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1. 2nd Semester AP US History review

2. 2 of the Transcontinental Railroads?
3. Only Transcontinental that was privately funded?
4. 2 ways the government supported construction of the transcontinentals?
5. Scamming railroad construction company of the Union Pacific?
6. 2 famous financiers of the Central Pacific?
7. 2 innovations that made the railroad more comfortable and/or safer?
8. 3 benefits/results of the railroads in the late 19th century?
9. Process of promoting inflated profits in a company to increase investment? (Yes Shane…this is fraudulent!)
10. Process where railroads gave discounts or kickbacks to large shippers for guaranteed traffic?
11. Supreme Court decision that declared states had no power to regulate the railroads and that commerce had to be regulated by Congress?
12. Law passed by Congress which prohibited rebates and pools as well as requiring railroads to publish their rates openly?
13. Invention of Alexander Graham Bell?
14. 2 inventions of Thomas Edison? (boy, it is bright in here!)
15. Business combination where a company owns all stages of production?
16. Business tycoon who used vertical integration?
17. Industrialist who used horizontal integration?
18. Company owned by Rockefeller?
19. Technological process that made steel production cheaper?
20. Belief that the rich should give their money back to charity wisely?
21. Author of the Gospel of Wealth?
22. Amendment to the Constitution that trusts used to protect their property?
23. Landmark law that forbade combinations of all kinds?
24. Organization that was broken up more often than trusts because of Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
25. Term coined by Henry Grady that described the southern attempt to increase industrialization?
26. Method of pricing where southern steel manufacturers paid more than their northern competitors?
27. Image of independent “new” women who was athletic and fashionable?
28. 2 characteristics of the Knights of Labor and its membership?
29. Bloody protest by the Knights of Labor where anarchists threw a bomb into the crowd?
30. 2 characteristics of the American Federation of Labor?
31. Leader of the AF of L?
32. Agreement where all workers in a business are union members?
33. 3 modern conveniences of city life?
34. 3 bad conditions presented to city dwellars?
35. Icky apartment complex where lots of immigrant families lived?
36. 2 locations where Old Immigrants came from?
37. 2 locations where New Immigrants came from?
38. 3 Push Factors motivating immigrants to come to the US?
39. 3 Pull Factors motivating immigrants to come to the US?
40. Christian movement to assist immigrants based off the teachings of Christ?
41. Place where immigrants could get assistance with English instruction, childcare, cultural activities, etc.
42. Famous settlement house in Chicago?
43. Social reformer who founded Hull House?
44. Beliefs of “nativists”?
45. Organization that followed in the footsteps of the Know-Nothings?
46. Religious faith founded by Mary Baker Eddy?
47. Notion of “survival of the fittest?
48. Black activist who believed in education?
49. Black activist who founded the NAACP and thought that blacks should be integrated now!
50. 2 journalistic tycoons?
51. Newspaper reporting that is sensationalistic?
52. 3 famous authors of the Gilded Age?
53. Woman who preached “free love” shaking conventional morality of the late 1800s? (no…not the 1960s!)
54. 2 items the Comstock Laws banned?
55. First region of the US to allow women’s voting?
56. 2 late 19th Century Suffragettes?
57. Militant anti-alcohol organization led by Carrie Nation?
58. Other prohibition organization?
59. Amendment outlawing alcohol?
60. Outcome of the treaties with Indians at Ft. Laramie and Ft. Atkinson?
61. Animal that plains Indians relied on for survival?
62. Famous book by Helen Hunt Jackson proclaiming that the Indians had been wronged by the US government?
63. Process of “Americanizing” (losing original customs) immigrants or Native Americans?
64. Famous battle where the “Ghost Dance” was ended?
65. 2 provisions of the Dawes Severalty Act?
66. Towns that were created to support mining activities in the West?
67. 3 states known for mining activities?
68. Process of moving cattle from grazing lands to rail lines?
69. 2 reasons why the “Beef Bonanza” ended?
70. 2 provisions of the Homestead Act?
71. Process of shallow cultivation without irrigation?
72. Group of folks who illegally entered Oklahoma to get land?
73. 3 new states hastily added by GOP-controlled Congress in 1889-90 so as to maintain electoral control?
