AP US History
Table of Contents
- 1. Student Packet 2019-2020
- 1.1. Notes and Testing Schedule
- 1.1.1. Unit 1: Chapters 2-3
- 1.1.2. Unit 2: Chapters 4-6
- 1.1.3. Unit 3: Chapters 7-9
- 1.1.4. Unit 4: Chapters 10-11
- 1.1.5. Unit 5: Chapters 12-14
- 1.1.6. Unit 6: Chapters 15-16
- 1.1.7. Unit 7: Chapters 17-18
- 1.1.8. Unit 8: Chapters 19-20
- 1.1.9. Semester 1 Review
- 1.1.10. Unit 9: Chapters 21-22
- 1.1.11. Unit 10: Chapters 23-24
- 1.1.12. Unit 11: Chapters 25-26
- 1.1.13. Unit 12: Chapters 27-28
- 1.1.14. Unit 13: Chapters 29-31
- 1.2. Vocabulary
- 1.2.1. Unit 1: Chapters 2-3
- 1.2.2. Unit 2: Chapters 4-6
- 1.2.3. Unit 3: Chapters 7-9
- 1.2.4. Unit 4: Chapters 10-11
- 1.2.5. Unit 5: Chapters 12-14
- 1.2.6. Unit 6: Chapters 15-16
- 1.2.7. Unit 7: Chapters 17-18
- 1.2.8. Unit 8: Chapters 19-20
- 1.2.9. Unit 9: Chapters 21-22
- 1.2.10. Unit 10: Chapters 23-24
- 1.2.11. Unit 11: Chapters 25-26
- 1.2.12. Unit 12: Chapters 27-28
- 1.2.13. Unit 13: Chapters 29-31
- 1.3. Study Guides
- 1.1. Notes and Testing Schedule
- 2. American Experiments
- 3. The British Atlantic World
- 4. Growth, Diversity, and Conflict
- 5. The Problem of Empire
- 6. Making War and Republican Governments
- 7. Hammering Out a Federal Republic
- 8. Creating a Republican Culture
- 9. Transforming the Economy
- 10. A Democratic Revolution
- 11. Religion and Reform
- 12. The South Expands: Slavery and Society
- 13. Expansion, War, and Sectional Crisis
- 14. Two Societies at War
- 15. Reconstruction
- 16. Conquering a Continent
- 17. Industrial America: Corporations and Conflicts
- 18. The Victorians Make the Modern
- 19. "Civilization's Inferno": The Rise and Reform of Industrial Cities
- 20. An Emerging World Power
1 Student Packet 2019-2020
1.1 Notes and Testing Schedule
1.1.1 Unit 1: Chapters 2-3
Date | Day | Pages | Content |
19 Aug |
Monday |
40-56 |
- Columbian Exchange - outwork - mercantilism - Jamestown - House of Burgesses - royal colony - development of tobacco - Lord Baltimore - Maryland Toleration Act - headright system - indentured servant - social development - African labor |
20 Aug |
Tuesday |
56-62 |
- New France - New Netherlands - Puritan Philosophy and Plymouth Colony - Mayflower Compact - Massachusetts Bay Colony - Pre-Destination - Roger Williams - Anne Hutchinson - Conneticut |
21 Aug |
Wednesday |
63-72 |
- Salem Witch Trials - town meetings - Puritan Society - King Phillip's War - Pequot War - Bacon's Rebellion |
22 Aug |
Thursday |
80-88 |
- Restoration Colonies - Penn & the Quakers - Navigation Acts - Dominion of New England - Theories of John Locke - Results of the Glorious Revolution |
23 Aug |
Friday |
88-97 |
- South Atlantic System - Middle Passage - Beginnings of Slavery & Impact on the Chesapeake - Chesapeake Social Development |
26 Aug |
Monday |
97-111 |
- African Slave Culture & Resistance - Stono Rebellion - Foundations for Northern Economy - Colonial Assemblies - Salutary Neglect - Georgia - Mercantilism |
27 Aug | Tuesday | No Notes | Study for Exam |
*28 Aug* | *Wednesday* | *Exam* | *Exam Unit 1* |
1.1.2 Unit 2: Chapters 4-6
Date | Day | Pages | Content |
28 Aug |
Wednesday |
114-128 |
- Freehold Society - Quakers - Early Immigrants - Religious Beliefs - Enlightenment in America |
29 Aug |
Thursday |
129-135 |
- Great Awakening - Whitefield - Edwards - Old Lights - New Lights |
30 Aug |
Friday |
135-140 |
- French & Indian War - Pontiac's Uprising - Albany Plan of the Union - Treaty of Paris (1763) |
2 Sep |
Monday |
140-143 |
- Paxton Boys - Regulators - results of the French and Indian War |
3 Sep |
Tuesday |
152-160 |
- Proclamation of 1763 - Sugar Act - Stamp Act - Stamp Act Congress - Quartering Act - Sons of Liberty - Ideological Differences (3 total) - John Dickinson |
4 Sep |
Wednesday |
160-167 |
- Declatory Act - Townshend Acts - Sons of Liberty - Daughters of Liberty - Boston Massacre |
5 Sep |
Thursday |
168-179 |
- Committees of correspondence - Tea Act - Boston Tea Party - Intolerable or Coercive Acts - Quebec Act - First Contintental Congress - Loyalists - Olive Branch Petition - Proclamation for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition - Prohibitory Act - /Common Sense/ - Declaration of Independence |
6 Sep |
Friday |
182-196 |
- War finances - Treaty of Alliance - Treaty of Paris (Revolutionary War) |
9 Sep |
Monday |
196-200 |
- Republican institutions - mixed government - state constitutions - debate about "mob rule" - Women's Rights - Abigail Adammms - Judith Sargent Murray - fate of the Loyalists - Native Americans - Slaves |
10 Sep |
Tuesday |
200-204 |
- Articles of Confederation - western land expansion - land ordinances - Shay's Rebellion |
11 Sep |
Wednesday |
204-211 |
- Constitutional Convention - Virginia and New Jersey Plans - debate about slavery - Great Compromise - Three-Fifths Compromise - The Federalists - Antifederalists - /Federalist Papers/ - Washington's cabinet - The Bill of Rights |
12 Sep | Thursday | No Notes | Study for Exam Unit 2 |
*13 Sep* | *Friday* | *Exam* | *Exam Unit 2* |
1.1.3 Unit 3: Chapters 7-9
Date | Day | Pages | Content |
13 Sep |
Friday |
214-219 |
- Executive departments - Judiciary Act of 1789 - Bill of Rights - Hamilton's economic program - Bank of U.S. - Jefferson's agricultural vision |
16 Sep |
Monday |
219-226 |
- Proclamation of Neutrality - French Revolution's effect on U.S. - Whiskey Rebellion - Jay's Treaty - Haitian Revolution - Election of 1796 - Political Parties - XYZ Affair - Alien and Sedition Acts - Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions - Revolution of 1800 |
17 Sep |
Tuesday |
226-231 |
- Battle of Fallen Timbers - Treaty of Greenville - Native American assimilation - Eli Whitney - The Cotton Gin |
18 Sep |
Wednesday |
231-234 |
- Virginia Dynasty - John Marshall - /Marbury v. Madison/ - Judiciary Act of 1801 - Jefferson's Presidency - Pinckey Treaty - Louisiana Purchase - Lewis & Clark - Effect on New England Federalists - Burr duel and conspiracy |
19 Sep |
Thursday |
234-241 |
- Impressment - Chesapeake-Leopard Affair - Embargo of 1807 - Non-Intercourse Act - Macon's Bill No. 2 - War Hawks - Causes of War of 1812 - Federalist Opposition to the War of 1812 - Hartford Convention - The Treaty of Ghent - Jackson's Victory at New Orleans |
20 Sep |
Friday |
241-245 |
- Marshall's philosophy - /Marbury v. Madison/ - /McCulloch v. Maryland/ - /Gibbons v. Ogden/ - /Fletcher v. Peck/ - /Dartmouth College v. Woodward/ - Era of Good Feelings - John Quincy Adams - Rush-Bagot Treaty - Adams-Onis Treaty - Monroe Doctrine |
23 Sep |
Monday |
250-258 |
- Bank of the United States - Panic of 1819 - manufacturing - transportation - turnpikes - Cr\egrave{}vecoeur - Social Mobility in America - voting rights for men |
24 Sep |
Tuesday |
258-264 |
- Republican Motherhood - parenting - early education - Noah Webster - Washington Irving |
25 Sep |
Wednesday |
264-276 |
- Manumission - gradual emancipation - justification for slavery - Prosser's Rebellion - American Colonization Society - Tallmadge Amendment - slavery - national politics - Missouri Compromise - 2nd Great Awakening |
26 Sep |
Thursday |
286-292 |
- Industrial Revolution - The Factory System - Samuel Colt - Cyrus McCormick - British v. American manufacturing - Waltham-Lowell System - Eli Whitney - development of labor unions - /Commonwealth v. Hunt/ |
27 Sep |
Friday |
292-301 |
- Erie Canal - Robert Fulton - The Steamboat - /Gibbons v. Ogden/ - John Deere - railroad construction |
30 Sep |
Monday |
301-306 |
- Business Elite - Middle Class - James Fennimore Cooper - Urban Poor - Benevolent Empire |
1 Oct |
Tuesday |
306-311 |
- 2nd Great Awakening - Charles Finney - Temperance - Nativism - Catholicism |
2 Oct | Wednesday | No Notes | Study for Exam Unit 3 |
*3 Oct* | *Thursday* | *Exam* | *Exam Unit 3* |
1.1.4 Unit 4: Chapters 10-11
Date | Day | Pages | Content |
3 Oct |
Thursday |
314-321 |
- Changes in Electoral Politics - Martin Van Buren - Election of 1824 - Spoils System - John Quincy Adams - American System - Tariff of Abominations - Election of 1828 |
4 Oct |
Friday |
322-326 |
- Kitchen Cabinet - Spoils System - Maysville Road Veto - Nullification Crisis - /South Carolina Exposition and Protest/ - Force Bill - Bank War |
7 Oct |
Monday |
326-332 |
- Five civilized tribes - Indian Removal Act of 1830 - /Cherokee Nation v. Georgia/ - /Worcester v. Georgia/ - Trail of Tears - /Charles River Bridge Case/ - Roger B. Taney & court cases |
8 Oct |
Tuesday |
332-340 |
- Whig Party members - Whig Ideology - Whigs & Anti-Masons - Election of 1836 - Panic of 1837 - Specie Circular of 1836 - Battle of Tippecanoe - Election of 1840 - Log Cabin Hard Cider Campaign |
9 Oct |
Wednesday |
344-354 |
- Transcendentalism - Emerson - Thoreau - Fuller - Whitman - Melville - Hawthorne - Utopias - Brook Farm - Shakers - Fourier - Oneida - Joe Smith - BYU |
