A religious revival (Baptist and Methodist)
Jonathan Edwards: “Sinners in the hands of an angry god” used fear to get people to join the church
Whitefield: Emotional Conversion

Led to people questioning British rule

Bacon's Rebellion (1676): poor farmers led by nathaniel bacon against William Berkely a royal governor (due to a lack of protection from native attacks and working conditions)
Led to end of indentured servants to the beginning of slavery

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Unit 3: 1754-1800

Starts with the FRENCH-INDIAN WAR: fighting for OHIO RIVER VALLEY

+owned by French and Natives that traded

+British and colonies vs French and Natives

ENDED WITH THE TREATY OF PARIS (FIRST WAR TREATY)

-PONTIAC'S REBELLION

+led to PROCLAMATION OF 1763 (no territory beyond APP MOUNTAINS)

+British war debt (end of salutary neglect)

---PATH TO AMERICAN REVOLUTION---

-Stamp Act: First direct tax

-SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF LIBERTY formed in order to protest against the acts (“NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION”)

-BOSTON MASSACRE

-BOSTON TEA PARTY

+leads to Intolerable Act:

-FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS: delegates from 12 states discussed british oppression

-SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS

+helped develop the declaration of independence and the continental army

-THOMAS PAINE COMMON SENSE: convinced colonist for independence

WAR WON B/C:

-French join war after the battle of saratoga (UNIT 3)

-GEORGE WASHINGTON'S LEADERSHIP

-Gorilla warfare

- ended with treaty of paris(1783)

ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION (FIRST US GOVERNMENT)

-intentionally weak govt

-lacked power to tax

Only legislative branch which allowed for 1 vote per state

-hard to pass laws

-fed govt has little power

-failed to put down SHAYS REBELLION

CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION(1787)

-GREAT COMPROMISE

-BI CAMERAL LEGISLATURE

-3/5th COMP

-SEPERATION OF POWER:

legislative: makes laws,

executive: enforces laws,

Judicial: interprets laws

-CHECKS AND BALANCES: prevents a certain branch from becoming too powerful

Federalist vs. Anti federalist

Anti fed: opposed strong federal govt, wanted bill of rights

fed(hamilton): advocated a strong govt, published federalist papers

CONSTITUTION ratified

+bill of rights added to protect civil liberties

Farewell address

Federalist party (alex hamilton):

+loose interpretation of constitution

+trade and manufacturing

+ NATIONAL BANK

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICANS (Thomas Jefferson):

Agriculture
No national bank
Strict constitution

2nd PRESIDENT: JOHN ADAMS (1797 to 1801)

+Federalist

-QUASI WAR

-ALIEN & SEDITION ACTS: restricts rights of immigrants

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Unit 4 (1800-1848)

-THOMAS JEFFERON (3rd President)

-DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICANS

-LOUISIANA PURCHASE

-embargo act was made to keep US neutrality but ended up hurting the economy instead

JAMES MADISON 4th president 1809-1817

-democratic republican

-WAR OF 1812

+caused by British interference with sailors and british forts in the colonies

+burning of the white house

FRANCIS SCOTT “star spangled banner”

Federalist party collapsed after hartford convention:

+fed protest who opposed the war

+leads to fall of federalist party

-war of 1812 ends in 1814 with the treaty of ghent(1814)

JAMES MONROE 5th president of the united states

ERA OF GOOD FEELING(UNIT 4)
DEMO-REPUBLICAN
Monroe doctrine= warned europe to stay out of western hemisphere

-Henry clay’s great compromise(36-30) split slave and free states evenly

-corrupt bargain ended era of good feelings with the election of JOHN QUINCY ADAMS 1824

ANDREW JACKSON 6th president

1829-1837
Democracy
White male suffrage

-COMMON MAN PRESIDENT

-Jacksonian democracy

Indian removal act led to the trail of tears

NULLIFICATION CRISIS: South carolina refused tariff of abomination

WHIG PARTY: formed to oppose ANDREW JACKSON

+wanted strong fed govt

Henry clay american system

+hugh tariff

2nd national bank

Market revolution

+growth of textile mills

+unskilled workers

+cotton gin

Transportation Revolution

+railroads

+steam engines

+erie canal and cumberland road

2nd Great awakening

Abolitionist movement

Fought against slavery
FREDRICK DOUGLASS
WILLIAM LLYOD GARRISON

Women Temperance mOvement

Spoke upon ver consumption of alcohol

WOMEN'S RIGHTS MOVEMENTS

+Seneca falls: established Declaration of sentiments

Dorothea dix: prison and education reforms

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UNIT 5 1844 - 1877

MANIFEST DESTINY: westward expansion (god given right)

7th President JOHN POLK

+1845-1845

+54-40 or fight (for territory in OREGON)

+annex texas: wanted more control of the west

MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR 1846-1848 (UNIT 5)

-Boundary disputes over RIO GRANDE RIVER

Ended with the treaty of GUADELUPE HIDALGO

+mexican cession & California

CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH

COMPROMISE OF 1850

+strengthened fugitive slave laws

Abolitionist:

HARRIET TUMBMAN helped slaves escape through underground railroads

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE: uncle tom's cabin (awareness of horrors of slavery)

KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT 1854:

+popular sovereignty in the 2 territories

+bleeding kansas

!!!!----DRED SCOTT VS SANFORD----!!!!!

