Transcript US History TAKS Exit Strategies

U.S. History TAKS
Exit Strategies
or how to improve
your bag of tricks!!!
You need know 5 elements to master
this test:
1. PRIMARY SOURCES
2. HISTORICAL PERIODS
3. WARS
4. CARTOONS
5. MAPS, GRAPHS, CHARTS
Primary sources that are important
on the test are:
 DECLARATION
OF
INDEPENDENCE
 U.S. CONSTITUTION
 BILL OF RIGHTS
 AMENDMENTS TO THE
CONSTITUTION
But…..do we have to know
DATES????
1492
1776
1803
1787
1898
1861-65
1929
1914-18
1939
1941-45
Let’s look at some documents
MAGNA CARTA
MAYFLOWER COMPACT
DECLARATION OF
INDEPENDENCE
ARTICLES OF
CONFEDERATION
Let’s review the
amendments. There
are ALWAYS
questions on these.
FIRST AMENDMENT
1
FREEDOM
OF: RELIGION, PRESS,
SPEECH, POLITICAL ACTIVITY
SECOND AND THIRD
AMENDMENTS
RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS AS
MEMBER OF A CITIZEN
MILITIA
FREEDOM FROM
QUARTERING
SOLDIERS
AMENDMENT
4
PROTECTS
AGAINST
UNREASONABLE
SEARCH AND
SEIZURE
AMENDMENTS 5-8
Protect
the rights of citizens
who are
accused of crimes
Amendments
 Establish
9 and 10
limits on the powers of the
Federal Government
What about the other amendments?
….13………13……….13…..
A LUCKY NUMBER FOR THE SLAVES:
IT ABOLISHED
SLAVERY!!!
TH
14
AMENDMENT
 1868
CIVIL
RIGHTS
EQUAL PROTECTION
UNDER THE LAW
TH
15
GIVES
THE RIGHT
TO VOTE
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
$
THE
$IXTEENTH
AMENDMENT
E$TABLI$HES
THE
INCOME TAX
SENATORS 17 SENATORS
TH
17
ALLOWS
FOR THE
DIRECT
ELECTION OF
SENATORS
TH
18
AMENDMENT
ALSO CALLED “PROHIBITION,”
WHAT DID IT PROHIBIT???
(AND WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS
AMENDMENT LATER ON?)
19 WOMEN
19 WOMEN
19 WOMEN
THE NINETEENTH
GAVE WOMEN THE
RIGHT TO VOTE IN
1919
Oh, no…more documents????
FEDERALIST PAPERS

written before the Constitution was adopted.

PURPOSE: to argue the pros and cons of the
Constitution and to urge adoption

WHEN?
1788
MAGNA
England’s
CARTA
first constitutional
document
1215 A.D.
Our Government Basics
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3 Branches of Government:
EXECUTIVE
LEGISLATIVE
JUDICIAL
WHY WAS OUR
GOVERNMENT SET UP
THIS WAY???
SEPARATION OF POWERS