74. Thesis of Frederick Jackson Turner?
75. Belief that when hard times hit, Americans could always go west?
76. 2 goals of the Grange?
77. Political party focused on currency and the plight of workers?
78. Other name for the People’s Party?
79. 3 goals of the Populists?
80. Female leader of the Populists?
81. Group of laborers who marched on Washington to demand unemployment relief?
82. Strike involving railway workers and prices/living conditions at a company town?
83. 2 candidates for President in 1896?
84. Famous populist Bryan speech?
85. 3 reasons for US imperialism?
86. Author of The Influence of Sea Power upon History?
87. Controversial place where American business interests overthrew a queen and begged the US for annexation?
88. 2 reasons why the US supported Cuba Libre?
89. US ship blown up “by the Spanish” in Havana?
90. Infamous author of a Spanish letter calling McKinley a wimp?
91. “Splendid little war”?
92. Philippine leader who helped us during the Span-Am War and then rebelled against us?
93. American naval commander who TR instructed to steam to Manila…he got there just in time for the war to start!
94. Leader of the Rough Riders?
95. 3 territorial gains of for the US of the Span-Am War?
96. 3 Biggy outcomes for the US because of the Span-Am War?
97. Group who opposed American empire-building?
98. Series of Supreme Court cases that stated that the Constitution does not apply to territories?
99. US legislation stating the US would not annex Cuba after the Span-Am War?
100. Cuban legislation that stated the US could intervene in Cuba anytime plus gave the US Guantanamo Bay?
101. US policy asking European powers for “free trade” and respect of rights in China?
102. Conflict where Chinese nationalist group murdered westerners forcing the US and Europe to send troops?
103. President after McKinley?
104. Foreign policy of TR? (based off of his favorite African proverb)
105. Treaty where Britain allowed the US access to Central America to build a canal?
106. Previous attempted builders of a canal in Panama? (Oo-La-La!)
107. Panamanian leader (who wasn’t Panamanian) who organized the Panamanian revolution?
108. How did the US assist the Panamanians against Colombia?
109. 2 parts of the Monroe Doctrine?
110. Stated US would intervene in Latin America so Europe wouldn’t?
111. 2 warring nations that met at Portsmouth? (TR won the Nobel Peace Prize for helping!)
112. 2 outcomes of the Gentlemen’s Agreement?
113. Group of ships that TR sent on a “Goodwill Tour”?
114. 2 groups of people who became involved in the Progressive movement?
115. 3 “muckrakers”?
116. Initiative?
117. Referendum?
118. Recall?
119. Secret voting practice? (on the bawbieee? )
120. 17th Amendment to the Constitution?
121. Most progressive state?
122. Supreme Court decision that limited women’s working hours? (Progressives  Women )
123. Supreme Court decision invalidating 10 hour workday? (later decision upheld the law)
124. Infamous location of a horrible fire that killed 146 workers?
125. 2 positive outcomes of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
126. TR’s 3 C’s?
127. TR action in the Coal Strike?
128. Outcome of the Elkins Act?
129. Outcome of the Hepburn Act?
130. Outcome of the case US v. Northern Securities?
131. Famous book about socialism…oh, and the meat-packing industry?
132. Act of Congress that required examination of all the meat-packing industry?
133. Outcome of the Pure Food and Drug Act?
134. Outcome of the Forest Reserve Act?
135. Hand-picked successor of TR?
136. Taft foreign policy which used Wall Street investment to bolster American interests abroad?
137. Massive company the Taft administration “busted”? (Wouldn’t Ida Tarbell be happy!)
138. Biggest trust-buster: TR, Taft, or Wilson? (yes…Taft was the biggest person at 350lbs, but I am looking for biggest trust-buster!)
139. Quarrel between Forest Service head and the Sec. of the Interior regarding sale of forests to corporations? (Oh boy…TR was not happy with Taft for this one!)
