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AP U.S. History
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1. Americans feared Soviet infiltration into Latin America - placed secret police and military forces to prevent it
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
Religious Right
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
2. Increased already high rate of inflation by quadrupling the price of crude oil
Gifford Pinchot
Lewis and Clark expedition
Second Great Awakening
Energy Crisis - OPEC
3. Offered a New Deal (reminiscent of FDR) of smaller government - reduced taxes - and free enterprise; Washington outsider
President Ronald Reagan
President Harry Truman
Neutrality Act - 1939
Stock market crash (1929)
4. Focused on skilled workers (harder to replace than unskilled) - coordinated crafts unions - supported 8¬hour workday and injury liability
Korean War
Bracero program
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
Samuel Gompers
5. Judges appointed to Supreme Court by Adams in the last days of his presidency to force them upon Jefferson - Marshall among those appointed
Midnight judges
'Evil Empire' speech - 'Star Wars'
The Great Awakening
Affirmative Action
6. 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)
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bonus Army
Nat Turner's Rebellion
7. Used nonviolent protest and boycott to achieve better working conditions for farmers (esp. Mexican-Americans)
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
Jingoism
8. Opposed to all immigration - strongly anti-Catholic
Know-Nothing (American) Party
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Gifford Pinchot
Election of 1824
9. Speech symbolized polarization between conservatives and liberals
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10. Congressional support to raid houses of radicals believed to have connections to communism
US acquisitions
Palmer Raids
Social Reciprocity
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
11. Agricultural depression as precursor to the depression; unheeded omen of problems in the economic structure (prices too low — too much supply for the demand)
Farm crisis
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
Religious Right
Battle of Saratoga
12. Attacked industrial elite - called for business regulation - publisher refused works breaking with Victorian ideals
Marcus Garvey
Harriet Tubman
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
13. Acquired Mexican Cession (future California - Arizona - and New Mexico); Mexico acknowledged American annexation of Texas
Teapot Dome scandal
New Freedom
Causes of the depression
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
14. Intervention in Mexican Revolution (Madero overthrew dictator Diaz) to overthrow Madero out of fear of property confiscation - General Huerta (seen as 'brute' by Wilson - sought new leader) replaced Madero
Roe v. Wade
Jane Addams
Populist Party
Moral Diplomacy
15. Loose interpretation allowed for implied powers of Congress (such as the National Bank) - strict interpretation implied few powers to Congress
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
Strict vs. Loose interpretation of the Constitution
Kent State Protest
Church of England
16. Soviet leader undergoing tensions on superpower and domestic level
Mikhail Gorbachev
Jane Addams
20-Negro Law
New Freedom
17. Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald (hated his anti-Cuban policies); LBJ instituted Warren Commission to investigate assassination (headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren)
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
Manifest Destiny
Knights of Labor
Election of 1960
18. Founded by Uriah Stephens (1869); excluded corrupt and well-off; equal female pay - end to child/convict labor - employer-employee relations - proportional income tax; 'bread and butter' unionism (higher wages - shorter hours - better conditions)
Richard Nixon (R)
Andy Warhol
Knights of Labor
Mann Act
19. 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'
20-Negro Law
Transcendentalism
Populist Party
Robert E. Lee
20. Despite near-guaranteed second term - campaign workers burglarized Democratic offices - cover-up unsuccessful - resigned to avoid impeachment
Watergate Scandal
James Monroe
Conformity in the 1950s
Gains for women
21. Killed the AAA - although FDR insisted on continuing by creating smaller state-level AAAs
The Half-Way Covenant
Butler v. U.S. Court case
Transportation Revolution
Panic of 1819
22. Prohibited exports (and imports) based in American ports - most controversial Jefferson legislation
Causes of the depression
American society during the Revolution
Watergate Scandal
Embargo Act (1807)
23. Religious movements - traveling 'meetings -' rise of Baptist and Methodist ministries; Charles G. Finney
Second Great Awakening
The Homefront
Shays's Rebellion
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
24. Due to threat of nuclear war - Soviets erected wall to separate East Berlin from West Berlin (end exodus of intellect to west); symbol of communist denial of freedom
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Berlin Wall
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
25. 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
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Bill of Rights
Keynesian economics
26. John Noyes - New York; utopian society for communalism - perfectionism - and complex marriage
