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AP US History 1 Chapter 29 Vocabulary Terms Flashcards

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8182196759Central PowersDuring WWI included the countries of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey0
8182196760AlliesDuring WWI included France, Britain, and Russia, and later Japan and Italy. The United States joined in 1917.1
8182196762LusitaniaWas a British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-Boat on May 7, 1915. 128 Americans died.2
8182196763Sussex PledgeGermany agreement not to sink unarmed passenger ships without warning.3
8182196764New NationalismWas the name of the progressive policy of Theodore Roosevelt in 1912's Progressive party platform. It favored a more active government role in economic and social affairs. It favored continued consolidation of trusts and labor unions and the growth of powerful regulatory agencies in Washington. It favored women's suffrage and social welfare programs (including minimum-wage laws and "socialistic" social insurance).4
8182196765New FreedomWas the name of Wilson's policy that favored the small business, entrepreneurship, and the free functioning of unregulated and un-monopolized markets.5
8182196766Underwood TariffPass in 1913 it substantially reduced import fees. The lost tax revenue would be replaced with an income tax that was implemented with the 16th amendment.6
818219676716th AmendmentPassed in 1913 is known as the income tax amendment.7
8182196768Federal Reserve ActThis created a regulatory agency for banking with 12 regional reserve districts. Each bank was independent but was controlled by a board, which was controlled by the public. It also controls the amount of money in circulation through its reserves and interest rates.8
8182196769Federal Trade CommissionIs a committee formed to investigate industries engaging in interstate commerce. It was created to stop unfair trade practices and to regulate and crush monopolies.9
8182196770Clayton Antitrust ActThis helped to control monopolies by strengthening the Sherman Antitrust Act's list of business practices that were objectionable (such as interlocking directorates). It exempted labor and agricultural organizations from antitrust prosecution and legalized strikes and peaceful picketing.10
8182196771Jones ActSigned by President Wilson in 1916. It granted territorial status to the Philippines and promised to grant independence as soon as a stable government was established ( eventually granted on July 4, 1946)11

AP US History Ch. 21 Flashcards

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6032167056US as an Isolated Nation- had a population of 50 million - wanted repayment for damages brought to the union by the Alabama and other confederate sea raiders from English ports - isolated even though new international telegraphic cables provided over-seas communication0
6032279840US Diplomacy- at first only between US and Britain - politics made it hard to have a solid foreign policy - diplomats assigned through the spoils system1
6032314319Chester A. Arthur- wanted to upgrade the navy - said improving it would push their agenda throughout the world - VP until Garfield died --> became president2
6032350957Largest Group of Americans in Foreign Diplomacy- christian missionaries (predominantly women)3
6032359005James G. Blaine- became secretary of state in 1881 - called the first Pan-American Conference4
6032385043Pan-Americanism- notion of community of the western hemisphere states - bring America closer together - the real reason was to make America a stronger nation5
6032406695Pan-American Union- founded after the second conference - lead to a riot in the port of Valparaiso Chile against American sailors6
6032541154Reciprocity Treaty of 1875- Americans were interested in Hawaii because they had sugarcane - gave Hawaiian sugar duty-free entry into the American market - declared the islands off limits to other powers7
6032580986Queen Liliuokalani- the last queen of Hawaii8
6032617386McKinley Tariff- a tariff put on trading sugar and pineapple if they weren't in American Territory - canceled Hawaii's access to the American market9
6032648105Treaty of Annexation- sugar planters revolted against Queen Liliuokalani and negotiated this treaty with President Harrison - before the senate approved it, Grover Cleveland returned to presidency and withdrew the treaty - Cleveland didn't want to annex Hawaii because he thought it would violate America's honor and morality10
6032679583"Seward's Folly"- America purchased Alaska from Russia for 7.2 million dollars - most people thought it was trash land until they found gold and oil on the land11
6032702596Pago Pago Purchase- America retained this coaling station for steam ships in the Samoan Islands - a key link on the route to Australia - Germany and Britain both wanted this land12
6032744297Alfred T. Mahan- The Godfather of our modern navy - wrote "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History" - an expansionist strategy - figures out that every major empire has a powerful navy so congress needed to approve the funding of more warships - exerts the idea of the Panama Crossing (later the Panama Canal) - Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge pushed for a "large policy"13
6032806373Two-Ocean Navy- under Harrison, congress approved funds for 3 modern battleships designed to protect the coasts, support troops, and travel long distances - Cleveland continued this14
6032838209The Venezuela Crisis- The US stepped in on a fight between Britain and Venezuela - this invoked the Monroe Doctrine15
6040637164The Monroe Doctrine- invoked by Richard Olney - created to tell Britain to back off the Western Hemisphere16
6040713125Richard Olney- secretary of state - said that other countries would need to accommodate Americas need for "more markets and larger markets"17
6040726915Expansionism- Social Darwinism- if the US wanted to survive, they had to expand their borders, especially in relation to Europe18
6040794054Expansionism- Manifest Destiny- people thought they had to spread their English culture to "savages" in other countries - John Fiske lectured about this subject and wanted to expand it even more19
6040825961Fredrick Jackson Turner- wrote the thesis, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" - predicted that the US wouldn't be satisfied with its borders and want to expand20
6040860411Cuban Crisis- Cubans didn't want to be under Spanish rule anymore - the US wanted to help them because they had sugar cane - after the US helped them, Spain offered Cuba limited self-rule but not independence so Cuba denied21
6040878723Valeriano Weyler- adopted re-concentration - this forced people into camps in attempt to stop the guerrilla fighters but it barely slowed them down22
6040894143Juntas- Cuban Nationalists that came to New York to make a case for the "Cuba Libre" - they wanted the US to help Cuba gain independence - Hearst used yellow journalism to boost awareness of this23
6040925491Jingoism- Americans anger against Spain grew - this came with a fiery patriotism24
6040972336Cleveland's stance on the Cuban Crisis- he was worried this would hurt trade and American business interests25
6040983224McKinley's stance on the Cuban Crisis- he changed Cleveland's method when he went into power - sent diplomats to Spain to tell them to end the war so Cuba could have stability, and if they didn't, the US would step in26
6041032661Dupuy de Lôme- his letter was published in the New York journal - called McKinley weak and said the Spanish government didn't take American demands seriously27
6041048070USS Maine Massacre- after the Dupuy de Lôme letter came out, the USS Maine exploded - US said Spain caused the explosion leading to a ton of yellow journalism on the subject - they later found out that Spain didn't actually cause the explosion28
6041098054War Hawks- the people in congress that tried to convince McKinley to go to war29
6041117522Teller Amendment- wanted to be fair if they went to war with Spain - made it clear that they weren't doing this for conquest of Cuba but if they happen to take another island from Spain, they can keep it - McKinley saw the war as an opportunity for expansion30
6041146799Roosevelt and his Rough Riders- Roosevelt was commissioned to be the lieutenant colonel of his own section of volunteer soldiers called the rough riders - had a lot of problems like bad food and sanitation, no uniforms, small riffle supply, and no provisions for getting the troops to Cuba31
6041200096American Conquest- america had superior battleships so spain couldn't compete - Commodore George Dewy lead naval victories - America quickly won the Philippines, Guam, Samoa, and Puerto Rico - Hawaii was annexed by joint resolution32
6041533532The Imperial Experiment- people didn't know what to do with the new land - they didn't want to give them to the harsh spanish rule but didn't think they were fit ti rule themselves33
6041625590Treaty of Paris- Spanish ceded the Philippines to the US for $20 million - while this was being signed, war broke out in the Philippines34
6041583872Anti-Imperialist League- these wealthy racist conservatives didn't want the US to conquer the Philippines because they didn't want the "savages" to be American citizens - Carnegie, Gompers, and Adams supported this35
6041657150Emilio Aginaldo- the modern George Washington of the Philippines - hated the spanish36
6041715097War in the Philippines- brutal Filipino guerrilla fighters - US resorted to using concentration camps37
6041743710Jones Act- Said the US wouldn't always be in charge of the Philippines - promised independence but didn't set a date38
6041762927American Empire- overseas empire - Hawaii - Puerto Rico - Guam - Philippines - several Samoan Islands - this made the US a world power39
6041873059Roosevelt- wanted to maintain a balance of power - the Anglo-American friendship - said to "speak softly but carry big stick" - justified America as the police of the world40
6041901600Hay-Pauncefote Agerement- Britain gave up its right to participate in the central American canal project - Made the project exclusively US control41
6041999552Platt amendment- gave the US the right to intervene militarily with Cuba if they couldn't maintain a solid government - US navy lease Guantanamo Bay42
6042546705Panama Canal- top of Roosevelt's agenda - canal across central america - Columbia turned the proposal down - lead a Panama resistance against Columbia so the canal could be made43
6042577862Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine- clause that stated US had the right to regulate Caribbean affairs44
6042606743Open Door Note- said all nations could do business with china - proposed by John Hay45
6042614841Boxer Rebellion- boxers= a secret society of Chinese Nationalists - US joined a multinational campaign to break the boxers' siege of Peking46
6042642783Russo-Japanese war- Roosevelt mediated a settlement - Japan emerged as the dominant power in east Asia47
6042705538Anti-Asian Sentiment- San Francisco school board passed a law that put all asians in one school - complicated Roosevelt's efforts to achieve asian accommodation for American interests in the pacific48
6042733994Gentelmens Agreement of 1907- Japan agreed to restrict immigration to the US - US said they would desegregate but there was still racist tension49
6042746214Root Takahira Agreement of 1908- lead to stability and economic trade in China - everyone had equal opportunities50
6042765536Dollar Diplomacy- trade element added by William Taft - said the US shouldn't help another nation unless it helps themselves - Wilson hated this- said we should support democracy as a beacon of hope and promised that we will never take another piece of land from another country51
6042785572Chinese Revolution 1911- Chinese nationalists brought down the Manchu Dynasty - Taft supported this - lead to the US having a rivalry with Japan52
6042810644Porfirio Diaz- corrupt mexican dictator - Wilson hated him - overthrown by Francisco Madero53
6042816845Francisco Madero- fair reformer of liberty and constitutionalism - wilson supported him - assassinated by Victoriano Huerta54
6042823181Victoriano Huerta- corrupt - wilson hated him and wanted the marines to step in to take him out of power - liked by big business - taken out of power by Venustiano Caranza55
6042833436Venustiano Caranza- lead a constitutionalist movement against Huerta - wanted to be recognized as the leader of Mexico (belligerent power) and legally buy weapons from the US to take him down56
6042844955Poncho Via- a general under Caranza that wanted him out of power - killed a large group of American train passengers - hunted down by Wilson and Caranza but never found57
6042852135Triple Alliance- Germany - Austria-Hungary - Italy58
6042855010Triple Entente- England - France - Russia59
6042865482Wilson Avoiding WWI- good peace talker and brokered an arbitration deal where France and Germany both got part of Morocco, putting off WWI60

