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America’s Quotes: What I learned in AP US History

America’s Quotes: What I learned in AP US History . By: Francisco Gonzalez. “When we face adversity, we become one” . The Revolutionary War Pullman Strikes World War II Vietnam War Protests . During the Revolutionary war, all 13 colonies united to fight one single cause: Independence.

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America’s Quotes: What I learned in AP US History

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  1. America’s Quotes:What I learned in AP US History By: Francisco Gonzalez

  2. “When we face adversity, we become one”

  3. The Revolutionary War Pullman Strikes World War II Vietnam War Protests

  4. During the Revolutionary war, all 13 colonies united to fight one single cause: Independence. • In the Pullman strikes, more than 3000 workers united, aggressively, to protest the wage cuts. • During the second world war, the home front was extensively united in supporting their troops in order to help them defeat the axis powers. • In the late 1960s, protesters got together and demonstrated to the country that the war in Vietnam was extremely unpopular.

  5. “America, a nation of hypocrisy”

  6. The revolutionary war and slavery. Japanese Internment camps. Cold War espionage

  7. During the Revolutionary war, we fought for independence and liberty. But we had slavery and injustice in our back yards. • We were liberating concentration camps in Europe, while imprisoning Japanese in our own. • The Rosenbergs were executed for being spies, yet, we were sending U-2 spy planes over the Soviet Union.

  8. “Industry is a powerful tool”

  9. Civil War and the Union WWII production rate WWII and the Great Depression

  10. In the civil war, the industrial north had the upper hand because they were well armed and well supplied. • During WWII, the US was able to out produce any other nation involved in the war, an effective tool that helped them win the war. • The industrial boom of the second world war has great enough to get the US out of a depression and into a booming economy.

  11. “Americans need room”

  12. Territorial scuffles with early Natives. Louisiana Purchase. Manifest Destiny.

  13. Since the time of the early colonists, Natives and Americans have always battled for land. • Under Thomas Jefferson’s presidency, the US acquired land from France that nearly doubled the size of the country. • During the 1800s, the mass movement of people to the west reflected the notion of Manifest Destiny, the belief that Americans were destined to take over the land between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

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