10 Oct |
Thursday |
354-366 |
- Minstrelsy - David Walker - Nat Turner's Rebellion - William Lloyd Garrison - The /Liberator/ - Weld - American Anti-Slavery Society - The Underground Railroad - Divisions Within the Abolitionist Movement - Grimke Sisters - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society - The Liberty Party |
11 Oct |
Friday |
366-373 |
- Republican Mother - Dorothea Dix - Horace Mann - Grimke Sisters - Seneca Falls - Elizabeth Stanton - Lucretia Mott - Declaration of Sentiments |
14 Oct | Monday | No Notes | Study for Exam Unit 4 |
*15 Oct* | *Tuesday* | *Exam* | Exam Unit 4 |
1.1.5 Unit 5: Chapters 12-14
Date | Day | Pages | Content |
15 Oct |
Tuesday |
376-388 |
- Domestic Slave Trade - Southern Whites - Planter Elite - Slave Society - Gang Labor |
16 Oct |
Wednesday |
388-403 |
- Southern Class Structure - Settlement of Texas - African-Americans and Religion - Slave Culture - Task System - Slave Survival - Free African-Americans |
17 Oct |
Thursday |
410-424 |
- Manifest Destiny - Expansion into Oregon and California - Plains Indians - Polk's Election - Mexican-American War - Slidell Mission - Polk & Expansion - Whig Split - Wilmot Proviso - Election of 1848 |
18 Oct |
Friday |
425-431 |
- California Gold Rush - Compromise of 1850 - Fire-Eaters - Fugitive Slawe Act - /Uncle Tom's Cabin/ - Personal Liberty Laws - /Ableman v. Booth/ |
21 Oct |
Monday |
431-440 |
- Decline of the Whig Party - Gadsden Purchase - Ostend Manifesto - Kansas-Nebraska Act - Republican Party - Know-Nothing Party - Bleeding Kansas - /Dred Scott v. Sandford/ - Lecompton Constitution - Lincoln-Douglas Debates - John Brown's Raid - Election of 1860 |
22 Oct |
Tuesday |
444-462 |
- Crittenden Compromise - Military Draft in the North and South - Economic Mobilization for War in the North and South |
23 Oct |
Wednesday |
462-475 |
- Contrabands - Emancipation Proclamation |
24 Oct | Thursday | No Notes | Study for Exam Unit 5 |
*25 Oct* | *Friday* | *Exam* | *Exam Unit 5* |
1.1.6 Unit 6: Chapters 15-16
Date | Day | Pages | Content |
25 Oct |
Friday |
478-482 |
- 10% Plan - Wade-Davis Bill - Lincoln's Assassination - Black Codes - Radical Republicans - Johnson's Reconstruction Plan - Freedman's Bureau - Civil Rights Act of 1866 - 14th Amendment |
28 Oct |
Monday |
482-487 |
- Reconstruction Act of 1867 - Election of 1868 - Tenure of Office Act - Impeachment - 15th Amendment - Poll Taxes - Literacy Tests - American Woman's Suffrage Association - National Woman's Suffrage Association |
29 Oct |
Tuesday |
487-496 |
- Sharecropping - Carpetbaggers & Scalawags - Civil Rights Act of 1875 |
30 Oct |
Wednesday |
497-505 |
- KKK - Depression of 1873 - Grant's Scandals - Election of 1876 - Hayes and Tilden - Compromise of 1877 - Failure of Reconstruction |
31 Oct |
Thursday |
508-516 |
- The Transcontinental Railroad - Perry and Japan - Treaty of Kanagawa - Opening Trade with Japan - Burlingame Treaty - Tariffs - Railroad Construction - /Munn v. Illinois/ - Gold Standard - Homestead Act of 1862 |
1 Nov |
Friday |
516-524 |
- Mining - Comstock Lode - Land Grant System - Cattle Kingdom - Exodusters - Life on the Plains - Yosemite and Yellowstone National Parks |
4 Nov |
Monday |
525-536 |
- Bureau of Indian Affairs - Battle of Little Big Horn - Reservation System - Black Hills of South Dakota - Dawes Severalty Act - Ghost Dance - Wounded Knee - Frederick Jackson Turner |
5 Nov | Tuesday | No Notes | Study for Exam Unit 6 |
*6 Nov* | *Wednesday* | *Exam* | *Exam Unit 6* |
1.1.7 Unit 7: Chapters 17-18
Date | Day | Pages | Content |
6 Nov |
Wednesday |
544-549 |
- Andrew Carnegie - Homestead Strike - Management Revolution - Gustavus Swift - Vertical Integration - Predatory Pricing - John Rockefeller - Horizontal Integration - Trust - Gospel of Wealth - Robber Barons - F.W. Woolworth - Montgomery Ward - Sears - Print Advertising |
7 Nov |
Thursday |
549-556 |
- Blue and White Collar Workers - Corporations - Scientific Management - Dangers of Industrialization - Child Labor - Deskilling - Mass Production |
8 Nov |
Friday |
556-564 |
- Immigration - Asian Immigration - Chinese Exclusion Act |
11 Nov |
Monday |
564-571 |
- Great Railroad Strike of 1877 - /Progress and Poverty/ - National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry - Greenback-Labor Party - Granger Laws - Knights of Labor - Haymarket Riot - Farmers Alliance - The Interstate Commerce Act - /Wabash v. Illinois/ - Closed Shop - AFL - Samuel Gompers |
12 Nov |
Tuesday |
574-582 |
- Consumer Culture - Thomas Edison - P.T. Barnum - Alexander Graham Bell - /Plessy v. Ferguson/ - Jim Crow Laws - /Brown v. Board/ - YMCA - Baseball - Negro Leagues - American Football |
13 Nov |
Wednesday |
583-588 |
- Sierra Club - National Park Service - National Audubon Society - Life in the Middle Class - Gender Roles - Attitudes on Raising Children - Comstock Act - Education - Booker T. Washington - Tuskegee Institute - Atlanta Compromise |
14 Nov |
Thursday |
589-598 |
- Maternalism - WCTU - Daughters of the American Revolution - National Association of Colored Women - Ida Wells - NAWSA - Feminism - Social Darwinism - Eugenics - Realism - Naturalism - Modernism |
15 Nov |
Friday |
598-603 |
- Different Religious Practice - American Protective Association - Social Gospel - The Salvation Army - Fundamentalism - Dwight Moody - Billy Sunday |
18 Nov | Monday | No Notes | Study for Exam Unit 7 |
*19 Nov* | *Tuesday* | *Exam* | *Exam Unit 7* |
1.1.8 Unit 8: Chapters 19-20
Date | Day | Pages | Content |
19 Nov |
Tuesday |
606-619 |
- Growth of the City - Mass Transit - Industry - Bridges - Skyscrapers - Terminals - Ethnic Neighborhoods - Tenements - Vaudeville Theater - Amusement Parks - Dumbbell Tenement - Ragtime - Scott Joplin - W.C. Handy - Blues - New Dating Patterns - Joseph Pulitzer - William Randolph Hearst - Yellow Journalism - Muckrakers - Ida Tarbell - David Phillips - /McClure's/ - Characteristics of the Rich |
20 Nov |
Wednesday |
619-624 |
- Lincoln Steffens - /The Shame of the Cities/ - Political Machines - Tammany Hall - Boss Tweed - National Municipal League |
21 Nov |
Thursday |
624-632 |
- Public Health - "City Beautiful" Movement - Progressivism - Jacob Riis - /How the Other Half Lives/ - Red Light Districts - Social Settlement - Jane Addams and Hull House - Margaret Sanger - Upton Sinclair - /The Jungle/ - Meat Inspection Act - Pure Food and Drug Act - Triangle Shirtwaist Fire |
22 Nov |
Friday |
636-646 |
- "Waving the Bloody Shirt" - Gilded Age - Pendleton Act - Mugwumps - Sherman Antitrust Act (1890) - Populist - Omaha Platform - Haymarket Square Riot - Homestead Strike - Pullman Strike - Coxey's Army - Depression of 1893 - Free Silver - Grandfather Clause - /Williams v. Mississippi/ - Poll Taxes and Literacy Tests - Solid South |
2 Dec |
Monday |
646-652 |
- Gold Standard - William Jennings Bryan - Cross of Gold - 17th Amendment - /In re Jacobs/ - /Lochner v. New York/ - Coal Strike of 1902 - Elkins Act - Bureau of Corporations - Sherman Antitrust Act - Northern Securities Company - Hepburn Act (1906) - /Standard Oil Decision/ - Roosevelt and Conservation - John Muir - Newlands Reclamation Act - Election of 1908 |
3 Dec |
Tuesday |
652-664 |
- Robert La Follette - Wisconsin Idea - Recall - Referendum - National Child Labor Committee - /Mueller v. Oregon/ - Workers Compensation - /Plessy v. Ferguson/ - W.E.B. Du Bois - Talented Tenth - NAACP - /The Crisis/ - Industrial Workers of the World - Taft and New Nationalism - "Bull Moose" - Eugene V. Debs - Socialist Party of America - New Freedom - 16th Amendment (1913) - The Federal Reserve Act (1913) - Clayton Antitrust Act (1914) - Adamson Act - Seamen's Act - /Birth of a Nation/ |
1.1.9 Semester 1 Review
Date | Day | Pages | Content |
4 Dec | Wednesday | Review | Review Unit 1 |
5 Dec | Thursday | Review | Review Unit 2 |
6 Dec | Friday | Review | Review Unit 3 |
9 Dec | Monday | Review | Review Unit 4 |
10 Dec | Tuesday | Review | Review Unit 5 |
11 Dec | Wednesday | Review | Review Unit 6 |
12 Dec | Thursday | Review | Review Unit 7 |
13 Dec | Friday | Review | Review Unit 8 |
16 Dec | Monday | Final | Essay and Short Answer Final |
17 Dec | Tuesday | Final | Multiple Choice Final |
*19 Dec* | *Thursday* | *Grade* | *Grade Evaluations* |
1.1.10 Unit 9: Chapters 21-22
Date | Day | Pages | Content |
13 Jan |
Monday |
672-676 |
- American Exceptionalism - Josiah Strong - /Our Country/ - Anglo-Saxonism - Social Darwinism - Alfred T. Mahan - /The Influence of Sea Power upon History/ - Venezuela Crisis - Monroe Doctrine - War of 1898 (Spanish-American War) - Cuban Rebellion - Yellow Journalism - De L\ocirc{}me Letter - /USS Maine/ - Teller Amendment - Rough Riders - Dewey and the Philippines - Hawaii - Puerto Rico - Guam |
14 Jan |
Tuesday |
677-684 |
