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AP U.S. History
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1. Founded by Uriah Stephens (1869); excluded corrupt and well-off; equal female pay - end to child/convict labor - employer-employee relations - proportional income tax; 'bread and butter' unionism (higher wages - shorter hours - better conditions)
Knights of Labor
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
David Riesman
2. Led a slave rebellion in Virginia - attacked many whites - prompted non-slaveholding Virginians to consider emancipation
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3. Government would protect America's foreign investments with any force needed; under president Taft
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4. 'I have a dream' 25 -000 people (including whites) convened for political rally - MLK's speech to historical event; attempted to push civil rights bill through Congress
Election of 1960
March on Washington
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
5. Efficient working methods to increase productivity; usually resulted in lower wages (hated by workers) - power to managers
Harpers Ferry (1859)
William and Mary
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
6. Established by 'General' William Booth - uniformed volunteers provided food - shelter - and employment to families - attracted poor with lively preaching and marching bands in order to instill middle-class virtues
Lodge Reservations
Salvation Army
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
Ngo Dinh Diem
7. Supported expanded money supply - health/safety regulations - benefits for workers and farmers - granger (farmer)-supported
Liberty Party
James G. Blaine
'Big BM' Haywood
Greenback Party
8. Coxey and unemployed followers marched on Washington for support in unemployment relief by inflationary public works program
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9. CIA attempt to institute Cuban support to overthrow Castro; cover-up uncovered - became representation of Cuban resistance to American aggression
Watergate Scandal
Economic transition
'Wage slaves'
Bay of Pigs invasion
10. 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
Marcus Garvey
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Tammany Hall
11. Executed for leaking atomic secrets to Soviets - avowed communists
William Marcy
Rosenbergs
Gifford Pinchot
Humanitarian diplomacy
12. Planes hijacked by terrorists for destruction; blame pinned on Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden - sought out in attempt to completely destroy terrorism
Federalism
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
National Organization of Women
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
13. Calvinist - devised concept of 'city on a hill' ('A Model of Christian Charity'); founded highly successful towns in Massachusetts Bay
Okies' and 'Arkies'
Free silver
Butler v. U.S. Court case
John Winthrop
14. 'Dark horse' Democratic candidate; acquired majority of the western US (Mexican Cession - Texas Annexation - Oregon Country) - lowered tariffs - created Independent Treasury
William Jennings Bryan
James K. Polk
Martin Luther King Jr.
12th Amendment
15. Darwinian (influenced by jazz age and new scientific ideas) against Fundamentalist (the Bible and Creationism); John Scopes convicted for teaching Darwinism (defended by Clarence Darrow); Scopes found guilty
Scopes Trial
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
John Foster Dulles
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on NYC & DC (2001)
16. 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
McCarthyism
Independent Treasury Bill
Church of England
American society during the Revolution
17. Cherokee tribe forced to move from southern Appalachians to reservations in current-day Oklahoma - high death toll
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18. Created by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst; aimed to excite American imperialist interests; media bias - subjective representation of events
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
Yellow journalism
Vietnamization
Independent Treasury Bill
19. First attempt of Cherokees to gain complete sovereign rule over their nation
Sons of Liberty
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Coxey's Army
20. Considered a hero for his solo crossing of the Atlantic by plane
March on Washington
Charles Lindbergh
Secretary of State John Hay
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
21. Gorbachev announced Soviet withdrawal of power from all of Eastern Europe - including Berlin (wall torn down - free movement - &c.)
