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AP U.S. History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Relied on voluntary compliance (no formal laws) - propaganda; high prices set on commodities to encourage production - Prohibition
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2. Speech given by BTW to ease whites' fears of integration - assuring them that separate but equal was acceptable - ideas challenged by DuBois
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3. Anti-immigrant - especially against Irish Catholics
Dawes Plan (1924)
Nativism
Fair Deal
Whiskey Rebellion
4. Dance music - slave spirituals adapted into improvisation and ragtime; jazz migrated along with blacks in the Great Migration
Clinton impeachment (1997)
Jazz
Dixiecrats - 1948
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe (1989)
5. Elvis Presley - Marilyn Monroe - James Dean - Beatniks — rebelled against conservative conformity of the rest of the country (esp. targeted youth)
New Freedom
Non-conformity
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
James Monroe
6. Established federal district courts that followed local procedures - Supreme Court had final jurisdiction; compromise between nationalists and advocates for states' rights
Hoovervilles
Rosenbergs
Judiciary Act of 1789
Lowell mill/system
7. Georgia cannot enforce American laws on Indian tribes
Truman's Loyalty Program
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
Worcester v. Georgia
8. Mao Zedong (communist) defeated nationalist forces of Kai-Shek (supported by US); seen as defeat for US - not officially fully recognized until 1973
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
China turns communist
Tammany Hall
Bruce Barton
9. 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
Liberty Party
US acquisitions
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
20-Negro Law
10. (The Lonely Crowd) 'outer directed' Americans conforming to peer pressure on moral and social issues - rather than independently thinking on morals
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
Moral Diplomacy
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
David Riesman
11. Colonies proposed colonial confederation under lighter British rule (crown-appointed president - 'Grand Council'); never took effect
Albany Plan of Union
Woodrow Wilson
Affirmative Action
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
12. Key to English-Native American relationship - died in England in 1617
Convict-lease system
Pocahontas
Underground Railroad
Potsdam Conference (1945)
13. Supported abolition - broke off of Anti-Slavery Society
Liberty Party
Critics of FDR
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
New Harmony
14. Southern Christian Leadership Conference - Led boycott - became leader of civil rights movement; urged nonviolent resistance (cf. tactics of Ghandi);
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
Gulf War - 'Operation Desert Storm' (1991)
Booker T. Washington
Martin Luther King Jr.
15. Exemplary Christian community - rich to show charity - held to Calvinistic beliefs
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16. The Union planned a blockade that would not allow supplies of any sort into the Confederacy; control the Mississippi and Atlantic/Gulf of Mexico
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
Anaconda plan
Jingoism
Conscription policies
17. Established free trade zone between Canada - United States and Mexico - net gain in jobs due to opening of Mexican markets
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
Monroe Doctrine
Virginia Plan
Munn v. Illinois
18. Increased already high rate of inflation by quadrupling the price of crude oil
Roger Williams
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
Energy Crisis - OPEC
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
19. Victorian standards confined women to the home to create an artistic environment as a statement of cultural aspirations
Valley Forge
Reaganomics
Cult of domesticity
Election of 1980
20. The principle that a state should decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery
Lecompton Constitution
Popular Sovereignty
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
Bank of the United States
21. Brown aimed to create an armed slave rebellion and establish black free state; Brown executed and became martyr in the North
Non-Intercourse Act
Lecompton Constitution
Harpers Ferry (1859)
Battle of Gettysburg
22. Challenged New England Calvinist ministers' authority - as they taught the good works for salvation of Catholicism
Tariff of Abominations
Anne Hutchinson
Emancipation Proclamation
Mikhail Gorbachev
23. 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
Horace Mann
The Homefront
Marcus Garvey
Muckrakers
24. Taught American landscape painting rather than Classical subjects
Bracero program
Sons of Liberty
Sputnik
Hudson River School
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
Panama Canal
'New Left'
Conversion Experience
Virtual Representation
26. Stated the United States was destined to span the breadth of the entire continent with as much land as possible - advocated by Polk
Washington's Farewell Address
Manifest Destiny
John Smith
Berlin Airlift
27. Prohibited aiding of belligerent nations - banned civilian involvement; limited power of president during international war - built up armed forces
Five Civilized Tribes
Nicaraguan Contras
Indian Removal Act
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
28. Founded by Uriah Stephens (1869); excluded corrupt and well-off; equal female pay - end to child/convict labor - employer-employee relations - proportional income tax; 'bread and butter' unionism (higher wages - shorter hours - better conditions)
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Knights of Labor
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
Jackie Robinson
29. Newt Gingrich (Republican congressman) planned for success of Republican party in upcoming election by pledging tax cuts - congressional term limits - tougher crime laws - balanced budget amendment - popular reforms &c.