AP US History chapter 32 Flashcards

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6074050978Warren G. Hardinginaugurated in 1921, one of the best liked men of his generation, the charming exterior concealed a weak interior0
6074050979Adkins v. Children's Hospitala landmark Supreme Court decision reversing the ruling in Muller v. Oregon, which had declared women to be deserving of special protection in the workplace1
6074050980Nine-Power Treatyagreement coming out of the Washington "Disarmament" Conference of 1921-1922 that pledged Britain, France, Italy, Japan, the U.S., China, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Belgium to abide by the Open Door Policy in China2
6074050981Kellogg-Briand Pacta sentimental triumph of the 1920's peace movement, this 1928 pact linked 62 nations in the supposed "outlawry of war"3
6074050982Fordney-McCumber Tariff Lawa comprehensive bill passed to protect domestic production from foreign competitors; as a direct result, many European nations were spurred to increase their own trade barriers4
6074050983Teapot Dome Scandala tawdry affair involving the illegal lease of priceless naval oil reserves in Teapot Dome, Wyoming and Elk Hills, California; one of several scandals that gave Harding's administration a reputation for corruption5
6074050984Albert B. Fallsecretary of the interior 1921, induced his careless colleague, the secretary of the Navy, to transfer valuable properties to the Interior Department; found guilty of taking a bribe and was sentenced to 1 year in jail6
6074050985Calvin CoolidgeVP to Harding; his father administered the presidential oath to him at his family home in VT, he became the "high priest of the great god Business"; "Cautious Cal"7
6074050986McNary-Haugen Billa farm-relief bill that was championed throughout the 1920's and aimed to keep agricultural prices high by authorizing the govt. to buy up surpluses and sell them abroad8
6074050987John W. Davisdemocratic candidate in 1924, no less conservative than Coolidge9
6074050988Robert ("Fighting Bob") La Folletteled a new Progressive Party in 1924, major constituency was made up of the price-pinched farmers10
6074050989Dawes Planan arrangement negotiated in 1924 to reschedule German reparations payments; it stabilized the German currency and opened the way for further American private loans to Germany11
6074050990Alfred E. Smithdemocratic nominee in 1928, lost; one of the most colorful personalities in American politics, "Al(cohol) Smith", too abrasively urban12
6074050991Agricultural Marketing Actestablished the Federal Farm Board, a lending bureau for hard-pressed farmers; also aimed to help farmers help themselves through new producers' cooperatives13
6074050992Hawley-Smoot Tariffthe highest protective tariff in the peacetime history of the U.S. passed as a result of good old-fashioned horse trading14
6074050993Black Tuesdaythe dark, panicky day of October 29, 1929 when over 16,410,000 shares of stock were sold on Wall Street; it was a trigger that helped bring on the Great Depression15
6074050994Hoovervillesgrim shantytowns where impoverished victims of the Great Depression slept under newspapers and in makeshift tents; their visibility (and sarcastic name) tarnished the reputation of the Hoover administration16
6074050995Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)a govt. leading agency established under the Hoover administration in order to assist insurance companies, banks, agricultural organizations, railroads, and local govts.17
6074050996Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction Actthis law banned "yellow-dog", or anti-union work contracts and forbade federal courts from issuing injunctions to quash strikes and boycotts; it was an early piece of labor-friendly federal legisaltion18
6074050997Bonus Armyofficially known as the Bonus Expeditionary Force (BEF), this rag-tag group of 20,000 veterans marched on Washington to demand immediate payment of bonuses earned during WWI; General Douglas MacArthur dispersed the veterans with tear gas and bayonets19

AP US History 1 Chapter 14 Vocabulary Terms Flashcards

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7457160422Industrial RevolutionA series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods.0
7457160423transportation revolutionA period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel because of new methods of transportation.1
7457160424nativismA policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones2
7457160425cult of domesticityTradition that housework and child care were considered the only proper activities for married women3
7457160426factory systemThis gradually replaced localized cottage industry. Workers were paid by the hour instead of for what they produce. On one hand it decreased the need for skilled labor, but in other ways it increased the amount of specialization due to labor being concentrated in factories.4
7457160427market revolutionDrastic changes in transportation (canals, RRs), communication (telegraph), and the production of goods (more in factories as opposed to houses)5
7457160428homesteadersSettlers who acquired free land from the government6
7457160429scabsStirkebreakers hired by employers as replacement workers when unions went on strike7
7457160430Interchangeable PartsIdentical components that can be used in place of one another in manufacturing8
7457160431cotton ginA machine for cleaning the seeds from cotton fibers.9
7457160432ClermontFulton's steamboat in 1807 which powered on/by a newly designed engine. It took the this boat 32 hours to go 150 miles from New York to Albany.10
7457160433clipper shipsAmerican boats, built during the 1840's in Boston, that were sleek and fast but inefficient in carrying a lot of cargo or passengers.11
7457160434Ancient Order of HiberniansSemisecret Irish organization that became a benevolent society aiding Irish immigrants in America12
7457160435"Molly Maguires"An active, militant Irish organization of farmers based in the Pennsylvania anthracite coal fields who are believed responsible for much violence13
7457160436pony expressA mail carrying service; ran from 1860-1861; was established to carry mail speedily along the 2,000 miles from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California; they could make the trek in 10 days.14
7457160437Commonwealth v. HuntA landmark ruling of the Massachusetts Supreme Court establishing the legality of labor unions and the legality of union workers striking if an employer hired non-union workers.15
7457160438Tammany HallA political organization within the Democratic Party in New York city (late 1800's and early 1900's) seeking political control by corruption and bossism16
7457160440Know Nothing PartyGroup of prejudice people who formed a political party during the time when the KKK grew. Anti-Catholics and anti-foreign. They were also known as the American Party.17
7457860270Boston AssociatesThey were a group of families who joined to form one of the earliest and most powerful joint capital ventures. They eventually came to dominate the textile industry, the railroads, the insurance industry, and banking in all of Massachusetts.18
7457873239General Incorporation LawThis was created to greatly help in "building" capitalism. It stated that business people could create a corporation if they complied with the terms of the law. It was a great boost to capitalism.19

