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Quick Overview of the US History ?
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• RECAP
• How does the US compare to other countries
  regarding movement of the social ladder,
  especially compared to Canada?
• Are there immigrants from certain countries that
  perform better than other groups of immigrants?

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• RECAP
• How has the American Dream historically relied on
  the oppression of different groups? (ie. Slavery,
  unpaid house labor)
• Should the immigrants return to their countries
  to ensure that their family has a good life?

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• RECAP
• Should the 21st century society accept the
  Constitution as a living, flexible document (as
  mostly seen by liberals) or a rigid one (as seen
  by conservatives)?

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1. Establishment of 13 colonies
2. War of Independence
3. US Constitution
4. American Civil War
5. Industrialization and Trusts
6. WWI and the Great Depression
7. World War Two
8. McCarthyism and 20th ct. conflicts
9. Civil Rights Movement

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• Establishment of 13 colonies
• Who established the 13 colonies?
• What were their names?
• What happened to the first nationsand what has
  been their influence?

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• War of Independence
• What were the underlying causesof the American
  Revolution?
• Which immediate events led toRevolution?
• Who were the leaders of the Warof Independence?

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• US Constitution
• How is the US Constitutionstructured ?
• Explain the concept of checksand balances
• Choose the 3 most significantamendments and
  explain theirsignificance

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• US Civil War
• How did the US expand betweenIndependence and
  1860?
• What were the causes of the USCivil War?
• What were the outcomes of theUS Civil War?
• What was the post-war situationin terms of human
  rights?

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• Industrialization and Trusts
• What were trusts and why were theya problem?
• How was immigration in the 2ndhalf of 19th
  century tied to trusts?
• What did the US government doto deal with
  trusts?
• Who were the biggest trust-busters?

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• WWI and The Great Depression
• What was the reason for USinvolvement in WWI?
• What were its the effects?
• What were the causes of theGreat Depression?
• What economic innovations did theGreat
  Depression bring to the US?

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• World War 2
• What was the reason for USinvolvement in WW2?
• What were its the effects?
• What was the situation of Japaneseinhabitants of
  the US?
• To what extent was it necessary touse atomic
  weapons on Japan?

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• McCarthyism and 20th ct. conflicts
• Who was Senator McCarthy andwhat did he do?
• What are proxy wars? Give at least3 examples
  between US and Russiathroughout the post-war
  20th century
• What were the global effects of proxywars?

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• Civil Rights Movement
• What were the 3 most importantevents in the
  1950s to endracial discrimination in the US?
• How did the status quo change in1960s
• Compare Martin Luther King andMalcolm X

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New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
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7. Influence of Native Americans

• What/Who did the first settlers encounter?
• Influence of Native Americans
• Relationship Settlers vs. Indians how was it in
  South America?

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British Legislation

• Navigation and Molasses Acts prohibition of
  trade with Britains rivals (until 1763)
• Proclamation of 1763
• Sugar Act, Currency Act, Quartering Acts,
  Stamp Act - 1764-1766
• Townshend Act and the Tea Act (1767-1773)
• Quebec Act and the Intolerable Acts (1774-1775)

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American Revolution

• 1775 1783
• Events in Concord and Lexington
• Declaration of Independence - 1776

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US Expansion
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Events leading to the US Civil War

• Missouri Compromise (1820) slavery parallel
• Tariff of abominations (1828)
• Nullification crisis (1832)
• Underground slave railroad
• Compromise of 1850 Fugitive slave act, D.
  Scott
• Uncle Tom ?
• Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
• Bleeding Kansas (1861)

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Outcome of the US Civil War
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Reconstruction

• 1862 13th (1865), 14th (1868), 15th (1870)
• Jim Crow
• 1875 Civil Rights Act unconstitutional
• Voting rights
• Separate but equal
• Anti-discrimination legislation
• Plessy vs. Fergusson (1896)

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The Gilded Age
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World War One
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World War One

• Immediate causes
• Woodrow Wilson
• US presence in WWI
• Herbert Hoover
• FDR
• Keynes

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Pearl Harbor

• Reasons for the bombing (1940, 1941 deliveries)
• US-Japan negotiations
• Incomplete intelligence
• December 7, 1941

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Geopolitical implications

• Atlantic Charter 1941
• No territorial gains by the US or the UK
• Right to self-determination
• Lowering trade barriers
• Global economic cooperation
• Disarmament of the aggressors

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Geopolitical implications

• Teheran Conference 1943
• preliminary agreement to the UN
• Yalta Conference February 1945
• dealing with Germany
• Potsdam Conference July-August 1945
• war reparations

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Civil Right Leaders

• Martin Luther King (1968)
• Malcolm X (1965)

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Thank you for your attention?