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AP U.S. History
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1. Fought for human rights in Africa - Panama Canal returned to Panama - relations with China resolved
Humanitarian diplomacy
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Commerce Compromise
2. Used nonviolent protest and boycott to achieve better working conditions for farmers (esp. Mexican-Americans)
Salvation Army
John C. Calhoun
Zimmerman Note
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
3. Formed by white progressives - adopted goals of Niagara Movement - in response to Springfield Race Riots
President Ronald Reagan
Indentured servants
Republican Party
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
4. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - Harry Hopkins; provide work for unemployed and construct public works - &c. through Emergency Relief Appropriation Act; much like Civil Works Administration
Battle of Tippecanoe
Hoovervilles
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
5. Prohibited colonies from issuing paper money - destabilized colonial economy
Gains for women
Currency Act
George Kennan
National Road
6. 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
Salutary Neglect
Potsdam Conference (1945)
George Kennan
Dorothea Lange
7. Rejection of negative portrayals of women (language - entertainment) - increased quality and use of education - more job opportunities - acceptance into military
John C. Calhoun
Marshall Plan
Gains for women
John Foster Dulles
8. Midway (US Signal Corps - turning point of war in the Pacific) - D-Day (Eisenhower's amphibious invasion of Normandy - led to depletion of German forces) - Stalingrad (Russians defeated Germans - saved Moscow and Leningrad - turning point in Europe)
Important WWII Battles
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
9. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - insured deposits < $5000 - reassured American public of the worth of banks
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
James Meredith
Schechter v. U.S Court case
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
10. US provided financial assistance to recover economies in Europe; aimed towards anti-communist governments in France - Italy - and Germany; Eastern European nations prohibited from receiving help from US
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
Shays's Rebellion
Marshall Plan
Stagflation
11. Social ideals to be encouraged in public school (stress on social interaction) - learning by doing
12th Amendment
John Dewey
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
12. 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
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
The Great Awakening
Federal Reserve Act
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
13. Left primary open to Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy - both promising to end the controversial war
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14. Middle class; white flight from urban areas due to black migration; government supported insurance for homeowners and builders
American Federation of Labor
Warren Court
Suburbia
Energy Crisis - OPEC
15. 'No taxation without representation -' introduced by Patrick Henry
Richard Nixon (R)
Virginia Resolves
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
Virginia Plan
16. Clay and Calhoun - eager for war with Britain (War of 1812)
Scopes Trial
Theodore Roosevelt
War hawks
Schechter v. U.S Court case
17. Conservatives like Reagan benefited from denouncing the New Left and excessive antiwar protests; gave him political prominence
Battle of Yorktown
Conservative backlash against liberalism
Korean War
William Jennings Bryan
18. Worked alongside Josiah Henson to make repeated trips to get slaves out of the South into freedom
'Evil Empire' speech - 'Star Wars'
Court Packing
Harriet Tubman
The Loyal Nine
19. Settled in Pennsylvania - believed the 'Inner Light' could speak through any person and ran religious services without ministers
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
William Penn and the Quakers
Invasion of Iraq
Hudson River School
20. William and Mary kicked James II out of England (exiled into France) - allowed more power to the legislatures
King James I - King Charles
Deregulation
The Glorious Revolution
New Jersey Plan
21. Allowed sale of weaponry to democracies on 'cash-and-carry' basis - avoided full-blown war; danger zones proclaimed; solved American unemployment crisis
Neutrality Act - 1939
Jamestown
Citizen Genet
New Harmony
22. Activist government to serve all citizens (cf. Alexander Hamilton); founded New Republic magazine
'Affluent Society'
'Silent Majority'
Nicaraguan Contras
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
23. Congressional support to raid houses of radicals believed to have connections to communism
President John F. Kennedy
Freeport Doctrine
Sugar Act
Palmer Raids
24. Opposed BTW's accommodation policies - called for immediate equality - formed Niagara Movement to support his ideas
Samuel Gompers
Conservatism
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
First American strategy in WWII
25. Unprecedented sudden growth spurt of American population (especially urban and suburban areas)
