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US History

Timeline

PERIOD 4

(1800-1848)

Ellie Lenzen's Review for AP Exam

PERIOD 5

(1844-1877)

PERIOD 6

(1865-1898)

PERIOD 7

(1890-1945)

PERIOD 3

(1754-1800)

PERIOD 2

(1607-1754)

PERIOD 1

(1492-1607)

Pre columbus

Pre columbus

natives have distinct culture

- great plains: nomadic lifestyle

- northwest : fishing

europeans very curious abt new world ant want to spread christianity

Columbus

columbus! (and colonization

surplus of wealthy kinda started capitalism and banking

lands in bahamas first, then cuba then hispaniola (haiti /DR)

spanish first to take columbus up on offer to sail 3,000 mi, gives 87 men and 3 ships

wasnt first to reach americas, first to make a global impact

carribean natives: Tainos

- hurracan-> hurracane, barbacoa->bbq

letter to Ferd. and Isa saying natives not a threat, and that it was a success, leaves men behind to continue

treaty of tordesillas: divides world through vertical line, east = portugals, west = spanish (explains why brazil speaks portuguese!)

buttt they all basically died from european diseases (plus he tries to enslave them

second exibition with 1200 men and livestock

transfer of plants, animals, diseases and people across atlantic

Columbian Exchange

- environmental effect

- carribean sells sooo much sugar bc of land so would literally rather import food

- european popualtion increase bc food from new world calorically dense (and africa)

- this actually meant more slaves...

- 90% natives died of disease

- overpopulation means europeans send ppl to colonies

MANS MADE A BIG IMPACT ON THE WORLD AND INTERCONNECTEDNESS

MERCANTILISM:

Mexico colonization

Spanish Colonization

Racial Caste System:

ranked ppl by how much spanish blood you had

Casta paintings

3 Gs for conquistadors:

- gold

- glory

god

Francisco Pizarro:

Inca Empire

GOAL: mix and sorta enslave but defintely catholicize them, (not like the europeans that simply wanted to eradicate

Aztecs in Tenochtitlan

(now mexico city)

Hernan Cortes - Mexico Colonization

rounded up 20,000 natives to help take down, they were not liked

- one of the largest cities ever

- aztecs fell in two years, spanish started building

Moctezuma

Encomienda System: labor

(like feudalism + slavery)

Natives get "protection" and christianty

Synchotism:

blending of religion/culture

Effects of transatlantic voyages:

- deomgraphic

- new cultural groups as ppl mixed

- economic

- banking slave trade

- political

-european rivalries

power shifts

- cultural

-goods

-religious practices

overall culture difs

Pre Colonization

Causation and Correlation not same

misunderstandings due to language and cultural diferences

Natives and Europeans: Cultural Interactions

North East North America

Goals for colonization effected type of settlements

european colonization in general

Gold, Silver and Fur

Rivalries due to religious or political feuds: Catholicism and Protestantism

1680- New Mexico pueblo people revolt: impact on southwest culture

Popé says "when Jesus came, the Corn Mothers went away.” This was a succinct way of describing the displacement of native traditions by the culture and religion of the Spanish."

Popé's Rebellion was successful in getting Spain out, but 12 years later they came back after a drought

AGAIN - Syncretism!

Spanish loses stronghold on North America as French, Dutch and British start

Cooperation AF

French/Dutch

New Amsterdam/New France wanted trade so small settlement but on rivers

Fur trade: meant friendly meetings

Allied

bc there was less settlers, things were more done on Native terms and the groups were peaceful and friendly

Jacques Cartier

claims northern north america for france

Calvinism

John Calvin

protestant reform movement

justification by faith alone, grace of God, predestination

King Phillip of Spain

Spanish Armada

sends giant navy called Spanish Armada to England and Holland

The defeat of the Spanish Armada was only one part of a larger but undeclared war between Protestantism and Catholicism.

English attempt at colonization

Roanoke: "The lost colony"

off coast of North Carolina, John White leaves to get supplies and people to return to find everyone vanished.

left words "croatoan" on fence etched out.

