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AP U.S. History
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1. 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
First American strategy in WWII
United States vs. EC Knight Company
Rationing
Stock market crash (1929)
2. Protestant church led by the king of England - independent of Catholic Church; tended toward Catholicism during reign of Catholic royalty
Church of England
French and Indian War
Rationing
Transcendentalism
3. Remainder of Florida sold by Spain to US - boundary of Mexico defined
Civil Rights Cases
Ngo Dinh Diem
Adams-Onis Treaty
Northwest Passage
4. South divided into 5 military districts; states to guarantee full suffrage for blacks; ratify 14th amendment
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
Compromise of 1850
Battle of Yorktown
Greenback Party
5. States could refuse to enforce the federal laws they deemed unconstitutional
Nullification
Warren Court
George Wallace - American
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
6. The principle that a state should decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery
Bruce Barton
Popular Sovereignty
Election of 1980
Immigration Act of 1965
7. Exemplary Christian community - rich to show charity - held to Calvinistic beliefs
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8. Accomplished great number of relief - recovery - and reform efforts; sought practical solutions to the problems by experimentation
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9. Banned racial discrimination and segregation (public) - bias by federal government; enforced by Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Proclamation of 1763
Black Panther Party
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Panic of 1893
10. Anti-Federalists wanted states' rights - bill of rights - unanimous consent - reference to religion - more power to less-rich and common people; Federalists wanted strong central government - more power to experienced - separation of church and state
Religious Right
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Consumerism
11. Social ideals to be encouraged in public school (stress on social interaction) - learning by doing
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
John Dewey
Conservatism
Jazz
12. 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
Thomas Edison
GI Bill of Rights
Muckrakers
Sugar Act
13. Opposed to all immigration - strongly anti-Catholic
Jackson's Presidency
Know-Nothing (American) Party
Jackie Robinson
Causes of the depression
14. Attacked public figures (Hollywood - New-Dealers - liberals) to root out communist spies
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
Tet Offensive (1968)
Harlem Renaissance
15. Tried to rule as absolute monarchs without using Parliament - little to no sympathy for colonial legislatures
Lodge Reservations
Teapot Dome scandal
Charles II - James II
Important WWII Battles
16. September 1949 - US no longer held monopoly; two atomic powers
'Baby Boom'
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Soviet atomic bomb
17. Attempted to boost economy by making loans to banks and insurance companies - hoping to restart them
Pendleton Civil Service Act
AFL-CIO (1955)
Marcus Garvey
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
18. Selective Service Act to require men to register with few exceptions; women and blacks drafted/enlisted - highly successful
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Atlantic slave trade
Conscription policies
19. Decisive victory in the War of 1812 by Harrison over Tecumseh - used in Harrison's campaign for presidency
Explosion of USS Maine
Battle of Tippecanoe
The Alamo
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
20. Maine as free state - Missouri as slave state - slavery prohibited north of 36°30'
Deportations of Mexicans
12th Amendment
Missouri Compromise (1820)
James Monroe
21. Similar to Navigation; raised money to pay colonial officials by American taxes; led to Boston boycott of English luxuries
Charles II - James II
Humanitarian diplomacy
Townshend Act (1767)
John Winthrop
22. National Liberation Front - guerilla militia from south Vietnam fighting alongside the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam)
Vietcong
New Lights vs. Old Lights
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
Voting Rights Act of 1965
23. Full American independence - territory west of Appalachian ceded to America - loyalists to be compensated for seized property - fishing rights off of Newfoundland
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Invasion of Iraq
National Road
24. French foreign minister (Talleyrand) demanded bribe in order to meet with American peace commission - made Adams unpopular among the people
Soviet atomic bomb
XYZ Affair
Jackson's Presidency
Lecompton Constitution
25. Founded by Betty Friedan - Bella Abzug - and Aileen Hernandez; lobbied for equal opportunity where the EEOC was lacking (gender discrimination); lawsuits and mobilization of public opinion
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
