Camp David Accords
27. Remainder of Florida sold by Spain to US - boundary of Mexico defined
Karl Marx Das Kapital
Adams-Onis Treaty
Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1922 and 1930
Jane Addams
28. Full American independence - territory west of Appalachian ceded to America - loyalists to be compensated for seized property - fishing rights off of Newfoundland
China turns communist
Zimmerman Note
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Treaty of Paris (1783)
29. Craft unions that left the Knights (1886) - led by Gompers - women left out of recruitment efforts
American Federation of Labor
Election of 1824
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
30. Founded by William Sylvis (1866); supported 8-hour workday - convict labor - federal department of labor - banking reform - immigration restrictions to increase wages - women; excluded blacks
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Panic of 1819
Lusitania
National Labor Union
31. Head of federal Division of Forestry - contributed to Roosevelt's natural conservation efforts
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Suffolk Resolves
Deportations of Mexicans
Gifford Pinchot
32. Established free trade zone between Canada - United States and Mexico - net gain in jobs due to opening of Mexican markets
William Marcy
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
'Bleeding Kansas'
33. Founded by Emerson - strong emphasis on spiritual unity (God - humanity - and nature) - literature with strong references to nature
Underground Railroad
Report on Public Credit
Transcendentalism
Shays's Rebellion
34. No further introduction of slaves into Missouri - all children born to slaves to become free at 25
March on Washington
Scopes Trial
Jay's Treaty
Tallmadge Amendment
35. Killed the AAA - although FDR insisted on continuing by creating smaller state-level AAAs
China turns communist
Mikhail Gorbachev
Freeport Doctrine
Butler v. U.S. Court case
36. Activist government to serve all citizens (cf. Alexander Hamilton); founded New Republic magazine
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Mercantilism
37. Left primary open to Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy - both promising to end the controversial war
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38. Attempted to centralize production of war materials; ineffective due to American desire for laissez-faire government
Currency Act
Navigation Acts
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
War Industries Board
39. Uncovered the 'dirt' on corruption and harsh quality of city/working life; heavily criticized by Theodore Roosevelt; Ida Tarabell (oil companies) - David Graham Phillips (Senate) - Aschen School (child labor — photography) - mass magazines McClure's
Stamp Act Congress
Vietnamization
Federal Reserve Act
Muckrakers
40. Economic recession (collapse of savings-and-loan industry - increasing deficit due to Reagan tax cuts - retail decreased - higher crime rate)
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41. Oregon Territory owned jointly with Britain - Polk severed its tie to Britain - forced to settle for compromise south of 49° rather than 54°40'
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42. American hostages taken by US hating Shiites upon Shah's flight from uprising - botched rescue attempts
President Ronald Reagan
Kent State Protest
Tammany Hall
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
43. Cherokees - Choctaws - Creeks - Chickasaws - and Seminoles; 'civilized' due to their intermarriage with whites - forced out of their homelands by expansion
GI Bill of Rights
Second Great Awakening
Five Civilized Tribes
Knights of Labor
44. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - Harry Hopkins; provide work for unemployed and construct public works - &c. through Emergency Relief Appropriation Act; much like Civil Works Administration
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Worcester v. Georgia
Essex case
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
45. Upheld constitutionality of Espionage Act; Congress right to limit free speech during times of war
Detente - realpolitik
Plessy v. Ferguson
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
46. Bicameral congressional representation based on population
Virginia Plan
Gays in the military
Korean War
The Homefront
47. Often debtors sold to slave traders by African kings seeking riches; Columbian Exchange
Harpers Ferry (1859)
Gulf War - 'Operation Desert Storm' (1991)
John Foster Dulles
Atlantic slave trade
48. 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
The Homefront
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
Muckrakers
Essex case
49. Response to Berlin crisis - warned Moscow that threats would be answered with force; Warsaw Pact formed by Soviets in response
Quarantine Speech - 1937
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
'City on a Hill'
50. Workers unable to escape (locked into factory) - all died; further encouraged reform movements for working conditions
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
Ho Chi Minh
'Gentlemen's Agreement' (1908)
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
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