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AP U.S. History
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1. Caused American hysteria (1957) - fear that Soviets were technologically superior; led Ike to order more rigorous education program to rival Soviets (National Defense Education Act)
Marshall Plan
'Silent Majority'
Conservatism
Sputnik
2. British soldiers shot into crowd of snowball fight; two of nine soldiers (defended by John Adams) found guilty of manslaughter
Harlem Renaissance
Fugitive Slave Act
Boston Massacre
Rationing
3. Network of safe houses of white abolitionists used to bring slaves to freedom
'Evil Empire' speech - 'Star Wars'
Underground Railroad
Anne Hutchinson
Lowell mill/system
4. 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
Scopes Trial
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
Adams-Onis Treaty
Erie Canal
5. Agreement between US and Britain to remove armed fleets from the Great Lakes
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
Harlem Renaissance
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
6. 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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7. Provided housing and recreation to city youth - imposing Protestant morals - unable to reach out to all youth
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8. President has power to cease trade with any foreign country that violated American neutrality
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9. In Brook Farm Community - lived in seclusion for two years writing Walden and On Civil Disobedience - proved that man could provide for himself without materialistic wants
Social Gospel movement
'Gentlemen's Agreement' (1908)
Good Neighbor Policy
Henry David Thoreau
10. Organize militia - end trade with Britain - refuse to pay taxes to Britain
National Road
Affirmative Action
Suffolk Resolves
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
11. Under JQ Adams - protectionist tariff - South considered it the source of economic problems - made Jackson appear to advocate free trade
Dominion of New England
Tariff of Abominations
Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Association (YMCA & YWCA)
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
12. Acquired Mexican Cession (future California - Arizona - and New Mexico); Mexico acknowledged American annexation of Texas
Hartford Convention
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Jim Crow laws
13. Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson; purchase of Alaska 'Seward's Folly'
Rock `n' Roll
William Seward
Deists
Report on Public Credit
14. Fought for old Southern way of life (states' rights) - attempted to gain higher standing within Democratic party; aimed to deny Truman enough electoral votes to avoid his reelection by nominating Strom Thurmond (SC governor)
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
Dixiecrats - 1948
Greenback Party
'Yellow dog contracts'
15. Decided to punish war crimes - established program for de-Nazification of Germany
Camp David Accords
Stock market crash (1929)
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
16. Achieved an abnormal rise in class system (steel industry) - pioneered vertical integration (controlled Mesabie Range to ship ore to Pittsburgh) - opposed monopolies - used partnership of steel tycoons (Henry Clay Frick as a manager/partner) - Bessem
Gays in the military
'Evil Empire' speech - 'Star Wars'
Berlin Airlift
Andrew Carnegie
17. First Utopian society - by Robert Owen
New Harmony
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Populist Party
18. Capitalism would become productive when uninhibited by taxes and regulation
Battle of Gettysburg
Reaganomics
Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1922 and 1930
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
19. Sets of programs geared towards minorities and oft-discriminated populations
United States vs. EC Knight Company
Midnight judges
Affirmative Action
Open Door Policy
20. First African-American in major league baseball
Jackie Robinson
Tet Offensive (1968)
Dixiecrats - 1948
President Lyndon B. Johnson
21. Argued that states had the right to determine whether or not the laws passed by Congress were constitutional
Declaratory Act
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Church of England
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
22. Southern states (especially South Carolina) believed that they had the right to judge federal laws unconstitutional and therefore not enforce them
Nullification Controversy
Deportations of Mexicans
Vietcong
'Lost Generation'
23. Exempted those who owned or oversaw twenty or more slaves from service in the Confederate Army; 'rich man's war but a poor man's fight'
Northwest Passage
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
20-Negro Law
Nat Turner's Rebellion
24. Douglas was able to reconcile the Dred Scott Decision with popular sovereignty; voters would be able to exclude slavery by not allowing laws that treated slaves as property
Freeport Doctrine
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
Yalta Conference (1945)
Whig Party
25. 'Trustbuster' (busted twice as many as Roosevelt) - conservation and irrigation efforts - Postal Savings Bank System - Payne-Aldrich Tariff (reduction of tariff - caused Republican split)
Quarantine Speech - 1937
William H. Taft
William Marcy
Conformity in the 1950s
26. Populists campaigned for silver-backed money rather than gold-backed - believed to be able to relieve working conditions and exploitation of labor
Horace Mann
Emancipation Proclamation
Free silver
'Lost Generation'
