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AP U.S. History
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1. FDR encouraged democracies to quarantine their opponents (economic embargos); criticized by isolationists
Cult of domesticity
Quarantine Speech - 1937
John Brown
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
2. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - collective bargaining rights - closed shops permitted (where workers must join unions) - outlawed anti-union tactics
Convict-lease system
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
Vietcong
3. 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
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
Teapot Dome scandal
Charles Lindbergh
Freeport Doctrine
4. 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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5. Calvinist - devised concept of 'city on a hill' ('A Model of Christian Charity'); founded highly successful towns in Massachusetts Bay
John Winthrop
Bacon's Rebellion
The Loyal Nine
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
6. Worked to reform the American education system - abolitionist - prison/asylum reform with Dorothea Dix
Horace Mann
Neutrality Act - 1939
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. Politely demanded from the king a cease¬fire in Boston - repeal of Coercive Acts -. guarantee of American rights
Olive Branch Petition
Quebec Acts
William H. Taft
Specie
8. Democratic political machine in NYC - 'supported' immigrants and poor people of the city - who were needed for Democratic election victories
Conformity in the 1950s
Tammany Hall
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
Declining death rate
9. Banned racial discrimination in federal practices; To Secure These Rights called for desegregation - anti-lynching - end of poll taxes
Spanish American War (1898)
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
Marbury v. Madison
10. United States aided South Vietnam in its war of power struggle against North Vietnam - the Vietcong - USSR - and China
Conformity in the 1950s
Vietnam War
Northwest Passage
Embargo Act (1807)
11. Helped approval ratings - not removed from office despite all the efforts of Republican congressmen
Freeport Doctrine
Clinton impeachment (1997)
Albany Plan of Union
Energy Crisis - OPEC
12. Natural selection applied to human competition - advocated by Herbert Spencer - William Graham Sumner
Social Darwinism
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
Creel Committee
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
13. Introduced work ethic to Jamestown colony - sanitation - diplomat to local Native American tribes; had fought Spanish and Turks
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
John Smith
John Foster Dulles
Camp David Accords
14. State-run economy to provide conflict-free society
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
Strict vs. Loose interpretation of the Constitution
Court Packing
Dollar Diplomacy'
15. Opposed to all immigration - strongly anti-Catholic
Vietcong
Washington's Farewell Address
Know-Nothing (American) Party
Dawes Plan (1924)
16. John Marshall declared that the Supreme Court could declare federal laws unconstitutional
Zoot Suit riots
Marbury v. Madison
Tariff of Abominations
Nativism
17. Prohibited use of any devices (e.g. - literacy tests) to deny the right to vote and enforced black suffrage rights
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
18. Known as 'wartime food czar;' created recreation policies and reintroduced leisure culture and conservation ethic to get Americans escaping the cities and improve tourism - etc.
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
Dixiecrats - 1948
Zoot Suit riots
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
19. Nixon agreed with USSR to achieve nuclear equality rather than the superiority that threatened the destruction of the world; further reduced tensions between the two countries
William T. Sherman
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
New Deal
'Evil Empire' speech - 'Star Wars'
20. Allowed sale of weaponry to democracies on 'cash-and-carry' basis - avoided full-blown war; danger zones proclaimed; solved American unemployment crisis
Neutrality Act - 1939
Vietnamization
New York City draft riots (1863)
CIA overthrow of Iran (1953)
21. President has power to cease trade with any foreign country that violated American neutrality
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22. To make German reparations from WWI more accessible to Germans; evacuation of troops from Germany - reorganization of the Reichsbank - and foreign loans
Dawes Plan (1924)
British strengths and weaknesses
Peace Corps
Pet banks
23. The Jungle revealed unsanitary nature of meat-packing industry - inspired Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
Know-Nothing (American) Party
Upton Sinclair
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
24. Bomb thrown at protest rally - police shot protestors - caused great animosity in employers for workers' unions
Haymarket Bombing
Dorothea Lange
'Atlanta Compromise'
Economic transition
25. Needed to protect new Pacific acquisitions - U.S. took over the project from the French after overcoming Clatyton¬ Bulwer Treaty (prohibited exclusive control of canal) with the Hay¬ Pauncefote Treaty
Indian Removal Act
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
Panama Canal
Martin Luther King Jr.
