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AP U.S. History
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1. Depicted the evils of slavery (splitting of families and physical abuse); increased participation in abolitionist movement - condemned by South
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2. Western Pennsylvanian farmers' violent protest against whiskey excise tax - Washington sent large army to put down revolt - protests to be limited to non-violent
Scopes Trial
Report on Public Credit
Transportation Revolution
Whiskey Rebellion
3. Group of Bostonians in opposition to the Stamp Act - sought to drive stamp distributors from the city
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Korean War
The Loyal Nine
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
Energy Crisis - OPEC
Spoils System
Tariff of Abominations
The Great Awakening
5. Sought to eliminate spheres of influence and avoid European monopolies in China; unaccepted by the powers in mind
1968 Presidential Election
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
Open Door Policy
Valley Forge
6. Strong patriotism and need to conform to try to avoid blame during red scare - non-churchgoers - unmarried - and critics suspected as communists
Panic of 1819
Conformity in the 1950s
Quarantine Speech - 1937
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
7. 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
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Open Door Policy
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
Jonathan Edwards
8. Ended exclusion of homosexuals from military; due to controversy - compromise of 'don't ask - don't tell' instituted
Keynesian economics
Virginia Resolves
John Smith
Gays in the military
9. Electric light - phonograph - mimeograph - Dictaphone - moving pictures
Thomas Edison
Palmer Raids
Election of 1960
Bush v. Gore (2000)
10. Prohibited aiding of belligerent nations - banned civilian involvement; limited power of president during international war - built up armed forces
Lusitania
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
11. Judiciary Reorganization Bill; FDR's attempt to put in extra judges who would support him without doubt
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
Fugitive Slave Act
Court Packing
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
12. Bush vs. Clinton vs. Perot; focus on stagnancy of economy and problems of middle class (Clinton)
Atlantic slave trade
1992 Election
Reaganomics
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
13. Caused American hysteria (1957) - fear that Soviets were technologically superior; led Ike to order more rigorous education program to rival Soviets (National Defense Education Act)
New Jersey Plan
Sputnik
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Mercantilism
14. Editor of The Liberator (strongly abolitionist newspaper calling for immediate abolition of slavery) - fought for feminist movement ('Am I not a woman and a sister' picture of slave woman)
Explosion of USS Maine
Jonathan Edwards
William Lloyd Garrison
Fair Deal
15. 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'
Compromise of 1850
Jazz
'Silent Majority'
20-Negro Law
16. Germany announced that it would sink all (including American) ships - attempt to involve U.S. in war
Secretary of State John Hay
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Economic transition
John D. Rockefeller
17. Decision under Sherman Anti-Trust Act shot down by Supreme Court — sugar refining was manufacturing rather than trade/commerce
Election of 1800
William H. Taft
United States vs. EC Knight Company
Panama Canal
18. Military hero from War of 1812; elected president 1840 - died of pneumonia a month later - gave presidency to Tyler
William Henry Harrison
Civil Rights Cases
Andrew Carnegie
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
19. Through CIO - led three coal mine strikes (some of the very few strikes during the time period)
John L. Lewis
Samuel Gompers
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
Square Deal
20. Catholic communist autocrat of Vietnam - assassinated (with aid of US)
Fair Deal
Panama Canal
Ngo Dinh Diem
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
21. 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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22. Gives Congress the power to pass laws it deems necessary to enforce the Constitution
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23. Darwinian (influenced by jazz age and new scientific ideas) against Fundamentalist (the Bible and Creationism); John Scopes convicted for teaching Darwinism (defended by Clarence Darrow); Scopes found guilty
Marshall Court (all cases)
Energy Crisis - OPEC
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Scopes Trial
24. Politely demanded from the king a cease¬fire in Boston - repeal of Coercive Acts -. guarantee of American rights
The Federalist Papers
Olive Branch Petition
Declining death rate
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
25. Fought for human rights in Africa - Panama Canal returned to Panama - relations with China resolved
Virginia Resolves
Humanitarian diplomacy
Currency Act
Stamp Act Congress