UNIT 7 AP US HISTORY Flashcards

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6716002279The Progressive movement drew its strength from __________.middle-class reformers0
6716005014The painters who were part of the Ashcan School focused their art on __________.city life1
6716007370During the Progressive era, __________.urban development highlighted social inequalities2
6716008167Muckrakers __________.exposed the problems of industrial and urban life3
6716008938The writer whose work encouraged the passage of the Meat Inspection Act was __________.Upton Sinclair4
6716009679Scientific management __________.was pioneered by Frederick W. Taylor5
6716015177Eugene V. Debs was __________.a Socialist candidate for president6
6716017649The Industrial Workers of the World __________.advocated a workers' revolution7
6716031728Margaret Sanger was a __________.birth-control advocate8
6716034265Jane Addams __________.advocated for the working poor9
6716039116A cause not widely championed by Progressives was __________.civil rights for blacks10
6716041472President Theodore Roosevelt __________.helped striking coal miners to negotiate a favorable settlement with their employers11
6716071966The Roosevelt Corollary __________.claimed the right of the United States to act as a police power in the Western Hemisphere12
6716084436Dollar Diplomacy __________.was used by William Howard Taft instead of military intervention13
6716085076From 1914 to 1916, U.S. intervention in Mexico __________.demonstrated the weaknesses of Wilson's foreign policy14
6716090935World War I __________.was rooted in European contests over colonial possessions15
6716095836What did the Fourteen Points attempt to do?provide a peace agenda to create a new democratic world order16
6716100801The Nineteenth Amendment __________.barred states from using sex as a qualification for voting17
6716102835The Espionage Act (1917) and the Sedition Act (1918) __________.restricted freedom of speech18
6716104425"Americanization" __________.refers to the process of assimilation19
6716105087W. E. B. Du Bois __________.founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)20
6716107167The Red Scare __________.was an intense period of political intolerance inspired by labor strikes and fears of the Russian Revolution21
6716110231Senators opposing America's participation in the League of Nations __________.argued that it would threaten to deprive the country of its freedom of action22
6716128638What did Calvin Coolidge believe was the chief business of the American people?business23
6716129341Railroads were to the late nineteenth century what __________ were to the 1920s.cars24
6716135915During the 1920s, consumer goods __________.were frequently purchased on credit25
6716136845Agriculture in the 1920s __________.experienced declining incomes and increased bank foreclosures26
6716139449The Teapot Dome scandal involved __________.the secretary of the interior, who received money in exchange for leasing government oil reserves to private companies27
6716142312The Scopes trial of 1925 __________.pitted creationists against evolutionists28
6716143030The Ku Klux Klan __________.flourished in the early 1920s, especially in the North and West29
6716150315The 1924 Immigration Act __________.set quotas that favored immigration from northern and western Europe30
6716150954Cultural pluralism __________.described a society that gloried in ethnic diversity31
6716157177What did "slumming" mean?whites going to Harlem's dancehalls, jazz clubs, and speakeasies32
6716158343What was a main cause of the Great Depression?declining American purchasing power33
6716186530The Great Depression and the economic crisis that ensued discredited supporters of __________.unregulated capitalism34
6716188812In his 1932 campaign for the presidency, Franklin D. Roosevelt promised Americans a policy change he called the __________.New Deal35
6716197558The first thing that Roosevelt attended to as president was the __________.banking crisis36
6716199127The Civilian Conservation Corps __________.put young men to work in national parks37
6716199789The Agricultural Adjustment Act __________.raised farm prices by establishing quotas and paying farmers not to plant more38
6716202991The Congress of Industrial Organizations __________.created unions of industrial workers39
6716205486The New Deal concentrated power in the hands of __________.the executive branch40
6716208748Roosevelt's "Court-packing" plan __________.was criticized by many41
6716218482The Indian New Deal __________.included the Indian Reorganization Act of 193442
6716220847What ended the Great Depression?World War II spending43
6716222302The New Deal failed to generate __________.an economic recovery44
6716232761muckrakersWriters who exposed corruption and abuses in politics, business, meatpacking, child labor, and more, primarily in the first decade of the twentieth century; their popular books and magazine articles spurred public interest in reform.45
6716252013child laborIn the early twentieth century, more than 2 million children under the age of fifteen worked for wages.46
6716252737Ellis Island and Angel IslandReception center in New York Harbor through which most European immigrants to America were processed from 1892 to 1954.47
6716253279Mexican immigrationAs Mexicans arrived in the United States, most became poorly paid agricultural, mine, and railroad laborers, with little prospect of upward economic mobility.48
6716254894FordismEarly twentieth-century term describing the economic system pioneered by Ford Motor Company based on high wages and mass consumption.49
6716255705American standard of livingA new concept that came about from the maturation of the consumer economy; the idea that mass consumption came to occupy a central place in American society and its future.50
6716256572Rerum NovarumPope Leo XIII's powerful statement of 1894 that criticized the divorce of economic life from ethical considerations, endorsed the right of workers to form unions, and repudiated competitive individualism in favor of a more cooperative vision of the good society. Your Answer51
6716257422''scientific management''A program that sought to streamline production and boost profits by systematically controlling costs and work practices.52
6716257455Industrial Workers of the WorldRadical union organized in Chicago in 1905 and nicknamed the Wobblies; its opposition to World War I led to its destruction by the federal government under the Espionage Act.53
6716259147''New Feminism''Women's emancipation movement in the social, economic, cultural, and sexual spheres.54
6716260011birth-control movementA reform movement espousing the idea that right to control of one's body included the ability to enjoy an active sexual life without necessarily bearing women. Emma Goldman and Margaret Sanger were the leaders of this movement.55
6716260626Society of American IndiansFounded in 1911, the Society of American Indians was a reform organization typical of the era. It brought together Indian intellectuals to promote discussion of the plight of Native Americans in the hope that public exposure would be the first step toward remedying injustice.56
6716262102''effective freedom''An idea put forth by John Dewey that freedom was a positive, not negative concept -- the ''power to do specific things.''57
6716262802maternalist reformPolicies such as mothers' pensions designed to improve the living standards of poor mothers and children.58
6716263404Muller v. OregonA famous brief citing scientific and sociological studies to demonstrate that because they had less strength and endurance than men, long hours of labor were dangerous for women, while their unique ability to bear children gave the government a legitimate interest in their working conditions.59
6716264739workmen's compensation lawsLaws enacted to benefit workers, male or female, injured on the job.60
6716265880coal miner's strike of 1902A paralyzing strike that was ended when President Roosevelt threatened a federal takeover of the mines.61
6716266774Pure Food and Drug ActFirst law to regulate manufacturing of food and medicines; prohibited dangerous additives and inaccurate labeling.62
6716267690Roosevelt and conservationA federal policy to conserve natural resources. Under Roosevelt's leadership, millions of acres were set aside as preserves and national parks were created.63
6716268354Federal Reserve SystemA system of twelve regional banks overseen by a central board empowered to handle the issuance of currency, aid banks in danger of failing, and influence interest rates so as to promote economic growth.64
6716270877Federal Trade CommissionCreated to enforce existing antitrust laws that prohibited business combinations in restraint of trade.65
6716272466''liberal internationalism''Woodrow Wilson's foreign policy that rested on the conviction that economic and political progress go hand in hand.66
6716272467Panama Canal ZoneA ten-mile wide strip of land on which was built a canal; its construction drastically reduced the time it took for commercial and naval vessels to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans.67
6716273511yellow feverA malady that struck many workers on the Panama Canal project.68
6716275568Roosevelt CorollaryAn addendum to the Monroe Doctrine that held that the United States had the right to exercise "an international police power" in the Western Hemisphere.69
6716277085''moral imperialism''Woodrow Wilson's idea that Americans were ''meant to carry liberty and justice'' throughout the world.''70
6716277775sinking of the LusitaniaAn incident in 1915 wherein a British liner was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland.71
6716277776Zimmerman TelegramFrom the German foreign secretary to the German minister in Mexico, February 1917, instructing him to offer to recover Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona for Mexico if it would fight the United States to divert attention from Germany in the event that the United States joined the war.72
