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AP U.S. History
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1. Organized and controlled resistance against Parliamentary acts in less violent ways (strength of martyrdom) - advocated nonimportation
Black Panther Party
Sons of Liberty
Andy Warhol
China turns communist
2. Stock prices fell drastically; without buyers - the stocks became essentially worthless; cause bank crashes - &c.
Bruce Barton
Stock market crash (1929)
Anaconda plan
Bull Moose Party
3. Paper money; specie circular decreed that the government would not accept specie for government land
Specie
Fugitive Slave Act
Kent State Protest
James Meredith
4. George Wallace vs. Nixon vs. Humphrey; very narrow popular vote triumph to Nixon (although he had clear majority of electoral votes)
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe (1989)
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
Battle of Tippecanoe
1968 Presidential Election
5. Americans feared Soviet infiltration into Latin America - placed secret police and military forces to prevent it
Jonathan Edwards
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
American society during the Revolution
6. 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
Virginia Resolves
Rosenbergs
Watergate Scandal
7. Last major battle; surrender of Cornwallis - led King George III to officially make peace with the colonies
Sugar Act
William T. Sherman
Kent State Protest
Battle of Yorktown
8. The Jungle revealed unsanitary nature of meat-packing industry - inspired Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
Election of 1960
Federalism
Truman's Loyalty Program
Upton Sinclair
9. Lee invaded Pennsylvania - bloodiest battle of the war - Confederate Pickett's Charge (disastrous) - Lee forced to retreat (not pursued by Meade) - South doomed to never invade North again - Gettysburg Address given by Lincoln (nation over union)
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
Munn v. Illinois
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Battle of Gettysburg
10. Vetoed by Jackson on the count that government funds for the Maysville Road would only benefit one state
William Lloyd Garrison
Humanitarian diplomacy
National Road
Maysville Road Veto
11. Part of Nixon's tri-faceted plan to honorably remove troops from Vietnam; wean the South Vietnamese off of American support - gradually reducing number of American troops present
Nativism
Vietnamization
Citizen Genet
Jamestown
12. Brown aimed to create an armed slave rebellion and establish black free state; Brown executed and became martyr in the North
Harpers Ferry (1859)
Bruce Barton
Samuel Gompers
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
13. Puritan minister - led revivals - stressed immediate repentance - wrote 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God'
Deportations of Mexicans
Jonathan Edwards
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
Henry Clay and the American System
14. Former French subjects in Canada allowed to keep Catholicism - while American colonists expected to participate in the Church of England
Albany Plan of Union
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
The Federalist Papers
Quebec Acts
15. 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
George Washington
Panic of 1893
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
Battle of Saratoga
16. States joined for foreign affairs - Congress reigned supreme (lacked executive and judicial) - one vote per state - 2/3 vote for bills - unanimous for amendments; too much power to states - unable to regulate commerce or taxes
New Nationalism
Nativism
Anne Hutchinson
Articles of Confederation
17. Support people oppressed by communism and non-democratic governments; worked with democratic governments in Greece - Turkey - and Israel
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Truman Doctrine
18. Killed the AAA - although FDR insisted on continuing by creating smaller state-level AAAs
Panama Canal
Butler v. U.S. Court case
Moral Diplomacy
Stamp Act Congress
19. Helped approval ratings - not removed from office despite all the efforts of Republican congressmen
Hull House
The Great Awakening
Clinton impeachment (1997)
Humanitarian diplomacy
20. Increase working output by standardizing procedures and rewarding those who worked fast; efficiency
John Brown
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
Lowell mill/system
Jackson's Presidency
21. Attacked people for being communist by association and unsubstantiated claims - against Truman - Marshall - and Ike; downfall came with attack on the military (condemned by Senate); led hysteria of the red scare
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
McCarthyism
President Franklin Roosevelt
Pan-Americanism
22. Created in 1961 as example of liberal anticommunism in third world countries; 'reform-minded missionaries of democracy'
Free silver
Peace Corps
Jackson's Presidency
Boston Massacre
23. Similar to Navigation; raised money to pay colonial officials by American taxes; led to Boston boycott of English luxuries
Consumerism
Townshend Act (1767)
Henry Ford's assembly line
Muckrakers
24. Banned racial discrimination in federal practices; To Secure These Rights called for desegregation - anti-lynching - end of poll taxes
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
Non-conformity
Townshend Act (1767)
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
