Political Parties
Throughout the history of the United States, there have been a lot of different political parties that have formed.
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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Court Cases
(1803) Marbury v. Madison
26. Kennedy's New Frontier; Johnson's Great Society
I. New Domestic Programs – New Frontier to “get the country moving again”
A. Tax cut – though at odds with companies over Steel threats, he regained favor with tax cuts to business – seen as a Republican measure
1. Additional tax cuts pushed through by Johnson after Kennedy assassinated
B. War on Poverty – Johnson – Great Society – “rights revolution” – helped Americans/hurt budget
1. Proposed $1 Bill(Later $2 bill. dollar package – focused on Appalachian mountains and poor
27. The Nixon Years
I. Election of 1968 – most heated political season in history
A. Democratic convention has mass riots – mobs bait officers – feces, shouts
1. Eventually police riot breaks out
2. Robert Kennedy had been killed – leaves pro-war Humphrey in power
B. Republicans – victory in Vietnam and strong anticrime policy
C. George Wallace – segregation campaign – gets 45 electoral votes from South
C. Nixon wins – doesn’t win one city – Democrats vote cities, blacks vote cities
28. Women's Rights
POLITICAL
1. Women followed England’s example
1. Running in front of horses
2. 1848 – Seneca Falls
1. Declaration of Sentiments
3. Organizations:
1. 1869 – NWSA
a. fighting in Congress
b. 1869 - AWSA
a. fighting in states
c. 1966 – NOW
29. Civil Rights Movement (1955-1960)
I) Events
a) Murder of Emmett Till-boy from Chicago
i) Whistle @ white women…murdered by women’s husband and brother
(1) Emmett=martyr
ii) Open-casket funeral…huge media coverage
iii) Mrs. Till & Mose Wright (uncle) spoke against whites
iv) Murders convicted not guilty…all white jury
b) Montgomery Bus Boycott (Dec.1, 1955)
i) Non-violent
30. 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
31. The United States since 1974
I. The New Right and the Resurgence of Conservatism – response to counterculture of 1960s
A. Most concerned about social issues – not economics
1. Denounced homosexuality, pornography, abortion, feminism, affirmative action
2. Wanted prayer and tougher penalties on criminals
Topic Outlines
One page US History outlines of the topics below.
Chapter 02 - The Planting of English America
I. England’s Imperial Stirring
A. North America
1. North America in 1600 was largely unclaimed, though the Spanish had much control in Central and South America.
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