AP U.S. History
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1. Family farmers who hired out slaves for the harvest season - self-sufficient - participated in local markets alongside slave owners

2. Detectives hired by employers as private police force - often used to end strikes

3. Blacks who went to prison taken out and used for labor in slave-like conditions - enforced southern racial hierarchy

4. FDR and Churchill agreed to defeat Germany first rather than concentrate on Japan

5. Supported expanded money supply - health/safety regulations - benefits for workers and farmers - granger (farmer)-supported

6. Darwinian (influenced by jazz age and new scientific ideas) against Fundamentalist (the Bible and Creationism); John Scopes convicted for teaching Darwinism (defended by Clarence Darrow); Scopes found guilty

7. Black Muslim worked to raise black spirits and pride (cf. Marcus Garvey); emphasized black institutions rather than mere desegregation - blacks to gain freedom at any cost

8. The Jungle revealed unsanitary nature of meat-packing industry - inspired Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)

9. Populists campaigned for silver-backed money rather than gold-backed - believed to be able to relieve working conditions and exploitation of labor

10. Believed to provide shortcut from Atlantic to Pacific - searched for by Giovanni de Verrazano for Francis I in the race to Asian wealth

11. Mandated the toleration of all Christian denominations in Maryland - even though Maryland was founded for Catholics (but majority was protestant)

12. Attempted to boost economy by making loans to banks and insurance companies - hoping to restart them

13. The principle that a state should decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery

14. Social ideals to be encouraged in public school (stress on social interaction) - learning by doing

15. Writing took a more realistic approach on the world - regionalist writers focused on local life (Sarah Orne Jewett) - naturalist writers focused on economy and psychology (Stephen Crane)

16. Appealed to many conservatives - especially southerners (opposed massive protests and integration)

17. Political muckraking cartoonist - refused bribes to stop criticism

18. Henry Clay aimed to make the US economically independent from Europe (e.g. - support internal improvements - tariff protection - and new national bank)

19. Drastic cutbacks in regulation of business by the federal government (banks - transportation - communications

20. South to gain removal of last troops from Reconstruction; North wins Hayes as president

21. Pop art - mass production of art by screening

22. Intended to save British East India Company from bankruptcy - could sell directly to consumers rather than through wholesalers (lowered prices to compete with smuggled tea)

23. William and Mary kicked James II out of England (exiled into France) - allowed more power to the legislatures

24. Meant to provide evacuation opportunity for Americans in Cuba; internal accidental explosion blamed on Spanish mines - leading to Spanish¬ American War

25. Albert Fall accused of accepting bribes for access to government oil in Teapot Dome - Wyoming