140. Election of 1912 candidates?
141. Election of 1912 winner?
142. Wilson’s “Triple Wall of Privilege”?
143. Extra provision of the Underwood Tariff…besides a tariff?
144. Legislation aimed at regulating currency, monitoring banking practices, and formulating monetary policy?
145. Improved anti-trust legislation passed by Congress in 1914 which identified unfair business practices?
146. Act of Congress that gave assistance to federal workers during periods of disability?
147. TR: strict or loose constructionist?
148. Wilson: strict or loose constructionist?
149. Bad Mexican dude who killed 16 Americans?
150. American general sent to find PanchoVillllllllllllllllllllllla?
151. Assassinated leader whose death set off a chain of events causing World War I?
152. The Central Powers?
153. The Allied Powers? (@ the start of the War)
154. Official US policy at the start of WWI?
155. German naval policy that pushed Americans to want war?
156. British passenger liner sunk by German U-Boats?
157. Famous telegram from the German foreign minister to Mexico stating that Mexico would receive their lost lands if they joined the war on the side Germany?
158. 4 of Wilson’s Fourteen Points?
159. Goal of the Committee on Public Information?
160. Socialist leader convicted of the Sedition Act? (ran for president from jail too…and got votes!)
161. Outcome of Schenck v. US?
162. Goal of the War Industries Board?
163. Labor group known for industrial sabotage during WWI?
164. Outcome of the 19th Amendment?
165. Leader of the Food Administration?
166. Other name for “conscription”?
167. Big 4 at the Versailles Conference?
168. 2 Outcomes of the Treaty of Versailles?
169. Belief of the Irreconcilables?
170. Belief of the Reservationists?
171. Senate leader who hated Wilson and refused to support the Treaty of Versailles?
172. President after Wilson?
173. Group of Russian communists?
174. Attorney General who rounded up communists/anarchists in a series of raids?
175. Italian immigrants who robbed a shoe factory and were sentenced to death?
176. 3 beliefs of the 1920s KKK?
177. Outcome of the Emergency Quota Act of 1921?
178. Outcomes of the Immigration Act of 1924?
179. Illegal taverns?
180. Famous Chicago gangster?
181. Famous trial about monkeys?
182. Economic policies of Andrew Mellon?
183. Baseball hero of the 1920s?
184. 2 “must-have” items in the 1920s?
185. 2 revolutionary work-related inventions of Henry Ford?
186. Process of buying now and paying later?
187. The “Father of Scientific Management”?
188. Brother inventors of the plane?
189. Famous flyer who flew from NY to Paris?
190. Infamous DW Griffith’s film that painted a positive picture of the KKK?
191. 1st “talkie”?
192. Fiery feminist who pushed for the use of contraceptives?
193. Risqué ladies who danced and drank their way through the 1920s?
194. Charismatic black leader who founded the United Negro Improvement Association?
195. African-American cultural movement of the 1920s?
196. 2 figures of the Harlem Renaissance?
197. Group of writers who were disgruntled with American life?
198. F. Scott Fitzgerald novel about life in the 1920s?
199. Nickname for the stock market when it is going well?
200. Process of buying stock using credit?
201. Harding cronies who became officials in the government?
202. French term meaning “let it alone” or lack of regulation of the economy?
203. Organization created in 1921 to operate hospitals and provide rehabilitation for former members of the armed forces?
204. International meeting that allotted ships on the 5:5:3 ratio for the US, UK, and Japan?
205. International agreement that outlawed war as a means of solving international disputes?
206. Tariff which increased average protection to 38.5% and allowed the president to reduce or increase duties up to 50%?
207. Harding administration scandal that transferred naval reserves to the Interior department where they were sold to business for $100,000 in kickbacks (Yes Shane…this too is illegal!)?
208. President following Harding? (He sure was quiet)
209. Prosperous or Not? Farmers during WWI
210. Prosperous or Not? Farmers during 20s
211. Proposed bill that would have attempted to keep farming prices high by having the government purchase surpluses---Coolidge vetoed it twice?
212. International financial plan that called for the US to assist Germany in payment of reparations to the UK and France?
213. President elected in 1928 to follow Coolidge?
214. Tariff passed in 1930 that raised rates to nearly 60%; Virtually an economic declaration of war?
215. Other name for 10/29/1929?
216. 3 causes of the Great Depression?