- Controlling the Philippines - Emilio Aguinaldo - "Splendid Little War" - Anti-Imperialism League - Insular Cases - Platt Amendment - Jones Act - Open-Door Policy - Boxer Rebellion - Root-Takahira Agreement - Roosevelt's Big Stick Policy - Hay-Pounceforte Treaty - Panama Canal - Roosevelt Corollary - Wilson and Mexico |
15 Jan |
Wednesday |
684-688 |
- WWI and New Technology - American Struggle for Neutrality - Isolationism - Interventionists - Sussex Pledge - The /Lusitania/ - Zimmerman Telegram - Selective Service Act of 1917 (conscription) |
16 Jan |
Thursday |
688-694 |
- Segregation in the Military - Taxation - Food Aministration - WIB (War Industries Board) - NWLB - CPI - American Protective League - Committe on Public Information - George Creel - Espionage Act of 1917 - Sedition Act of 1918 - /Schenck v. U.S./ |
17 Jan |
Friday |
694-700 |
- Great Migration - Women and the War - NWP - Fight for Women's Suffrage - 19th Amendment - Treaty of Versailles - 14 Points - League of Nations - The Irreconcilables - Henry Lodge |
20 Jan |
Monday |
704-711 |
- Chicago Race Riots - First Red Scare - A. Mitchell Palmer - Palmer Raids - Sacco & Vanzetti Case - Welfare Capitalism - Return to Normalcy - Sheppard-Towner Bill - Women and Politics - Harding's Scandals - Teapot Dome - McNary-Haugen Bills |
21 Jan |
Tuesday |
711-718 |
- Dollar Diplomacy - Prohibition - ACLU - Scopes Trial - Nativism - Gentleman's Agreement - National Origins Act of 1924 - Ku Klux Klan - Election of 1928 - Al Smith |
22 Jan |
Wednesday |
718-721 |
- Harlem Renaissance - /New Negro/ - Zora Neale Hurston - Jazz - The /Jazz Singer/ - Louis Armstrong - Duke Ellington - Jazz Age - UNIA - Marcus Garvey - Lost Generation - Hemmingway - O'Neil - /Babbitt/ - /The Great Gatsby/ |
23 Jan |
Thursday |
721-726 |
- Boom to Bust - Overseas Economic Expansion - Consumer Culture - Consumer Credit - Model T - Automobile - Hollywood - Movie Stars - Flappers |
24 Jan |
Friday |
726-730 |
- Investing on Stock Market - Margin Buying - Speculation - Income Distribution - Depression's Effect on Americans - Causes of the Great Depression |
27 Jan | Monday | No Notes | Study for Exam Unit 9 |
*28 Jan* | *Tuesday* | *Exam* | *Exam Unit 9* |
1.1.11 Unit 10: Chapters 23-24
Date | Day | Pages | Content |
28 Jan |
Tuesday |
734-739 |
- Hoover's Response - Hawley-Smoot Tariff - Hoovervilles - RFC - Bonus Army - Election of 1932 |
29 Jan |
Wednesday |
740-744 |
- New Deal - Fireside Chats - Brain Trust - Hundred Days - Emergency Banking Act - Glass-Steagall Act - FDIC - AAA - NIRA - NRA - PWA - CWA - CCC - HOLC - FHA |
30 Jan |
Thursday |
744-747 |
- SEC - /Schechter v. U.S./ - Huey Long - Francis Townsend - Father Coughlin |
31 Jan |
Friday |
747-759 |
- 2nd New Deal - Wagner Act - NLRB - Social Security - WPA - Court Packing - Roosevelt Recession - Keynesian Economics - CIO - Lewis - Growth of Labor Unions - Frances Perkins - Eleanor Roosevelt - New Deal's Effect on Minorities - Scottsboro Case - STFU - Mexican and Asian Immigrants - Tydings-McDuffie Act |
3 Feb |
Monday |
759-763 |
- Dust Bowl - TVA - REA - FWP - /The Grapes of Wrath/ - Dorothea Lange - /Their Eyes Were Watching God/ - Zora Hurston - Legacy of the New Deal - Impact of the New Deal on American Society |
4 Feb |
Tuesday |
766-773 |
- Growth of Fascism - Italy - Japan - Germany - Nye Committee - Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, 1937 - Appeasement - Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact - Destroyers for Bases - Lend Lease Act - Four Freedoms Speech - /Atlantic Charter/ - American Neutrality - Pearl Harbor |
5 Feb |
Wednesday |
733-777 |
- War Powers Act - Imperial Presidency - Revenue Act of 1942 - War Bonds - WPB - Growth of the Military - African-Americans in the Military - Navajo Code Talkers - Women in the Military |
6 Feb |
Thursday |
777-788 |
- Rosie the Riveter - NWLB - FEPC - A. Philip Randolph - Executive Order 8802 - CORE - Bracero Program - LULAC - GI Bill of Rights - "Victory Gardens" - OWI - Popular Culture during the War - Rationing - Migration during the War - Zoot Suit Riots - Gay and Lesbian Communities - Japanese Internment - Executive Order 9066 - /Korematsu v. U.S./ |
7 Feb |
Friday |
788-797 |
- Casablanca Conference - Teheran Conference - D-Day - Battle of the Bulge - V-E Day - Holocaust - Battle of Coral Sea - Battle of Midway - Battle of Guadalcanal - Battle of Iwo Jima and Okinawa - Yalta Conference - Manhattan Project - Truman's Decision to Drop the Bomb - Hiroshima - Nagasaki - Japan's Surrender - Effects of the War |
10 Feb | Monday | No Notes | Study for DBQ Exam Unit 10 and Exam Unit 10 |
*11 Feb* | *Tuesday* | *Exam* | *DBQ Exam Unit 10* |
*12 Feb* | *Wednesday* | *Exam* | *Exam Unit 10* |
1.1.12 Unit 11: Chapters 25-26
Date | Day | Pages | Content |
12 Feb |
Wednesday |
804-812 |
- Cold War - Yalta - Potsdam Conference - Iron Curtain - Containment - George Kennan - United Nations - Truman Doctrine - National Security Act - Marshall Plan |
13 Feb |
Thursday |
812-818 |
- NATO - Berlin Airlift - Warsaw Pact - Communist China - NSC 68 - Korean War |
14 Feb |
Friday |
818-825 |
- Taft-Hartley Act - Truman's Fair Deal - HUAC - Second Red Scare - Blacklisting - Hollywood Ten - Loyalty Program - Alger Hiss - The Rosenbergs - McCarthy and McCarthyism |
17 Feb |
Monday |
825-829 |
- Modern Republicanism - Ike - "Peaceful Coexistance" - New Look - Massive Retaliation - SEATO - CIA - Iran - Guatemala - Middle-East - Suez Canal - Domino Theory - Eisenhower Doctrine - Involvement in Vietnam |
18 Feb |
Tuesday |
829-831 |
- John F. Kennedy - New Frontier - Bay of Pigs - Cuban Missile Crisis |
19 Feb |
Wednesday |
831-834 |
- Peace Corps - Brinkmanship - Flexible Response - Green Berets - Involvement in Vietnam |
20 Feb |
Thursday |
838-845 |
- Bretton Woods System - The Domestic Boom - Military-Industrial Complex - Sputnik - National Defense Education Act - IMF - Affluent Society - /The Other America/ - Veteran's Administration - Labor and Collective Bargaining |
21 Feb |
Friday |
845-855 |
- Consumer Culture - Television and Programming - James Dean - /Rebel Without a Cause/ - "Teenagers" and Teen Culture - Rock 'n' Roll - Elvis Presley - Mototown - The Beats and Jack Kerouac - /On the Road/ - Religion and Middle Class - Ecumenism - Baby Boom - Spock |
24 Feb |
Monday |
855-865 |
- /Griswold v. Connecticut/ - /Shelley v. Kramer/ - Levittowns - National Interstate and Defense Highway Act - Fast Food and Shopping Malls - Sunbelt - Kerner Commission - Urban Crisis - Urban Immigrants |
25 Feb | Tuesday | No Notes | Study for DBQ Exam Unit 11 and Exam Unit 11 |
*26 Feb* | *Wednesday* | *Exam* | *DBQ Exam Unit 11* |
*27 Feb* | *Thursday* | *Exam* | *Exam Unit 11* |
1.1.13 Unit 12: Chapters 27-28
Date | Day | Pages | Content |
27 Feb |
Thursday |
868-879 |
- Origins of the Civil Rights Movement - Double-V Campaign - CORE - Jackie Robinson - Truman and Civil Rights - States' Rights Democratic Party (Dixiecrats) - American GI Forum - Thurgood Marshall - /Brown v. Board/ - /Brown II/ - Southern Manifesto - Little Rock Arkansas and Central High |
28 Feb |
Friday |
879-883 |
- Montgomery Bus Boycott - Rosa Parks - Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) - Sit-ins - Ella Baker - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) - Freedom Riders |
2 Mar |
Monday |
883-892 |
- Birmingham - March on Washington - "I Have a Dream" - Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Freedom Summer - Selma March - Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
3 Mar |
Tuesday |
892-899 |
- Malcom X - Black Power - Black Panthers - Young Lords - African-Americans and the Political System - National Black Political Agenda - "Long Hot Summer" - Watts and Detroit Riots - Kerner Commission - Assassination of Dr. King - United Farm Workers (UFW) - Chicano Movement - American Indian Movement (AIM) |
4 Mar |
Wednesday |
902-909 |
- LBJ and Great Society - Economic Opportunity Act - Head Start - Upward Bound - Job Corps - VISTA - Elementary and Secondary Education Act - Higher Education Act - Medicaid - Medicare - Department of Housing and Urban Development - Immigration Act of 1965 - Equal Pay Act - Betty Friedan and /The Feminine Mystique/ - Presidential Commission on the Status of Women - NOW |
5 Mar |
Thursday |
910-919 |
- Tonkin Gulf Resolution - Operation Rolling Thunder - Opinions about Vietnam - Credibility Gap - Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) - Port Huron Statement - New Left - Free Speech Movement - Counterculture |
6 Mar |
Friday |
919-923 |
- Tet Offensive - Assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy - 1968 Democratic National Convention - Yippies - 1968 Presidential Election |
9 Mar |
Monday |
923-926 |
- Chicano Moratorium Committee - National Black Antiwar Antidraft League - Women's LIberation Movement - Title IX - National Women's Political Caucus - Equal Credit Opportunity Act - Stonewall Inn - National Gay Task Force |
