A note… this is not a complete history just my observations of what has been tested on the Multiple choice in the past… use this wisely 

• Bay of Pigs Fiasco

• 1962 Book –Environmental movement

o Rachel Carson –Silent Spring

• Cuban Missile Crisis –Result

o Removes missiles from turkey in exchange for Russia missing from Cuba promised not to invade Cuba

• Cut taxes on wealthy – to invigorate economy

• American University “detente” speech after Cuban missile crisis

• Bay of Pigs

• 1963 march on Washington

• CORE- 1942 union of Chicago students

• SNCC- 1960 Raleigh students, Ella Baker

• SCLC – 1957 Martin Luther King Jr. Ministers

• Nuclear Test Ban Treaty -1963

• JFK’s Administrations Achievements

o Alliance for Progress (Latin American )

o Peace Corp (world)

• Defeats Nixon 1960 – 1st Televised debates

• Massive retaliation not practical “Flexible Response”

• Domino Theory in Vietnam

• Robert Macuancra – Secretary of Defense

o Ivy League Brain Trust

• 1861- Freedom Rides

• Lee Harvey Oswald Kills Kennedy Nov. 22, 1963

• Greensboro sit-ins 1960

L. B. Johnson 1963-1969

“Great society”

“war on poverty”

Eventually lower the number of families living in poverty to its lowest levels ever

• Deep divisions within American public in 1968 were demonstrated by assassination RFK –MLK Jr.

Urban riots in cities

Antiwar demons at democratic convention in Chicago

George Wallaces strong support in 1968 election in south and come northern urban areas

• Gulf of Tonkin incident 1964 (Vietnam fires on US ship)

Resolution – congress gives LBJ money and troops he wants leads to “escalation in Vietnam”

[15,000-560,000]

• (major) immigration act 1965 effect: immigration from Asia increases significantly

• Ed. Emp. Public acc.

• Civil rights act 1964

• Voting rights act 1965

• Head start program

• Medicaid and medicare 1965

• Black panthers 1965 – Oakland

• Black power movement

• Pop art

• N.O.W.

• WITCH

• Watts riots 1965

• North Vietnamese… Ho Chi Minh… viet-cong

• Water quality act 1965

• Thurgood marshall 1967 1st African American justice in south Carolina

• Cesar chavez – Delano grape strike California

Form workers union

• N.O.W. – national organization of women (feminists)

Founded in order to challenge sex discrimination in the work place

• 1964 election –V. Goldwater… conservative-states rights … daisy tv commercial

• Tet offensive 1968 – Vietnam (Vietnamese new year) –began decline in popular support for war in USA (viet cong was strong and could attack major cities in south Vietnam)

• Students for a democratic society (SDS) “new left” … “pt. huron” statement

• Free speech movement… Mario savio…. Cal – berkely 1964

• Malcolm x breaks 1964 – assassination 1965… with the nation of islam

• 24th amendment bans poll tax 1964

Richard Nixon (1969-1974)

• 1973 Yom Kippur War- OPEC- embargo- prices x 4

• Diplomacy under Nixon: ping- pong diplomacy

• China had become impt. Global power…

• Visit to: China: 1972 and USSR--- Purpose: “Détente” (Relaxing of tension of Cold War)--- Help w/ N. Vietnam to set peace and war

• Election 1968: while conservative support “silent majority”--- “law and order”--- Labor union support grows

• Democrats divided over Vietnam

• S.A.L.T. (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) Ex: of détente w/ USSR

• Vietnamization Policy- Reducing #’s of us troops

• Nixon Doctrine- US cannot anymore be police force of the world

• “silent majority”

• Credibility gap

• Watergate- C.R.E.E.P.- hearings on TV begin 73’- Coverup- tapes- Nixon v. US

• O.P.E.C.- energy crisis

• Title IX

• SSI

• Kent St., Jackson St., Cambodia

• Spiro Agnew Resigns

• Ford V.P.

