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AP U.S. History
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1. British soldiers shot into crowd of snowball fight; two of nine soldiers (defended by John Adams) found guilty of manslaughter
Boston Massacre
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
Tet Offensive (1968)
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
2. Pushed through northern Georgia - captured Atlanta - 'march to the sea' (total war and destruction) - proceeded to South Carolina
Non-Intercourse Act
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
William T. Sherman
Transportation Revolution
3. Opposed to all immigration - strongly anti-Catholic
Whigs (Patriots)
Interstate Commerce Act
Tet Offensive (1968)
Know-Nothing (American) Party
4. Working class exploited for profit - proletariat (workers) to revolt and inherit all society
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
Knights of Labor
Economic transition
Karl Marx Das Kapital
5. Provided housing and recreation to city youth - imposing Protestant morals - unable to reach out to all youth
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6. Created Interstate Commerce Commission to require railroads to publish rates (less discrimination - short/long haul) - first legislation to regulate corporations - ineffective ICC
Forced busing
Federalists and Republicans
Roger Williams
Interstate Commerce Act
7. Over Senate seat for Illinois (Douglas victor) - Lincoln stated the country could not remain split over the issue of slavery
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
National Origins Act (1924)
Yellow journalism
Transcendentalism
8. Europeans should not interfere with affairs in Western Hemisphere - Americans to stay out of foreign affairs; supported Washington's goal for US neutrality in Americas
Monroe Doctrine
The Alamo
'Atlanta Compromise'
Elastic Clause ('necessary and proper')
9. Led railroad workers in Pullman Strike - arrested; Supreme Court (decision in re Debs) legalized use of injunction (court order) against unions and strikes
Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Association (YMCA & YWCA)
Roger Williams
Fort Sumter
Eugene V. Debs
10. Scarce supplies (food and clothing) - army motivated by von Steuben
Industrial Workers of the World
U-2 Incident
Bill of Rights
Valley Forge
11. Clay and Calhoun - eager for war with Britain (War of 1812)
Four Freedoms' speech
War hawks
Frederick Douglass
Cotton Gin
12. Connected the colonies to Britain - opposed to unnecessary unfair taxation; strong influence on Albany Plan
Isolationism
Quarantine Speech - 1937
Benjamin Franklin
12th Amendment
13. American U-2 spy plane shot down over USSR (Ike: 'for national security); US suspended further flights - Krushchev demanded apology (refused)
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
Muckrakers
'Evil Empire' speech - 'Star Wars'
U-2 Incident
14. Federalist cause leading up to Hartford Convention
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
Federalists and Republicans
Essex case
Indian Removal Act
15. Nixon's domestic policy; federal revenues shared with states (revenue sharing) - minimum income proposed
Panama Canal
New Federalism
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
16. 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
The Great Awakening
Fair Labor Standards Act
Vietcong
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
17. Challenged New England Calvinist ministers' authority - as they taught the good works for salvation of Catholicism
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
Non-conformity
Anne Hutchinson
GI Bill of Rights
18. State-run economy to provide conflict-free society
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
Quebec Acts
Ike's Farewell Speech
New Federalism
19. Jane Addams's pioneer settlement house (center for women's activism and social reform) in Chicago
'Great Society'
Hull House
Fair Labor Standards Act
David Riesman
20. Dance music - slave spirituals adapted into improvisation and ragtime; jazz migrated along with blacks in the Great Migration
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Social Reciprocity
James K. Polk
Jazz
21. Influence of African-American blues - music of the younger generation (gap between them and their parents)
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22. 'No taxation without representation -' introduced by Patrick Henry
Virginia Resolves
Standard Oil Trust
1968 as 'the year of shocks'
