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U.S. History Handouts

U.S. History Regents Exam: TBA

U.S. History Notebook

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		Outline 1 1. Discovery and Settlement of the New World, 1492 � 1650 A. Europe in the sixteenth century B. Spanish, English, and French exploration C. First English Settlements Jamestown Plymouth D. Spanish and French settlements and long-term influence E. American Indians 2. America and the British Empire, 1650-1754 A. Chesapeake country B. Growth of New England C. Restoration colonies D. Mercantilism; the Dominion of New England E. Origins of slavery 3. Colonial Society in the Mid-Eighteenth Century A. Social Structure Family Farm and town life; the economy B. Culture Great Awakening The American Mind "Folkways" C. New immigrants 4. Road to Revolution, 1754-1775 A. Anglo-French rivalries and Seven Years� War B. Imperial reorganization of 1763 Stamp Act Declaratory Acts Townshend Acts Boston Tea Party C. Philosophy of the American Revolution 5. The American Revolution, 1775-1783 A. Continental Congress B. Declaration of Independence C. The war French alliance War and society; Loyalists War economy D. Articles of Confederation E. Peace of Paris F. Creating State Governments Political Organizations Social Reform: women, slavery

		Outline 2 6. Constitution and New Republic, 1776-1800 A. Philadelphia Convention: drafting the Constitution B. Federalist versus Anti-Federalists C. Bill of Rights D. Washington�s presidency Hamilton�s financial program Foreign and domestic difficulties Beginnings of political parties E. John Adams� presidency Alien and Sedition Acts XYZ affair Election of 1800 7. The Age of Jefferson, 1800-1816 A. Jefferson�s presidency Louisiana Purchase Burr conspiracy The Supreme Court under John Marshall Neutral rights, impressment, embargo B. Madison C. War of 1812 Causes Invasion of Canada Hartford Convention Conduct of the war Treaty of Ghent New Orleans 8. Nationalism and Economic Expansion A. James Monroe; Era of Good Feelings B. Panic of 1819 C. Settlement of the West D. Missouri Compromise E. Foreign affairs: Canada, Florida, the Monroe Doctrine F. Election of 1824: End of Virginia dynasty G. Economic revolution Early railroads and canals Expansion of business Beginnings of the factory system Early labor movement; women Social mobility; extremes of wealth The cotton revolution in the South Commercial agriculture 9. Sectionalism A. The South Cotton Kingdom Southern trade and culture Southern society and culture Gradations of white society Nature of slavery: "peculiar institution" The mind of the South B. The North Northeast industry Labor Immigrants Urban Slums Northwest agriculture C. Westward expansion Advance of the agricultural frontier Significance of the frontier Life on frontier, squatters Removal of American Indians 10. Age of Jackson, 1828-1848 A. Democracy and the "common man" Expansion of suffrage Rotation in office Second party system Democratic Party Whig Party B. Internal improvements and states� rights: Maysville Road Veto C. The Nullification Crisis Tariff issue The Union: Calhoun and Jackson D. The Bank: Jackson and Biddle E. Martin Van Buren Independent treasury system Panic of 1837

		Outline 3 11. Territorial Expansion and Sectional Crisis A. Manifest Destiny and mission B. Texas annexation, the Oregon boundary, and California C. James K. Polk and the Mexican War; slavery and Wilmont Proviso D. Later expansionist efforts 12. Creating an American Culture A. Cultural nationalism B. Education reform/professionalism C. Religion; revivalism D. Utopian experiments: Mormons, Oneida Community E. Transcendentalism F. National literature, art, architecture G. Reform crusades Feminism; roles of women in the nineteenth century Abolitionism Temperance Criminals and the insane 13. The 1850s: Decade of Crisis A. Compromise of 1850 B. Fugitive Slave Act and Uncle Tom�s Cabin C. Kansas-Nebraska Act and realignment of parties Demise of the Whig Party Emergence of the Republican Party D. Dred Scott decision and Lecompton crisis E. Lincoln-Douglas debates, 1858 F. John Brown�s raid G. The election of 1860; Abraham Lincoln H. The secession crisis 14. Civil War A. The Union Mobilization and finance Civil liberties Election of 1864 B. The South Confederate constitution Mobilization and finance States� rights and the Confederacy C. Foreign affairs and diplomacy D. Military strategy, campaigns, and battles E. The abolition of slavery Confiscation Acts Emancipation Proclamation Freedman�s Bureau Thirteenth Amendment F. Effects of war on society Inflation and public debt Role of women Devastation of the South Changing labor pattern 15. Reconstruction to 1877 A. Presidential Plans: Lincoln and Johnson B. Radical (congressional) plans Civil rights and the Fourteenth Amendment Military Reconstruction Impeachment of Johnson African-American suffrage: the Fifteenth Amendment C. Southern state govts.: problems, achievements, weaknesses D. Compromise of 1877 and the end of Reconstruction

Outline 4 16. New South and the Last West A. Politics and the New South The Redeemers White and African Americans in the New South Subordination of freed slaves: Jim Crow B. Southern economy; colonial status of the South Sharecropping Industrial stirrings C. Cattle Kingdom Open-range ranching Day of the cowboy D. Building the Western railroad E. Subordination of the American Indians: dispersal of tribes F. Farming on the plains; problems in agriculture G. Mining bonanza 17. Industrialization and Corporate Consolidation A. Industrial growth: railroads, iron, coal, electricity, steel, oil, banks B. Laissez-faire conservatism Gospel of Wealth Myth of "self-made man" Social Darwinism; survival of the fittest Social critics and dissenters C. Effects of technological development on workers/workplace D. Union movement Knights of Labor and AF of L Haymarket, Homestead, and Pullman 18. Urban Society A. Lure of city B. Immigration C. City Problems Slums Machine politics D. Awakening conscience; reforms Social legislation Settlement houses: Jane Addams and Lillian Wald Structural reforms in government 19. Intellectual and Cultural Movements A. Education Colleges and universities Scientific advances B. Professionalism and social sciences C. Realism in literature and art D. Mass culture Use of leisure Publishing and journalism 20. National Politics, 1877-1896: The Gilded Age A. A conservative presidency B. Issues Tariff controversy Railroad regulation Trusts C. Agrarian discontent D. Crisis of 1890s Populism Silver question Election of 1896: McKinley vs. Bryant