10 Mar |
Tuesday |
926-933 |
- Silent Majority - Vietnamization - Kent State University - Jackson State University - My Lai Massacre - D\eacute{}tente - SALT I - Nixon's Visit to China - "Peace is at Hand" - Christmas Bombings - Paris Peace Accords - Khmer Rouge - Warren Court - /Miranda v. Arizona/ - Busing - The 1972 Election |
11 Mar | Wednesday | No Notes | Study for Exam Unit 12 |
*12 Mar* | *Thursday* | *Exam* | *Exam Unit 12* |
1.1.14 Unit 13: Chapters 29-31
Date | Day | Pages | Content |
12 Mar |
Thursday |
936-947 |
- Energy Crisis - OPEC - Yom Kippur War - Environmentalism - /Silent Spring/ - Earth Day - Environmental Protection Agency - Clean Air Act - Occupational Health and Safety Act - Water Pollution Control Act - Endangered Species Act - Three Mile Island - Global Economic Competition - Stagflation - Nixon's Wage and Price Controls - Removal of the Gold Standard - Whip Inflation Now - Deindustrialization - Rust Belt - Effect of Deindustrialization in Labor - Tax Revolt - Proposition 13 |
13 Mar |
Friday |
947-950 |
- Watergate - DNC - CREEP - Woodward and Bernstein - Resignation of Nixon - War Powers Act - Freedom of Information Act - Ethics in Government Act - Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act - Jimmy Carter - Deregulation - MEOW |
16 Mar |
Monday |
950-961 |
- Affirmative Action - /Bakke v. University of California/ - /Our Bodies, Ourselves/ - ERA - Phyllis Schlafly - STOP ERA - /Griswold v. Connecticut/ - /Roe v. Wade/ - Harvey Milk - Burger Court - Women and the Workforce - "Blue Collar Blues" - Sexual Revolution - Birth Control Pill |
17 Mar |
Tuesday |
961-964 |
- Evangelicalism - Billy Graham - Televangelists - Beliefs of Evangelical Christians |
18 Mar |
Wednesday |
972-981 |
- Barry Goldwater - Ronald Reagan - /Conscience of a Conservative/ - New Right - Religious Right - Jerry Falwell - Focus on the Family - Moral Majority - Office of Human Rights at the State Department - Camp David Accords - Panama Canal - SALT II - Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan - IRan Hostage Crisis - Election of 1980 |
19 Mar |
Thursday |
981-989 |
- Reagan Coalition - Moral Majority - Republican Party Platform - Reaganomics - Economic Recovery Tax of 1981 - National Debt - Deregulation - Reagan and the Supreme Court - AIDS - Election of 1984 - The Culture of Success and Donald Trump - The Computer Revolution |
20 Mar |
Friday |
989-999 |
- Strategic Defense Initiative - START - Fighting Communism Around the World - Iran-Contra Affair - Sandinistas - Contras - Oliver North - Mikhail Gorbachev - Glasnost - Perestroika - Solidarity - Destruction of the Berlin Wall - Election of 1988 - America and the Middle East - Persian Gulf War |
23 Mar |
Monday |
1002-1011 |
- Globalization - European Union - Chinese Economy - G8 - WTO - NAFTA - Multinationals - Outsourcing - Effects of Deregulation |
24 Mar |
Tuesday |
1011-1020 |
- Effects of Technology - "Culture War" - Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 - Immigration Reform and Control Act - Proposition 187 - Multiculturalism - Affirmative Action - Proposition 209 - Proposition 227 - /Roe v. Wade/ - Operation Rescue - Gay Rights - Defense of Marriage Act - Court Cases and the Culture War |
25 Mar |
Wednesday |
1020-1025 |
- Election of 1992 - Health Care - Clinton's Budget - "Contract with America" - AFDC - Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act - Lewinsky affair - NATO - Breakup of Yugoslavia - Issues in the Middle East |
26 Mar |
Thursday |
1025-1033 |
- Election of 2000 - Bush and Taxes - 9/11 - USA Patriot Act - Iraq War - Election of 2004 - Hurricane Katrina - Emergency Economic Stabilization Act - Obama's Presidency - American Recovery and Reinvestment Act - Tea Party - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" - Obama's Middle East Policy - Climate Change |
AP Exam: Friday, 8 May
1.2 Vocabulary
1.2.1 Unit 1: Chapters 2-3
- Mercantilism
- Economic theory
- that was based upon all colonies existing to further strengthen the mother country
- This theory was prevalent in the New World
- and caused discontent among American businessmen and traders
- Headright System
- Indentured Servant
- Roger Williams
- Anne Hutchinson
- Thomas Hooker
- Quakers
- Puritans
- Pilgrims
- King Philip's War
1.2.2 Unit 2: Chapters 4-6
- Great Awakening
- The Enlightenment
- Navigation Acts
- Townshend Acts
- Proclamation of 1763
- Sugar Act
- Stamp Act
- Intolerable Acts
- Albany Plan of the Union
- Quartering Act
- Common Sense
- Articles of Confederation
- Shay's Rebellion
- Federalists
- Anti-Federalists
- Federalist Papers
- 3/5 Compromise
- Great Compromise
- Olive Branch Petition
- Virginia Plan
- New Jersey Plan
1.2.3 Unit 3: Chapters 7-9
1.2.4 Unit 4: Chapters 10-11
1.2.5 Unit 5: Chapters 12-14
1.2.6 Unit 6: Chapters 15-16
1.2.7 Unit 7: Chapters 17-18
1.2.8 Unit 8: Chapters 19-20
1.2.9 Unit 9: Chapters 21-22
- Roosevelt Corollary
- Open Door Policy
- Maine
- Alfred Mahan
- Lusitania
- Sussex Pledge
- Zimmerman telegram
- Schenck v. U.S.
- Fourteen Points
- Treaty of Versailles
- League of Nations
- Sacco & Vanzetti
- Red Scare
- Harlem Ranaissance
- Marcus Garvey
- "Lost Generation"
- Scopes Trial
- Prohibition
- Langston Hughes
- Buying on Margin
1.2.10 Unit 10: Chapters 23-24
1.2.11 Unit 11: Chapters 25-26
1.2.12 Unit 12: Chapters 27-28
- 1954 Brown v. Board
- Little Rock, Arkansas
- Rosa Parks
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
- Civil Rights Act of 1957
- Civil Rights Act of 1960
- Greesboro Sit-In
- SNCC
- Freedom Riders
- Civil Rights Law of 1964
- Black Panthers
- Malcom X
- Cesar Chavez
- AIM
- Domino Theory
- LBJ
- Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
- Betty Friedan
- Great Society
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- Tet Offensive
- Student Democratic Society
- Détente
- Vietnamization
1.3 Study Guides
1.3.1 Unit 1
1.3.2 Unit 2
1.3.3 Unit 3
1.3.4 Unit 4
1.3.5 Unit 5
1.3.6 Unit 6
1.3.7 Unit 7
1.3.8 Unit 8
1.3.9 Unit 9
1.3.10 Unit 10
1.3.11 Unit 11
1.3.12 Unit 12
1.3.13 Unit 13
2 American Experiments
In the 1660s, legislators in Virginia and Maryland hammered out the definition of chattel slavery.
chattel slavery: a system of bondage in which a slave has the legal status of property and so can be bought and sold like property
In 1662, a law in Virgina was created that based whether a child should be free or a slave on the status of its mother. This was contrary to England. Slavery had been obsolete in England for a while and even then status of a child was based on its father.
By 1770 there were 3 different types of colonies in the Americas:
- tribute colonies
- Relied on wealth and labor of indigenous people
- plantation colonies
- Sugar and tropical crop production via bound labor
- neo-Europes
- Attempt recreation the life/system of Europe
2.1 Spain's Tribute Colonies
Europe became interested in the Americas due to the massive amount of wealth held by the Aztecs and Incas. They were able to overthrow the previous rulers and then siphon the wealth back to Europe. With this, more parts of Europe became interested in the Americas, and that interest formed the Columbian Exchange.
2.1.1 A New American World
After the Spanish conquistadors toppled the previous rulers, Spain gave them tribute in return for the Aztec and Inca wealth. The vast amount of silver in the two civilizations was transported to China to be used as currency. In exchange, China gave Spain many goods, including silk, spices, and cermaics. The gold in Spain was mainly used for gilding churches. However, the overflow of wealth eventually caused heavy inflation.
Many Spaniards came to the Americas during this time. They brought Spanish tradition with them, which the native people resisted. Even though priests were trying to convert indigenous peoples to Catholicism, indigenous ideas and expectations found their way into a new "Native American Christianity".
2.1.2 The Columbian Exchange
Due to the influx of the Spanish people, new diseases from Europe and Africa entered The Americas. This caused populations in densely populated areas to drop by 90% or more. On islands and in the tropical lowlands, the native population was often wiped out altogether. The only significant disease that travelled in the opposite direction was Syphilis. All of this was part of a larger biological transformation called the Columbian Exchange.
Columbian Exchange: the massive global exchange of living things, including people, animals, plants, and diseases, between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres that began after the voyages of Columbus
Usually, the livestock went to the west and the crops went to the east. This introduced populations in Eurasia, for example, the Chinese, to crops like maize and potatoes.