• Stonewall Riots 1969?

• Woodstock Festival 1969

• Counter culture

• Man on the moon, 1969

• War Powers Act, 1973

• Huge inflation & stagnation of incomes leads to “stag-flation” due to huge spending on Vietnam War & programs of great societies war on poverty

• Nixon worked against busing as a solution to school integration reversing progress since 1960’s…

• Clean Air Act

• Endangered Species Act

• 26th Amend. –Voting age 18

• End draft 73’?

• Pentagon Papers, 1971

• High inflation rages of 1970s were due in part to spending on social welfare programs (great society)

• And spending on Vietnam War

• “ Our Long National Nightmare Is Over” – Vietnam Ends in 1975

• Ford’s pardon of Nixon

• Helsinki Accords with USSR ‘75

• Bi – Centennial Celebration 1976

Jimmy Carter

1977 – 1981

• Peanut Farmer

• From Georgia

• Because of “Credibility” Gap (Vietnam-Watergate) being an “outsider” from Government a positive

• Jimmy Carter’s Foreign Policy problem with Iran Hostage Crisis (444 days)

• 1979 – 52 American Hostages

• The economy under Carter :

o Rising unemployment

o High interest Rates (20%)

o Inflation

o Increased Gov’t spending

• Dept. of energy – 1977

• Selective Service act – 1980

• 1979 – 3 mile Island nuclear Plant in Pennsylvania near disaster

• Vietnam draft dodgers pardoned

• Panama Canal given to Panama in 2000

• Camp David Accords – Israel – Egypt Peace Agreement

• Boycott 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics

• USSR invades Afghanistan in December of 1979

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989

• Reaganomics- Supply Side Economics- Voodoo Economics (George Bush)

• Cut taxes on wealthy to increase tax revenue for Government & stimulate the economy

• “Trickle Down Theory” (1st used in 1920s with Secretary of Treasury Andrew Mellon

• President Election Campaign 1980- Too many taxes

• Iran-Contra Affair- Secretly selling arms to Iran to get their help in releasing hostages in Lebanon

• Money from sales sent to anti-communist (Sardinista) Contra Rebels in Nicaragua despite the Congressional Ban

• Moral Majority &Neoconservatives

• Southern Democrats (Conservatives) begin to switch parties to Republican

• Grenada Invasion

• Anti- Drug Campaign

• “Evil Empire”- USSR

• Gorbachev- Perestroika & Glasnost

• PLO/ Hezbollah – Lebanon Marine Bombing- 1982

• Clean Water Act- 1987

• Strategic Defense Initiative- (Star Wars)

• Reagan Revolution: Tax Cuts for wealthy +Huge increase in deficit spending

• Cut Social Spending Dramatically

• Election of 1984- Mondale/ Geraldine Ferraro- 1st woman on major ticket for President

• Sandra Day O’Connor- 1st woman Supreme Court Justice

• End of Cold War… Revolution of 89… Berlin Wall Falls

• Americans with Disabilities Act, 1990

• Operation Desert Storm

• Loses in election of 1992 to W. Clinton due to:

o Ross Perot’s Candidacy

o Promised:

 “Read my lips no new taxes”…. Broke promise

• Appoints 2nd African-American to Supreme Court

• Clarence Thomas who is accused of sexual harassment by law school professor Anita Hill on TV…. Vote in senate confirms Thomas 52-48

• Invasion of Panama

• CIS – Boris Yeltsin

• Impeached – Monica Lewinsky Affair 1999

• North American Free Trade Agreement, 1993

o US, Canada, Mexico

• Oklahoma City Bombing 195

• Family Medical Leave Act, 1992

• Welfare Reform Act, 1996

o Welfare to Work

• Rep. Congress… passes “Contract w/America” to balance Budget 1998

• Welfare Cuts

• $ Help to cities (urban improvement)

• Black Hawk Down – Somalia

• US troops to Yugoslavia w/UN Peacekeepers

George W. Bush II (Jr.)

