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AP U.S. History
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1. Secretary of state - policy to liberate captive people in Eastern Europe by political pressure and propaganda; massive retaliation to counter SovietlChinese aggression with nuclear weapons; brinksmanship to be persistent to solve crises (even to the
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Martin Luther King Jr.
John Foster Dulles
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
2. Provided for evacuation of English troops from posts in the Great Lakes
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3. Influence of African-American blues - music of the younger generation (gap between them and their parents)
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4. New Lights brought new ideas - rejected by Old Lights; both sought out institutions independent of each other
President Ronald Reagan
Jingoism
New Lights vs. Old Lights
Election of 1960
5. Challenged New England Calvinist ministers' authority - as they taught the good works for salvation of Catholicism
Scopes Trial
Deportations of Mexicans
Anne Hutchinson
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
6. Cherokees - Choctaws - Creeks - Chickasaws - and Seminoles; 'civilized' due to their intermarriage with whites - forced out of their homelands by expansion
Albany Plan of Union
Five Civilized Tribes
Muckrakers
Farm crisis
7. 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)
Nativism
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
New Federalism
King James I - King Charles
8. Drafting extremely hated by Northerners - sparked by Irish-Americans against the black population - 500 lives lost - many buildings burned
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
New York City draft riots (1863)
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
Five Civilized Tribes
9. Overthrow of the Taliban - in search of bin Laden
Tories (Loyalists)
Andrew Carnegie
Fair Labor Standards Act
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
10. National Liberation Front - guerilla militia from south Vietnam fighting alongside the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam)
King James I - King Charles
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Vietcong
Andrew Carnegie
11. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - banned child labor - established minimum wage
Vertical and horizontal integration
Liberty Party
Fair Labor Standards Act
Ike's Farewell Speech
12. The Jungle revealed unsanitary nature of meat-packing industry - inspired Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
Voting Rights Act of 1965
'Trail of Tears'
Upton Sinclair
Hudson River School
13. Believed in expanding federal power on economy - encouraged industrial development; could only gain power on the local level - led by Henry Clay (anti-Jackson)
Stock market crash (1929)
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
John L. Lewis
Whig Party
14. Ex-Lincoln secretary; worked to gain Open Door Notes' acceptance from the major powers
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Rock `n' Roll
Conformity in the 1950s
Secretary of State John Hay
15. Most numerous in New England - fought for independence
Whigs (Patriots)
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Vietnamization
New Lights vs. Old Lights
16. Second youngest president - entered presidency as tensions of the Cold War increased; unable to get major initiatives through Congress due to conservative bloc; tax cuts (economic stimulation); reluctantly gets involved in civil rights; emphasizes Sp
British strengths and weaknesses
Independent Treasury Bill
Japanese internment
President John F. Kennedy
17. Mandated the toleration of all Christian denominations in Maryland - even though Maryland was founded for Catholics (but majority was protestant)
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
Jane Addams
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
18. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - hydroelectric power to river valley; brought social and economic development to very poor area
Convict-lease system
Stephen Austin
Karl Marx Das Kapital
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
19. Peaceful destruction of British tea in Boston Harbor by colonists disguised as Indians
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
Boston Massacre
Election of 1980
Boston Tea Party
20. Established free trade zone between Canada - United States and Mexico - net gain in jobs due to opening of Mexican markets
New Jersey Plan
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
Knights of Labor
Schechter v. U.S Court case
21. Provided housing and recreation to city youth - imposing Protestant morals - unable to reach out to all youth
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22. 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
US acquisitions
Election of 1800
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
McCarthyism
23. Dealt with Vietnam War - 'Great Society' program for improvement of American society - antipoverty and anti-discrimination programs
Martin Luther King Jr.