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26. Philosophy that deficit spending during a depression would increase purchasing power and stimulate economy; FDR disagreed with the policy at first and borrowed money to cover deficits
Coxey's Army
Indentured servants
Whiskey Rebellion
Keynesian economics
27. Exemplary Christian community - rich to show charity - held to Calvinistic beliefs
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28. Maine as free state - Missouri as slave state - slavery prohibited north of 36°30'
Report on Public Credit
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Robert E. Lee
29. Created Federal Reserve System - regional banks set up for twelve separate districts - final authority of each bank lay with the Federal Reserve Board - paper money to be issued 'Federal Reserve Notes'
Farmers'Alliance movement
Federal Reserve Act
Boston Tea Party
Fugitive Slave Act
30. Committees appointed from different colonies to communicate on matters; asserted rights to self¬government - cooperation between colonies
War hawks
Committees of Correspondence
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Declining death rate
31. Allowed Parliament to completely legislate over the colonies - limited colonists' say
20-Negro Law
Ngo Dinh Diem
Declaratory Act
Bay of Pigs invasion
32. Established colony of Georgia as a place for honest debtors
Commerce Compromise
March on Washington
James Oglethorpe
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
33. Satirized wealthy captains of industry - workers and engineers as better leaders of society
Nativism
Dominion of New England
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
Bush v. Gore (2000)
34. Beginnings of trusts (destruction of competition); vertical- controlling every aspect of production (control quality - eliminate middlemen - Rockefeller); horizontal- consolidating with competitors to monopolize a market (highly detrimental)
'Wage slaves'
Vertical and horizontal integration
Knights of Labor
The Homefront
35. Populists campaigned for silver-backed money rather than gold-backed - believed to be able to relieve working conditions and exploitation of labor
Free silver
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Tories (Loyalists)
Cuban Missile Crisis
36. Tet Offensive in Vietnam - assassination of MLK and Robert Kennedy (presidential candidate) - Riot of Democratic National Convention (Chicago police beat antiwar protestors) - Black Panthers
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37. Required separate and distinct ballots for presidential and vice presidential candidates
Valley Forge
Scopes Trial
Neutrality
12th Amendment
38. Mandated the toleration of all Christian denominations in Maryland - even though Maryland was founded for Catholics (but majority was protestant)
Wilson's 14 points
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
Burned-Over District
39. Guerilla army sponsored by CIA to attack procommunist revolutionaries in Nicaragua; fear of another Vietnam
Upton Sinclair
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Henry Ford's assembly line
Nicaraguan Contras
40. Advocated by Roger Sherman - proposed two independently-voting senators per state and representation in the House based on population
Berlin Airlift
Connecticut Compromise
Roe v. Wade
Immigration Act of 1965
41. Network of safe houses of white abolitionists used to bring slaves to freedom
Critics of FDR
China turns communist
Underground Railroad
New York City draft riots (1863)
42. Attempted to centralize production of war materials; ineffective due to American desire for laissez-faire government
Important WWII Battles
War Industries Board
Nat Turner's Rebellion
John Winthrop
43. Government would protect America's foreign investments with any force needed; under president Taft
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44. Blacks who went to prison taken out and used for labor in slave-like conditions - enforced southern racial hierarchy
Consumerism
Convict-lease system
President Ronald Reagan
Panic of 1893
45. Overthrow of the Taliban - in search of bin Laden
Woodrow Wilson
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
Booker T. Washington
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
46. Tax cuts to increase population spending (help economy) - drastic cutting back on government programs due to lack of funds
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
Tories (Loyalists)
British strengths and weaknesses
Rationing
47. Speech given by BTW to ease whites' fears of integration - assuring them that separate but equal was acceptable - ideas challenged by DuBois
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48. Scarce supplies (food and clothing) - army motivated by von Steuben
Valley Forge
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
Pet banks
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
49. 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
Vertical and horizontal integration
Election of 1960
Vietnamization
Economic transition
50. Nonviolent protest to college students (NC) being refused lunch service; part of 'sit-in' movement to integrate all aspects of life (hotels - entertainment - &c.)
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
Populist Party
Federal Reserve Act