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AP U.S. History
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1. Created by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst; aimed to excite American imperialist interests; media bias - subjective representation of events
Detente - realpolitik
William T. Sherman
Pet banks
Yellow journalism
2. Hamilton's plan to solve Revolutionary debt - Assumption highly controversial - pushed his plan through Congress - based on loose interpretation of Constitution
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
Bank of the United States
Bombing and invasion of Cambodia
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
3. Proclamation of 1793 response to French attempts for alliance with US
Bracero program
Dorothea Lange
Neutrality
Vertical and horizontal integration
4. Left primary open to Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy - both promising to end the controversial war
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5. Organized Seneca Falls Convention - founded (with Anthony) National Women Suffrage Organization
Keynesian economics
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Jonathan Edwards
Whig Party
6. Roosevelt and Pinchot sided on conservation rather than preservation (planned and regulated use of forest lands for public and commercial uses)
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
Alien and Sedition Acts
Cotton Gin
The Homefront
7. Clay and Calhoun - eager for war with Britain (War of 1812)
Causes of the depression
Pinkertons
War hawks
Lodge Reservations
8. Spurred by Great Migration - large-scale riots - lynchings - &c.
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9. Middle class; white flight from urban areas due to black migration; government supported insurance for homeowners and builders
Suburbia
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
Federal Reserve Act
'New Left'
10. 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
Report on Public Credit
Jay's Treaty
Freeport Doctrine
Hartford Convention
11. Launched in 1958 by Ike; successful launch of American satellite (Explorer I); massive arms builup
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Anne Hutchinson
Emergency Banking Relief Act
12. 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)
20-Negro Law
March on Birmingham
Regionalist and naturalist writers
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
13. Bicameral congressional representation based on population
Thomas Edison
League of Nations
Virginia Plan
Ike's Farewell Speech
14. Racism riots against Mexican laborers (imported for jobs)
'Graying of America'
Embargo Act (1807)
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
Zoot Suit riots
15. 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.
Anne Hutchinson
Virginia Plan
Elastic Clause ('necessary and proper')
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
16. 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
Okies' and 'Arkies'
Spoils System
Nullification
17. December 1814 - Opposed War of 1812 - called for one-term presidency - northern states threatened to secede if their views were left unconsidered next to those of southern and western states - supported nullification - end of Federalist Party
Jonathan Edwards
Impressment
Hartford Convention
Zimmerman Note
18. Detente achieved with USSR and China by withdrawal from Vietnam; realpolitik shed the use of doctrines and policies - instead using China and USSR in alternative ways to achieve other goals (pitting China and USSR against each other - as communist na
Detente - realpolitik
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
19. French threat at the borders was no longer present - therefore the colonies didn't need English protection; more independent stand against Britain
Pearl Harbor
Theodore Roosevelt
French and Indian War
Deportations of Mexicans
20. Offered a New Deal (reminiscent of FDR) of smaller government - reduced taxes - and free enterprise; Washington outsider
President Ronald Reagan
Vietnamization
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
Nullification
21. Jackson used personal friends as unofficial advisors over his official cabinet
Kitchen Cabinet
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Keynesian economics
New York City draft riots (1863)
22. Attacked industrial elite - called for business regulation - publisher refused works breaking with Victorian ideals
Spoils System
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
Warren Court
Cuban Missile Crisis
23. United States aided South Vietnam in its war of power struggle against North Vietnam - the Vietcong - USSR - and China
Vietnam War
Sons of Liberty
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
Nullification
24. The two political parties that formed following Washington's presidency; Federalists for stronger central government - Republicans for stronger state governments
Federalists and Republicans
Watergate Scandal
Jonathan Edwards
Washington's Farewell Address
25. Decisive victory in the War of 1812 by Harrison over Tecumseh - used in Harrison's campaign for presidency
Frederick Douglass
Truman's Loyalty Program
Battle of Tippecanoe
Wilmot Proviso
