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AP U.S. History
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1. Judiciary Reorganization Bill; FDR's attempt to put in extra judges who would support him without doubt
National Origins Act (1924)
Boston Tea Party
Court Packing
Anne Hutchinson
2. Part of the New Left that envisioned 'participatory democracy' (individuals control life-affecting decisions) - end materialism - militarism - and racism; inspired by young black activists
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Ike's Farewell Speech
The Glorious Revolution
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
3. Drafting extremely hated by Northerners - sparked by Irish-Americans against the black population - 500 lives lost - many buildings burned
American society during the Revolution
President Franklin Roosevelt
New York City draft riots (1863)
George Washington
4. Japanese bombing of ships in harbor; resulted in FDR's request for declaration of war against Japan; Germany and Italy responded with declarations of war
Pearl Harbor
Writs of Assistance
Louis Sullivan
Report on Public Credit
5. Ended exclusion of homosexuals from military; due to controversy - compromise of 'don't ask - don't tell' instituted
Gays in the military
Atlantic slave trade
French and Indian War
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
6. American general Horatio Gates was victorious over British general Burgoyne
Battle of Saratoga
Gays in the military
Ralph Waldo Emerson
'Baby Boom'
7. Satirized wealthy captains of industry - workers and engineers as better leaders of society
Ku Klux Klan
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Second Great Awakening
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
8. To make German reparations from WWI more accessible to Germans; evacuation of troops from Germany - reorganization of the Reichsbank - and foreign loans
Stagflation
Dawes Plan (1924)
King James I - King Charles
Isolationism
9. Settlers to pay the expenses of a servant's voyage and be granted land for each person they brought over; headright system
Battle of Saratoga
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
Lewis and Clark expedition
Indentured servants
10. Detente achieved with USSR and China by withdrawal from Vietnam; realpolitik shed the use of doctrines and policies - instead using China and USSR in alternative ways to achieve other goals (pitting China and USSR against each other - as communist na
Transcendentalism
Detente - realpolitik
Northwest Passage
Camp David Accords
11. In response to Japanese discrimination in San Fran schools; Japanese to stop laborers into U.S. - Californians forbidden to ban Japanese from public schools
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12. Nationalists against foreign non-English speaking workers (took jobs away from American men); encouraged to leave the U.S.
Deportations of Mexicans
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
Ku Klux Klan
13. Denounced the 'housewife trap' which caused educated women to hold even themselves inferior to men
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
Peace Corps
Worcester v. Georgia
Vietnam War
14. Congressional support to raid houses of radicals believed to have connections to communism
Ulysses S. Grant
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
Palmer Raids
'City on a Hill'
15. 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
Hoover's policy of voluntarism
Mayflower Compact
The Half-Way Covenant
Theodore Roosevelt
16. Symbol of women workers during the war
Butler v. U.S. Court case
Rosie the Riveter
Shays's Rebellion
Wilson's 14 points
17. Federal government to increase power over economy and society by means of progressive reforms - developed by Roosevelt (after presidency)
George Wallace - American
President John F. Kennedy
Richard Nixon (R)
New Nationalism
18. Adams - Jefferson - and Burr: Adams lost - Jefferson and Burr tied - Hamilton convinced other Federalists to vote for Jefferson to break the tie
Vertical and horizontal integration
Election of 1800
Great Migration
New Nationalism
19. 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
Jingoism
Bay of Pigs invasion
George Kennan
'Baby Boom'
20. Prohibited aiding of belligerent nations - banned civilian involvement; limited power of president during international war - built up armed forces
Black Panther Party
Platt Amendment
Plessy v. Ferguson
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
21. McKinley reluctant; armed intervention to free Cuba from Spain; Roosevelt's 'Rough Riders' made attack on Spanish at Cuba
Open Door Policy
Spanish American War (1898)
Bruce Barton
Nullification
22. Offered a New Deal (reminiscent of FDR) of smaller government - reduced taxes - and free enterprise; Washington outsider
Suburbia
Rationing
Schechter v. U.S Court case
President Ronald Reagan
23. Southern states (especially South Carolina) believed that they had the right to judge federal laws unconstitutional and therefore not enforce them
Bay of Pigs invasion
Bush v. Gore (2000)
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Nullification Controversy
24. Defined process for territories to become states (population reached 60 -000) - forbade slavery in the new territories
'City on a Hill'
GI Bill of Rights
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Know-Nothing (American) Party
25. CIA attempt to institute Cuban support to overthrow Castro; cover-up uncovered - became representation of Cuban resistance to American aggression