	Outline 5 21. Foreign Policy, 1865-1914 A. Seward and the purchase of Alaska B. The new imperialism Blaine and Latin America International Darwinism: missionaries, naval expansion Spanish American War Cuban Independence Debate on the Philippines C. The Far East: John Hay and the Open Door D. Theodore Roosevelt Panama Canal Roosevelt Corollary Far East E. Taft and Dollar Diplomacy F. Wilson and Moral Diplomacy 22. Progressive Era A. Origins of Progressivism Progressive attitudes and motives Muckrakers Social Gospel B. Municipal, state, and national reforms Political: suffrage Social and economic: regulation C. Socialism: alternatives D. Black America Washington, DuBois, and Garvey Urban migration Civil rights organizations E. Women�s role: family, work, education, unionization, suffrage F. Roosevelt�s Square Deal Managing the trusts Conservation G. Taft Pinchot-Ballinger controversy Payne-Aldrich Tariff H. Wilson�s New Freedom Tariffs Banking reform Antitrust Act of 1914 23. The First World War A. Problems of neutrality Submarines Economic ties Psychological and ethnic ties B. Preparedness and pacifism C. Mobilization Fighting the war Financing the war War boards Propaganda, public opinions, civil liberties D. Wilson�s Fourteen Points Treaty of Versailles Ratification fight E. Postwar demobilization Red scare Labor strife 24. New Era: The 1920s A. Republican governments Business creed Harding scandals B. Economic development Prosperity and wealth Farm and labor problems C. New culture Consumerism: automobile, radio, movies Women, the family Modern religion Literature of alienation Jazz age Harlem Renaissance D. Conflict of cultures Prohibition, bootlegging Nativism Ku Klux Klan Religious fundamentalism versus modernists E. Myth of isolation Replacing the League of Nations Business and diplomacy 25. Depression, 1929-1933 A. Wall Street Crash B. Depression Economy C. Moods of Despair Agrarian unrest Bonus march D. Hoover Stimson diplomacy; Japan

	Outline 6 26. New Deal A. Franklin D. Roosevelt Background, ideas Philosophy of the New Deal B. 100 days; "alphabet agencies" C. Second New Deal D. Critics, left and right E. Rise of CIO; labor strikes F. Supreme Court fight G. Recession of 1938 H. American people in the Depression Social values, women, ethnic groups Indian Reorganization Act Mexican-American deportation The racial issue 27. Diplomacy in the 1930s A. Good Neighbor Policy: Montevideo, Buenos Aires B. London Economic Conference C. Disarmament D. Isolationism: neutrality legislation E. Aggressors: Japan, Italy, and Germany F. Appeasement G. Rearmament; Blitzkrieg; Lend-Lease H. Atlantic Charter I. Pearl Harbor 28. The Second World War A. Organizing for war Mobilizing production Propaganda Internment of Japanese Americans B. The war in Europe, Africa, and the Mediterranean; D-Day C. The war in the Pacific: Hiroshima, Nagasaki D. Diplomacy War aims War-time conferences: Teheran, Yalta, Potsdam E. Postwar atmosphere; the United Nations 29. Truman and the Cold War A. Postwar domestic adjustments B. The Taft-Hartley Act C. Civil rights and the election of 1948 D. Containment in Europe and the Middle East Truman Doctrine Marshall Plan Berlin Crisis NATO E. Revolution in China F. Limited war: Korea, MacArthur 30. Eisenhower and Modern Republicans A. Domestic frustrations; McCarthyism B. Civil rights movement The Warren Court and Brown v. Board of Ed. Montgomery bus boycott Greensboro sit-in C. John Foster Dulles� foreign policy Crisis in Southeast Asia Massive retaliation Nationalism in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Latin America Khrushchev and Berlin D. American People; homogenized society Prosperity; economic consolidation Consumer culture Consensus of values E. Space race

	Outline 7 31. Kennedy�s New Frontier; Johnson�s Great Society A. New domestic programs Tax cut War on poverty Affirmative action B. Civil rights and civil liberties African Americans: political, cultural, and economic roles The leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr. Resurgence of feminism The New Left and counterculture Emergence of the Republican party in the South The Supreme Court and the Miranda decision C. Foreign Policy Bay of Pigs Cuban missile crisis Vietnam quagmire 32. Nixon A. Election of 1968 B. Nixon-Kissinger foreign policy Vietnam: escalation and pullout China: restoring relations Soviet Union: d�tente C. New Federalism D. Supreme Court; Roe v. Wade E. Watergate crisis and resignation 33. The United States since 1974 A. The New Right and the conservative social agenda B. Ford and Rockefeller C. Carter Deregulation Energy and inflation Camp David accords Iranian hostage crisis D. Reagan Tax cuts and budget deficits Defense buildup New disarmament treaties Foreign crises: the Persian Gulf and Central America E. Society Old and new urban problems Asian and Hispanic immigration Resurgent fundamentalism African Americans and local, state, and national politics

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