APUSH is gonna make me end me

good luck man

Encomienda

conquer natives, get munners. allowed slaves in spanish empire

Spanish

conquered tha caribbean, fucked up the natives, huge exploitation, but hey europe gets new stuff

African slavery

pick up the Africans from Africa, transport to Caribbean, racist af

Transatlantic Triangle Trade

Caribbean’s raw goods → Erueopes cool shit → slaves → Caribbean

Joint Stock Companies

Companies sponsoring British to go to America

Colonizing strats

Spanish: chill there, exploit Natives, build empire

French: BEAVER, make friends with Natives

Dutch: SPICES RAHHHHH

English: Send our families there! Yippee!

First American Colonies

New England: wheat, factories

Middle: TOBACCO WHOOPEEE

Chesapeake: CRABBY TIME

Southern: SUGAR N SLAVES OH YEAH

British West Indies

SUGAR YEAHHHHH lowkey exploits Natives / African slaves as well

Indentured servants

Paid to go to America by joint stock company, but now broke af and working off the debt

Puritans

Religious weenies set on making Protestantism perfect, very popular in northern colonies

Metacom/King Phillips War

land squabble, Natives get screwed over, but hey New England is now no more Native. Yay!

Pueblo Revolt

Mexicans kick out Spanish, actually worked

Great Awakening

SPREAD PURITANISM YEAHHHHH GEORGE WHITEFIELD WOOOO

Anglicization

make it all British n cool n stuff

Seven Years / French & Indian War

British vs France over American land, British W, French is now gone from America. Colonists were happy to be British, so long as they got land.

Continental Army/George Washington

SCREW THE REDCOATS ROAAHHHHH

Patriot

AMERICAAAAAA FREEDOM WOOOOOO

Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

what if we went to war against the British? Fuck them

American Revolution

DOWN WITH THE BRITS THEY TAXED US TOO MUCH TIME FOR FREEDOM BABY YEEHAWW

Declaration of Independence

greatest breakup letter of all time, screw you British america now exists

Republican motherhood

have our moms educate the kids on the awesomeness of American liberty

Articles of Confederation

first attempt at the United States, failed miserably because states had too much power and federal couldn’t do shit

Constitutional Convention

ok so the AOC sucks, the bros of the Revolution come together again to make a much better government

Constitution

A way to limit both state and federal power, plus individual rights af. backbone to the federal government.

Ben Franklin

Bro literally founded America?

Federalist vs Anti-Federalist

Fed: big strong government, elected officials, republic

Anti: Bill of Rights, more states rights

Bill of Rights

Top 10 list of America’s core values

Alexander Hamilton & the Federalist Papers

NATIONAL BANK FEDERAL GOVERNMENT POWER WOOO

George Washington

First prezzy, no party, awesome dude, war hero

John Adams

Prezzy #2, Federalist, really smart guy

Northwest Ordinance (1787)

Fed gov getting land now?? Basically land of modern Midwest USA

French Revolution

Democratic revolution of France inspired by America, but now in Europe

Washington’s Farewell Address

* dont mess with Europe
* Political parties = bad
* work together, be unified

Marshall Court

Judicial review, National Bank = constitutional, state gov =/= interfering with private contracts, fed gov. regulates interstate commerce, Native Americans = other country

Democrats

individual rights, state power, hated National Bank, common man’s party

Andrew Jackson

Indian Removal Act of 1830, FUCK the National Bank → 2nd National Bank, Democrat, Nullification (first sign of secession)

Whig Party

strong federal gov, good transportation, high tariffs, big manufacturing, American System

Henry Clay & the American System

* Northern manufacturing → Western crops → Southern cotton → repeat. First attempt for national dependent economy
* Roads & canals go crazy go stupid

high tariffs

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Very supported by Whig Party

Market Revolution

pre-cursor to Industrial Revolution & not nearly as big

* North: FACTORIES CANALS ROADS TELEGRAPH RAHHH
* West: MORE ROADS MORE CROPS WOOOO
* South: What if our plantations got really…. big?
* Women: Lowell Mill Girls fight for fair labor rights, Cult of Domesticity has middle-class white women becoming “model wife”

Great Awakening 2: Puritan Boogaloo

USE THE ROAAAAADSSSS SPREAD THE WORD WOOOOO

Abolition

Ban slavery! Popular in the north, pre-civil war obviously

Seneca Falls Convention

First ever women’s protest thing for equal rights

Louisiana Purchase (1803)

Doubled American land overnight, French are no officially gone from America.

Hamiltonians: Consitution is a list of canNOT’s

Jeffersonians: Constitution is a list of can ONLY do

Monroe Doctrine (1823)

* The Western Hemisphere is officially closed off from Europe
* Attack anyone in the West, we take that as war
* The leading isolationist policy until Imperialism and WWI, totally gone by WWII

Missouri Compromise

Where is slavery allowed? Not below the 35th Latitude. Caused some huge problems when making new states, pretty much gone before Civil War

Mexican-American War (1846-1848)

Land war over Texas, but we got some fresh land in the Southwest out of it so major American W

Nativism

Protestant, white haters of immigrants coming in.

Know-Nothing Party is a political party full of them.

