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AP U.S. History

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1. Albert Fall accused of accepting bribes for access to government oil in Teapot Dome - Wyoming






2. Ended exclusion of homosexuals from military; due to controversy - compromise of 'don't ask - don't tell' instituted






3. Lowering of income taxes for wealthy (trickle-down economics) - refusal to create higher prices to help farmers (McNary-Haugen Bill)






4. Increase working output by standardizing procedures and rewarding those who worked fast; efficiency






5. Over Senate seat for Illinois (Douglas victor) - Lincoln stated the country could not remain split over the issue of slavery






6. 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






7. Territory split into Kansas and Nebraska - popular sovereignty (Kansas slave - Nebraska free); proposed by Stephen A. Douglas






8. Fear of Japanese-Americans as traitors - sent off (by law) to internment camps; removal of deemed threats in military areas






9. Taught American landscape painting rather than Classical subjects






10. French threat at the borders was no longer present - therefore the colonies didn't need English protection; more independent stand against Britain






11. Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson; purchase of Alaska 'Seward's Folly'






12. Goods able to be transferred from New York to New Orleans by inland waterways






13. Craft unions that left the Knights (1886) - led by Gompers - women left out of recruitment efforts






14. Worked to reform the American education system - abolitionist - prison/asylum reform with Dorothea Dix






15. Roosevelt and Pinchot sided on conservation rather than preservation (planned and regulated use of forest lands for public and commercial uses)






16. National Liberation Front - guerilla militia from south Vietnam fighting alongside the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam)






17. Challenged New England Calvinist ministers' authority - as they taught the good works for salvation of Catholicism






18. Meant to provide evacuation opportunity for Americans in Cuba; internal accidental explosion blamed on Spanish mines - leading to Spanish¬ American War






19. Southern Christian Leadership Conference - Led boycott - became leader of civil rights movement; urged nonviolent resistance (cf. tactics of Ghandi);






20. Exempted those who owned or oversaw twenty or more slaves from service in the Confederate Army; 'rich man's war but a poor man's fight'






21. FDR's plan (although vague during the campaign) to restart the economy and pull America out of the Great Depression






22. Prohibited use of any devices (e.g. - literacy tests) to deny the right to vote and enforced black suffrage rights






23. Black veteran escorted to be enrolled in Univ. of Miss. by military (school reluctant - cf. Little Rock Nine)






24. Colonies proposed colonial confederation under lighter British rule (crown-appointed president - 'Grand Council'); never took effect






25. Required of members of the Puritan Church; took the place of baptism required by the Catholic Church






26. Truman tested for communist alliances within government; government employees prohibited from taking part in remotely-communist activities


27. The principle that a state should decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery






28. Stressed to the American people British maltreatment and emphasize a need for revolution; appealed to American emotions






29. Rebels felt the governor of Virginia failed to protect the frontier from the Native Americans


30. Foundation for self-government laid out by the first Massachusetts settlers before arriving on land






31. Written by Calhoun - regarding tariff nullification






32. Repeat candidate for president - proponent of silver-backing (16:1 platform) - cross of gold speech against gold standard; Democratic candidate (1896)






33. Western Pennsylvanian farmers' violent protest against whiskey excise tax - Washington sent large army to put down revolt - protests to be limited to non-violent






34. No further introduction of slaves into Missouri - all children born to slaves to become free at 25






35. John Noyes - New York; utopian society for communalism - perfectionism - and complex marriage






36. Helped lead settlement house movement - co-founded NAACP - condemned war and poverty






37. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - provided more funds to state and local relief efforts






38. Believed to provide shortcut from Atlantic to Pacific - searched for by Giovanni de Verrazano for Francis I in the race to Asian wealth






39. Political muckraking cartoonist - refused bribes to stop criticism






40. Exemplary Christian community - rich to show charity - held to Calvinistic beliefs


41. Avoided league of Nations - opposed Latin American involvement






42. Mao Zedong (communist) defeated nationalist forces of Kai-Shek (supported by US); seen as defeat for US - not officially fully recognized until 1973






43. Spurred by Great Migration - large-scale riots - lynchings - &c.


44. Unemployment jitters; expelled Teamster union (resorted to gangsterism); height of power of workers' unions






45. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - employed young jobless men with government projects on work relief and environment






46. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - Harold Icicles - provided public construction projects






47. Provided country with a break from partisan politics - Missouri Compromise - issued Monroe Doctrine






48. Huerta's enemy - reluctantly supported by U.S.; U.S. sought Villa's submission due to terrorism - eventually assassinated; Wilson's policy highly unpopular






49. Reluctant to give colonists their own government - preferred to appoint royal governors






50. Offered a New Deal (reminiscent of FDR) of smaller government - reduced taxes - and free enterprise; Washington outsider