American History Midterm
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- Had enough?
- "Republican, Dewey, against Truman"
- What organization canceled Marian Anderson's performance in Constitution Hall?
- Daughters of the American Revolution
- What is largest tariff in US Hist?
- "Hawley-Smoot Tariff, 60%, Great depression"
- Where did charles lindberg begin his flight across atlantic
- "Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York"
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- SC ruled separate but equal constitutional
- "I would rather be right than be president"""
- Henry Clay
- The Little Magician
- Martin van Buren's nick name; he was crafty politician
- We do our part.
- Slogan for NRA/National Recovery Act in Great Depressions
- Commonwealth v. Hunt
- "not supreme court, MA court ruled that strikes to improve labor conditions were lawful and not criminal conspiracies"
- "Vote early, vote often"
- Al Capone
- Peculiar Institution
- southern euphemism for slavery
- who was 1st prez to ride in auto to his inauguration?
- Warren Harding
- Mun v. Illinois
- SC upheld Granger Laws; established that business regulation for public good was constitutional
- "Speak softly, carry a big stick, and you shall go far"
- Theodore Roosevelt
- How many americans lost in wwi?
- "116,516 troupes"
- A Choice not an Echo
- "Republican, Barry Goldwater"
- when and where did first drive in theatre open?
- "Camden, New Jersey in 1933"
- the king fish
- huey long
- Fletcher vs. Peck
- Ruled that state could not interfere with an individual's property rights
- How much did lindburg receive for flying to from NY to Paris?
- "$25,000 "
- Marbury v. Madison
- Established right of judicial review
- "Those who cast votes decide nothing, those that count votes decide everything."
- Joseph Stalin
- 54° 40' or Fight
- "Democrats, US&GB dispute over Pacific Northwest"
- John F. Schrank
- tried assassinating Roosevelt
- his fraudulency
- "Rutherford B. Hayes, Rutherfraud"
- tail gunner joe
- joe McCarthy
- Gibbons v. Ogden
- confirmed congressional control over foreign and interstate commerce
- His Rotundity
- John Adams's nick name from his pear shape
- His Accidency
- John Tyler; first person to become President after incapacitation
- Old Hickory
- Andrew Jackson's nick name
- the rough rider
- Teddy Roosevelt
- A Chicken in every pot.
- "Republican, Hoover"
- Manifest Destiny
- Term coined by John O'Sullivan in 1845; used to reflect expansionist spirit of era
- "Who were brains of FDR's ""brain trust""?"
- "Basil O'Connor, Felix Frankfurter, Raymond Mobley, Rexford Tugwell, Adolf Berle, Samuel Rosenman"
- The little giant
- Steven Douglas
- A public office isA a public trust
- "Democrat, Cleveland"
- Ex Parte Merryman
- Taney declares that congress alone has power to suspend the writ of habeas corpus
- landslide lyndon
- Lyndon b. Johnson
- Cohens v. Virginia
- Supreme Court upheld its right to overrule state action that violated the constitution
- Charles Guiteau
- assassinated Garfield over not getting job
- Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream
- "Lincoln during reelection, also FDR in 1940"
- McCulloch v. Maryland
- established supremacy of federal government over states (banks)
- The American System
- system designed by Henry Clay in 1820s; tried to unite economic interests of the nation
- "In your guts, you know he's nuts"
- "Democrats, about Goldwater"
- Old Fust Feathers
- General Winfield Scott
- """Taxation without representation is tyranny"""
- James Otis
- Leon Czolgosz
- assassinated McKinley; electrocuted
- how many germans did york kill?
- 132 troupes
- the great commoner
- William Jennings Bryan
- tricky dick
- Richard Nixon
- Martin v Hunter's Lessee
- Court affirmed the supreme court's right to review state court decisions
- all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree
- James Madison
- The Robber Barrons
- name used to describe ultra-rich industrialists of gilded age
- Wabash Case
- "ruled that Congress, not States, could regulate railroads"
- Roe v. Wade
- SC ruled that states determined legality of abortions
- what famous spy was executed in France in WWI
- Mata Hari
- He kept us out of war.
- "Democrat, Woodrow Wilson"
- what disease was WW1 leading COD
- Typhus
- big bill
- William Taft
- the ohio icicle
- Senator John Sherman
- Vote yourself a farm
- "Republican, Lincoln"
- Dred Scott v. Stanford
- SC ruled that slaves were property; could not use courts
- The business of America is business
- Calvin Coolidge
- the plumed knight
- "James Blaine, spoils man"
- """A little rebellion now and then is a good thing"""
- Thomas Jefferson
- Waving the Bloody Shirt
- post-Civil war Republican tactic reminding Northern voters that South supported Democrats
- The Great War for the Empire
- "AKA 7 Years War, French and Indian War"
- how many american served in armed forces in WWI?
- 4.7 million
- what was avg life expectency of WW1 pilot?
- 3 weeks
- "to which president's death was the question asked, ""how can they tell?"
- Calvin Coolidge
- These are the times that try men's souls
- Thomas Paine
- ATippecanoue and Tyler Too
- "Whigs, William Henry Harrison"
- who were big 4?
- "Wilson, Orlando, Clemenceau, George"
- "John W. Hinckley, Jr."
- "tried assassinating Reagan, stalked Jodie Foster"
- "George Washington, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen."
- Henry Lee
- The Pathfinder
- John C. Fremont
- Thomas Jefferson still lives
- john Adams
- What was Q Ship?
- war ship disguised as merchant vessel
- The Happy Warrior
- "Alfred Smith, ran for President in 1928"
- John Wilkes Booth
- killed Lincoln in Ford's Theatre
- Every man a king.
- "Huey Long, Promised to share wealth"
- what states were dustbowl?
- "Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico"
- Who was 1st Social Security check?
- "Ida May Fuller, 1940, $22.54"
- Silent Cal
- Calvin Coolidge
- """He that lies down with dogs shall rise with fleas"""
- Benjamin Franklin
- Old Rough & Ready
- Zachary Taylor
- what was Amelia Earnhardt's intended destination?
- Howard Island
- Lee Harvey Oswald
- "assassinated JFK, shot by Jack Ruby"
- "who proclaimed ""Lafayette, we are here"" upon arriving in France"
- Charles Stanton
- To Make the world safe for democracy
- Wilson