Jamestown-1607

England lowkey late to the game, had economis issues, religious conflict and ireland to deal with

Britain's Colonies

King James I

Geography:

-soil bad

-buggy (carry diseases! death toll lmao)

Unprepared! white "gentlemen" killed in winter

John Smith says "those who do not work shall not eat"

Powhatans:

-Natives of town

-white men raid their food supply bc so unprepared... John Smith kidnapped

LATER: Lord De La Warr says haha cute yall r friendly but not anymore we needa get rid of them so we can grow tobacco

(ANGLO-POWHATAN WARS)

John Rolfe idealizes Tobacco (marries Pocahontas)

Head right system: 50 acres for every 1 person u bring

Planters now wealthy and indentured servants die

Motivations:

- competition w Spain and France

- Joint Stock Company (like stock market) less risky for exploration to new world

-east India Company

-virginia company (founded Jamestown)

-supposed surplus population

slavery begins 1619 because Tobacco is labor intensive (also land intensive so forced to keep moving and also conlfict w natives)

HOWEVER: not economic so they start with indentured servants

Bacon's Rebellion: biracial raid force

against government for not being harsh enough on natives EFFECT: FORCES ADAPTING TO SLAVERY!

House of Burgesses= first government

- little conflict as possible

English Puritans

Plymouth

Plymouth, Protestant, Puritan, Pilgrims

committed to "purifying" the Church of England by eliminating all aspects of Catholicism from religious practices.

Mayflower compact:

- pilgrims insisted on a complete separation from the Church of England and had first migrated to the Dutch Republic seeking religious freedom.

- Presented a RELIGIOUS (not economic) rationale for colonization

"A city upon a hill" by english puritans

New England

- converting natives to christianity

- John elliot "praying towns"

Protestants emphasized literacy so everyone could read Bible (Catholics no le gustan) and therefore led to printing press

Salem witch trials: Relying on their belief in witchcraft to help make sense of their changing world, Puritan authorities executed 19 people and caused the deaths of several others.

King Philip’s War—from 1675 to 1676—a massive regional conflict that was nearly successful in Natives pushing the English out of New England.

literacy

family unit (small farmers)

rockier land

egalitarian

not rly religiously tolerant

Proprietary = individual owners (more tolerant)

Quakers in Pennsylvania:

- religious society of friends and pacifists

- tolerant of all religions (super progressive)

-goal of William Penn (founder) was to draw a bunch of skilled people and make a diverse region (he did)

- biggest population until revolution

Middle Colonies

middle was basically superior in everything

PLANTATION COLONIES

West Indies and Southern Colonies

Sugar in west indies "sugar islands" like barbados and jamaica

-obviously labor intensive

rice in carolinas

social and economic structure based on cash crops, rice was an investment but profitable AF so owners (who lived in england bc ew diseases) were so rich they would rather replace slaves than make their work less deadly

Slaves outnumbered white people, meant they were ever stricter (ex Barbados Slave Act)

Maryland and Georgia were proprietary and tolerant of anyone who believed in Jesus

90% of all enslaved people sent to carribean

trade and slavery

Mercantilism

Triangular Trade

Middle Passage

- slave ships from west africa to WI

Trade and Slavery

Navigation Acts: Aimed to control the terms of trade between Britain and its colonies

Over coarse of time slavery became stricter and more defined by race

Stono Rebellion: killed both slavers and whites and made slave clodes stricter (ex Negro Act of 1740)

King James II overthrown and Protestant monarchs William and Mary were super chill

The events of 1741 (New York Conspiracy Trials) illustrate the racial divide in British America, where panic among white colonists spurred great violence against and repression of the feared enslaved population.

Salutary Neglect: British officials overlooked colonists’ violations of the Navigation Acts... when King George III tries to retake control, colonists basically start american rev

1700-1800 (18th century

Colonial Sopciety/Identity

The Great Awakening saw the rise of several Protestant denominations, including Methodists, Presbyterians, and Baptists—who emphasized adult baptism of converted Christians rather than infant baptism

Great Awakening:

- Outburst of Protestant Revivalism in the eighteenth century.

-The First GA aused a split between those who followed the evangelical message—the New Lights—and those who rejected it—the Old Lights. The elite ministers in British America were firmly Old Lights, and they censured the new revivalism as chaos.

Consumer revolution: The buying habits of both commoners and the colonial gentry fueled the consumer revolution, creating even stronger ties with Great Britain by means of a shared community of taste and ideas.

mixed feelings about role in english society meant took colonists a while to go for independence

Colonial gentry:

wealthy class

aka age of reason

Enlightenment

intellectual movement in the eighteenth century that emphasized reason and science.

John Locke, Isaac Newton, and Voltaire questioned accepted knowledge and spread new ideas about openness, investigation, and religious tolerance throughout Europe and the Americas.

Rationalism - reason to gain knowlege

Empiricism- knowledge comes from experience and observation of the world.

