APUSH Themes BAGPIPE

The 'City upon a hill' speech influenced Americans to see themelves as a democratic model

Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, Federalist Papers, Bill of Rights.

The 2nd Great Awakening inspired many Americans to join reform movements to improve society.

People's Party/Populists, Progressive Party/Bull Moose Party, Dixiecrats

Gay Rights movement, NOW, Chicano movement, American Indian Movement

Post-Civil war Realism preferred to reflect the tough life of frontier or war.

White settlers on the w.frontier cleared forests and exhausted the soil in two generations 

The Market Revolution impacted the economy of different regions, but also linked the regions.

1877 is a turning point year, as that is when Reconstruction ended due to Comp. of 1877.

Monroe Doctrine, Roosevelt Corollary,  Fourteen Points, WWII conferences, NATO

Sub-urbanization of the late 40s/50s contributed to urban decay. 

Reagan's remarks 'tear down this wall' represents a turning point in the Cold War.</p>

The Red Scare, increase of eastern Europeans led to immigration quotas in 1924. 

The Panama Canal allowed improved trade with the west and the Pacific region.

Patterns of exchanging commodities, people, ideas, after European contact shaped colonies.

Popular culture, religion, cultural values, art, literature, philosophy, moral values.

Jamestown, Puritans, Land Ord. of 1785, Northwest Ord. of 1787, Tecumseh, Trail of Tears

Utopian communities and members of the Beat Generation challenged consumerism and materialism.

By the early 20th century, most immigrants came from eastern Europe, versus western Europe.

Frederick Jackson Turner's 'frontier thesis' stressed American individualism.

Movement within America was different BEFORE European contact and AFTER European contact.

America evolved from seeing itself as isolationist, to an interventionist after WWII.

How have changes in migration and population patterns affected American life?

Manifest Destiny caused many to see America's role as one to bring civilization to the west.

The Great Migration (20c) to the North led to riots cities such as Chicago and Detroit.

The cotton gin caused the South to become even more dependent on slavery.

Mayflower Compact, House of Burgesses, Marbury vs. Madison, Nullification Crisis

The use of the atomic bomb by the U.S. in 1945 was a turning point....

New plants, animals, tech, changed the environment impacting interaction among groups. 

Differing values of Natives and Europeans in the 17c led to conflict.

Bacon's Rebellion, Shays's Rebellion, Whiskey Rebellion

The Dred Scott Decision. 

Competition for goods across the Atlantic (1600s) influenced patterns of colonial settlement.

The election of JFK represented a 'torch being passed to a new generation."

The U.S. financially/diplomatically backed many 3rd world nations post WWII to stem communism.