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AP U.S. History
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1. Formed in response to Kansas-Nebraska Act - banned in the South - John C Fremont first presidential candidate
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
Republican Party
Election of 1960
Jim Crow laws
2. Americans who were forced out of their homes in Oklahoma and Arkansas (respectively) due to the dust storms and drought known as the Dust Bowl
3. Goods able to be transferred from New York to New Orleans by inland waterways
Erie Canal
King James I - King Charles
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
Henry Ford's assembly line
4. Depicted the evils of slavery (splitting of families and physical abuse); increased participation in abolitionist movement - condemned by South
5. Politely demanded from the king a cease¬fire in Boston - repeal of Coercive Acts -. guarantee of American rights
'Hundred days'
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
Olive Branch Petition
Harpers Ferry (1859)
6. Required separate and distinct ballots for presidential and vice presidential candidates
12th Amendment
Era of Good Feelings
Panic of 1819
Robert E. Lee
7. Belligerent nationalism against other threatening nations
'Great Society'
Impressment
Jingoism
Lewis and Clark expedition
8. British soldiers shot into crowd of snowball fight; two of nine soldiers (defended by John Adams) found guilty of manslaughter
Navigation Acts
Boston Massacre
Samuel Gompers
John Brown
9. Black rights leader - heavily influenced by Malcolm X (advocated black separatism rather than integration)
Tallmadge Amendment
Domino theory
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
10. Nixon led movement to Hiss's indictment; convicted of perjury - Nixon gained national prominence
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
Fair Deal
Stock market crash (1929)
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
11. Economic recession (collapse of savings-and-loan industry - increasing deficit due to Reagan tax cuts - retail decreased - higher crime rate)
12. Blacks who went to prison taken out and used for labor in slave-like conditions - enforced southern racial hierarchy
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
Citizen Genet
John Foster Dulles
Convict-lease system
13. Victorian standards confined women to the home to create an artistic environment as a statement of cultural aspirations
William and Mary
US acquisitions
Cult of domesticity
John Dewey
14. Executed for leaking atomic secrets to Soviets - avowed communists
William and Mary
Great Migration
First American strategy in WWII
Rosenbergs
15. Provided for evacuation of English troops from posts in the Great Lakes
16. Nonviolent protest to college students (NC) being refused lunch service; part of 'sit-in' movement to integrate all aspects of life (hotels - entertainment - &c.)
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
Transcendentalism
17. Argued that states had the right to determine whether or not the laws passed by Congress were constitutional
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Palmer Raids
Public Works Administration (PWA)
18. Soviets cut Berlin off from the rest of Germany by blockade; US organized airlift to drop supplies into Britain; blockade lifted in May 1949
Pan-Americanism
Dorothea Dix
Berlin Airlift
Cuban Missile Crisis
19. Bush vs. Clinton vs. Perot; focus on stagnancy of economy and problems of middle class (Clinton)
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
Farm crisis
Bill of Rights
1992 Election
20. 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
President Ronald Reagan
'Gentlemen's Agreement' (1908)
Articles of Confederation
Economic transition
21. Scarce supplies (food and clothing) - army motivated by von Steuben
The Glorious Revolution
Valley Forge
McCarthyism
'Big BM' Haywood
22. Sought to eliminate spheres of influence and avoid European monopolies in China; unaccepted by the powers in mind
Dorothea Dix
Wilson's 14 points
Open Door Policy
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
23. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - collective bargaining rights - closed shops permitted (where workers must join unions) - outlawed anti-union tactics
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Bay of Pigs invasion
Stamp Act
24. Elvis Presley - Marilyn Monroe - James Dean - Beatniks — rebelled against conservative conformity of the rest of the country (esp. targeted youth)
Maysville Road Veto
Samuel Gompers
Lodge Reservations
Non-conformity
25. First African-American in major league baseball
Essex case
Jackie Robinson
Civil Rights Cases
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
26. Denounced the 'housewife trap' which caused educated women to hold even themselves inferior to men
William Penn and the Quakers
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
