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AP U.S. History
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1. Argued that states had the right to determine whether or not the laws passed by Congress were constitutional
Farm crisis
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
King James I - King Charles
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
2. Due to parents unhappy with encouraged segregation of schools - Supreme Court instituted forced busing policies (using school buses as a method of integration)
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
Forced busing
Hoovervilles
3. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - banned child labor - established minimum wage
Panic of 1893
Fair Labor Standards Act
Specie
Haymarket Bombing
4. Organized Seneca Falls Convention - founded (with Anthony) National Women Suffrage Organization
Sugar Act
Valley Forge
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
5. Blacks who went to prison taken out and used for labor in slave-like conditions - enforced southern racial hierarchy
Convict-lease system
Critics of FDR
Ike's Farewell Speech
Federal Reserve Act
6. 10-year moratorium on Chinese immigration to reduce competition for jobs (Chinese willing to work for cheap salaries)
William Henry Harrison
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
Tammany Hall
7. Taxes on all legal documents to support British troops - not approved by colonists through their representatives
Stamp Act
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
Eugene V. Debs
United States vs. EC Knight Company
8. Government ensured readjustment rights to GIs after WWI unrest - loans to veterans for higher education and mortgages (contributed to economic prosperity)
Wilson's 14 points
20-Negro Law
GI Bill of Rights
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
9. Sought to eliminate spheres of influence and avoid European monopolies in China; unaccepted by the powers in mind
Panic of 1893
William Penn and the Quakers
Deregulation
Open Door Policy
10. All English subjects are represented in Parliament - including those not allowed to vote
'Hundred days'
Virtual Representation
Ike's Farewell Speech
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
11. 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
Indentured servants
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Burned-Over District
12. Roosevelt and Pinchot sided on conservation rather than preservation (planned and regulated use of forest lands for public and commercial uses)
Camp David Accords
The Great Awakening
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
13. Strong central government provided by power divided between state and national governments - checks and balances - amendable constitution
Federalism
Non-conformity
Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1922 and 1930
Pet banks
14. Monroe presidency - national unity behind Monroe - post-war boom (foreign demand for cotton - grain - and tobacco) - Depression of 1819 (cheap British imports - tightened credit - affected West the most)
League of Nations
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
Era of Good Feelings
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
15. In Brook Farm Community - lived in seclusion for two years writing Walden and On Civil Disobedience - proved that man could provide for himself without materialistic wants
Henry David Thoreau
Connecticut Compromise
Affirmative Action
Popular Sovereignty
16. Stated the United States was destined to span the breadth of the entire continent with as much land as possible - advocated by Polk
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Committees of Correspondence
Manifest Destiny
Gains for women
17. Jackson used personal friends as unofficial advisors over his official cabinet
John C. Calhoun
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
Kitchen Cabinet
18. Gorbachev decreased nuclear arsenals - Communist Party lost power - Boris Yeltsin (president of Russian Republic) led Muscovites to take control
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
Judiciary Act of 1789
Erie Canal
President Harry Truman
19. Part of transportation revolution - from Cumberland MD to Wheeling WVa - toll road network; stimulated Western expansion
Navigation Acts
Robert E. Lee
National Road
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
20. NLF attacked numerous South Vietnamese cities and American embassies - eventually repulsed; spoiled LBJ's record to reelection - resulted in massive protests in US to end the war; atrocities such that war could only end in stalemate
Tet Offensive (1968)
Albany Plan of Union
Social Reciprocity
McCarthyism
21. Won battles in the West and raised northern morale (esp. Shiloh - Fort Henry - and Fort Donelson) - made Union commanding general
Ulysses S. Grant
Cotton Gin
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
22. Albert Fall accused of accepting bribes for access to government oil in Teapot Dome - Wyoming
Conformity in the 1950s
Tammany Hall
Teapot Dome scandal
Quebec Acts
23. North African Muslim rulers solved budget problems through piracy and tributes in Mediterranean - obtained fees from most European powers
Lusitania
Immigration Act of 1965
Barbary Pirates
Plessy v. Ferguson
24. Mass production of the Model-T - workers as potential consumers (raise wages) - supported other industries and raised employment
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25. 'Trustbuster' (busted twice as many as Roosevelt) - conservation and irrigation efforts - Postal Savings Bank System - Payne-Aldrich Tariff (reduction of tariff - caused Republican split)
Teapot Dome scandal
