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2013 Final Review

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Republicans reminding voters of the treason of the Confederate Democrats during the Civil War 2 Waving the Bloody Shirt

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Credit Mobilier- fake company, attempted to avoid prosecution by bribing congress Grant- never directly connected to scandals 3

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Shaped by the most severe and extended economic depression up to that time 4 Politics in the 1890s

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Interpreted the Constitution to favor corporations 5 Supreme Court

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Last time an attempt to win presidency with mostly agrarian votes would occur Main issue was free and unlimited coinage of silver 6 1896 Election

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7 Mining Late 1850s- gold discovered in Colorado, Nevada and other states Boomtowns- ghost towns Surface gold gone quickly- corporations Facilitated RR Intensified Indian/white conflict Silver and gold enabled return to specie in 1879

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Most controversial event associated with the SpanishAmerican War Imperialists wanted it for economic potential with China and rest of Asia. Philippine-American war was a nationalist revolt in 1899 against American war. 8 Philippines

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Results of the S-A War 9 Resolved by the Treaty of Paris signed in Dec. 10, 1898 Cuba was freed but under US control because of the Platt Agreement Puerto Rico and Guam were ceded to the United States Philippines were surrendered to the United States for a payment of $20 million

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Dominican Republic, Panama, Puerto Rico, Cuba- Left a legacy of ill will and distrust towards the U.S. 10 U.S. Involvement in Latin America

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Felt more democracy would improve America Mainly middle class Progressives

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Leading Progressive organization for prohibition of liquor Womens Christian Temperance Movement

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Elected in 1904- announced he would not run in 1908 Used assault on trusts to prove that government, not big business ran America Enduring achievement- supporting the environment Progressive, but willing to compromise Teddy Roosevelt

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Ran in 1912- believed Taft had abandoned TRs policies New Nationalism- broad program of social welfare and government regulation of business Teddy Roosevelt

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Republican are split and Wilson wins Progressivism is the true winner 1912 election

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First person born in the South elected President since the Civil War Governor of New Jersey- passionate reformer President of Princeton University Woodrow Wilson

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Legalized strikes and peaceful picketing Clayton Anti-Trust Act

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Zimmerman Telegram Attempt by Germany to have Mexico fight America Would make it very difficult for the US to play a significant role in Europe

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Tens of thousands of blacks moved North during the war- resulted in racial violence in the North Black Migration

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Viewed as a solemn referendum on the Treaty of Versailles by Wilson 1920 Election

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Supported by the South and West Supported by women's groups and business owners Volstead Act met most resistance in Eastern cities Assumed to be permanent Prohibition

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Fear of international Communism Lead to the Palmer Raids Red Scare

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Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer Arrested 6,000 suspected Communists Palmer Raids

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Hardings Secretary of Interior Involved in Teapot Dome Scandal- corrupt handling of naval oil reserves Albert Fall

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US Banker make loans to Germany Germany pays reparations to GB and France GB and France pay WWI loans to US US Germany Great Britain + France Dawes Plan

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Offered federal assistance to businesses and banks, but not individuals Hoover and the Great Depression

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Created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to insure bank deposits FDR wanted to stimulate inflation with managed currency Glass-Steagall Act

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Tennessee Valley was a hundred years behind the rest of the US Improved Navigation, flood control and power from high dams Electrical Power- controversial aspect Tennessee Valley Authority

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1930s- most Americans wanted to retreat further into isolationism By mid-1930s- support for a constitutional amendment requiring a popular referendum to declare war By 1940- providing Great Britain with all aid short of war American Attitudes

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Filled positions left by men heading to war Lead to day-care centers by the government Womens Roles in WW II

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Cross Channel invasion of Normandy, led by Eisenhower Erwin Rommel- German in charge of defenses D-Day

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GI Bill Helped absorb millions of men back into the workforces Allowed men to go to college, easily get home or business loans Servicemens Readjustment Act

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Economic aid to Europe after WW II Offered to the Soviets and Eastern bloc nations Thwarted Communist parties in Italy and France Marshall Plan

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Made easier by- Accessible home loans Highways Tax deductions for interest payments on mortgages White Flight from racial change Created an urban-suburban segregation of blacks and whites in major metropolitan areas Suburban Growth

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Claimed the state department was infiltrated by Communists Never directly challenged by Eisenhower State Department lost specialists that may have been valuable concerning Vietnam Joe McCarthy

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Reliance on air power and nuclear weapons Deemphasized conventional army and navy New Look Foreign Policy

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Successful in keeping most African Americans of the busses Led to the emergence of Martin Luther King Jr Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Soviet missiles were being placed in Cuba U.S. established a quarantine of Cuba Khrushchev backed down U.S. promised not to invade Cuba Cuban Missile Crisis

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Peaceful march- MLK Jrs I Have a Dream speech Demonstrated support for a civil rights bill to end segregation 1963 March on Washington

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LBJs domestic plan 4 Parts- Healthcare Reform Immigration Reform Educational Reform War on Poverty Great Society

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Passed during the Vietnam War, and Watergate. Gave a basis of how U.S. troops could enter a war abroad. It prescribes procedures on consulting, reporting and terminating deployment of U.S. armed forces. Limited the President's ability to send US troops into combat 1973 War Powers Act

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Vietnamization Begins May 1969- South Vietnamese Armys role increases U.S. Militarys role decreases We are tired of carrying most of the load for the South Vietnamese!

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Chosen to replace Agnew Pardoned Nixon- very controversial Gerald Ford

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Former actor- viewed as a Washington outsider Viewed big government as the foe of the common man Viewed the Soviet Union as the focus of evil in the modern world Ronald Reagan

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International Coalition, led by the U.S. liberated Kuwait Saddam Hussein stayed in power Persian Gulf War

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Campaigned as a new liberal Distanced self from 1960s and 70s liberalism Enjoyed a tremendously prosperous economy Bill Clinton

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Department of Homeland Security to prevent terrorist attacks to reduce the countrys vulnerability to terrorism to create strategies to deal with the potential damages of a terrorist attack

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Hussein removed from power Violent resistance to US from insurgents and foreign militants War in Iraq