Period 4
Period 5
Period 6
Period 7
Period 8
100
What was the Whig Party made in response to?
Jacksonian Democrats
100
The act of capturing runaway slaves and returning them to the south was apart of which act?
Fugitive Slave Act
100
Who coined the term Gilded Age?
Mark Twaine
100
What was the previous U.S. defense strategy prior to the Lend-Lease Act?
Cash and carry
100
Describe what the Iron Curtain was and who talked about it?
the division between a democratic Western Europe and communist Eastern Europe - given by Winston Churchill
200
What is period 4 defined by?
territorial expansion, market revolution, and the rise of democracy
200
What is period 5 defined by?
increased sectional conflict, the Civil War, Reconstruction
200
What is period 6 defined by?
Gilded Age, industrial capitalism, closing off the frontier
200
What is period 7 defined by
Progressive Era, Imperialism, WWI, 1920s, Great Depression, WWII
200
What is period 8 defined by?
Rise of U.S. as a global superpower, Cold War, Baby boom, Civil Rights
300
Explain the events leading up to the Mexican American War. What ended the war?
- American's moved to Texas due to the panic of 1819, cheap land, GTT
- Texas Rebellion starts due to increased tensions with Mexico, remember the Alamo
- Polk annexes Texas in 1845
- Boundary dispute on the Rio Grande River and the Nuesces Strip -> war
- Treaty of Guadalupe-Hildago
300
Explain all the provisions of the Compromise of 1850
- California admitted as a free state
- New Mexico and Utah left up to popular sovereignty
- Slave trade abolished in Washington D.C.
- Stricter Fugitive Slave Act
- Texas dropped boundary claims in exchange for $10 million dollars to put towards debt
300
Explain all of the important monopolists during the Gilded Age and what companies they ran
- John D. Rockefeller -> Standard Oil Company
- Andrew Carnegie -> Carnegie Steel
- J.P. Morgan -> powerful banker, Steel
- Cornelius Vanderbilt -> railroads & shipping
- Jay Gould -> railroads
300
Name 5 of the New Deal alphabet soup programs/acts and what they did
- SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission):oversaw the stock market to prevent fraud
- AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Administration): Raised crop values by paying farmers to reduce production
- FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation): Insured bank deposits to restore trust in the financial system
- CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps): Employed young men in environmental conservation projects
- SSA (Social Security Administration): Established pensions for retirees, disabled, working mothers, etc
- TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority): Built dams for flood control and electricity in the South
- WPA (Works Progress Administration): Hired millions for public works projects, including construction and arts
- NIRA (National Industry Recovery Act): suspended anti-trust laws and promoted cooperation between government and business
300
Explain the countries where containment was and wasn't successful
- Greece and Turkey -> successful
- West Germany and Berlin -> successful
- South Korea -> successful
- North Korea -> unsuccessful
- China -> unsuccessful
- Vietnam -> unsuccessful
- Cuba ->unsuccessful
400
Key Concept:
Gender and family roles changed in response to the market revolution, particularly with the growth of definitions of domestic ideals that emphasized the separation of public and private spheres
Cult of domesticity, Lydia Child challenged cult of domesticity, Elizabeth Blackwell, Sojourner Truth's Ain't I a Woman?, Grimke sisters
400
Key Concept:
Although the Confederacy showed military initiative and daring early in the war, the Union ultimately succeeded due to improvements in leadership and strategy, key victories, greater resources, and the wartime destruction of the South's infrastructure
Examples: Anaconda Plan (1861), Antietam (1862), Gettysburg (1863), Vicksburg (1863), Union's "total war" strategy, Sherman's March to the Sea (1864), Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse (1865)
400
Key Concept:
Improvements in mechanization helped agricultural production increase substantially and contributed to declines in food prices.
Examples: Reapers, combines, bonanza farming, dry farming, barbed wire
400
Key Concept:
The United States and its allies achieved military victory through Allied cooperation, technological and scientific advances, the contributions of servicemen and women, and campaigns such as Pacific "island-hopping" and the D-Day invasion. The use of atomic bombs hastened the end of the war and sparked debates about the morality of using atomic weapons
Examples: Manhattan Project (1942), Tehran Conference (1943), development of sonar, island-hopping, D-Day (1944), Bretton Woods Conference (1944), Yalta Conference (1945), United Nations (1945), Nuremburg trials (1945), Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945)
400
Key Concept:
Americans debated policies and methods designed to expose suspected communists within the United States even as both parties supported the broader strategy of containing communism
Examples: House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) investigation of Hollywood (1947), Hollywood Ten (1947), Federal Employee Loyalty Program (1947), Trial of Alger Hiss (1950), Senator Joseph McCarthy (1950), McCarthyism (Second Red Scare), Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (1953), Army-McCarthy hearings (1954)
500
“The committee [of the South Carolina Legislature] have bestowed on the subjects referred to them the deliberate attention which their importance demands; and the result, on full investigation, is a unanimous opinion that the act of Congress of the last session, with the whole system of legislation imposing duties on imports, not for revenue, but the protection of one branch of industry at the expense of others, is unconstitutional, unequal, and oppressive, and calculated to corrupt the public virtue and destroy the liberty of the country; which propositions they propose to consider in the order stated, and then to conclude their report with the consideration of the important question of the remedy.”
