US HISTORY REVIEW

Declaration of Independence

• Written by Thomas Jefferson

• Influenced by John Locke

• Natural Rights = Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness

• Consent of the Governed

• Social Contract

Articles of Confederation

Weak government

• Couldn't tax

• Couldn't enforce laws

Constitution

• Federalism

• Separation of Powers

• Checks & Balances

Great Compromise

• House = population

• Senate = equal representation

Bill of Rights

• First 10 Amendments

• Protects civil liberties

Supreme Court

Marbury v. Madison

• Judicial Review

• Supreme Court can declare laws unconstitutional

Washington

• Neutrality

• Avoid foreign alliances

Jefferson

• Louisiana Purchase

• Lewis & Clark Expedition

Manifest Destiny

Belief that America should expand west.

Led to:

• Texas Annexation

• Mexican-American War

• Westward Expansion

Monroe Doctrine

• Europe stay out of the Americas

• Americas stay out of Europe

Causes of Civil War

1. Slavery

2. States' Rights

3. Sectionalism

Lincoln

Primary Goal:
Preserve the Union

Emancipation Proclamation

• Freed slaves in Confederate territory

Reconstruction Amendments

Amendment	Meaning
13th	Abolished slavery
14th	Citizenship
15th	Voting rights for Black men

Reconstruction

• Federal troops occupy South

• Ends in 1877

Plessy v. Ferguson

• "Separate but Equal"

Industrial Revolution

Important people:

• John D. Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

Terms

• Monopoly

• Trust

• Laissez-faire

Immigration

• Ellis Island

• Factory jobs

• Urbanization

Progressive Era

• Fix problems caused by industrialization

Know:

• Muckrakers

• Trust Busting

• Pure Food and Drug Act

Theodore Roosevelt

• Square Deal

• Trustbuster

• Conservation

WWI

Causes of U.S. Entry:

• Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

• Zimmerman Telegram

Wilson

• Fourteen Points

• League of Nations

Schenck v. U.S.

Free speech can be limited during wartime

Roaring 20s

• Prohibition

• Harlem Renaissance

• Consumer Culture

• Stock Speculation

Great Depression

Causes:

• Stock Market Crash

• Overproduction

• Buying on Credit

Hoover

Limited government intervention

FDR

New Deal

Programs:

• CCC

• WPA

• FDIC

• Social Security

WWII

Cause of U.S. Entry:

Pearl Harbor

Know:

• D-Day

• Atomic Bomb

• GI Bill

Japanese Internment

Korematsu v. U.S.

Court allowed internment during wartime.

Cold War: Containment

Stopping spread of communism

Examples:

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• NATO

• Korean War

• Vietnam War

Cuban Missile Crisis

Closest U.S. and USSR came to nuclear war.

Civil Rights Movement

Brown v. Board

Ended school segregation.

Rosa Parks

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Martin Luther King Jr.

• Nonviolent protest

• Civil disobedience

Malcolm X

• Black nationalism

• Self-defense

Civil Rights Act (1964)

Ended segregation.

Voting Rights Act (1965)

Protected voting rights.

Constitutional Principles

• Marbury v. Madison

• Great Compromise

• Bill of Rights

Change

• Women's Suffrage

• Civil Rights Movement

• New Deal

Conflict

• Civil War

• Cold War

• Vietnam War

Equality

• Reconstruction Amendments

• Brown v. Board

• Civil Rights Act