27. Commission on civil rights to attempt to guarantee the ballot to blacks; showed government's changing views of race relations
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
Suffolk Resolves
Lewis and Clark expedition
Alexander Hamilton
28. Ike forced to send National Guard to escort black children to school to quell riots and resistance (first time since Reconstruction that troops used in the south to enforce Constitution); resistance by white community (private schools)
Lodge Reservations
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
Hoover's policy of voluntarism
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
29. Led Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: threatened a siege on DC if FDR did not agree to end discrimination in military
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
Haymarket Bombing
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
William Seward
30. Politely demanded from the king a cease¬fire in Boston - repeal of Coercive Acts -. guarantee of American rights
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
Pet banks
Civil Rights Cases
Olive Branch Petition
31. Symbol of women workers during the war
Standard Oil Trust
Rosie the Riveter
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
Declining death rate
32. Natural selection applied to human competition - advocated by Herbert Spencer - William Graham Sumner
Social Darwinism
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
Fugitive Slave Act
33. British Navy would take American sailors and force them to work for Britain
Farmers'Alliance movement
New Deal
Impressment
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
34. Secretary of state - policy to liberate captive people in Eastern Europe by political pressure and propaganda; massive retaliation to counter SovietlChinese aggression with nuclear weapons; brinksmanship to be persistent to solve crises (even to the
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
John Foster Dulles
Four Freedoms' speech
35. 14 formal amendments to the treaty for the League of Nations; preserved Monroe Doctrine - Congress desired to keep declaration of war to itself
Report on Public Credit
Stock market crash (1929)
Lodge Reservations
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
36. Believed in expanding federal power on economy - encouraged industrial development; could only gain power on the local level - led by Henry Clay (anti-Jackson)
Great Migration
Yeoman Farmers
Tet Offensive (1968)
Whig Party
37. Jackson was allowed to relocate Indian tribes in the Louisiana Territory
Henry David Thoreau
'Lost Generation'
Indian Removal Act
John Brown
38. Northern Securities Company (JP Morgan and James G. Hill - railroads) seen by Roosevelt as 'bad' trust - Supreme Court upheld his first trust-bust
Keynesian economics
Kent State Protest
Macon's Bill No. 2
Northern Securities Case
39. Huerta's enemy - reluctantly supported by U.S.; U.S. sought Villa's submission due to terrorism - eventually assassinated; Wilson's policy highly unpopular
Popular Sovereignty
Northern Securities Case
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
Mayflower Compact
40. Democratic candidate 1912 - stood for antitrust - monetary change - and tariff reduction; far less active than Roosevelt - Clayton Anti-trust Act (to enforce Sherman) - Child Labor Act
Woodrow Wilson
Election of 1960
President Jimmy Carter
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
41. Supported by women and churches - instituted by Volstead Act - lacked enforcement; bootlegging and speakeasies - Al Capone and John Dillinger — gangsters and organized crime (casual breaking of the law)
Hoovervilles
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
Liberty Party
Soviet atomic bomb
42. Worked to reform the American education system - abolitionist - prison/asylum reform with Dorothea Dix
Industrial Workers of the World
Horace Mann
Roe v. Wade
Munn v. Illinois
43. All English subjects are represented in Parliament - including those not allowed to vote
Whig Party
Salvation Army
Virtual Representation
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
44. Reagan called the Soviet Union an 'evil empire'; Korean passenger plane shot down near Moscow (increased anti-Soviet rhetoric); Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) used space-based lasers as defense from nuclear attack
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45. 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
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
David Riesman
The Great Awakening
Bank of the United States
46. British citizenship outnumbered colonies' - large navy and professional army; exhausted resources (Hessians hired) - national debt
Isolationism
The Half-Way Covenant
Church of England
British strengths and weaknesses
47. (peace btw Egypt and Israel) Followed years of tension - Israel would leave newly acquired lands from war - Egypt would respect Israel's other land claims; accords not completely followed - Sadat (Egypt) assassinated
Theodore Roosevelt
Reaganomics
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Camp David Accords
48. Banned racial discrimination and segregation (public) - bias by federal government; enforced by Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Northwest Passage
Mann Act
National Labor Union
Civil Rights Act of 1964
49. 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
The Half-Way Covenant
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
'New Left'
Coxey's Army
50. Single tax on speculated land to ameliorate industrialization misery
Ulysses S. Grant
Andrew Carnegie
Forced busing
Henry George - Progress and Poverty