Treaty of Paris (1783)
William Marcy
27. U.S. would ensure that Cuba would be protected from European powers and maintain a place in Cuban affairs; provided coal and naval stations
Panic of 1819
Platt Amendment
'Wage slaves'
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
28. First Utopian society - by Robert Owen
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
New Harmony
'Graying of America'
Quebec Acts
29. Meant to keep government unquestioned by critics - particularly of the Federalists
Report on Public Credit
Alien and Sedition Acts
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
30. Henry Clay aimed to make the US economically independent from Europe (e.g. - support internal improvements - tariff protection - and new national bank)
William T. Sherman
Truman's Loyalty Program
Indentured servants
Henry Clay and the American System
31. Mistreated farmers - fear of monocracy - forced people to think about central government
32. Americans concerned with economic depression; sought to avoid European involvement - no apparent immediate threats
President John F. Kennedy
Fair Labor Standards Act
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
33. Focused on skilled workers (harder to replace than unskilled) - coordinated crafts unions - supported 8¬hour workday and injury liability
Harlem Renaissance
Samuel Gompers
'Bleeding Kansas'
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
34. Symbol of women workers during the war
Platt Amendment
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
Rosie the Riveter
The Alamo
35. Left primary open to Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy - both promising to end the controversial war
36. Offered a New Deal (reminiscent of FDR) of smaller government - reduced taxes - and free enterprise; Washington outsider
President Ronald Reagan
Karl Marx Das Kapital
Boston Massacre
Moral Diplomacy
37. 'Dark horse' Democratic candidate; acquired majority of the western US (Mexican Cession - Texas Annexation - Oregon Country) - lowered tariffs - created Independent Treasury
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
Northern Securities Case
James K. Polk
Four Freedoms' speech
38. 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
Valley Forge
Citizen Genet
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
Nullification Controversy
39. Judges appointed to Supreme Court by Adams in the last days of his presidency to force them upon Jefferson - Marshall among those appointed
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Boston Massacre
Midnight judges
40. Prohibited exports (and imports) based in American ports - most controversial Jefferson legislation
Embargo Act (1807)
Bracero program
George Kennan
Richard Nixon (R)
41. September 1949 - US no longer held monopoly; two atomic powers
Soviet atomic bomb
National Origins Act (1924)
Battle of Yorktown
Jay's Treaty
42. Contending communist politician in Vietnam - had more popularity than Diem - took power upon Diem's death
Ho Chi Minh
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
New Jersey Plan
Marcus Garvey
43. Attacked industrial elite - called for business regulation - publisher refused works breaking with Victorian ideals
Bracero program
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
Roe v. Wade
Charles Lindbergh
44. Secretly sponsored peace negotiations so as to prevent Japanese or Russian monopoly on Asia; concerned with safety of Philippines
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
March on Washington
US acquisitions
45. Democratic political machine in NYC - 'supported' immigrants and poor people of the city - who were needed for Democratic election victories
Quarantine Speech - 1937
Stephen Austin
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Tammany Hall
46. FDR's plan (although vague during the campaign) to restart the economy and pull America out of the Great Depression
Bacon's Rebellion
New Deal
Knights of Labor
Hartford Convention
47. Calvinist - devised concept of 'city on a hill' ('A Model of Christian Charity'); founded highly successful towns in Massachusetts Bay
John Winthrop
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
Judiciary Act of 1789
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
48. First permanent English settlement in the Americas (1607) - along James River
Soviet atomic bomb
Virginia Resolves
John Smith
Jamestown
49. Rebels felt the governor of Virginia failed to protect the frontier from the Native Americans
50. Panama Canal Treaty - diplomacy with China - end of recognition of Taiwan; little accomplished domestically due to conservative opposition - foreign policy more successful; Washington outsider - Experienced high interest rates - inflation - increased
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
President Jimmy Carter
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
Declaratory Act