6716278581Fourteen PointsPresident Woodrow Wilson's 1918 plan for peace after World War I; at the Versailles peace conference, however, he failed to incorporate all of the points into the treaty.73
6716279694Selective Service ActEnacted in 1917; required 24 million men to register with the draft.74
6716279695War Industries BoardRun by financier Bernard Baruch, the board planned production and allocation of war materiel, supervised purchasing, and fixed prices, 1917-1919.75
6716280953Committee on Public InformationCreated in 1917 by the Wilson administration to explain to Americans and the world that ''the cause that compelled America to take arms in defense of its liberties and free institutions.''76
6716281375Espionage ActThe Espionage Act of 1917 prohibited not only spying and interfering with the draft but also "false statements" that might impede military success.77
6716286142Sedition ActIn 1918, the Sedition Act made it a crime to make spoken or printed statements that intended to cast contempt, scorn, or disrepute on the form of government, or that advocated interference with the war effort78
6716288653American Protective LeagueAn organization that helped the Justice Department identify radicals and critics of the war by spying on their neighbors and carrying out ''slacker raids'' in which thousands of men were stopped on the streets of major cities and required to produce draft registration cards.79
6716289334intelligence quotientLewis Terman introduced the term "IQ" (intelligence quotient) in 1916, claiming that this single number could measure an individual's mental capacity.80
6716291190Brownsville affairIn 1906, when a small group of black soldiers shot off their guns in Brownsville, Texas, killing one resident, and none of their fellows would name them, Roosevelt ordered the dishonorable discharge of three black companies 156 men in all, including six winners of the Congressional Medal of Honor.81
6716292549National Association for the Advancement of Colored PeopleFounded in 1910, this civil rights organization brought lawsuits against discriminatory practices and published The Crisis, a journal edited by African-American scholar W. E. B. Du Bois.82
6716293061GarveyitesFollowers of Marcus Garvey for whom freedom meant national self-determination.83
6716293063United States in RussiaWilson's policies toward the Soviet Union revealed the contradictions within the liberal internationalist vision. On the one hand, in keeping with the principles of the Fourteen Points and its goal of a worldwide economic open door, Wilson hoped to foster trade with the new government. On the other, fear of communism as a source of international instability and a threat to private property inspired military intervention in Russia84
6716294112Red ScareFear among many Americans after World War I of Communists in particular and noncitizens in general, a reaction to the Russian Revolution, mail bombs, strikes, and riots.85
6716304232Sacco-Vanzetti caseA well-known case in which two Italian-American anarchists were found guilty and executed for a crime in which there was very little evidence linking them to the particular crime.86
6716305555''the American way of life''Even as unemployment remained high in Britain throughout the 1920s, and inflation and war reparations payments crippled the German economy, Hollywood films spread images of "the American way of life" across the globe.87
6716306030The Man Nobody KnowsThe Man Nobody Knows, a 1925 best-seller by advertising executive Bruce Barton, portrayed Jesus Christ as "the greatest advertiser of his day, . . . a virile go-getting he-man of business," who "picked twelve men from the bottom ranks and forged a great organization."88
6716306764rise of the stock marketIn the 1920s, as the steadily rising price of stocks made front-page news, the market attracted more investors. Many assumed that stock values would rise forever. By 1928, an estimated 1.5 million Americans owned stock, still a small minority of the country's 28 million families, but far more than in the past.89
6716307925''welfare capitalism''A more socially conscious kind of business leadership.90
6716308032Equal Rights AmendmentA proposed amendment to eliminate all legal distinctions ''on account of sex.''91
6716309133the ''flapper''With her bobbed hair, short skirts, public smoking and drinking, and unapologetic use of birth-control methods such as the diaphragm, the young, single "flapper" epitomized the change in standards of sexual behavior, at least in large cities.92
6716317567Teapot Dome scandalHarding administration scandal in which Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall profited from secret leasing to private oil companies of government oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyoming, and Elk Hills, California.93
6716318514McNary-Haugan farm billVetoed by President Calvin Coolidge in 1927 and 1928, the bill to aid farmers would have artificially raised agricultural prices by selling surpluses overseas for low prices and selling the reduced supply in the United States for higher prices.94
6716318581Hays codeIn 1922, the film industry adopted the Hays code, a sporadically enforced set of guidelines that prohibited movies from depicting nudity, long kisses, and adultery, and barred scripts that portrayed clergymen in a negative light or criminals sympathetically.95
6716320912American Civil Liberties UnionOrganization founded during World War I to protest the suppression of freedom of expression in wartime; played a major role in court cases that achieved judicial recognition of Americans civil liberties.96
6716321375''clear and present danger''Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes declared that the First Amendment did not prevent Congress from prohibiting speech that presented a "clear and present danger" of inspiring illegal actions. Free speech, he observed, "would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic."97
6716322491Scopes trialTrial of John Scopes, Tennessee teacher accused of violating state law prohibiting teaching of the theory of evolution; it became a nationally celebrated confrontation between religious fundamentalism and civil liberties.98
6716322996''100 percent Americanism''Few features of urban life seemed more alien to rural and small-town native-born Protestants than their immigrant populations and cultures. The wartime obsession with "100 percent Americanism" continued into the 1920s, a decade of citizenship education programs in public schools, legally sanctioned visits to immigrants homes to investigate their house- hold arrangements, and vigorous efforts by employers to instill appreciation for American values.99
6716324736''illegal alien''The law of 1924 established, in effect, for the first time a new category the illegal alien. With it came a new enforcement mechanism, the Border Patrol, charged with policing the land boundaries of the United States and empowered to arrest and deport persons who entered the country in violation of the new nationality quotas or other restrictions.100
6716326722the ''new Negro''The term "New Negro," associated in politics with pan-Africanism and the militancy of the Garvey movement, in art meant the rejection of established stereotypes and a search for black values to put in their place. This quest led the writers of what came to be called the Harlem Renaissance to the roots of the black experience Africa, the rural South's folk traditions, and the life of the urban ghetto.101
6716327919bonus marchersIn the spring of 1932, 20,000 unemployed World War I veterans descended on Washington to demand early payment of a bonus due in 1945, only to be driven away by federal soldiers led by the army's chief of staff, Douglas MacArthur.102
6716329281''public works revolution''The Roosevelt administration spent far more money on building roads, dams, airports, bridges, and housing than any other activity in the 1930s.103
6716329282bank holidayBy March 1933, banking had been suspended in a majority of the states that is, people could not gain access to money in their bank accounts. Roosevelt declared a "bank holiday," temporarily halting all bank operations.104
6716331669the Hundred DaysExtraordinarily productive first three months of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration in which a special session of Congress enacted fifteen of his New Deal proposals.105
6716334859National Recovery AdministrationThe National Recovery Administration (NRA), created to work with groups of business leaders to establish industry codes that set standards for output, prices, and working conditions.106
6716335171Public Works AdministrationOne section of the National Industrial Recovery Act created the Public Works Administration (PWA), with an appropriation of $3.3 billion. Directed by Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, it built roads, schools, hospitals, and other public facilities.107
6716336142Agricultural Adjustment ActNew Deal legislation that established the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) to improve agricultural prices by limiting market sup- plies; declared unconstitutional in United States v. Butler (1936).108
6716336767Dust BowlGreat Plains counties where millions of tons of topsoil were blown away from parched farmland in the 1930s; massive migration of farm families followed.109
6716337508sit-down strikeTactic adopted by labor unions in the mid- and late 1930s, whereby striking workers refused to leave factories, making production impossible; proved highly effective in the organizing drive of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.110
6716337525Share Our Wealth movementLaunched in 1934, its slogan was 'Every Man a King'; the group called for the confiscation of most of the wealth of the richest Americans in order to finance an immediate grant of $5,000 and a guaranteed job and annual income for all citizens.111
6716338355Townsend planDr. Francis Townsend, a California physician, won wide support for a plan by which the government would make a monthly payment of $200 to older Americans, with the requirement that they spend it immediately.112
