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AP U.S. History
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1. Provided country with a break from partisan politics - Missouri Compromise - issued Monroe Doctrine
James Monroe
Robert La Follette
Coxey's Army
Salvation Army
2. Cherokees - Choctaws - Creeks - Chickasaws - and Seminoles; 'civilized' due to their intermarriage with whites - forced out of their homelands by expansion
Five Civilized Tribes
Battle of Antietam
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
3. Created by John L. Lewis for unskilled labor - organized 'sit-down strike' against GM to work for recognition
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
4. Anti-communist crusades due to fear of radicalism spurred by Bolshevik rebellion
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5. Led railroad workers in Pullman Strike - arrested; Supreme Court (decision in re Debs) legalized use of injunction (court order) against unions and strikes
Eugene V. Debs
James Oglethorpe
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
David Riesman
6. Agricultural depression as precursor to the depression; unheeded omen of problems in the economic structure (prices too low — too much supply for the demand)
Jazz
Farm crisis
Boston Massacre
Republican Party
7. Decided to punish war crimes - established program for de-Nazification of Germany
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Pet banks
March on Birmingham
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
8. Part of 'First' New Deal Program - subsidies to farmers to decrease production and thus increase prices
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Open Door Policy
Hoovervilles
9. 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
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
John Dewey
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Public Works Administration (PWA)
10. Killed the AAA - although FDR insisted on continuing by creating smaller state-level AAAs
Court Packing
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
Transcendentalism
Butler v. U.S. Court case
11. McKinley reluctant; armed intervention to free Cuba from Spain; Roosevelt's 'Rough Riders' made attack on Spanish at Cuba
'Red Scare' (1919)
Lusitania
Spanish American War (1898)
Pocahontas
12. No further introduction of slaves into Missouri - all children born to slaves to become free at 25
Theodore Roosevelt
Tallmadge Amendment
Vietnamization
Non-Intercourse Act
13. Required separate and distinct ballots for presidential and vice presidential candidates
League of Nations
Cuban Missile Crisis
Five Civilized Tribes
12th Amendment
14. 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'
Religious Right
James Oglethorpe
Independent Treasury Bill
Tories (Loyalists)
15. Prohibited colonies from issuing paper money - destabilized colonial economy
Tallmadge Amendment
Battle of Gettysburg
Currency Act
Tories (Loyalists)
16. (1) California admitted as free state - (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico - (3) resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries - (4) federal assumption of Texas debt - (5) slave trade abolished in DC - and (6) new fugit
Compromise of 1850
Regionalist and naturalist writers
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
17. President has power to cease trade with any foreign country that violated American neutrality
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18. Part of the New Left that envisioned 'participatory democracy' (individuals control life-affecting decisions) - end materialism - militarism - and racism; inspired by young black activists
Roe v. Wade
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Open Door Policy
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
19. Mexicans held siege on the Alamo (in San Antonio) - Texans lost great number of people - 'Remember the Alamo'
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Yellow journalism
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
The Alamo
20. 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'
Upton Sinclair
Federal Reserve Act
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
GI Bill of Rights
21. Established free trade zone between Canada - United States and Mexico - net gain in jobs due to opening of Mexican markets
'Evil Empire' speech - 'Star Wars'
Okies' and 'Arkies'
Proclamation of 1763
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
22. King hosted myriad nonviolent protesting activities to fill jail with protestors - Bill Connor (police commissioner) began violent resistance to protestors
March on Birmingham
'New Left'
'Red Scare' (1919)
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
23. Ford's and Carter's presidencies experienced a recession and inflation simultaneously - solved by Keynesian economics
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
Consumerism
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Stagflation
24. Risk of too many casualties and high costs for hand-to-hand combat/invasion - Japanese surrender unlikely
Lewis and Clark expedition
Panama Canal
Popular Sovereignty
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
25. Started the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) — 'Back to Africa' movement for racial pride and separatism; inspired self-confidence in blacks