+scott sued for his freedom

+ruled african americans aren't US CITIZENS

+overturned the MISSOURI compromise

JOHN BROWN

Raid on harpers ferry starting a slave rebellion
Extremist

CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR INCLUDE…

Slavery vs abolonistinst
NOrth vs SOuth
States rights
ELECTION of republican abraham lincoln

KEY EVENTS OF THE CIVIL WAR

+Fort summoner: start of war

+ANTIETAM

+GETTYSBURG: DEADLY TURNING POINT

CONFEDERACY(SOUTH)

Stronger generals
Committed to the cause

UNION(NORTH)

-ronger economy

-more industrialized

-higher population

EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION Freeing slaves in rebellious states

Civil war ended in 1865

RECONSTRUCTION

+tried to get south/confederate states back into the union

Reconstruction plans:

-lincoln 10% plan: only 10% of voters could pledge their loyalty to egt bajc into the union

-Johnson plan: draft new constitution and abolish slavery

Freedmen's bureau

Gave health, education, and housing

-13th- abolish slavery

-14th - freedmen citizen

15th - sufferage

Poll taxes and literacy test

Black codes and jim crow laws

White supremacy laws

RUTHER B HAYES 8th president

-Compromise of 1877:

+ended reconstruction

+troops removed from south

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Unit 6 1865-1898 Gilded age

-STEEL(carnegie) AND STANDARD OIL COMPANIES(rockefeller)

-rise of robber barons and monopolies

-trust and vertical and horizontal integration

-lazziere fair

-workers had poor working conditions and low wages

+led to labor unions such as:

Knights of Labor & American fed of labor

GREAT RR STRIKE 1877: disruptions by rr workers for cut in wages

HAYMARKET RIOT 1886: labor union protest led to bombing
PULLMAN STRIKE 1894: car company portest for wage cuts

Social darwinism

CARNEGIE Gospel Of Wealth: wealth should be used to help society

SOCIAL GOSPEL: christians must help urban poor

Rise of immigration (UNIT 6)

-tenement housing

-southern and eastern european immigrants

-chinese german and irish

-rise of nativism (led to Chinese exclusion act)

Transcontinental railroad complete

-Homestead act 1862: 160 acres of land given to people who live on it for 5 years

- going through native land and removal of buffalo in the great plains

-Plains Wars

(Sand Creek Massacre)

(Wounded Knee Massacre)

CARLISLE SCHOOL

-made to erase native american culture

DAWES SEVERALTY ACT 1887

Broke up tribal lands and promoted conversion

POPULIST MOVEMENT:

-political party formed by farmers

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Unit 7 1890-1945

Frontier thesis: frontier is closed

+US moved away from manifest destiny to imperialism

President MCKINLEY

-annexed Hawaii

SPANISH AMERICAN WAR

Yellow journalism: exaggerated propaganda
Sinking if the USS Maine
Ended with 3rd treaty of paris
Gained puerto rico, Guam, and philipinas

DEBATES OVER IMPERIALISM

-white man's burden: right to spread american culture

-went against US policy of Freedom and Liberty

ROoSELVELT: supported imperialism

+BIG STICK POLICY: prevent latin american interference form europe

-PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT (reformers)

-muckrakers examples

+IDA TARBELL: HISTORY OF STANDARD OIL

+IDA B WELLS: Lynch Laws In America

+UPTON SINCLAIR: The Jungle

+JACOB RIIS: How The Other Half Lives

ROOSEVELT (1st progressive president)

(1901-1909)

-square deal: consumer protection

-established the FDA (food and drug administration)

16th=income tax

17th=direct election of senator

18th=temperance

19th=women's right to vote

WORLD WAR 1(unit 7)

-neutrality

-made military production for allies

-joined when germans used submarine warfare and Zimmerman telegram

-14 points: made to stay out of future conflicts

4th treaty of paris

ROARING 20s

-women become flappers

-women right to vote (19th amendment)

-mass economic growth

-only in cities

-GREAT MIGRATION->HARLEM RENAISSANCE: rise in black culture such as the blues and jazz)

-spekaize=bars

Nativism increase

-red scare

-quotas

-race riots

END OF THE ROARING 20’s

Stock market crash -> GREAT DEPRESSION
Caused by overspending, farming crisi, buying stocks on margin

FDR promised relief, recovery, and reform in the 1932 campaign platform

-works progress administration (relief for unemployed)

Fed deposit insurance corporation and social security(reforms)

WORLD WAR 2 (UNIT 7)

Cash and Carry & Lend Lease Act made to help allied forces
PEARL HARBOR attack by japanese aircraft led the US to join
Led to racism against japanese immigrants

WAR EFFORT

Women joined factories and army corporations to help
Tuskegge AirMen ( W. E Du bois)
Manhattan project: developed a bomb used on japan

END OF WW2 & FORMATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS

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UNIT 8 1945-1980

POST WW2

-G.I BILL OF RIGHTS: provided WW2 vetersn with education, college and housing

-BABYBOOM

-Growth of Suburbs

EISENHOWER INTERSTATE HIGHWAY

BEGINNING OF COLD WAR

-red scare

Tensions

House un american committee: disloyal activities, suspected communist

COLD WAR POLICIES

-MARSHAL PLAN:prevent the spread of communism by using war economics
- TRUMAN DOCTRINE: CONTAINMENT

-BRINKMANSHIP
-EISENHOWER DOCTRINE:to provide economic and military aid to any Middle Eastern nation threatened by armed aggression
-NIXON DETENTE: relax tensions

COLD WAR CONFLICTS

-BERLIN BLOCKADE

_KOREAN WAR:

-cuban missile crisis

VIENTAM WAR 1955

+DOMINO THEORY: FalL off of 1 non communist country leads to the rest falling

GULF OF TONKIN RESOLUTIOn:U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin reported being attacked by North Vietnamese forces

-CIVIL RIGHT MOVEMENT