2001-2009

• Patriot Act 2001

• No child left behind

o Education Act

• Bush Doctrine

• Persian Gulf War

• Iraq

• September 11th – 2001… Twin Towers Attacked

British colonists wishing to settle west of Appalachian mtns were motivated by… Cheap or Free Land won fairly.

Republican motherhood- Elevate Women to be the person responsible for our democracy due to their responsibility to educate Young boys to be valuable educated citizens in a democracy…a by product is that women in the 1800’s slowly gain the ability to attend secondary and even universities by the end of the Civil War.

Cult of Domesticity- woman’s place is in the home… A “Separate Sphere” for Women.

Great Awakening of 1740’s- emotion increased, new light/old light, new universities created, splits in denominations, Methodists/Baptists, 1st mass movement of a united people

Women in USA 1790-1810- critical to educate a Republican citizenry…ie…rep motherhood

Immigrants from England and non-English: Germans, Scots, Irish, Dutch

Deism?

-affected divisions in congregational and Presbyterian churches

Slave population grows due to natural born African Am. Pop.. and the Atlantic Triangle Trade until 1808 when it is banned by agreement at the Constitutional Convention 1n 1787…

19th Century

• Ante-bellum-growth of slave population due to natural reproduction

• Support for slavery in the south was based on? (3)

• Most Irish immigrants of 1840’s settle in?

• Distinguishing feature of American Society in early 19th century? (newspapers)

• Last ½ of 19th century “new south” advocates support expansion of?

• City bosses- urban political machines in late 19th early 20th century helped poor imm. In exchange for what?

• 1st ½ 19th century- central and western NY known as “Burned-over” district… why?

• Southern Economy before civil war (ante-bellum) was still…

• Republican party 1850’s-60’s-(1854 begins KS-NB act) position on slavery

• Settlement House workers- Jane Addams-Hull House-purpose

• Social Darwinism- “survival of the fittest”- William Graham Sumer

• Market Revolution 1815-1860 effects of-

Econ. Specialization

Mass prod. With machines

Income gap

Org. labor begins

• Gilded Age: vertical, Horizontal>integration

• U.S. Government sends troops against striking workers

• Deflationary monetary policy

• Fundamental Christianity- Bibles completely accurate in all ways

• Antebellum argument of slaves being better off than free “wage slaves” factory workers begin 1930’s- TJ’s idea that slavery is evil

• Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin (1793) and interchangeable parts

• Frederick Jackson turners-speech 1893- Colombian exposition Chicago. “The influence of the frontier on American History”

• Gospel of Wealth-Carnegie (do not help individuals but society as a whole)

• Jacob Riis- “How the other half lives”- discusses?(imm. Poverty and despair)

• Reconstruction-Econ. Development in south was spread of share cropping/crop-lein system

• Slave power conspiracy 1840-50 northers fear due to: New fugitive slave law, Ostend manifesto, dread scott case, gag rule in congress

• Henry Clay’s American system? Designed to meet Americans need for econ. Progress-bank tariff gov’t money for internal improvements

• Ida B. Wells anti-lynching campaign

• Transcendentalism-Emerson/Thoreau-individual conduct guided by truth found in conscience

• Post civil war feminist reaction to 15th amendment?

• Booker t Washington(Atlanta compromise speech, “separate as our fingers”) v. w.e.b dubois- NAACP founder Niagra movement , souls of black folk, immediate immigration and rights

• 2nd great awakening- encouraged evangelical Christianity

• Jim crow laws- (1880’s-1960’s)

• Transportation revolution(1790’s-1830’s) canals and turnpikes steamboat(1840’s-1850’s) railroads steamships

• 1896 election farmers protest lost momentum after due to: loss in 1896 election, huge immigration to cities which led to higher prices for crops, crop failures in Europe which led to higher prices for crops, gold discovered in Alaska in 1898 which led to inflation and silver loss momentum

19th Century continued….

