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AP U.S. History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. US provided financial assistance to recover economies in Europe; aimed towards anti-communist governments in France - Italy - and Germany; Eastern European nations prohibited from receiving help from US
Social Darwinism
American Federation of Labor
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
Marshall Plan
2. Accomplished great number of relief - recovery - and reform efforts; sought practical solutions to the problems by experimentation
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3. The principle that a state should decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery
Popular Sovereignty
Deportations of Mexicans
Gays in the military
Virginia Plan
4. 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
US acquisitions
Compromise of 1877
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
Conversion Experience
5. Mistreated farmers - fear of monocracy - forced people to think about central government
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6. Germany announced that it would sink all (including American) ships - attempt to involve U.S. in war
Henry David Thoreau
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Deregulation
Ku Klux Klan
7. Cherokee tribe forced to move from southern Appalachians to reservations in current-day Oklahoma - high death toll
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8. Unemployment jitters; expelled Teamster union (resorted to gangsterism); height of power of workers' unions
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
AFL-CIO (1955)
Henry Clay and the American System
9. Taxes on all legal documents to support British troops - not approved by colonists through their representatives
Alien and Sedition Acts
Bombing and invasion of Cambodia
Stamp Act
Virtual Representation
10. 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)
William Lloyd Garrison
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
12th Amendment
US acquisitions
11. Denounced the 'housewife trap' which caused educated women to hold even themselves inferior to men
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Standard Oil Trust
Ralph Waldo Emerson
12. Allowed sale of weaponry to democracies on 'cash-and-carry' basis - avoided full-blown war; danger zones proclaimed; solved American unemployment crisis
Marbury v. Madison
Neutrality Act - 1939
President Bill Clinton
12th Amendment
13. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - banned child labor - established minimum wage
Spoils System
Teapot Dome scandal
Conservatism
Fair Labor Standards Act
14. Young women employed by Lowell's textile company - housed in dormitories
Elastic Clause ('necessary and proper')
Lowell mill/system
Independent Treasury Bill
Virginia Resolves
15. Georgia cannot enforce American laws on Indian tribes
McCarthyism
'Trail of Tears'
William Henry Harrison
Worcester v. Georgia
16. Coxey and unemployed followers marched on Washington for support in unemployment relief by inflationary public works program
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17. Left primary open to Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy - both promising to end the controversial war
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18. Ideas of Wilson: small enterprise - states' rights - more active government - trust busting - left social issues up to the states
Zoot Suit riots
New Freedom
James Monroe
James Oglethorpe
19. Established world organization; Soviet Union pledged to allow democratic procedures in Eastern Europe; pledge broken - led to Cold War
Yalta Conference (1945)
William H. Taft
Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Association (YMCA & YWCA)
Public Works Administration (PWA)
20. Democratic political machine in NYC - 'supported' immigrants and poor people of the city - who were needed for Democratic election victories
Scopes Trial
Tammany Hall
Bill of Rights
Martin Luther King Jr.
