APUSH Crash Course Video Notes A: The Black Legend, Native Americans, and Spaniards 1. Pre Columbian Native Americans 2. Spanish Exploration and Conquest 3. Native American and Spanish Interaction 4. The Black Legend B: Colonizing America 1. Virginia/Chesapeake a. Politics b. Economics c. Religion d. Society 2. New England/Massachusetts a. Politics b. Economics c. Religion d. Society C: Natives and the English 1. Early Relations 2. Relationship Deterioration 3. The Pequot War 4. Native Americans in our History D: The Quakers, the Dutch, and the Ladies 1. The Dutch 2. The Quakers 3. Bacon s Rebellion 4. Religion 5. Colonial American Economics 6. Women in the Colonies E: The Seven Years War and the Great Awakening 1. Seven Years War/French and Indian War a. Causes b. Major Events c. Results/Effects 2. The Great Awakening F: Taxes and Smuggling Prelude to Revolution *Two Column Timeline! British Actions on left, Colonial Actions on Right*
G: Who Won The American Revolution? 1. Two Kinds of Revolutions 2. The Colonial Rebels Succeed 3. How much did things actually change? a. A lot b. Not much H: The Articles, the Constitution, and Federalism 1. The Articles of Confederation 2. The Federal Constitution of 1787 a. Constitutional Convention b. Compromises c. Aspects of the new Constitution 3. Debate over the new (federal) Constitution I: Where US Politics Came From 1. Two Columns: Hamilton and the Federalists vs. Jefferson and the Democratic Republicans J: Thomas Jefferson and his Democracy 1. The Election of 1800 2. The Slavery Issue 3. Jefferson s vision for America 4. The Marshall Court 5. Louisiana Purchase 6. International Affairs and Challenges K: The War of 1812 1. Causes of the War 2. Events in the War 3. Effects of the War L: The Market Revolution M: Slavery 1. Transportation Innovations 2. Technological Innovations 3. Managerial Innovation 4. Support from the Government 5. Changes in the lives of Americans 6. Westward Expansion/Manifest Destiny 7. Reactions to the Market Revolution 1. The North and Slavery 2. Slavery in the South
a. Politics b. Economics c. Society/Culture 3. Opposition and Resistance to Slavery N: The Age of Jackson 1. The Era of Good Feelings 2. The Missouri Compromise 3. The Democrats 4. The Whigs 5. Jackson s Presidency 6. The Bank War 7. Jackson s Legacy O: 19 th Century Reforms 1. Utopian Communities 2. Religious Developments 3. Societal Reforms 4. Abolition P: Women in the 19 th Century 1. Political life 2. Economic life 3. Social/Cultural Life 4. Reform: movements and accomplishments Q: War and Expansion 1. Manifest Destiny/Westward Expansion 2. Texan Independence 3. The Mexican American War 4. Immigration and Nativism 5. The Slavery Issue 6. Compromise of 1850 R: The Election of 1860 and the Road to Disunion 1. Railroads 2. Northern Opinions 3. The Republicans 4. Bleeding Kansas 5. Dred Scott v. Sanford 6. John Brown 7. Election of 1860 8. Beginning of the Civil War
S: The Civil War #1 1. Basic Facts 2. The Cause(s) of the War 3. Turning Points in the War T: The Civil War #2 1. Emancipation Proclamation 2. Gettysburg Address 3. Northern Advantages 4. Southern Thinking 5. Northern Thinking 6. Technology 7. Nation Building U: Reconstruction and 1876 1. Lincoln s Reconstruction 2. Johnson s Reconstruction 3. Congressional (Radical Republican) Reconstruction 4. Southern Resistance to Reconstruction 5. The Election of 1876 and the End of Reconstruction V: The Industrial Economy 1. Immigration and Economic Growth 2. Railroads 3. Robber Barons 4. Vertical and Horizontal Integration 5. The Workers and the Unions 6. Social Darwinism 7. Unions cont W: Westward Expansion 1. The West: Image vs. Reality 2. Enabling the settlement of the West 3. Native Americans 4. The Cowboy Era 5. Ranching and Farming X: Growth, Cities, and Immigration 1. Growth of the American West 2. Metropolises 3. Irish Immigrants 4. German Immigrants 5. Chinese Immigrants
