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AP U.S. History
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1. 'Southern Strategy' lured many southern Democrats to the Republican party (esp. due to southern opposition to Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
War Industries Board
Battle of Tippecanoe
Richard Nixon (R)
2. (The Lonely Crowd) 'outer directed' Americans conforming to peer pressure on moral and social issues - rather than independently thinking on morals
David Riesman
The Glorious Revolution
Rationing
Fair Deal
3. Led architectural movement to create building designs that reflected buildings' functions - especially in Chicago
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
Five Civilized Tribes
Rosie the Riveter
Louis Sullivan
4. 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
Frederick Douglass
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
12th Amendment
Freeport Doctrine
5. 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
Emancipation Proclamation
National Organization of Women
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
Transcendentalism
6. 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
Social Darwinism
Industrial Workers of the World
James Oglethorpe
Navigation Acts
7. Middle class; white flight from urban areas due to black migration; government supported insurance for homeowners and builders
Henry Ford's assembly line
Coxey's Army
Suburbia
Underground Railroad
8. Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson; purchase of Alaska 'Seward's Folly'
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
Coxey's Army
Election of 1824
William Seward
9. Started the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) — 'Back to Africa' movement for racial pride and separatism; inspired self-confidence in blacks
Marcus Garvey
Social Reciprocity
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
10. Colonies proposed colonial confederation under lighter British rule (crown-appointed president - 'Grand Council'); never took effect
Albany Plan of Union
President Harry Truman
Camp David Accords
Convict-lease system
11. Fought for women's rights and abolition - 'Men and women are CREATED EQUAL!'
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
Second Great Awakening
Rationing
12. Connected the colonies to Britain - opposed to unnecessary unfair taxation; strong influence on Albany Plan
Benjamin Franklin
King James I - King Charles
AFL-CIO (1955)
Townshend Act (1767)
13. British citizenship outnumbered colonies' - large navy and professional army; exhausted resources (Hessians hired) - national debt
The Great Awakening
Citizen Genet
British strengths and weaknesses
Marbury v. Madison
14. Created in 1961 as example of liberal anticommunism in third world countries; 'reform-minded missionaries of democracy'
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Peace Corps
President Bill Clinton
Boston Massacre
15. Paper money; specie circular decreed that the government would not accept specie for government land
The Federalist Papers
Navigation Acts
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
Specie
16. 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
Civil Rights Cases
Standard Oil Trust
Fugitive Slave Act
Black Panther Party
17. Opposed Polk's high-handedness - avid Southern slave owner
Yellow journalism
John C. Calhoun
Stephen Austin
Compromise of 1877
18. Federalist cause leading up to Hartford Convention
Essex case
French and Indian War
John Dewey
Anne Hutchinson
19. 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
Clinton impeachment (1997)
Mann Act
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
20. Kent State University students protesting against invasion of Cambodia - not allowed to demonstrate - violence (murder) caused by guardsmen
Kent State Protest
Pan-Americanism
Specie
Platt Amendment
21. Nationalists against foreign non-English speaking workers (took jobs away from American men); encouraged to leave the U.S.