• Ante-bellum-growth of slave population due to natural reproduction

• Support for slavery in the south was based on? (3)

• Most Irish immigrants of 1840’s settle in?

• Distinguishing feature of American Society in early 19th century? (newspapers)

• Last ½ of 19th century “new south” advocates support expansion of?

• City bosses- urban political machines in late 19th early 20th century helped poor imm. In exchange for what?

• 1st ½ 19th century- central and western NY known as “Burned-over” district… why?

• Southern Economy before civil war (ante-bellum) was still…

• Republican party 1850’s-60’s-(1854 begins KS-NB act) position on slavery

• Settlement House workers- Jane Addams-Hull House-purpose

• Social Darwinism- “survival of the fittest”- William Graham Sumer

• Market Revolution 1815-1860 effects of-

Econ. Specialization

Mass prod. With machines

Income gap

Org. labor begins

• Gilded Age: vertical, Horizontal>integration

• U.S. Government sends troops against striking workers

• Deflationary monetary policy

• Fundamental Christianity- Bibles completely accurate in all ways

• Antebellum argument of slaves being better off than free “wage slaves” factory workers begin 1930’s- TJ’s idea that slavery is evil

• Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin (1793) and interchangeable parts

• Frederick Jackson turners-speech 1893- Colombian exposition Chicago. “The influence of the frontier on American History”

• Gospel of Wealth-Carnegie (do not help individuals but society as a whole)

• Jacob Riis- “How the other half lives”- discusses?(imm. Poverty and despair)

• Reconstruction-Econ. Development in south was spread of share cropping/crop-lein system

• Slave power conspiracy 1840-50 northers fear due to: New fugitive slave law, Ostend manifesto, dread scott case, gag rule in congress

• Henry Clay’s American system? Designed to meet Americans need for econ. Progress-bank tariff gov’t money for internal improvements

• Ida B. Wells anti-lynching campaign

• Transcendentalism-Emerson/Thoreau-individual conduct guided by truth found in conscience

• Post civil war feminist reaction to 15th amendment?

• Booker t Washington(Atlanta compromise speech, “separate as our fingers”) v. w.e.b dubois- NAACP founder Niagra movement , souls of black folk, immediate immigration and rights

• 2nd great awakening- encouraged evangelical Christianity

• Jim crow laws- (1880’s-1960’s)

• Transportation revolution(1790’s-1830’s) canals and turnpikes steamboat(1840’s-1850’s) railroads steamships

• 1896 election farmers protest lost momentum after due to: loss in 1896 election, huge immigration to cities which led to higher prices for crops, crop failures in Europe which led to higher prices for crops, gold discovered in Alaska in 1898 which led to inflation and silver loss momentum

19th century continued

1820’s-1850’s

“Lowell System” – Farm girls move to mill’s to work. A group of mills in and around Lowell, Mass expand. Women have 1st strike in 1830’s… Commonwealth v. Hunt in Mass. supreme court rules unions legal in Mass. 1st time legal anywhere in USA.

Remember: Largest source of Government revenue from 1789 – 1913 is the TARIFF –taxes collected on Imported, foreign goods, Income tax briefly appears during civil war, but is ruled unconstitutional soon after and only becomes the major source of revenue for the government after 1913 when the 16th amendment is passed in 1913 and is applied to the nation within the Underwood Tariff Bill. ????year

Irish-german imm. (old Imm) 1840’s and 50’s …. Irish stay in cities ….take the place of many women working in textile mills, Catholic in huge #’s, create Urban political machines to support new imm. in exchange for votes…. Nativism rises against catholics and imm. Know-Nothing Political Party is created in 1850’s which want to restrict Roman Catholics from holding political office.

