Unit 1: Colonies-Constitution
Categorize the economic, social, political, and geographical characteristics of the Northern and Southern colonial regions. Make a chart
Northern Colonies: fishing, ship building, whaling, trading. Puritans/centered on the church/non tolerant, New England Town Hall Meetings, long coastline, rocky soil, mountainous.
Southern Colonies: plantation system/farming, slavery wealth land owners, Virginia House of Burgesses, Fertile soil, flat, warm long growing seasons.
Explain the political division that ultimately led to Andrew Johnson's 1868 impeachment trial?
Johnson opposed many Radical Republican Reconstruction policies going as far as vetoing some. He was seen by the Republicans as slowing Reconstruction progress.
How were all the first major labor strikes similar?
The government often sided with big business over workers.
Early strikes were seen by the public as promoting violence.
What were the 3 major reasons for American Imperialism?
New Markets
Military Bases
Superior Culture/Social Darwinism/Christianity.
What were the two major U.S. policies in fighting communism abroad?
Containment
Detente
Two early political parties
Two early political party leaders
Name that one party turned into
3 differences between the two
Federalist/Anti Federalist
Alexander Hamilton/Thomas Jefferson
Democratic Republicans
Federalist: large government/industry/national bank/tariff/alliance with GB
Anti-Federalist: state gov/farming/state banks/no tariff/alliance with France
List 3 territories the United States gained as a result of Manifest Destiny, how it was acquired, and who it was acquired from.
Louisiana Purchase: Bought from France
Oregon Territory: Treaty with Great Britain
Annexation of Texas: Texas Revolution/Mexican American War.
Mexican Cession: Mexican American War
Ohio River Valley: Treaty of Paris/Revolutionary War.
What economic system gave rise to big business during the Gilded Age?
List 3 Robber Barons and what they are famous for.
What is philanthropy?
Laissez-Faire
Carnegie-Steel/Vertical Integration
Rockefeller-Oil/Horizontal Integration
Vanderbilt-Railroads and Transportation
Morgan-Banking and Investments
-wealthy donating money to charity.
What were 3 similarities on the Homefront during WWI and WWII?
Rationing
Victory Gardens
War/Victory Bonds
War Industries
Minorities/women working in war production factories.
Compare the Great Society to the New Deal.
List 3 Great Society Programs.
What were the two goals of the Great Society?
Both are social spending programs that use deficit spending and expand the size and power of the federal government.
Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamp, Head Start.
Fight the war on poverty and civil rights.
List 3 significant turning points in the progression from loyal colonists during the French and Indian War to revolutionaries writing the Declaration of Independence.
End of Salutary Neglect, All Parliamentary Acts, Stamp Act, Proclamation Line of 1763, Boston Tea Party, Boston Massacre, Common Sense Pamphlet.
How was the Emancipation Proclamation used as a diplomatic document.
It was intended to disrupt the cotton trade with the South and Great Britain. Freed slaves formally in rebellious territories. GB had previously outlawed slavery. Allowed African Americans to join the Union Army. 54th Massachusetts.
Why were the New Immigrants not welcomed to the United States?
How did Political Machines use the new immigrants?
Didn't speak English, different culture/different language/didn't understand democracy, provided a cheap form of unskilled labor for factory jobs often taking American jobs.
Often bribed them in exchange for votes.
What was the Great Migration?
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
What was the Scopes "Monkey" Trail?
African Americans fleeing in a wave of migration the Jim Crow South moving to major Northern and Midwestern cities in search of factory jobs.
Explosion of African American culture as a result of the Great Migration. JAZZ Music.
John T Scopes teaches evolution in Tennessee public schools. Challenges Fundamentalism with Modernism.
What is a major criticism of NAFTA?
What was the Patriot Act in response to?
Why was the Patriot Act controversial?
Led to the outsourcing of U.S. jobs to Mexico/Loss of American Jobs.
9/11 Terrorist Attacks
Threatened American Civil Liberties (4th Amendment) Illegal Searches/No Warrant
Explain the causal relationship (what caused each) between the major founding documents:
Declaration of Independence-
Constitution-
Federalist Papers-
Bill of Rights-
DOI: American Revolution/Rebellion against Great Britain.
Constitution: Shay's rebellion exposed the weaknesses of the AOC leading to the drafting of the Constitution.
Federalist Papers-Federalist had to try and persuade the ratification of the Constitution because they initially didn't have enough votes.
Bill of Rights: Anti Federalist concerns with government protecting individual rights and freedoms.
Answer all 3 parts.
What was the ruling of the Dred Scott V. Sanford Case?
What powers did this take away from Congress?
What movement was the most hurt by the ruling?
Slaves were property and could never obtain citizenship.
Ability to regulate slave and free states.
Abolitionist Movement
What group made up the Populist Party?
What was their main demand from the government?
Support Laissez Faire Economics Yes or No?
Farmers
Regulation of the railroad and shipping rates.
No. Wanted more government regulation.
How did Franklin D. Roosevelt's handling of the Great Depression differ from that of Herbert Hoover?
What was the goal of the New Deal? 3rs?
Another meaning/term for Keynesian Economics is?
Hoover refused to let the government get directly involved. He felt it would promote socialism and it's up the individual to improve their situation (Rugged Individualism). FDR wanted full government control of the economy (Command Economy/New Deal)
Relief, Recovery, and Reform
Deficit Spending
What did the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution do?
What role did the television play in the Vietnam War?
What did the War Powers Act do?
Gave LBJ unlimited military power in Vietnam along with unlimited money.
People could see what was happening. Created credibility gap.
Reversed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. Congress takes back war power.
Who were the two major Enlightenment thinkers?
What were 3 Constitutional principles adopted from early ideas of these two thinkers.
Locke and Montesquieu
Separation of Powers, Checks and Balances, Natural Rights, Social Contract Theory, popular sovereignty, limited government.
Give 2 reasons how Jacksonian Democracy led to sectionalism during the Antebellum Period.
Supported state banks (South) Against National Bank (North)
Strongly supported Westward expansion which led to further tension over slavery.
State and Federal Power Disputes
Describe the Gilded Age; include information about railroads, Native Americans, Monopolies, workers, immigrants.
Describe the Progressive Era; include muckrakers, progressive amendments, anti monopoly legislation, food safety law(s).
The Gilded Age is the period between 1870 and 1900 that saw massive industrial growth. Completion of the transcontinental railroad brought in Chinese, Irish, and German immigrants creating a national market. The railroad along with the Dawes Act leads to the decline of Native American culture and killing of the buffalo. No government regulation gave rise to big business and monopolies.
Muckrakers exposed the corruption going on in numerous industries, progressive leaders gradually became elected and amended the Constitution to include government expansion of power, voting reforms, and social reforms.
Sherman Anti-Trust Act/Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
What was the policy many European countries had towards Hitler that led to his rising aggression?
What was the official policy of the United States during the mid 1930s. (We passed a law with the name in it)
What event led the United States into the war.
Why did Truman decide to drop the Atomic Bomb.
List 3 things from the Post WWII economic boom that we talked about.
Appeasement
Neutral (Neutrality Acts.)
Attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor.
Prevent a mainland invasion of Japan/Save American lives.
GI Bill/Suburbanization/Medical Advancements/Levitown/Baby Boom/Suburbanization/Increase in college enrollment.
What is Reaganomics?
Why was the Election of 1980 significant? (What group helped elect Reagan?)
How did Reagan help end the Cold War?
Trickle down theory. Cut taxes at the top and the money trickles down benefiting everyone.
Massive victory. Silent Majority/New Right
Arms race that the Soviet Union couldn't match/economy collapsed.