Miss Holz’s Brief US HISTORY REGENTS REVIEW
1700-present
US Geography/ Map Skills
Sectionalism: New Colonies New England Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies
Democracy/* Popular Sovereignty
Magna Carta English Bill of Rights Enlightenment – “Natural rights”
Against Absolutism
Examples of “self” government
Mayflower Compact Town Hall Meetings House of Burgesses
Mercantilism: trade from all countries funnel to mother country
Triangle Trade Navigation Acts: GB in charge! “Salutary neglect”
Proclamation Line of 1763
French and Indian War
French vs. Great Britain Ohio River Valley British debt
British has to pay debts
Stamp Act Townshend Act Sugar Acts
Boston MassacreBoston Tea Party
-colonist response
Intolerable Acts 1774
Punish the colonies for their response
American Revolution 1776
Declaration of Independence : Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Pain “Common Sense” pamplet
Turning Point
Battle of Saratoga
End of the Revolution
Treaty of Paris 1783: Freedom
“critical period” – do or die!
Articles of Confederation first government:
Constitutional Convention 1787
The Great Compromise
“bicameral” : 2 houses in congress
House and Senate
Supporters?
3/5 Compromise
Ratify the Constitution?
Bill of Rights
Whiskey Rebellion
Washington is president Uses LAW ENFORCEMENT (first time)
Judicial Review
Marbury v. Madison
Hamilton's Finical Plan
Manifest Destiny
The Slave Debate:Pre Civil War
The Missouri Compromise: 36’30
Abolitionists
William Llyod Garrison Fredrick Douglas Harriet Tubman Harriet Beecher Stowe
Underlying causes of the Civil War
Compromise of 1850 Fugitive Slave Law Kansas Nebraska Act Dred Scott John Brown’s Raid
Abraham Lincoln
DID NOT WANT TO END SLAVERY BUT WANTED TO STOP THE SPREAD!
Turning point: Gettysburg
To end the war Lincoln knew he had to abolish slavery
Transcontinental Railroad
East-west Travel and trade New jobs New towns
Robber baron v. Captain of Industry
Rockefeller (Standard Oil)
Why labor unions?
Working conditions
Rights
Knights of Labor
Triangle Shirtwaist effects
Urbanization
Immigration : Ellis Island, NY Push factors From homeland
Pull factors From US
Tenement Houses
Americanization
Assimilating Nativists views
Progressive Era: Reform
Muckrakers: - Jacob Riis: How the other half lives - Upton Sinclair : The Jungle - Ida Tarbell: Standard Oil
Reform Movements
Abolition Temperance Women’s Rights Education Second Great Awakening
Fight for the
oppressed .
Theodore Roosevelt
Square deal Conservationist Trustbuster
Women’s suffrage movement
19th amendment: right to vote Seneca Falls Mott, Stanton, Anthony
Roles change during WWI and WWII
Imperialism in disguise ?
THE TURNING POIN IN AMERICA FOREIGN POLITICS : THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR.
Causes of the Spanish American
War
Yellow journalism
DeLome Letter
The Maine
Economic Interest
Imperialism policies
Open door policy Boxer rebellion Panama canal Big stick policy Acquiring
Hawaii And
Alaska
Causes of WWI
Militarism Alliances Imperialism Nationalism Spark :
Assassination of Franz
Ferdinand
Why did the US
get involved in WWI?
Zimmerman telegram
Lusitania
Submarine warfare
WWI changes wars
Technology Selective service act Women in the war Propaganda
End of WWI
Treaty of Versailles: cause WWII: German reparation
Fourteen Points League of Nations
Roaring 20s changes in Society
Flappers Harlem Renaissance Prohibition
Icons: Babe Ruth, Langston Hughes, John Steinbeck
Harding Coolidge economic policies
20s is a boom in the economy Pro business Laissez faire
The Great Depression
Causes: lack of govt regulation- “buying on the margin”- Over production- International debt
Hoover
It is up to the STATE to fix the economy
Hoovervilles
FDR
Up to the FEDERAL govt
FDIC, Federal Reserve System
Courtpacking
New Deal
WWII
Neutrality Acts/ Policy of Isolationism
FDR Lend Lease Act: share weapons to Great Britain
Korematsu v. US
Japanese interment camps President can take away freedoms
during war
PEARL HARBOR
Effects of WWII
Economic: Liberty bonds Ends Depression Economic
superpower
Social: African Americans Women
Why drop the Atomic Bomb?
Save lives End the war Scare USSR Revenge on Pearl Harbor
Cold War
Yalta and Potsdam: Conference at end of WWII: what are the plans to divide Germany
Policy of Containment
Contain communism
Domino theory
Examples of containment
Marshal plan Truman Doctrine Berlin Airlift Korean War (stalemate) Cuban Missile Crisis Vietnam War
McCarthyism
Accusing people of being Communist in the United States
Contemporary Court Cases
NYTimes v. US Roe v. Wade Tinker v. De Moines Miranda v. Arizona Gideon v. Wainwright Engel v. Vitale
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