Cattle Drives in West end with Fencing (Barbed Wire invented by Joseph Glidden) late 1870’s 1880’s

Free African Americans during the Ante-bellum period (1812-18600 # 250,000 in both north and South, could own limited property and vote in some areas…

Antebellum education reforms…Horace Mann-head of Mass . schools… Noah Webster- 1st American dictionary:

Compulsory school attendance, State/Local taxes to finance schools (in North primarily), Teacher Training schools, Standardize the length of the school year (6mths –Mann)

Women’s Suffrage before 1900 in West…. Wyoming 1st in 1869, Jeanette Rankin , 1st woman congressperson from Montana, 1914.

2nd Great Awakening 1790 – 1850’s… Charles Grandison Finney (Methodist Minister travels extensively across the US leading revivals)… expands women’s roles in church… “Burned over District” – Western NY so many revivals… , Based on Love not fear…that people can do something, not powerless due to predestination (Calvinism), to accept Christ …their actions do matter. Issues such as Slavery and Alcohol, lead to split in churches North and South foreshadowing the coming split in Political Parties and then the nation.. Leads to a host of reforms… mentally ill (dorothea dix) Women’s rights (Seneca falls conference , 1848) Utopian communities- Oneida, Harmony, Brook Farm, Transcendentalism, end of Debtor’s Prisons, etc…

Gilded Age 1865 -1900 questions of monopolist corporations are the owners Robber Baron’s or Captains of Industry…JP Morgan, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbuilt…..Vertical v. Horizontal Integration…

Thomas Nast’s Political Cartoons in gilded age… puts away Boss Tweed for municipal corruption…Tammany Hall…NYC.

Most Common Form of Slave Resistance in the 1800’s: took place on plantations by slaves slowing work and sabotaging tools etc..

Pulitzer and Hearst…Publishing giants of Gilded Age…begin Yellow Journalism, a sensationalist and sometimes misleading reporting to sell newspapers.

After War of 1812, begins the 1st era of “American Literature” stories about America by Americans… such as; Washington Irving’s – Legend of Sleepy Hollow, William Cullen Bryant – Poet (Thanatopisis) and Newspaper Editor in NYC, James Fennimore Cooper – Last of the Mohicans… the 3 are called the “Knickerbockers”…

Sewing Machine’s perfection begins the “Ready-Made Clothing Industry”… mass produced cheaper clothes, fashion trends, sizes come during civil war (for uniforms) …

Biggest problem for cities… purified Water.. Boston and NYC before the civil war most cities after… less death from disease… until solved it is one of the leading causes of death in urban areas… impure water.

Unions –post civil war…violent strikes… Knights of Labor- a inclusive union, all but Chinese, works for workers eventually becoming owners, cooperatives. Suffers decline after “haymarket square bombing “ in Chicago 1880’s.. AF OF L American Federation of Labor, Samuel Gompers, a union of unions… worked just for more for workers simple goals, more money, hours, better labor conditions etc.. IWW – International Workers of the World… mostly in West and Urban NE… Most Radical, Big Bill Haywood, violent experiences in Colorado, California, Washington… eventually many deported as anarchists, communists on SS Buford in 1919 (year of strikes following ww1… Seattle General Strike, Boston Police Strike etc… )

1862 Morrill Land Grant Act… Gives states land in west to sell, with money they are to create Universities that focus on Agriculture, Sciences, Engineering… A&M’s…

John Dewey – education reformer, “learn by doing” late 19th century early 20th century, Hands On Learning…

Unique American Philosophy develops in the late 19th early 20th century… PRAGMATISM---

1st Graduate Schools are founded after the Civil War in America, Johns Hopkins (Maryland) based on German graduate school model.

19th Century Cont.

William Lloyd Garrison (liberator)- American Anti- Slavery Society advocated immediate and uncompensated emancipation.

