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AP U.S. History
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1. Another part of Nixon's out-of-Vietnam plan - destroy supply routes to North Vietnam through Cambodia
Jamestown
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
Bombing and invasion of Cambodia
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
2. John Marshall declared that the Supreme Court could declare federal laws unconstitutional
Nativism
Marbury v. Madison
Free silver
Spanish American War (1898)
3. Upheld constitutionality of Espionage Act; Congress right to limit free speech during times of war
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
Stagflation
Bay of Pigs invasion
Court Packing
4. Huerta's enemy - reluctantly supported by U.S.; U.S. sought Villa's submission due to terrorism - eventually assassinated; Wilson's policy highly unpopular
Currency Act
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
Harlem Renaissance
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
5. September 1949 - US no longer held monopoly; two atomic powers
Soviet atomic bomb
Kitchen Cabinet
Espionage Act and Sedition Act
British strengths and weaknesses
6. Attempted to centralize production of war materials; ineffective due to American desire for laissez-faire government
Battle of Yorktown
William Henry Harrison
US economy since WWII (service economy)
War Industries Board
7. Increased tariff on sugar (and other imports) - attempted to harder enforce existing tariffs
Ulysses S. Grant
New Harmony
Sugar Act
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
8. Americans could now spend what they had been told to save during the war (disposable income); increased purchasing of luxury items
Consumerism
William Lloyd Garrison
Berlin Airlift
Suburbia
9. Party formed from Republican split by Roosevelt - more progressive values - leaving 'Republican Old Guard' to control Republican party
French and Indian War
Bull Moose Party
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
Bank of the United States
10. Government would protect America's foreign investments with any force needed; under president Taft
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11. Started the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) — 'Back to Africa' movement for racial pride and separatism; inspired self-confidence in blacks
Nullification
Lusitania
Marcus Garvey
'Red Scare' (1919)
12. Challenged New England Calvinist ministers' authority - as they taught the good works for salvation of Catholicism
New Lights vs. Old Lights
Fugitive Slave Act
Anne Hutchinson
US economy since WWII (service economy)
13. Believed that God created the universe to act through natural laws; Franklin - Jefferson - Paine
Committees of Correspondence
Nativism
Deists
'Atlanta Compromise'
14. President has power to cease trade with any foreign country that violated American neutrality
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15. Fought for return to colonial rule - usually conservative (educated and wealthy
'City on a Hill'
Gifford Pinchot
Dawes Plan (1924)
Tories (Loyalists)
16. French threat at the borders was no longer present - therefore the colonies didn't need English protection; more independent stand against Britain
French and Indian War
Writs of Assistance
Lodge Reservations
Burned-Over District
17. Rise in stock prices and speculation - decline of construction industry - mistaken 'trickle-down' economics - reliance on credit
Zimmerman Note
The Great Awakening
Causes of the depression
Scopes Trial
18. Sets of cardboard box houses that epitomized the country's blame on Hoover for the cause of the Depression
George Wallace - American
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Hoovervilles
Ngo Dinh Diem
19. Jackson was allowed to relocate Indian tribes in the Louisiana Territory
Indian Removal Act
Bruce Barton
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Truman's Loyalty Program
20. Overthrow of the Taliban - in search of bin Laden
Sugar Act
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
George Washington
21. Populists campaigned for silver-backed money rather than gold-backed - believed to be able to relieve working conditions and exploitation of labor
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Free silver
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Interstate Commerce Act
22. Gold discovery in Sutter's Mill in 1848 resulted in huge mass of adventurers in 1849 - led to application for statehood - opened question of slavery in the West
Rosenbergs
War Industries Board
California Gold Rush
'Big BM' Haywood
23. The principle that a state should decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery
Popular Sovereignty
Whigs (Patriots)
Cult of domesticity
Panama Canal
24. Nonviolent protest to college students (NC) being refused lunch service; part of 'sit-in' movement to integrate all aspects of life (hotels - entertainment - &c.)
