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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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Military history by country
Military
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Soviet Union–United States relations
Cold War
Vice Presidents of the United States
Presidency of Harry S. Truman
Communism
Harry S. Truman
Anti-communism
Containment
Alger Hiss
War

1945-1960 335. President Harry Truman: first president to show positive response to civil rights movement; worked heavily on keeping Soviet spread of communism in check? 336. Jackie Robinson: first African-American in major league baseball 337. Desegregation of Armed Forces (1947): banned racial discrimination in federal practices; To Secure These Rights called for desegregation, anti-lynching, end of poll taxes 338. Dixiecrats, 1948: fought for old Southern way of life (states? rights), attempted to gain higher standing within Democratic party; aimed to deny Truman enough electoral votes to avoid his reelection by nominating Strom Thurmond (SC governor)

1960 vocabulary

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Politics of the United States
united states
Vice Presidents of the United States
Soviet Union–United States relations
Richard Nixon
Ronald Reagan
United States presidential election
vietnam war
Cold War
John F. Kennedy
South Vietnam
Lyndon B. Johnson
Politics
War

1960-present 372. Election of 1960: Kennedy vs. Nixon, Kennedy (due to televised charisma) won over Nixon (pale and nervous) 373. President John F. Kennedy: second youngest president, entered?presidency as tensions of the Cold War increased; unable to get major initiatives through Congress due to conservative bloc; tax cuts (economic stimulation); reluctantly gets involved in civil rights; emphasizes Space Race (man on the moon) 374. Rachel Carson, Silent Spring: effects of pesticides on the environment; changed way Americans viewed their impact on nature 375. Berlin Wall: due to threat of nuclear war, Soviets erected wall to separate East Berlin from West Berlin (end exodus of intellect to west); symbol of communist denial of freedom

History study guide

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Americas
History of the United States
Racism
Colonization of the Americas
African slave trade
Slavery in the United States
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Colonial history of the United States
New England COlonies
European colonization of the Americas
slavery
Atlantic slave trade
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Chapter 1 II. Peopling the Americas The Land Bridge theory. As the Great Ice Age diminished, so did the glaciers over North America. The theory holds that a?Land Bridge?emerged linking Asia & North America across what is now known as the Bering Sea. People were said to have walked across the ?bridge? before the sea level rose and sealed it off; thus populating the Americas. The Land Bridge is said to have occurred an estimated 35,000 years ago. Many peoples Those groups that traversed the bridge spread across North, Central, and South America. Countless tribes emerged with an estimated 2,000 languages. Notably: Incas: Peru, with elaborate network of roads and bridges linking their empire. Mayas: Yucatan Peninsula, with their step pyramids.

APUSH MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE

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Politics of the United States
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Racism
Abolitionism
slavery
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Three-Fifths Compromise
Northwest Ordinance
Dred Scott
james madison
Thomas Jefferson
Politics

APUSH MIDTERM REVIEW: Social class system in pre-Revolutionary America: Upper class: Land gentry, nobles from England, self-made men (Hamilton and Jefferson) Merchants: wealthy merchants (Paul Revere) Middle class: tradesmen (blacksmith, farmers, etc.) Indentured Servants: (white free men, but worked on their own farms) Slaves Views of founding fathers towards political parties: Did not want it because they felt it would be dangerous to the U.S. Fear it would divide the American people between ideological lines Anti-Federalist vs. Federalist Federalist vs. Republicans Beliefs of Jefferson and Hamilton: Start of two political parties

Women's Rights Timeline

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Feminism
Gender studies
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88th United States Congress
Women's Rights
Women's suffrage
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
Pregnancy discrimination
Equal Rights Amendment
Suffrage
Social Issues
law
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The Territory of Wyoming passes the first law in the nation giving women over age 21 the right to vote. After joining the Union in 1890, Wyoming becomes the first state to permit women the right to vote in all elections, although in 1887, Kansas al- lowed women to vote in municipal elec- tions. The colonies adopt the English system of property ownership for married women, meaning women cannot own property in their own name or keep their own earnings. By 1900, every state will have passed leg- islation modeled after New York?s Mar- ried Women?s Property Act (1848), which grants married women the right to keep their own wages and to own property in their own name. 1769 1848 1868 1869 1869 Racial Equality Issue Splits Two Suffrage Associations

Slavery and Justice

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Slavery and Justice report of the Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice Contents Introduction 3 Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Brown University 7 Confronting Historical Injustice: Comparative Perspectives 32 Confronting Slavery?s Legacy: The Reparations Question 58 Slavery and Justice: Concluding Thoughts 80 Recommendations 83 Endnotes 88 Image Credits 106 Acknowledgments 106 Brenda A. Allen Associate Provost and Director of Institutional Diversity Paul Armstrong Professor of English Farid Azfar ?03 A.M. Doctoral Candidate, Department of History Omer Bartov John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History B. Anthony Bogues Professor and Chair of Africana Studies James Campbell (Chair) Associate Professor of

US History Important People

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Sons of the American Revolution
slavery
Theodore Roosevelt
Abolitionism
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Civil disobedience
Sarah Grimké
Conservatism in the United States
Betty Friedan
Muckraker
Politics
War

U.S. History Review: People, Ideas/Concepts, Events Name _______________________ Pd. _________ PEOPLE She went on a hunger strike to influence the passage of the 19th Amendment ____________________________ Promoted nationalism by establishing language standards for American English__________________________ She exercised civil disobedience in her support of women?s suffrage ____________________________ He was supportive of labor unions and Socialist views ____________________________ He led raid on Harpers Ferry that created fear of slave revolts ____________________________ Published the Liberator in which he condemned slavery on moral grounds ____________________________

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Industrial Workers of the World
20th century in the United States
Politics of the United States
Sons of the American Revolution
United States
Freemen of the City of London
Syndicalism
United States Assistant Secretaries of the Navy
Progressive Era
William Howard Taft
Industrial unionism
Prohibition in the United States
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Industrial Workers of the World
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History of the United States
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Prohibition in the United States
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One Big Union
William Howard Taft
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Chapter 21: Urban America and the Progressive Era (1900-1917) American Communities Lillian Wald was a girl with a good upbringing who moved to NY to become a nurse Wald and Mary Brewster worked as visiting nurses Professional care at home for 10 to 25 cents, info on health care, sanitation, and disease prevention 1895 ? philanthropist Jacob Smith donated house on Henry Street Settlement @ Lower East Side Henry Street Settlement became example for new kind of reform community based on college level women Unlike other moral reformers, they lived alongside the poor and worked from the inside Jane Addams, Lillian Wald, Florence Kelly Henry Street Settlement survived by donations from wealthy NYers

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Spanish–American War
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Nancy Brancati October 3, 2012 Chapter 20: Commonwealth and Empire American Communities Edward Bellamy?s Looking Backward (1888) tells the story of a perfect world in the year 2000 Community and cooperation, everyone shared the wealth and resources Bellamy?s fans formed the Nationalist movement Point Loma, California, 1897, was one of most successful societies created like in the novel Populism was created through the renewal of old values of community through farm and labor orgs Social Gospel ? middle class people sponsored and donated money to charities People that opposed Bellamy wanted a more expansive America with more room for profit

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