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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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World War Two

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Isolationist impulse of the 20?s No League of Nations Return to normalcy War debt fiasco Washington Conference 1921 Disarmament and Open Door in China Kellogg-Briand Pact War cannot be used as foreign policy Tydings-McDuffie Act in 1934 Independence for Philippines...in 1946 1933 - Pan-American Conference ?No nation has the right to intervene in the internal or external affairs? Marines withdrew from Nicaragua and Haiti in 1934 Platt amendment in Cuba ends Reversal of Wilsonian ideals FDR seen as a hero We step out, Japan starts to step in :L If you lower tariffs, we lower ours :) Designed to increase exports Radically changed foundations of trade?.we were protectionists since Civil War Cordell Hull set us on path to global economy 30?s was time of militarism

World War 1

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M - Militarism A - Alliance System I - Imperialism N - Nationalism Happy to go to war? death in battle was glorious America Remains Neutral (Kind Of) America stops exports to Germany and Austria Hungary large amounts of exports to UK and France Many Americans did not see a need to fight in a war 3,000 miles away isolationism General sympathy for Great Britain and France emerges anti-German sentiment bcs of immigration commit to war in 1917 Why did the US get involved?? By 1917 US GNP was 20% higher producing a LOT more most of our trading with Allies As the war went on, problems arise countries at war could intercept and detain neutral ships, inspect and confiscate contraband 1915 - Navy began blockade and Germany Das Unterseeboot - U Boats

Roaring Twenties

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What made them so roaring? inventions - like cars :D music - introduction of jazz more money credit, stocks no big depression in America no rebuilding after the war the entire thing was fought in Europe most change in cities fight against change in rural areas all about social change! constantly pushing boundaries Prohibition Experiment January 1920 - 18th amendment prohibited manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol but not consumption? Reformers considered liquor a cause of corruption led to crime, wife and child abuse, accidents on the job & other serious social problems At first, saloons close their doors and drunkenness declines. Did not last long, however Al Capone :O Return to ?Normalcy? Warren G. Harding anti-Wilson wants to go back to isolationism

Jeffersonian America

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Jeffersonian America Revolution of 1800 Not a real revolution Political change without violence Proves America is a stable country Jefferson started his presidency w/ simplifying gov't Reduce the size of federal gov't Reduced size of the military Judiciary Act of 1801: Adams pushes through last minute legislation & midnight judges Marbury v. Madison - Marbury wanted his papers delivered to make him a federal judge Marbury sued by Jud. Branch to enforce law Supreme Court ruled this law unconstitutional Reinforced judicial review Decide if laws are constitutional or not Louisiana Purchase - Napoleon sold America Louisiana Territory for $15 million Size of US more than doubled Lewis & Clark - explorers sent to explore the new territory & discover trade route from Pacific Coast

Imperialism

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Teddy (The MAN?s Man) recaptured the authority of the office savvy politician who called for a ?square deal? good deal for everyone involved believed in ?good? and ?bad? trusts worked to break up bad ones ?good? trusts allow for competition called for regulation of private businesses Coal Strike 1902 Conservationist Seen by many as too radical and not radical enough William H. Taft Hand-picked successor to Teddy Tariff reform Expanded conservation efforts Enhanced ------ ? check for online powerpoint bcs he went way too fast for me Election of 1912 (enables Wilson to come in!) Some say he should not have been elected Continues Roosevelt?s Progressivism (strong gov?t regulation) ?New Freedom? program (????) Attacked the Triple Wall of Privilege (trusts, banks, tariffs)

Great Depression

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Politics of the Decade Harding, Coolidge, Hoover Harding ? scandals :( Teapot Dome Scandal ? leased government lands for a bribe caused distrust in government officials Coolidge ? Silent Cal took over after Harding died Isolation was foreign policy of choice except for presence in Haiti and Nicaragua Washington Conf 1921-1922: Tonnage Restrictions 1928 - Kellog-Briand Pact ? prohibited war as an instrument of foreign policy Debt Payments Americans wanted loans to be repaid from the war Allies protested ? ?they gave enough during the war? persistence by Americans indirectly put pressure on Germany to pay reparations Germany teetered on anarchy we start loaning money to Germany, Germany gives that money to Allies, Allies give money to the US Allies resentment festered towards us

Gilded Age

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Gilded Age Homesteaders: government offered free land (Homestead Act of 1862) railroad companies offered land building a railroad gave you everything led to people buying up land Frederick Jackson Turner?s thesis broke down class distinctions, promoted independence 1890 census - no more land in the West As more people move West, what happens to Native Americans? miners and railroad companies pressured natives to give up land :( The Native ?Wars? Originally, the plan was just to move the natives west of the Mississippi Ft. Laramie Treaty example of treaties that were signed giving land to natives that whites would stay off of Pike?s Peak gold rush (1859) ? more people West 1868 - Sioux (leader - Sitting Bull) Gold was discovered; miners come in huge amounts

Cold War

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*To what extent was the US responsible for the onset of the Cold War (up until 1953)?* Cold War fought through proxy wars Vietnam War Korean War Never actual fighting between US and USSR When does it begin? 1917 with birth of USSR? Tehran? First meeting and discussion of 2nd front led FDR to placate Stalin Yalta? Stalin promised free elections and renegated FDR gave into Stalin?s demands for territory near China End of War? Soviets annexed parts of Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Latvia and Romania Formed ?Eastern Bloc? End of War brought tensions USSR pushed into Germany and got to Berlin before the US Laid claim to that land Bolshevik Revolution 1917 threat to all capitalistic countries Our mission to stop spread of communistic ideas 1919 - Red Scare Palmer Raids :/

Pre and Post Civil War

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Slavery in America North and South were being brought together (slavery in the South was disappearing (sorta)) BUT Eli Whitney?s cotton gin destroyed that :( Before cotton gin 1 pound of cotton/day - 1 worker After 10 pounds/day - 1 worker North was part of Industrial Revolution - South grew more dependent on slavery South and Britain were close cotton was Britain?s most important manufactured product South?s dependence (on cotton) had problems: harmful to the land one-crop system very few immigrants ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Slave owners did everything in their power to ensure that slaves did not cross the line separating whites from blacks

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