Karl Marx Das Kapital
Non-Intercourse Act
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
25. Organized Seneca Falls Convention - founded (with Anthony) National Women Suffrage Organization
US acquisitions
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Convict-lease system
26. Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait despite peace treaty and refusal to abandon Iraqi occupation
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27. Unemployment jitters; expelled Teamster union (resorted to gangsterism); height of power of workers' unions
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
AFL-CIO (1955)
James Meredith
Gulf War - 'Operation Desert Storm' (1991)
28. 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
Bacon's Rebellion
Nicaraguan Contras
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
John Foster Dulles
29. Reagan and Gorbachev agree to remove and destroy nuclear weapons from Eastern and Western Europe; eased international tension and allowed Soviet domestic reforms to take place
Religious Right
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
New Lights vs. Old Lights
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
30. Capitalism would become productive when uninhibited by taxes and regulation
Stock market crash (1929)
Reaganomics
Martin Luther King Jr.
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
31. Full American independence - territory west of Appalachian ceded to America - loyalists to be compensated for seized property - fishing rights off of Newfoundland
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Mikhail Gorbachev
Five Civilized Tribes
Election of 1960
32. Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson; purchase of Alaska 'Seward's Folly'
Election of 1980
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
William Seward
George Kennan
33. Introduced the 'trickle-down' economics theory in order to promote business and increase money available for speculation
Boston Massacre
Embargo Act (1807)
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
War Industries Board
34. Created by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst; aimed to excite American imperialist interests; media bias - subjective representation of events
Vietnamization
Scopes Trial
Open Door Policy
Yellow journalism
35. 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
Federalists and Republicans
Henry David Thoreau
King James I - King Charles
Missouri Compromise (1820)
36. Believed in expanding federal power on economy - encouraged industrial development; could only gain power on the local level - led by Henry Clay (anti-Jackson)
American society during the Revolution
Whig Party
'Big BM' Haywood
Reaganomics
37. Used nonviolent protest and boycott to achieve better working conditions for farmers (esp. Mexican-Americans)
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Popular Sovereignty
Declaratory Act
38. First 'modern' president - moderate who supported progressivism (at times conservative) - bypassed congressional opposition (cf. Jackson) - significant role in world affairs
Thomas Nast
New Federalism
Theodore Roosevelt
Election of 1824
39. Westward migration of workers (new economic opportunities - esp. aircraft industry) - high rates of divorce and family/juvenile violence - women encouraged to work in factories - still held inferior to men
The Homefront
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
'New Left'
Compromise of 1850
40. Authors included Langston Hughes - McKay - Zora Neale Hurston - Countee Cullet — praise and expression of black culture of the time
Pearl Harbor
Harlem Renaissance
Zimmerman Note
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
41. 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
Boston Massacre
Yellow journalism
Freeport Doctrine
42. 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)
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
Pinkertons
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
43. British soldiers shot into crowd of snowball fight; two of nine soldiers (defended by John Adams) found guilty of manslaughter
Richard Nixon (R)
Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Association (YMCA & YWCA)
US acquisitions
Boston Massacre
44. Four-day banking holiday to create controlled inflation - followed by reopening of sound banks - and reorganization of unsound banks
US acquisitions
Pet banks
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
45. To make German reparations from WWI more accessible to Germans; evacuation of troops from Germany - reorganization of the Reichsbank - and foreign loans
Farmers'Alliance movement
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
Dawes Plan (1924)
New Jersey Plan
46. To service economy in late 20 century (end of industrialism) - Higher focus on services (esp. education) rather than material products
New Freedom
California Gold Rush
12th Amendment
Economic transition
47. Connected the colonies to Britain - opposed to unnecessary unfair taxation; strong influence on Albany Plan
Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Association (YMCA & YWCA)
Benjamin Franklin
'Contract with America' (1994)
'Wage slaves'
48. Workers unable to escape (locked into factory) - all died; further encouraged reform movements for working conditions
US economy since WWII (service economy)
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
Deists
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
49. Victorian standards confined women to the home to create an artistic environment as a statement of cultural aspirations
Cult of domesticity
French and Indian War
'Contract with America' (1994)
Public Works Administration (PWA)
50. Required of members of the Puritan Church; took the place of baptism required by the Catholic Church
Conversion Experience
Mikhail Gorbachev
US acquisitions
John Smith