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AP U.S. History

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1. Paper money; specie circular decreed that the government would not accept specie for government land






2. Small state banks set up by Jackson to keep federal funds out of the National Bank - used until funds were consolidated into a single treasury






3. Started the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) — 'Back to Africa' movement for racial pride and separatism; inspired self-confidence in blacks






4. 8000 businesses collapsed (including railroads); due to stock market crash - overbuilding of railroads - heavy farmer loans - economic disruption by labor efforts - agricultural depression; decrease of gold reserves led to Cleveland's repeal of Sherm






5. Organized Seneca Falls Convention - founded (with Anthony) National Women Suffrage Organization






6. Forbade restraint of trade and did not distinguish good from bad trusts - ineffective due to lack of enforcement mechanism (waited for Clayton Anti-Trust Act)






7. To make German reparations from WWI more accessible to Germans; evacuation of troops from Germany - reorganization of the Reichsbank - and foreign loans






8. Offered a New Deal (reminiscent of FDR) of smaller government - reduced taxes - and free enterprise; Washington outsider






9. Detectives hired by employers as private police force - often used to end strikes






10. Roosevelt and Pinchot sided on conservation rather than preservation (planned and regulated use of forest lands for public and commercial uses)






11. Victorian standards confined women to the home to create an artistic environment as a statement of cultural aspirations






12. Southern and Midwestern farmers expressing discontent - supported free silver and subtreasury plan (cash advance on future crop — farmers had little cash flow during the year) - criticized national banks

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13. Anti-Federalists wanted states' rights - bill of rights - unanimous consent - reference to religion - more power to less-rich and common people; Federalists wanted strong central government - more power to experienced - separation of church and state






14. Supported Socialists - militant unionists and socialists - advocated strikes and sabotaging politics - aimed for an umbrella union similar to Knights of Labor - ideas too radical for socialist cause






15. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - insured deposits < $5000 - reassured American public of the worth of banks






16. FDR and Churchill agreed to defeat Germany first rather than concentrate on Japan






17. Won battles in the West and raised northern morale (esp. Shiloh - Fort Henry - and Fort Donelson) - made Union commanding general






18. William and Mary kicked James II out of England (exiled into France) - allowed more power to the legislatures






19. Ford's and Carter's presidencies experienced a recession and inflation simultaneously - solved by Keynesian economics






20. LBJ's flood of proposals to Congress for the beautification and amelioration of American society (War on Poverty - Medicare - public education spending - public television (PBS) - National Endowments for the Humanities and Arts (NEH - NEA))

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21. Cherokees - Choctaws - Creeks - Chickasaws - and Seminoles; 'civilized' due to their intermarriage with whites - forced out of their homelands by expansion






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






23. Border ruffians in election on issue of slavery incited controversy - proslavery group attacked Lawrence - Kansas - Pottawatomie Massacre

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24. Fines and imprisonment for aiding the enemy or hindering U.S. military; forbade any form of criticism of the government and military






25. The principle that a state should decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery






26. Considered a hero for his solo crossing of the Atlantic by plane






27. Made it illegal to transport women across state borders for 'immoral purposes -' violated by black boxer Jack Johnson (w/ white woman)






28. Connected the colonies to Britain - opposed to unnecessary unfair taxation; strong influence on Albany Plan






29. Catholic communist autocrat of Vietnam - assassinated (with aid of US)






30. Increased tariff on sugar (and other imports) - attempted to harder enforce existing tariffs






31. Conservatives like Reagan benefited from denouncing the New Left and excessive antiwar protests; gave him political prominence






32. Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson; purchase of Alaska 'Seward's Folly'






33. Established free trade zone between Canada - United States and Mexico - net gain in jobs due to opening of Mexican markets






34. Nixon agreed with USSR to achieve nuclear equality rather than the superiority that threatened the destruction of the world; further reduced tensions between the two countries






35. Civil Rights Act of 1875 declared unconstitutional by Supreme Court - as the fourteenth amendment protected people from governmental infringement of rights and had no effect on acts of private citizens






36. Lee's chief lieutenant and premier cavalry officer

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






38. Exemplary Christian community - rich to show charity - held to Calvinistic beliefs

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39. Repeat candidate for president - proponent of silver-backing (16:1 platform) - cross of gold speech against gold standard; Democratic candidate (1896)






40. Opposed BTW's accommodation policies - called for immediate equality - formed Niagara Movement to support his ideas






41. McKinley reluctant; armed intervention to free Cuba from Spain; Roosevelt's 'Rough Riders' made attack on Spanish at Cuba






42. 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






43. Electric light - phonograph - mimeograph - Dictaphone - moving pictures






44. British citizenship outnumbered colonies' - large navy and professional army; exhausted resources (Hessians hired) - national debt






45. (1) California admitted as free state - (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico - (3) resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries - (4) federal assumption of Texas debt - (5) slave trade abolished in DC - and (6) new fugit






46. Racism riots against Mexican laborers (imported for jobs)






47. Highest peacetime deficit in US history (due to lower tax rates for high-income taxpayers - spent too much money attempting to reduce price supports to farmers)






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






49. Mistreated farmers - fear of monocracy - forced people to think about central government

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50. Depicted the evils of slavery (splitting of families and physical abuse); increased participation in abolitionist movement - condemned by South

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