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AP U.S. History
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1. British soldiers shot into crowd of snowball fight; two of nine soldiers (defended by John Adams) found guilty of manslaughter
Ho Chi Minh
First American strategy in WWII
French and Indian War
Boston Massacre
2. Rise in stock prices and speculation - decline of construction industry - mistaken 'trickle-down' economics - reliance on credit
Causes of the depression
Zoot Suit riots
Tariff of Abominations
Peace Corps
3. Led Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: threatened a siege on DC if FDR did not agree to end discrimination in military
Indian Removal Act
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
Open Door Policy
4. September 1949 - US no longer held monopoly; two atomic powers
Teapot Dome scandal
Barbary Pirates
Conservatism
Soviet atomic bomb
5. U.S. felt it was its duty to 'watch out' for the interests of other countries in the Western hemisphere; provided justification for invasions of Latin America.
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Critics of FDR
Court Packing
Election of 1960
6. 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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7. In response to Japanese discrimination in San Fran schools; Japanese to stop laborers into U.S. - Californians forbidden to ban Japanese from public schools
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8. Unconstitutionalized the NRA due to delegation of legislative authority from Congress to executive
Battle of Tippecanoe
Connecticut Compromise
John D. Rockefeller
Schechter v. U.S Court case
9. Established world organization; Soviet Union pledged to allow democratic procedures in Eastern Europe; pledge broken - led to Cold War
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Bay of Pigs invasion
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
Yalta Conference (1945)
10. Network of safe houses of white abolitionists used to bring slaves to freedom
Domino theory
Dorothea Lange
Populist Party
Underground Railroad
11. Government would hold its revenues rather than deposit them in banks - thus keeping the funds away from private corporations; 'America's Second Declaration of Independence'
Independent Treasury Bill
Gifford Pinchot
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
12. Attacked people for being communist by association and unsubstantiated claims - against Truman - Marshall - and Ike; downfall came with attack on the military (condemned by Senate); led hysteria of the red scare
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Benjamin Franklin
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
McCarthyism
13. Detectives hired by employers as private police force - often used to end strikes
Nullification Controversy
William Lloyd Garrison
'Brain trust'
Pinkertons
14. (free speech movement) Youth activists (often liberal arts students) spoke out against Vietnam War - supported widespread liberalization
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15. Ended exclusion of homosexuals from military; due to controversy - compromise of 'don't ask - don't tell' instituted
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Gays in the military
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
Economic transition
16. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - prevented extreme competition - labor management disputes - and over-production; federally coordinated consensus of business leaders (Hugh Johnson) to regulate businesses (wages - limits - working condit
Boston Massacre
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
Neutrality Act - 1939
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
17. Despite CIA-sponsored Soviet resistance - Afghanistan taken by Soviet Union; ended detente between USSR and US
Federalism
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
James Madison
18. Bush vs. Clinton vs. Perot; focus on stagnancy of economy and problems of middle class (Clinton)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Energy Crisis - OPEC
1992 Election
Treaty of Paris (1783)
19. Philippines - Hawaii - Puerto Rico - Guam: granted to U.S. at the end of Spanish-American War; Philippines were captured after treaty - and thus not part of spoils - but kept as territory with an inevitable movement for independence; Philippines and
Panic of 1819
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
US acquisitions
20. Western Pennsylvanian farmers' violent protest against whiskey excise tax - Washington sent large army to put down revolt - protests to be limited to non-violent
Olive Branch Petition
Whiskey Rebellion
National Organization of Women
New York City draft riots (1863)
21. Drastic cutbacks in regulation of business by the federal government (banks - transportation - communications
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
Zoot Suit riots
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
Deregulation
22. Led Pottawatomie Massacre - extreme abolitionist who believed he was doing God's work
Pet banks
John Brown
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Dorothea Lange
23. Only English and American ships allowed to colonial ports; dissent began in 1763
Erie Canal
Navigation Acts
John Dewey
Zoot Suit riots