6716338466Rural Electrification AgencyCreated to bring electric power to homes that lacked it, 80 percent of farms were still without electricity in 1934, in part to enable more Americans to purchase household appliances.113
6716340436Works Progress AdministrationPart of the Second New Deal, it provided jobs for millions of the unemployed on construction and arts projects.114
6716341191Social Security ActCreated the Social Security system with provisions for a retirement pension, unemployment insurance, disability insurance, and public assistance (welfare).115
6716341989court-packing planPresident Franklin D. Roosevelt's failed 1937 attempt to increase the number of U.S. Supreme Court justices from nine to fifteen in order to save his Second New Deal programs from constitutional challenges.116
6716343004minimum wage lawsBeginning in March 1937, the Court suddenly revealed a new willingness to support economic regulation by both the federal government and the states. It upheld a minimum wage law of the state of Washington similar to the New York measure it had declared unconstitutional a year earlier.117
6716344240Indian New DealUnder Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier, the administration launched an "Indian New Deal". Collier ended the policy of forced assimilation and allowed Indians unprecedented cultural autonomy. He replaced boarding schools meant to eradicate the tribal heritage of Indian children with schools on reservations, and dramatically increased spending on Indian health.118
6716344950the Popular FrontAt the height of the Popular Front, a period during the mid-1930s when the Communist Party sought to ally itself with socialists and New Dealers in movements for social change, urging reform of the capitalist system rather than revolution Communists gained an unprecedented respectability.119
6716348203''Scottsboro boys''A case in which nine young black men were arrested for the rape of two white women in Alabama in 1931. Despite the weakness of the evidence against the "Scottsboro boys" and the fact that one of the two accusers recanted, Alabama authorities three times put them on trial and three times won convictions. Landmark Supreme Court decisions overturned the first two verdicts and established legal principles that greatly expanded the definition of civil liberties that defendants have a constitutional right to effective legal representation, and that states cannot systematically exclude blacks from juries. But the Court allowed the third set of convictions to stand, which led to prison sentences for five of the defendants.120
6716349728Smith ActThis legislation made it a federal crime to ''teach, advocate, or encourage'' the overthrow of the government.121
6716349729House Un-American Activities CommitteeFormed in 1938 to investigate subversives in the government and holders of radical ideas more generally; best-known investigations were of Hollywood notables and of former State Department official Alger Hiss, who was accused in 1948 of espionage and Communist Party membership. Abolished in 1975.122
6716352239Four FreedomsFreedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.123
6716352240Good Neighbor PolicyProclaimed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his first inaugural address in 1933, it sought improved diplomatic relations between the United States and its Latin American neighbors.124
6716353221isolationismIsolationism "the 1930s version of Americans" long-standing desire to avoid foreign entanglements, dominated Congress. Beginning in 1935, lawmakers passed a series of Neutrality Acts that banned travel on belligerents ships and the sale of arms to countries at war.125
6716356456Nye committee and Neutrality ActsSenate hearings in 1934-1935 headed by Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota revealed that international bankers and arms exporters had pressed the Wilson administration to enter that war and had profited handsomely from it. / Beginning in 1935, lawmakers passed a series of Neutrality Acts that banned travel on belligerents ships and the sale of arms to countries at war.126
6716358080Lend-Lease ActPermitted the United States to lend or lease arms and other supplies to the Allies, signifying increasing likelihood of American involvement in World War II.127
6716359639Bataan ''death march''At Bataan, in the Philippines, the Japanese forced 78,000 American and Filipino troops to lay down their arms, the largest surrender in American military history. Thousands perished on the ensuing "death march" to a prisoner-of-war camp, and thousands more died of disease and starvation after they arrived.128
6716360939D-DayJune 6, 1944, when an Allied amphibious assault landed on the Normandy coast and established a foothold in Europe, leading to the liberation of France from German occupation.129
6716362633HolocaustHitler embarked on the "final solution," the mass extermination of "undesirable" peoples Slavs, gypsies, homosexuals, and, above all, Jews. By 1945, 6 million Jewish men, women, and children had died in Nazi death camps.130
6716365376Office of War InformationOffice of War Information (OWI), created in 1942 to mobilize public opinion, illustrates how the political divisions generated by the New Deal affected efforts to promote the Four Freedoms. The liberal Democrats who dominated the OWI's writing staff sought to make the conflict a people's war for freedom.131
6716367499War Advertising CouncilUnder the watchful eye of the War Advertising Council, private companies joined in the campaign to promote wartime patriotism, while positioning themselves and their brand names for the postwar world.132
6716367802Rosie the RiveterPrivate advertising celebrated the achievements of Rosie the Riveter, the female industrial laborer depicted as muscular and self-reliant in Norman Rockwell's famous magazine cover.133
6716368533Economic Bill of RightsMindful that public-opinion polls showed a large majority of Americans favoring a guarantee of employment for those who could not find work, the president in 1944 called for an "Economic Bill of Rights." The original Bill of Rights restricted the power of government in the name of liberty. FDR proposed to expand its power in order to secure full employment, an adequate income, medical care, education, and a decent home for all Americans.134
6716369610GI Bill of RightsThe "GI Bill of Rights" provided money for education and other benefits to military personnel returning from World War II.135
6716371765''patriotic assimilation''bracero program136
6716371811bracero programSystem agreed to by Mexican and American governments in 1942 under which tens of thousands of Mexicans entered the United States to work temporarily in agricultural jobs in the Southwest; lasted until 1964 and inhibited labor organization among farm workers since braceros could be deported at any time.137
6716372357zoot suit riotsThe "zoot suit" riots of 1943, in which club-wielding sailors and policemen attacked Mexican-American youths wearing flamboyant clothing on the streets of Los Angeles, illustrated the limits of wartime tolerance.138
6716373538Executive Order 9066Promulgated in February 1942, this ordered the expulsion of all persons of Japanese descent from the West Coast.139
6716373895Korematsu v. United StatesIn 1944, the Supreme Court denied the appeal of Fred Korematsu, a Japanese-American citizen who had been arrested for refusing to present himself for internment.140
6716374887Executive Order 8802This order banned discrimination in defense jobs and established a Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC) to monitor compliance.141
6716384224''double-V''In February 1942, the Pittsburgh Courier coined the phrase that came to symbolize black attitudes during the war the "double-V." Victory over Germany and Japan, it insisted, must be accompanied by victory over segregation at home.142
6716386399Manhattan ProjectSecret American program during World War II to develop an atomic bomb; J. Robert Oppenheimer led the team of physicists at Los Alamos, New Mexico.143
6716386488Yalta conferenceMeeting of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin at a Crimean resort to discuss the postwar world on February 4-11, 1945; Joseph Stalin claimed large areas in eastern Europe for Soviet domination.144
6716388359Bretton Woods conferenceTown in New Hampshire and site of international agreement in 1944 by which the American dollar replaced the British pound as the most important international currency, and the World Bank and International Monetary Fund were created to promote rebuilding after World War II and to ensure that countries did not devalue their currencies.145
6775546114Why did citizens and government officials call for increased intervention in the economy?Because of the economic downturns led to calls for government involvement and the creation of a stronger financial regulatory sytem.146
6775574013Assembly LineGoods were produced faster and was created by Henry Ford and helped lower prices of goods.147
6775654315Why did the US transform from a rural to industrial society? How did this affect the lives of women and other Americans?148
6775654316How did the New Deal change the relationship between the government and the economy?149
6775654317Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)1. Created to insure bank deposits 2. Drastically decreased the number of bank failures150
6775654318What are the characteristics of progressive reformers?Predominantly middle class, women and lived in cities151
6775654319Jane AddamsCreated the Hull house and other settlement houses for women, education and immigrants152
677565432017th amendmentDirect election of senators153
6775654321Clayton Antitrust ActStrengthened the Sherman Antitrust Act, exempted unions from prosecution154
6775654322Florence KelleyKey member of the National Consumers League which focused on child labor, food safety and poor working conditions155
6775654323Huey Long"Every Man a King" which proposed giving $5000 to citizens by taxing the wealthy156