2.1.3 The Protestant Challenge to Spain
Spain struggled to control its American colonies. Enemies or pirates were always disrupting the Caribbean Basin. The Caribbean Basin was very important to Spain's shipping routes. After the Protestant Reformation and the schism that followed, Spain's powerful enemies even more resented the strict Catholicism of Spain.
King Philip II, at that time the ruler of Spain, was consistently attempting to root out challenges to the Catholic Church. However, a Calvinist revolt in 1566 separated seven northern provinces, then wealthy from textile manufacturing, from Spain, and united them into what is now Holland.
In 1534, English king Henry VIII was seeking an annulment to his marriage with the Spanish princess Catherine of Aragon. When the Catholic Church refused, he tore away from it and appointed himself as the head of the new Church of England. However, Henry's daughter, Elizabeth, due to the large increase in Protestantism, later put into effect a mix of the Angelican Church and Protestantism.
Elizabeth was opposed to the Spanish control of American wealth as well. She supported "sea dogs" like Francis Drake, who was able to disrupt a Spanish shipping to Manilla in 1577 and returned with goods valued 47× the investment.
Elizabeth also supported ruthless military rule over Catholic Ireland. England brutally massacred thousands of Irish. Philip tried to counter these attacks by sending 130 ships with 30,000 men, but he was swiftly defeated by a strong storm and a much more powerful English fleet.
Philip wanted to spend all of his wealth on religious wars, leaving no resources available for Spain's own fledgling industries. At the turn of the 17th century, Spain faced a serious economic decline.
Contrasting Spain, England grew significantly in population and success. English merchants were creating an outwork textile industry.
outwork: a system of manufacturing, also known as putting out, where work was outsourced to more poverished people
The government helped these textile entrepreneurs by setting low minimum wage and giving them monopolies in foreign markets. State-assisted manufacturing became known as mercantilism.
mercantilism: a system of political economy based on government regulation
By encouraging production, exports outweighed imports, and England's economy grew. By 1600, England was wealthy and powerful enough to challenge Spain's control over the Western Hemisphere.
2.2 Plantation Colonies
While Spain was struggling with its tribute settlements, Portugal, England, France, and the Netherlands created successful plantation settlements in Brazil, Jamestown, Maryland, and the Caribbean islands.
2.2.1 Brazil's Sugar Plantations
By 1590, there were more than 1000 sugar mills established in Pernambuco and Bahia (eastern current-day Brazil). The style of labor being performed at these plantations was similar to the style of Industrial Revolution-era factories.
Originally, it was hoped that the indigenous population would provide enough work force to fully operate the plantations, but after a wave of smallpox in 1559 the planters had to turn to African slaves. Since the slave trade was continuously growing, the switch completed by 1620.
2.2.2 England's Tobacco Colonies
England was slow to embrace American colonies, especially after multiple failed privately-organized attempts in the 1580s.
- The Jamestown Settlement
Merchants then took charge of English Expansion. In 1606, King James I granted the Virginia Company of London a large stretch of land on the east coast of the present-day United States. In 1607 the Virgina Company set off a group with no intention of self-sufficiency, as they expected to be able to extract tribute from the indigenous peoples.
Unfortunately, the team settled down in a rather poor spot, not fit for planting crops, and with no access to fresh water. Many of the men died of famine.
When word of the survivors' plan to overthrow the native population reached the chief, Powhatan, he tried to bargain and instead expected equal tribute from the incoming settlers. Unfortunately this did not sit well with the settlers.
This war was followed by the discovery of tobacco, which would become a cash crop much like sugar in Brazil.
To try and foster migration, the Virginia Company created a rudimentary government and a House of Burgesses that would encompass the representatives. Virginia became a "Royal Colony"; the king took ownership, the religion officially became Anglicism.
- The Indian War of 1622
The native population led a suprise attack on the settlers, killing a third of their population, but then the settlers fought back hard and completely seized most food sources. The settlers won.
- Lord Baltimore Settles Catholics in Maryland
Maryland was originally a colony made for Catholicism. It was proprietary; wasn't owned by the king but instead privately. In this case it was created and operated Lord Baltimore.
Because of the wide range of faiths taking hold Maryland, a neighboring colony, Baltimore had to enact the Toleration Act which allowed and protected all forms of Christianity in Maryland.
2.2.3 The Caribbean Islands
The English, French, and Dutch were looking for spots to take in the Caribbean to loosen the Spanish hold on the area, as well as to generate a cash crop. The English and French eventually were working together to drive the native Caribs from St. Christopher.
In 1655, an English fleet captured Jamaica, one of the larger islands and at the time under Spanish control. It was opened to English settlement.
After much testing, in the 1640s it was decided that sugar was the best to farm in the region.
2.2.4 Plantation Life
While plantations were small at first, it was much more efficient to employ many slaves over a large area of land. By performing better as a planter you also earned access to more land. The demand for tobacco was high, so plantations got bigger and bigger.
Conditions were harsh. 60% of children were without one or both parents before 13.
- Indentured Servitude
The prospect of owning land attracted new settlers. Some were too poor to make the journey to Americas, so merchants persuaded them into indentured servitude.
indentured servitude: contracted work for a specified amount of time, in exchange for passage along the Atlantic, with free status at the end of the working period
Being an indentured servant was tough work and often as an indentured servant you would not make it to the end of your working period. Indentured servants were worked ruthlessly to maximize gains, and if they disobeyed or ran away they would either be sold or have their working period extended.
Out of the half of indentured servants that completed their working period, most did not escape poverty. Only a quarter of all indentured servants ever achieved their dream of owning successful property in America.
- African Laborers
African slave labor became much cheaper than indentured servitude, and much more available due to the Columbian Exchange. Because of the declining price for tobacco, plantation owners needed to make tobacco as cheaply as possible.
There came a point, starting in the 1620s, where indentured servants weren't in enough supply to keep up with the demand. By 1671, leaders in Virginia were passing laws to discriminate by color. The House of Burgesses was passing laws that made the African slaves inferior in every way.
2.3 Neo-European Colonies
Colonies that replicated the lifestyle of Europe started appearing along the North American Atlantic coast. Initially, Dutch, French, and English sailors were looking for a passage through to Asia, but soon they became interested in the land itself.
2.3.1 New France
In the 1530s, Jacques Cartier claimed land along the St. Lawrence River for France. It went unused until 1608 when Samuel de Champlain set up the first fur-trading post of what is now Quebec. By having a trading post the French gained abundant access to the spoils of North American land.
The French also wanted to convert the native people. The priests, most of them Jesuits, put effort into learning the native languages and culture, and the natives respected them for it. However, they became skeptical and even hateful of the priests because they instead seemed to bring disease and drought.
While New France was a great trading colony, it lacked any farming. In 1662, King Louis XIV turned New France into a royal colony and subsidized the migration of indentured servants. Contrary to the English servants, which had laborious work for up to 7 years and were left in poverty, French servants only had to work for 3 years and could eventually lease a farm of their own.
2.3.2 New Netherland
The success of the Dutch in European banking, insurance, and finance meaned that the Dutch had an incredibly large control over commerce. The Dutch, in fact, had so much influence that they were able to conquest Portuguese forts in Africa and Indonesia and sugar plantations in Brazil.
The Dutch wanted to look for a passage to the East Indies. While searching by travelling the rivers of North America, the delegated English mariner, Henry Hudson, observed that the coasts of North America were a "fur bonanza".
New Netherland eventually flourished as a fur-trading enterprise, just like New France. The Dutch however were less respectful to the natives of their area, and there were deadly wars between the Algonquian-speaking natives and the colonists. The colonists had to resort to total war, killing and maiming hundreds of men, women, and children, to not be wiped out.
2.3.3 The Rise of the Iroquois
The Iroquois had access to guns from Dutch merchants. They were able to overpower and drive out other Native American tribes. New France had to go into an all out war with all of the surrounding tribes, and eventually all were defeated and had to concede to what the French wanted.
2.3.4 New England
New England was all about Protestant Calvinists looking for a new home away from Europe. Most of the groups travelling to New England were much more prepared than the other Neo-European Colonies, especially due to the balanced sex ratio.
- The Pilgrims
England's then-current king threatened to drive Puritans out of the land. So, they decided to do it themselves, and move to America. They created their own constitution called the Mayflower Compact that based the political structure the Puritans' self-governing religious congregation.
When King Charles I dissolved Parliament and claimed divine right, many more Puritans came to America.
Puritans: dissenters from the Church of England who wanted a genuine reformation rather than the partial Reformation sought by Henry VIII
- John Winthrop and Massachusetts Bay
John Winthrop was one of the leaders that drew a lot of Puritans to America. He led over 900 people to Massachusets Bay and became the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
"We must consider that we shall be as a City upon a Hill. The eyes of all people are upon us." – John Winthrop
This colony specifically restricted governmental decisions to Puritans. Unlike the Pilgrims, which believed in separation of church and state, the Massachusetts Bay Colony completely combined church and state.
- Roger Williams and Rhode Island
The Massachusetts Bay colony wanted to get rid of anyone who didn't agree with their beliefs. One of those people was Roger Williams. He thought that the belief that God decided everything was nonsensical, that the seizure of Native American lands was unethical, and most importantly that the church and state should be separated.
Williams and his followers later settled 50 miles south, and as well obtained a corporate charter from Parliament to create a new colony.
- Anne Hutchinson
Anne Hutchinson had wildly different values than most Puritans, and as a woman she was increasingly looked down upon. She believed in being able to communicate with God yourself, and having total free will.
- Puritanism and Witchcraft
Puritans believed that the world was full of supernatural forces. The Puritans were suspicious of people who tried to manipulate these forces.
An example of how policies like death for witchcraft can cause mass hysteria is the Salem Witch Trials. 175 people were tried and 19 were executed on claims of witchcraft.
2.4 Instability, War, and Rebellion
Every colony had its own periods of instability that sometimes involved violence.
2.4.1 New England's Indian Wars
Native Americans already had inter-tribe conflicts before the colonists arrived, and the colonists only added to the problems.
- Puritan-Pequot War
The Pequots were allied with the Dutch, so they were a particular nuisance to the English. Violent encounters began in July 1636 and escalated until May 1637 when Massachusetts and Conneticut combined along with Narragansett and Mohegan warriors to attack a Pequot village. They massacred over 500 men, women, and children.