26. First attempt of Cherokees to gain complete sovereign rule over their nation
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Monroe Doctrine
Essex case
27. Foreshadowed in 14 points - hoped to guarantee political independence and integrity of all countries
Populist Party
Second Great Awakening
League of Nations
Mann Act
28. North African Muslim rulers solved budget problems through piracy and tributes in Mediterranean - obtained fees from most European powers
John Brown
Zoot Suit riots
Yeoman Farmers
Barbary Pirates
29. Formed by white progressives - adopted goals of Niagara Movement - in response to Springfield Race Riots
Black Panther Party
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Martin Luther King Jr.
Articles of Confederation
30. Decisive victory in the War of 1812 by Harrison over Tecumseh - used in Harrison's campaign for presidency
Independent Treasury Bill
Battle of Tippecanoe
'Graying of America'
Robert La Follette
31. Northern Securities Company (JP Morgan and James G. Hill - railroads) seen by Roosevelt as 'bad' trust - Supreme Court upheld his first trust-bust
Yeoman Farmers
Northern Securities Case
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
Burned-Over District
32. Party formed from Republican split by Roosevelt - more progressive values - leaving 'Republican Old Guard' to control Republican party
'Trail of Tears'
Bull Moose Party
William Henry Harrison
Korean War
33. Slavery to be barred in all territory ceded from Mexico; never fully passed Congress
Liberty Party
Townshend Act (1767)
Karl Marx Das Kapital
Wilmot Proviso
34. Sought to encourage domestic American manufacturing
Non-Intercourse Act
Hull House
Tariff of Abominations
Booker T. Washington
35. States could refuse to enforce the federal laws they deemed unconstitutional
Eugene V. Debs
Booker T. Washington
Nullification
Dawes Plan (1924)
36. Scholarly - welfare-reform - 'Contract with America -' impeachment over Monica Lewinski Scandal - War in Kosovo
President Bill Clinton
Zoot Suit riots
Hartford Convention
GI Bill of Rights
37. Meant to provide evacuation opportunity for Americans in Cuba; internal accidental explosion blamed on Spanish mines - leading to Spanish¬ American War
Jane Addams
President Franklin Roosevelt
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
Explosion of USS Maine
38. Tried to rule as absolute monarchs without using Parliament - little to no sympathy for colonial legislatures
Charles II - James II
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Regionalist and naturalist writers
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
39. Another black separatist movement; known for peaceful demonstrations - but more for police shootouts
Andrew Carnegie
The Federalist Papers
Black Panther Party
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
40. South divided into 5 military districts; states to guarantee full suffrage for blacks; ratify 14th amendment
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe (1989)
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Zimmerman Note
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
41. Reluctant to give colonists their own government - preferred to appoint royal governors
King James I - King Charles
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
42. FDR's plan (although vague during the campaign) to restart the economy and pull America out of the Great Depression
Civil Rights Cases
Gulf War - 'Operation Desert Storm' (1991)
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
New Deal
43. 'Southern Strategy' lured many southern Democrats to the Republican party (esp. due to southern opposition to Civil Rights Act of 1964)
AFL-CIO (1955)
12th Amendment
Richard Nixon (R)
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
44. Detectives hired by employers as private police force - often used to end strikes
William Lloyd Garrison
Pinkertons
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
12th Amendment
45. Pushed through northern Georgia - captured Atlanta - 'march to the sea' (total war and destruction) - proceeded to South Carolina
Economic transition
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
William T. Sherman
Nullification
46. Puritan minister - led revivals - stressed immediate repentance - wrote 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God'
Mikhail Gorbachev
Farmers'Alliance movement
Jonathan Edwards
Tariff of Abominations
47. Despite CIA-sponsored Soviet resistance - Afghanistan taken by Soviet Union; ended detente between USSR and US
Nativism
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Affirmative Action
Quarantine Speech - 1937
48. Abolished national origins quotas - dramatically increased immigration (especially from Asia and Latin America)
Second Great Awakening
Immigration Act of 1965
Warren Court
'Graying of America'
49. Society naturally punishes criminals indiscriminantly
Knights of Labor
Scopes Trial
James K. Polk
Social Reciprocity
50. Worked alongside Josiah Henson to make repeated trips to get slaves out of the South into freedom
Okies' and 'Arkies'
Harriet Tubman
Yellow journalism
Atlantic slave trade