AP US History Chapter 19 Flashcards

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5326954714PatronageGranting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support.0
5326956764Garfield's AssassinationCharles Guiteau shoots him hoping to aid the stalwarts, but it backfires because Chester Arthur resolves to follow what the half breeds wanted and reform.1
5326956765Charles GuiteauAssassinated President James to make civil service reform a reality. He shot Garfield because he believed that the Republican Party had not fulfilled its promise to give him a government job.2
5326954715Pendleton Act1883 law that created a Civil Service Commission and stated that federal employees could not be required to contribute to campaign funds nor be fired for political reasons.3
5326954716Roscoe ConklingA politician from New York who served both as a member of the United States House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. He was the leader of the Stalwart faction of the Republican Party.4
5326984259James BlaineBlaine hoped to reduce tariff rate, but goal of cooperation between the Pan-American Union happened and still exists today.5
5326986354Half-BreedsFavored tariff reform and social reform, major issues from the Democratic and Republican parties. They did not seem to be dedicated members of either party.6
5326986355McKinley Tariff1890 tariff that raised protective tariff levels by nearly 50%, making them the highest tariffs on imports in the United States history.7
5326984260Laissez-faireIdea that government should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs.8
5326984261IndividualismGiving priority to one's own goals over group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications.9
5327015458Horatio Alger19th-century American author, best known for his many formulaic juvenile novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty.10
5327017967Social DarwinismA social theory which states that the level a person rises to in society and wealth is determined by their genetic background.11
5327017968MugwumpsA group of renegade Republicans who supported 1884 Democratic presidential nominee Grover Cleveland instead of their party's nominee, James G. Blaine.12
5327015459Literacy testsMethod used to deny African-Americans the vote in the South that tested a person's ability to read and write - they were done very unfairly so even though most African-Americans could read and write by the 1950's they still failed.13
5327015460Secret ballotsIt gave every voter a private vote.14
5327052338Women's Christian TemperanceThis organization was dedicated to the idea of the 18th Amendment - the Amendment that banned the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol.15
5327055272Union gerrymandering16
5327052339RedeemersLargely former slave owners who were the bitterest opponents of the Republican program in the South. Staged a major counterrevolution to "redeem" the south by taking back southern state governments. Their foundation rested on the idea of racism and white supremacy. Redeemer governments waged and aggressive assault on African Americans.17
5327052340Home RuleAllows cities to write their own charters, choose their own type of government, and manage their own affairs.18
5327052341The Colored Farmer's AllianceEducated colored members on new farming techniques.19
5327084134PopulistsPeople who hold liberal views on economic matters and conservative ones on social matters. The prefer a strong government that will reduce economic inequality, regulate businesses, and impose stricter social and criminal sanctions.20
5327086515Jim CrowLimited rights of blacks. Literacy tests, grandfather clauses and poll taxes limited black voting rights.21
5327086516Plessy v Ferguson 1896Ruled that segregation was constitutional. Established the idea "separate but equal" was acceptable.22
5327084135Williams v Mississippi 1898The Mississippi supreme court ruled that poll taxes and literacy tests, which took away blacks' right to vote (a practice known as "disenfranchisement"), were legal.23
5327084136Ida B. WellsAfrican American journalist. published statistics about lynching, urged African Americans to protest by refusing to ride streetcars or shop in white owned stores.24
5327110220Panic of 1893Serious economic depression beginning in 1893. Began due to rail road companies over-extending themselves, causing bank failures. Was the worst economic collapse in the history of the country until that point, and, some say, as bad as the Great Depression of the 1930s.25
5327110221Farmer's Alliance of the NorthwestThe Farmers' Alliance was an organized agrarian economic movement among American farmers.26
5327110222National Farmers AllianceAsk for sub-treasury, government stabilize farm prices by being up surplus and then selling to make a profit, beginning of idea that farmers control the farm prices. policy goals of this organization included more readily available farm credits and federal regulation of the railroads.27
5327110223Sub-treasury systemSet up in the 1840s for the retaining of government funds in the Treasury and its sub treasuries(state banks) independently of national banking and financial systems.28
5327113605Mary Elizabeth LeaseKnown as "Mary Yellin'" and "the Kansas Pythoness," she made about 160 speeches in 1890. She criticized Wall Street and the wealthy, and cried that Kansans should raise "less corn and more hell."29
5327147865Free SilverPolitical issue involving the unlimited coinage of silver, supported by farmers and William Jennings Bryan.30
5327150443Bi-metallic StandardSilverite - Favored the unlimited coining of silver, farmers. One dollar dissolving of silver causes.31
5327150444Bland Allison Act 1878Requires the U.S. Treasury to buy a certain amount of silver and put it into circulation as silver dollars. Vetoed by President Hayes but the veto was overruled. Helped restore bimetallism with gold and silver both supporting the currency.32
5327147866Sherman Silver Purchase Act 18901890 - Directed the Treasury to buy even larger amounts of silver that the Bland-Allison Act and at inflated prices. The introduction of large quantities of overvalued silver into the economy lead to a run on the federal gold reserves, leading to the Panic of 1893. Repealed in 1893.33
5327147867Coxey's ArmyUnemployed workers marched from Ohio to Washington to draw attention to the plight of workers and to ask for government relief.34
5327191923William Jennings BryanUnited States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school (1860-1925).35
5327194770Cross of Gold SpeechAn impassioned address by William Jennings Bryan at the 1896 Democratic Convention, in which he attacked the "gold bugs" who insisted that U.S. currency be backed only with gold.36
5327191924Mark HannaAn industrialist and Republican politician from Ohio. The campaign manager of McKinley in the 1896, in what is considered the forerunner of the modern political campaign, and subsequently became one of the most powerful members of the U.S. Senate.37
5327191925The Election of 1896Is sometimes called the first modern presidential campaign.38

