miss holz’s brief us history regents review

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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