National Organization of Women
'Bleeding Kansas'
Zimmerman Note
26. Huerta's enemy - reluctantly supported by U.S.; U.S. sought Villa's submission due to terrorism - eventually assassinated; Wilson's policy highly unpopular
Bruce Barton
The Enlightenment
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
Forced busing
27. Government ensured readjustment rights to GIs after WWI unrest - loans to veterans for higher education and mortgages (contributed to economic prosperity)
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
GI Bill of Rights
Freeport Doctrine
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
28. Caused American hysteria (1957) - fear that Soviets were technologically superior; led Ike to order more rigorous education program to rival Soviets (National Defense Education Act)
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
Northwest Passage
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Sputnik
29. Belligerent nationalism against other threatening nations
Popular Sovereignty
John Dewey
Tallmadge Amendment
Jingoism
30. Georgia cannot enforce American laws on Indian tribes
Consumerism
Worcester v. Georgia
Platt Amendment
Fair Labor Standards Act
31. Believed in expanding federal power on economy - encouraged industrial development; could only gain power on the local level - led by Henry Clay (anti-Jackson)
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Whig Party
'Affluent Society'
Harlem Renaissance
32. Opposed BTW's accommodation policies - called for immediate equality - formed Niagara Movement to support his ideas
Federalism
Townshend Act (1767)
Emancipation Proclamation
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
33. Warned of dangerous military-industrial complex (newly-found power of the military to affect the path of democracy)
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34. Hired to photograph ordinary Americans experiencing the depression
Specie
New Deal
Dorothea Lange
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
35. Emphasis on personal salvation - emotional response - and individual faith; women and blacks; nationalism (Manifest Destiny)
Black Panther Party
Second Great Awakening
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
Quebec Acts
36. Established colony of Georgia as a place for honest debtors
Nativism
Immigration Act of 1965
Transportation Revolution
James Oglethorpe
37. Anti-immigrant - especially against Irish Catholics
Federalism
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
Haymarket Bombing
Nativism
38. Calvinist - devised concept of 'city on a hill' ('A Model of Christian Charity'); founded highly successful towns in Massachusetts Bay
Theodore Roosevelt
Salutary Neglect
Charles II - James II
John Winthrop
39. Bicameral congressional representation based on population
King James I - King Charles
Virginia Plan
Roger Williams
Stamp Act Congress
40. Parliament took minor actions in the colonies - allowing them to experiment with and become accustomed to self-government - international trade agreements
Salutary Neglect
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
Bracero program
41. Focused on the 'Common Man;' removal of Indians - removal of federal deposits in BUS - annexation of territory - liberal use of veto
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42. Roosevelt and Pinchot sided on conservation rather than preservation (planned and regulated use of forest lands for public and commercial uses)
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
John C. Calhoun
President Bill Clinton
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
43. 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
Lewis and Clark expedition
Dred Scott v. Sandford
George Kennan
Peace Corps
44. Prohibited discrimination in any government-related work; increased black employment
Berlin Wall
Second Great Awakening
Conversion Experience
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
45. Coxey and unemployed followers marched on Washington for support in unemployment relief by inflationary public works program
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46. Most numerous in New England - fought for independence
Whigs (Patriots)
John Foster Dulles
12th Amendment
The Homefront
47. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - collective bargaining rights - closed shops permitted (where workers must join unions) - outlawed anti-union tactics
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
Report on Public Credit
Stock market crash (1929)
Federalism
48. Opposed Polk's high-handedness - avid Southern slave-owner (right to own property - slaves as property)
Affirmative Action
John C. Calhoun
George Washington
Social Gospel movement
49. 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)
Gifford Pinchot
Dawes Plan (1924)
Regionalist and naturalist writers
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
50. Fought for return to colonial rule - usually conservative (educated and wealthy
Adams-Onis Treaty
Rationing
Tories (Loyalists)
US acquisitions