AP US History - US Presidents (dates are of elections) Flashcards

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6764562386George Washington1789-1796 Federalist - Cabinet: John Adams (vp), Jefferson (state), Hamilton (treasurer, financial plan) - Bill of Rights - 1789 Judiciary Act, John Jay - Whiskey Rebellion - Jay's Treaty - Farewell Address0
6764562387John Adams1796-1800 Federalist - Judiciary Act of 1801 - John Marshall - XYZ Affair - Alien and Sedition Acts - VA and KY Resolutions1
6764562388Thomas Jefferson1800-1808 Democratic-Republican (Revolution of 1800, with Burr) - Gabriel's Rebellion - Marbury v. Madison - Louisiana Purchase, Lewis + Clark - Embargo of 1807 -> Non intercourse act - Barbury Pirates of Tripoli2
6764562389James Madison1808-1816 Democratic-Republican - War of 1812; Tecumseh; Andrew Jackson and New Orleans; Treaty of Ghent - Protective Tariff of 18163
6764562390James Monroe1816-1824 Democratic-Republican - Era of Good feelings - American System - Rise of factory system - Adams-Onis Treaty - Treaty of 1818 - Panic of 1819 - Missouri Compromise of 1820 - Monroe Doctrine - More federal power, less state power (Dartmouth v. Woodward, Gibbons v. Ogden, McCulloch v. Maryland) - Cumberland "national road"4
6764562391John Quincy Adams1824-1828 Democratic-Republican - "Corrupt Bargain" (with Clay) - "Tariff of Abominations" - Erie Canal5
6764562392Andrew Jackson1828-1836 Democrat "Old Hickory" - Peggy Eaton Affair - Nullification Crisis (Exposition and Protest, Force Bill) - Kitchen cabinet/spoils system - Compromise Tariff of 1833 - Indian Removal Act (Worcester v. Georgia, Trail of Tears, Treaty of New Echota) - Bank War (Biddle, 2nd Natl. Bank) - Start of the Whigs (after re-election) - Specie Circular (wildcat banks, panic of 1837) - Texas declares independence (1836-1845), Battle of Alamo6
6764562393Martin Van Buren1836-1840 Democrat ("OK") - Trail of Tears - Panic of 1837 - Put off Texas annexation - some utopian societies7
6764562394William Henry Harrison1840-1841 Whig - "Tippecanoe and Tyler too!" (common man) - First Whig President8
6764562395John Tyler1841-1844 Whig - Webster-Ashburton Treaty - Term "Manifest Destiny" coined - Oregon Trail - Annexed Texas 1845 - Immigration from Ireland, Germany (1840s-1860)9
6764562396James Polk1844-1848 Democrat (vs. Clay) - Oregon Treaty (54 40) - Mexican War (1846-1848) (Taylor, Robert -E. Lee, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo) - Start of Free Soil Party (Buren; Wilmot Proviso) - Seneca Falls Convention (Stanton, Mott)10
6764562397Zachary Taylor1848-1850 Whig - Mexican War hero and staunch Unionist11
6764562398Millard Fillmore1850-1852 Whig - Compromise of 1850 (fugitive slave law, popular sovereignty) - Bessemer Process12
6764562399Franklin Pierce1852-1856 Democrat - Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854; Douglas; Border ruffians; bleeding kansas, sack of Lawrence; Brooks/Sumner) - Gadsden Purchase - "American" or "Know-Nothing" party - Start of Republican Party - Treaty with Japan (Commodore Perry)13
6764562400James Buchanan1856-1860 Democrat - Dred Scott v. Sanford (Judge Roger B. Taney) - Lecompton Constitution - Lincoln v. Douglas ("Freeport doctrine") debates - Harpers Ferry raid (John Brown) - Crittenden Compromise - Drake drills for oil in PA14
6764562401Abraham Lincoln1860-1865 Republican - Civil War 1st part (Secession; Confederacy and Davis; Fort Sumter; ironclads Merrimac and Monitor; Anaconda plan; 1st/2nd Bull runs and McClellan vs. Lee; Antietam; Grant) - Suspension of Habeas Corpus - King Cotton Diplomacy - New York draft riots - Homestead act - Turning point of war (Emancipation Proclamation; Gettysburg 1863; Surrender at Vicksburg; Sherman's March) - 13th Amendment 1865 - Greenbacks, higher tarriffs - women: Red cross, Clara Barton - 10% plan (Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, instead of Wade-Davis Bill) - Freedmen's Bureau (Scalawags; carpetbaggers) - John Wilkes Booth15
6764562402Andrew Johnson1865-1868 Democrat - 10%+ plan - Black codes - Civil rights act of 1866 -> 14th amendment Radical Reconstruction; Impeachment - Rise of KKK - Reconstruction Acts of 1867 (military reconstruction; command of army; tenure of office act -> near-impeachment) - Seward's Folly16
6764562403Ulysses Grant1868-1876 Republican "waving bloody shirt" vs. Seymour - Credit mobilier - Whisky Ring scandal - Indian ring scandal - Tweed ring (Tammany hall; nast) - 15th amendment (enforcement acts/KKK act) - Panic of 1873 (Crime of '73, start of Greenback party) - Civil rights act of 1875 - U.S. vs. Cruikshank - Promontory point UT - Grant's treaty (natives)17
6764562404Rutherford Hayes1876-1880 Republican - Compromise of 1877 - labor unions and strikes (Great Railroad strike of 1877, Munn v. Illinois, granger mvt.) - Exodus movement - Natives: Nez Pierce War, Little big horn v. custer, Geronimo? - Stalwarts; Mugwumps; half-breeds18
6764562405James Garfield1880-1881, Republican - Pendleton act (civil service act)19
6764562406Chester Arthur1881-1884 Republican - Standard Oil trust created - Brooklyn Bridge - Edison lights up New York City - Dowd; time zones - Chinese exclusion act20
6764562407Grover Cleveland1884-1888 Democrat - Wabash v. Illinois (fed govt intervention on economy) - Interstate Commerce Act - Dawes Act - Knights of Labor; Haymarket affair - AFL (Gompers) - IWW (Debs)21
6764562408Benjamin Harrison1888-1892 Republican - Ghost Dance (Wounded Knee) - Sherman Anti-Trust Act - Sherman Silver Purchase act - Closure of the frontier - McKinley Tariff - Start of populist party (omaha convention) - Homestead strike22
6765960650Grover Cleveland1892-1896 Democrat - Panic of 1893 - Pullman Strike - Wilson-Gorman Tariff - Hawaii (Queen Lili; Dole) - Plessy v. Ferguson23
6764562409William McKinley1896-1901 Republican vs. William Jennings Bryan (Cross of Gold) - Hawaii annexation - Waldorf-Astoria/Bradley Martin ball - Spanish-American War (yellow journalism; Teller Amendment; Treaty of Paris; Platt Amendment; Rough riders and San Juan Hill) - Olney interpretation - Gold standard act - Open Door policy with china24
6764562410Theodore Roosevelt1901-1908 Republican - Steffens "Shame of the Cities" - Sinclair "The Jungle" (Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug act) - Progressivism - Square Deal - Panama Canal - Roosevelt Corollary (Big Stick Diplomacy) - Muller v. Oregon - Panic of 190725
6764562411William Howard Taft1908-1912 Republican - Dollar diplomacy - Triangle Shirtwaist Fire - NAACP founded - Hull House (Jane Addams) - National Womens party (Alice Paul) - Dept. of Labor - 16th and 17th amendments - Rise of progressive party26
6764562412Woodrow Wilson1912-1920 Democrat - vs. roosevelt (progressive), taft, debs - Clayton anti-trust act WWI (Council of national defense; committee on public info and creel; espionage and sedition acts; war industries board; victory gardens; national war labor board and Gompers; overman act) - Schenck v. US - Paris peace conference; treaty of versailles; League of Nations - 18th (volstead; anti-saloon league) and 19th amendments - reform (Keating-Owen child labor act; Adamson act) Segregation of federal offices; - First Red Scare (great steel strike; palmer raids; sacco-vanzetti; FBI)27
6764562413Warren Harding1920-1923 Republican "Return to normalcy" - return to isolationism - Lost generation; Harlem Renaissance - Tea Pot Dome scandal - Prohibition - Great migration; UNIA; Garvey of Jamaica and pan-africanism28
6764562414Calvin Coolidge1923-1928 Republican Small-government (laissez-faire) -conservative - National origin act of 1924 - monkey scopes trial (ACLU and Darrow, William J Bryan; cultural fundamentalism)29
6764562415Herbert Hoover1928-1932 Republican "American individualism" - Stock Market Crash - Voluntarism - Reconstruction Finance corp - Dust Bowl - Hawley-Smoot Tariff - Bonus Army30
6764562416Franklin Delano Roosevelt1932-1945 Democrat - New Deal (relief, recovery, reform; FDIC; AAA; NIRA; FERA; CCC.... ; social security act, wagner act or national labor relations act; 2nd AAA (struck down -> court packing plan); TVA; WPA) - Brain trust - New Deal opposition and responses: Long -> revenue act of 1935; Coughlin -> banking act of 1935; Townsend -> social security act) - Indian reorganization act - Roosevelt Coalition - WWII (Axis powers; cash and carry -> lend-lease -> involvement; Atlantic Charter; Pearl Harbor; Casablanca; Tehran/Teheren) - Japanese Internment (executive order 9066; Korematsu vs. US) - D-Day; Hiroshima/Nagasaki; V-J day; Yalta Conference) - Double V campaign - GI Bill - "Fireside Chats" - Good neighbor policy - Died31
6764562417Harry Truman1945-1952 Democrat - A-bomb and atomic energy commission; Potsdam conference; nuremberg trials - "Fair Deal" - Civil Rights (Commission; "To Secure These Rights"; desegregated military) - Marshall Plan - Truman doctrine; containment; Berlin Airlift; NATO and Warsaw Pact; Korean War and Macarthur) - Strike wave of 1946 -> Taft-hartley act - United Nations32
6764562418Dwight Eisenhower1952-1960 Republican - Warren court (Brown v. Board of Education; Engel v. Vitale; Miranda v. Arizona; Thurgood Marshall; Baker v. Carr; Tinker v. Moines) - Emmett Till; Rosa parks and montgomery busing; Massive Resistance; Little Rock; Civil Rights Act Second Red Scare (McCarthyism; Red menace; Hollywood Ten; Rosenbergs; ) - Interstate Highway Act and suburbanization ("white flight") - Farewell Address warning of the military industrial complex - Geneva Convention, U-2 incident - Replaced French in vietnam - NASA33
6764562419John Kennedy1960-1963 Democrat - Bay of Pigs - Cuban Missile Crisis; Space program; - Peace Corps - Chavez and United Farm Workers34
6764562420Lyndon Johnson1963-1968 Democrat - Civil and Voting Rights acts (1964, 1965); Freedom summer/rides; sit-ins; SNCC and John Lewis; Bull Connor and MLK; Medgar Evans; Malcolm X; black power mvt. - Election of 1964 (New Left and SDS and post huron; Goldwater and YAF/New Right) - Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; Tet Offensive; - Pueblo Incident of 1968 - Great Society; Medicaid/medicare; Immigration act of 1965; Harrington "the other America"; Carson "Silent Spring - counterculture (Beat generation; anti war; woodstock music festival; Kent and Jackson state colleges) - NOW (Feminine mystique; ERA); Stonewall revolt - Robert K. assassination, MLK assassination35
6764562421Richard Nixon1968-1974 Republican v. split democrats "rep of the silent majority" - EPA; DDT ban; clean air act; clean water act; resource recovery act - Equal credit opportunity act; Title IX - New Federalism - Stagflation; economic stabilization act - peace with honor; Vietnamization; My Lai Massacre; Pentagon papers; Detente; War powers act - SALT I and II - China visit - Burger/Nixon court (roe v. wade; swann v. charlotte; bakke v. UC) - Moon Landing - Watergate36
6764562422Gerald Ford1974-1976 Republican - Pardoning of Nixon - Whip Inflation Now (WIN) - OPEC crisis37
6764562423Jimmy Carter1976-1980 Democrat - stagflation - energy crisis - Iran hostage crisis - Camp David Accords - Carter Doctrine - Panama Canal agreements38
6764562424Ronald Reagan1981-1989 Republican - Reaganomics/supply-side/trickel-down economics - Strategic defense initiative (star wars) - Conservative revolution - Iran-Contra scandal39
6764562425George H. W. Bush1988-1992 Republican - Persian Gulf War40
6764562426Bill Clinton1992-2000 Democrat - NAFTA - Lewinsky scandal and impeachment41
6764562427George W. Bush2000-2008 Republican - Bush v. Gore - War on terrorism - Patriot Act - Tax cuts - "No Child Left Behind"42
6764562428Barack Obama2008-2017 Democrat Affordable Care Act43