Believing they were "God's chosen people", the Puritans thought that their presence, success, and decisions were divinely ordained.
- Metacom's War
The native Wampanoag population felt outnumbered by the European population. They tried to protect themselves but got continually bitter at being disadvantaged. Eventually both sides showed aggression and the Wampanoags lost.
2.4.2 Bacon's Rebellion
At the same time New England was struggling with its wars, Virgina faced a rebellion that nearly toppled the government. By the 1670s, a small percentage of the population held nearly all of the wealth and had control of who land was given to. This meant that now-freed indentured servants found it even harder to acquire land.
At the top of the social pyramid was governor William Berkeley. To consolidate his power, he gave large land grants to his council, who in turn chose to exempt those lands from taxation. At this point, half of all white men were landless freemen. The property owning yeomen retained their voting rights, but were still angered by falling tobacco prices, political corruption, and grievous taxations that threatened the commonwealth.
- Frontier War
A conflict with the Native American population ignited the social rebellion. The landless former servants wanted to settle on the native lands as they had nowhere else to go. A vigilante band of Virginian men murdered 30 natives, and from there the conflict escalated. The Susquehannocks had to retaliate, and they did so by destroying plantations and killing 300 whites.
- Challenging the Government
Nathaniel Bacon held a position in Berkeley's council, but he empathized with the poor and the natives. He was shut out of the council when he differed with Berkeley on native affairs. At this point, Bacon had an army of supporters. That army forced his release from arrest. They also forced a legislative election process.
Unfortunately this came too late. Bacon's army started destroying towns, burning Jamestown to the ground, and plundering the plantations of Berkeley's allies.
When Bacon suddenly died of dyssentery in October 1676, Berkeley took revenge, but also took steps to protect the poor and the natives to make sure something like this wouldn't happen again.
3 The British Atlantic World
For two weeks in June 1744, a massive conference was held in Lancaster, Pennsylvania meant to resolve grivances between the Iroquois and the settlers. Many more conferences came with it around that time showing how much the colonies sought to extend their power in North America.
3.1 Colonies to Empire
Following the English civil war, where England released its fine hold on what colonies did, plantation owners and Puritan magistrates started making their own rules. After the restoration in 1660, beaurocrats tried to impose order on the "unruly" colonies.
3.1.1 The Restoration Colonies and Imperial Expansion
King Charles II wanted to expand English power in Asia and America. In 1662, he initiated new outposts in America by authorizing eight noblemen to settle Carolina. A year later, he conquered New Netherland and gave it to his brother James, who became the Duke and renamed it to New York. James then gave part of it to William Penn, who named that part as Pennsylvania.
3.1.2 From Mercantilism to Imperial Dominion
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3.2 Imperial Wars and Native Peoples
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3.2.1 Tribalization
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3.2.2 Indian Goals
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3.3 The Imperial Slave Economy
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3.3.2 Africa, Africans, and the Slave Trade
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3.3.3 Slavery in the Chesapeake and South Carolina
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3.3.4 An African American Community Emerges
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3.4 The Northern Maritime Economy
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3.4.1 The Urban Economy
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3.4.2 Urban Society
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3.5 The New Politics of Empire
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3.5.1 The Rise of Colonial Assemblies
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3.5.2 Salutary Neglect
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3.5.3 Protecting the Mercantile System
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3.5.4 Mercantilism and the American Colonies
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4 Growth, Diversity, and Conflict
People started moving to the restoration colonies like the Carolinas to escape the poverty of their home countries. Cultural movements like the Enlightenment were furthering this as well.
4.1 New England's Freehold Society
In the 1630s, when the Puritans left England, the nobles and elites held 75% of the land. The others, tenants and property-less farmers, worked on the land. However, since the population had significantly grown since then, by 1750 this "freehod" ideal was threatened.
4.1.1 Farm Families: Women in the Household Economy
The Puritans placed the husband at the head of the house, and very rarely gave women any semblance of equality to men. From an early age, girls saw how their mothers were bound by a web of legal and cultural restrictions.
4.1.2 Farm Property: Inheritance
Marriage in this time allowed the husband to gain full control over all of his wife's property and possesions.
4.1.3 Freehold Society in Crisis
The increasing population, doubling each generation, meant that families were no longer able to provide adequate support for every child under the freehold system. Soon, children started working in artisan crafts instead of just farming.
4.2 Diversity in the Middle Colonies
The Middle Colonies were New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
4.2.3 Religion and Politics
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4.3 Commerce, Culture, and Identity
After 1720, when transatlantic shipping grew much more frequent, ideals like the Enlightenment and Pietism reached the American world.
4.3.1 Transportation and the Print Revolution
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4.3.2 The Enlightenment in America
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4.3.3 American Pietism and the Great Awakening
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4.3.4 Religious Upheaval in the North
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4.4 The Midcentury Challenge: War, Trade, and Social Conflict
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4.4.1 The French and Indian War
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4.4.2 The Great War for Empire
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4.4.3 British Industrial Growth and the Consumer Revolution
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4.4.4 The Struggle for Land in the East
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5 The Problem of Empire
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5.1 An Empire Transformed
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5.1.1 The Costs of Empire
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5.1.2 George Grenville and the Reform Impulse
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5.1.3 An Open Challenge: The Stamp Act
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5.2 The Dynamics of Rebellion
American Patriots started performing protests against British reform.
5.2.1 Formal Protests and the Politics of the Crowd
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5.2.2 The Ideological Roots of Resistance
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5.2.3 Another Kind of Freedom
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5.2.4 Parliament and Patriots Square Off Again
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5.2.5 The Problem of the West
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5.3 The Road to Independence
After the repeal of the Townsend duties in 1770, there appeared to be peace, but mutual distrust between the colonists and the British Empire lay below the surface. In 1773, this distrust formed into conflict.
5.3.1 A Compromise Repudiated
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5.3.2 The Continental Congress Responds
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5.3.3 The Rising of the Countryside
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5.3.4 Loyalists and Neutrals
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5.4 Violence East and West
By 1774, more and more colonies were starting to reject British authority, and Britain's control over the colonists was wavering.
5.4.1 Lord Dunmore's War
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5.4.2 Armed Resistance in Massachusets
While the Continental Congress was gathering in Philadelphia in September 1774, Massachusets was avidly protesting British authority.
Battles were soon faught in Lexington and Concord. The British ended up heavily defeated and even ambushed on their way back to supposed safety.
5.4.3 The Second Continental Congress Organizes for War
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5.4.4 Thomas Paine's Common Sense
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5.4.5 Independence Declared
Inspired by Paine, the colonists wanted to desperately break free from Britain's rule. Richard Henry Lee proposed that the colonies should unite and be free states from Britain.
On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was approved and signed.
6 Making War and Republican Governments
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6.1 The Trials of War
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6.1.1 War in the North
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6.1.2 Armies and Strategies
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6.1.3 Victory at Saratoga
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6.1.4 The Perils of War
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6.1.5 Financial Crisis
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6.1.6 Valley Forge
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6.2 The Path to Victory
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6.2.1 The French Alliance
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6.2.2 War in the South
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6.2.3 The Patriot Advantage
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6.2.4 Diplomatic Triumph
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6.3 Creating Republican Institutions
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6.3.1 The State Constitutions: How Much Democracy?
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6.3.2 Women Seek a Public Voice
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6.3.3 The War's Losers: Loyalists, Native Americans, and Slaves
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6.3.4 The Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation were written in 1777, during the Revolutionary War. It was not ratified by all the states until 1781. Due to tyrannical experiences with England, it was created to spread the power among the states.
- Powers
- The Articles of Confederation gave the National
Government the powers to:
- declare war
- negotiate treaties
- manage foreign affairs
- coin money
- establish postal system
- establish military
- Limits
- The Articles of Confederation imposed certain limits
on the National Government:
- no power to enforce laws
- no power to tax
- no national court system
- no power to regulate trade
- no power to put tariffs on foreign goods
- no executive
6.3.5 Shays's Rebellion
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6.4 The Constitution of 1787
The issues caused by the Articles of Confederation led to the creation of the U.S. Constitution. The Constitution was very controversial, partly due to its huge difference from the Articles of Confederation. The Constitution was all about giving the states most of the power but the federal government the most important powers.
6.4.1 The Rise of a Nationalist Faction
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6.4.2 The Philadelphia Convention
In 1787, the states were supposed to meet to revise the Articles of Confederation. Rhode Island didn't have any delegate show up, so instead the other twelve states decided to try and draft a new framework of government. This meeting ended up being known as the Constitutional Convention.
- The Virginia and New Jersey Plans
All of the delegates wanted a stronger national government, especially one that had the power to tax and make laws for all of the states. They wanted to accomplish this by separating the government into executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
- Madison's Virgina Plan
- Favored by larger states:
- favor supremacy of the national government
- national government established by people
- lower house representatives were elected by people in the states
- number of lower house representatives based on population
- upper house representatives were chosen by the lower house
- an executive and judiciary chosen by entire legislature
- The New Jersey Plan
- Proposed by the smaller states:
- states have power to control own laws and guarantee equality
- each state would have one vote in unicameral congress
- the congress selects an executive committee
- executive comittee appoints national judiciary
- state legislatures appoint representatives to congress
The smaller states didn't like the Virgina Plan, and the larger states didn't like the New Jersey Plan.
- The Great Compromise
The Great Compromise was the name given to the system of having a split House and Senate. The House had representation based on population, while the Senate had an equal two representatives from each state.
- Negotiations over Slavery
The southern states wanted slaves to count towards the population, but the northern states didn't. The 3/5 Compromise was enacted, where slaves counted as 3/5 of a person. This counted both for representation and taxation.
- National Authority
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6.4.3 The People Debate Ratification
Because the delegates knew that some states would reject the constitution, they arbitrarily declared that it only had to be ratified by 9 of the 13 states to take effect.
- The Antifederalists
The opponents of the Constitution were labeled Antifederalists. They feared the central government would be run primarily by wealthy men; they felt that the Constitution threatened their yeoman society.
- Federalists Respond
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- The Constitution Ratified
The strong resistance to the Constitution from the Antifederalist population in Massachusetts was in part solved by the Federalists reassuring that there would be an ammended national bill of rights.