217. Great Depression Midwestern drought? (Thank you dry farming! )
218. Hoover philosophy about people pulling themselves up by their bootstraps?
219. Hoover business assistance plan that provided indirect relief to companies?
220. Bill that would have established a power project on the Tennessee River…Hoover vetoed it and then FDR signed it?
221. Group of WWI veterans who marched on Washington demanding they be paid their pensions?
222. Location of 1931 Japanese invasion…yes it is in China---where in China?
223. Hoover policy (continued by FDR) that was kinder and gentler towards Latin America (TR rolled in his grave!)?
224. President elected in 1932 (Let’s face it..I could’ve beat Hoover)?
225. FDR economic plan to assist with the Great Depression?
226. FDR’s three R’s?
227. Early period in FDR’s presidency when he passed 15 major pieces of legislation?
228. Time off for financial institutions where the Treasury evaluated solvency and rushed banks money?
229. FDR radio communications with the American people about the on-goings of the New Deal?
230. Part of the Glass-Steagall Act which insured banking deposits up to $5000?
231. FDR’s favorite New Deal organization that employed 3 million young men to work in the outdoors fighting fires, doing flood control, etc.?
232. Act of Congress that gave out $3 billion to the states for direct payments to individuals?
233. 2 “demagogues” or critics of the New Deal?
234. Organization created by Congress to construct “useful projects” like buildings, bridges, roads, and even paid artists to do their craft?
235. Organization created by Congress that allowed unions to organize, established child labor laws, and reduced hours; ultimately, was ruled unconstitutional?
236. Supreme Court decision that declared the WPA unconstitutional because it gave the president legislative powers?
237. Organization that allotted $4 billion for massive public works projects like Grand Coulee dam?
238. Organization created to produce power and provide irrigation in one of the poorest regions of the US?
239. Organization created by Congress that attempted to alter crop and commodity prices through burning of crops and killing of livestock; eventually ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court?
240. Book by Steinbeck that portrayed life in the Dust Bowl for Okies and Arkies?
241. FDR plan to reverse some of the negative problems associated with the Dawes Act?
242. New Deal organization that regulates the Stock Market?
243. Program that provided direct payments to the elderly, handicapped, and children with deceased parents?
244. Goal of the Court-packing scheme?
245. Outcome of the Court-Packing scheme?
246. Economist that supported “deficit spending” through “priming the pump”?
247. FDR plan that called for a reduction in tariff rates if other countries reduced their tariff in kind?
248. Acts of Congress that kept the US from supporting any warring nation at the outset of World War II?
249. Meeting between Chamberlain & Hitler dealing with the annexation of the Sudetenland?
250. Unofficial policy where the Allies gave in to Hitler’s demands so he wouldn’t want more land?
251. Diplomatic agreement between Hitler and Stalin where they pledges not to attack one another? (this reminds me of 2 piranhas…icky!)
252. Special provision in the Neutrality Act of 1939 dealing with trading of war materials?
253. Organization that supported US isolationism?
254. Leader of the America First Committee?
255. Act of Congress that sent weapons to the
256. Act of Congress that gave weapons to the Allies and they would return them after use? (wonder if the US wanted blown up stuff back too? )
257. Agreement between Churchill and FDR that outlined post-War goals? (the US wasn’t even in the war yet!)
258. Location of Japanese attack on the US?
259. Outcome of the ABC-1 Agreement with Britain?
260. Outcome of the Korematsu v. US decision?
261. Organization responsible for transitioning peace-time industries?
262. Black leader during World War II who led the “Double-V” campaign?
263. Nickname for women laborers during the Second World War?
264. 2 Indian tribes known for “Code-talking”?
265. Axis Powers during WWII?
266. “Big 3” leaders for much of World War II?
267. Turning point battle in the Pacific?
268. US operation on the beaches of Normandy opening a western front in Europe? (Turn out the lights for Hitler…)
269. American program for creating the atomic bombs?
270. 2 parts of the Taft-Hartley Act?
271. Unique constitutional procedure involving the Taft-Hartley Act?
272. 2 parts of the GI Bill?
273. 2 reasons why the US economy prospered in the 1950s?
274. Famous doctor known for his book about raising children? (my dad never read this book!)
275. Region of the US that grew drastically in the post-war years?
276. The addition of 50 million children to the US population by the end of the 1950s?
277. 2 items agreed to at Yalta?
