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AP U.S. History
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1. Society naturally punishes criminals indiscriminantly
Social Reciprocity
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Public Works Administration (PWA)
'City on a Hill'
2. Attempted to centralize production of war materials; ineffective due to American desire for laissez-faire government
William and Mary
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
War Industries Board
3. Search warrants on shipping to reduce smuggling; challenged by James Otis
'Silent Majority'
Schenk v. U.S. Court case
Writs of Assistance
First American strategy in WWII
4. Federal government to increase power over economy and society by means of progressive reforms - developed by Roosevelt (after presidency)
Townshend Act (1767)
Pocahontas
New Nationalism
Battle of Antietam
5. Led by Francis Willard - powerful 'interest group' following the civil war - urged women's suffrage - led to Prohibition
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6. Mass migration northward; mainly blacks migrating from the southern states into the north hoping for less discrimination
Cuban Missile Crisis
Social Reciprocity
Great Migration
Immigration Act of 1965
7. Highest peacetime deficit in US history (due to lower tax rates for high-income taxpayers - spent too much money attempting to reduce price supports to farmers)
Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
Navigation Acts
Quebec Acts
US economy since WWII (service economy)
8. Parliament took minor actions in the colonies - allowing them to experiment with and become accustomed to self-government - international trade agreements
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Battle of Gettysburg
Salutary Neglect
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
9. Provided housing and recreation to city youth - imposing Protestant morals - unable to reach out to all youth
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10. Stressed role of church and religion to improve city life - led by preachers Walter Raushenbusch and Washington Gladen; influenced settlement house movement and Salvation Army
Andrew Mellon - secretary of the treasury
Social Gospel movement
Theodore Roosevelt
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
11. Created by John L. Lewis for unskilled labor - organized 'sit-down strike' against GM to work for recognition
Hull House
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Civil Rights Cases
Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA)
12. Challenged New England Calvinist ministers' authority - as they taught the good works for salvation of Catholicism
Henry Clay and the American System
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
Anne Hutchinson
Harlem Renaissance
13. First shots are fired at Charleston - North Carolina
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
French and Indian War
Fort Sumter
New Jersey Plan
14. Exemplary Christian community - rich to show charity - held to Calvinistic beliefs
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15. Challenged New Englanders to completely separate Church from State - as the State would corrupt the church
Roger Williams
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
'Baby Boom'
Vietnamization
16. Radical Calvinists against the Church of England; Separatists (Pilgrims) argued for a break from the Church of England - led the Mayflower - and established the settlement at Plymouth
Stamp Act Congress
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
Alexander Hamilton
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
17. Jackson used personal friends as unofficial advisors over his official cabinet
1992 Election
Kitchen Cabinet
Lecompton Constitution
Federalism
18. 14 formal amendments to the treaty for the League of Nations; preserved Monroe Doctrine - Congress desired to keep declaration of war to itself
Plessy v. Ferguson
Lodge Reservations
Open Door Policy
Cotton Gin
19. Most numerous in New England - fought for independence
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
Whigs (Patriots)
Independent Treasury Bill
Dominion of New England
20. Organized and controlled resistance against Parliamentary acts in less violent ways (strength of martyrdom) - advocated nonimportation
