AP U.S. History
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1. Panama Canal Treaty - diplomacy with China - end of recognition of Taiwan; little accomplished domestically due to conservative opposition - foreign policy more successful; Washington outsider - Experienced high interest rates - inflation - increased

2. Advocated by Roger Sherman - proposed two independently-voting senators per state and representation in the House based on population

3. Highest peacetime deficit in US history (due to lower tax rates for high-income taxpayers - spent too much money attempting to reduce price supports to farmers)

4. Attacked public figures (Hollywood - New-Dealers - liberals) to root out communist spies

5. Slavery to be barred in all territory ceded from Mexico; never fully passed Congress

6. Agreement between US and Britain to remove armed fleets from the Great Lakes

7. FDR encouraged democracies to quarantine their opponents (economic embargos); criticized by isolationists

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

9. Slaves could not sue in federal courts (blacks no longer considered citizens) - slaves could not be taken from masters except by the law - Missouri Compromise unconstitutional - Congress not able to prohibit slavery in a state

10. First shots are fired at Charleston - North Carolina

11. Jackson used personal friends as unofficial advisors over his official cabinet

12. Old immigrants from northern and western Europe came seeking better life; new immigrants came from southern and eastern Europe searching for opportunity to escape worse living conditions back home and often did not stay in the US

13. Attacked industrial elite - called for business regulation - publisher refused works breaking with Victorian ideals

14. Gorbachev announced Soviet withdrawal of power from all of Eastern Europe - including Berlin (wall torn down - free movement - &c.)

15. Tweed Leader of Tammany Hall - gained large sums of money through the political machine - prosecuted by Samuel Tilden and sent to jail

16. Capitalism would become productive when uninhibited by taxes and regulation

17. Southern states (especially South Carolina) believed that they had the right to judge federal laws unconstitutional and therefore not enforce them

18. Georgia cannot enforce American laws on Indian tribes

19. Pushed for Assumption (federal government to assume state debts) - pushed creation of the National Bank (most controversial) - loose interpretation of Constitution - leader of Federalist Party

20. Middle class; white flight from urban areas due to black migration; government supported insurance for homeowners and builders

21. Reduced quota - reduced numbers from eastern and southern Europe - Asians banned - Canadians and Latin Americans exempt

22. Attempted to centralize production of war materials; ineffective due to American desire for laissez-faire government

23. Stronger union of states - equal and population-based representation - simple majority vote (with presidential veto) - regulation of foreign and interstate commerce - execution by president - power to enact taxes - federal courts - easier amendment p

24. Offered a New Deal (reminiscent of FDR) of smaller government - reduced taxes - and free enterprise; Washington outsider

25. Americans feared Soviet infiltration into Latin America - placed secret police and military forces to prevent it