APUSH important social/cultural events

1st great awakening

• primarily protestant

• breaking up into protestant secs

• offshoots of puritanism

• origins of american cultural identity

• religion was most important in defining culture

2nd great awakening

• religious revival

• spiritual + secular

• using religion to reform society

• suffrage, utopian society (brook farm)

• mormons - first religion originated in america

  • 1st attempt to make unique american religion for new unique country

1st vs 2nd great awakening

let’s make new groups vs. how can it help society?

Abolition movement

• douglas + garrison (liberator)

• 1790 onwards (2nd great awakening)

Women’s suffrage

• stanton + anthony

• declaration of sentiments/seneca falls (1848)

• temperance, asylum movement (dix)

Emancipation proclamation

• civil war

• all slaves in the south are now free

• ‘officially’ made the civil war about abolishment of slavery

13th amendment

• civil war

• abolishes slavery

14th amendment

• civil war

• granting citizenship to anyone born or naturalized in the US

15th amendment

• civil war

• prohibiting denial of voting rights based on race/color

Booker t washington

• civil rights movement

• economics first

• accept discrimination for white support

Wed dubois

• civil rights movement

• advocates political rights necessary for economic gain

• becomes centerstage

18th amendment

• women’s movement progressive

• temperance

19th amendment

• women’s movement progressive

• suffrage

Origins of modern feminism

• “flapper culture“

• margaret sanger + birth control

Progressive era

• use gov to improve society

• *conservation/preservation

• food safety, consumer protection

• corporate regulation (anti-monopoly)*

  • square deal

• political reform - ballot initiative/referendum

Civil rights

• marcus garvey: black nationalism

• langston hughes

WWI

• “rosie the riveter”

• randolph: equal pay

  • merged workers rights and racial equality

NAACP

• civil rights organization

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After WWI

• Truman desegregates military

• Civil rights groups: NAACP, SCLC, SNCC

Brown v board of ed

• overturns plessy v furgeson

• seperate but equal is unconstitutional

• little rock 9, montgomery bus boycott

civil rights movement post brown v boe

• birmingham action

  • kennedy approved

  • mlk, nonviolent, violence by police

• march on washington

  • mlk

• civil rights act of 1964

  • bans discrimination

• voting rights act of 1965

  • enforcing 15th amendment (voting), outlawing literacy tests

• civil rights act of 1968

  • outlaws discrimination in housing

1968

• assassinations of MLK and RFK

Progression of women’s movement

• Betty Friedan + Feminine Mystique

• Title IX

• Roe v. Wade

• Failure of ERA (Phyllis Schlafly)

NOW

• national organization for women

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Title IX

• civil rights law prohibiting of sex-based discrimination in education and finance

• ensures equal opportunity in education, including academics, athletics, and protection against sexual harassment or violence, applying to schools, colleges, and universities

Roe v. wade

• removed bans/restrictions of abortion

Gay rights

• stonewall rebellion: “the start”

• LGBTQ+

• dont ask dont tell

Stonewall rebellion

• Violence against police raids in NYC here, a gay bar

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Fragmentation of civil rights movement

• lack of specific focus points

• de jure vs de facto

• war on drugs

• no laws to fight against