AP U.S. History
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1. Detectives hired by employers as private police force - often used to end strikes

2. Sought to encourage domestic American manufacturing

3. Germany announced that it would sink all (including American) ships - attempt to involve U.S. in war

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

5. New Lights brought new ideas - rejected by Old Lights; both sought out institutions independent of each other

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

7. Search warrants on shipping to reduce smuggling; challenged by James Otis

8. Small state banks set up by Jackson to keep federal funds out of the National Bank - used until funds were consolidated into a single treasury

9. Reluctant to give colonists their own government - preferred to appoint royal governors

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

11. Black rights leader - heavily influenced by Malcolm X (advocated black separatism rather than integration)

12. Only English and American ships allowed to colonial ports; dissent began in 1763

13. Attacked people for being communist by association and unsubstantiated claims - against Truman - Marshall - and Ike; downfall came with attack on the military (condemned by Senate); led hysteria of the red scare

14. Hired to photograph ordinary Americans experiencing the depression

15. Private property subject to government regulation when property is devoted to public interest; against railroads

16. Pop art - mass production of art by screening

17. (1) California admitted as free state - (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico - (3) resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries - (4) federal assumption of Texas debt - (5) slave trade abolished in DC - and (6) new fugit

18. Politely demanded from the king a cease¬fire in Boston - repeal of Coercive Acts -. guarantee of American rights

19. Vetoed by Jackson on the count that government funds for the Maysville Road would only benefit one state

20. Racism riots against Mexican laborers (imported for jobs)

21. Killed the AAA - although FDR insisted on continuing by creating smaller state-level AAAs

22. Allowed for faster processing of cotton - invented by Eli Whitney - less need for slaves

23. Protestant church led by the king of England - independent of Catholic Church; tended toward Catholicism during reign of Catholic royalty

24. 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

25. Formed in response to Kansas-Nebraska Act - banned in the South - John C Fremont first presidential candidate