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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 VOCAB

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soft money - a contribution to a political party that is not accounted as going to a particular candidate, thus avoiding various legal limitations. The Greenback Party (also known as the Independent Party, the National Party, and the Greenback- Labor Party) [1] was an American political party with an anti-monopoly ideology[2] that was active between 1874 and 1884. Its name referred to paper money, or "greenbacks," that had been issued during the American Civil War and afterward. The party opposed the shift from paper money back to a bullion coin-based monetary system because it believed that privately owned banks and corporations would then reacquire the power to define the value of products and labor. It also condemned the use of militias and

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Oliver Otis Howard (November 8, 1830 ? October 26, 1909) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War. He was a corps commander noted for suffering two humiliating defeats, at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, but he recovered from the setbacks while posted in the Western Theater, and served there successfully as a corps and army commander. Known as the "Christian general" because he tried to base his policy decisions on his deep religious piety,[1] he was given charge of the Freedmen's Bureau in mid 1865, with the mission of integrating the freed slaves into Southern society and politics during the second phase of the Reconstruction Era. Howard took charge of labor policy, setting up a system that required free

My Lai

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What Captain Medina knew of these war crimes is not certain.? It was a chaotic operation.? Gary Garfolo said, "I could hear shooting all the time.? Medina was running back and forth everywhere.? This wasn't no organized deal."? Medina would later testify that he didn't enter the village until 10 a.m., after most of the shooting had stopped, and did not personally witness a single civilian being killed.? Others put Medina in the village closer to 9 a.m., and close to the scene of many of the murders as they were happening. Thompson and his crew witnessed an unarmed passive woman being kicked and shot at point-blank range by Captain Medina (Medina later claimed that he thought she had a grenade)

Interview

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Waleed Ahmed B2 Interview Notes Were you drafted or did you enlist??I enlisted strait out of high school. We did have the draft that was there but they were not actively drafting people at the time. So, I decided to go ahead and enlist on my own. I knew half way through my senior year of high school that I didn?t want to go to college. I really didn?t have any intention of going to college until after my military service so, in January 1981, I decided to go ahead and sign up for the military while I was still in high school. I went in with Delayed Entry. This would still give me time and service so I would get promotions quicker with my time in the military. ? Where were you living at the time??I graduated high school and enrolled in the Air Force in Honolulu, Hawaii. ?

American Pageeant Ch 37 Notes

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American Pageant- Chapter 37 NOTES FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT AND THE SHADOW OF WAR (1933-1941) THE LONDON CONFERENCE- summer of 1933 67 nations at the London Economic Conference which revealed how FDR?s foreign policy= subordinated to his domestic economic recovery strategy To organize a coordinated international attack on global depression To stabilize the values of various nation?s currencies & the rates at which they couldn?t be exchanged Exchange-rate stabilization= essential to the revival of world trade, which had evaporated by 1933 FDR 1st agreed to send an US delegation w/ Sect of State Cordell hull 2nd thoughts b/c of conference?s agenda He wanted to pursue his gold juggling & other inflationary policies at home as a means of stimulating US recovery

AP US History Chapter Thirty-Two Notes

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Chapter 32: The Age of Globalization A Resurgence of Partisanship Launching the Clinton Presidency Clinton administration plagued with problems in its first months with failure to end ban on gays in military with resistance from military & conservatives, several appointments to his cabinet were controversial, had to withdraw them Administration did make some achievements, approval of budget that was different from Bush-Reagan years, include tax increase on wealthy, decrease in government spending, & expansion of tax credits to low-income families

APUSH ID's

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Identifications #9 Pg.?s 103-116. Explain the specialization of labor on Southern plantations? Allowed by the presence of large plantations, each would have its own slaves who were blacksmiths, carpenters, and shoemakers They would also have women slaves who were seamstresses, cooks, dairymaids, and midwives. The above made up only 10-20% of the slaves, and most slaves were just simple farm hands. Analyze the extent and nature of slave resistance? Some ran off to join Indian tribes Some reached Spanish Florida and established a free community. Africans did not have weapons and only in unusual circumstances, would slaves rebel. Extended king roups would ask to stay together so if the family was broken up the child could be raised by family.

17th Century Views on Gov't

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17th Century Views on Government According to James I, the monarch possesses complete unquestioned power over every part of the State and everyone in it. He needs no advice or contribution from the Parliament, and the Parliament cannot exert any power without his permission. He holds supremacy over every single person in his kingdom, and can use his power to change, make, or delete laws at his will. He possesses this power because it is his born blood-right, since the royal line of kings had been founded before Parliament, law, land boundaries, and other restrictions of government. The monarch is the original, ultimate form of government and therefore possesses the ultimate power over all other parts of governing that arose later.

APUSH Ch.23

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?Let no guilty man escape? Grant said. Scandals are pouring out of the Washington administration. Grant was uninvolved, however even his own private secretary turned up among culprits. Grant wrote a statement to the jury to discharge the thief. In addition, Secretary of War, William Belknap had to resign after pocketing bribes from suppliers to the Indian reservations. This proves the depth and scale of corruption of this time period. Even high positioned government officials were involved with scandals.

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