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30. Congress authorized LBJ to repel and prevent aggression against US troops in Vietnam - used as a blank check (perhaps too much - caused protests)
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
President Ronald Reagan
Cuban Missile Crisis
31. Midway (US Signal Corps - turning point of war in the Pacific) - D-Day (Eisenhower's amphibious invasion of Normandy - led to depletion of German forces) - Stalingrad (Russians defeated Germans - saved Moscow and Leningrad - turning point in Europe)
Lecompton Constitution
Important WWII Battles
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
32. Intercepted by Britain; Germany proposed alliance with Mexico - using bribe of return of TX - NM - and AZ; Japan included in alliance
Zimmerman Note
Jim Crow laws
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Northwest Passage
33. Under JQ Adams - protectionist tariff - South considered it the source of economic problems - made Jackson appear to advocate free trade
Gifford Pinchot
Palmer Raids
Citizen Genet
Tariff of Abominations
34. 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)
Dixiecrats - 1948
Regionalist and naturalist writers
'Evil Empire' speech - 'Star Wars'
Economic transition
35. Philosophy that deficit spending during a depression would increase purchasing power and stimulate economy; FDR disagreed with the policy at first and borrowed money to cover deficits
Albany Plan of Union
Keynesian economics
Scopes Trial
Thomas Edison
36. Established world organization; Soviet Union pledged to allow democratic procedures in Eastern Europe; pledge broken - led to Cold War
Lewis and Clark expedition
Stock market crash (1929)
Yalta Conference (1945)
George Washington
37. Equal representation in unicameral congress
Republican Party
Rationing
March on Washington
New Jersey Plan
38. 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
Freeport Doctrine
William Penn and the Quakers
Jazz
Jamestown
39. Despite near-guaranteed second term - campaign workers burglarized Democratic offices - cover-up unsuccessful - resigned to avoid impeachment
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Watergate Scandal
President Bill Clinton
40. Kent State University students protesting against invasion of Cambodia - not allowed to demonstrate - violence (murder) caused by guardsmen
Macon's Bill No. 2
'Evil Empire' speech - 'Star Wars'
Dorothea Lange
Kent State Protest
41. Created in 1961 as example of liberal anticommunism in third world countries; 'reform-minded missionaries of democracy'
Report on Public Credit
Populist Party
Affirmative Action
Peace Corps
42. Authors included Langston Hughes - McKay - Zora Neale Hurston - Countee Cullet — praise and expression of black culture of the time
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
Harlem Renaissance
Immigration Act of 1965
Booker T. Washington
43. American general Horatio Gates was victorious over British general Burgoyne
Social Reciprocity
Battle of Saratoga
'Wage slaves'
Charles Lindbergh
44. Highest peacetime deficit in US history (due to lower tax rates for high-income taxpayers - spent too much money attempting to reduce price supports to farmers)
Tammany Hall
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Plessy v. Ferguson
45. First African-American in major league baseball
Jackie Robinson
Scopes Trial
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
Bank of the United States
46. Contending communist politician in Vietnam - had more popularity than Diem - took power upon Diem's death
Ho Chi Minh
Stock market crash (1929)
Marcus Garvey
Open Door Policy
47. Belligerent nationalism against other threatening nations
John L. Lewis
John Dewey
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
Jingoism
48. Bush vs. Clinton vs. Perot; focus on stagnancy of economy and problems of middle class (Clinton)
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
John Dewey
1992 Election
Public Works Administration (PWA)
49. 'Trustbuster' (busted twice as many as Roosevelt) - conservation and irrigation efforts - Postal Savings Bank System - Payne-Aldrich Tariff (reduction of tariff - caused Republican split)
The Half-Way Covenant
AFL-CIO (1955)
William H. Taft
Spanish American War (1898)
50. Runaway slaves could be caught in the North and be brought back to their masters (they were treated as property — running away was as good as stealing)
Fugitive Slave Act
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
Camp David Accords
Horace Mann