Detente - realpolitik
William H. Taft
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
26. 8000 businesses collapsed (including railroads); due to stock market crash - overbuilding of railroads - heavy farmer loans - economic disruption by labor efforts - agricultural depression; decrease of gold reserves led to Cleveland's repeal of Sherm
Spanish American War (1898)
Panic of 1893
Nicaraguan Contras
'Graying of America'
27. Parliament took minor actions in the colonies - allowing them to experiment with and become accustomed to self-government - international trade agreements
Olive Branch Petition
Citizen Genet
Cuban Missile Crisis
Salutary Neglect
28. Lowering of income taxes for wealthy (trickle-down economics) - refusal to create higher prices to help farmers (McNary-Haugen Bill)
Strict vs. Loose interpretation of the Constitution
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
Sputnik
Neutrality
29. Agricultural depression as precursor to the depression; unheeded omen of problems in the economic structure (prices too low — too much supply for the demand)
Kitchen Cabinet
Farm crisis
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
Marcus Garvey
30. Peaceful destruction of British tea in Boston Harbor by colonists disguised as Indians
Reaganomics
Soviet atomic bomb
Fort Sumter
Boston Tea Party
31. Marbury v. Madison (judicial review) - McChulloch v. Maryland (loose Constitutional interpretation - constitutionality of National Bank - states cannot control government agencies) - Gibbons v. Ogden (interstate commerce controlled by Congress) - Fle
Herbert Hoover's Food Administration
Louis Sullivan
Marshall Court (all cases)
Moral Diplomacy
32. Emphasis on human reason - logic - and science (acquired - not nascent - knowledge); increased followers of Christianity
The Enlightenment
Wilson's 14 points
Tea Act (1773)
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
33. 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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34. Tweed Leader of Tammany Hall - gained large sums of money through the political machine - prosecuted by Samuel Tilden and sent to jail
William Marcy
United States vs. EC Knight Company
Gays in the military
American society during the Revolution
35. Unprecedented sudden growth spurt of American population (especially urban and suburban areas)
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36. Paper money; specie circular decreed that the government would not accept specie for government land
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
Specie
Immigration Act of 1965
Black Panther Party
37. Led Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: threatened a siege on DC if FDR did not agree to end discrimination in military
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
Detente - realpolitik
'Trail of Tears'
Social Reciprocity
38. Settlers to pay the expenses of a servant's voyage and be granted land for each person they brought over; headright system
Boston Massacre
Indentured servants
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
39. Pushed through northern Georgia - captured Atlanta - 'march to the sea' (total war and destruction) - proceeded to South Carolina
Suburbia
William T. Sherman
Charles II - James II
Bacon's Rebellion
40. Increased already high rate of inflation by quadrupling the price of crude oil
Citizen Genet
Election of 1980
James Monroe
Energy Crisis - OPEC
41. Founded by Emerson - strong emphasis on spiritual unity (God - humanity - and nature) - literature with strong references to nature
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
Stamp Act
Transcendentalism
Sugar Act
42. Family farmers who hired out slaves for the harvest season - self-sufficient - participated in local markets alongside slave owners
Consumerism
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
Yeoman Farmers
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
43. New Lights brought new ideas - rejected by Old Lights; both sought out institutions independent of each other
Keynesian economics
New Lights vs. Old Lights
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
44. United States aided South Vietnam in its war of power struggle against North Vietnam - the Vietcong - USSR - and China
Five Civilized Tribes
'City on a Hill'
Isolationism
Vietnam War
45. 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
William T. Sherman
Macon's Bill No. 2
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
46. Part of Nixon's tri-faceted plan to honorably remove troops from Vietnam; wean the South Vietnamese off of American support - gradually reducing number of American troops present
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
Isolationism
Vietnamization
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
47. Upheld constitutionality of Espionage Act; Congress right to limit free speech during times of war
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
Quebec Acts
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Mercantilism
48. Advocated by Roger Sherman - proposed two independently-voting senators per state and representation in the House based on population
Nicaraguan Contras
Connecticut Compromise
National Organization of Women
Elastic Clause ('necessary and proper')
49. John Marshall declared that the Supreme Court could declare federal laws unconstitutional
Republican Party
Marbury v. Madison
Spoils System
Alien and Sedition Acts
50. Unconstitutionalized the NRA due to delegation of legislative authority from Congress to executive
Bank of the United States
Schechter v. U.S Court case
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Know-Nothing (American) Party