26. The Man Nobody Knows - glorification of business - Jesus as a businessman - relationship between religion and manufacturing
Indentured servants
1968 Presidential Election
Bruce Barton
Rationing
27. Northern Securities Company (JP Morgan and James G. Hill - railroads) seen by Roosevelt as 'bad' trust - Supreme Court upheld his first trust-bust
Kitchen Cabinet
Northern Securities Case
American society during the Revolution
Impressment
28. Slaves could not sue in federal courts (blacks no longer considered citizens) - slaves could not be taken from masters except by the law - Missouri Compromise unconstitutional - Congress not able to prohibit slavery in a state
Stamp Act Congress
12th Amendment
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Adams-Onis Treaty
29. Four-day banking holiday to create controlled inflation - followed by reopening of sound banks - and reorganization of unsound banks
Unrestricted submarine warfare
'Great Society'
President Ronald Reagan
Emergency Banking Relief Act
30. Held in New York - agreed to not import British goods until Stamp Act was repealed
Citizen Genet
Second Great Awakening
Deregulation
Stamp Act Congress
31. Established world organization; Soviet Union pledged to allow democratic procedures in Eastern Europe; pledge broken - led to Cold War
Whig Party
Jamestown
Yalta Conference (1945)
John Smith
32. Attacked people for being communist by association and unsubstantiated claims - against Truman - Marshall - and Ike; downfall came with attack on the military (condemned by Senate); led hysteria of the red scare
Jane Addams
McCarthyism
Whiskey Rebellion
James Meredith
33. Sets of cardboard box houses that epitomized the country's blame on Hoover for the cause of the Depression
Hoovervilles
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
French and Indian War
Benjamin Franklin
34. Emphasized importance of private charities to help the depression
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35. Stated the United States was destined to span the breadth of the entire continent with as much land as possible - advocated by Polk
Zoot Suit riots
'Bleeding Kansas'
Manifest Destiny
Vertical and horizontal integration
36. Lee's chief lieutenant and premier cavalry officer
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37. 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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38. Politely demanded from the king a cease¬fire in Boston - repeal of Coercive Acts -. guarantee of American rights
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
Olive Branch Petition
Federalism
Civil Rights Act of 1964
39. Reagan and Gorbachev agree to remove and destroy nuclear weapons from Eastern and Western Europe; eased international tension and allowed Soviet domestic reforms to take place
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
40. Required of members of the Puritan Church; took the place of baptism required by the Catholic Church
James Oglethorpe
Stock market crash (1929)
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
Conversion Experience
41. Unprecedented sudden growth spurt of American population (especially urban and suburban areas)
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42. Workers unable to escape (locked into factory) - all died; further encouraged reform movements for working conditions
Anne Hutchinson
John C. Calhoun
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
43. Created the Wisconsin Idea (as governor of Wisconsin) — regulated railroad - direct-primary system - increased corporate taxes - reference library for lawmakers
New Lights vs. Old Lights
Richard Nixon (R)
Robert La Follette
Tet Offensive (1968)
44. In Brook Farm Community - literary nationalist - transcendentalist (nascent ideas of God and freedom) - wrote 'The American Scholar'
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
President Lyndon B. Johnson
45. Kent State University students protesting against invasion of Cambodia - not allowed to demonstrate - violence (murder) caused by guardsmen
Kent State Protest
Civil Rights Cases
Northwest Passage
Dred Scott v. Sandford
46. Focused on skilled workers (harder to replace than unskilled) - coordinated crafts unions - supported 8¬hour workday and injury liability
George Washington
Samuel Gompers
Tet Offensive (1968)
Louis Sullivan
47. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - insured deposits < $5000 - reassured American public of the worth of banks
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
President Harry Truman
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
48. Prohibited aiding of belligerent nations - banned civilian involvement; limited power of president during international war - built up armed forces
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
Gays in the military
Jamestown
First American strategy in WWII
49. Nationalists against foreign non-English speaking workers (took jobs away from American men); encouraged to leave the U.S.
Religious Right
Deportations of Mexicans
William Jennings Bryan
Thomas Edison
50. Often debtors sold to slave traders by African kings seeking riches; Columbian Exchange
Malcolm X - Nation of Islam
Atlantic slave trade
March on Birmingham
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists