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Welcome Back!. Today in History. Mass shooting in Arizona includes Representative Gabby Giffords , 2011 No Child Left Behind Act, 2002 Watergate Trial begins, 1973 Lyndon Johnson declares the “War on Poverty”, 1964 Wilson’s 14 points, 1918 US debt is zero for the only time, 1835

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  1. Welcome Back!

  2. Today in History • Mass shooting in Arizona includes Representative Gabby Giffords, 2011 • No Child Left Behind Act, 2002 • Watergate Trial begins, 1973 • Lyndon Johnson declares the “War on Poverty”, 1964 • Wilson’s 14 points, 1918 • US debt is zero for the only time, 1835 • Battle of New Orleans, 1815

  3. Let’s Get It… • 125 days until your AP exam • That counts Spring Break, weekends, holidays, etc. • Assessments will be more cumulative in nature • So that the material doesn’t just fall out of your head

  4. Words of “Wisdom” • It’s up to you…I can only do so much • You’re either all in or all out • There is no halfway on the AP exam • Some of you need to make a decision ASAP • This is an opportunity to show colleges what you can/cannot do • The AP test will be harder this year than last year • Background knowledge • Style of writing • Year older

  5. Words of “Wisdom” • Review materials • Princeton Review materials • When reviewing • Make sure you don’t just remember dates/facts • Get the big picture theme of the time period • That will help you on questions you have no idea about • Review Sessions • When we get a little closer to test date • Can be on Saturday or after school

  6. Who would be better to help you solve a problem? Steve from Blue’s Clues or Dora the Explorer? HOMEWORK: BODY PARAGRAPH PRACTICE

  7. WHERE WE’VE BEEN…WHERE WE’RE GOING

  8. Where We’ve Been… • Europeans started to venture over to the Western hemisphere • Why? • The English defeated the __________ • Big effect? • The English set up colonies in America • Two different types?

  9. Where We’ve Been • American colonial culture starts to develop • British and French fight over… • Why? • Why does it lead to the Revolution? • Americans fight the War for Independence • Breakdown of colonial allegiance? • Biggest reason they win? • Comes after?

  10. Where We’ve Been • Americans now independent form their own government • First? • Why doesn’t it work? • Catalyst? • Draft Constitution • Authority of government rests in the power of ____ • A system to put a check on the power of the masses • Evidence? • Debate over ratification • Federalists & Anti-Federalists • What did the AF want included?

  11. Where We’ve Been • Washington • Farewell address? • What were the 2 parties? • Hamiltonian economics? • Adams • XYZ Affair • Why? • Alien & Sedition Acts • Jefferson • Louisiana Purchase • Two sides of Jefferson • Madison • War of 1812…why? • Opposition from? • Monroe • What’s the big deal with him? • What is the catch?

  12. Where We’ve Been • Jacksonian Democracy • What is this? • Examples? • What campaign overtly tried to court everyday voters? • American System • What does it lead to? • Second Great Awakening leads to reforms • Examples? • Reform movement is overshadowed by…?

  13. Where We’ve Been • America looks to expand • What is that called? • Where? • What does this lead to? • Why?

  14. Where We’ve Been • America fights the Civil War • First shots? • The Civil War is between a(n) _______ North and a(n) ______ South • What was the North’s strategy? • South’s strategy? • Turning points of the war… • Total warfare?

  15. Where We’ve Been • Reconstruction • 2 different viewpoints • Which one is carried out • Reconstruction amendments • Does Reconstruction change the lives of African Americans? • Why or why not? • Why does Reconstruction ultimately fail?

  16. What the @$&% is this? • Columbian Exchange • Mercantilism • Intolerable Acts • Boston Massacre • NW Ordinance of 1787 • Midnight Judges • XYZ Affair • Hartford Convention • American System • Era of Good Feelings

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  18. Where We’re Going… • After the Civil War, America goes through the period of extreme ups and downs • Macroeconomically • Microeconomically • Period of extreme power of corporations and wealth in government • This is a period when America lays the groundwork to become a superpower in the 20th century

  19. UNIT 7 TRAILER

  20. The Gilded Age: Politics • Gilded Age • Sarcastic name • Superficial layer of gold • High _________________ • 80% ______________ • Presidential elections close • Congress changed hands many times

  21. Everyday They’re Hustling • The Gilded Age is a time period of _______________________ • Railroad promoters allowed people to buy bonds without an actual RR • Judges and Congressmen could be bought off • ____________ & ____________ • Millionaires who manipulated the stock market • No rules to stop them • Laissez faire economics • Bid the price of gold upward • Put many people out of business • ____________________ • Used bribery, cunning, fraudulent elections to keep power • Got power from new immigrants • Exposed by the NYT and Thomas Nast

  22. The Grant Administration • Elected because he was an outsider/war-hero • Lots of _____________ • Credit Mobilier • Whiskey Ring

  23. Panic of 1873 • Part of a pattern • America was expanding faster than it could afford • ____________________ • When profits failed to materialize the banks and then the country were SOL • Catalyst: Jay Cooke • While Grant was staying at his house, he went to lock the door on his bank • People couldn’t do business • 5,000 closed and fired all of their workers

  24. “The cities…were death traps of typhus, tuberculosis, hunger and fire. In New York, 100,000 people lived in the cellars of the slums; 12,00 women worked in prostitution to avoid hunger; the garbage, lying 2 feet deep in the streets, was alive with rats. In Philadelphia, while the rich got fresh water from the Schuylkill River, everyone else drank form the Delaware, into which 13,000,000 gallons of waste were dropped everyday.”~Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States

  25. Panic of 1873 • Debtors • What political party • Creditors Grant’s Policy: ____________ • Money based on _____ • Little _____________

  26. Fisk & Gould • Boss Tweed • Gilded Age • Creditors/Debtors

  27. Grant wants to run for office a third time • Officially reminded by the House of the dictator implications • Whose example would they be citing? • “It was a depression year, the worst year of the severest depression yet experienced. In the East labor and unemployed were in a bitter and violent temper…Out West, a tide of agrarian radicalism was rising…”C. Vann Woodward, Reunion and Reaction

  28. The Closest Election EVERRRRR: 1876 • Republicans • Rutherford B. Hayes • Governor of important swing-state • Keep this in mind • Democrats • Samuel Tilden • Got fame exposing Boss Tweed in NY • Who is that? • Greenback Party • Peter Cooper • What would they be in favor of?

  29. The Closest Election EVERRR • Compromise of 1877 • Electoral Count Act • Set up a commission of 15 men from House, Senate, and Supreme Court to decide the election • Voted on partisan lines 8 to 7 to award the election to Hayes • Democratic Reaction • Very upset thought it was stolen • Republicans concede • Removal of federal troops from South • Abandoned its commitment to civil rights • Assured Democrats patronage (not kept) • Assured funding for Southern RR (not kept) • Deal holds on log enough for Hayes to be inaugurated • 3 days

  30. Why the Compromise? • “Northern politicians began to weigh the advantage of the political support of impoverished blacks—maintained in voting and office only by force—against eh most stable situation of a South returned to white supremacy, accepting Republican dominance and business legislation.”

  31. http://www.history.com/topics/reconstruction/videos#the-failure-of-reconstructionhttp://www.history.com/topics/reconstruction/videos#the-failure-of-reconstruction The End of Reconstruction

  32. Rutherford B. Hayes via Disney

  33. The Rise of Jim Crow • Civil Rights Act 1875 • Shows Republicans are _____________ on civil rights • It agreed to allow equal accommodation in public facilities but ___________________ • The Supreme Court _____________________ • 14th amendment _________________

  34. The Rise of Jim Crow • Conditions • Redeemers • White Democrats • Took power back in the South • Blacks who tried to assert their new rights • Unemployment • Violence • Eviction • Blacks were forced into sharecropping and tenant farming • Some former masters • A farmer cultivating land owned by someone else in return for rent • Crop lien system • Farmer could buy food/supplies on credit • Right to hold another’s property until debt is met

  35. The Rise of Jim Crow • Jim Crow Laws

  36. The Rise of Jim Crow • Slaughterhouse Cases • LA • Slaughterhouse waste was prevalent in the water pumps in LA • Causes major cholera outbreaks • State of LA creates a space south of New Orleans to slaughter meat • Butchers feel it is a violation of their rights • Supreme Court 5-4 • __________________________ • Why is this going to matter?

  37. The Rise of Jim Crow • Plessey v. Ferguson, 1896 • Supreme Court upheld the Louisiana Law • Eventually reversed by Brown v. Board

  38. Jim Crow • Sharecropping • Civil Rights Act 1875 • Electoral Count Act • Corrupt Bargain

  39. WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT JIM CROW? • African Americans • Booker T. Washington • George Washington Carver • Studied at Tuskegee • Many uses for peanuts, sweet potatoes

  40. W.E.B. Dubois • Earned a PhD at Harvard

  41. Compare/Contrast • W.E.B. Dubois • Booker T Washington

  42. Thesis Practice • During the Gilded Age, _______ had the correct view of what the African American community should do

  43. Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age

  44. Previously • Plessey v. Ferguson • Slaughterhouse Cases • Compromise of 1877 • Sharecropping • Booker T. Washington • W.E.B. DuBois • Gilded Age • Fisk & Cooke • Boss Tweed • Whiskey Ring • Waving the Bloody Shirt

  45. Thesis Practice • Exchange your thesis with someone sitting around you • Write your name on the paper • Check for the 4 aspects of thesis writing • Put a number above where they complete each step • Write on the paper what they did/did not do

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  47. Multiple Choice Practice • What happened with the Compromise of 1877? • The dispute over electoral votes in the election of 1876: • Was similar to the election of 2000 in that the Supreme Court ultimately had to step in and decide the election • Led many members of Congress to push for a Constitutional amendment to abolish the electoral college • Was resolved when Samuel J. Tilden conceded the election to Rutherford B. Hayes • Led to a congressional dispute between the House of Representatives and the Senate as to who had the authority to determine the outcome of the election. • Was resolved by a special bipartisan commission and resulted in the end of military reconstruction

  48. The Gilded Age: Politics • How are the Parties Different? • Republicans • Democrats • Republican Division • Stalwarts • Half-Breeds

  49. The Spoil System Spoils • Election of 1880 • Republicans decide that Hayes isn’t working • Republicans • James Garfield • Chester Arthur • Stalwart, running mate • Democrats • Winfield Scott Hancock • Garfield wins by only 39,000 in the popular vote

  50. The Spoils System Spoils • Garfield is shot • Charles Guiteau • Denied a job by Garfield • Wanted the stalwart Arthur • First use of insanity defense • SHOCKS PEOPLE INTO REFORMING CIVIL SERVICE REFORM

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