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AP U.S. History
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1. Scholarly - welfare-reform - 'Contract with America -' impeachment over Monica Lewinski Scandal - War in Kosovo
John Dewey
Neutrality Act - 1939
President Bill Clinton
Suburbia
2. Gorbachev decreased nuclear arsenals - Communist Party lost power - Boris Yeltsin (president of Russian Republic) led Muscovites to take control
'Great Society'
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
President Jimmy Carter
William Penn and the Quakers
3. Despite CIA-sponsored Soviet resistance - Afghanistan taken by Soviet Union; ended detente between USSR and US
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Adams-Onis Treaty
Vietcong
The Loyal Nine
4. Party formed from Republican split by Roosevelt - more progressive values - leaving 'Republican Old Guard' to control Republican party
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
U-2 Incident
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Bull Moose Party
5. Conservatives like Reagan benefited from denouncing the New Left and excessive antiwar protests; gave him political prominence
Nullification Controversy
Conservative backlash against liberalism
New Freedom
Cotton Gin
6. Established federal district courts that followed local procedures - Supreme Court had final jurisdiction; compromise between nationalists and advocates for states' rights
Judiciary Act of 1789
U-2 Incident
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Sons of Liberty
7. Nationalists against foreign non-English speaking workers (took jobs away from American men); encouraged to leave the U.S.
Neutrality Act - 1939
CIA overthrow of Iran (1953)
Deportations of Mexicans
Butler v. U.S. Court case
8. Intercepted by Britain; Germany proposed alliance with Mexico - using bribe of return of TX - NM - and AZ; Japan included in alliance
Zimmerman Note
'Baby Boom'
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Civil Rights Act of 1964
9. Drastic cutbacks in regulation of business by the federal government (banks - transportation - communications
Henry Clay and the American System
Nullification
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
Deregulation
10. Tried to rule as absolute monarchs without using Parliament - little to no sympathy for colonial legislatures
James Madison
Charles II - James II
Ike's Farewell Speech
Era of Good Feelings
11. Tet Offensive in Vietnam - assassination of MLK and Robert Kennedy (presidential candidate) - Riot of Democratic National Convention (Chicago police beat antiwar protestors) - Black Panthers
12. Government ensured readjustment rights to GIs after WWI unrest - loans to veterans for higher education and mortgages (contributed to economic prosperity)
William Lloyd Garrison
GI Bill of Rights
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
Alien and Sedition Acts
13. Cherokee tribe forced to move from southern Appalachians to reservations in current-day Oklahoma - high death toll
14. One country that falls into communism will cause surrounding nations to also fall 'like dominos'; spurred by Southeast Asia regimes (esp. Vietnam)
Domino theory
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
15. Guerilla army sponsored by CIA to attack procommunist revolutionaries in Nicaragua; fear of another Vietnam
Rationing
Lowell mill/system
Deists
Nicaraguan Contras
16. Americans concerned with economic depression; sought to avoid European involvement - no apparent immediate threats
Good Neighbor Policy
Currency Act
Isolationism in 1920s & 1930s
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
17. Taxes on all legal documents to support British troops - not approved by colonists through their representatives
Anne Hutchinson
'Bleeding Kansas'
Stamp Act
Battle of Gettysburg
18. Nonviolent protest to college students (NC) being refused lunch service; part of 'sit-in' movement to integrate all aspects of life (hotels - entertainment - &c.)
Louis Sullivan
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
19. Military hero from War of 1812; elected president 1840 - died of pneumonia a month later - gave presidency to Tyler
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
Andy Warhol
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
William Henry Harrison
20. Social ideals to be encouraged in public school (stress on social interaction) - learning by doing
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
John Dewey
President Harry Truman
New Jersey Plan
21. Private property subject to government regulation when property is devoted to public interest; against railroads
Fair Deal
Munn v. Illinois
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
New Harmony
22. Satirized wealthy captains of industry - workers and engineers as better leaders of society
Martin Luther King Jr.
