AP U.S. History
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1. King hosted myriad nonviolent protesting activities to fill jail with protestors - Bill Connor (police commissioner) began violent resistance to protestors

2. British passenger liner secretly carrying ammunition sunk by German u-boat - included American passengers

3. Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald (hated his anti-Cuban policies); LBJ instituted Warren Commission to investigate assassination (headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren)

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

5. To service economy in late 20 century (end of industrialism) - Higher focus on services (esp. education) rather than material products

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

7. Prohibited colonies from issuing paper money - destabilized colonial economy

8. Elvis Presley - Marilyn Monroe - James Dean - Beatniks — rebelled against conservative conformity of the rest of the country (esp. targeted youth)

9. Fear of Japanese-Americans as traitors - sent off (by law) to internment camps; removal of deemed threats in military areas

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

11. To make German reparations from WWI more accessible to Germans; evacuation of troops from Germany - reorganization of the Reichsbank - and foreign loans

12. Victorian standards confined women to the home to create an artistic environment as a statement of cultural aspirations

13. Gorbachev decreased nuclear arsenals - Communist Party lost power - Boris Yeltsin (president of Russian Republic) led Muscovites to take control

14. Monroe presidency - national unity behind Monroe - post-war boom (foreign demand for cotton - grain - and tobacco) - Depression of 1819 (cheap British imports - tightened credit - affected West the most)

15. Written by Calhoun - regarding tariff nullification

16. Philippines - Hawaii - Puerto Rico - Guam: granted to U.S. at the end of Spanish-American War; Philippines were captured after treaty - and thus not part of spoils - but kept as territory with an inevitable movement for independence; Philippines and

17. Americans concerned with economic depression; sought to avoid European involvement - no apparent immediate threats

18. Through CIO - led three coal mine strikes (some of the very few strikes during the time period)

19. Decision under Sherman Anti-Trust Act shot down by Supreme Court — sugar refining was manufacturing rather than trade/commerce

20. Educational and residential segregation; inferior facilities allotted to African-Americans - predominantly in South

21. Edmond Genet contributed to polarization of the new nation by creating his American Foreign Legion in the south - which was directed to attack Spanish garrisons in New Orleans and St. Augustine

22. Intercepted by Britain; Germany proposed alliance with Mexico - using bribe of return of TX - NM - and AZ; Japan included in alliance

23. Belief in minimal government so as to allow the people their own free reign - lower taxes to stimulate economy - &c.

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

25. Paper money; specie circular decreed that the government would not accept specie for government land

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