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AP U.S. History
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1. CIA attempt to institute Cuban support to overthrow Castro; cover-up uncovered - became representation of Cuban resistance to American aggression
Truman's Loyalty Program
Bay of Pigs invasion
Hoover's policy of voluntarism
Four Freedoms' speech
2. Required of members of the Puritan Church; took the place of baptism required by the Catholic Church
Deists
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Frederick Douglass
Conversion Experience
3. Killed the AAA - although FDR insisted on continuing by creating smaller state-level AAAs
Transportation Revolution
'Affluent Society'
Butler v. U.S. Court case
David Riesman
4. Sought to eliminate spheres of influence and avoid European monopolies in China; unaccepted by the powers in mind
Open Door Policy
James Meredith
Ngo Dinh Diem
Bank of the United States
5. The Man Nobody Knows - glorification of business - Jesus as a businessman - relationship between religion and manufacturing
Bruce Barton
Spoils System
Declining death rate
Important WWII Battles
6. Allowed for faster processing of cotton - invented by Eli Whitney - less need for slaves
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe (1989)
The Homefront
James Monroe
Cotton Gin
7. 'Rotation in office;' Jackson felt that one should spend a single term in office and return to private citizenship - those who held power too long would become corrupt and political appointments made by new officials was essential for democracy
Wilson's 14 points
Harriet Tubman
Articles of Confederation
Spoils System
8. Through CIO - led three coal mine strikes (some of the very few strikes during the time period)
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
US economy since WWII (service economy)
John L. Lewis
9. Gorbachev decreased nuclear arsenals - Communist Party lost power - Boris Yeltsin (president of Russian Republic) led Muscovites to take control
Hull House
Pinkertons
Frederick Douglass
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
10. Organized Seneca Falls Convention - founded (with Anthony) National Women Suffrage Organization
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Ho Chi Minh
Jingoism
Dollar Diplomacy'
11. Opposed Polk's high-handedness - avid Southern slave owner
John C. Calhoun
Republican Party
William Henry Harrison
Atlantic slave trade
12. Response to Berlin crisis - warned Moscow that threats would be answered with force; Warsaw Pact formed by Soviets in response
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Election of 1824
13. 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
'Graying of America'
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
Valley Forge
Industrial Workers of the World
14. Decision under Sherman Anti-Trust Act shot down by Supreme Court — sugar refining was manufacturing rather than trade/commerce
Rationing
United States vs. EC Knight Company
Hudson River School
Consumerism
15. Goods able to be transferred from New York to New Orleans by inland waterways
Dominion of New England
Harlem Renaissance
Munn v. Illinois
Erie Canal
16. Drastic cutbacks in regulation of business by the federal government (banks - transportation - communications
James Madison
Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1922 and 1930
Regionalist and naturalist writers
Deregulation
17. Head of federal Division of Forestry - contributed to Roosevelt's natural conservation efforts
Pocahontas
Gifford Pinchot
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
Henry Clay and the American System
18. Tax cuts to increase population spending (help economy) - drastic cutting back on government programs due to lack of funds
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
Energy Crisis - OPEC
Hoovervilles
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
19. Lee invaded Pennsylvania - bloodiest battle of the war - Confederate Pickett's Charge (disastrous) - Lee forced to retreat (not pursued by Meade) - South doomed to never invade North again - Gettysburg Address given by Lincoln (nation over union)
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Battle of Gettysburg
Olive Branch Petition
20. French threat at the borders was no longer present - therefore the colonies didn't need English protection; more independent stand against Britain
Citizen Genet
French and Indian War
'Evil Empire' speech - 'Star Wars'
John Dewey
21. Abolished national origins quotas - dramatically increased immigration (especially from Asia and Latin America)
'New Left'
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Immigration Act of 1965
Transportation Revolution
22. Preservation of New Deal - attempt at additions; raised minimum wage - public housing - old-age insurance extension - agricultural price supports (lowering of farm price)
Jim Crow laws
Reaganomics
Convict-lease system
Fair Deal
23. British soldiers shot into crowd of snowball fight; two of nine soldiers (defended by John Adams) found guilty of manslaughter
Boston Massacre
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
National Origins Act (1924)
24. Prohibited exports (and imports) based in American ports - most controversial Jefferson legislation
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
Embargo Act (1807)
'Great Society'
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