DOMINANT AMERICAN CULTURE RAHHH

Free Soil Party

Party designed to help the little white guy, never got too far

State’s Rights

Screw the fed gov it’s too powerful

State’s autonomous rights (SLAVERY!!!!) feeling threatened, major cause of Civil War (STATES RIGHTS FOR SLAVERY)

Mexican Cession

Mexicans give a good chunk of their land to us, now we got California & New Mexico. USA is slowly getting more united

Compromise of 1850

* Territorial gov’s for Utah & New Mexico
* Boundary for Texas
* No more slave trade in D.C.
* Fugitive Slave Act (free men are not safe anywhere in America from slavery)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

New territories! Major problem though: the people could decide whether they wanted slaves or not → popular soverignity

Dred Scott Decision

slaves have no rights because they are property, not citizens

Republican Party

Formed literally just to stop Stephen Douglas & the Kansas-Nebraska Act, became main voice against slavery

Election of 1860

LINCOLN IS NOW A REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT LETS GOOOOOOO south carolina just seceded oh damn

Abraham Lincoln

Republican prezzy that led during civil war

Civil War

war for right to slavery

Union & Confederacy

union: USA (standard stuff)

confederacy: kinda similar, but with slaves

Emancipation Proclamation

didn’t free Union slaves, only Confederate

huge step in freeing the slaves tho

Gettsyburg Address

lincoln says remember why you’re fighting this war! AMERICAAAA

Reconstruction

Republican-led rebuilding of the South post-Civil War, ended in 1877

Radical Republicans

Republicans that take everything a step further, screw Democrats

13/14/15th Amendment

13: free the slaves

14: natural birthright

15: right to vote not denied by race

Sharecropping

arrest the free black man, make him work for free in prison

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slavery 2, but legal!

Industrial Capitalism

FACTORIES!!! EVERYONE GETS A JOB!!!! MONOPOLIES!!! RICH!!!!

Laissez-Faire

the “invisible hand” of a capitalist economy, supply demand moves in forward

NO government intervention

“New South”

Rebirth of Southern economy past slaves, now industrialized

Populist (People’s) Party

party of mostly farmers wanting help, the predecessor of the Progressives

Political Machines

the mafia

Transcontinental Railroad

Whole railroad system going from east-west coast, HUGE win for transportation

Indian Wars

basically genocide of all the Native Americans

Gilded Age

Country is now fully unified, immigration increase, labor reforms, monopolies, we now in the Industrial Revolution fr fr

Social Darwinism

popular belief during Gilded Age that survival of the fittest was how the economy worked

Gilded Age superstars

Rockefeller: oil monopoly

Carnegie: social darwinist steel man, vertical integration

Swift: Meat packer

Plessy vs Ferguson

segregation is legal and doesn’t violate the 14th amendment (????)

Prohibition

18th amendment repealed alc, Protestants had that moment but it got repealed so crazy fast

Progressive Era

what if we reformed the country?

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Gilded age got out of control, so the Progressive party sets out to fix it

Women’s Suffrage (progresive)

women now going for voting rights, succeeds with 19th amendment in 1919

Conserva/Preserva tionism

SAVE THE TREES YIPPEE

gave rise to our National Park system

Imperialism

expand that empire! Europe got kickstarted in the early 1800’s but the US didn’t join until the late 1800’s.

Anti-Imperialism

Imperialism = Un-American

tried to do things but failed in the end

Spanish-American War

War started by America to get Cuba and kick out the Spanish

Somehow took a W, gained Cuba, the Phillipines, Guam, & Puerto Rico

Roosevelt Corollary

continuation of Monroe Doctrine, but now US has free reign over the Western hemisphere and Europe is blocked off from it

Teddy Roosevelt

Progressive president, Conservationist, sent USA back into isolationism, fought monopolies, and overall a cool guy

Woodrow Wilson

Progressive prezzy during WWI, didn’t do a lot on the homefront besides the 19th amendment

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14 Points for a post-WWI world, loved spreading democracy and good foreign relations

WWI

entirely European conflict until USA gets brought in, a huge step in foreign relations because now the USA is making allies with European countries

Treaty of Versailles

End of WWI, didn’t work & really pissed off Germany (reason for WW2)

League of Nations

First attempt at world peace/democracy, failed lowkey

Great Migration (1900’s)

Black southerners moving North & West to escape lynching

Harlem Renaissance (1920’s)

JAZZ BLACK CULTURE YEAHHHH

Red Scare

COMMUNISM AHHHH!!!!!

Rising labor strikes & the huge amount of immigrants in the USA combined into the Red Scare

Immigration restriction laws

* Immigration Act of 1924: only 3% per each country can immigrate, no restriction on North Americans
* Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: No more Chinese allowed in the USA
* Immigration Act of 1966: NO more immigration quotas

Great Depression

Everything awesome about the 1920’s rears its ugly head, everyone poor asf now

Franklin Delaware Roosevelt (FDR)

1932-1945 Democrat prezzy

President during Depression & WWII

New Deal

FDR’s plan for fixing the Depression

Actually lowkey worked

Relief, Recovery, & Reform

WWII

Mustached man gets a little too angry and starts swallowing Europe, teams up with Pasta Man and Soon-to-be-nuked to take over the world. USA & the Democracy bros (and russia) fight back and WIN

Pacific Theatre (WWII)

* Pearl Harbor: Brings USA into WWII


* Island Hopping: USA strategy to take back Japan-capture islands
* Midway: The turning point of the war for the Americans
* Japanese American Internment: USA keeping American-Japanese in internment camps to make sure none of them were spies for Japan
* Atom bomb: Truman’s decision to finish war in Japan with 2 nukes

European Theatre (WWII)

* Battle of London: Nazi bombing of London, Lend-Lease Act nearly brings USA into war
* D-Day: Allied invasion of Europe through France
* Battle of the Bulge: Allies basically sweep Germany, war is over

WWII Ideologies

* Fascism: dictatorship based on one race
* Totalitarianism: Government gets all the power

Holocaust, Japanese wartime atrocities, Soviet hatred of Jews, etc

Korean War

1951-1953, war of Communism vs Capitalism (but in Korea!)

Nothing really changes from this.