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AP U.S. History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Working class exploited for profit - proletariat (workers) to revolt and inherit all society
Pinkertons
Ulysses S. Grant
Karl Marx Das Kapital
Emancipation Proclamation
2. Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait despite peace treaty and refusal to abandon Iraqi occupation
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3. First permanent English settlement in the Americas (1607) - along James River
President Jimmy Carter
Social Reciprocity
William H. Taft
Jamestown
4. Four-day banking holiday to create controlled inflation - followed by reopening of sound banks - and reorganization of unsound banks
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Cotton Gin
Court Packing
Gulf War - 'Operation Desert Storm' (1991)
5. Northern factory workers who were discarded when too old to work (unlike the slaves who were still kept fed and clothed in their old age)
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6. Part of 'First' New Deal Program - subsidies to farmers to decrease production and thus increase prices
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Lusitania
'Wage slaves'
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
7. American hostages taken by US hating Shiites upon Shah's flight from uprising - botched rescue attempts
National Origins Act (1924)
William Seward
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
8. Prohibited exports (and imports) based in American ports - most controversial Jefferson legislation
Embargo Act (1807)
Creel Committee
Thomas Nast
Henry Clay and the American System
9. National Liberation Front - guerilla militia from south Vietnam fighting alongside the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam)
Stamp Act Congress
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
Nicaraguan Contras
Vietcong
10. Support people oppressed by communism and non-democratic governments; worked with democratic governments in Greece - Turkey - and Israel
Good Neighbor Policy
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
Truman Doctrine
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
11. Destroyed by Jackson on the grounds that it was unconstitutional and too much power for a federal institution
Whigs (Patriots)
Salvation Army
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Bank of the United States
12. Despite CIA-sponsored Soviet resistance - Afghanistan taken by Soviet Union; ended detente between USSR and US
Specie
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Truman's Loyalty Program
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
13. Storage of Soviet missiles in Cuba (threat of nuclear war); Krushchev demanded that US never invade Cuba and remove forces from Turkey; mutual compliance with each other's demands
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Cuban Missile Crisis
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
14. Attempted to boost economy by making loans to banks and insurance companies - hoping to restart them
Nicaraguan Contras
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Currency Act
15. Under JQ Adams - protectionist tariff - South considered it the source of economic problems - made Jackson appear to advocate free trade
Gains for women
'Big BM' Haywood
Theodore Roosevelt
Tariff of Abominations
16. Anti-Federalists wanted states' rights - bill of rights - unanimous consent - reference to religion - more power to less-rich and common people; Federalists wanted strong central government - more power to experienced - separation of church and state
Tea Act (1773)
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
17. 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
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Hartford Convention
Worcester v. Georgia
Thomas Edison
18. Despite near-guaranteed second term - campaign workers burglarized Democratic offices - cover-up unsuccessful - resigned to avoid impeachment
Wilson's 14 points
Navigation Acts
Watergate Scandal
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
19. Capitalism would become productive when uninhibited by taxes and regulation
Hartford Convention
Reaganomics
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
Lowell mill/system
20. New Englanders who did not wish to relate their conversion experiences could become half-way saints so that their children would be able to have the opportunity to be saints
Bacon's Rebellion
The Half-Way Covenant
Haymarket Bombing
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
21. Henry Clay aimed to make the US economically independent from Europe (e.g. - support internal improvements - tariff protection - and new national bank)
Wilmot Proviso
Henry Clay and the American System
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
British strengths and weaknesses
22. Mandated the toleration of all Christian denominations in Maryland - even though Maryland was founded for Catholics (but majority was protestant)
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
Causes of the depression
National Origins Act (1924)
23. 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)
Townshend Act (1767)
British strengths and weaknesses
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Bombing and invasion of Cambodia
24. Protected rights of individual from the power of the central government
1992 Election
National Origins Act (1924)
Watergate Scandal
Bill of Rights
25. Authors included Langston Hughes - McKay - Zora Neale Hurston - Countee Cullet — praise and expression of black culture of the time
Navigation Acts
Yeoman Farmers
Harlem Renaissance
