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AP U.S. History
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1. Storage of Soviet missiles in Cuba (threat of nuclear war); Krushchev demanded that US never invade Cuba and remove forces from Turkey; mutual compliance with each other's demands
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Compromise of 1877
China turns communist
Cuban Missile Crisis
2. Europeans should not interfere with affairs in Western Hemisphere - Americans to stay out of foreign affairs; supported Washington's goal for US neutrality in Americas
Humanitarian diplomacy
Monroe Doctrine
Keynesian economics
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
3. Head of federal Division of Forestry - contributed to Roosevelt's natural conservation efforts
Okies' and 'Arkies'
Gifford Pinchot
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
4. Decision under Sherman Anti-Trust Act shot down by Supreme Court — sugar refining was manufacturing rather than trade/commerce
United States vs. EC Knight Company
Harpers Ferry (1859)
President Franklin Roosevelt
Consumerism
5. 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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6. Due to parents unhappy with encouraged segregation of schools - Supreme Court instituted forced busing policies (using school buses as a method of integration)
Currency Act
Forced busing
'Hundred days'
James Monroe
7. William and Mary kicked James II out of England (exiled into France) - allowed more power to the legislatures
The Glorious Revolution
Coxey's Army
Northwest Passage
Harpers Ferry (1859)
8. Craft unions that left the Knights (1886) - led by Gompers - women left out of recruitment efforts
American Federation of Labor
Know-Nothing (American) Party
Great Migration
President Bill Clinton
9. Helped lead settlement house movement - co-founded NAACP - condemned war and poverty
Lecompton Constitution
March on Birmingham
Virginia Plan
Jane Addams
10. Cherokees - Choctaws - Creeks - Chickasaws - and Seminoles; 'civilized' due to their intermarriage with whites - forced out of their homelands by expansion
Kent State Protest
John C. Calhoun
Deists
Five Civilized Tribes
11. British soldiers shot into crowd of snowball fight; two of nine soldiers (defended by John Adams) found guilty of manslaughter
Connecticut Compromise
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Black Panther Party
Boston Massacre
12. Increase working output by standardizing procedures and rewarding those who worked fast; efficiency
March on Washington
Tet Offensive (1968)
Marcus Garvey
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
13. Black veteran escorted to be enrolled in Univ. of Miss. by military (school reluctant - cf. Little Rock Nine)
'Contract with America' (1994)
Nat Turner's Rebellion
James Meredith
Assassination of JFK - Warren Commission
14. Calvinist - devised concept of 'city on a hill' ('A Model of Christian Charity'); founded highly successful towns in Massachusetts Bay
Watergate Scandal
Social Reciprocity
John D. Rockefeller
John Winthrop
15. CIA attempt to institute Cuban support to overthrow Castro; cover-up uncovered - became representation of Cuban resistance to American aggression
Judiciary Act of 1789
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
Bay of Pigs invasion
'Affluent Society'
16. 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
Atlantic slave trade
Bombing and invasion of Cambodia
Lowell mill/system
17. Decisive victory in the War of 1812 by Harrison over Tecumseh - used in Harrison's campaign for presidency
New Jersey Plan
Conformity in the 1950s
Cotton Gin
Battle of Tippecanoe
18. Overthrow of the Taliban - in search of bin Laden
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
Erie Canal
Non-conformity
Invasion of Afghanistan (2002)
19. The two political parties that formed following Washington's presidency; Federalists for stronger central government - Republicans for stronger state governments
Sons of Liberty
Mercantilism
Federalists and Republicans
Suburbia
20. Installed Shah as dictator - overthrew Moussadegh (communist interests) - in order to resist nationalization British oil holdings
Bacon's Rebellion
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
CIA overthrow of Iran (1953)
Indian Removal Act
21. Led a slave rebellion in Virginia - attacked many whites - prompted non-slaveholding Virginians to consider emancipation
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22. Old immigrants from northern and western Europe came seeking better life; new immigrants came from southern and eastern Europe searching for opportunity to escape worse living conditions back home and often did not stay in the US
Ralph Waldo Emerson
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
Jonathan Edwards
Treaty of Paris (1783)
23. Combined Massachusetts - New Hampshire - Connecticut - Rhode Island - and Plymouth (and later Jersey and New York) into one 'supercolony' governed by Sir Edmond Andros - a 'supergovernor'
Dominion of New England
Bonus Army
Cult of domesticity
AFL-CIO (1955)
24. Conservatives like Reagan benefited from denouncing the New Left and excessive antiwar protests; gave him political prominence
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
Conservative backlash against liberalism
Samuel Gompers
Report on Public Credit
25. Veterans from WWI sought their pensions before they were too old to use them; they were denied and were run out of Washington (violently - by MacArthur)
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
