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AP U.S. History
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1. 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
Pinkertons
Albany Plan of Union
1992 Election
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
2. Japanese bombing of ships in harbor; resulted in FDR's request for declaration of war against Japan; Germany and Italy responded with declarations of war
National Road
Articles of Confederation
Pearl Harbor
Industrial Workers of the World
3. Family farmers who hired out slaves for the harvest season - self-sufficient - participated in local markets alongside slave owners
CIA overthrow of Guatemala (1954)
Yeoman Farmers
WEB DuBois - Souls of Black Folk
Rosie the Riveter
4. Pop art - mass production of art by screening
'Brain trust'
Vietcong
Boston Massacre
Andy Warhol
5. December 1814 - Opposed War of 1812 - called for one-term presidency - northern states threatened to secede if their views were left unconsidered next to those of southern and western states - supported nullification - end of Federalist Party
Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Association (YMCA & YWCA)
'Bleeding Kansas'
Jackson's Presidency
Hartford Convention
6. Stated the United States was destined to span the breadth of the entire continent with as much land as possible - advocated by Polk
Ngo Dinh Diem
Manifest Destiny
Stamp Act Congress
Thomas Edison
7. Editor of The Liberator (strongly abolitionist newspaper calling for immediate abolition of slavery) - fought for feminist movement ('Am I not a woman and a sister' picture of slave woman)
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
William Lloyd Garrison
Pinkertons
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
8. Conservatives like Reagan benefited from denouncing the New Left and excessive antiwar protests; gave him political prominence
Conservative backlash against liberalism
Isolationism
Schechter v. U.S Court case
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
9. Hamilton praised efficient factories with few managers over many workers - promote emigration - employment opportunities - applications of technology
Marshall Plan
Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
Report on Manufactures (tariffs)
Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
10. Proponent of gradual gain of equal rights for African-Americans
Conscription policies
Booker T. Washington
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
Essex case
11. Prohibited exports (and imports) based in American ports - most controversial Jefferson legislation
Embargo Act (1807)
Neutrality Act - 1939
Social Darwinism
Moral Diplomacy
12. Organized Seneca Falls Convention - founded (with Anthony) National Women Suffrage Organization
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Adams-Onis Treaty
Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1922 and 1930
Gifford Pinchot
13. Americans feared Soviet infiltration into Latin America - placed secret police and military forces to prevent it
GI Bill of Rights
Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan of Latin America)
Charles Lindbergh
William H. Taft
14. Foundation for First Amendment - offered free choice of religion - not influenced by state
Tallmadge Amendment
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Essex case
15. French threat at the borders was no longer present - therefore the colonies didn't need English protection; more independent stand against Britain
Naval battle in Manila Bay - Philippines
Deists
French and Indian War
Whigs (Patriots)
16. Coxey and unemployed followers marched on Washington for support in unemployment relief by inflationary public works program
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17. North African Muslim rulers solved budget problems through piracy and tributes in Mediterranean - obtained fees from most European powers
Energy Crisis - OPEC
Barbary Pirates
British strengths and weaknesses
John Brown
18. 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
Whigs (Patriots)
Salvation Army
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
New Jersey Plan
19. Brown aimed to create an armed slave rebellion and establish black free state; Brown executed and became martyr in the North
Harpers Ferry (1859)
John Dewey
'New Left'
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
20. Depicted the evils of slavery (splitting of families and physical abuse); increased participation in abolitionist movement - condemned by South
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21. U.S. would ensure that Cuba would be protected from European powers and maintain a place in Cuban affairs; provided coal and naval stations
New Harmony
Know-Nothing (American) Party
Platt Amendment
Macon's Bill No. 2
22. 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)
'Affluent Society'
Anaconda plan
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
23. Bank tightened loan policies - depression rose throughout the country - hurt western farmers greatly
Panic of 1819
Warren Court
Jay's Treaty
Coxey's Army
24. Required of members of the Puritan Church; took the place of baptism required by the Catholic Church
Conversion Experience
Olive Branch Petition
Reaganomics
Ku Klux Klan
25. Judges appointed to Supreme Court by Adams in the last days of his presidency to force them upon Jefferson - Marshall among those appointed
Midnight judges
Forced busing
Nativism
Nullification Controversy
26. States could refuse to enforce the federal laws they deemed unconstitutional
