The AP US History Study Thread

<p>the case(Marshall Court) came up when the state of Maryland taxed other banks and the BUS in Maryland didnt pay, so they filed a suit against the bank's clerk or something(McCulloch)</p>

<p>At the Tehren Conference, 1943, the leaders of the US, Britain, and Russia agreed to:</p>

<p>glad somebody checks these boards</p>

<p>first, its tehran...next, it opened a western front in wwii to take some pressure off the soviets.</p>

<p>dam n...i always forget to post a question: who was the youngest president? how old was he when he took office?</p>

<p>do you mean youngest president to be in office, or youngest person elected to office? T Roosevelt was the youngest when he took over for McKinley. By the time he was up for the next election, he was older then JFK was when he was elected. </p>

<p>From what did T Roosevelt coin the term "Muckrakers", addressing progressive authors?</p>

<p>i didnt say elected, so Teddy is what i was looking for. comes from "the man with the muck rake" who was so busy looking at his feet he could not see the celestrial crown held before him...was from some book that had the word pilgrim in the title. pride of pilgrim or something? idk.</p>

<p>in upton sinclair's The Jungle, what did they call the river outside the meat packing plant?</p>

<p>^^I see my class wasn't the only one who had to read the book. A good one but rather derpressing.</p>

<p>And after all that, I can't think of the river name. :p</p>

<p>The book that the term muckraker came from was "The Pilgrim's Progess", and had something to do with "The Canturbury Tales" I believe the river was named the Bubbly Creek because of all the waste that flowed freely into it.</p>

<p>On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen killed four students at Kent State University who were protesting what?</p>

<p>Vietnam War, more specific, bombings of Cambodia</p>

<p>What was the Pequot War?</p>

<p>Battles between settlers and Indian tribes, the Pequots, in Connecticut in 1630s. Ended with the Treaty of Hartford I believe. </p>

<p>Name the female photographer who brought the images of the depression to the world.</p>

<p>way to look everything up....Dorthea Lang</p>

<p>these papers were first published in a NY newspaper and supported Federalists. a.)what were they (sort of obvious, i guess)? b.) name their 3 authors.</p>

<p>i'm gonna go with the Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. only had to look up one of them</p>

<p>In August 1998, car bombs exploded outside American embassies in which two cities, killing 200(12 Americans) and injuring 5000+</p>

<p>Nairobi, Kenya and Dar Es Salaam,Tanzania...way to hack from Garraty</p>

<p>what is the significance of February 26, 1993?</p>

<p>way to stay on the same page. 2/26/93 was the explosion at the World Trade Center that killed 6 and injured over 1000. </p>

<p>George Washington planned this type of education when he was president, but his idea would not be fulfilled until much later.</p>

<p>Is it education for slaves or African American? I tried to look for this in my book but there is nothing about it so that was my guess.</p>

<p>Q: the term "Copperhead" referred to?</p>

<p>actually Washington wrote about wanting a national university though it never really developed. Closest thing we have now is American U. </p>

<p>Copperheads were also called the Peace Democrats prior to the Civil War. They opposed any action leading to war. </p>

<p>Q: Who was Boss Tweed?</p>

<p>He was the most famously corrupt city boss. He was the boss of New York City's Tammany Hall in the 1860's and 1870s, whose excesses finally landed him in jail in 1872</p>

<p>Q: what was the book A Century of Dishonor was about?</p>

<p>wrongful indian policies of the government</p>

<p>Q: Who theorized US history as the history of the frontier?</p>

<p>do mean like, Manifest Destiny? If so then the man is John O'Sullivan, but i dont know if thats what you mean</p>

<p>Son reading over my shoulder said "Fredrick Jackson Turner in his frontier thesis, but when and where did he deliver his thesis?"</p>

<p>had to look this up in my text "The American Nation". Turner was from Johns Hopkins, so i'll put that up as the location. Should be around the turn of the century</p>

<p>Who used an analogy with prostitutes to describe the change in the Soviet Union after the death of Stalin? What did he/she say?</p>