Thomas Nast
Bonus Army
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
26. Educational and residential segregation; inferior facilities allotted to African-Americans - predominantly in South
Republican Party
Hartford Convention
Jim Crow laws
Bull Moose Party
27. Private property subject to government regulation when property is devoted to public interest; against railroads
Munn v. Illinois
George Kennan
Elastic Clause ('necessary and proper')
Woodrow Wilson
28. Nixon's domestic policy; federal revenues shared with states (revenue sharing) - minimum income proposed
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
New Federalism
John L. Lewis
Important WWII Battles
29. Protestant church led by the king of England - independent of Catholic Church; tended toward Catholicism during reign of Catholic royalty
James Meredith
Invasion of Iraq
Hartford Convention
Church of England
30. Blacks who went to prison taken out and used for labor in slave-like conditions - enforced southern racial hierarchy
Detente - realpolitik
March on Birmingham
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
Convict-lease system
31. Ike forced to send National Guard to escort black children to school to quell riots and resistance (first time since Reconstruction that troops used in the south to enforce Constitution); resistance by white community (private schools)
Detente - realpolitik
Mayflower Compact
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
Affirmative Action
32. Scholarly - welfare-reform - 'Contract with America -' impeachment over Monica Lewinski Scandal - War in Kosovo
Haymarket Bombing
President Bill Clinton
Farmers'Alliance movement
Jim Crow laws
33. South to gain removal of last troops from Reconstruction; North wins Hayes as president
Lewis and Clark expedition
Compromise of 1877
Spoils System
Thomas Edison
34. Argued that states had the right to determine whether or not the laws passed by Congress were constitutional
'Brain trust'
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Northern Securities Case
Samuel Gompers
35. Religious movements - traveling 'meetings -' rise of Baptist and Methodist ministries; Charles G. Finney
'Atlanta Compromise'
AFL-CIO (1955)
Second Great Awakening
Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1922 and 1930
36. Elvis Presley - Marilyn Monroe - James Dean - Beatniks — rebelled against conservative conformity of the rest of the country (esp. targeted youth)
Rationing
Anaconda plan
Non-conformity
Jay's Treaty
37. Parks arrested for refusing to give up bus seat to white man - African American leaders called for city-wide boycott of bus system (lasted almost 400 days); Supreme Court ruled segregated buses unconstitutional
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Populist Party
Marbury v. Madison
20-Negro Law
38. President has power to cease trade with any foreign country that violated American neutrality
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39. Provided housing and recreation to city youth - imposing Protestant morals - unable to reach out to all youth
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40. Northern Securities Company (JP Morgan and James G. Hill - railroads) seen by Roosevelt as 'bad' trust - Supreme Court upheld his first trust-bust
'Wage slaves'
New Nationalism
Northern Securities Case
US economy since WWII (service economy)
41. 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
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
Industrial Workers of the World
Transportation Revolution
Square Deal
42. '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
Spoils System
Berlin Airlift
Monroe Doctrine
Quarantine Speech - 1937
43. Created by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst; aimed to excite American imperialist interests; media bias - subjective representation of events
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
Yellow journalism
Popular Sovereignty
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
44. Coxey and unemployed followers marched on Washington for support in unemployment relief by inflationary public works program
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45. States could refuse to enforce the federal laws they deemed unconstitutional
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
Nullification
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
46. New Englanders who did not wish to relate their conversion experiences could become half-way saints so that their children would be able to have the opportunity to be saints
The Half-Way Covenant
Currency Act
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
Andrew Carnegie
47. Economic recession (collapse of savings-and-loan industry - increasing deficit due to Reagan tax cuts - retail decreased - higher crime rate)
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48. Offered a New Deal (reminiscent of FDR) of smaller government - reduced taxes - and free enterprise; Washington outsider
Federal Reserve Act
President Ronald Reagan
Virginia Plan
Stock market crash (1929)
49. Natural selection applied to human competition - advocated by Herbert Spencer - William Graham Sumner
Burned-Over District
Social Darwinism
Populist Party
John Smith
50. Strong patriotism and need to conform to try to avoid blame during red scare - non-churchgoers - unmarried - and critics suspected as communists
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
Conformity in the 1950s
Theodore Roosevelt
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)