Lodge Reservations
Ulysses S. Grant
Nullification
Battle of Saratoga
27. Provided country with a break from partisan politics - Missouri Compromise - issued Monroe Doctrine
Fort Sumter
James Monroe
'Big BM' Haywood
California Gold Rush
28. Northern factory workers who were discarded when too old to work (unlike the slaves who were still kept fed and clothed in their old age)
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29. Taught American landscape painting rather than Classical subjects
Jonathan Edwards
Hudson River School
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
John C. Calhoun
30. Committees appointed from different colonies to communicate on matters; asserted rights to self¬government - cooperation between colonies
Great Migration
Committees of Correspondence
Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947)
William Seward
31. 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)
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Kent State Protest
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Free silver
32. Effects of pesticides on the environment; changed way Americans viewed their impact on nature
National Origins Act (1924)
Iran Hostage Crisis - 1979
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
'Contract with America' (1994)
33. Emerged from Farmers' Alliance movement (when subtreasury plan was defeated in Congress) - denounced Eastern Establishment that suppressed the working classes; Ignatius Donnelly (utopian author) - Mary E Lease - Jerry Simpson
Populist Party
Battle of Antietam
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
34. Rise in stock prices and speculation - decline of construction industry - mistaken 'trickle-down' economics - reliance on credit
James G. Blaine
Causes of the depression
Neutrality
'Gentlemen's Agreement' (1908)
35. Brought in Mexicans for temporary jobs - concentrated in southern CA - given extremely poor working conditions (as they were not American citizens)
John Foster Dulles
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Bracero program
Federalists and Republicans
36. Military hero from War of 1812; elected president 1840 - died of pneumonia a month later - gave presidency to Tyler
Social Gospel movement
William Henry Harrison
Judiciary Act of 1789
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
37. First shots are fired at Charleston - North Carolina
Battle of Antietam
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Shays's Rebellion
Fort Sumter
38. Established free trade zone between Canada - United States and Mexico - net gain in jobs due to opening of Mexican markets
Essex case
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994)
Forced busing
Conservative backlash against liberalism
39. Allowed for faster processing of cotton - invented by Eli Whitney - less need for slaves
War hawks
Cotton Gin
Herbert Hoover's Food Administration
Conservative backlash against liberalism
40. Cherokee tribe forced to move from southern Appalachians to reservations in current-day Oklahoma - high death toll
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41. To service economy in late 20 century (end of industrialism) - Higher focus on services (esp. education) rather than material products
Regionalist and naturalist writers
Truman Doctrine
Economic transition
Forced busing
42. Allowed sale of weaponry to democracies on 'cash-and-carry' basis - avoided full-blown war; danger zones proclaimed; solved American unemployment crisis
Gulf War - 'Operation Desert Storm' (1991)
Espionage Act and Sedition Act
Commerce Compromise
Neutrality Act - 1939
43. Vetoed by Jackson on the count that government funds for the Maysville Road would only benefit one state
Washington's Farewell Address
U-2 Incident
Maysville Road Veto
Citizen Genet
44. Marbury v. Madison (judicial review) - McChulloch v. Maryland (loose Constitutional interpretation - constitutionality of National Bank - states cannot control government agencies) - Gibbons v. Ogden (interstate commerce controlled by Congress) - Fle
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Marshall Court (all cases)
Open Door Policy
Nicaraguan Contras
45. William and Mary kicked James II out of England (exiled into France) - allowed more power to the legislatures
Barbary Pirates
The Glorious Revolution
Elastic Clause ('necessary and proper')
Northwest Passage
46. US - Britain - Japan - France - and Italy to reduce naval tonnage and halt construction for 10 years; US and Japan to respect Pacific territorial holdings - Kellog-Briand Pact to 'outlaw war'
King James I - King Charles
Washington Disarmament Conference (1921)
New immigrants vs. old immigrants
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
47. Detectives hired by employers as private police force - often used to end strikes
Underground Railroad
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Pinkertons
Henry Clay and the American System
48. Craft unions that left the Knights (1886) - led by Gompers - women left out of recruitment efforts
Louis Sullivan
American Federation of Labor
Andrew Carnegie
Roe v. Wade
49. Mexicans held siege on the Alamo (in San Antonio) - Texans lost great number of people - 'Remember the Alamo'
The Alamo
Jackson's Presidency
Samuel Gompers
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)
50. Small oil companies sold stock and authority to Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company (consolidation) - cornered world petroleum market
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
Standard Oil Trust
Isolationism
Mikhail Gorbachev