278. Location of post-war trials of Nazi officials?
279. Country and City that were divided up by the Allies to “rebuild”? (Stalin misinterpreted “rebuild” to mean “exploit”)
280. Government plan that gave $400 million to Greece & Turkey to fight communism?
281. US program that gave $12.5 billion in assistance to war-torn European nations?
282. Mutual defense group consisting of the US and western European nations?
283. Committee of the Congress that investigated communists in the US?
284. 1 guy and a couple that were accused of communist activities (the couple even got the electric chair!)
285. States’ rights Democrats in the 1948 election?
286. Truman’s plan for economic advancement? (FDR & TR would’ve been proud!)
287. Memorandum outlining US foreign policy and the need to spend a significant more amount of money on the military?
288. Kennan’s belief?
289. “Police Action” that the US got involved in the early 1950s?
290. General that Truman fired over his actions in Korea?
291. President after Truman?
292. Ike’s Vice-President?
293. US Senator who accused members of the State Department of being associated with communists?
294. Group of movie stars/directors accused of being communists?
295. Process within an industry where individuals aren’t allowed to work?
296. 1st black Major League baseball player?
297. African-American lady who wouldn’t give up her seat on a bus?
298. Famous protest where blacks refused to ride public transportation in a southern city?
299. Outcome of Brown v. Board of Education?
300. Group of students who were escorted to school by the US Army in Arkansas?
301. Group of southern black church leaders led by MLK?
302. Group of younger American protesters who used sit-in as a means of protest?
303. Massive public works project signed by Ike for freeways?
304. Ike foreign policy that called for a huge response to crises usually involving nukes?
305. Location of a small rebellion against the Soviets in eastern Europe; The US did nothing in fear of a 3rd world war?
306. Embattled leader of Vietnam who Eisenhower sent aid to in the mid-1950s?
307. Eisenhower program to deport illegal Mexicans out of the US?
308. Russian spacecraft that freaked Americans out?
309. 2 American outcomes of the Sputnik launching?
310. Communist rebel who led successful coup in Cuba?
311. 2 candidates for president in 1960?
312. President after Ike?
313. 2 white-collar jobs?
314. Author of the book The Feminine Mystique?
315. Fast-food chain started in the 1950s?
316. Music style created in the 1950s?
317. King of Rock n Roll? (Forrest Gump taught him to dance!)
318. Infamous magazine started in the 1950s?
319. 2 authors of the 1950 & 60s?
320. Group of “cool” poets who mocked consumerism?
321. Role of women in the 1950s?
322. Kennedy group of programs?
323. Kennedy program meant to send volunteers to developing parts of the world?
324. Kennedy military policy that called for smaller forces reacting to problems around the world?
325. CIA-supported invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles; ultimately thwarted by the pro-Castro army?
326. Attempt by Khrushchev to install nuclear weapons in Cuba? (JFK said “NyetComrade!”
327. Civil Rights activists who journeyed to southern states to test desegregation efforts?
328. JFK’s Attorney General?
329. Mass demonstration capped with famous MLK speech?
330. President after JFK?
331. 2 outcomes of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
332. Johnson anti-poverty plan? (FDR would be proud!)
333. 2 parts of the Great Society?
334. Act of Congress allowing the president to use any force necessary in Vietnam?
335. 2 radical leaders/groups associated with the Civil Rights movement?
336. 3 Candidates for president in 1968?
337. Anti-war group?
338. 2 reasons why the US economy experienced “stagnation” in the 1970s?
339. Outcome of Nixon’s “Vietnamization”?
340. Policy of the Nixon Doctrine?
341. Lead foreign policy advisor to Nixon?
342. Kissinger and Nixon policy which relaxed tensions with communist nations? (Oui!)
343. 2 examples of détente in action?
344. Outcome of the Miranda v. Arizona decision?
345. “Activist” Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court?
346. Author of the environmental book Silent Spring?
347. 2 domestic Nixon achievements?
348. Nixon’s downfall?
349. Reason for 1973 OPEC oil embargo?
350. How did Nixon leave office?
351. President following Nixon?
352. Controversial action that Ford took regarding President Nixon?
353. Amendment to the US Constitution supported by women? (except Phyllis Schlafly)
354. President after Ford?
355. Countries involved in the Camp David Accords?
356. Location where American hostages were taken?
357. President after Carter?
358. 3 Reagan domestic policies?
359. Reagan missile-defense system that scared the vodka out of the Soviets?
360. Major Reagan administration scandal?