Bay of Pigs invasion
Transportation Revolution
Gays in the military
Plessy v. Ferguson
26. Conservatives like Reagan benefited from denouncing the New Left and excessive antiwar protests; gave him political prominence
Stephen Austin
Conservative backlash against liberalism
Wilmot Proviso
Energy Crisis - OPEC
27. Held in New York - agreed to not import British goods until Stamp Act was repealed
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
Vertical and horizontal integration
Macon's Bill No. 2
Stamp Act Congress
28. Decided to punish war crimes - established program for de-Nazification of Germany
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Consumerism
29. Decision under Sherman Anti-Trust Act shot down by Supreme Court — sugar refining was manufacturing rather than trade/commerce
Peace Corps
United States vs. EC Knight Company
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
The Federalist Papers
30. Government to buy silver to back money in addition to gold
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
Dollar Diplomacy'
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
The Enlightenment
31. Philippines - Hawaii - Puerto Rico - Guam: granted to U.S. at the end of Spanish-American War; Philippines were captured after treaty - and thus not part of spoils - but kept as territory with an inevitable movement for independence; Philippines and
Rationing
US acquisitions
Declining death rate
Barbary Pirates
32. Populists campaigned for silver-backed money rather than gold-backed - believed to be able to relieve working conditions and exploitation of labor
'Lost Generation'
Free silver
Jay's Treaty
Sugar Act
33. Led Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: threatened a siege on DC if FDR did not agree to end discrimination in military
Roe v. Wade
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
Creel Committee
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
34. Overthrew Pres. Guzman after he nationalized American fruit fields and accepted arms from USSR (communist sympathies)
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
Valley Forge
Truman's Loyalty Program
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
35. Decisive victory in the War of 1812 by Harrison over Tecumseh - used in Harrison's campaign for presidency
New Jersey Plan
James Meredith
Nullification
Battle of Tippecanoe
36. Women must gain economic rights in order to impact society (cf. rising divorce rates)
Emergency Banking Relief Act
War Industries Board
Reaganomics
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
37. Bicameral congressional representation based on population
Virginia Plan
Hoover's policy of voluntarism
Citizen Genet
Truman Doctrine
38. Introduced his 'New Deal -' won election by a relative landslide (he was not Hoover - whom the public now did not trust)
Domino theory
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Northwest Passage
President Franklin Roosevelt
39. Federalist cause leading up to Hartford Convention
Anaconda plan
Essex case
Townshend Act (1767)
Harriet Tubman
40. To service economy in late 20 century (end of industrialism) - Higher focus on services (esp. education) rather than material products
Proclamation of 1763
Economic transition
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
Martin Luther King Jr.
41. 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
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
Watergate Scandal
New Federalism
Energy Crisis - OPEC
42. Supported expanded money supply - health/safety regulations - benefits for workers and farmers - granger (farmer)-supported
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
Greenback Party
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
43. Led Pottawatomie Massacre - extreme abolitionist who believed he was doing God's work
John Brown
Jackie Robinson
Gays in the military
Bush v. Gore (2000)
44. Scarce supplies (food and clothing) - army motivated by von Steuben
Camp David Accords
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Valley Forge
Social Gospel movement
45. Victorian standards confined women to the home to create an artistic environment as a statement of cultural aspirations
Cult of domesticity
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Ralph Waldo Emerson
46. 'Trustbuster' (busted twice as many as Roosevelt) - conservation and irrigation efforts - Postal Savings Bank System - Payne-Aldrich Tariff (reduction of tariff - caused Republican split)
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
Independent Treasury Bill
William H. Taft
'Bleeding Kansas'
47. Guerilla army sponsored by CIA to attack procommunist revolutionaries in Nicaragua; fear of another Vietnam
Washington's Farewell Address
Henry Clay and the American System
Nicaraguan Contras
Eugene V. Debs
48. Westward migration of workers (new economic opportunities - esp. aircraft industry) - high rates of divorce and family/juvenile violence - women encouraged to work in factories - still held inferior to men
Rationing
Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Association (YMCA & YWCA)
The Homefront
Fair Deal
49. British passenger liner secretly carrying ammunition sunk by German u-boat - included American passengers
Lusitania
Clinton impeachment (1997)
Salutary Neglect
Republican Party
50. Connected the colonies to Britain - opposed to unnecessary unfair taxation; strong influence on Albany Plan
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
Stephen Austin
Benjamin Franklin
Rosie the Riveter