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AP U.S. History
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1. Established free trade zone between Canada - United States and Mexico - net gain in jobs due to opening of Mexican markets
Eugene V. Debs
Know-Nothing (American) Party
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
'Atlanta Compromise'
2. 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
'Gentlemen's Agreement' (1908)
Federal Reserve Act
Berlin Wall
3. Cherokees - Choctaws - Creeks - Chickasaws - and Seminoles; 'civilized' due to their intermarriage with whites - forced out of their homelands by expansion
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Five Civilized Tribes
Manifest Destiny
4. Parks arrested for refusing to give up bus seat to white man - African American leaders called for city-wide boycott of bus system (lasted almost 400 days); Supreme Court ruled segregated buses unconstitutional
Explosion of USS Maine
Embargo Act (1807)
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
National Origins Act (1924)
5. 'Southern Strategy' lured many southern Democrats to the Republican party (esp. due to southern opposition to Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
Richard Nixon (R)
Dorothea Lange
Dred Scott v. Sandford
6. Democratic political machine in NYC - 'supported' immigrants and poor people of the city - who were needed for Democratic election victories
Virginia Plan
Consumerism
Tammany Hall
James Madison
7. Secretly sponsored peace negotiations so as to prevent Japanese or Russian monopoly on Asia; concerned with safety of Philippines
Greenback Party
12th Amendment
New York City draft riots (1863)
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
8. (The Lonely Crowd) 'outer directed' Americans conforming to peer pressure on moral and social issues - rather than independently thinking on morals
Upton Sinclair
Nullification Controversy
David Riesman
Truman's Loyalty Program
9. Destroyed by Jackson on the grounds that it was unconstitutional and too much power for a federal institution
Bacon's Rebellion
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
Hull House
Bank of the United States
10. John Marshall declared that the Supreme Court could declare federal laws unconstitutional
Proclamation of 1763
Bombing and invasion of Cambodia
Battle of Saratoga
Marbury v. Madison
11. Black veteran escorted to be enrolled in Univ. of Miss. by military (school reluctant - cf. Little Rock Nine)
James Meredith
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
Panic of 1819
John Foster Dulles
12. Often debtors sold to slave traders by African kings seeking riches; Columbian Exchange
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Atlantic slave trade
Good Neighbor Policy
Boston Tea Party
13. Society naturally punishes criminals indiscriminantly
'Affluent Society'
Butler v. U.S. Court case
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Social Reciprocity
14. Last major battle; surrender of Cornwallis - led King George III to officially make peace with the colonies
James Monroe
Declining death rate
Battle of Yorktown
Compromise of 1850
15. Educational and residential segregation; inferior facilities allotted to African-Americans - predominantly in South
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
New Deal
Jim Crow laws
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
16. Belief in minimal government so as to allow the people their own free reign - lower taxes to stimulate economy - &c.
Conservatism
Richard Nixon (R)
Bonus Army
Whiskey Rebellion
17. Fought for old Southern way of life (states' rights) - attempted to gain higher standing within Democratic party; aimed to deny Truman enough electoral votes to avoid his reelection by nominating Strom Thurmond (SC governor)
'Baby Boom'
Dixiecrats - 1948
Indian Removal Act
Stephen Austin
18. 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)
Harpers Ferry (1859)
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Bill of Rights
Boston Tea Party
19. First shots are fired at Charleston - North Carolina
Fort Sumter
AFL-CIO (1955)
Bull Moose Party
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
20. Americans concerned with economic depression; sought to avoid European involvement - no apparent immediate threats
Lusitania
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
21. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - employed young jobless men with government projects on work relief and environment
Lodge Reservations
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Pocahontas
Stagflation
22. French foreign minister (Talleyrand) demanded bribe in order to meet with American peace commission - made Adams unpopular among the people
Jingoism
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
President Harry Truman
XYZ Affair
23. Committees appointed from different colonies to communicate on matters; asserted rights to self¬government - cooperation between colonies
Korean War
Committees of Correspondence
Eugene V. Debs
Jonathan Edwards
24. Part of 'First' New Deal Program - subsidies to farmers to decrease production and thus increase prices
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Rock `n' Roll
