APUSH Crash Course
-Rise of McCarthyism - ✅✅ --Fears raised by "fall" of China to Communism
-Fears raised by Soviet Union's development of an atomic bomb
-Fears raised by Truman's emphasis on containment
-Fears raised by revelations that Soviet spies infiltrated agencies (Hiss,
Rosenberg)
1873 Slaughterhouse Cases and 1883 Civil Rights Cases - ✅✅--narrowed
meaning and effectiveness of 14th amendment
-weakened protection given to African Americans under 14th am
1920s Economic Conditions - ✅✅ --Standard of living rose, more people moved
to urban centers
-Office jobs
-Emphasis on marketing of consumer goods
-Growing investment in stock market
-Assembly-line production of Model T
-Number of children 10-15 in industrial workforce began to decline
-least prosperous were farmers, falling prices for agriculture products
1980 Election- Why Carter Lost - ✅✅--Iran hostage crisis played key role in
Carter's defeat
-Double-digit inflation
-Energy crisis
Advantages and Disadvantages of North (Civil War) - ✅✅ -Advantages
-extensive railroad network
-strong industrial base
-superior navy
- larger population
-abundant supply of food
Disadvantages
-shortage of experienced and skilled military commanders
-divided population that did not fully support the war
Advantages and Disadvantages of South (Civil War) - ✅✅-Advantages
,-defensive war fought on its home territory
-long coastline that would be difficult to blockade
-important cash crop in cotton
-group of experienced and skilled military commanders
-close economic relationship with Great Britain
Disadvantages
-smaller population than the North
-smaller industrial base than the North
Agricultural Adjustment Act 1933 - ✅✅ --New Deal 1st 100 Days
-Purpose was to raise farm prices by limiting agricultural production
Alexander Hamilton's Economic Policies - ✅✅ --Establish national bank
-Adopt protective tariff to raise revenue
-Fund the national debt
-Assume state debts incurred during Revolutionary War
Alliance for Progress -✅✅ --Initiated by President Kennedy in 1961
-Aimed to establish economic cooperation between North and South America
-Intended to counter the emerging Communist threat from Cuba
American Colonization Society - ✅✅ --Worked to return freed slaves to west
coast of Africa
-Primarily led by middle-class men and women
American Federation of Labor (AFL) - ✅✅ --Samuel Gompers
-Alliance of skilled workers in craft unions
-Bread-and-butter issues such as higher wages, shorter hours, and better
working conditions
Anne Hutchinson - ✅✅ --Struggle with Massachusetts Bay authorities over
religious doctrine and gender roles
-Challenged clerical authority, claimed to have had revelations from God
-Banned from Massachusetts Bay to Rhode Island
Bacon's Rebellion - ✅✅ --Exposed tensions between former indentured
servants (poor) and the gentry, the planters (rich)
, -Planters became more suspicious of their former indentured servants, turned to
slaves as more reliable sources of labor
Battle of Antietam - ✅✅ --Union victory persuaded England and France to
remain neutral
-European powers followed cautious policy toward both North and the South
-Union victory enabled Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation
Black Leaders who Favored Separatism - ✅✅--Marcus Garvey : Back to Africa
Movement
-Elijah Muhammad- Black Muslim Movement
-Stokely Carmichael- Black Power Movement
-Huey Newton- Black Panther Movement
Black Power Movement - ✅✅ --late 1960s
-Advocated that African Americans establish control of their political and
economic life
-Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael (SNCC), Huey Newton (Black Panthers)
Bonus Expeditionary Force - ✅✅ --1932, ragtag "army" of World War I veterans
marched on Washington DC
-Wanted Congress to pay them a bonus which had been promised to WWI vets
-Hoover used force to disband the Bonus Expeditionary Force
Booker T. Washington - ✅✅ --Called on African Americans to seek economic
opportunities rather than political rights
-Supported Black economic self-help
-Accommodation to White society
-Vocational education
-Racial solidarity
-Public political agitation
Causes of American Imperialism - ✅✅ --Sensational stories published by
"yellow journalists"
-New Navy policy promoted by Alfred Thayer Mahan and Theodore Roosevelt
-Emphasis of Social Darwinism
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