Progressivism- through their powers of reason and observation, humans can make unlimited, linear progress over time; this belief was especially important as a response to the carnage and upheaval of the English Civil Wars in the 17th century.

Cosmopolitanism -reflected Enlightenment thinkers’ view of themselves as actively engaged citizens of the world as opposed to provincial and close-minded individuals. In all, Enlightenment thinkers endeavored to be ruled by reason, not prejudice.

Ben Franklin is symbol; printer,publisher and scientist deism

Everything leading up

Albany Plan of Union (1754): A plan created by Benjamin Franklin to organize an intercolonial government, including a system to collect taxes and recruit troops.

Proclamation of 1763: A law passed by the British parliament that prohibited colonial movements west of the Appalachian Mountains.

PRE AMREV

Declaration of Independence (1776)

Second Continental Congress (1775): appointed George Washington commander of Continental Army

Olive branch Petition(1775): final attempt at peace

Articles of Confederation (1777) unicameral legislature that served as the fledgling nation’s governing authority until 1788.

first constitution; lasting from 1776 until 1789. The Articles established a weak central government and placed most powers in the hands of the states.

aka french and indian

Conflict between the French and the English over territory

Solidified Britain’s stance as the most dominant European country in the world. However, as Britain attempted to increase control on the American colonies, colonists began rebelling, eventually leading to the Revolutionary War.

Seven Years War

Treaty of Paris(1763): ended war, French give most territory to British

Pontiac's Rebellion: A force of 300 members of different Native American tribes led by Chief Pontiac attempted to stop British encroachment on their territory in an armed rebellion

Algonquins sided with the French and the Iroquois sided with the British and the colonists.

Taxation without Rep.

In 1772, Boston revolutionary Samuel Adams urged the creation of a committee of correspondence

Stamp Act: So much unrest led Britain to repeal

-Sons of Liberty

Declaratory Act: right of control

Townsend Acts

Boston revolutionary Samuel Adams responded by urging Massachusetts to employ a committee of correspondence to contact townspeople and stay apprised of events occurring at town meetings throughout the area. The purpose of such a committee was to rally opposition to British policies,

Virtual Reprentation: "members of parliament had colonists best interests at heart!"

Merchants in Boston signed a nonimportation agreement, which suspended all imports of British goods

Boston Massacre: intensified anti-British sentiment and proved a pivotal event leading up to the American Revolution. (crispus Attucks first casualty)

response to boston tea party, aka coercive acts

Shut down boston's port and sent General Thomas Gage and troops to occupy Boston

Intolerable Acts

The Boston Port Bill fined Boston for the tea destroyed in the Boston Tea Party and closed the harbor until the fines were paid.

The Government Bill rewrote the Massachusetts colony’s charter granting broadly expanded powers to the royal governor.

The Administration of Justice Act authorized the governor to send indicted government officials to other colonies or to London for trial.

The Quartering Act, which applied to all of the North American colonies, was designed to provide shelter for the British troops, allowing them to be housed in private buildings.

First Continental Congress (1774): boycott of british goods

-issued Declaration of Colonial Rights and Grievances. The declaration denied Parliament’s right to tax the colonies and lambasted the British for stationing troops in Boston.

All abt the war

Lexington and Concord(1775): first battle and official start of war

American Revolution

Treaty of Paris (1783): official end

Women support: making cloth, fundraising drives, nursing etc.

Daughters of Liberty: to demonstrate loyalty by boycotting (ex Martha Washington)

France big help after declared independence

Battle of Yorktown(1781):Revolutionary War battle that ended in decisive victory for American colonial forces. The surrender of British General Cornwallis led the British government to negotiate peace.

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Shays’s Rebellion exposed the weakness of the government under the Articles of Confederation and led many—including George Washington—to call for strengthening the federal government in order to put down future uprisings. ULTIMATELY RESULTED IN CONSTITUTION

not a set of laws, but a broad principles

separation of powers:

1. congress: law, tax, etc.

2. president : enforce laws wage war

3. supreme court: interpret law

idea is to make brances kinda fight with each other, see checks and balance

Constitution

New republic

The Federalist Papers was a collection of essays written by John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton in 1788.

The essays urged the ratification of the Constitution.

independent america

Continutiy and Change:

John adams: conflict between federalists (strong central gov and loose interpretationb) and dem-repubs

Whiskey rebellion: affirmed the fact that the federal government could handle political unrest and was much stronger than it had been under the Articles of Confederation.

XYZ Affair: (jay's Treaty) removed British forts from the Northwest Territory of the United States.

