Untitled Flashcards Set

P1: 1491-1607

1) Spanish Colonization - Chp 1

*Reasons

*Sources of Labor

*Bartolome de Las Casas

*Encomienda System

P2: 1607-1754

2) EnglishFrench/Spanish relationships with Native Americans  - Chp 3

King Philip’s War (Metacom’s War)  Context/Cause/Results

P3: 1754-1800

3) 1st Continental Congress (1774)  *Context/Causes/Results - Chp 7

4) Constitutional Convention + Ratification  - Chp 9

*Context/Causes/People/Debates/Results

5) John Adams vs. T Jefferson - End of Chp 10, Chp 11

*Conflicts during Adams’ Presidency + 1800 Election

• Election of 1800 

  • Federalist vs. dem-rep 

  • First peaceful transfer of power

• Views on foreign policy 

  • Quasi war with France

    • Adams 

    • French were ipessing 

  • Jays treaty 

• Whiskey Rebellion 

• Strict vs. lose interpretation

  • Elastic cause(necessary and proper clause)

• Alien and Sedition Acts 

  • Meant to weaken and silence dem reps during quasi war

  • Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions 

P4: 1800-1848

6) Nullification Crisis - Chp 14

• 1832 -pre-election

• South carolina wanted to nullify tariff

  • John C.Calhoun

  • Succession

  • Tariff of Abominations

    • Meant to protect northern goods

      • Southern farmers 

• States rights vs. central government 

7) Seneca Falls Convention - Chp 16

• 1848

• Declaration of Sentiments 

  • Modeled after Declaration of Independence

    • “All men and women are created equal”

• Wanted suffrage (19th amendment 1920)

  • NAWSA(1890)

  • National Women's Party

• People

  • Susan B. Anthony (not there)

  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  • Lucricia Mott

• during 2nd great awakening

  • Reform movements

    • Abolition

      • Sojourner truth

      • Frederick douglass

        • Tied together 

P5: 1844-1877

8) 1st Wave Immigration 1840s-1850s - Chp 15

• Irish and Germans

• Germans

  • Motivations

    • Military corruption 

    • Political revolution 

      • Persecution

  • Settled in the Midwest

• Irish

  • Motivations 

    • Great potato famine

  • Settled in northeastern cities 

• Irish faced more nativism 

  • NINA

  • Catholic

    • Set up own schools

  • Political machines

• Nativism flares up again during the Red Scare (1920s)

  • National origins act

  • Sacco and vanzetti 

  • Emergency quota act

9) Abolition vs. Southern State’s Rights in 1840s-1850s - Chp 17

*Causes of Abolition Movement

• Abolition was majority of the north and south wanted the states to determine slavery

  • Some radical

    • William Lloyd Garrison 

      • “Right now”

      • “I will not equivocate” 

• Among the reform movements sparked during the second Great Awakening

• Sectionalism in Congress

• Justification

  • Christianity

  • “Positive good” -Calhoun

10) 1840’s U.S. Territorial Expansion - Chp 18

• Annexation of Texas

• Oregon country  

  • Treaty with Britain

• Mexican cession land

  • Treaty of Guadalupa Hidalgo 

• Gadsden Purchase 

  • rr purposes

• Manifest destiny

• Causes debate over slavery

11) Lincoln + The Civil War - Chp 21+22

*Main Causes of the Civil War

*CCOT: Lincoln’s Reasons for War (Beginning Reason) (Later Reason)

• Debate over new lands in the west

• Wilmot proviso(1846)

• Kansas Nebraska Act (1854)

• Dred Scott (1857)

• Election of 1860

  • SC succeeds when lincoln wins with 6  states following

  • 4 more after

• North was modernizing and industrializing, and south were still agricultural and reliant on slave labor 

• Lincoln originally went to war to keep union together but he moralized the war fighting against slavery

  • Emancipation Proclaimation

    • Not in  the border states

      • “Where he could he wouldnt and where he would he couldn’t”

  • Gettysburg Address

    • “New birth of freedom”

      • Reconstruction amendments 

  • European Support

    • Moral cause keeps them from helping the south despite their potential economic benefit 

12) Reconstruction - Chp 23

Successes

• Reconstruction amendments 

• The freedmen's bureau 

• Black institutions and churches 

Failures

• Jim Crow Laws

• Literacy tests

• Poll taxes 

• Grandfather clause

• Sharecropping

  • Perpetual poverty

  • Paid slavery 

• Redeemer governments

• Kkk

• White league

• Women don’t get rights 

Amendments

• 13th 

  • Abolition of slavery

  • 1865

• 14th

  • Citizenship

  • 1868

• 15th

  • Black men gain suffrage 

  • 1870

Freedman in the South after Reconstruction

P6: 1865-1898

13) Plains Indians vs. US Gov’t Post Civil War - Chp 27

• Forced natives on rservations 

• Won big at little big horn

• Battle at wounded knee

  • Ends native resistance 

  • Brutal

• Landclaims 

• End of buffalo 

• Century of Dishonnor*1881)

