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AP U.S. History
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1. Sets of programs geared towards minorities and oft-discriminated populations
Keynesian economics
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
Affirmative Action
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
2. Germany announced that it would sink all (including American) ships - attempt to involve U.S. in war
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Square Deal
Open Door Policy
Battle of Saratoga
3. Introduced the 'trickle-down' economics theory in order to promote business and increase money available for speculation
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
Lewis and Clark expedition
4. Spurred by Great Migration - large-scale riots - lynchings - &c.
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5. South divided into 5 military districts; states to guarantee full suffrage for blacks; ratify 14th amendment
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
Schechter v. U.S Court case
Reaganomics
6. Protected rights of individual from the power of the central government
Pocahontas
Bill of Rights
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
Pearl Harbor
7. In Brook Farm Community - literary nationalist - transcendentalist (nascent ideas of God and freedom) - wrote 'The American Scholar'
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
Federal Reserve Act
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lewis and Clark expedition
8. Influence of African-American blues - music of the younger generation (gap between them and their parents)
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9. Soviets cut Berlin off from the rest of Germany by blockade; US organized airlift to drop supplies into Britain; blockade lifted in May 1949
Berlin Airlift
Rationing
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
The Glorious Revolution
10. American commander-in-chief; first president - set precedents for future presidents - put down Whiskey Rebellion (enforced Whiskey Tax) - managed first presidential cabinet - carefully used power of executive to avoid monarchial style rule
'Bleeding Kansas'
Suffolk Resolves
March on Birmingham
George Washington
11. Worked to reform the American education system - abolitionist - prison/asylum reform with Dorothea Dix
Rock `n' Roll
Horace Mann
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
Alexander Hamilton
12. 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
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
Herbert Hoover's Food Administration
Bacon's Rebellion
13. Civil Rights Act of 1875 declared unconstitutional by Supreme Court - as the fourteenth amendment protected people from governmental infringement of rights and had no effect on acts of private citizens
Civil Rights Cases
Burned-Over District
Non-conformity
Jackie Robinson
14. Led Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: threatened a siege on DC if FDR did not agree to end discrimination in military
Conversion Experience
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
Suffolk Resolves
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
15. US ambassador to Russia - notified Truman of Soviet ambitions to expand empire and overthrow other political forces; established concern for Soviet policy in Eastern Europe - Germany - and the Middle East
Era of Good Feelings
George Kennan
'Evil Empire' speech - 'Star Wars'
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
16. All English subjects are represented in Parliament - including those not allowed to vote
Compromise of 1877
Virtual Representation
Independent Treasury Bill
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
17. Calvinist - devised concept of 'city on a hill' ('A Model of Christian Charity'); founded highly successful towns in Massachusetts Bay
Tories (Loyalists)
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
Know-Nothing (American) Party
John Winthrop
18. Albert Fall accused of accepting bribes for access to government oil in Teapot Dome - Wyoming
Fort Sumter
Teapot Dome scandal
Salutary Neglect
Bay of Pigs invasion
19. Elvis Presley - Marilyn Monroe - James Dean - Beatniks — rebelled against conservative conformity of the rest of the country (esp. targeted youth)
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
Non-conformity
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dorothea Lange
20. Reluctant to give colonists their own government - preferred to appoint royal governors
King James I - King Charles
Standard Oil Trust
Tallmadge Amendment
Connecticut Compromise
21. Full American independence - territory west of Appalachian ceded to America - loyalists to be compensated for seized property - fishing rights off of Newfoundland
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
Tea Act (1773)
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Stock market crash (1929)
22. Ideas of Wilson: small enterprise - states' rights - more active government - trust busting - left social issues up to the states
12th Amendment
New Freedom
The Enlightenment
Battle of Tippecanoe
23. CIA attempt to institute Cuban support to overthrow Castro; cover-up uncovered - became representation of Cuban resistance to American aggression
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Bay of Pigs invasion
24. First attempt of Cherokees to gain complete sovereign rule over their nation
Dorothea Lange
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Alexander Hamilton
Berlin Airlift
25. Created by John L. Lewis for unskilled labor - organized 'sit-down strike' against GM to work for recognition
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Thomas Edison
French and Indian War
Robert E. Lee
26. Part of 'First' New Deal Program - subsidies to farmers to decrease production and thus increase prices
'Affluent Society'
First American strategy in WWII
'New Left'
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
27. Attacked industrial elite - called for business regulation - publisher refused works breaking with Victorian ideals
Cuban Missile Crisis
March on Washington
Bill of Rights
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
28. 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
'Evil Empire' speech - 'Star Wars'
The Alamo
Black Panther Party
Freeport Doctrine
29. Led railroad workers in Pullman Strike - arrested; Supreme Court (decision in re Debs) legalized use of injunction (court order) against unions and strikes
Pet banks
Eugene V. Debs
French and Indian War
Clinton impeachment (1997)
30. Part of the New Left that envisioned 'participatory democracy' (individuals control life-affecting decisions) - end materialism - militarism - and racism; inspired by young black activists
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
William Marcy
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
31. Most numerous in New England - fought for independence
The Great Awakening
Martin Luther King Jr.