1968 Presidential Election
'New Left'
Underground Railroad
Deportations of Mexicans
22. Beginnings of trusts (destruction of competition); vertical- controlling every aspect of production (control quality - eliminate middlemen - Rockefeller); horizontal- consolidating with competitors to monopolize a market (highly detrimental)
Secretary of State John Hay
US acquisitions
Vertical and horizontal integration
Suffolk Resolves
23. Gorbachev decreased nuclear arsenals - Communist Party lost power - Boris Yeltsin (president of Russian Republic) led Muscovites to take control
President Ronald Reagan
Hull House
Explosion of USS Maine
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
24. Taxes on all legal documents to support British troops - not approved by colonists through their representatives
Stamp Act
Herbert Hoover's Food Administration
Mann Act
Platt Amendment
25. Warned against permanent foreign alliances and political parties - called for unity of the country - established precedent of two-term presidency
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26. Head of federal Division of Forestry - contributed to Roosevelt's natural conservation efforts
James Monroe
Four Freedoms' speech
Gifford Pinchot
Connecticut Compromise
27. First female cabinet member
Judiciary Act of 1789
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
28. Bank tightened loan policies - depression rose throughout the country - hurt western farmers greatly
Berlin Airlift
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
Panic of 1819
29. Risk of too many casualties and high costs for hand-to-hand combat/invasion - Japanese surrender unlikely
Tea Act (1773)
Nativism
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
'Graying of America'
30. Economic prosperity of American society following WWII; doubling of national income - jobs to women - defense industry's support of economy
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31. Germany announced that it would sink all (including American) ships - attempt to involve U.S. in war
New Federalism
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Shays's Rebellion
Vietcong
32. 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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33. Japanese bombing of ships in harbor; resulted in FDR's request for declaration of war against Japan; Germany and Italy responded with declarations of war
William Penn and the Quakers
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
Pearl Harbor
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
34. Mass migration northward; mainly blacks migrating from the southern states into the north hoping for less discrimination
Great Migration
Monroe Doctrine
Benjamin Franklin
Woodrow Wilson
35. First 'modern' president - moderate who supported progressivism (at times conservative) - bypassed congressional opposition (cf. Jackson) - significant role in world affairs
John Smith
National Road
'Graying of America'
Theodore Roosevelt
36. Full American independence - territory west of Appalachian ceded to America - loyalists to be compensated for seized property - fishing rights off of Newfoundland
Vietcong
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Treaty of Paris (1783)
37. Established by 'General' William Booth - uniformed volunteers provided food - shelter - and employment to families - attracted poor with lively preaching and marching bands in order to instill middle-class virtues
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
Humanitarian diplomacy
Greenback Party
Salvation Army
38. Former French subjects in Canada allowed to keep Catholicism - while American colonists expected to participate in the Church of England
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
Second Great Awakening
Quebec Acts
Olive Branch Petition
39. Albert Fall accused of accepting bribes for access to government oil in Teapot Dome - Wyoming
Teapot Dome scandal
Era of Good Feelings
Tariff of Abominations
Indian Removal Act
40. Family farmers who hired out slaves for the harvest season - self-sufficient - participated in local markets alongside slave owners
'Gentlemen's Agreement' (1908)
Yeoman Farmers
Hoovervilles
Battle of Tippecanoe
41. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark sent by Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Territory on 'Voyage of Discovery'
Yellow journalism
Non-Intercourse Act
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
Lewis and Clark expedition
42. Attacked public figures (Hollywood - New-Dealers - liberals) to root out communist spies
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
Transportation Revolution
Henry Ford's assembly line
43. Belief in minimal government so as to allow the people their own free reign - lower taxes to stimulate economy - &c.
Conservatism
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
Albany Plan of Union
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
44. Tweed Leader of Tammany Hall - gained large sums of money through the political machine - prosecuted by Samuel Tilden and sent to jail
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
Keynesian economics
William Marcy
Conscription policies
45. Government would hold its revenues rather than deposit them in banks - thus keeping the funds away from private corporations; 'America's Second Declaration of Independence'
William H. Taft
Dorothea Lange
Independent Treasury Bill
Manifest Destiny
46. Scholarly - welfare-reform - 'Contract with America -' impeachment over Monica Lewinski Scandal - War in Kosovo
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
President Bill Clinton
Battle of Antietam
Era of Good Feelings
47. Required of members of the Puritan Church; took the place of baptism required by the Catholic Church
Panic of 1893
Espionage Act and Sedition Act
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
Conversion Experience
48. Halted sale of tribal lands - enabled tribes to regain unallocated lands; repealed Dawes Severalty Act of 1887; helped secure Indians' entry into New Deal associations; led by John Collier
Mann Act
Deportations of Mexicans
'Silent Majority'
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
49. Network of safe houses of white abolitionists used to bring slaves to freedom
Underground Railroad
Isolationism
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
Yalta Conference (1945)
50. Sets of cardboard box houses that epitomized the country's blame on Hoover for the cause of the Depression
Hoovervilles
Cotton Gin
'Big BM' Haywood
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)