AP U.S. History
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1. Led Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: threatened a siege on DC if FDR did not agree to end discrimination in military

2. Strong patriotism and need to conform to try to avoid blame during red scare - non-churchgoers - unmarried - and critics suspected as communists

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

4. Preservation of New Deal - attempt at additions; raised minimum wage - public housing - old-age insurance extension - agricultural price supports (lowering of farm price)

5. Founded by William Sylvis (1866); supported 8-hour workday - convict labor - federal department of labor - banking reform - immigration restrictions to increase wages - women; excluded blacks

6. Introduced work ethic to Jamestown colony - sanitation - diplomat to local Native American tribes; had fought Spanish and Turks

7. Radical Calvinists against the Church of England; Separatists (Pilgrims) argued for a break from the Church of England - led the Mayflower - and established the settlement at Plymouth

8. British soldiers shot into crowd of snowball fight; two of nine soldiers (defended by John Adams) found guilty of manslaughter

9. December 1814 - Opposed War of 1812 - called for one-term presidency - northern states threatened to secede if their views were left unconsidered next to those of southern and western states - supported nullification - end of Federalist Party

10. Prejudiced jury sentenced them to death - caused riots around the world - new trial denied

11. Philosophy that deficit spending during a depression would increase purchasing power and stimulate economy; FDR disagreed with the policy at first and borrowed money to cover deficits

12. Activist government to serve all citizens (cf. Alexander Hamilton); founded New Republic magazine

13. Worked alongside Josiah Henson to make repeated trips to get slaves out of the South into freedom

14. Law meant to evolve as society evolves - opposed conservative majority

15. Taxes on all legal documents to support British troops - not approved by colonists through their representatives

16. U.S. would ensure that Cuba would be protected from European powers and maintain a place in Cuban affairs; provided coal and naval stations

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

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

19. Congressional support to raid houses of radicals believed to have connections to communism

20. Supported by women and churches - instituted by Volstead Act - lacked enforcement; bootlegging and speakeasies - Al Capone and John Dillinger — gangsters and organized crime (casual breaking of the law)

21. National Liberation Front - guerilla militia from south Vietnam fighting alongside the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam)

22. John Brown and his sons slaughtered five men as a response to the election fraud in Lawrence and the caning of Sumner in Congress

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

24. Severe immigration laws to discourage and discriminate against foreigners - believed to erode old-fashioned American values

25. Installed Shah as dictator - overthrew Moussadegh (communist interests) - in order to resist nationalization British oil holdings