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US History

This is a survey course that provides students with an investigation of important political, economic, and social developments in American history from the pre-colonial time period to the present day. Students will be engaged in activities that call upon their skills as historians (i.e. recognizing cause and effect relationships, various forms of research, expository and persuasive writing, reading of primary and secondary sources, comparing and contrasting important ideas and events).

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APUSH Cram Info

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The (un)Official United States History Cram Packet This is not intended as a substitute for regular study ??. But it is a powerful tool for review. 1494: Treaty of Tordesillas ? divides world between Portugal and Spain 1497: John Cabot lands in North America. 1513: Ponce de Leon claims Florida for Spain. 1524: Verrazano explores North American Coast. 1539-1542: Hernando de Soto explores the Mississippi River Valley. 1540-1542: Coronado explores what will be the Southwestern United States. 1565: Spanish found the city of St. Augustine in Florida. 1579: Sir Francis Drake explores the coast of California. 1584 ? 1587: Roanoke ? the lost colony 1607: British establish Jamestown Colony ? bad land, malaria, rich men, no gold

Out of Many AP Edition 5 Chapter 2

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Chapter 2: When Worlds Collide ? Outline ? The English and the Algonquians at Roanoke In 1590, Governor John White returned to Roanoke Island, where he had left the first English colonists three years ago, in search of the 115 colonists; mostly single men, but also twenty families, including White?s daughter, son-in-law, and Virginia Dare, the first English baby born in North America. He found the colonists? houses taken down and their possessions scattered, but saw ?CROATOAN? on a trunk, the name of a friendly village, and set sail for the village.?

George Washington

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Key Terms , People & Events: Creation of the Cabinet Judiciary Act of 1789 Tariff of 1789 Creation of a Bank of the United States French Revolution Reign of Terror; 1793 Intercourse Act Spanish close the MS R iver to America The Whiskey Rebellion Battle of Fallen Tim b er s Treaty of Greenville Jay?s Treaty Vice President (s): John Adams # 1 George Washington 1789 - 1797 Federalist Events Leading Up to Presidency: Led the Continental Army in the American Revolution; was part of the Continental Congress Indian Affairs Economic Foreign Affairs Political Creation of the Cabinet: Washington appointed men to consult regularly; this tradition continues today French Revolution: American sentiment is divided about the rebellions in France; want to stay neutral

John Adams

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Thomas Jefferson
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Key Terms , People & Events: French angry by Jay?s Treaty X, Y, Z affair Quasi-War Alien and Sedition Acts Republicans The Alien Act Alien Enemies Act Federalists divided States? Rights The press in politics Vice President (s): Thomas Jefferson # 2 John Adams 1797-1801 Federalist Events Leading Up to Presidency: Vice President under George Washington; active member of the First and Second Continental Congress Domestic Split Party Views Foreign Affairs Political Different political parties begin forming during Adam?s presidency French were angry by the Jay?s Treaty; seized more than 300 American trading ships Republicans: headed by Thomas Jefferson; opposition to financial and diplomatic policies

Thomas Jefferson

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Key Terms , People & Events: Marbury v. Madison Louisiana Purchase Lewis and Clark Expedition 12th Amendment Embargo Act, 1807 Non-Intercourse Act Agrarian Republic Pan Indian military resistance movement Macon?s Bill Number 2 Vice President (s): Aaron Burr, George Clinton # 3 Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809 Republican Events Leading Up to Presidency: Secretary of State under George Washington, part of the first and second Continental Congress, leader of the Anti-Federalists, ambassador to France, Other Foreign Affairs Politics Expansionism ?Neutral Rights? Jefferson had promised in his inaugural address that there would be ?entangling alliances with none? An ?agrarian republic?: Jefferson longed for a nation of roughly equal yeoman farmers who were independent

Chapter 1 Note Out of Many AP Edition 5th

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Chapter 1: A Continent of Villages Outline ? Settling the Continent o???Christopher Columbus called the Native Americans ?Indios? because he thought that he had landed in India ??????????Who Are the Indian People? o???The term ?Indian? refers to a variety of different cultures (over 2000), with hundreds of different languages and different ways of living. o???Indians had long, dark hair, almond shaped eyes and tan skin. o???After the realization that America was not a part of Asia a debate began over how people got there. o???Joseph de Acosta said that since there were old world animals in the new world, humans must have crossed a land bridge with them. ??????????Migration from Asia

APUSH Chp.11 The Southern Lady

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Like north, life centered around home, lack of public participation Cult of honor: - Particularly important for southern white men to protect women ? Men more dominant, women more subordinate than North - George Fitzhugh, 1850s: "The right to protection involves the obligation to obey" More isolation from "public world" due to living on farms - Limited opportunities aside from as a wife and mother - Modest farm: economic life w/ spinning, weaving etc., agricultural tasks, supervision of slaves - Larger plantations: "plantation mistress" as an ornament for husband Less education opportunities, focus on training women to be suitable wives Special burdens: - 20% higher birthrate, but also higher infant mortality - Spared from ardous labor

APUSH Chp. 11 The Planter Class

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Liked to draw comparisons with old European aristocracies, but most first generation settlers (as late as 1850s) and most of south had only started cultivation in 1840s Not leisured and genteel as aristocratic myth - Competitive capitalists like the industrialists - Lived modestly as most fortune with in land and slaves - Moved constantly as more productive land opened up Sustained image with "chivalry" - Defense of honor through dueling - Avoided "course" occupations of trade and commerce -> instead military if not planter
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APUSH Chp. 11 The Plain Folk

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Typical Yeomen farmer: - Owned few slaves, worked and lived more closely w/ than larger planters ? Focus on subsistence farming ? Generally not enough production out of debt or expansion - Greatly limited education system in South ? Only upper class had better education and access ? South had over half the nation's total of illiterate whites "Hill People: - Lived in "hill country"/"backcountry" areas (Ex: Appalachian ranges) - Simple subsistence agriculture ? No slaves, unconnected to cotton economy - Animosity to planter aristocracy (only population to do so) ? Only area in South to reject 1860s secession Non slaveowning Whites: - Depended on local plantation aristocracy for access to cotton gins, markets and credit

APUSH Chp. 11 The Cotton Economy

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Most important economic development in 1800s South: shift from upper South to lower south (Atlantic coast to new Southwest, going further west from the coast into areas like Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas - short-staple instead of the South Carolina and Georgia - long-staple) - Growing economic dominance of cotton (Additionally denser slavery in Virginia and North Carolina, tobacco-growing states)
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