  • Exposes american behavior towards natives 

  • Broke every rtreaty

• Forced Assimulat – Dawes Sevralty act

  • Castle school

14) Gilded Age Industrialization + Urbanization (1865-1900) - Chp 25+26

*Causes of Industrialization post Civil War

*Factory Workers of the Gilded Age

• Transcontinental RR was good for transportation

• Bad working conditions

  • Strikes and protests

• Immigrants became scabs 

  • Victim to political machines

• Labor unions 

  • Organized labor 

15) Boss Tweed + The Rise of Political Machines - Chp 24

*Context, Causes, Consequences

• Boss Tweed 

  • Exposed by Thomas NAstt

• Hull house protected

• Big cities 

• Political power gaines

  • Referendum

  • Initiative 

  • Recall 

  • 17th amendment 

16) The People’s Party (Populists) - End of Chp 27 + Chp 28

*Context

*Causes

*Goals + Successes

• Nationalization of railroads

• Graduated income taxe

• Coinage of silver 

P7: 1890-1945

17) US Imperialism: 1890-1920 - Chp 29+30

*Context, Causes, Consequences

*Events

• Influence Of Seapower upon history (1890)

  • Strong navy

• Roosevelt and MMicknley

  • Roosevelt -big stick diplomacy

  • Roosevelt - Roosevelt corollary  

    • Intervene if needed 

  • Panama canal 

  • Greeat White Fleet

• Replaces western development

• White man’s burden

• Spainish American war

  • Kicked off imperialism “splendid little war’

  • Acquired philippines purto rico quam

    • Filipino insurescction

    • Cuban independence 

      • Platt amendment

    • Boxer rebellion

      • Chinese resentment  of U.S.

• Anti-imperalist

  • Hated annexation of filipenes 

    • Didn’t give them independent

    • Brutal insurrection 

18) The Progressive Movement: 1890-1920 - Chp 31+ 1st part of 32

*Context, Causes, Consequences

*Events

• Fought against

  • Corruption of government and business

  • Inefficiently

  • Social justice

• Led largely by women

• Prohibition

• Labor

• Conservation 

• Womens suffrage 

• Fix problems of gilded age 

• FDR and LBJ progressive outside era 

• Initiative referendum and recall

• Progressive amendments 

• Muchreackers

  • Jungle

    • Meat inspection

    • Pure food anddrug

• TR 3 Cs

  • Conservation

    • Newlands act 

  • Control of corporation 

  • Consumer protection

19) Immigration to the U.S. 1890-1930 - Chp 26 (Gilded Age) + Chp 34 (1920s)

*1890-1920 - Immigration Characteristics

*1920’s Immigration Characteristics

• New imigrants

  • Different = nativism

• Factory jobs, tenement houses. Ghettos 

• Post-gilded age

  • Less thangilded age

    • Emergency quota 

    • National origins act 

• Nativism

  • Red scare

    • Palmer raids

  • Rise of KKK

• Immigration to America =jobs abd opportunities 

  • Growth of citie s

  • Industrialization 

20) FDR’s New Deal - Chp 36

FDR’s successes + Failures

• 3 Rs

  • Relif recovery reform

    • Relief anf reform worked but WW2 ended

    • Roosevelt recession

      • National debt

• Tried to pack the coourt 

Hoover’s Reaction to the Great Depression

• Hawley- Smoot tariff

  • Second highest tariff 

  • Worsened depression

• RFC

  • Too little too late 

• Hoovervilles and bonus army made him look bad

• Forign polciy;

  • Manchiurian incident 

  • Japan invades china 

  • Good neighbor

Short Answer Topics (Write 1 Short Answer)

1) Comparing/Contrasting Manifest Destiny (1800-1850) to West Development (1844-1890) (Causes, Effects) (Period 4+5 and Period 6) - Chp 18 + Chp 27

• Godgiven right to expand from sea too shining sea

• Conflicts with natives

• Mexican amreican war 

• James k polk

• Land

  • Lousiana Purchase

  • Texas (1845)

  • Oregon (1846)

  • Mexican session (1848)

• Development of acquired land

  • Honestead act

    • Big business was more sucessful

  • Frederick Jackson Turner Thesis(1893)

    • Rugged individualism 

  • Census Beaauru says west is fully developed (1890)

  • Century of Dishonor(1881)

    • Conflicts withnatives 

• Transcontitnetal railroad( 18969)

• Gold rush (1849)

• Plains indian wars

2) Comparing/Contrasting "Reform" Movements from 1880-1920 (Period 6 and Period 7) - Chp 27+28 (Populists) and Chp 31+32 (Progressives)

• Hull house (1880s and 90s)

• Muckrakers 

• Led by middle class and women

• Change gilded age issues

  • Poor factory workers

• Dubois v. washington — militant v. okay with segregation

• NWP v. NAWSA – militant v. moderate 

• Populists 

  • Goal;

    • Graduated income  tax - 16th amenment

    • Direct election ofU.S senators-17th amendment

    • Unlimited coinage of U.S. silver 

    • Nationalize RR - taking down of big business 

  • Carried outby progressives later 

  • WJB ran for president

    • Cross of gold speech 

3) Continuity and Change over Time of Industrial workers from 1865-1898 (Period 6) - Chp 25+26 (Gilded Age)

• Change over Time

  • Continuity 

    • Bad working conditions

      • Pullman strike

      • Great RR Strick of 1877

    • Taken advantage of by  political machines 

  • Change 

    • Unions gaining power

      • AF of L still here today