Critics of FDR
Farmers'Alliance movement
Sons of Liberty
Palmer Raids
21. Helped lead settlement house movement - co-founded NAACP - condemned war and poverty
Andy Warhol
Stamp Act Congress
John Brown
Jane Addams
22. Spurred by Great Migration - large-scale riots - lynchings - &c.
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23. 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)
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
Japanese internment
Fugitive Slave Act
Richard Nixon (R)
24. Judges appointed to Supreme Court by Adams in the last days of his presidency to force them upon Jefferson - Marshall among those appointed
Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA)
Jonathan Edwards
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
Midnight judges
25. Executed for leaking atomic secrets to Soviets - avowed communists
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Rosenbergs
Dixiecrats - 1948
The Alamo
26. Prohibited use of any devices (e.g. - literacy tests) to deny the right to vote and enforced black suffrage rights
Andy Warhol
Nativism
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Moral Diplomacy
27. Workers unable to escape (locked into factory) - all died; further encouraged reform movements for working conditions
The Federalist Papers
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
AFL-CIO (1955)
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
28. Settled in Pennsylvania - believed the 'Inner Light' could speak through any person and ran religious services without ministers
Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA)
Judiciary Act of 1789
William Penn and the Quakers
William H. Taft
29. 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
Report on Public Credit
12th Amendment
The Half-Way Covenant
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
30. Founded by William Sylvis (1866); supported 8-hour workday - convict labor - federal department of labor - banking reform - immigration restrictions to increase wages - women; excluded blacks
Suburbia
National Labor Union
Church of England
Espionage Act and Sedition Act
31. Uncovered the 'dirt' on corruption and harsh quality of city/working life; heavily criticized by Theodore Roosevelt; Ida Tarabell (oil companies) - David Graham Phillips (Senate) - Aschen School (child labor — photography) - mass magazines McClure's
'Lost Generation'
Muckrakers
Marshall Plan
Judiciary Act of 1789
32. Decision under Sherman Anti-Trust Act shot down by Supreme Court — sugar refining was manufacturing rather than trade/commerce
President Jimmy Carter
United States vs. EC Knight Company
Navigation Acts
James Monroe
33. Held in New York - agreed to not import British goods until Stamp Act was repealed
Stamp Act Congress
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Indentured servants
Writs of Assistance
34. One country that falls into communism will cause surrounding nations to also fall 'like dominos'; spurred by Southeast Asia regimes (esp. Vietnam)
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Domino theory
President Harry Truman
Ralph Waldo Emerson
35. Killed the AAA - although FDR insisted on continuing by creating smaller state-level AAAs
William Henry Harrison
Butler v. U.S. Court case
Conformity in the 1950s
Martin Luther King Jr.
36. Mistreated farmers - fear of monocracy - forced people to think about central government
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37. Black veteran escorted to be enrolled in Univ. of Miss. by military (school reluctant - cf. Little Rock Nine)
Jingoism
John L. Lewis
James Meredith
12th Amendment
38. Social ideals to be encouraged in public school (stress on social interaction) - learning by doing
US acquisitions
John Dewey
Interstate Commerce Act
The Great Awakening
39. Catholic communist autocrat of Vietnam - assassinated (with aid of US)
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Sputnik
Ngo Dinh Diem
Moral Diplomacy
40. Politely demanded from the king a cease¬fire in Boston - repeal of Coercive Acts -. guarantee of American rights
John L. Lewis
Olive Branch Petition
Mikhail Gorbachev
National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)
41. Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait despite peace treaty and refusal to abandon Iraqi occupation
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42. 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
Whiskey Rebellion
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Louis Sullivan
Suburbia
43. Monroe presidency - national unity behind Monroe - post-war boom (foreign demand for cotton - grain - and tobacco) - Depression of 1819 (cheap British imports - tightened credit - affected West the most)
1992 Election
Vietcong
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
Era of Good Feelings
44. Southern states (especially South Carolina) believed that they had the right to judge federal laws unconstitutional and therefore not enforce them
Immigration Act of 1965
Nullification Controversy
Suburbia
Deportations of Mexicans
45. Believed to provide shortcut from Atlantic to Pacific - searched for by Giovanni de Verrazano for Francis I in the race to Asian wealth
Nullification Controversy
Thomas Nast
Battle of Saratoga
Northwest Passage
46. Government ensured readjustment rights to GIs after WWI unrest - loans to veterans for higher education and mortgages (contributed to economic prosperity)
Neutrality Act - 1939
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
Navigation Acts
GI Bill of Rights
47. 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)
Federalists and Republicans
'Affluent Society'
Reasons for US to drop atomic bombs
Knights of Labor
48. American U-2 spy plane shot down over USSR (Ike: 'for national security); US suspended further flights - Krushchev demanded apology (refused)
Hudson River School
John Dewey
Independent Treasury Bill
U-2 Incident
49. Part of 'Second' New Deal Programs (1935-1938) - Harry Hopkins; provide work for unemployed and construct public works - &c. through Emergency Relief Appropriation Act; much like Civil Works Administration
Conversion Experience
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Dollar Diplomacy'
March on Washington
50. Sets of programs geared towards minorities and oft-discriminated populations
Great Migration
The Federalist Papers
Scopes Trial
Affirmative Action