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100
What year did the French and Indian War begin?
1754
100
What was the major impact of the War of 1812?
Destroyed the Federalist Party and led to a increase in nationalism across the US
100
What is the abolition movement?
The reform movement that pushed for the abolition of slavery across the US.
100
Why was the 1860's-1890's called the Gilded Age?
It was a time of political and economic corruption, led by corrupt politicians, Party Bosses, and Monopolists.
100
What impact did the Great Depression have on Americans?
Led to distrusts of banks, unemployment, food scarcity, hoovervilles, homelessness, and loss of savings
200
Name three acts that created a rift between the British and the colonists.
Sugar Act, Tea Act, Townshend Acts, Quartering Act, Stamp Act, Intolerable Acts, Virtual Representation
200
What were some major policies enacted by Andrew Jackson?
Trail of tears, Bank Veto (first veto used by a US president), increase in white male suffrage, force bill (in response to the tariff of abominations that John C Calhoun said South Carolina would not pay), first democratic president
200
Name three events of the 1850's that increased tensions and ultimately led to the Civil War.
Dred Scott case, John Brown's Raid, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Bleeding Kansas, Election of Lincoln, Kansas Nebraska Act, Caning of Charles Sumner, Abolition Movement
200
What were conditions like for the lower class during the Gilded Age?
They were struggling with low pay, poor living and working conditions, and being locked into an unskilled labor cycle.
200
Describe how both WW1 and WW2 impacted the homefront in the US.
War bonds, Total War Effort, Rationing, Victory Gardens, Role of Women, Propaganda, increase in taxes and federal power
300
describe republican motherhood and its impact on women across the US
Republican motherhood led to an increase in educational access for women in the US and helped to create a large dominance for women's control over the private sphere (home vs public)
300
Describe the major impacts of the Market Revolution.
The Market Revolution leads to major developments across the US, including a burst of new technologies, increase in connected markets across the US, and a rise in industrialization in the North. It also helps lead to a rise in the middle class, which leads to the first group of reform movements in the US including: prison reform, education reform, abolition, temperance movements, and women's rights movement.
300
What impact did Reconstruction have on the US and the South?
Reconstruction led to a temporary equality in the South, enforced by Union soldiers and the Freedmen's Bureau. This includes the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, crafted by the Radical Republicans in Congress. This was against the will of Andrew Johnson, the US President after Lincoln's assassination.
300
Describe how Westward Migration impacted Native Americans.
Natives faced movements to reservations, the Dawes Act, which stole their land, Indian Wars with natives, loss of land to railroad companies, the murder of the buffalo, forced assimilation
300
How did FDR impact the power of the US government and its role in the lives of Americans?
Using the New Deal, FDR increased federal power, making America into a Limited Welfare State.
400
Describe two events that demonstrate the difference between the Federal government under the Articles of Confederation vs the Constitution.
Few options here, most obvious is shay's rebellion vs whiskey rebellion. NEED to highlight weaknesses of AoC vs strength of the Constitution for points
400
Describe the different elements of Henry Clay's American System and the debates about their usefulness.
Tariffs- North loved them because it increased purchasing of American made goods, South hated them because they relied on imported goods.
National bank- loved by the rich, especially those in the North, hated by the South and West, because it lowered inflation- making their land/debt more expensive
Internal Improvements- building roads and canals to increase trade and connectivity of the US region, hated by some states, because they did not want their taxes to support other states unevenly
400
After the Compromise of 1877, Union soldiers left the South. What impact did that have on the South?
It resulted in the creation of a White Supremacist state, entrenched by the Plessy v Ferguson court decision of "separate but equal." This began with the creation of the KKK, lynchings, and Black Codes. Ultimately, this became the Jim Crow South.
400
Describe the reform movements and the leaders that came with the Progressive Era.
Reformers, such as Jane Addams, the Populist Party, WEB DuBois, and Booker T Washington
Progressive Politicians, such as Teddy Roosevelt, Eugene Debs, and Robert LaFollete
Muckrakers, such as Jacob Riis (tenements and poverty), Thomas Nast (political cartoons), Ida Tarbell (Monopolists), Ida B Wells (lynchings)
400
Compare the 1920's and the 1950's.
Both had a new communication technology that led to the development of a mass culture. Both included an economic boom after a World War. Both resulted in a Red Scare. Both featured the impacts of the Great Migration. Both featured African American resistance to the mass culture created by technology. Both feature an increase in consumerism and the use of credit.
America did not try to interact with the rest of the world after WWI but were a part of the Cold War, NATO, and the United Nations after WW2. Women experienced more freedom after WWI, but after WW2, there was a push for women to return to the home and become housewives.
500
“Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.”
- Common Sense, 1776
What is the historical context of this document?
Common Sense, written by Thomas Paine, was a pamphlet that helped convince more commoners across the colonies to support the revolution. His arguments, written in more common English, pushed many readers to agree with the notion that the colonies needed to revolt from the British.
500
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness…..
The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpation on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world…
He has not ever permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise.
He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice.
Having deprived her of this first right as a citizen, the elective franchise, thereby leaving her without representation in the halls of legislation, he has oppressed her on all sides.
He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead.
He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns.
He has denied her the facilities for obtaining a thorough education—all colleges being closed against her.
- Declaration of Sentiments (1848)
What is the historical situation of this document?
This is the Declaration of Sentiments, written during the Seneca Falls Convention. It uses the language of the Declaration of Independence to argue that women deserve equal treatment in the US, including the right to vote.
500
“Provided, That, as an express and fundamental condition to the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico by the United States, by virtue of any treaty which may be negotiated between them, and to the use by the Executive of the moneys herein appropriated, neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory, except for crime, whereof the party shall first be duly convicted.”
- Wilmot Proviso, 1846
What was the goal of Wilmot's Proviso?
To allow all territory gained during the Mexican-American War to be "free soil." This means there would be no slavery in these new territories, ever! Like ever ever!
500
Describe the historical context of this image.
This image reflects the belief by some Americans that the rich were abusing the poor. This is the perspective of reformers and social gospel thinkers, who wished for the economy of the US to be more equal.
500
Despite a certain great original superiority conferred by our geographical nearness and immense resources,—due, in other words, to our natural advantages, and not to our intelligent preparations,—the United States is woefully unready, not only in fact but in purpose, to assert in the Caribbean and Central America a weight of influence proportioned to the extent of her interests. We have not the navy, and, what is worse, we are not willing to have the navy, that will weigh seriously in any disputes with those nations whose interests will conflict there with our own. We have not, and we are not anxious to provide, the defence of the seaboard which will leave the navy free for its work at sea. We have not, but many other powers have, positions, either within or on the borders of the Caribbean.
- Source: Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future, 1897.
Describe the historical context of the text.
This is a text from the Secretary of the Navy, Alfred Thayer Mahan, who believed that the US SHOULD participate in imperialism as a way to be able to increase the power of their navy. He believed that if the US had more naval bases, they would be able to become a world power and better protect their own country.