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AP U.S. History

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1. Economic recession (collapse of savings-and-loan industry - increasing deficit due to Reagan tax cuts - retail decreased - higher crime rate)


2. Public treaties - free trade - free seas - reduced armament burdens - anti-imperialism - independence to minorities - international organization


3. Working class exploited for profit - proletariat (workers) to revolt and inherit all society






4. Effectively ended spoils system and established civil service exams for all government positions - under Pres. Garfield






5. 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






6. Agricultural depression as precursor to the depression; unheeded omen of problems in the economic structure (prices too low — too much supply for the demand)






7. Intended to save British East India Company from bankruptcy - could sell directly to consumers rather than through wholesalers (lowered prices to compete with smuggled tea)






8. Pop art - mass production of art by screening






9. Darwinian (influenced by jazz age and new scientific ideas) against Fundamentalist (the Bible and Creationism); John Scopes convicted for teaching Darwinism (defended by Clarence Darrow); Scopes found guilty






10. Bomb thrown at protest rally - police shot protestors - caused great animosity in employers for workers' unions






11. Four-day banking holiday to create controlled inflation - followed by reopening of sound banks - and reorganization of unsound banks






12. Federal government to increase power over economy and society by means of progressive reforms - developed by Roosevelt (after presidency)






13. Halted sale of tribal lands - enabled tribes to regain unallocated lands; repealed Dawes Severalty Act of 1887; helped secure Indians' entry into New Deal associations; led by John Collier






14. Provided for evacuation of English troops from posts in the Great Lakes


15. Abolished national origins quotas - dramatically increased immigration (especially from Asia and Latin America)






16. Challenged New England Calvinist ministers' authority - as they taught the good works for salvation of Catholicism






17. Kent State University students protesting against invasion of Cambodia - not allowed to demonstrate - violence (murder) caused by guardsmen






18. Ended exclusion of homosexuals from military; due to controversy - compromise of 'don't ask - don't tell' instituted






19. Soviets cut Berlin off from the rest of Germany by blockade; US organized airlift to drop supplies into Britain; blockade lifted in May 1949






20. Required of members of the Puritan Church; took the place of baptism required by the Catholic Church






21. Old immigrants from northern and western Europe came seeking better life; new immigrants came from southern and eastern Europe searching for opportunity to escape worse living conditions back home and often did not stay in the US






22. Guerilla army sponsored by CIA to attack procommunist revolutionaries in Nicaragua; fear of another Vietnam






23. Women must gain economic rights in order to impact society (cf. rising divorce rates)






24. Political action for religion justified by decreased presence of religion in society; Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition to expand national influence






25. September 1949 - US no longer held monopoly; two atomic powers






26. Cherokee tribe forced to move from southern Appalachians to reservations in current-day Oklahoma - high death toll


27. Brought in Mexicans for temporary jobs - concentrated in southern CA - given extremely poor working conditions (as they were not American citizens)






28. Allowed sale of weaponry to democracies on 'cash-and-carry' basis - avoided full-blown war; danger zones proclaimed; solved American unemployment crisis






29. Began by Edwards to return to Puritanism - increased overall religious involvement - gave women more active roles in religion - more and more ministers sprouted up throughout the country; mainly affected towns and cities






30. Fought for women's rights and abolition - 'Men and women are CREATED EQUAL!'






31. Intervention in Mexican Revolution (Madero overthrew dictator Diaz) to overthrow Madero out of fear of property confiscation - General Huerta (seen as 'brute' by Wilson - sought new leader) replaced Madero






32. FDR's inner circle of experts rather than just politicians in the cabinet


33. Maine as free state - Missouri as slave state - slavery prohibited north of 36°30'






34. Congress authorized LBJ to repel and prevent aggression against US troops in Vietnam - used as a blank check (perhaps too much - caused protests)






35. Led Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: threatened a siege on DC if FDR did not agree to end discrimination in military






36. Depicted the evils of slavery (splitting of families and physical abuse); increased participation in abolitionist movement - condemned by South


37. Southern Christian Leadership Conference - Led boycott - became leader of civil rights movement; urged nonviolent resistance (cf. tactics of Ghandi);






38. Europeans should not interfere with affairs in Western Hemisphere - Americans to stay out of foreign affairs; supported Washington's goal for US neutrality in Americas






39. Contending communist politician in Vietnam - had more popularity than Diem - took power upon Diem's death






40. Brown aimed to create an armed slave rebellion and establish black free state; Brown executed and became martyr in the North






41. Bicameral congressional representation based on population






42. Edmond Genet contributed to polarization of the new nation by creating his American Foreign Legion in the south - which was directed to attack Spanish garrisons in New Orleans and St. Augustine






43. Georgia cannot enforce American laws on Indian tribes






44. Believed to provide shortcut from Atlantic to Pacific - searched for by Giovanni de Verrazano for Francis I in the race to Asian wealth






45. Scarce supplies (food and clothing) - army motivated by von Steuben






46. Natural selection applied to human competition - advocated by Herbert Spencer - William Graham Sumner






47. Blacks who went to prison taken out and used for labor in slave-like conditions - enforced southern racial hierarchy






48. Protected rights of individual from the power of the central government






49. 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






50. Another black separatist movement; known for peaceful demonstrations - but more for police shootouts