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
Ulysses S. Grant
Square Deal
23. Provided country with a break from partisan politics - Missouri Compromise - issued Monroe Doctrine
Ho Chi Minh
Charles Lindbergh
James Monroe
Marshall Plan
24. Reduced quota - reduced numbers from eastern and southern Europe - Asians banned - Canadians and Latin Americans exempt
Bracero program
March on Washington
National Origins Act (1924)
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
25. Hamilton's plan to solve Revolutionary debt - Assumption highly controversial - pushed his plan through Congress - based on loose interpretation of Constitution
Andy Warhol
Robert E. Lee
First American strategy in WWII
Bank of the United States
26. Former French subjects in Canada allowed to keep Catholicism - while American colonists expected to participate in the Church of England
Critics of FDR
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
Whig Party
Quebec Acts
27. Anti-immigrant - especially against Irish Catholics
Nativism
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
James Oglethorpe
Battle of Tippecanoe
28. Supported by women and churches - instituted by Volstead Act - lacked enforcement; bootlegging and speakeasies - Al Capone and John Dillinger — gangsters and organized crime (casual breaking of the law)
Pet banks
Hartford Convention
Prohibition - rise of organized crime
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
29. Protestant church led by the king of England - independent of Catholic Church; tended toward Catholicism during reign of Catholic royalty
Church of England
'City on a Hill'
Pearl Harbor
'Lost Generation'
30. Mistreated farmers - fear of monocracy - forced people to think about central government
31. Created in 1961 as example of liberal anticommunism in third world countries; 'reform-minded missionaries of democracy'
Peace Corps
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Vertical and horizontal integration
James G. Blaine
32. Destroyed by Jackson on the grounds that it was unconstitutional and too much power for a federal institution
Marshall Court (all cases)
Explosion of USS Maine
Tea Act (1773)
Bank of the United States
33. Efficient working methods to increase productivity; usually resulted in lower wages (hated by workers) - power to managers
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
Frederick W. Taylor - Scientific Management
Mercantilism
Mikhail Gorbachev
34. Opposed Polk's high-handedness - avid Southern slave owner
Charles Lindbergh
John C. Calhoun
Convict-lease system
Articles of Confederation
35. Led Pottawatomie Massacre - extreme abolitionist who believed he was doing God's work
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
John Brown
War hawks
Era of Good Feelings
36. 10-year moratorium on Chinese immigration to reduce competition for jobs (Chinese willing to work for cheap salaries)
Harriet Tubman
Specie
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Valley Forge
37. Germany announced that it would sink all (including American) ships - attempt to involve U.S. in war
President Ronald Reagan
Specie
Gays in the military
Unrestricted submarine warfare
38. (The Lonely Crowd) 'outer directed' Americans conforming to peer pressure on moral and social issues - rather than independently thinking on morals
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
David Riesman
Pinkertons
39. Puritan minister - led revivals - stressed immediate repentance - wrote 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God'
Pearl Harbor
Jonathan Edwards
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
Sons of Liberty
40. FDR's plan (although vague during the campaign) to restart the economy and pull America out of the Great Depression
New Deal
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
'Bleeding Kansas'
41. Capitalism would become productive when uninhibited by taxes and regulation
Suffolk Resolves
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
Reaganomics
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
42. Support people oppressed by communism and non-democratic governments; worked with democratic governments in Greece - Turkey - and Israel
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
Citizen Genet
Truman Doctrine
American Federation of Labor
43. Focused on skilled workers (harder to replace than unskilled) - coordinated crafts unions - supported 8¬hour workday and injury liability
Gains for women
Federalism
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Samuel Gompers
44. Settled in Pennsylvania - believed the 'Inner Light' could speak through any person and ran religious services without ministers
Charles II - James II
Battle of Tippecanoe
William Penn and the Quakers
Berlin Wall
45. The two political parties that formed following Washington's presidency; Federalists for stronger central government - Republicans for stronger state governments
US acquisitions
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Federalists and Republicans
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
46. Argued that states had the right to determine whether or not the laws passed by Congress were constitutional
Reaganomics
Palmer Raids
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
XYZ Affair
47. First African-American in major league baseball
John Brown
Jackie Robinson
Bank of the United States
Albany Plan of Union
48. Warned against permanent foreign alliances and political parties - called for unity of the country - established precedent of two-term presidency
49. John Marshall declared that the Supreme Court could declare federal laws unconstitutional
Quarantine Speech - 1937
Henry Ford's assembly line
Proclamation of 1763
Marbury v. Madison
50. 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)
Hartford Convention
Second Great Awakening
Berlin Airlift
Little Rock Crisis (1957)