25. Withdrawal of American troops from foreign nations (especially Latin America) to improve international relations and unite western hemisphere; Clark Memorandum (rebukes the 'big stick'); peaceful resolution of Mexican oil fields
Know-Nothing (American) Party
Marshall Plan
Good Neighbor Policy
'Wage slaves'
26. September 1949 - US no longer held monopoly; two atomic powers
Bay of Pigs invasion
Barbary Pirates
National Labor Union
Soviet atomic bomb
27. Issued by Lincoln following Antietam (close enough to a victory to empower the proclamation) - declared slaves in the Confederacy free (did not include border states) - symbolic gesture to support Union's moral cause in the war
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Whig Party
Emancipation Proclamation
Greenback Party
28. Proponent of gradual gain of equal rights for African-Americans
Booker T. Washington
Robert E. Lee
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Kitchen Cabinet
29. Created by John L. Lewis for unskilled labor - organized 'sit-down strike' against GM to work for recognition
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Industrial Workers of the World
Report on Public Credit
William Marcy
30. Georgia cannot enforce American laws on Indian tribes
Worcester v. Georgia
Elastic Clause ('necessary and proper')
Proclamation of 1763
Greenback Party
31. Government compromised to buy and coin $2-4 million/month; government stuck to minimum and inflation did not occur (lower prices); economy grew
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
Non-conformity
Yalta Conference (1945)
Church of England
32. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - employed young jobless men with government projects on work relief and environment
John D. Rockefeller
Tammany Hall
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Charles II - James II
33. Ended exclusion of homosexuals from military; due to controversy - compromise of 'don't ask - don't tell' instituted
Causes of the depression
Black Panther Party
Gays in the military
Explosion of USS Maine
34. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - Harold Icicles - provided public construction projects
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Thomas Nast
Fugitive Slave Act
35. Tweed Leader of Tammany Hall - gained large sums of money through the political machine - prosecuted by Samuel Tilden and sent to jail
GI Bill of Rights
William Marcy
Vietcong
Truman Doctrine
36. Dance music - slave spirituals adapted into improvisation and ragtime; jazz migrated along with blacks in the Great Migration
AFL-CIO (1955)
Battle of Saratoga
Jazz
Salvation Army
37. James G. Blaine sought to open up Latin American markets to the U.S.; rejected by Latin America due to fear of U.S. dominance and satisfaction with European market
Macon's Bill No. 2
Frederick Douglass
Industrial Workers of the World
Pan-Americanism
38. Created Interstate Commerce Commission to require railroads to publish rates (less discrimination - short/long haul) - first legislation to regulate corporations - ineffective ICC
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
Alien and Sedition Acts
Interstate Commerce Act
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
39. Fought for return to colonial rule - usually conservative (educated and wealthy
Tories (Loyalists)
John C. Calhoun
Karl Marx Das Kapital
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
40. New Lights brought new ideas - rejected by Old Lights; both sought out institutions independent of each other
New Lights vs. Old Lights
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
'Red Scare' (1919)
Federalism
41. First female cabinet member
Tea Act (1773)
Tories (Loyalists)
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
Watergate Scandal
42. Ex-Lincoln secretary; worked to gain Open Door Notes' acceptance from the major powers
Secretary of State John Hay
1968 Presidential Election
Thomas Edison
'New Left'
43. Spurred by Great Migration - large-scale riots - lynchings - &c.
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44. Jackson was allowed to relocate Indian tribes in the Louisiana Territory
Indian Removal Act
Religious Right
'Hundred days'
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
45. Catholic communist autocrat of Vietnam - assassinated (with aid of US)
Nativism
Ngo Dinh Diem
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
1992 Election
46. Rise in stock prices and speculation - decline of construction industry - mistaken 'trickle-down' economics - reliance on credit
Industrial Workers of the World
Transportation Revolution
Causes of the depression
Important WWII Battles
47. Belligerent nationalism against other threatening nations
Northern Securities Case
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
Knights of Labor
Jingoism
48. Provided housing and recreation to city youth - imposing Protestant morals - unable to reach out to all youth
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49. 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
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
George Whitefield
Battle of Antietam
Pendleton Civil Service Act
50. Decisive victory to Reagan due to his appeal over Carter (now unpopular due to lack of success in the presidency
Reaganomics
Conservative backlash against liberalism
Election of 1980
Judiciary Act of 1789
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