Salvation Army
26. Prohibited discrimination in any government-related work; increased black employment
Andrew Carnegie
Spoils System
Committees of Correspondence
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
27. Decided to punish war crimes - established program for de-Nazification of Germany
American society during the Revolution
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
28. Mass production of the Model-T - workers as potential consumers (raise wages) - supported other industries and raised employment
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29. 'Corrupt bargain' and backroom deal for JQ Adams to win over Jackson
Election of 1824
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
'Yellow dog contracts'
American Federation of Labor
30. Required separate and distinct ballots for presidential and vice presidential candidates
12th Amendment
Second Great Awakening
Hoover's policy of voluntarism
Stephen Austin
31. Private property subject to government regulation when property is devoted to public interest; against railroads
Rock `n' Roll
Munn v. Illinois
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
James Monroe
32. Interracial group of protestors who aimed to dramatize the violations of the call for desegregation; harsh treatment by southern whites provoked Kennedy to more strictly enforce desegregation
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
Republican Party
Berlin Airlift
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
33. Contending communist politician in Vietnam - had more popularity than Diem - took power upon Diem's death
Ho Chi Minh
William Seward
Yalta Conference (1945)
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
34. 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
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
Pocahontas
Election of 1800
President John F. Kennedy
35. Formed by white progressives - adopted goals of Niagara Movement - in response to Springfield Race Riots
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Convict-lease system
Invasion of Iraq
36. Created by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst; aimed to excite American imperialist interests; media bias - subjective representation of events
Yellow journalism
Atlantic slave trade
GI Bill of Rights
James Meredith
37. 8000 businesses collapsed (including railroads); due to stock market crash - overbuilding of railroads - heavy farmer loans - economic disruption by labor efforts - agricultural depression; decrease of gold reserves led to Cleveland's repeal of Sherm
Indian Removal Act
Panic of 1893
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
Martin Luther King Jr.
38. Agreement between US and Britain to remove armed fleets from the Great Lakes
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
California Gold Rush
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
39. Depicted the evils of slavery (splitting of families and physical abuse); increased participation in abolitionist movement - condemned by South
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40. George Wallace vs. Nixon vs. Humphrey; very narrow popular vote triumph to Nixon (although he had clear majority of electoral votes)
1968 Presidential Election
Republican Party
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
Olive Branch Petition
41. Organized and controlled resistance against Parliamentary acts in less violent ways (strength of martyrdom) - advocated nonimportation
Consumerism
Sons of Liberty
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Camp David Accords
42. Hired to photograph ordinary Americans experiencing the depression
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Transcendentalism
Dorothea Lange
Popular Sovereignty
43. Soviet-aided North Korea attack on South Korea; MacArthur named general on behalf of UN (excluded Russia) - US supplied majority of troops; recapture of South Korea and suppression of North forces to northern border; introduction of Chinese - MacArth
Critics of FDR
Zimmerman Note
'Red Scare' (1919)
Korean War
44. British-occupied cities - new governments - fighting by any with experience - loaned money - African-Americans and Native Americans involved
John C. Calhoun
Conscription policies
Palmer Raids
American society during the Revolution
45. Federal government to increase power over economy and society by means of progressive reforms - developed by Roosevelt (after presidency)
New Nationalism
China turns communist
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
National Organization of Women
46. Supported Socialists - militant unionists and socialists - advocated strikes and sabotaging politics - aimed for an umbrella union similar to Knights of Labor - ideas too radical for socialist cause
New Lights vs. Old Lights
Jay's Treaty
Industrial Workers of the World
Kent State Protest
47. Drastic cutbacks in regulation of business by the federal government (banks - transportation - communications
Martin Luther King Jr.
Deregulation
Domino theory
Gays in the military
48. 10-year moratorium on Chinese immigration to reduce competition for jobs (Chinese willing to work for cheap salaries)
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Anaconda plan
President Bill Clinton
49. Response to Berlin crisis - warned Moscow that threats would be answered with force; Warsaw Pact formed by Soviets in response
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Anaconda plan
First American strategy in WWII
50. Created by John L. Lewis for unskilled labor - organized 'sit-down strike' against GM to work for recognition
Battle of Antietam
Benjamin Franklin
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Alien and Sedition Acts