Whigs (Patriots)
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
32. Spread quickly; opposed everything that was not White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) (and conservative) - Stephenson's faults and jail sentence led to demise
Federalism
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
Ku Klux Klan
Voting Rights Act of 1965
33. Mao Zedong (communist) defeated nationalist forces of Kai-Shek (supported by US); seen as defeat for US - not officially fully recognized until 1973
Indentured servants
Wilson's 14 points
China turns communist
Five Civilized Tribes
34. Bank tightened loan policies - depression rose throughout the country - hurt western farmers greatly
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
Panic of 1819
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
George Kennan
35. Oregon Territory owned jointly with Britain - Polk severed its tie to Britain - forced to settle for compromise south of 49° rather than 54°40'
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36. Taught American landscape painting rather than Classical subjects
Hudson River School
Sputnik
Marshall Plan
'Big BM' Haywood
37. 'I have a dream' 25 -000 people (including whites) convened for political rally - MLK's speech to historical event; attempted to push civil rights bill through Congress
The Homefront
Domino theory
March on Washington
Vietcong
38. Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald (hated his anti-Cuban policies); LBJ instituted Warren Commission to investigate assassination (headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren)
Tallmadge Amendment
William Lloyd Garrison
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
39. North African Muslim rulers solved budget problems through piracy and tributes in Mediterranean - obtained fees from most European powers
Barbary Pirates
Citizen Genet
Washington's Farewell Address
Wilson's 14 points
40. Standard Oil Company - Ruthless business tactics (survival of the fittest)
Forced busing
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
John D. Rockefeller
41. Emphasis on personal salvation - emotional response - and individual faith; women and blacks; nationalism (Manifest Destiny)
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
Second Great Awakening
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
Dollar Diplomacy'
42. Lee's attack on Maryland in hopes that he could take it from the Union - bloodiest day of the war - stalemate - McClellan replaced by Burnside - stalemate - South would never be so close to victory again
Conservative backlash against liberalism
Battle of Antietam
Regionalist and naturalist writers
Non-conformity
43. Congress could tax imports but not exports
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
Commerce Compromise
New Lights vs. Old Lights
John Brown
44. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - Harry Hopkins; provide work for unemployed and construct public works - &c. through Emergency Relief Appropriation Act; much like Civil Works Administration
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
William and Mary
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Association (YMCA & YWCA)
45. American hostages taken by US hating Shiites upon Shah's flight from uprising - botched rescue attempts
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
Schechter v. U.S Court case
War hawks
President Lyndon B. Johnson
46. Written by Calhoun - regarding tariff nullification
Yalta Conference (1945)
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
'Contract with America' (1994)
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
47. Heavily evangelized to the point there were no more people left to convert to other religions - upstate New York - home to the beginning of Smith's Mormonism movement
Free silver
Burned-Over District
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
48. King hosted myriad nonviolent protesting activities to fill jail with protestors - Bill Connor (police commissioner) began violent resistance to protestors
John C. Calhoun
March on Birmingham
Popular Sovereignty
President Jimmy Carter
49. Former French subjects in Canada allowed to keep Catholicism - while American colonists expected to participate in the Church of England
Harlem Renaissance
James G. Blaine
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
Quebec Acts
50. 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'
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Munn v. Illinois
Henry Ford's assembly line
Dominion of New England