-- South Carolina Exposition and Protest, 1828
HIPP/AHAP it
- Historical Context: the Tariff of Abominations that was passed, all of the financial problems regarding the bank
- Intended Audience: American Government
- Point of View:Negative towards the new financial policies that America was undergoing
- Purpose: to try and get the Tariff of Abominations repealed/taken away
500
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- What is the Historical Circumstance of this document: Just after the 15th amendment was passed, African Americans just gained the right to vote
- Who is the Intended Audience of this document: American public, African Americans
- What is the Point of View of the document: Positive outlook on suffrage for all males
- What is the Purpose of this document: To encourage all men to vote
500
To every one applying to rent land upon shares, the following conditions must be read, and agreed to….. The croppers are to have half of the cotton, corn, and fodder (and peas and pumpkins and potatoes if any are planted) if the following conditions are complied with, but-if not-they are to have only two-fifths (2/5).
Nothing can be sold from their (sharecroppers’) crops until my rent is all paid, and all amounts they owe me are paid in full.
All must work under my direction……..Work of every description, particularly the work on fences and ditches, to be done to my satisfaction, and must be done over until I am satisfied that it is done as it should be.
- Sharecropping Contract, 1882 (Modified)
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- What is the Historical Circumstance of this document: After the amendments that ended slavery and gave black people their rights, southern plantation owners tried to keep the agriculture economy afloat, they wanted to find a way to bend the rules to keep slavery saying it was slavery
- Who is the Intended Audience of this document: New freedman trying to find jobs to financially support themselves
- What is the Point of View of the document: Southern farmers hoping to still find “free labor”
- What is the Purpose of this document: To find black people will to work as sharecroppers, to explain the rules of sharecropping
500
“Since 1915 the colored population of Chicago has more than doubled, increasing in four years from a little over 50,000 to what is now estimated to be between 125,000 and 150,000. Most of them lived in the area bounded by the railroad on the west, 30th Street on the north, 40th Street on the south and Ellis Avenue on east. Already overcrowded, this so-called "Black Belt" could not possibly hold the doubled colored population. One cannot put ten gallons of water in a five-gallon pail. Although many Negroes had been living in "white" neighborhoods, the increased exodus from the old areas created an hysterical group of persons who formed "Property Owners' Associations" for the purpose of keeping intact white neighborhoods.…
In a number of cases during the period from January, 1918, to August, 1919, there were bombings of colored homes and houses occupied by Negroes outside of the "Black Belt." During this period no less than twenty bombings took place, yet only two persons have been arrested and neither of the two has been convicted, both cases being continued.”
Source: The document above was published in an African-American newspaper in 1919
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- What is the Historical Circumstance of this document: World War I had led to the Great Migration, lots of black people had moved up to urban areas and away from the south
- Who is the Intended Audience of this document: American public, African Americans
- What is the Point of View of the document: Negative towards the north
- What is the Purpose of this document: to bring awareness to the racism that many black people were experiencing during this move and the lack of police intervention during it
500
“I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, and so I ask you to confirm me as your President with your prayers. And I hope that such prayers will also be the first of many... If you have not chosen me by secret ballot, neither have I gained office by any secret promises. I have not campaigned either for the Presidency or the Vice Presidency. I have not subscribed to any partisan platform. I am indebted to no man, and only to one woman—my dear wife, Betty—as I begin this very difficult job... My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over... Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here the people rule. But there is a higher Power, by whatever name we honor Him, who ordains not only righteousness but love, not only justice but mercy.”
- President Gerald Ford’s Inaugural Address, 1974
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- What is the Historical Circumstance of this document: Richard Nixon resigned due to the watergate scandal, Gerald Ford came into power
- Who is the Intended Audience of this document: American public
- What is the Point of View of the document: Positive to the American public
- What is the Purpose of this document: To try and gain public support of him becoming president, regain public trust