Pro britishness annoys france bc they just suported the AMREV and attack ships, diplomats later make treaty with france

George Washington: set precedent for strong exec branch and central gov

Farewell Address: advised the country to avoid political factions, based on party or geography, and avoid long-term alliances with other countries.

Alien and Sediction Acts; to punish anti federalist

american identity: want to make a culture separate from britian

Adams'midnight appointments: tries to stack courts w federalists

The Supreme Court case that followed, Marbury v. Madison, established the principle of judicial review: that the Supreme Court has the power to strike down laws if it judges that those laws violate the Constitution.

Isolationism: staying neutral in wars

Debt:

Alex ham proposes national bank, Jefferson disagrees bc its not a part of the "necessary and proper clause"

Convention and result

3/5th compromise

Under the Articles of Confederation, the federal government lacked the power of taxation, had no authority to regulate commerce, and was impotent to resolve conflicts arising between states.

Constitution

etc

Connecticut Compromise

Bill of Rights added to ensure respecting natural rights of citizens

resulted in the sanctions of the federalists versus dem-repubs

Clauses:

James Madison Virginia Plan:bicameral legislature in which representation would be based on population

New jersey Plan: legislature would be unicameral and each state would have a single vote.

kentucky and virginia

Resolutions

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, leading Democratic-Republicans, each wrote a resolution that were later adopted by Kentucky and Virginia. - pushed for a strict interpretation of the Constitution when it came to powers granted to the federal government.

Debate about the balance between federal and state power would continue until the Civil War, remerging in issues like the Nullification crisis.

Early republic

Adams and Federalists, including George Washington, = strong central government and a thriving manufacturing sector centered in the cities

Jefferson and Democratic-Republicans = an agrarian ideal, rooted in the republican virtues of the independent small farmer.

Politics and parties

John Quincy Adams:

-"corrupt bargain"

-mordernize the US economy known as "American System"

-Tarriff of 1816 and 2nd Bank of US

-unpopular man bc Tariff of Abominations and linient with natives

Andrew jackson= indian removal act and trail of tears

The election of 1800 was fiercely contested and facilitated the rise of the two-party system and bitter partisanship. (tom v john)

-ushered in the demise of the Federalist party and a political realignment that effectively ended the first party system

Second War of Independence/The War of 1812

which lasted from June 18, 1812 to February 18, 1815, abt issues after the Revolutionary War, like impressment of American sailors and trade restrictions on American shipping.

- Treaty of Ghent formally ended it

-"War Hawks" rly wanted to war

-star spangled banner written

-Hartford Convention

-"era of good feelings"

sectional divisions

jeff

Issues he dealt with: piracy along the Barbary Coast of North Africa, and British impressment, which resulted in Jefferson instating a mass embargo of European goods, the Embargo Act of 1807.

-stopped american ships from leaving ports so they wouldn't get taken over by british army/navy during the Napoleonic Wars (hurt economy)

-Non-Intercourse Act of 1808, lifting the unpopular embargoes on trade with all countries except Britain and France.

First Barbary War (pirates)

Lousiana Purchase (doubles US territory)

lewish and clark

Jefferson Era

James Monroe, 1823

- dont u dare think u can colonize us

(no one cared ) bc couldnt enforce

justification for manifest destiny

Monroe Doctorine

Market Revolution

New thought/reform

Industiral Revolution: kinds of machinery used to make finished goods

-textile mills and cotton gins (sam slater/slater the traitor)

-women working yay (factory)

-Rhode Island System (family units )

-lowell girls fight back about wage cuts

-slavery got way worse thansk eli whitney

Railroads, steamships, erie canal, telegraph,

business booms!

-encourages second great awakening (world is changing around them, god grounds them)

Irish and German Immigration:

- potato famine

-religious prejudice

-successful!

-william boss tweed

Second Great Awakening

Trancendentalism:

reaction to intellectualism. Its adherents yearned for intense spiritual experiences and sought to transcend the purely material world of reason and rationality.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau

Temperance: drink less..

caused by second GA, industrial rev and nativism

Andrew Jackson

election of Andrew Jackson in 1828 became symbolic of the new “politics of the common man.”

DEMOCRATIC PARTY; brought together smaller southern planters, urban workers, artisans, immigrants, and Catholics

Jacksonian Democracy

Whigs. Unlike Democrats, Whigs favored an active national government and promoted the “American System” to benefit American commerce: a national bank, a protective tariff, and internal improvements like canals and railroads. The party brought together merchants, bankers, prosperous farmers (including the wealthiest southern plantation owners), and Protestant reformers. Its members saw themselves as modernizers who believed in the power of government to improve society and morals.

