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AP U.S. History

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1. Provided housing and recreation to city youth - imposing Protestant morals - unable to reach out to all youth

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2. Tweed Leader of Tammany Hall - gained large sums of money through the political machine - prosecuted by Samuel Tilden and sent to jail






3. Congress authorized LBJ to repel and prevent aggression against US troops in Vietnam - used as a blank check (perhaps too much - caused protests)






4. 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






5. Proclamation of 1793 response to French attempts for alliance with US






6. One country that falls into communism will cause surrounding nations to also fall 'like dominos'; spurred by Southeast Asia regimes (esp. Vietnam)






7. Reduced quota - reduced numbers from eastern and southern Europe - Asians banned - Canadians and Latin Americans exempt






8. Craft unions that left the Knights (1886) - led by Gompers - women left out of recruitment efforts






9. Tax cuts to increase population spending (help economy) - drastic cutting back on government programs due to lack of funds






10. Worked alongside Josiah Henson to make repeated trips to get slaves out of the South into freedom






11. Political action for religion justified by decreased presence of religion in society; Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition to expand national influence






12. Calvinist - devised concept of 'city on a hill' ('A Model of Christian Charity'); founded highly successful towns in Massachusetts Bay






13. Americans feared Soviet infiltration into Latin America - placed secret police and military forces to prevent it






14. Attacked people for being communist by association and unsubstantiated claims - against Truman - Marshall - and Ike; downfall came with attack on the military (condemned by Senate); led hysteria of the red scare






15. Gore promising with experience - Bush appealing by family influence and plans for presidency (tax cuts - education reform - defense - &c.)






16. (free speech movement) Youth activists (often liberal arts students) spoke out against Vietnam War - supported widespread liberalization

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17. Brought in Mexicans for temporary jobs - concentrated in southern CA - given extremely poor working conditions (as they were not American citizens)






18. Natural selection applied to human competition - advocated by Herbert Spencer - William Graham Sumner






19. Challenged New Englanders to completely separate Church from State - as the State would corrupt the church






20. Working class exploited for profit - proletariat (workers) to revolt and inherit all society






21. Strong central government provided by power divided between state and national governments - checks and balances - amendable constitution






22. FDR asked for increased authority to aid Britain; freedom of speech/expression - of religion - from want - from fear; resulted in Lend-Lease

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23. 14 formal amendments to the treaty for the League of Nations; preserved Monroe Doctrine - Congress desired to keep declaration of war to itself






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






25. FDR's inner circle of experts rather than just politicians in the cabinet

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26. Tried to rule as absolute monarchs without using Parliament - little to no sympathy for colonial legislatures






27. Warned of dangerous military-industrial complex (newly-found power of the military to affect the path of democracy)

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28. Lee invaded Pennsylvania - bloodiest battle of the war - Confederate Pickett's Charge (disastrous) - Lee forced to retreat (not pursued by Meade) - South doomed to never invade North again - Gettysburg Address given by Lincoln (nation over union)






29. For women's rights - organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton - modeled requests after the Declaration of Independence






30. Young women employed by Lowell's textile company - housed in dormitories






31. Lee's attack on Maryland in hopes that he could take it from the Union - bloodiest day of the war - stalemate - McClellan replaced by Burnside - stalemate - South would never be so close to victory again






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






33. 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)






34. Foundation for self-government laid out by the first Massachusetts settlers before arriving on land






35. Hamilton's plan to solve Revolutionary debt - Assumption highly controversial - pushed his plan through Congress - based on loose interpretation of Constitution






36. Through CIO - led three coal mine strikes (some of the very few strikes during the time period)






37. Established world organization; Soviet Union pledged to allow democratic procedures in Eastern Europe; pledge broken - led to Cold War






38. Rise in stock prices and speculation - decline of construction industry - mistaken 'trickle-down' economics - reliance on credit






39. Spread quickly; opposed everything that was not White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) (and conservative) - Stephenson's faults and jail sentence led to demise






40. Removal of Saddam Hussein - 2003 - Iran - Iraq - and North Korea designated as the 'axis of evil -' institution of democratic government in Iraq to replace Hussein's dictatorship (return to spread and protection of democracy throughout the world - mo






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






42. 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)






43. Often debtors sold to slave traders by African kings seeking riches; Columbian Exchange






44. Mass production of the Model-T - workers as potential consumers (raise wages) - supported other industries and raised employment

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45. Prohibited testing of nuclear bombs above ground to slow the nuclear arms race and the release of nuclear fallout into the atmosphere






46. Introduced the 'trickle-down' economics theory in order to promote business and increase money available for speculation






47. Economic recession (collapse of savings-and-loan industry - increasing deficit due to Reagan tax cuts - retail decreased - higher crime rate)

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48. Argued that states had the right to determine whether or not the laws passed by Congress were constitutional






49. Network of safe houses of white abolitionists used to bring slaves to freedom






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