7 Hammering Out a Federal Republic
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7.1 The Political Crisis of the 1790s
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7.1.1 The Federalists Implement the Constitution
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7.1.2 Hamilton's Financial Program
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7.1.3 Jefferson's Agrarian Vision
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7.1.4 The French Revolution Divides Americans
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7.2 A Republican Empire Is Born
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7.2.2 Migration and the Changing Farm Economy
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7.2.3 The Jefferson Presidency
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7.3 The War of 1812 and the Transformation of Politics
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8 Creating a Republican Culture
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8.1 The Capitalist Commonwealth
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8.1.1 Banks, Manufacturing, and Markets
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8.1.2 Public Enterprise: The Commonwealth System
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8.2 Toward a Democratic Republican Culture
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8.2.1 Opportunity and Equality–for White Men
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8.3 Aristocratic Republicanism and Slavery
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8.3.1 The Revolution and Slavery
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8.3.2 The North and South Grow Apart
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8.4 Protestant Christianity as a Social Force
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8.4.1 A Republican Religious Order
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8.4.3 Religion and Reform
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8.4.4 Women's New Religious Roles
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8.4.5 A Growing Public Presence
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9 Transforming the Economy
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9.1 The American Industrial Revolution
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9.1.1 The Division of Labor and the Factory
Entrepreneurs created the modern factory which used power machines and the assembly line. This allowed for goods to be produced more efficiently and in larger numbers, as workers did not have to be skilled. Factories moved to cities due to the stationary steam engine, enabling entrepreneurs to take advantage of the cheap labor.
9.1.2 The Textile Industry and British Competition
American industrial leaders wanted to copy and improve British methods of manufacturing.
- American and British Advantages
The differences in America and Britain led to manufacturing differences. The British had many advantages over America in that:
- textiles were cheaper to ship
- interest rates were lower such that it was easier to get loans
- textiles were well established and could engage in price warfare such that prices were constantly pushed lower
- workers could be paid less due to the larger population and lesser amount of land
- it was illegal for any engineer or mechanic to leave Britain to keep Britain at the top
The United States had one main advantage: more natural resources on much more land.
- Better Machines, Cheaper Workers
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9.1.3 American Mechanics and Technological Innovation
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9.2 The Market Revolution
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9.2.1 The Transportation Revolution Forges Regional Ties
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9.2.2 The Growth of Cities and Towns
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9.3 New Social Classes and Cultures
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9.3.1 The Business Elite
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9.3.2 The Middle Class
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9.3.3 Urban Workers and the Poor
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9.3.4 The Benevolent Empire
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10 A Democratic Revolution
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10.1 The Rise of Popular Politics
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10.1.1 The Decline of the Notables and the Rise of Parties
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- The Rise of Democracy
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- Parties Take Command
With more "uneducated" voters the process of winning elections evolved. Van Buren "fathered" this new process and even got ahead by spreading information via papers. Van Buren knew that since many people didn't have latent knowledge about politics he had to explain political views through other means. Eventually it was decided that caucuses would determine the chosen candidate.
The 3 "P"s of Van Buren:
- platform
- patronage
- party discipline
10.1.2 The Election of 1824
When nobody wins the electoral majority the House votes for the president. Henry Clay, who was in fourth, influenced the members to vote for John Quincy Adams. When Adams won, he made Clay the Secretary of State.
10.1.3 The Last Notable President: John Quincy Adams
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10.1.4 "The Democracy" and the Election of 1828
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10.2 The Jacksonian Presidency
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10.2.1 Jackson's Agenda: Rotation and Decentralization
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10.2.2 The Tariff and Nullification
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11 Religion and Reform
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11.1 Individualism: The Ethic of the Middle Class
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11.1.1 Ralph Waldo Emerson and Transcendentalism
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11.2 Rural Communalism and Urban Popular Culture
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11.2.1 The Utopian Impulse
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11.3 Abolitionism
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11.3.2 Evangelical Abolitionism
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12 The South Expands: Slavery and Society
At the start of the 1800s, many plantation owners in the Carolinas wanted to move westwards to states like Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas. Despite the wealth of these new plantation owners, much of it was spent on expansion rather than living a luxurious life.
12.1 The Domestic Slave Trade
The federal government played a role in moving Native Americans out of the new slave states to make more room for plantations.
12.1.1 The Upper South Exports Slave
The more northern slave states exported slaves to the newer plantation states to fuel the domestic slave trade and the southern economy.
12.1.2 The Impact on Blacks
More and more, slaves were treated as simple property; a slave that underperformed would simply be sold and replaced. If a slave marriage was to take place, then usually slave owners would sell off one or both of the slaves involved.
Some slaveowners used being "benevolent masters" as a defense of slavery. They claimed by taking in slaves, the slaves had a home, nourishment, and the loyal ones were allowed to have (and more importantly care for) a family.
12.2 The World of Southern Whites
Due to this new slave economy, the south started to be governed by the slave-owning whites who held most of the wealth. This was in stark contrast to the American yeomen, who ranked among the "lowest rungs of the nation's social order."
12.2.1 The Dual Cultures of the Planter Elite
The movement to the west created two distinct groups of slaveowners: the traditional tobacco and rice farmers, and the new cotton farmers.
12.3 Expanding and Governing the South
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12.3.1 The Settlement of Texas
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12.4 The African American World
The slaves of the 1820s kept a culture similar to their West African ancestors, mainly due to the fact that whites discouraged assimilation, but also because they prized their unique culture.
12.4.1 Evangelical Black Protestantism
As the Second Great Awakening swept over America, thousands of white families, each with their hundreds of enslaved blacks, were converted to Christianity.
12.4.2 Forging Families and Communities
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13 Expansion, War, and Sectional Crisis
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13.1 Manifest Destiny: South and North
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13.1.2 The Plains Indians
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13.1.3 The Fateful Election of 1844
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13.2 War, Expansion, and Slavery
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13.2.4 Racial Warfare and Land Rights
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13.3 The End of the Second Party System
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13.3.1 Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act
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13.3.2 The Whigs Disintegrate and New Parties Rise
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14 Two Societies at War
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14.1 Secession and Military Stalemate
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14.1.2 The Upper South Chooses Sides
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14.2 Toward Total War
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14.3 The Turning Point: 1863
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14.4 The Union Victorious
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14.4.1 Soldiers and Strategy
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15 Reconstruction
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15.1 The Struggle for National Reconstruction
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15.1.1 Presidential Approaches: From Lincoln to Johnson
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15.1.2 Congress Versus the President
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15.1.3 Radical Reconstruction
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15.1.4 Woman Suffrage Denied
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15.2 The Meaning of Freedom
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15.2.1 The Quest for Land
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15.2.2 Republican Governments in the South
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15.2.3 Building Black Communities
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16 Conquering a Continent
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16.1 The Republican Vision
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16.1.1 The New Union and the World
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16.2 Incorporating the West
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16.2.1 Mining Empires
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16.2.2 Cattlemen on the Plains
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16.2.4 The First National Park
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16.3 A Harvest of Blood: Native Peoples Dispossessed
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16.3.1 The Civil War and Indians on the Plains
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16.3.3 The End of Armed Resistance
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16.3.4 Strategies of Survival
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16.3.5 Western Myths and Realities
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17 Industrial America: Corporations and Conflicts
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17.1 The Rise of Big Business
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17.1.1 Innovators in Enterprise
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17.2 Immigrants, East and West
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17.2.1 Newcomers from Europe
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17.2.2 Asian Americans and Exclusion
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17.3 Labor Gets Organized
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17.3.1 The Emergence of a Labor Movement
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17.3.2 The Knights of Labor
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17.3.3 Farmers and Workers: The Cooperative Alliance
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17.3.4 Another Path: The American Federation of Labor
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18 The Victorians Make the Modern
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18.1 Commerce and Culture
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18.1.1 Consumer Spaces
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18.1.2 Masculinity and the Rise of Sports
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18.1.3 The Great Outdoors
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18.2 Women, Men, and the Solitude of Self
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18.2.1 Changes in Family Life
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18.2.2 Education
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19 "Civilization's Inferno": The Rise and Reform of Industrial Cities
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19.1 The New Metropolis
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19.1.1 The Shape of the Industrial City
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19.1.2 Newcomers and Neighborhoods
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19.2 Governing the Great City
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19.2.1 Urban Machines
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19.2.2 The Limits of Machine Government
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20 An Emerging World Power
Americans in the early 20th century had a hunger for imperialism and foreign involvement. While some were trying to convince the others that foreign involvement would not be healthy for said foreign nations, the war-seeking voices stood out.
By the 1910s, the United States entered World War I. At the time, American enthusiasm for a spot on the world stage had mostly cooled off. With the rejection of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles by the Senate, the government and people of the United States started to question how to, or if they even should, promote democracy overseas.
20.1 From Expansion to Imperialism
Where as the United States' westward expansion in the early 19th century was taking land from peoples not recognized as nations, the latter half of the 19th century was mainly the United States annexing or purchasing land of existing nations.
Europe was very imperialistic for the following reasons:
- Economic
- The growth of industry increased the need for natural resources
- Commerce
- There was new markets and expansion of trade into Asia & Latin America
- Nationalistic
- European nations competed for large empires as the result of a rise in nationalism
- Military
- Europe had better armies than Africa and Asia, and it needed bases around the world to refuel and supply navy ships
- Humanitarian
- Desire, duty to spread western civilizations to other countries
The United States government was most interested in commerce and followed suit. This imperialistic period of the United States is sometimes called "The New Manifest Destiny".
20.1.1 Foundations of Empire
Alfred Mahan believed that any nation hoping to be prosperous would need to build fleets of merchant ships to establish world trade. He studied prior examples of this and also noted that the United States would need to acquire new land for naval bases overseas. He also argued for an Atlantic–Pacific canal. Politicians supported many of these ideas and pushed for construction of a new and better navy.
By the late 1890s, the United States had enough power to scare Europe into leaving Latin America alone. President Cleveland insisted that an independent arbitrator resolve a dispute between Venezuela and British Guiana. The British agreed.
20.1.2 The War of 1898
In 1872, a severe recession struck the Hawaiian economy. Worried that the British or the French may intervene, the United States lifted all tariff restrictions on Hawaiian sugar in 1876. Several years later when the treaty came up for renewal the United States insisted that the Hawaiians grant them rights to a naval base at Pearl Harbor. The treaty led to a boom in the Hawaiian sugar industry and wealth for the planters.