6. Worldwide Immigration 7. Immigrant Labor Y: Gilded Age Politics 1. The Urban Political Machine 2. The Gilded Government 3. Farmers/Grange Movement 4. Populist Movement Z: The Progressive Era 1. Progressivism 2. Muckraking 3. Unions 4. Wobblies 5. Consumer Culture 6. The Effects of Industrialization 7. Progressive Legislation 8. Racist (NOT Progressive) Policies 9. African American Civil Rights Movement AA: American Imperialism 1. America was always an empire 2. America begins pursuing empire in earnest in the 1890s 3. The Spanish American War 4. Post Spanish American War US Empire BB: Progressive Presidents 1. Nationalism 2. Theodore Roosevelt and Progressivism 3. William Howard Taft and Trust Busting 4. Election of 1912 5. Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom 6. Progressivism Internationally (foreign policy) 7. The Panama Canal 8. Wilson and Isolationism (sort of) CC: America and WWI 1. Wilson and US Reluctance to Enter the War 2. The Lusitania 3. US Decision to Enter the War 4. Wilson s 14 Points 5. Ernest Hemingway 6. Government Regulation and Propaganda 7. Suppression of Civil Liberties
8. The Effect of the War on a. Immigrants/radicals b. Women c. African Americans 9. Treaty of Versailles DD: Women s Suffrage 1. Economic and Political Opportunities for Women 2. Women s Roles as Primary Consumers 3. Women in the Workplace 4. Female Sexuality and the Introduction of Birth Control 5. The Settlement House Movement 6. The Women s Suffrage Movement 7. The 19 th Amendment EE: The Roaring 20s 1. The Growth of Big Business 2. Government Corruption 3. The Growth of Manufacturing and the Economy 4. Increased Leisure Time and the Growth of the Film Industry 5. Increased Acceptability of Debt 6. Creation of Celebrity Culture 7. Harlem Renaissance 8. Women in the 1920s 9. Economic Failings of the 1920s 10. Developments in Free Speech 11. Attitudes and Restrictions Toward Immigrants 12. Science vs. Religion in Education FF: The Great Depression 1. Long Term Economic Weaknesses 2. The Failure of the Banking System 3. Impact of the Global Depression 4. Hoover s Response 5. More Unrelenting Misery GG: The New Deal 1. What was the New Deal? 2. How were the New Deal Programs Supposed to End the Depression? 3. What were the Programs and Legislation of the New Deal Era? 4. Effects of the New Deal on a. The Economy b. Americans c. America
HH: WWII #1 II: WWII #2 1. American Isolationism 2. America s Pre War Foreign Policy 3. FDR Tries to Help the Allies 4. America is Forced into the War 5. The War in the Pacific/Asia 6. The War in Europe/Africa 7. Winning the War 8. The Debate over the use of The Bomb 1. Increased Governmental Intervention and Control a. Government b. Economics c. Society/People 2. WWII and Minorities 3. Post War Changes JJ: The Cold War 1. What was it about? 2. America s Containment Policy 3. America s Foreign Actions 4. The Cold War at Home: Second Red Scare KK: The Cold War in Asia 1. The Korean War 2. The Vietnam War a. Background b. American Involvement c. The Battleground d. Nixon s Policy e. Outcome of the War LL: Civil Rights and the 1950s 1. Suburbanization and the Middle Class 2. The Civil Rights Movement 3. Brown v. Board 4. Montgomery Bus Boycott 5. The Little Rock Crisis MM: The 1960s in America 1. Civil Rights Movement 2. Civil Rights Laws
3. Lyndon B. Johnson and the Great Society 4. Radicalization of the Civil Rights Movement 5. Other Minorities Civil Rights 6. Environmental Movement 7. Feminism 8. Impact of the Warren Court 9. Counter Culture and the Anti Vietnam War Movement NN: The Rise of Conservatism 1. Types of Conservatism 2. Presidential Election of 1964 3. Presidential Election of 1968 4. Nixon s Presidency 5. Decline in Traditional Values 6. The Watergate Scandal 7. Conclusion OO: Ford, Carter, and the Economic Malaise 1. 1970s Economic Problems 2. Oil Shocks/Embargos 3. Stagflation 4. Gerald Ford 5. Jimmy Carter: Domestic/Economics 6. Carter s Foreign Policy 7. Conclusion PP: The Reagan Revolution 1. Reagan s Coalition of Ideas and People 2. Reagan s Vision of Freedom 3. Reagan s Economic Policy 4. Corporate Mergers 5. Did Reagan end the Cold War? 6. The Iran Contra Scandal QQ: George HW Bush and the End of the Cold War 1. Bush s Qualifications 2. The 1988 Election 3. Bush s Foreign Policy Actions 4. The First Iraq (aka: Persian Gulf) War 5. Bush s Domestic Actions 6. Economic Recession 7. The 1992 Election
RR: The Clinton Years 1. Clinton s Foreign Policy Actions 2. Domestic Policy and Politics 3. Technological Revolution 4. Economics and Globalization 5. Culture Wars 6. Scandal and Impeachment 7. Conclusion SS: Terrorism, War, and Bush 43 1. The 2000 Election 2. Bush s First Hundred Days 3. 9/11/01 4. Afghanistan and Iraq Wars 5. USA PATRIOT Act and other reactions to Terrorism 6. Little Recession 7. A Loss of Confidence in Bush 8. Big Recession