Marcus Garvey
First American strategy in WWII
Henry David Thoreau
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
26. Bush vs. Clinton vs. Perot; focus on stagnancy of economy and problems of middle class (Clinton)
Forced busing
Louis Sullivan
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
1992 Election
27. 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
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Tet Offensive (1968)
Civil Rights Cases
Tea Act (1773)
28. Led by Francis Willard - powerful 'interest group' following the civil war - urged women's suffrage - led to Prohibition
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29. Sewer systems and purification of water
Bacon's Rebellion
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Declining death rate
Second Great Awakening
30. Made it illegal to transport women across state borders for 'immoral purposes -' violated by black boxer Jack Johnson (w/ white woman)
President Harry Truman
Tories (Loyalists)
Espionage Act and Sedition Act
Mann Act
31. Runaway slaves could be caught in the North and be brought back to their masters (they were treated as property — running away was as good as stealing)
Fugitive Slave Act
Vertical and horizontal integration
Compromise of 1877
Fair Labor Standards Act
32. Kennedy vs. Nixon - Kennedy (due to televised charisma) won over Nixon (pale and nervous)
James Monroe
Dawes Plan (1924)
Election of 1960
New Freedom
33. Anti-Federalists wanted states' rights - bill of rights - unanimous consent - reference to religion - more power to less-rich and common people; Federalists wanted strong central government - more power to experienced - separation of church and state
Truman Doctrine
Suburbia
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
The Half-Way Covenant
34. Foundation for First Amendment - offered free choice of religion - not influenced by state
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
Gains for women
Martin Luther King Jr.
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
35. Only English and American ships allowed to colonial ports; dissent began in 1763
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
Navigation Acts
Rosenbergs
Populist Party
36. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark sent by Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Territory on 'Voyage of Discovery'
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
Lewis and Clark expedition
'Wage slaves'
37. Craft unions that left the Knights (1886) - led by Gompers - women left out of recruitment efforts
Transportation Revolution
American Federation of Labor
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
38. Public treaties - free trade - free seas - reduced armament burdens - anti-imperialism - independence to minorities - international organization
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39. Tweed Leader of Tammany Hall - gained large sums of money through the political machine - prosecuted by Samuel Tilden and sent to jail
Harriet Tubman
Horace Mann
Midnight judges
William Marcy
40. Search warrants on shipping to reduce smuggling; challenged by James Otis
Emergency Banking Relief Act
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
Writs of Assistance
New Harmony
41. 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
Haymarket Bombing
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
James K. Polk
Nativism
42. Foreshadowed in 14 points - hoped to guarantee political independence and integrity of all countries
League of Nations
Citizen Genet
Court Packing
Currency Act
43. Believed in expanding federal power on economy - encouraged industrial development; could only gain power on the local level - led by Henry Clay (anti-Jackson)
Whig Party
Forced busing
Energy Crisis - OPEC
John L. Lewis
44. Speech given by BTW to ease whites' fears of integration - assuring them that separate but equal was acceptable - ideas challenged by DuBois
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45. Committee on Public Information; aimed to sell America and the world on Wilson's war goals; propaganda - censorship - 'four-minute men' speeches - 'Liberty Leagues' (spy on community)
Creel Committee
Peace Corps
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Burned-Over District
46. Similar to Navigation; raised money to pay colonial officials by American taxes; led to Boston boycott of English luxuries
Battle of Saratoga
Mercantilism
Proclamation of 1763
Townshend Act (1767)
47. Created the Wisconsin Idea (as governor of Wisconsin) — regulated railroad - direct-primary system - increased corporate taxes - reference library for lawmakers
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Robert La Follette
Espionage Act and Sedition Act
Richard Nixon (R)
48. Allowed Parliament to completely legislate over the colonies - limited colonists' say
Indentured servants
Declaratory Act
William Marcy
'City on a Hill'
49. Effects of pesticides on the environment; changed way Americans viewed their impact on nature
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
New Jersey Plan
50. FDR's inner circle of experts rather than just politicians in the cabinet
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