These two parties formed the Second Party System in the United States, which lasted from about 1828 to 1854, when the issue of slavery broke apart the Whig Party.

yay women

gained traction through abolitionist sentiment and religious fervor surrounding the Second Great Awakening.

The Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, published at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, used constitutional language to underline the inconsistencies between national commitments to human equality and the treatment of women.

cult of domesticity—the view that women should remain relegated to the household

Women's Rights and Senaca Falls

southwest and california

Manifest Destiny: god given right for westen expansion

- gold rush and economic opportunity

-railroad and jobs maintaining new developements

-government support: Pacific Railway act (1862)

-Homestead Act (1862) free land to get small independent farmers

-white supremacy

- natives and immigrants treated terribly (asians in california ) and high taxes

-Chinease Exclusion Act of 18

westward expansion

Oregon Territory

Mexican- American War

-The annexation of Texas contributed to the coming of war

-Started over border dispute

-Rio Grade river

Manifest Destiny inflamed sectional tensions over slavery, which ultimately led to the Civil War.

"compromises"

lets just be unified against britain

"Jefferson calls it"holding a wolf by the ears"

-morally wrong vs economic opportunities

-Lincoln is known as "anti slavery" (not an abolitionist)

-Henry Clay "the great compromiser"

Slavery

Missouri Compromise: when applied for statehood, add maine as free state and missouri as slave

Compromise of 1850: temporary truce, addresses status after land acquired in mex-am war

-california added as a free state

-popular sovereighnty in NM and utah

-ban of slave trade on Washington dc

Fugitive Slave Act: u have to return a slave to their state

- Distribution of wealth become more and more concentrated at the top; fewer white people owned enslaved laborers in 1860 than in 1840.

-Yeoman farmers: no slaves but yes white supremacy

Dred Scott Case

U.S. Supreme Court stated that enslaved people were not citizens of the United States and, therefore, could not expect any protection from the federal government or the courts.

Issues of slavery began to crack the foundations of the Second Party System in the 1840s. The Kansas-Nebraska Act divided the Democratic Party along sectional lines, as half of the northern Democrats in the House voted against it. In 1848, the newly-formed Free Soil Party nominated former president Martin Van Buren and ran on an antislavery platform of “Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men.”

Kansas Nebraska Act

Popular sovereignty

act established the two territies of pop sov. but REPEALED missouri comp

- reopened the question of slavery's western expansion

-induced party realignment and violence, furthering the sectional divide that ultimately erupted in the Civil War.

The Democrats divided along sectional lines as a result of the bill, and the Whig party, in decline in the early 1850s, found its political power slipping further. Most important, the Kansas-Nebraska Act gave rise to the Republican Party

BLEEDING KANSAS: forshadowed violence that would ensure during civil war

job competition means hating immigrants

Gilded Age

nativists sentiments led to taxes that targetted immigrants

-chinese in cali

Political Machines : provided social services in exchange for political support

Settlement Houses like Hull house

Land, mining, and transportation by rail brought settlers to the American West, Free soil movement supports "west is for small famrers

Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which established the Northwest Territory (modern-day Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin) and prohibited the extension of slavery into that territory, land-grant legislation has been inextricably tied to the issue of slavery.

The Dawes Act of 1887 law intended to assimilate Native Americans led to the loss of millions of acres of land.

The Battle of the Little Bighorn, also known as Custer’s Last Stand, marked the beginning of the end of the Indian Wars.

Populist Party:

-increase government control

-ideas adopted in Progressive era

Coined term by MarkTwain:

on the surface looks great, but issies underneath

Social Darwinism: used by rich to defend success, gap grows between rich and poor

unions emerge

"New South" meant basically as industrialized as the north

farmers not doing so hot

Election of 1860 -Lincoln

lincoln elected, then the 7 states secede

- confederate

-president Jefferson Davis

then lincoln inagurated, clarifies he is fine keeping slavery where it is

Civil War

Uncld Tom's Cabin was actually widespread and helped support abolition

"Can't eat cotton!"

first battle : manasses or bull run (south W)

Anteitam: bloodiest day in American history

-led to "emanciation proc'

-basically showed there would not be european help

Gettysburg:

- Lee wants to take it back up to the north bc then they are distracted by protecting their land

-looking for supplies

- 3 days, July 1-3 1863

Anaconda Plan:

-block the entirety of the south so no supplies

Shermans march:

-total war morale, sherman takes atlanta

Lincoln choses Andrew Johnson bc slaveholder during 1864 election but when he is assasinated thats no good

Gettysburg Address:

- "ideals are worth dying for" - lincoln

Reconstruction

- Black codes to kep white supremacy, KKK

- Congress created the Freedmen's Bureau to economically and politically empower freed people after the Civil War.

