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AP U.S. History
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1. Pop art - mass production of art by screening
Andy Warhol
Kent State Protest
Pocahontas
Barbary Pirates
2. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - provided more funds to state and local relief efforts
The Glorious Revolution
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
Religious Right
Little Rock Crisis (1957)
3. Focused on skilled workers (harder to replace than unskilled) - coordinated crafts unions - supported 8¬hour workday and injury liability
Herbert Hoover - secretary of commerce
Samuel Gompers
President Jimmy Carter
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
4. Written by Calhoun - regarding tariff nullification
Sons of Liberty
Neutrality
Harpers Ferry (1859)
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
5. Key to English-Native American relationship - died in England in 1617
Great Migration
Pocahontas
Independent Treasury Bill
Dominion of New England
6. Raised tariffs extremely high on manufactured goods; benefited domestic manufacturers - but limited foreign trade
Election of 1960
Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1922 and 1930
Dominion of New England
Cotton Gin
7. Douglas was able to reconcile the Dred Scott Decision with popular sovereignty; voters would be able to exclude slavery by not allowing laws that treated slaves as property
'Brain trust'
Panic of 1893
Freeport Doctrine
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
8. Used nonviolent protest and boycott to achieve better working conditions for farmers (esp. Mexican-Americans)
Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor
Fair Deal
Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
Tammany Hall
9. Parliament took minor actions in the colonies - allowing them to experiment with and become accustomed to self-government - international trade agreements
Salutary Neglect
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) & National Recovery Administration (NRA)
'Trail of Tears'
Warren Court
10. Dealt with Vietnam War - 'Great Society' program for improvement of American society - antipoverty and anti-discrimination programs
Conscription policies
Freedom Riders (Congress of Racial Equality - CORE)
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
President Lyndon B. Johnson
11. President to offer military supplies to nations 'vital to the defense of the US'; ended US neutrality (economic war against Germany); Hitler began to sink American ships (limited scale)
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Election of 1980
Declining death rate
Virginia Plan
12. British citizenship outnumbered colonies' - large navy and professional army; exhausted resources (Hessians hired) - national debt
Gulf War - 'Operation Desert Storm' (1991)
Voting Rights Act of 1965
British strengths and weaknesses
Bay of Pigs invasion
13. Democratic political machine in NYC - 'supported' immigrants and poor people of the city - who were needed for Democratic election victories
Mayflower Compact
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Japanese internment
Tammany Hall
14. Supported abolition - broke off of Anti-Slavery Society
Terence V. Powderly Knights of Labor leader
James Madison
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
Liberty Party
15. Established world organization; Soviet Union pledged to allow democratic procedures in Eastern Europe; pledge broken - led to Cold War
Yalta Conference (1945)
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
Horace Mann
Court Packing
16. Banned racial discrimination and segregation (public) - bias by federal government; enforced by Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Important WWII Battles
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Stock market crash (1929)
National Origins Act (1924)
17. John Noyes - New York; utopian society for communalism - perfectionism - and complex marriage
Jonathan Edwards
Era of Good Feelings
John Humphrey Noyes/Oneida Community
Church of England
18. Written anonymously by Hamilton - Jay - and Madison; commentary on Constitution - republicanism extended over large territory
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
Stamp Act
The Federalist Papers
12th Amendment
19. Private property subject to government regulation when property is devoted to public interest; against railroads
Deregulation
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Munn v. Illinois
John Foster Dulles
20. Middle class; white flight from urban areas due to black migration; government supported insurance for homeowners and builders
Critics of FDR
Suburbia
Hoovervilles
Fugitive Slave Act
21. Prohibited discrimination in any government-related work; increased black employment
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
French and Indian War
Rationing
Panic of 1819
22. Panama Canal Treaty - diplomacy with China - end of recognition of Taiwan; little accomplished domestically due to conservative opposition - foreign policy more successful; Washington outsider - Experienced high interest rates - inflation - increased
President Ronald Reagan
Humanitarian diplomacy
Conservative backlash against liberalism
President Jimmy Carter
23. Tweed Leader of Tammany Hall - gained large sums of money through the political machine - prosecuted by Samuel Tilden and sent to jail
Fall of Soviet Union (1991)
William Marcy
Conscription policies
Korean War
24. 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
Stock market crash (1929)
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
Salvation Army
Embargo Act (1807)
25. 'Dark horse' Democratic candidate; acquired majority of the western US (Mexican Cession - Texas Annexation - Oregon Country) - lowered tariffs - created Independent Treasury
James K. Polk
Creel Committee
Nativism
President Harry Truman
26. Black rights leader - heavily influenced by Malcolm X (advocated black separatism rather than integration)
TR mediates Russo-Japanese War
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
Mercantilism
27. Supported Socialists - militant unionists and socialists - advocated strikes and sabotaging politics - aimed for an umbrella union similar to Knights of Labor - ideas too radical for socialist cause
US economy since WWII (service economy)
Immigration Act of 1965
Bull Moose Party
Industrial Workers of the World
28. First African-American in major league baseball
Jackie Robinson
Japanese internment
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
29. The Man Nobody Knows - glorification of business - Jesus as a businessman - relationship between religion and manufacturing
Bruce Barton
Oregon and 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight!'