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
Pan-Americanism
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
Unrestricted submarine warfare
27. Issued by Lincoln following Antietam (close enough to a victory to empower the proclamation) - declared slaves in the Confederacy free (did not include border states) - symbolic gesture to support Union's moral cause in the war
Embargo Act (1807)
Henry David Thoreau
Harpers Ferry (1859)
Emancipation Proclamation
28. First president to show positive response to civil rights movement; worked heavily on keeping Soviet spread of communism in check
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
President Harry Truman
Writs of Assistance
29. Pop art - mass production of art by screening
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
Andy Warhol
William Penn and the Quakers
Richard Nixon (R)
30. Sets of programs geared towards minorities and oft-discriminated populations
Affirmative Action
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
31. Congress could tax imports but not exports
Fair Deal
Important WWII Battles
Bank of the United States
Commerce Compromise
32. Activist government to serve all citizens (cf. Alexander Hamilton); founded New Republic magazine
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
Federal Reserve Act
Rosie the Riveter
33. Hamilton's plan to solve Revolutionary debt - Assumption highly controversial - pushed his plan through Congress - based on loose interpretation of Constitution
War hawks
Bank of the United States
Forced busing
Pendleton Civil Service Act
34. Mass migration northward; mainly blacks migrating from the southern states into the north hoping for less discrimination
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
Convict-lease system
Elastic Clause ('necessary and proper')
Great Migration
35. Parliament took minor actions in the colonies - allowing them to experiment with and become accustomed to self-government - international trade agreements
James G. Blaine
Watergate Scandal
Salutary Neglect
Henry David Thoreau
36. Often debtors sold to slave traders by African kings seeking riches; Columbian Exchange
Declining death rate
Atlantic slave trade
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
'Hundred days'
37. Combined Massachusetts - New Hampshire - Connecticut - Rhode Island - and Plymouth (and later Jersey and New York) into one 'supercolony' governed by Sir Edmond Andros - a 'supergovernor'
Dominion of New England
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
Teapot Dome scandal
Lewis and Clark expedition
38. Government ensured readjustment rights to GIs after WWI unrest - loans to veterans for higher education and mortgages (contributed to economic prosperity)
GI Bill of Rights
William Marcy
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
China turns communist
39. Jackson used personal friends as unofficial advisors over his official cabinet
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Salutary Neglect
Deportations of Mexicans
Kitchen Cabinet
40. Advocated by Roger Sherman - proposed two independently-voting senators per state and representation in the House based on population
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
Harlem Renaissance
Camp David Accords
Connecticut Compromise
41. Tax cuts to increase population spending (help economy) - drastic cutting back on government programs due to lack of funds
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
Whigs (Patriots)
Northwest Passage
42. Banned racial discrimination and segregation (public) - bias by federal government; enforced by Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
The Enlightenment
Election of 1980
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Civil Rights Act of 1964
43. Mass production of the Model-T - workers as potential consumers (raise wages) - supported other industries and raised employment
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44. Cherokee tribe forced to move from southern Appalachians to reservations in current-day Oklahoma - high death toll
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45. Overthrow of the Taliban - in search of bin Laden
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
Bull Moose Party
Whigs (Patriots)
Affirmative Action
46. Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson; purchase of Alaska 'Seward's Folly'
Dollar Diplomacy'
William Seward
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
Report on Public Credit
47. Opposed BTW's accommodation policies - called for immediate equality - formed Niagara Movement to support his ideas
Thomas Nast
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
Whiskey Rebellion
48. In reaction to the Boston Tea Party; closing of Boston Harbor - revocation of Massachusetts charter (power to governor) - murder in the name of royal authority would be tried in England or another colony
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
Hartford Convention
Karl Marx Das Kapital
Dixiecrats - 1948
49. Former French subjects in Canada allowed to keep Catholicism - while American colonists expected to participate in the Church of England
Quebec Acts
Ngo Dinh Diem
National Labor Union
Pet banks
50. Started the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) — 'Back to Africa' movement for racial pride and separatism; inspired self-confidence in blacks
Marcus Garvey
Henry David Thoreau
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Affirmative Action