Antebellum 1830’s – 1840’s development of new “middle class” – urban development begins separation of economic production from home & family to factory

Gage Rule- 1830’s

Automatically tabled all anti- slavery tabled all anit- slavery petitions in Congress (to avoid discussion becoming tense)

Antebellum white Southerners fear of the spread of anti-slavery sentinemtin1850’s was increased by:

-Uncle Tom’s Cabin’s success

-Blood Kansas- New England Emigrant air co send’s “Becchers Bibles” to KS

Northern intellectual’s praise from John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry

The New (1854) Startling success & growth of republican (anti-slavery expansion west) Party

Grimke’s Sisters woman’s rights & Abolition

John Jacob Astor (1800’s- 1840’s)- 1st millionaire “fur trade”

Morse code

Samuel F.B. Morse- Telegraph

Brigham Young Leads Mormons to “Deserts” –Caterletah, 1890’s

“Separate Spheres” for sexes cult of Domesticity- Home appropriate place for a woman

Manifest Destiny:

Use of land from settle agriculture instead of nomadic hunting westward expansion was both inevitable and beneficial God had selected American as a chosen land and people the ultimate enfant of the American Dwain was to be from the tropics to the artic…

Jeff & Madison

KY & VA Resolutions -1790’s Advocates all states rights over national/

Hartford Convetion-1814 fed government

SWC Exposition & Protest- 1830’s JC Calhoun

1870’s Farmers Complained about:

• High interest charges(loans

• High freight rates

• Storage cots

• Middlemen profits

Nation Cumberland Road constructed for the purpose of promotion trade and comm. w/ old NW(Ohio valley area)

Woman’s suffrage by 1919- Frontier life tended to promote the acceptance of greater political equlity for women

Equal Suffrage:

• East of Miss.

• Michigan 1918

• NY 1917

West of Miss. :

• Wyoming 1869

• Colorado 1893

• Idaho 1896

• Utah 1896

• Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Montana, South Dakota, Kansas, OK---- all in 1910’s- 1918

At begin of Civil War Southerners Expressed all of the following expectations

• Materialism of the north would prevent Northerners from fighting an idealistic war

• Great Britain would intervene on the side of the south in order to preserve its source of cotton

• Northern unity would eventually break

• The justice of the south ‘s cause would prevail

• Union men falls 1950s to today

• Service Sector of Economy grows most 1950’s to today.

• Suburbs and Sunbelt blossom in two decades after WWII. (50s and 60s)

• 1900-1929 progressive movements key goal is to use government power to regulate industry and working conditions. Not socialism; more democracy.

• Blank Panthers and Nation of Islam both advocated Black Nationalism and power; A separateness.

• Harlem Renaissance 1915- 1950’s... Black Artistic and Literary Creativity

o Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Harston, James Weldon Johnson, Josephine Baker, Claude McKay, Gwendolyn Brooks.

• Phyllis Schally’s stop era campaign

• 1920’s Immigration Laws (21, 24, 29)

• National Origins … Quote …

• Restrict S&S Europeans (New) favor N&N Europe’s (Old)

• 1950s and 1960s – Non-violent protests. SCLC, SNCC, Core.

o MLK Junior

o Strictly Char Michael

o John Lewis

o Diane Wash

o Ella Baker

• 1920-s Sacco and Vanzetti Trial

o 2nd rise of KKK

o Fear of new immigration; black migration to north

• 1970s De industrialization effects:

o Increasing service sector of economy rust bust around Great Lakes. Erosion of tax base in many cities/communities decrease in Real wages for manufacture sector workers

• 1920s – flappers

o Women who showed greater freedom in press and moral behavior.

• Muckrakers:

o Invest journalists who wrote accurate articles exposing articles exposing corruption in politics and urban poverty.

• Horatio Alser Stories for youth… success through hard work.

• Progressive Era Amendments:

o 16th Income Tax

o 17th Direct Election Senators

o 18th Prohibition

o 19th Women’s Suffrage

• 50’s Rock and Roll – Crossover Appeal (Race) adopted from African American Rhythm and Blues

• Betty Friedan – “Feminist Mystique” Unknown sickness a mystery to women in 50s.