26. Another part of Nixon's out-of-Vietnam plan - destroy supply routes to North Vietnam through Cambodia
Roe v. Wade
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Bombing and invasion of Cambodia
Berlin Wall
27. Banned racial discrimination and segregation (public) - bias by federal government; enforced by Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
President Jimmy Carter
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Civil Rights Act of 1964
28. Allowed Parliament to completely legislate over the colonies - limited colonists' say
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
National Organization of Women
Declaratory Act
Emancipation Proclamation
29. North African Muslim rulers solved budget problems through piracy and tributes in Mediterranean - obtained fees from most European powers
Jane Addams
Boston Massacre
Barbary Pirates
12th Amendment
30. 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)
Compromise of 1850
Charles Lindbergh
Regionalist and naturalist writers
Cult of domesticity
31. Despite CIA-sponsored Soviet resistance - Afghanistan taken by Soviet Union; ended detente between USSR and US
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
Great Migration
Dixiecrats - 1948
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
32. Proslavery constitution in Kansas - supported by Buchanan - freesoilers against it (victorious) - denied statehood until after secession
League of Nations
First American strategy in WWII
Know-Nothing (American) Party
Lecompton Constitution
33. Newt Gingrich (Republican congressman) planned for success of Republican party in upcoming election by pledging tax cuts - congressional term limits - tougher crime laws - balanced budget amendment - popular reforms &c.
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34. Part of 'First' New Deal Program - subsidies to farmers to decrease production and thus increase prices
George Washington
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Boston Massacre
Wilmot Proviso
35. New Englanders who did not wish to relate their conversion experiences could become half-way saints so that their children would be able to have the opportunity to be saints
Anaconda plan
The Half-Way Covenant
Warren Court
Second Great Awakening
36. Mass production of the Model-T - workers as potential consumers (raise wages) - supported other industries and raised employment
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37. Hamilton's plan to solve Revolutionary debt - Assumption highly controversial - pushed his plan through Congress - based on loose interpretation of Constitution
Bay of Pigs invasion
Bank of the United States
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
38. Foundation for First Amendment - offered free choice of religion - not influenced by state
John D. Rockefeller
Explosion of USS Maine
National Organization of Women
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
39. Effectively ended spoils system and established civil service exams for all government positions - under Pres. Garfield
Isolationism
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Pendleton Civil Service Act
James G. Blaine
40. Meant to keep government unquestioned by critics - particularly of the Federalists
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
Mikhail Gorbachev
Alien and Sedition Acts
Tet Offensive (1968)
41. Intended to save British East India Company from bankruptcy - could sell directly to consumers rather than through wholesalers (lowered prices to compete with smuggled tea)
Tea Act (1773)
Indian Removal Act
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Sugar Act
42. American who settled in Texas - one of the leaders for Texan independence from Mexico
Anne Hutchinson
Robert E. Lee
Stephen Austin
Domino theory
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. Opposed Polk's high-handedness - avid Southern slave-owner (right to own property - slaves as property)
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
John C. Calhoun
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Cotton Gin
45. Key to English-Native American relationship - died in England in 1617
Immigration Act of 1965
The Federalist Papers
Bill of Rights
Pocahontas
46. Another black separatist movement; known for peaceful demonstrations - but more for police shootouts
Nativism
Black Panther Party
Writs of Assistance
George Whitefield
47. US - Britain - Japan - France - and Italy to reduce naval tonnage and halt construction for 10 years; US and Japan to respect Pacific territorial holdings - Kellog-Briand Pact to 'outlaw war'
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
Hull House
James G. Blaine
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
48. Foreshadowed in 14 points - hoped to guarantee political independence and integrity of all countries
Ho Chi Minh
League of Nations
Sputnik
Specie
49. 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
Butler v. U.S. Court case
Upton Sinclair
Monroe Doctrine
Four Freedoms' speech
50. Part of transportation revolution - from Cumberland MD to Wheeling WVa - toll road network; stimulated Western expansion
National Road
Battle of Tippecanoe
Proclamation of 1763
Commerce Compromise