THE GOVERNMENT WAS SET UP TO RESERVE
SPECIFIC POWERS FOR THE
STATES
AND
OTHER
POWERS FOR
ONLY THE
FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT
IN WASHINGTON
Two more things….
TWO DOCUMENTS THAT
PREDATE OUR CONSTITUTION
ARE:
 MAYFLOWER
 ARTICLES
COMPACT
OF
CONFEDERATION
MAYFLOWER COMPACT WAS
WRITTEN ON THE BOAT
BEFORE THE PILGRIMS
LANDED. IT SET UP THE
RULES FOR THE COLONY.
ARTICLES OF
CONFEDERATION
1781
THIS WEAK DOCUMENT ATTEMPTED TO SET
UP THE GOVERNMENT, BUT…
No executive branch
No taxing or laws enacted by Congress
No national court system
No national unity and an unfair representation
system
HISTORICAL PERIODS
Let’s
construct a
timeline to
help you
remember!
BEFORE
1900
ANTEBELLUM (BEFORE 1861)
CIVIL WAR (1861-65)
RECONSTRUCTION (1865-1877)
WESTWARD EXPANSION AND
INDUSTRIALIZATION
(1877-1900)
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
(1898)
BEFORE 1861
(BEFORE THE WAR)
NULLIFICATION CRISIS
It started when southern states
challenged the federal
government’s authority to make
laws. Because states had created
the union, they had the right to
declare a federal law NULL, or not
valid.
WHY DID THE SOUTHERN
STAES SECEDE FROM THE
UNION IN 1861?
1.
2.
3.
Because of new states entering the union
that did not have slaves, the slaveholding
states would soon be in the minority.
Growing support of abolition of slavery by
northerners.
Lincoln’s election is viewed by the South
as a threat to their society.
CIVIL WAR
1861-1865
WHY DID THE
SOUTH LOSE
THE WAR?
WHY DID IT
TAKE THE
SOUTH
MORE TIME
TO RECOVER
FROM THE
WAR’S
EFFECTS ?
WESTWARD
EXPANSION
1869-COMPLETION OF THE
TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD
GROWTH AND SETTLEMENT OF THE
WEST AND STANDARDIZATION OF
TIME AND TIME ZONES
HOMESTEAD ACT
IN 1862, THE HOMESTEAD
ACT ALLOWED SETTLERS
TO CLAIM PUBLIC LANDS,
LIVE THERE FOR 5 YEARS,
AND RECEIVED LEGAL
OWNERSHIP OF THE LAND.
INDUSTRIALIZATION
WHY DID THE U.S. SUCCEED
IN BECOMING INDUSTRIAL?
NATURAL RESOURCES
LARGE WORKFORCE
FREE ENTERPRISE
LAISSEZ-FAIRE ATTITUDE OF GOVERNMENT,
THAT IS, LACK OF HIGH TAXES AND
REGULATIONS ON BUSINESS
NEW INVENTIONS LIKE THE TELEGRAPH,
TELEPHONE, STEEL PROCESSING,
ELECTRICITY
The Gilded Age
With industrialization, the rich got richer and the poor
stayed poor.
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Social Darwinism- a belief that society
progressed when the fittest people
survived. “Rags to Riches”
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Wealthiest people? Andrew Carnegie, John D.
Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt
urbanization
Immigrants flocked to the country from Ireland
and Central Europe. Later, they came from Italy
and South and Eastern Europe. Asian
immigrants came to work on the railroads.
WHAT CONDITIONS DID
THEY FACE IN THE
GROWING CITIES?
POPULISM
IN 1875, POLITICAL PARTIES IN
RURAL AREAS STARTED TO
FORM TO GIVE POWER TO
FARMERS.
ECONOMIC HARD TIMES AND
THE RISING AND FALLING
VALUE OF THE DOLLAR
HELPED GIVE RISE TO
POPULISM.
1898
the Spanish American War
America felt that its frontier was settled, and this caused a rise of
IMPERIALISM, the move to gain territory outside the borders.
We annexed Hawaii and traded with Latin America.
Then, in 1898, our battleship Maine exploded in Cuba.
We declared war on Spain, which controlled Cuba, and the
war was over in one year.
We gained territory in the Pacific Islands, Caribbean, and the
Philippines.
1900
U.S. as World Power
Theodore Roosevelt is President
* Environmental concerns
* “Great White Fleet”
* Building of the Panama Canal
* Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe
Doctrine:
THE U.S. WILL INTERVENE TO
STABILIZE LATIN AMERICA IF FOREIGN
POWERS INTERFERE IN THE
AMERICAS.
PROGRESSIVISM
WORDS TO KNOW
MUCKRAKERS
SUFFRAGE FOR WOMEN
SOCIALISM
PROHIBITION
CHILD LABOR LAWS
TRUST BUSTING
WORLD
WAR I
LET’S LOOK AT THE CAUSES…
1. MAJOR ALLIANCES IN
EUROPE
2. IMPERIALISM
3. SINKING OF THE
LUSITANIA
4. ASSASSINATION OF
ARCHDUKE FERDINAND
5. ZIMMERMAN TELEGRAM
WHO WAS AT WAR?
BRITAIN
FRANCE
U.S.
RUSSIA
GERMANY
VS.
AUSTRIA-
HUNGARY
OTTOMAN
TURKS
1920’s
“The Roaring Twenties”
 FORD
ASSEMBLY LINE
 RISE OF BASEBALL AND RADIO
 CHARLES LINDBERGH
 PROHIBITION
 CHANGING ROLES OF WOMEN
 HARLEM RENAISSANCE
AND ON THE NEGATIVE SIDE:
Ku
Klux Klan
The Red Scare
Sacco and Vanzetti trial
Scopes Monkey trial
From BOOM to BUST
HOW DID IT
HAPPEN?
The Depression
Uneven
1930’s
distribution
of wealth
Loss of export
sales
Buying too
much on
credit
And the food supply?????
 DROUGHT
 LOW FARM
PRICES
 “THE DUST
BOWL”
 MASS
MIGRATION
WEST
1932—FDR IS ELECTED
“THE NEW DEAL”
Regulating Banks
Agricultural Adjustment Act
Relief for homeowners
Civilian Conservation Corps
Public Works
Medicare
Social Security
FDIC
1940
U.S. isolation led to the rise in
dictatorships across the
globe.
Causes of World War II
Alliances: Which country
was on which side?
What happened on
December 7, 1941?
WORLD WAR II TERMS TO
REMEMBER
 “ROSIE
THE RIVETER”
 MANHATTAN PROJECT
 JAPANESE INTERNMENT
 VICTORY GARDENS
 D-DAY
 HOLOCAUST
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Truman Doctrine
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Ike
Iron Curtain
Cold War
Korean War
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1950’s
McCarthyism
Sputnik
Brown vs. Board of Education
1960’s
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JFK
LBJ
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
James Meredith
Malcolm X
MLK
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Watergate
Stagflation
 Gas crisis
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Iran revolution
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War Powers Act
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Roe v Wade
1970’s
1980’s
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“Reaganomics”
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George H.W. Bush
Defense build-up
Fall of Soviet Union
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Technology
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1990’s
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Clinton
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Impeachment
Contract with America
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NAFTA
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Gulf War
2000’s
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Bush vs. Gore
Terrorism attacks
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War in Afghanistan
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War in Iraq
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Cyberspace
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POLITICAL CARTOONS
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All cartoons show “bias” or the opinion of
the artist
Try to decode the point of view of the artist
Large figures mean “powerful”
Small figures are oppressed or subordinate
Look for symbols (flags, religious symbols,
etc.)
Watch for captions and labels on the figures
WHAT IS THE ARTIST TRYING TO
SAY???
Graphs, Maps, and Charts
TAKE YOUR TIME.
 Look for the axis labels and the units of
measurement.
 READ THE QUESTION: WHAT KIND
OF ANSWER DO THEY WANT?
 Cross out the bad answer choices.
 DOUBLE CHECK. Is this the right
choice?
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ARE WE READY?
WHAT
OTHER
CONCERNS
DO YOU
HAVE?
THE END
The End