21. Elvis Presley - Marilyn Monroe - James Dean - Beatniks — rebelled against conservative conformity of the rest of the country (esp. targeted youth)
Cotton Gin
'Atlanta Compromise'
Non-conformity
Lusitania
22. William and Mary kicked James II out of England (exiled into France) - allowed more power to the legislatures
Woodrow Wilson
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
The Glorious Revolution
John D. Rockefeller
23. Ford's and Carter's presidencies experienced a recession and inflation simultaneously - solved by Keynesian economics
Zimmerman Note
Stagflation
Woodrow Wilson
Panic of 1893
24. Americans could now spend what they had been told to save during the war (disposable income); increased purchasing of luxury items
Consumerism
League of Nations
Haymarket Bombing
Eugene V. Debs
25. Craft unions that left the Knights (1886) - led by Gompers - women left out of recruitment efforts
Deregulation
American Federation of Labor
Bruce Barton
Harriet Tubman
26. Commission on civil rights to attempt to guarantee the ballot to blacks; showed government's changing views of race relations
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
Whigs (Patriots)
Battle of Tippecanoe
27. Pop art - mass production of art by screening
Booker T. Washington
Andy Warhol
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
28. 14 formal amendments to the treaty for the League of Nations; preserved Monroe Doctrine - Congress desired to keep declaration of war to itself
1968 as 'the year of shocks'
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
Lodge Reservations
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
29. Established colony of Georgia as a place for honest debtors
Lusitania
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
John Foster Dulles
James Oglethorpe
30. Supported by women and churches - instituted by Volstead Act - lacked enforcement; bootlegging and speakeasies - Al Capone and John Dillinger — gangsters and organized crime (casual breaking of the law)
United States vs. EC Knight Company
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
Strict vs. Loose interpretation of the Constitution
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
31. Symbol of women workers during the war
Robert E. Lee
Rosie the Riveter
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
Nicaraguan Contras
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. Focused on skilled workers (harder to replace than unskilled) - coordinated crafts unions - supported 8¬hour workday and injury liability
Deregulation
Samuel Gompers
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
34. Pushed through northern Georgia - captured Atlanta - 'march to the sea' (total war and destruction) - proceeded to South Carolina
William Lloyd Garrison
Mercantilism
Open Door Policy
William T. Sherman
35. Border ruffians in election on issue of slavery incited controversy - proslavery group attacked Lawrence - Kansas - Pottawatomie Massacre
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36. Created Federal Reserve System - regional banks set up for twelve separate districts - final authority of each bank lay with the Federal Reserve Board - paper money to be issued 'Federal Reserve Notes'
Harriet Tubman
Federal Reserve Act
James G. Blaine
Dorothea Lange
37. Worked towards asylums for the mentally insane - worked alongside Mann
Dorothea Dix
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Detente - realpolitik
Women's Christian Temperance Union
38. Nixon led movement to Hiss's indictment; convicted of perjury - Nixon gained national prominence
Conscription policies
John C. Calhoun
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
Bruce Barton
39. U.S. felt it was its duty to 'watch out' for the interests of other countries in the Western hemisphere; provided justification for invasions of Latin America.
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Kent State Protest
AFL-CIO (1955)
Benjamin Franklin
40. Response to Berlin crisis - warned Moscow that threats would be answered with force; Warsaw Pact formed by Soviets in response
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Tallmadge Amendment
Economic transition
41. 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
Richard Nixon (R)
Vietnamization
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
John C. Calhoun
42. Americans concerned with economic depression; sought to avoid European involvement - no apparent immediate threats
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
Fair Deal
Citizen Genet
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
43. American U-2 spy plane shot down over USSR (Ike: 'for national security); US suspended further flights - Krushchev demanded apology (refused)
Pan-Americanism
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
U-2 Incident
Japanese internment
44. Southern Christian Leadership Conference - Led boycott - became leader of civil rights movement; urged nonviolent resistance (cf. tactics of Ghandi);
'Lost Generation'
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
Martin Luther King Jr.
Open Door Policy
45. The Jungle revealed unsanitary nature of meat-packing industry - inspired Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
Upton Sinclair
The Federalist Papers
Marshall Plan
Warren Court
46. South to gain removal of last troops from Reconstruction; North wins Hayes as president
Bank of the United States
Compromise of 1877
Conservatism
Era of Good Feelings
47. Fought for human rights in Africa - Panama Canal returned to Panama - relations with China resolved
Underground Railroad
Connecticut Compromise
Humanitarian diplomacy
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
48. Prohibited colonies from issuing paper money - destabilized colonial economy
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
Conversion Experience
Currency Act
Spanish American War (1898)
49. Adams - Jefferson - and Burr: Adams lost - Jefferson and Burr tied - Hamilton convinced other Federalists to vote for Jefferson to break the tie
Mikhail Gorbachev
Square Deal
Election of 1800
Bush v. Gore (2000)
50. 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
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
Tea Act (1773)
Non-Intercourse Act
Detente - realpolitik