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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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Upton Sinclair Biosketch

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Upton Sinclair Did Not Murder Theodore Roosevelt (Obviously) Thayne Wade May 26, 2012 Upton Sinclair was most likely not the person who assassinated Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 because he was a muckraking Journalist who exposed and began reform in the meat packing industry in 1906, he was socialist, but prior to 1912 he was not active politically, and he had a moderate personal relationship with Roosevelt. Muckraking The Jungle(1906) Published after Sinclair spent several months within the meat packing industry. This pushed the people of the United States to urge reform in the industry. Square Deal Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) Meat Inspection Act (1906) Both were the resault of exposed wongdoing in the meat packing industry by Sinclair?s The Jungle. Socialism

US Political Beginnings

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1607: 1 st colony, Virginia, was founded with the first permanent English settlement in North America at Jamestown to expand territory with colonial pioneers. Our Political Beginning March 5, 1770: British troops in Boston fired on a jeering crowd, killing five. Known as the Boston Massacre, the English troops were just trying to halt protest to their rule and hush the rioting citizens. 1643: The Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, New Haven, and Connecticut settlements formed the New England Confederation to for a ?league of friendship? for defense against Native Americans. July 4, 1776: The colonies adopted the Declaration of Independence, proclaiming the existence of the new nation away from English rule in Philadelphia.

African American History

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When exploring African-American history, the most important things to focus on are that because of the times, black people were enslaved and treated poorly. They endured it all and worked hard to rise above the boundaries of slavery and prejudice. However, the most portentous aspect of African-American history is that it's?heritage; it's history; and it's over.? Jane Minor was born as Gensey Snow around the late 1700's or early 1800's. She was born into slavery and freed around 1825 when she changed her name. During her slavery, she faced the hardships of being a black female slave in the 1800's. Despite that, she earned a living after her emancipation by caring for the sick. With what money she had, she bought the freedoms of other women and children. She was an admirable woman.?

The American Bottom

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Two of the nations largest rivers meet in the American Bottom. The Mississippi and Missouri Rivers served as channels of change to the area, bringing outside influences of many different peoples to an Indian-inhabited land. Like the constant flow of the rivers, there was a constant change in the American?Bottom. The progress eventually developed the area into a center of economic activity and gateway to the west, but also excluded native and long-time residents. The Illinois Indians long dominated the American Bottom. They were a unique and special tribe, who were complex politically, religiously, and socially. They were also an independent people until French colonizers came to settle in the area.

Discovery and settlement of the new world notes

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Discovery and Settlement of the New World 1. Pre-Columbian Era Vast majority of native Americans were living in Central and South America Development of agriculture sparked new cultures and innovations Mound Builders groups are some of the first sedentary societies of North America The Pueblo people created complex irrigation systems to water their corn fields in the Rio Grande Valley Farming helped to decrease the threat of starvation, especially during the winter ?Three-sister? farming: a high-yielding strain of bean that grew on the corn stalks while squash grew at the base of the plant to help retain moisture in the soil Aztecs and Incas in Central and South America were more complex and vast compared to North American civilizations

AP US History- sectionalism

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Sectionalism 1820-1860 The South ? low immigration, huge income disparity, replicated Medieval Europe Cotton Kingdom ? 1788 ? South dying, overworked land, unmarketable products Slavery increased ? Eli Whitney ? Cotton Gin Increased labor also improved Northern shipping industry ? cotton in world from the South, England 75% from South England economy depended on Southern cotton Planter Aristocracy ? ?cottonocracy? ? oligarchy ? few control many Biggest planters controlled social, political, economic life Received finest education ? statesmen who served public Public education suffers Women bought into system ? controlled households Poor whites ? accepted system, dream of moving up, needed racial superiority Scotch Irish ? Appalachian Mountains ? ?white trash? ? civilization ignored

1920s AP US History Notes

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1920s America ? Roaring Twenties/Jazz Age I. Red fear- radical ideas ? Russia ? anti-union/pro business A. Strikes ? labor = Bolsheviks, Left wing = un-American B. Sacco/Vanzetti ? Mass. murder, Ital, atheists, anarchists, draft dodgers C. A.Gen. Palmer ? ?Fighting Quaker? ? bomb ? paranoid dude D. Buford ?Soviet Ark? ? 249 deported ? not nice II. Race/Immigration Issues A. KKK ? anti Jew, foreign, Catholic, pacifist, bootlegger, birth control ? crabby dudes 1. 1925 - 5 mil, march on Wash 2. Died w/ corruption of leaders B. Immigration ? new immigration bad, we like Northern Europeans, white, white people ? first time America restricts immigration 1. Emergency Quota Act ? 1921 ? 3 % of 1910 numbers 2. Immigration Act of 1924 ? 2% of 1890 #s ? no Japanese

IB HOTA vocab definitions

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Naomi Hartberger ?Lost Colony?: The Lost Colony is the Roanoke Colony. This colony was an attempt made by the English to create a permanent settlement. Nobody knows what happened to the colonists, they just disappeared. Anglo-Powhatan Wars: These wars destroyed relations with the Native Americans. After John Wolfe was killed the colonists lost all hope of peace and friendship. The colonists even went as far as sending them blankets infected with smallpox, a disease that the Native American?s couldn?t fight off. The colonists would also burned down villages, steal food, rape the women and they even killed. After all of this the remaining Powhatan moved west.

Federal Minimum Wage Chart

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