24. Beginnings of trusts (destruction of competition); vertical- controlling every aspect of production (control quality - eliminate middlemen - Rockefeller); horizontal- consolidating with competitors to monopolize a market (highly detrimental)
Vertical and horizontal integration
Dominion of New England
Fair Deal
Stagflation
25. Opposed to all immigration - strongly anti-Catholic
Know-Nothing (American) Party
George Whitefield
Bombing and invasion of Cambodia
United States vs. EC Knight Company
26. US - Britain - Japan - France - and Italy to reduce naval tonnage and halt construction for 10 years; US and Japan to respect Pacific territorial holdings - Kellog-Briand Pact to 'outlaw war'
Clinton impeachment (1997)
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
Bacon's Rebellion
27. Left primary open to Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy - both promising to end the controversial war
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28. (The Lonely Crowd) 'outer directed' Americans conforming to peer pressure on moral and social issues - rather than independently thinking on morals
David Riesman
Ulysses S. Grant
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Ike's Farewell Speech
29. Head of federal Division of Forestry - contributed to Roosevelt's natural conservation efforts
Charles Lindbergh
Bank of the United States
Midnight judges
Gifford Pinchot
30. Overthrew Pres. Guzman after he nationalized American fruit fields and accepted arms from USSR (communist sympathies)
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Salutary Neglect
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
31. 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
Dawes Plan (1924)
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
32. Congressional support to raid houses of radicals believed to have connections to communism
Henry Clay and the American System
British strengths and weaknesses
Farm crisis
Palmer Raids
33. Often debtors sold to slave traders by African kings seeking riches; Columbian Exchange
Vertical and horizontal integration
'New Left'
Atlantic slave trade
Monroe Doctrine
34. Considered a hero for his solo crossing of the Atlantic by plane
Charles Lindbergh
California Gold Rush
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
35. 14 formal amendments to the treaty for the League of Nations; preserved Monroe Doctrine - Congress desired to keep declaration of war to itself
Lodge Reservations
Robert E. Lee
James G. Blaine
'Big BM' Haywood
36. First shots are fired at Charleston - North Carolina
John Foster Dulles
Commerce Compromise
Fort Sumter
Munn v. Illinois
37. Powerful speaker - toured the country and inspired many into Christianity
George Whitefield
American Federation of Labor
National Labor Union
Berlin Airlift
38. Part of Nixon's tri-faceted plan to honorably remove troops from Vietnam; wean the South Vietnamese off of American support - gradually reducing number of American troops present
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
Teapot Dome scandal
'Atlanta Compromise'
Vietnamization
39. No further introduction of slaves into Missouri - all children born to slaves to become free at 25
Stamp Act
Schechter v. U.S Court case
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tallmadge Amendment
40. British Navy would take American sailors and force them to work for Britain
Lodge Reservations
Indentured servants
Impressment
National Road
41. Foundation for self-government laid out by the first Massachusetts settlers before arriving on land
Non-Intercourse Act
Mayflower Compact
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Elastic Clause ('necessary and proper')
42. First female cabinet member
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
'Big BM' Haywood
43. Federalist cause leading up to Hartford Convention
Essex case
New Harmony
Alexander Hamilton
Battle of Tippecanoe
44. NLF attacked numerous South Vietnamese cities and American embassies - eventually repulsed; spoiled LBJ's record to reelection - resulted in massive protests in US to end the war; atrocities such that war could only end in stalemate
Tet Offensive (1968)
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Embargo Act (1807)
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
45. Detente achieved with USSR and China by withdrawal from Vietnam; realpolitik shed the use of doctrines and policies - instead using China and USSR in alternative ways to achieve other goals (pitting China and USSR against each other - as communist na
Jazz
20-Negro Law
Good Neighbor Policy
Detente - realpolitik
46. States could refuse to enforce the federal laws they deemed unconstitutional
Bonus Army
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
Nullification
47. Introduced work ethic to Jamestown colony - sanitation - diplomat to local Native American tribes; had fought Spanish and Turks
Maysville Road Veto
John C. Calhoun
Ngo Dinh Diem
John Smith
48. Standard Oil Company - Ruthless business tactics (survival of the fittest)
George Wallace - American
Anne Hutchinson
John D. Rockefeller
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
49. In Brook Farm Community - literary nationalist - transcendentalist (nascent ideas of God and freedom) - wrote 'The American Scholar'
Muckrakers
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Manifest Destiny
Roe v. Wade
50. Ideas of Wilson: small enterprise - states' rights - more active government - trust busting - left social issues up to the states
Greenback Party
Watergate Scandal
Deregulation
New Freedom