US History concept chart major concepts & themes across US History: Difference between revisions
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** Why do some Americans feel isolated and start radical movements? | ** Why do some Americans feel isolated and start radical movements? | ||
** How do the big political parties adapt to those movements? | ** How do the big political parties adapt to those movements? | ||
** How does the Constitution both resolve factionalism and enhance it? | |||
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* Constitutional principles | * Constitutional principles | ||
* judicial review | * judicial review | ||
* change over time in interpretations | * change over time in Constitutional interpretations | ||
=== Bill of Rights === | === Bill of Rights === | ||
* = strong expression of what is important to Americans: | * = strong expression of what is important to Americans: | ||
* 1st amendment as expression of American ideals: freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, petition of government | * 1st amendment as expression of American ideals: freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, petition of government | ||
=== Electoral College === | === Electoral College === | ||
* combined representation of states and population | |||
* '''two-party system''' | |||
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Revision as of 22:49, 29 May 2021
US History concept chart major concepts & themes across US History
Objective:
- overview of core ideas for understanding historical times, persons, places, and events in U.S. History
Index
U.S. History course pages:
Periods, timeline, and major concepts[edit | edit source]
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BIG IDEAS What does it MEAN?
causality
connections
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"The American Experience"[edit | edit source]
state colonialism[edit | edit source]
click EXPAND for chart of types/ purposes of colonial charters/ establishment
& push-pull factors[edit | edit source]Push factors from England:
Push factors to American colonies
American colonial perceptions viz Britain[edit | edit source]
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Founding documents & political philosophies[edit | edit source]
PERIOD / TIMELINE | Major Events, Concepts & Themes | Notes & connections: details of issues, concepts, themes & events |
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BIG IDEAS |
Enlightenment ideas[edit | edit source]
Declaration of Independence[edit | edit source]
faction & disagreement[edit | edit source]
Constitution[edit | edit source]
Bill of Rights[edit | edit source]
Electoral College[edit | edit source]
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Cultural, social & political intersections[edit | edit source]
PERIOD / TIMELINE | Major Events, Concepts & Themes | Notes & connections: details of issues, concepts, themes & events |
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self-governance/ self-government[edit | edit source]
- extents and limits of self-government
- to consider:
- what does it mean and how do different people & times interpret it?
- what is democracy? How can it work? What are its limits? How does it empower people?
private v public lives of Americans[edit | edit source]
slavery[edit | edit source]
- Northwest Ordinance, 178>> << banned slavery in NW Territory
- expansion of slavery
- experience of slaves
- consequences of slavery
- upon slaves and former slaves
- upon slave-owners
- upon white non-slave owners
- 1791 Vermont state constitution forbade slavery
"frontier" western expansion[edit | edit source]
- >>details
religious awakenings[edit | edit source]
- >>details
politics & democracy[edit | edit source]
- Tocqueville
- cultural expression
- news and journalism, “pamphleteering”
- radio/ tv
- political participation
reform movements[edit | edit source]
- public and private
- religious awakenings
- agitation for reform
- reform (public/ private)
- fear, crisis, opportunism
Economic concepts & themes[edit | edit source]
PERIOD / TIMELINE | Major Events, Concepts & Themes | Notes & connections: details of issues, concepts, themes & events |
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economics[edit | edit source]
panics, recessions, depressions[edit | edit source]
to do/ sort[edit | edit source]
distance and time
land grants act 1850s overseas wars foreign involvement nicauragia wwi cold war women's rights in west b/c of fewer women in the population
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Territorial & commercial expansion[edit | edit source]
PERIOD / TIMELINE | Major Events, Concepts & Themes | Notes & connections: details of issues, concepts, themes & events |
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1763 Treaty of Paris
1783 Treaty of Paris
1791 Vermont Republic
1802 Louisiana Purchase
1815 Treaty of Ghent
1818 Treaty of 1818
1819 Adams-Onis Treaty
1842 Webster–Ashburton Treaty
1846 Oregon Treaty
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
1853 Gadsden Purchase
1867 Alaska Purchase
1898 Treaty of Paris
1898 Annexation of Hawaii
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BIG IDEAS What does it MEAN?
Push & pull factors
Colonial expansion
Exploration, fur trade, land
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Manifest Destiny
Civil War impact
Impact of technologies
Overseas expansion & acquisitions
Expansion via acquisition from European powers
Expansion via acquisition or war with Native Americans
Twentieth Century US overseas interventions
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=== British colonial expansion ===
US territorial expansion[edit | edit source]
Acquisition or takeover of Native American lands[edit | edit source]
Pacific Island and other acquisitions[edit | edit source]
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