Rosie the Riveter
Stamp Act Congress
25. Belligerent nationalism against other threatening nations
Election of 1800
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
Stamp Act Congress
Jingoism
26. Heavily evangelized to the point there were no more people left to convert to other religions - upstate New York - home to the beginning of Smith's Mormonism movement
1992 Election
Burned-Over District
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Rock `n' Roll
27. First female cabinet member
'Affluent Society'
Spoils System
Lecompton Constitution
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
28. To make German reparations from WWI more accessible to Germans; evacuation of troops from Germany - reorganization of the Reichsbank - and foreign loans
Olive Branch Petition
Bill of Rights
Harriet Tubman
Dawes Plan (1924)
29. 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
Salvation Army
China turns communist
Dawes Plan (1924)
National Labor Union
30. Politely demanded from the king a cease¬fire in Boston - repeal of Coercive Acts -. guarantee of American rights
Declining death rate
Olive Branch Petition
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
XYZ Affair
31. Cherokee tribe forced to move from southern Appalachians to reservations in current-day Oklahoma - high death toll
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32. Settlers to pay the expenses of a servant's voyage and be granted land for each person they brought over; headright system
Indentured servants
Four Freedoms' speech
John Foster Dulles
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
33. 'Dark horse' Democratic candidate; acquired majority of the western US (Mexican Cession - Texas Annexation - Oregon Country) - lowered tariffs - created Independent Treasury
New Federalism
Boston Massacre
James K. Polk
Nullification
34. Georgia cannot enforce American laws on Indian tribes
Keynesian economics
Haymarket Bombing
Worcester v. Georgia
Isolationism
35. Opposed Polk's high-handedness - avid Southern slave owner
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
John C. Calhoun
36. John Noyes - New York; utopian society for communalism - perfectionism - and complex marriage
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
GI Bill of Rights
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
37. Left primary open to Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy - both promising to end the controversial war
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38. Search warrants on shipping to reduce smuggling; challenged by James Otis
Writs of Assistance
Open Door Policy
War Industries Board
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
39. Prohibited testing of nuclear bombs above ground to slow the nuclear arms race and the release of nuclear fallout into the atmosphere
James K. Polk
Citizen Genet
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
40. Judges appointed to Supreme Court by Adams in the last days of his presidency to force them upon Jefferson - Marshall among those appointed
'Wage slaves'
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
Nullification Controversy
Midnight judges
41. Middle class; white flight from urban areas due to black migration; government supported insurance for homeowners and builders
Burned-Over District
Truman Doctrine
Nativism
Suburbia
42. Despite CIA-sponsored Soviet resistance - Afghanistan taken by Soviet Union; ended detente between USSR and US
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Potsdam Conference (1945)
43. Activist government to serve all citizens (cf. Alexander Hamilton); founded New Republic magazine
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
Social Gospel movement
Stamp Act Congress
Bush v. Gore (2000)
44. Nationalists against foreign non-English speaking workers (took jobs away from American men); encouraged to leave the U.S.
Deportations of Mexicans
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
Hoovervilles
Cult of domesticity
45. American general Horatio Gates was victorious over British general Burgoyne
Stephen Austin
Battle of Saratoga
'Bleeding Kansas'
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
46. Formed in response to Kansas-Nebraska Act - banned in the South - John C Fremont first presidential candidate
Hoover's policy of voluntarism
Invasion of Iraq
Republican Party
National Road
47. Overthrew Pres. Guzman after he nationalized American fruit fields and accepted arms from USSR (communist sympathies)
Four Freedoms' speech
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
New Deal
National Origins Act (1924)
48. Goods able to be transferred from New York to New Orleans by inland waterways
Gays in the military
Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Association (YMCA & YWCA)
Erie Canal
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
49. Argued that states had the right to determine whether or not the laws passed by Congress were constitutional
New Nationalism
Berlin Wall
John Foster Dulles
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
50. Another black separatist movement; known for peaceful demonstrations - but more for police shootouts
Harriet Tubman
James Madison
Black Panther Party
Dawes Plan (1924)