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Rock `n' Roll
24. Government compromised to buy and coin $2-4 million/month; government stuck to minimum and inflation did not occur (lower prices); economy grew
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
Fair Labor Standards Act
Stagflation
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
25. Supported by women and churches - instituted by Volstead Act - lacked enforcement; bootlegging and speakeasies - Al Capone and John Dillinger — gangsters and organized crime (casual breaking of the law)
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe (1989)
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
Dixiecrats - 1948
26. Emphasis on personal salvation - emotional response - and individual faith; women and blacks; nationalism (Manifest Destiny)
Second Great Awakening
Civil Rights Cases
George Whitefield
Tories (Loyalists)
27. Appealed to many conservatives - especially southerners (opposed massive protests and integration)
George Wallace - American
Religious Right
Manifest Destiny
Spanish American War (1898)
28. Stronger union of states - equal and population-based representation - simple majority vote (with presidential veto) - regulation of foreign and interstate commerce - execution by president - power to enact taxes - federal courts - easier amendment p
Judiciary Act of 1789
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
Declaratory Act
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
29. Women must gain economic rights in order to impact society (cf. rising divorce rates)
Republican Party
Benjamin Franklin
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Civil Rights Act of 1964
30. Fair amount of troops - short guerilla tactics - strong leaders (Washington); nonprofessional army that could not handle long battles
Platt Amendment
Vietnamization
Jackson's Presidency
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
31. Exemplary Christian community - rich to show charity - held to Calvinistic beliefs
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32. Left primary open to Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy - both promising to end the controversial war
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33. Protestant church led by the king of England - independent of Catholic Church; tended toward Catholicism during reign of Catholic royalty
Church of England
Knights of Labor
Industrial Workers of the World
James G. Blaine
34. Worked alongside Josiah Henson to make repeated trips to get slaves out of the South into freedom
Fair Labor Standards Act
Harriet Tubman
Shays's Rebellion
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
35. Japanese bombing of ships in harbor; resulted in FDR's request for declaration of war against Japan; Germany and Italy responded with declarations of war
'Red Scare' (1919)
Pearl Harbor
Platt Amendment
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
36. Germany announced that it would sink all (including American) ships - attempt to involve U.S. in war
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Macon's Bill No. 2
Suburbia
37. 10-year moratorium on Chinese immigration to reduce competition for jobs (Chinese willing to work for cheap salaries)
United States vs. EC Knight Company
Alexander Hamilton
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
38. December 1814 - Opposed War of 1812 - called for one-term presidency - northern states threatened to secede if their views were left unconsidered next to those of southern and western states - supported nullification - end of Federalist Party
Hartford Convention
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
Northwest Passage
Japanese internment
39. Launched in 1958 by Ike; successful launch of American satellite (Explorer I); massive arms builup
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
George Washington
John Foster Dulles
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
40. 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
Transportation Revolution
James Meredith
Social Gospel movement
Detente - realpolitik
41. Response to Berlin crisis - warned Moscow that threats would be answered with force; Warsaw Pact formed by Soviets in response
New Harmony
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Samuel Gompers
42. Upheld constitutionality of Espionage Act; Congress right to limit free speech during times of war
Fair Labor Standards Act
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
Salvation Army
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
43. Combined Massachusetts - New Hampshire - Connecticut - Rhode Island - and Plymouth (and later Jersey and New York) into one 'supercolony' governed by Sir Edmond Andros - a 'supergovernor'
Bank of the United States
Cotton Gin
Dominion of New England
President Harry Truman
44. Drastic cutbacks in regulation of business by the federal government (banks - transportation - communications
Fugitive Slave Act
Battle of Yorktown
Deregulation
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
45. Radical Calvinists against the Church of England; Separatists (Pilgrims) argued for a break from the Church of England - led the Mayflower - and established the settlement at Plymouth
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
Macon's Bill No. 2
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
John Smith
46. Acquired Mexican Cession (future California - Arizona - and New Mexico); Mexico acknowledged American annexation of Texas
Navigation Acts
Macon's Bill No. 2
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Popular Sovereignty
47. Spread quickly; opposed everything that was not White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) (and conservative) - Stephenson's faults and jail sentence led to demise
Non-Intercourse Act
Boston Tea Party
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
Ku Klux Klan
48. Prejudiced jury sentenced them to death - caused riots around the world - new trial denied
Pocahontas
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
Jingoism
Quebec Acts
49. In Brook Farm Community - lived in seclusion for two years writing Walden and On Civil Disobedience - proved that man could provide for himself without materialistic wants
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Henry David Thoreau
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
Social Gospel movement
50. Led Pottawatomie Massacre - extreme abolitionist who believed he was doing God's work
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
CIA overthrow of Iran (1953)
Articles of Confederation
John Brown