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AP U.S. History

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1. Focused on skilled workers (harder to replace than unskilled) - coordinated crafts unions - supported 8¬hour workday and injury liability






2. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - collective bargaining rights - closed shops permitted (where workers must join unions) - outlawed anti-union tactics






3. In Brook Farm Community - literary nationalist - transcendentalist (nascent ideas of God and freedom) - wrote 'The American Scholar'






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






5. Sets of programs geared towards minorities and oft-discriminated populations






6. Believed in expanding federal power on economy - encouraged industrial development; could only gain power on the local level - led by Henry Clay (anti-Jackson)






7. Severe immigration laws to discourage and discriminate against foreigners - believed to erode old-fashioned American values






8. Nixon agreed with USSR to achieve nuclear equality rather than the superiority that threatened the destruction of the world; further reduced tensions between the two countries






9. Huerta's enemy - reluctantly supported by U.S.; U.S. sought Villa's submission due to terrorism - eventually assassinated; Wilson's policy highly unpopular






10. Nonviolent protest to college students (NC) being refused lunch service; part of 'sit-in' movement to integrate all aspects of life (hotels - entertainment - &c.)






11. Strong patriotism and need to conform to try to avoid blame during red scare - non-churchgoers - unmarried - and critics suspected as communists






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






13. Banned racial discrimination and segregation (public) - bias by federal government; enforced by Equal Employment Opportunity Commission






14. First female cabinet member






15. 'No taxation without representation -' introduced by Patrick Henry






16. Elvis Presley - Marilyn Monroe - James Dean - Beatniks — rebelled against conservative conformity of the rest of the country (esp. targeted youth)






17. Adams - Jefferson - and Burr: Adams lost - Jefferson and Burr tied - Hamilton convinced other Federalists to vote for Jefferson to break the tie






18. Stock prices fell drastically; without buyers - the stocks became essentially worthless; cause bank crashes - &c.






19. 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






20. Organized and controlled resistance against Parliamentary acts in less violent ways (strength of martyrdom) - advocated nonimportation






21. Allowed Parliament to completely legislate over the colonies - limited colonists' say






22. Attacked industrial elite - called for business regulation - publisher refused works breaking with Victorian ideals






23. Established colony of Georgia as a place for honest debtors






24. Founded by Betty Friedan - Bella Abzug - and Aileen Hernandez; lobbied for equal opportunity where the EEOC was lacking (gender discrimination); lawsuits and mobilization of public opinion






25. American hostages taken by US hating Shiites upon Shah's flight from uprising - botched rescue attempts






26. Activist government to serve all citizens (cf. Alexander Hamilton); founded New Republic magazine






27. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - Harold Icicles - provided public construction projects






28. 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)






29. Group of Bostonians in opposition to the Stamp Act - sought to drive stamp distributors from the city






30. 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'






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






32. Hired to photograph ordinary Americans experiencing the depression






33. Fearing the rise of labor unions - corporations forced new employees to sign and promise not to be part of a union


34. Formed by white progressives - adopted goals of Niagara Movement - in response to Springfield Race Riots






35. Belligerent nationalism against other threatening nations






36. Supreme Court legalized the 'separate but equal' philosophy






37. Installed Shah as dictator - overthrew Moussadegh (communist interests) - in order to resist nationalization British oil holdings






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






39. Republican candidate for president in 1884 - quintessence of spoils system; highly disgusted the mugwumps (many Republicans turned to Democrat Cleveland)






40. All English subjects are represented in Parliament - including those not allowed to vote






41. Increase working output by standardizing procedures and rewarding those who worked fast; efficiency






42. British soldiers shot into crowd of snowball fight; two of nine soldiers (defended by John Adams) found guilty of manslaughter






43. Uncovered the 'dirt' on corruption and harsh quality of city/working life; heavily criticized by Theodore Roosevelt; Ida Tarabell (oil companies) - David Graham Phillips (Senate) - Aschen School (child labor — photography) - mass magazines McClure's






44. Government compromised to buy and coin $2-4 million/month; government stuck to minimum and inflation did not occur (lower prices); economy grew






45. 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






46. Committee on Public Information; aimed to sell America and the world on Wilson's war goals; propaganda - censorship - 'four-minute men' speeches - 'Liberty Leagues' (spy on community)






47. Small state banks set up by Jackson to keep federal funds out of the National Bank - used until funds were consolidated into a single treasury






48. FDR and Churchill agreed to defeat Germany first rather than concentrate on Japan






49. Influence of African-American blues - music of the younger generation (gap between them and their parents)


50. Prohibited use of any devices (e.g. - literacy tests) to deny the right to vote and enforced black suffrage rights