The AP US History Study Thread

<p>What event gave Martin Luther King, Jr. a national platform from which to express his ideas (hint: it involves a woman from his church)?</p>

<p>are you looking for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?</p>

<p>Q: What did Stalin promise Roosevelt at the Yalta Conference?</p>

<p>To help the United States fight Japan? (not sure if this is right)</p>

<p>Q: Who founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters?</p>

<p>His exact promise was to join the US war against Japan 2 months after the Germans surrendered. By the time the SU joined in the war, the first atomic bomb had already been dropped. </p>

<p>are you looking for a particular person? or
African American Pullman workers</p>

<p>What did the Declaratory Act say?</p>

<p>that Eastern European countries would hold free elections upon the war's end...a promise which he later broke</p>

<p>Characterize Eisenhower's attitude towards civil rights during his presidency by the progress made in civil rights from 1953-1960 through legislation, etc. (sounds like a FRQ)</p>

<p>NishtDawg..i believe ur thinking of the Potsdam Conference</p>

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What event gave Martin Luther King, Jr. a national platform from which to express his ideas (hint: it involves a woman from his church)?</p>

<p>are you looking for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?

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<p>Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of Rosa Parks's refusal to give up her bus seat, which led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.</p>

<p>4 "Big Three" Conferences during WWII
CTPY</p>

<p>Casablanca
Tehran
Potsdam
Yalta</p>

<p>nope, it was the Yalta Conference for sure</p>

<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yalta_Conference%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yalta_Conference&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>What did the declaratory act say?</p>

<p>The Declaratory Act said that Parliament still had the right to tax the colonies.</p>

<p>The Declaratory Act said that the crown had full power to make laws and statues to bind the colonies and people in America. In short it was an attempt to control and regulate the behavior of the colonies in America.</p>

<p>What were the Jim Crow Laws?</p>

<p>smder99, Eisenhower was not a staunch advocate of civil rights reform. However, after Brown v. Board of Education ruled separate-but-equal unconstitutional, he did send in federal troops to enforce the ruling if states did not allow blacks to enter the public schools.</p>

<p>Jim Crow laws were segregation laws.</p>

<p>What did the fireside chats accomplish?</p>

<p>kept america informed during the depression and boosted morale that the government was working for relief (and recovery and reform) from the depression</p>

<p>Summarize each of the following: New Nationalism, Dollar Diplomacy, New Freedom, and New Frontier</p>

<p>New Nationalism- it was Teddy Roosevelt's political philosophy that only a powerful federal government could regulate the economy and guarantee social justice.
Dollar Diplomacy- Tafts policy to promote US trade by supporting American Enterprises abroad.
New Freedom- Woodrow Wilson's economic plan that monopolies had to be broken up and that the government must regulate business.
New Frontier- liberal and civil rights ideas advocated by Kennedy</p>

<p>What was the Supreme Court's rule in the Case Gideon v. Wainwright?</p>

<p>Q: Who founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters?
^ looking for specific person</p>

<p>new nationalism - theodore roosevelt's policy involving governmental agencies to control the economy/businesses</p>

<p>dollar diplomacy - utilizing economic power/money for foreign intervention</p>

<p>new freedom - woodrow wilson's policy of imposing strict laws restricting the economy/business instead of agencies</p>

<p>new frontier - term used by kennedy to describe unsolved economic, post-war, and racial problems</p>

<p>not sure if those are right</p>

<p>state courts are required to provide defendants with lawyers if they cannot afford them</p>

<p>Q: What religious idea did the Scopes Trial support?</p>

<p>The answer to your previous question for the Brotherhood of sleeping car porters was A. Philip Randolph .</p>

<p>Yep that's it:</p>

<p>THE CURRENT QUESTION-
Q: What religious idea did the Scopes Trial support?</p>

<p>It ensure that evolution would not be included in the curriculum... convicted a school teacher (from TN, I think).</p>

<p>What was Truman's Fair Deal?</p>

<p>I was looking specifically for fundamentalism.</p>

<p>It was his domestic policy, building on ideas of FDR's "New Deal," economic opportunity and social stability for all citizens.</p>

<p>Q: What foreign policy did the U.S. maintain after WWI?</p>