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe (1989)
Gays in the military
Writs of Assistance
Jay's Treaty
22. Foreshadowed in 14 points - hoped to guarantee political independence and integrity of all countries
'Silent Majority'
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Atlantic slave trade
League of Nations
23. Supreme Court legalized the 'separate but equal' philosophy
Plessy v. Ferguson
Invasion of Iraq
President Jimmy Carter
Neutrality Acts - 1935-37
24. Sets of programs geared towards minorities and oft-discriminated populations
Affirmative Action
'Atlanta Compromise'
Second Great Awakening
Community on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
25. Hired to photograph ordinary Americans experiencing the depression
Dorothea Lange
Mercantilism
New Harmony
'Contract with America' (1994)
26. Response to Berlin crisis - warned Moscow that threats would be answered with force; Warsaw Pact formed by Soviets in response
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
Cotton Gin
27. Proslavery constitution in Kansas - supported by Buchanan - freesoilers against it (victorious) - denied statehood until after secession
John C. Calhoun
Explosion of USS Maine
Lecompton Constitution
'Big BM' Haywood
28. Worked towards asylums for the mentally insane - worked alongside Mann
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Vietnam War
Dorothea Dix
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
29. British passenger liner secretly carrying ammunition sunk by German u-boat - included American passengers
Lodge Reservations
Lusitania
New Harmony
Open Door Policy
30. In response to Japanese discrimination in San Fran schools; Japanese to stop laborers into U.S. - Californians forbidden to ban Japanese from public schools
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31. Soviet-aided North Korea attack on South Korea; MacArthur named general on behalf of UN (excluded Russia) - US supplied majority of troops; recapture of South Korea and suppression of North forces to northern border; introduction of Chinese - MacArth
Tea Act (1773)
Truman Doctrine
Korean War
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
32. Part of the New Left that envisioned 'participatory democracy' (individuals control life-affecting decisions) - end materialism - militarism - and racism; inspired by young black activists
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Washington's Farewell Address
William Henry Harrison
33. Reduced quota - reduced numbers from eastern and southern Europe - Asians banned - Canadians and Latin Americans exempt
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
National Origins Act (1924)
'Big BM' Haywood
The Loyal Nine
34. All English subjects are represented in Parliament - including those not allowed to vote
Virtual Representation
Compromise of 1850
Transportation Revolution
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
35. Written by Calhoun - regarding tariff nullification
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
Committees of Correspondence
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Schechter v. U.S Court case
36. Believed in expanding federal power on economy - encouraged industrial development; could only gain power on the local level - led by Henry Clay (anti-Jackson)
Keynesian economics
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie - The Financier
Whig Party
37. Helped lead settlement house movement - co-founded NAACP - condemned war and poverty
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
'Baby Boom'
Jane Addams
Horace Mann
38. Despite CIA-sponsored Soviet resistance - Afghanistan taken by Soviet Union; ended detente between USSR and US
Dollar Diplomacy'
Detente - realpolitik
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Non-Intercourse Act
39. Blacks denied admission to all-white school; overturned Plessy v. Ferguson - negating 'separate but equal' - ordered integration of schools as soon as possible; white southerners protested (refused to attend integrated schools)
Wilmot Proviso
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
Wilson's 14 points
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
40. Caused American hysteria (1957) - fear that Soviets were technologically superior; led Ike to order more rigorous education program to rival Soviets (National Defense Education Act)
Elastic Clause ('necessary and proper')
Sputnik
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Ulysses S. Grant
41. Georgia cannot enforce American laws on Indian tribes
Bill of Rights
Republican Party
Conservatism
Worcester v. Georgia
42. Tax cuts to increase population spending (help economy) - drastic cutting back on government programs due to lack of funds
Roger Williams
George Wallace - American
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
Supply-side economics - tax cuts
43. Protestant church led by the king of England - independent of Catholic Church; tended toward Catholicism during reign of Catholic royalty
Church of England
Olive Branch Petition
First American strategy in WWII
Farmers'Alliance movement
44. 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
Compromise of 1850
Knights of Labor
Henry David Thoreau
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
45. Support people oppressed by communism and non-democratic governments; worked with democratic governments in Greece - Turkey - and Israel
Federalists and Republicans
Connecticut Compromise
Robert La Follette
Truman Doctrine
46. Soviets cut Berlin off from the rest of Germany by blockade; US organized airlift to drop supplies into Britain; blockade lifted in May 1949
United States vs. EC Knight Company
President Harry Truman
Berlin Airlift
Humanitarian diplomacy
47. Challenged New Englanders to completely separate Church from State - as the State would corrupt the church
Hoover's policy of voluntarism
Roger Williams
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
48. Fines and imprisonment for aiding the enemy or hindering U.S. military; forbade any form of criticism of the government and military
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr.
Bank of the United States
Espionage Act and Sedition Act
Proclamation of 1763
49. Stressed to the American people British maltreatment and emphasize a need for revolution; appealed to American emotions
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
Gains for women
David Riesman
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
50. Led railroad workers in Pullman Strike - arrested; Supreme Court (decision in re Debs) legalized use of injunction (court order) against unions and strikes
'Great Society'
Dorothea Dix
Eugene V. Debs
Teapot Dome scandal