25. FDR's inner circle of experts rather than just politicians in the cabinet
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26. Desegregation (Brown v. Board of Ed) - rights of the accused (Miranda v. Arizona) - voting reforms (Wesberry v. Sanders - Reynolds v. Sims - Katzenbach v Morgan)
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
The Alamo
Warren Court
Burned-Over District
27. Challenged New England Calvinist ministers' authority - as they taught the good works for salvation of Catholicism
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
Anne Hutchinson
Proclamation of 1763
28. 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
Zimmerman Note
Ulysses S. Grant
Freeport Doctrine
Conversion Experience
29. Federalist cause leading up to Hartford Convention
Conversion Experience
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
William Lloyd Garrison
Essex case
30. Tried to rule as absolute monarchs without using Parliament - little to no sympathy for colonial legislatures
Conservative backlash against liberalism
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
Charles II - James II
Humanitarian diplomacy
31. Powerful speaker - toured the country and inspired many into Christianity
Rosie the Riveter
George Whitefield
Battle of Saratoga
Underground Railroad
32. South to gain removal of last troops from Reconstruction; North wins Hayes as president
Whiskey Rebellion
Compromise of 1877
Stock market crash (1929)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
33. Lee's attack on Maryland in hopes that he could take it from the Union - bloodiest day of the war - stalemate - McClellan replaced by Burnside - stalemate - South would never be so close to victory again
Battle of Antietam
Marbury v. Madison
Henry Clay and the American System
Consumerism
34. Speech symbolized polarization between conservatives and liberals
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35. Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait despite peace treaty and refusal to abandon Iraqi occupation
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36. Fought for human rights in Africa - Panama Canal returned to Panama - relations with China resolved
Macon's Bill No. 2
Square Deal
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
Humanitarian diplomacy
37. Bicameral congressional representation based on population
Virginia Plan
James K. Polk
Bonus Army
British strengths and weaknesses
38. Needed to protect new Pacific acquisitions - U.S. took over the project from the French after overcoming Clatyton¬ Bulwer Treaty (prohibited exclusive control of canal) with the Hay¬ Pauncefote Treaty
Panama Canal
Vietcong
Barbary Pirates
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
39. Proclamation of 1793 response to French attempts for alliance with US
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Declaratory Act
Neutrality
Harlem Renaissance
40. Emphasis on personal salvation - emotional response - and individual faith; women and blacks; nationalism (Manifest Destiny)
Immigration Act of 1965
Second Great Awakening
New Lights vs. Old Lights
Reaganomics
41. Unemployment jitters; expelled Teamster union (resorted to gangsterism); height of power of workers' unions
Panama Canal
'Hundred days'
War hawks
AFL-CIO (1955)
42. Helped lead settlement house movement - co-founded NAACP - condemned war and poverty
Jane Addams
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
Zimmerman Note
Platt Amendment
43. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - used withheld money from payrolls to provide aid to the unemployed - industrial accident victims - and young mothers; principle of government responsibility for social welfare
Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA)
Deportations of Mexicans
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
Cotton Gin
44. Congress could tax imports but not exports
Commerce Compromise
Report on Public Credit
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
45. 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
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
Indentured servants
Bay of Pigs invasion
New Federalism
46. Soviet leader undergoing tensions on superpower and domestic level
Mikhail Gorbachev
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
47. Democratic political machine in NYC - 'supported' immigrants and poor people of the city - who were needed for Democratic election victories
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Four Freedoms' speech
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
Tammany Hall
48. McKinley reluctant; armed intervention to free Cuba from Spain; Roosevelt's 'Rough Riders' made attack on Spanish at Cuba
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
Republican Party
Spanish American War (1898)
Bush v. Gore (2000)
49. New generation of writers outside of Protestantism - resentment of ideals betrayed by society; Fitzgerald (despised materialism - Great Gatsby) - Hemingway (disillusionment - war experience) - Lewis (against upper class — Babbit and Mainstreet) - Fau
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50. Known as 'wartime food czar;' created recreation policies and reintroduced leisure culture and conservation ethic to get Americans escaping the cities and improve tourism - etc.
New Jersey Plan
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
Mercantilism
Popular Sovereignty