• Reality and public image different adv. Pop culture.

• N.O.W

• 1960s – many felt frustration and lack of fulfillment

• 1960s – Sit-ins used first by SNCC – College Students for Civil Rights

• 20’s – Presidents’ Tax Cuts for wealthy trickledown (Reagan 80s)

• Later SDS – Free Speech movement on college campuses (Sit ins)

• 1960-s Civil Rights Movement split after 1965 – Black Power vs. Non-violence.

• Marcus Garvey’s United Negro improvement association.

• 1920’s Black Separatism Black is beautiful. Largest group in history.

• 1950’s Beat Movement? JK “on the road “

• Critics? David Reisman – Conformity

• Anti-War Movement

• Margaret Sanger – Birth Control – (Pill 1960)

o Planned Parenthood

• Progressive Movement 1901 – 1919

• Middle Class Movement wanted more democracy.

• Belief in trained professionals to find rational scientific based solutions to society’s problems.

• Squeezed from above by monopolists below by socialists.

• “Muckraking” Writers:

o Opponents of urban boss politics.

• 1920s – Post War Writers

o Not from N.E

o Disillusioned by WW1 – Conformity traditional values.

o F. Scott Fitzgerald

o Mencken

o Sinclair Lewis

• Trickle Down – supply side economics vs. Keynesian Economics - Bubble up

• Cut taxes on wealthy to invigorate economy benefits.

o Trickle Down

o 20’s until crash

o 80’s Reagan (Really Keynesian: 2 trillion deficit from military)

• Federal government borrows money to spending into deficit and goes to lower class and creates jobs.

• Bubble Up benefit

• 1960’s Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring

o Mother of modern conservation movement warned about the use of pesticides.

• Noble Experiment

o Prohibition fails due to 18th – 21st Amendment; Law enforcement challenges.

• 1970s and 1980s trends.

o Rise of divorce rate – Single parent households.

o Rise of Christian Fundamentalism – “Moral Majority”

o Consumer Gay Rights Women

o Chreano Indian Environmental Movements

o Rise of “new Right” – moral majority and neoconservatives / south southwest evangelical Protestants opposed USSR strongly. Little government in intervention in economy.

• Great Depression begins in agriculture 1st immigration post WW1 – 1920’s... prices drop dramatically.

• The 1970s-

o Rising of prices

o Greater participation in work force of women

o Increased economic competition from W. Europe and Japan

o Simultaneous inflation and recession known as “stagflation”…

• Malcolm X Challenges MLK JR in the early 60’s for leadership in C.R. Movement by arguing that you should use violence if necessary.

• McCarthyism had widespread public support due to the fear of communist infiltration of USA.

Supreme Court Cases

• Marbury V. Madison - 1803

• Slaughterhouse Cases - 1873

• Civil rights Cases, - 1893

• Miranda V. Arizona - 1966

• Roe V. Wade - 1973

• Plessy V. Ferguson – 1896

• Brown V. Board of Education, Topeka Ks – 1954

• Univ. of California V. Bakke – 1978

• Dred Scott V. Sanford – 1857

• Korematsu V. Us – 1944

• Miranda V. US – 1960’s

• Schechter V. US – 1935

• Schenk V. US – 1910’s

• Gideon V. Wainwrights – 1963

• Munn V. Illinois – 1877

• Swann V. Mecklenburg city – 1972

• Escobedo V. Illinois – 1964

• Planned Parenthood V. Casey – 1992

• Wabash V. Illinois – 1886

• Muller V. Oregon, 1906

• Hammer V. Dagenhart

• McCulloch V. Maryland – 1819

• Gibbons V. Ogden – 1825

• Worcester V. Georgia – 1832

• US V. E.C. Knight Co. – 1895

• Engle V. Vitale – 1962

Legal proceedings

• Zenger V. NY – 1741

• Scopes Case – 1920 (Monkey Trial)

• Amistad – 1840

• Scopes Trial – 1925