-The Compromise of 1877 gave Rutherford B. Hayes the presidency in exchange for the end of Reconstruction (and withdrawl of federal troops) in the South.

-system of Jim Crow begins

Spanish-American War, the United States exercised significant control over Cuba, annexed Hawaii, and claimed Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines as territories.

The Anti-Imperialist League, which included such diverse characters as steel magnate Andrew Carnegie and labor leader Samuel Gompers, protested the United States' new empire.

Progressives tended to be WOMEN, urban, middle class (TO REFORM)

-business

-environment

-economy

-expand democracy

Progressive Era

<- WW1, WW2->

1. US enters neutral, to "protect democracy"

2. Great Migration: Black people move to the north for jobs in factories and economic opportunity

3. Treaty of Versailles ends WW1 and creates League of Nations (but US does not join)

4. Presidnet Woodrow Wilson

5. George Washington's ghost not happy (farewell address remember)

6. Red scare of 1920's = suppression of radicals and immigration quotas /laws

7. TECHHH

World War 1 and 2

1. US neutral until Pearl Harobr

2. mobilization of economy (ended GD) but also created opportunities for women and minorities

3.japanese Internment Camps

4. Zoot Suits seen as anti american (mexican american)

5. Atomic bomb:to save american lives, end war quickly and/or demonstrate our power

WHY WE WON: TECHHH, democracy, industrial production

IMPACT: US MOST POWERFUL NATION

Great Depression/New Deal

-led for the calls for a stronger inafinancial regulatory system

-FDR's New Deal:3 R's

-relief

-recovery

-reform

-drew on earlier progressive ideals

Challenges to New Deal: supreme court packing plan and radicals like Huey Long

Impacts: lagacy of reforms and agencies, Black people and UNIONS vote DEMOCRATIC (political realignment)

todo

-GI Bill: aid for veterans, led to suburbia

-Truman Doctorine: military and financial aid to contain threat of communism in greece and turkey

-Marshall Plan (provide foreign aid in western europe

-counterculture movement

Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missle Crisis, Space Race

US supports governments JUST bc they aren't communist

Eisenhoer says lets not spend a bunch of money bc were at peace in Military Industrial Complex

NATO to counter Soviet Union

Cold War

The Vietnam War was a prolonged military conflict that started as an anticolonial war against the French and evolved into a Cold War confrontation between international communism and free-market democracy.

President Lyndon Johnson dramatically escalated US involvement in the conflict, authorizing a series of intense bombing campaigns and committing hundreds of thousands of US ground troops to the fight.

Immigration ACT OF 1965: REVERSED QUOTA SYSTE,M OF 20'S

FAVORED immigration from LA and Asia

in US:

-both parties for containing communism

-red scare, HUOC, McCarthyism

NUCLEAR FAM but women work more in 70's

Environmental movement due to Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring"

liberalism: use the gov to promote social wellbeing

supreme court 1960's :individual freedoms (Griswald v Connecticut and birth control

Brown v Board, Civil Rights Act of 1964 (eliminated segregation everywhere

civil rights inspire womens rights, and gay right (stonewall riots) cesar chavezx and latinos

the rest

Conservatism REASONS:

-decreased public trust in gov

-economic problems (stagflation and oil embargos aka inflation)

Political Scandals:

-Watergate and Pentagon Papers (LBJ deceived americans abt the vietnam war)

Social and moral decay

rise of evangelical churches

Successes:

-reduced taxes (reaganomics or tax cuts for wealthy)

-less governmnet involvment

Fails:

-government size grew

-against abortion

1980- present

Reagan's Presidency:

-uses "bellicose rhetoric" means aggressive language

-not so good first time at detonte, second term gets better relations with Soviet Union and reduce weapons

POST COLD WAR WORLD:

-engages in peacekeeping interventions

-war on terrorism in afghanistan and iraq POST 9/11

-loss of manufacturing jobs due to outsourcing

-free trade (no tarriff)

-middle east conflict and climate change leads to questions of dependency on oil and fossil fuels

-population gains in South and west - "Sun Belt"

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