APUSH Exam Review Notes

1948 Election

  • Truman wins despite polls predicting his loss.

Taft-Hartley Act

  • Deals with right-to-work laws.

Suburbanization

  • People moved to suburbs to escape the city.

Brown vs. Board of Education

  • Repeals separate but equal.
  • Focus on desegregation of cities:
    • Little Rock
    • Montgomery
    • Greensboro
    • Mississippi

Freedom Riders

  • Freedom Riders
  • Mississippi voting registration efforts for kids

Civil Rights Movement

  • Martin Luther King Jr.
    • Non-violent civil disobedience and the SCLC.
  • Figures of Authority
    • Jim Clark, Bull O'Connor: Police chiefs known for excessive force.
      *George Wallace: Staunch segregationist.
    • George Wallace, Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X.
  • Presidential Policies
    • Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society.
    • John F. Kennedy's New Frontier.
    • Presidential Policy
      • Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society
      • John F. Kennedy's New Frontier.

"I Have a Dream" Speech

  • Delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. in Washington D.C.

1960 Election Debates

  • Those who listened on the radio had one impression; those who watched on TV had another.
    • Radio listeners focused on substance.
    • TV viewers were swayed by appearance.

Civil Rights Act

  • Dealt with Discrimination.
  • The attorney general investigates elections.

Voting Rights Act

  • Emphasizes the full text is 24.

VISTA

  • Volunteers in Service to America
  • Domestic focus within the United States.

HUD

  • Housing and Urban Development.
  • Aims to clean up neighborhoods and start preschool programs.

Great Society

  • Impacted by the Vietnam War.

1968 Events

  • Examine events that occurred in 1968.
  • The athletes who raised their fists did not have their medals taken away.

Women's Rights Movement

  • Betty Friedan: Wrote The Feminine Mystique.
  • NOW: National Organization for Women, founded by Gloria Steinem.
  • ERA: Equal Rights Amendment for women.
    • Philosophical opposition to the ERA.

Watergate Scandal

  • Nixon's involvement concerned the cover-up, not the break-in itself.
  • Spiro Agnew: Nixon's VP, resigned.

Ford's Presidency

  • Ford was appointed Vice President, then became President after Nixon's resignation.
  • He was the first president not elected into office on the ticket.

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