Benjamin Franklin
Citizen Genet
30. No further introduction of slaves into Missouri - all children born to slaves to become free at 25
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Tallmadge Amendment
New York City draft riots (1863)
31. Mistreated farmers - fear of monocracy - forced people to think about central government
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32. American commander-in-chief; first president - set precedents for future presidents - put down Whiskey Rebellion (enforced Whiskey Tax) - managed first presidential cabinet - carefully used power of executive to avoid monarchial style rule
Essex case
'Brain trust'
George Washington
Neutrality
33. Stronger union of states - equal and population-based representation - simple majority vote (with presidential veto) - regulation of foreign and interstate commerce - execution by president - power to enact taxes - federal courts - easier amendment p
Changes in the Constitution from the Articles
Clinton impeachment (1997)
Upton Sinclair
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
34. Sought to eliminate spheres of influence and avoid European monopolies in China; unaccepted by the powers in mind
Open Door Policy
'Big BM' Haywood
Henry Ford's assembly line
Reaganomics
35. Young women employed by Lowell's textile company - housed in dormitories
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
March on Birmingham
Lowell mill/system
'City on a Hill'
36. Through CIO - led three coal mine strikes (some of the very few strikes during the time period)
John L. Lewis
Alien and Sedition Acts
The Glorious Revolution
March on Birmingham
37. Victorian standards confined women to the home to create an artistic environment as a statement of cultural aspirations
Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
Conscription policies
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson
Cult of domesticity
38. 'Rotation in office;' Jackson felt that one should spend a single term in office and return to private citizenship - those who held power too long would become corrupt and political appointments made by new officials was essential for democracy
Okies' and 'Arkies'
Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans
Spoils System
Forced busing
39. McKinley reluctant; armed intervention to free Cuba from Spain; Roosevelt's 'Rough Riders' made attack on Spanish at Cuba
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards
California Gold Rush
Secretary of State John Hay
Spanish American War (1898)
40. All English subjects are represented in Parliament - including those not allowed to vote
Religious Right
Virtual Representation
Connecticut Compromise
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
41. Four-day banking holiday to create controlled inflation - followed by reopening of sound banks - and reorganization of unsound banks
Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Association (YMCA & YWCA)
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Louis Sullivan
'Red Summer -' race riots (1919)
42. Search warrants on shipping to reduce smuggling; challenged by James Otis
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
George Whitefield
Writs of Assistance
Midnight judges
43. Settled in Pennsylvania - believed the 'Inner Light' could speak through any person and ran religious services without ministers
Eugene V. Debs
Gays in the military
William Penn and the Quakers
Hoover's policy of voluntarism
44. Considered a hero for his solo crossing of the Atlantic by plane
Vietnamization
Underground Railroad
Transportation Revolution
Charles Lindbergh
45. Second youngest president - entered presidency as tensions of the Cold War increased; unable to get major initiatives through Congress due to conservative bloc; tax cuts (economic stimulation); reluctantly gets involved in civil rights; emphasizes Sp
President John F. Kennedy
Popular Sovereignty
Charles Lindbergh
1968 Presidential Election
46. Formed by white progressives - adopted goals of Niagara Movement - in response to Springfield Race Riots
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (1786)
XYZ Affair
Conservative policies of Harding and Coolidge
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
47. Nixon agreed with USSR to achieve nuclear equality rather than the superiority that threatened the destruction of the world; further reduced tensions between the two countries
The Enlightenment
Nativism
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
Fair Labor Standards Act
48. Loose interpretation allowed for implied powers of Congress (such as the National Bank) - strict interpretation implied few powers to Congress
Dominion of New England
Conservative backlash against liberalism
Strict vs. Loose interpretation of the Constitution
Greensboro sit-in (1960)
49. Runaway slave - well-known speaker on the condition of slavery - worked with Garrison and Wendell Phillips - founder of The North Star
Frederick Douglass
Domino theory
Roe v. Wade
William Lloyd Garrison
50. Decision under Sherman Anti-Trust Act shot down by Supreme Court — sugar refining was manufacturing rather than trade/commerce
United States vs. EC Knight Company
Farmers'Alliance movement
Battle of Antietam
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649
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