AP US History Period 4: 1800 - 1848 Flashcards

AMSCO United States History 2015 Edition, Period 4: 1800 - 1848 Chapter 7 - 11

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5556994358Second Great Awakenings-led by Charles Grand Finney, -Centralized in western NY -stressed individual choice in salvation, -PREACHED VALUES OF SOBRIETY, INDUSTRY, SELF DISCIPLINE0
5556994359market revolutionStarting in the early 19th century, this revolution produced vast economic growth. Farmers fed the workers in the cities, the cities provided farm families with an array of mass produced goods.1
5556994360Thomas JeffersonHe was George Washington's first secretary of state. A Democrat-Republican, he was the nation's third president from 1801 to 1809. He stressed the basic principles of constitutional government and limited central government. He appeased the Federalists by maintaining the national bank and debt repayment plan of Hamilton, carried on the neutrality policies of Washington and Adams, reduced the size of the military. He eliminated some federal jobs, repealed excise taxes, and lowered the national debt. In 1803, he made the Louisiana Purchase from France.2
5556994362Era of Good FeelingsTerm to describe James Monroe's period as president (1817-1825). The Democratic-Republicans party dominated politics. On the surface everything looked fine, however there were conflicts over tariffs, the national bank, internal improvements, and public land sales.3
5556994364American Indian removalPresident Andrew Jackson supported the land-hungry citizens who want to take over lands held by the American Indians. In 1830, he passed the Indian Removal Act, which forced the resettlement o many thousands of American Indians. By 1835 most of the eastern tribes had reluctantly moved to an area in today's Oklahoma.4
5556994366Nullification CrisisIn 1832, South Carolina passed a resolution forbidding the collection of tariffs in the state. This was nullifying a federal law at the state level. President Andrew Jackson threatened use of federal troops against South Carolina and a compromise was reached.5
5556994367Elizabeth Cady StantonA women's rights reformer who was not allowed to speak at an antislavery convention.6
5556994368cotton ginThis machine was invented by Eli Whitney in 1793. It removed seeds from cotton fibers so cotton could be processed quickly and cheaply. As a result more cotton was grown in the South and more slaves were needed to pick cotton in the fields.7
5556994369War HawksThe 1810 congressional election brought a group of young Democratic-Republicans to Congress. Led by Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun they gained influence in the House of Representatives. They argued that war with Britain was the only way to defend American honor, gain Canada, and destroy American Indian resistance on the frontier.8
5556994370William Lloyd GarrisonAdvocated the immediate emancipation of slaves without compensation to their owners. He was also the writer of the "Liberator."9
5556994371Lucretia MottEarly feminist who advocated for women's rights and against slavery.10
5556994372Republican Motherhood/Cult of DomesticityAfter industrialization occurred women became the moral leaders in the home and educators of children. Men were responsible for economic and political affairs.11
5556994373Sectionalism: The NorthLargely urban population that worked in factories.12
5556994374Sectionalism: The SouthLargely agricultural, mostly cotton from 1830-1850.13
5556994375Sectionalism: The WestLargely trapping and hunting, citizens lived a secluded life away from others.14
5556994376Democratic-RepublicansFavored the common man, weak central government, hated the National Bank, was pro-immigration, wanted slow and cautious westward expansion.15
5556994377FederalistsFavored the wealthy and educated, strong central government, supported the National Bank, limited immigration, slow/against westward expansion.16
5556994378National RepublicansFavored the wealthy and educated, strong central government, supported the National Bank, favored internal improvements.17
5556994379WhigsFavored the wealthy and educated, strong central government, supported the National Bank and Internal Improvements, limited immigration, slow/against westward expansion; above all else HATED Andrew Jackson.18
5556994380ImpressmentPractice of the British navy of stealing Americans and forcing them into service in the British Navy.19
5556994381Treaty of GhentEnded the War of 1812, establish status quo antebellum.20
5556994384Monroe DoctrineWarning European powers to refrain from seeking any new territories in the Americas. The United States largely lacked the power to back up the pronouncement, which was actually enforced by the British, who sought unfettered access to Latin American markets.21
5556994385Missouri CompromiseAn 1820 compromise crafted by Henry Clay, it consisted of three bills. * Admit Missouri as a slave-holding state * Admit Maine as a free state * Prohibit slavery in the rest of the Louisiana Territory north of latitude 36 30.22
5556994387Nat Turner RebellionIn 1831, this Virginia slave led a revolt in which 55 whites were killed. In retaliation, whites killed hundreds of African American and put down the revolt.23
5556994388Marbury v. MadisonEstablished the Supreme Court's policy of judicial review.24
5556994389American SystemHenry Clay, a leader in the House of Representatives proposed this system to advance the nation's economy. It consisted of: * Protective Tariffs: * National Bank * Internal Improvements25
5556994391Seneca Falls ConventionIn 1848, this was the first women's rights convention in U.S. history. They wrote a "Declaration of Sentiments", modeled after the Declaration of Independence, which declared all men and women equal and listed grievances.26
5556994393Virginia and Kentucky ResolutionsIn 1799, Democratic-Republican leaders passed resolutions in two state legislatures that challenged federal laws enacted by the Federalist party. The states argued that they had the right to nullify laws passed at the federal level.27
5556994394Trail of TearsIn 1838 the U.S. Army forced 15,000 Cherokees to leave Georgia and move to Oklahoma. 4,000 Cherokees died on the march.28
5556994395Hartford Convention (1814)In December 1814, a special convention was held due to opposition to the the War of 1812, some radical Federalist in the Northeast want to secede from the United States, but that it was rejected. However, to limit the power of the Democratic-Republicans they adopted a proposal that a two-thirds vote of both houses would be required for any future declaration of war.29
5556994396Panic 1837Was a result of Jackson's defeat of the National Bank.30
5556994397Martin Van BurenBecame President after Andrew Jackson, won the election because of Jackson's popularity. Was faced with economic troubles.31
5556994401The Embargo of 1807Cut off all US trade with the world, attempting to maintain American neutrality while France an Britain were at war32
5556994404Adams-Onis Treaty1819- Grave the United States Florida in exchange for taking on Spain's $5 million debt to American citizens.33
5556994406Treaty of 1818Granted the United States join occupation of Oregon with Great Britain.34
5556994407Worcester v. GeorgiaSupreme Court case regarding Cherokee rights to land in the United States.35
5556994408John Q. AdamsElected in 1824 as a result of a bargain struck by Henry Clay.36
5556994409The Tariff of 1828Increased taxes on imported goods to almost 50%; which positively effected American manufacturing (protectionism)37
5556994410Force BillPermitted Andrew Jackson to organize troops to prevent South Carolina from secession.38
5556994411Increase in deomcracy-voting becomes open to all while males (not just landowning taxpayers) -Spoils System39
5556994412Henry ClayCreated the Tariff of 1833 to solve the Nullification Crisis, developed the American System, Speaker of the House, Secretary of State under JQA,40
5556994414Results of the War of 1812-American Nationalism -War Heroes -Death of the Federalist Party41
5557041705The Corrupt BargainAdams running with Clay, Adams says that if Clay gets people to vote for him, Adams will make it so that Clay will be president in the next election. Jefferson finds out, exposes them.42
5561425407The Missouri CompromiseTemporarily permitted slavery in some parts of the Louisiana Purchase but banned it in others. Collapsed in the years leading up to the Civil War.43

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