In 1887, the planters pressured the Hawaiian king into accepting a new constitution that would limit his authority and grant them more power. The Hawaiian natives didn't like this, and in 1891, Queen Liliuokalani unsuccessefully attempted to impose a new constitution that would have reasserted her authority as the ruler of the Hawaiian people.
Faced with an economic crisis and the queen's actions, the planters backed an attempt to overthrow the monarchy. Suported by Marines, a group of planters forced the queen to give up power and set up a provisional government. Then, they requested the United States to annex Hawaii. President Cleveland opposed imperialism and he tried to restore the Queen to the throne. Hawaii's new leaders would not restore her to the throne, and they decided to wait for the next president and request annexation again.
Come 1895, Cuba was a Spanish colony in the midst of a revolution. The Cubans believed the key to victory was involving the United States. Many Americans regarded the Spanish as tyrants and began to believe in helping the Cuban rebels because of humanitarian concerns, sympathy for their aspirations, and jingoism. Dramatic stories of Spanish atrocities that were reported in newspapers helped sway more people into supporting the Cubans.
In 1897, William McKinley became president of the United States. He did not want to intervene in the war, but he was much tougher on the Spaniards than Grover Cleveland. He wanted to negotiate an end to conflict but would go to war if he felt it was necessary. The McKinely administration passed the Teller Amendment which at its basic level promised to uphold democracy in the United States as well as abroad.
On April 24, 1898, Spain declared war on the United States. The ensuing war fever left the southeastern parts of the United States in turmoil: no plan was devised to manage troops, nor get them to Cuba. Fortunately, the already existing army was a disciplined force able to harness the power of 200,000 volunteers. Teddy Roosevelt led a smaller group of soldiers called The Rough Riders, meant to defeat Spanish troops in Cuba as fast as possible to force a naval war.
The Rough Riders were meant to seize both San Juan and Kettle Hills. With Cuba swiftly taken by the United States, Spain was forced to fight around the island. Spain's navy was no match for the United States' new navy, unable to handle the battleships and armored cruisers.
In addition to a ground war in Cuba, the United States fought for the Spanish-controlled Phillippines, giving it a major foothold in the Western Pacific. The United States was also able to annex Hawaii leveraging the population of American planters.
Eventually, Spanish forces in Cuba were depleted by the long guerrilla war. The United States troops were able to combine their hate for the demoralized Spaniards and the knowledge from their Cuban allies to overcome their poor training and lack of equipment.
20.1.3 Spoils of War
In December of 1898, the United States and Spain signed the Treaty of Paris. The Treaty of Paris guaranteed three things:
- Cuba would became an independent country
- The United States would acquire Guam and Puerto Rico
- The United States would acquire the Phillippines for US$20 million
TODO: Write about Aguinaldo, the Platt Amendment
20.2 A Power Among Powers
The election of 1900 pitted William Jennings Bryan against William McKinely. McKinely won again by a large margin with Teddy Roosevelt as his vice president. After McKinley's assassination 1901, Theodore Roosevelt took the stage. He turned the United States into the "World Police".
20.2.1 The Open Door in Asia
In the late 1890s, different countries that controlled different parts of China took complete control over those parts in an attempt to restrict trade. The Secretary of State let those countries know that they must keep trade open for the world. When Chinese "Boxers" (nationalists) started fighting against imperial control, the United States sent over 5,000 troops to help.
TODO: Treaty of Portsmouth, Root-Takahira
20.2.2 The United States and Latin America
The United States, sensing an opportunity to increase their naval power with a canal, helped carry out an independence movement in Columbian Panama, negating Columbia's disapproval of a canal. Almost immediately the United States started recruiting labor to build the Panama canal, opened in 1914 and for the first time connecting the Atlantic and Pacific.
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20.3 The United States in World War I
During the United States' period of imperialism, World War I was just getting started in Europe. Germany was building up its military, which was a move that frightened its European neighbors. The United States was not yet involved, and it wanted to stay that way. In 1905, Germany challenged French control of Morocco, but Theodore Roosevelt intervened and arranged an international conference to diffuse the crisis. Eventually, France retained Morocco, because they had British backing. In that same year, Roosevelt resolved a different dispute between Russia and Japan.
20.3.1 From Neutrality to War
World War I started because of Austria-Hungary and Russia's competition over the Balkans. In 1908, Austria seized various Ottoman provinces, including Bosnia. That angered Serbia, who at the time, was allied with Russia. In June 1914, Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Because of the complicated web of European alliances, the major European powers at the time were quickly pushed into war. Germany, due to its alliance with Austria-Hungary, declared war on Russia and its ally France. To prepare for invading France, Germany invaded Belgium (a previously neutral country) who at the time was allied with Great Britain, causing Great Britain to enter the war.
This ended up creating two military zones in Europe, the Western Front, and the Eastern Front. On the Western Front, Germany fought the British and the French, while on the Eastern Front, Germany and Austria-Hungary fought Russia. Because many of the warring nations had colonies, the war quickly spread into the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.
World War I, at the time named "The Great War," brought rise to new wartime technologies such as "long-range, high-velocity rifle[s] that could hit a target at 1,000 yards." these new technologies, although they were also used for defensive strategies, led to an incredibly high casualty rate. In 1916, when Germans were trying to break through French lines at Verdun, they suffered 450,000 casualties, and the French suffered 550,000. Even with this, the Western Front barely moved from 1914 to 1918.
Initially, President Woodrow Wilson urged Americans to stay neutral in terms of World War I alliance. Even if Wilson had wanted to unite Americans with Great Britain, it would have been impossible in 1914. Most of the Irish immigrants did not want to side with Britain because of their continued occupation of Ireland, and a large number of German immigrants still felt a duty to support their homeland.
Progressive Republicans, as well as socialists, opposed taking a side in World War I. Two giants of American industry, Andrew Carnegie and Henry Ford, also opposed war. In December 1915, Ford sent 100 men and women to Europe on a "peace ship" to urge an end to the war.
- The Struggle to Remain Neutral
The United States want to trade equally with all of the warring nations, and might have remained neutral if Britain had not imposed a blockade on the Central Powers. The Wilson administration protested that this was an infringement of the rights of neutral carriers, however trade with the allies grew fourfold over the next 2 years, making up for what would otherwise be a loss. By 1917, United States banks had lent the Allies $2.5 billion. In contrast, American loans to Germany only totaled up to $56 million. This means that if Germany won, Britain and France defaulting on their debts would cost American companies.
In April 1915, Germany issued a warning that any ship associated with Britain was liable to destruction. A few weeks later, a U-boat torpedoed the British luxury liner Lusitania, which had 128 Americans on board. However, American public opinion still ran strongly against entering the war, which shaped the election of 1916. Republicans did not want to vote for Theodore Roosevelt in favor of Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes. The Democrats renominated Wilson, who campaigned based on keeping the United States out of the war. Wilson one by a slim majority.
- America Enters the War
Despite Wilson's campaign, events pushed him toward war. In February 1917, Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare. In response, Wilson broke off diplomatic relations with Germany. A few weeks later, newspapers published an intercepted dispatch from German foreign secretary Arthur Zimmerman to his minister in Mexico. The Zimmerman telegram urged Mexico to join the Central Powers promising that if the United States entered the war Germany would help Mexico recover "the lost territory of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona."
Pressured by German attacks on United States ships and potential attacks on the United States' mainland, Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war on April 2, 1917. On April 6, the United States declared war on Germany.
20.3.2 "Over There"
To most Americans, Europe's seemed a great distance away. Nobody expected the United States to send soldiers, only munitions and economic aid. Even so, all of the Allies asked for (and what the United States would be best at supplying) was "Men, men, and more men."
- Americans Join the War
In 1917, the United States Army numbered fewer than 200,000 soldiers. Needing more men, Congress instituted a military draft in May 1917. Young men in America were willing to fight, so there was very little opposition to the draft. However, draft registration demonstrated the government's increasing power over ordinary citizens.
- The American Fighting Force
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20.4 Catastrophe at Versailles
Wilson argued that no victor should be declared after World War I. While Britain and France weren't supportive of this idea, their people were. Wilson's ideas eventually formed into the League of Nations. The league of Nations was a basic predecessor to the United Nations and NATO.
20.4.1 The Fate of Wilson's Ideas
Of the peace conference at Versailles included 10,000 representatives from around the globe. However, the attendees were mainly American and French and British leaders. When the Japanese delegation proposed a declaration for equal treatment of all races, the Allies rejected it. Similarly, the Allies ignored a global pan- African Congress organized by W. E. B. Du Bois and other black leaders. Additionally, the Allies disrespected Arab representatives who had been military allies during the war, and even Italy's Prime Minister. The allies excluded Russia and Germany as well because they did not trust Russia's communist leaders and wanted to dictate terms for Germany.
Both Britain and France blamed Germany for the war. Without others knowing, they divided and claimed Germany's African colonies. They forced Germany to pay $33 billion in reparations, which caused resentment and economic hardship in Germany, helping lead to World War II.
As part of this, Britain planned to establish a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine. Because of this, Jewish people began moving to Palace dean, purchasing land, and in some cases evicting Palestinian tenants. As early as 1920, riots erupted between the Jewish and Palestinians, a situation that would escalate beyond British control.
In a way, the treaty of Versailles created conditions that would lead only to future bloodshed, and is widely regarded as one of history's great catastrophes.
"Those three all-powerful, all-ignorant men…sitting there carving continents with only a child to lead them." – Arthur Balfour
20.4.2 Congress Rejects the Treaty
At the time when the Treaty of Versailles needed to be accepted by Congress,hostile Republicans held a majority in the Senate. Many worried that Article X, the provision for collective security, would prevent the United States from pursuing an independent foreign policy. They worried that the United States would be controlled by the other nations in the League.
Wilson wanted to get as much support for the tree as possible, so he toward the country giving speeches. He exhausted himself and in September 1919, he collapsed a week later, he suffered a stroke that left one side of his body paralyzed, and even though he still urged Democratic Senators to reject Republican amendments, the treaty failed to win a two thirds majority, even a 2nd attempt in March 1920 fell 7 votes short.
The treaty, and Wilson's leadership abilities, were essentially null. On the outside, the war seemed to usher in an era of progress. On the inside, however, any positive change was being undone.