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AP History Review
Review for History Exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Shay’s Rebellion | post Revolutionary clash between New England farmers and merchants, tested the new republic |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | authorized president to take any measures necessary to repel attacks against US forces and allies in SE Asia |
| Economic Opportunity Bill | achievement of JF Kennedy admin |
| Civil Rights Acts | none were passed during JFK administration, did pass Civil Rights Act in 1964 under Johnson’s administration |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | resulted in the soviets withdrawing missiles from Cuba, in exchange US promised not to attack Castro. |
| Black Panthers & Nation of Islam | both emphasized developing a greater since of Black nationalism and solidarity |
| Iran Hostages | Situation that plagued the presidency of Jimmy Carter |
| Taft/ Hartley Act | limited the powers of labor unions 1947 |
| Open Door Policy | US policy to protect US economic interests in China |
| African American Northward Migration | after WWI was driven by job opportunities in Northern factories |
| Settlement House Workers | late 19th century workers who established nurseries, language classes, and housing for immigrants |
| Jacob Rii | publicized poor housing & sanitation in urban tenements during the early 20th century |
| Immigration Restriction Acts | passed in 1920 to favor northern and western European immigration |
| Gilded Age | A time when black northerners generally voted Republican |
| Treaty of Versailles | ended WWI & was opposed by Republicans for Limiting US sovereignty b/c of the League of Nations |
| Conscription Policies | Were different in each World War in that drafting started even before the US entered WW2 |
| Lend Lease Act | created so US could provide military supplies to the Allies |
| Great Depression | in 1930’s increased the number of transient people searching for work |
| Overproduction | underlying cause of the Great Depression (esp. in farm & manufacturing) |
| Social Security Act | 1935 legislation that taxed workers to transfer money to pensioners |
| Langston Hughes | African American Poet, Harlem Renaissance |
| Louis Daniel Armstrong | was an American jazz trumpeter, Harlem Renaissance |
| President Woodrow Wilson | established a policy of American neutral rights on the high seas when war broke out in 1914 |
| Agriculture Adjustment Act of 1933 | legislation created to raise farm prices by limiting Ag production |
| Least prosperous group 1920s | Farmers of Midwest and South |
| Missouri Compromise | 1820 Agreement to prohibit slavery in the former LA territory and north of parallel 36 degree 30’ North |
| CCC | Civilian Conservation Corp,employs young men, jobs to conserve national natural resources |
| CWA | Civil Works Administration, created construction renovation jobs |
| WPA | Works Progress administration, employed millions to carry out public works |
| PWA | Public Works Administration, FDR, authorizing new roads, bridges, and dams |
| Tennessee Valley Authority | FDR, funds 20 dams & teachS residents soil management |
| Dred Scott Case | Taney court ruled that slaves were property |
| 13th Amendment | Abolishes slavery and involuntary servitude |
| 14th Amendment | Defines citizenship |
| 15th Amendment | Prohibits the denial of suffrage based on race & color |
| 16th Amendment | Allows the federal government to collect income tax |
| 18th Amendment | Establishes the prohibition of alcohol |
| 19th Amendment | Establishes women’s suffrage |
| Spanish American War | Began after Main sinks of the Main, yellow journalism |
| Tready of Paris | Ended the Spanish American War, Platt Amendent granted US authority to intervene in Cuba. |
| Dollar Dipolomacy | Tafts policy to reduce conflicts in Latin American and Asia by building ecomonic ties. |
| Monroe Doctrine | commited the US to police the Western Hemisphere |
| Pendleton Act 1883 | Required federal jobs be filled by civil service thru competitive exams |
| Sherman Antitrust Act | made any contract, combination, or conspiracy to restrain interstate of foreign trade illegal. |
| Plessy v Ferguson 1896 | ct ruled that states could pass laws requiring "equal but separate facilitie." |
| Initiative | Device by which precentage of voters can petition to place a proposed law or constitional admendment on the ballot. |
| Referendum | means by which the voters of a state or city are able to vote to approve of or disapprove of an act of the city or state |
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