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AP U.S. History
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1. Emphasis on human reason - logic - and science (acquired - not nascent - knowledge); increased followers of Christianity
The Enlightenment
Moral Diplomacy
Scopes Trial
Freeport Doctrine
2. States could refuse to enforce the federal laws they deemed unconstitutional
Jim Crow laws
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
Nullification
John L. Lewis
3. American hostages taken by US hating Shiites upon Shah's flight from uprising - botched rescue attempts
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Association (YMCA & YWCA)
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
GI Bill of Rights
4. Strong patriotism and need to conform to try to avoid blame during red scare - non-churchgoers - unmarried - and critics suspected as communists
'Lost Generation'
'Affluent Society'
Conformity in the 1950s
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
5. 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
Washington's Farewell Address
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
John L. Lewis
6. 'Dark horse' Democratic candidate; acquired majority of the western US (Mexican Cession - Texas Annexation - Oregon Country) - lowered tariffs - created Independent Treasury
Robert E. Lee
Tet Offensive (1968)
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
James K. Polk
7. Reduced quota - reduced numbers from eastern and southern Europe - Asians banned - Canadians and Latin Americans exempt
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
National Origins Act (1924)
'Evil Empire' speech - 'Star Wars'
Pocahontas
8. Black Muslim worked to raise black spirits and pride (cf. Marcus Garvey); emphasized black institutions rather than mere desegregation - blacks to gain freedom at any cost
Five Civilized Tribes
Rationing
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
'Graying of America'
9. Decided to punish war crimes - established program for de-Nazification of Germany
Dawes Plan (1924)
The Federalist Papers
Vertical and horizontal integration
Potsdam Conference (1945)
10. 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
John Smith
Coxey's Army
'Bleeding Kansas'
John Foster Dulles
11. First Utopian society - by Robert Owen
California Gold Rush
William Jennings Bryan
Henry Ford's assembly line
New Harmony
12. Workers unable to escape (locked into factory) - all died; further encouraged reform movements for working conditions
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
Truman Doctrine
20-Negro Law
13. Spread quickly; opposed everything that was not White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) (and conservative) - Stephenson's faults and jail sentence led to demise
New Freedom
Ku Klux Klan
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Mercantilism
14. Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson; purchase of Alaska 'Seward's Folly'
Haymarket Bombing
Valley Forge
William Seward
Citizen Genet
15. Law meant to evolve as society evolves - opposed conservative majority
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
New Lights vs. Old Lights
George Washington
Five Civilized Tribes
16. Belief in minimal government so as to allow the people their own free reign - lower taxes to stimulate economy - &c.
Federalists and Republicans
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
George Washington
Conservatism
17. 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.
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
Greenback Party
Hull House
New Nationalism
18. Argued that states had the right to determine whether or not the laws passed by Congress were constitutional
President Jimmy Carter
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Conservatism
Knights of Labor
19. Created in 1961 as example of liberal anticommunism in third world countries; 'reform-minded missionaries of democracy'
Peace Corps
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
Republican Party
20. Warned against permanent foreign alliances and political parties - called for unity of the country - established precedent of two-term presidency
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21. Prohibited settlements west of Appalachian - restriction on colonial growth
Proclamation of 1763
Ulysses S. Grant
Jamestown
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
22. 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'
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Henry David Thoreau
Zoot Suit riots
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
23. Women must gain economic rights in order to impact society (cf. rising divorce rates)
George Wallace - American
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
New Lights vs. Old Lights
Domino theory
24. 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)
Anne Hutchinson
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Lodge Reservations
25. Hamilton praised efficient factories with few managers over many workers - promote emigration - employment opportunities - applications of technology
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
GI Bill of Rights
Gifford Pinchot
Affirmative Action
26. Despite near-guaranteed second term - campaign workers burglarized Democratic offices - cover-up unsuccessful - resigned to avoid impeachment
Berlin Airlift
Watergate Scandal
Bank of the United States
Maysville Road Veto
27. American general Horatio Gates was victorious over British general Burgoyne
Essex case
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
James Madison
Battle of Saratoga
28. Fought for return to colonial rule - usually conservative (educated and wealthy
Northern Securities Case
Declining death rate
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
Tories (Loyalists)
29. One country that falls into communism will cause surrounding nations to also fall 'like dominos'; spurred by Southeast Asia regimes (esp. Vietnam)
New Deal
'Brain trust'
Domino theory
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
30. Belligerent nationalism against other threatening nations
Jingoism
Dorothea Dix
Coxey's Army
XYZ Affair
31. Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait despite peace treaty and refusal to abandon Iraqi occupation
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32. No further introduction of slaves into Missouri - all children born to slaves to become free at 25
Stamp Act Congress
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
Tallmadge Amendment
Nat Turner's Rebellion
33. Jane Addams's pioneer settlement house (center for women's activism and social reform) in Chicago
Pet banks
Hull House
Karl Marx Das Kapital
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
34. Group of Bostonians in opposition to the Stamp Act - sought to drive stamp distributors from the city
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
The Loyal Nine
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
35. In reaction to the Boston Tea Party; closing of Boston Harbor - revocation of Massachusetts charter (power to governor) - murder in the name of royal authority would be tried in England or another colony
Election of 1980
President John F. Kennedy
Thomas Nast
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
36. Worked alongside Josiah Henson to make repeated trips to get slaves out of the South into freedom
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
Bruce Barton
War hawks
Harriet Tubman
37. Southern states (especially South Carolina) believed that they had the right to judge federal laws unconstitutional and therefore not enforce them
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
Nullification Controversy
Harriet Tubman
Creel Committee
38. Preservation of New Deal - attempt at additions; raised minimum wage - public housing - old-age insurance extension - agricultural price supports (lowering of farm price)
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
Fair Deal
Reaganomics
39. Dance music - slave spirituals adapted into improvisation and ragtime; jazz migrated along with blacks in the Great Migration
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Fair Deal
Jazz
Soviet atomic bomb
40. 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
Proclamation of 1763
Charles Lindbergh
US acquisitions
'Yellow dog contracts'
41. Ended exclusion of homosexuals from military; due to controversy - compromise of 'don't ask - don't tell' instituted
Lowell mill/system
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Gays in the military
British strengths and weaknesses
42. 'No taxation without representation -' introduced by Patrick Henry
Republican Party
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
Virginia Resolves
McCarthyism
43. Economic prosperity of American society following WWII; doubling of national income - jobs to women - defense industry's support of economy
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44. Sets of cardboard box houses that epitomized the country's blame on Hoover for the cause of the Depression
Hoovervilles
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
Nullification
James Monroe
45. Emphasis on personal salvation - emotional response - and individual faith; women and blacks; nationalism (Manifest Destiny)
'Affluent Society'
Church of England
Alexander Hamilton
Second Great Awakening
46. Government compromised to buy and coin $2-4 million/month; government stuck to minimum and inflation did not occur (lower prices); economy grew
Ike's Farewell Speech
John D. Rockefeller
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
Berlin Airlift
47. Unemployment jitters; expelled Teamster union (resorted to gangsterism); height of power of workers' unions
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe (1989)
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
AFL-CIO (1955)
20-Negro Law
48. Private property subject to government regulation when property is devoted to public interest; against railroads
Report on Public Credit
Deists
New Nationalism
Munn v. Illinois
49. 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'
Nullification
Espionage Act and Sedition Act
Dominion of New England
Stamp Act Congress
50. Established free trade zone between Canada - United States and Mexico - net gain in jobs due to opening of Mexican markets
George Kennan
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
President Jimmy Carter
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)