Wilmot Proviso
23. The principle that a state should decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery
Neutrality
Vertical and horizontal integration
Mayflower Compact
Popular Sovereignty
24. Stock prices fell drastically; without buyers - the stocks became essentially worthless; cause bank crashes - &c.
Truman's Loyalty Program
Stock market crash (1929)
Republican Party
20-Negro Law
25. Drafting extremely hated by Northerners - sparked by Irish-Americans against the black population - 500 lives lost - many buildings burned
New York City draft riots (1863)
The Half-Way Covenant
Greenback Party
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
26. Heavily evangelized to the point there were no more people left to convert to other religions - upstate New York - home to the beginning of Smith's Mormonism movement
Burned-Over District
Charles II - James II
Maysville Road Veto
12th Amendment
27. Radical Calvinists against the Church of England; Separatists (Pilgrims) argued for a break from the Church of England - led the Mayflower - and established the settlement at Plymouth
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
William Jennings Bryan
'Bleeding Kansas'
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
28. Founded by Betty Friedan - Bella Abzug - and Aileen Hernandez; lobbied for equal opportunity where the EEOC was lacking (gender discrimination); lawsuits and mobilization of public opinion
William Seward
National Organization of Women
Impressment
XYZ Affair
29. NLF attacked numerous South Vietnamese cities and American embassies - eventually repulsed; spoiled LBJ's record to reelection - resulted in massive protests in US to end the war; atrocities such that war could only end in stalemate
Specie
Tet Offensive (1968)
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Farm crisis
30. States could refuse to enforce the federal laws they deemed unconstitutional
Nullification
Quarantine Speech - 1937
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe (1989)
31. Single tax on speculated land to ameliorate industrialization misery
Monroe Doctrine
Munn v. Illinois
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
32. Founded by Emerson - strong emphasis on spiritual unity (God - humanity - and nature) - literature with strong references to nature
Social Gospel movement
Transcendentalism
Fair Labor Standards Act
President Ronald Reagan
33. Introduced the 'trickle-down' economics theory in order to promote business and increase money available for speculation
Dawes Plan (1924)
Maysville Road Veto
The Great Awakening
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
34. Organized and controlled resistance against Parliamentary acts in less violent ways (strength of martyrdom) - advocated nonimportation
Declining death rate
Sons of Liberty
The Homefront
Lodge Reservations
35. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - provided more funds to state and local relief efforts
U-2 Incident
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
Critics of FDR
Charles II - James II
36. Interracial group of protestors who aimed to dramatize the violations of the call for desegregation; harsh treatment by southern whites provoked Kennedy to more strictly enforce desegregation
Stagflation
Charles II - James II
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
Zoot Suit riots
37. Catholic communist autocrat of Vietnam - assassinated (with aid of US)
President Jimmy Carter
Underground Railroad
Ngo Dinh Diem
Berlin Wall
38. Writing took a more realistic approach on the world - regionalist writers focused on local life (Sarah Orne Jewett) - naturalist writers focused on economy and psychology (Stephen Crane)
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
Dawes Plan (1924)
John Smith
Regionalist and naturalist writers
39. Slaves could not sue in federal courts (blacks no longer considered citizens) - slaves could not be taken from masters except by the law - Missouri Compromise unconstitutional - Congress not able to prohibit slavery in a state
Essex case
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Committees of Correspondence
Rosie the Riveter
40. Craft unions that left the Knights (1886) - led by Gompers - women left out of recruitment efforts
Anaconda plan
Maysville Road Veto
American Federation of Labor
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
41. Committees appointed from different colonies to communicate on matters; asserted rights to self¬government - cooperation between colonies
League of Nations
Committees of Correspondence
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
42. Drastic cutbacks in regulation of business by the federal government (banks - transportation - communications
Roe v. Wade
Fort Sumter
Causes of the depression
Deregulation
43. 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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44. 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
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
Quebec Acts
Impressment
John Foster Dulles
45. Mexicans held siege on the Alamo (in San Antonio) - Texans lost great number of people - 'Remember the Alamo'
Jamestown
Popular Sovereignty
Camp David Accords
The Alamo
46. Believed in expanding federal power on economy - encouraged industrial development; could only gain power on the local level - led by Henry Clay (anti-Jackson)
Whig Party
Rationing
Tariff of Abominations
Jackie Robinson
47. Old immigrants from northern and western Europe came seeking better life; new immigrants came from southern and eastern Europe searching for opportunity to escape worse living conditions back home and often did not stay in the US
Bank of the United States
Good Neighbor Policy
Stephen Austin
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
48. Parliament took minor actions in the colonies - allowing them to experiment with and become accustomed to self-government - international trade agreements
U-2 Incident
William Penn and the Quakers
Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Association (YMCA & YWCA)
Salutary Neglect
49. Defined process for territories to become states (population reached 60 -000) - forbade slavery in the new territories
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Era of Good Feelings
Declining death rate
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
50. Americans at home reminded to conserve materials in all aspects of life to support the military; resulted in saving up of money to cause economic boom after war
Emancipation Proclamation
Roe v. Wade
Truman Doctrine
Rationing