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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
National Road
Teapot Dome scandal
Creel Committee
Transcendentalism
2. Ended exclusion of homosexuals from military; due to controversy - compromise of 'don't ask - don't tell' instituted
Gays in the military
Free silver
Energy Crisis - OPEC
Four Freedoms' speech
3. Lowering of income taxes for wealthy (trickle-down economics) - refusal to create higher prices to help farmers (McNary-Haugen Bill)
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
'Evil Empire' speech - 'Star Wars'
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
4. Increase working output by standardizing procedures and rewarding those who worked fast; efficiency
Currency Act
Frederick W. Taylor - Principles of Scientific Management
Salutary Neglect
'Wage slaves'
5. Over Senate seat for Illinois (Douglas victor) - Lincoln stated the country could not remain split over the issue of slavery
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Association (YMCA & YWCA)
Jamestown
Tea Act (1773)
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
Alien and Sedition Acts
Henry David Thoreau
Nativism
Neutrality
7. Territory split into Kansas and Nebraska - popular sovereignty (Kansas slave - Nebraska free); proposed by Stephen A. Douglas
Dorothea Lange
Warren Court
Gulf War - 'Operation Desert Storm' (1991)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
8. Fear of Japanese-Americans as traitors - sent off (by law) to internment camps; removal of deemed threats in military areas
Virginia Resolves
Non-conformity
Japanese internment
Bombing and invasion of Cambodia
9. Taught American landscape painting rather than Classical subjects
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
Hudson River School
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Macon's Bill No. 2
10. French threat at the borders was no longer present - therefore the colonies didn't need English protection; more independent stand against Britain
Cotton Gin
Platt Amendment
French and Indian War
League of Nations
11. Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson; purchase of Alaska 'Seward's Folly'
Mann Act
Battle of Tippecanoe
William Seward
Civil Rights Act of 1964
12. Goods able to be transferred from New York to New Orleans by inland waterways
Roe v. Wade
Erie Canal
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
British strengths and weaknesses
13. Craft unions that left the Knights (1886) - led by Gompers - women left out of recruitment efforts
Voting Rights Act of 1965
American Federation of Labor
Bull Moose Party
American society during the Revolution
14. Worked to reform the American education system - abolitionist - prison/asylum reform with Dorothea Dix
Bank of the United States
1992 Election
Munn v. Illinois
Horace Mann
15. Roosevelt and Pinchot sided on conservation rather than preservation (planned and regulated use of forest lands for public and commercial uses)
Andrew Carnegie
Preservationism vs. Conservationism
Committees of Correspondence
Upton Sinclair
16. National Liberation Front - guerilla militia from south Vietnam fighting alongside the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam)
Vietcong
Rock `n' Roll
Nullification Controversy
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
17. Challenged New England Calvinist ministers' authority - as they taught the good works for salvation of Catholicism
New Harmony
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Impact of LBJ's Vietnam decision on 1968 election
Anne Hutchinson
18. Meant to provide evacuation opportunity for Americans in Cuba; internal accidental explosion blamed on Spanish mines - leading to Spanish¬ American War
Explosion of USS Maine
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
King James I - King Charles
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
19. Southern Christian Leadership Conference - Led boycott - became leader of civil rights movement; urged nonviolent resistance (cf. tactics of Ghandi);
Rosenbergs
Martin Luther King Jr.
CIA overthrow of Iran (1953)
Manifest Destiny
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'
20-Negro Law
John D. Rockefeller
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
'Yellow dog contracts'
21. FDR's plan (although vague during the campaign) to restart the economy and pull America out of the Great Depression
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
New Deal
Transcendentalism
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
22. Prohibited use of any devices (e.g. - literacy tests) to deny the right to vote and enforced black suffrage rights
Pottawatomie Creek (May 1856)
1968 as 'the year of shocks'
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Northern Securities Case
23. Black veteran escorted to be enrolled in Univ. of Miss. by military (school reluctant - cf. Little Rock Nine)
Immigration Act of 1965
James Meredith
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Eugene V. Debs
24. Colonies proposed colonial confederation under lighter British rule (crown-appointed president - 'Grand Council'); never took effect
Albany Plan of Union
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Kitchen Cabinet
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
25. Required of members of the Puritan Church; took the place of baptism required by the Catholic Church
Explosion of USS Maine
Conversion Experience
Midnight judges
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
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
Spoils System
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
Popular Sovereignty
President John F. Kennedy
28. Stressed to the American people British maltreatment and emphasize a need for revolution; appealed to American emotions
Louis Sullivan
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Social Gospel movement
Deportations of Mexicans
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
Mayflower Compact
'City on a Hill'
Palmer Raids
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
31. Written by Calhoun - regarding tariff nullification
Dominion of New England
'New Left'
President Harry Truman
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
32. Repeat candidate for president - proponent of silver-backing (16:1 platform) - cross of gold speech against gold standard; Democratic candidate (1896)
William Jennings Bryan
Nicaraguan Contras
James G. Blaine
US acquisitions
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
Whiskey Rebellion
Important WWII Battles
The Alamo
McCarthyism
34. No further introduction of slaves into Missouri - all children born to slaves to become free at 25
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Tallmadge Amendment
Bruce Barton
Embargo Act (1807)
35. John Noyes - New York; utopian society for communalism - perfectionism - and complex marriage
William Lloyd Garrison
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
Northwest Passage
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
36. Helped lead settlement house movement - co-founded NAACP - condemned war and poverty
Rock `n' Roll
'Baby Boom'
The Federalist Papers
Jane Addams
37. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - provided more funds to state and local relief efforts
Sugar Act
Elastic Clause ('necessary and proper')
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
XYZ Affair
38. Believed to provide shortcut from Atlantic to Pacific - searched for by Giovanni de Verrazano for Francis I in the race to Asian wealth
Cotton Gin
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
Northwest Passage
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
39. Political muckraking cartoonist - refused bribes to stop criticism
Writs of Assistance
US acquisitions
Zoot Suit riots
Thomas Nast
40. Exemplary Christian community - rich to show charity - held to Calvinistic beliefs
41. Avoided league of Nations - opposed Latin American involvement
National Origins Act (1924)
Isolationism
John Foster Dulles
Declining death rate
42. Mao Zedong (communist) defeated nationalist forces of Kai-Shek (supported by US); seen as defeat for US - not officially fully recognized until 1973
Harlem Renaissance
James Meredith
China turns communist
Bay of Pigs invasion
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
New York City draft riots (1863)
AFL-CIO (1955)
Navigation Acts
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
45. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - employed young jobless men with government projects on work relief and environment
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Mercantilism
Colonial strengths and weaknesses
46. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - Harold Icicles - provided public construction projects
Public Works Administration (PWA)
David Riesman
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
Muckrakers
47. Provided country with a break from partisan politics - Missouri Compromise - issued Monroe Doctrine
James Monroe
League of Nations
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
Horace Mann
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
Moral Diplomacy
Popular Sovereignty
Hull House
Invasion of Mexico - Pancho Villa
49. Reluctant to give colonists their own government - preferred to appoint royal governors
King James I - King Charles
James Madison
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Transportation Revolution
50. Offered a New Deal (reminiscent of FDR) of smaller government - reduced taxes - and free enterprise; Washington outsider
Yalta Conference (1945)
President Ronald Reagan
Whig Party
Open Door Policy