BILL OF RIGHTSBILL OF RIGHTS

5. FIRST 10 AMMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION.

WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANWILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

• POPULIST CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT THREE TIMES

• FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE.• LAWYER FOR THE PROSECUTION IN THE

SCOPES TRIAL.• SUPPORTED VIEWS OF FUNDAMENTALISTS

THAT NO TEACHING OF EVOLUTION SHOULD OCCUR IN SCHOOLS.

DECLARATION OF DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCEINDEPENDENCE

7. THIS DOCUMENT WAS ADOPTED ON JULY 4, 1776. ESTABLISHED 13 COLONIES AS INDEPENDENT STATES FREE FROM BRITISH RULE. THOMAS JEFFERSON WROTE THE MAJORITY OF IT.

CLARENCE DARROWCLARENCE DARROW

• LEADING CRIMINAL LAWYER AND DEFENSE ATTORNEY IN THE SCOPES TRIAL (ABOUT TEACHING EVOLUTION)

1313THTH AMENDMENT AMENDMENT

• AMMENDMENT THAT FREED ALL SLAVES WITHOUT COMPENSATION

• MADE SLAVERY ILLEGAL IN THE US

1616THTH AMENDMENT AMENDMENT

18. CREATES FEDERAL INCOME TAX PROVISIONS. SUPPORTED BY PROGRESSIVE REFORMS.

1861-18651861-1865

6. DATES OF AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, BEGINNING WITH FIRING ON FT. SUMTER, ENDED WITH CONFEDERATE SURRENDER AT APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE DURING THESE YEARS.

ISSUES CAUSING REVOLUTIONISSUES CAUSING REVOLUTION

• 3. “NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION”

• PROTEST AGAINST POLICIES AND TAXES

• BATTLES OF LEXINGTON AND CONCORD.

FEDERALIST PAPERSFEDERALIST PAPERS

11. SERIES OF ESSAYS WRITTEN BY MADISON, HAMILTON, AND JOHN JAY WHO SUPPORTED A STRONG CENTRAL GOVERNMENT.

1919THTH AMENDMENT AMENDMENT

19. RIGHT TO VOTE FOR WOMEN.

W.E.B. DUBOISW.E.B. DUBOIS

• FOUNDER OF THE NAACP

• LEADER OF IMPORTANT REFORMS BENEFITING AFRICAN AMERICANS

ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATIONARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION

8. THIS DOCUMENT WAS THE NATION’S FIRST CONSTITUTION ADOPTED BY THE SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS IN 1781 DURING THE REVOLUTION. IT WAS LIMITED BECAUSE THE STATES HELD MOST OF THE POWER TO TAX, REGULATE TRADE, OR CONTROL COINAGE.

WILSON’S 14 POINTSWILSON’S 14 POINTS

• POINTS AND PROVISIONS FOR THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS

• REPRESENTED PRESIDENT WILSON’S GOALS AFTER WWI

• US SENTATE RECUESD TO RATIFY THE TREATY AND PARTICIPATE IN THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS

TRENDS ADRESSED DURING TRENDS ADRESSED DURING THE GILDED AGETHE GILDED AGE

• INDUSTRIALIZATION

• MIGRATION

• IMMIGRATION

• URBANIZATION

FEDERALISMFEDERALISM

• 9. DISTRIBUTION OF POWER BETWEEN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND THE INDIVIDUAL STATES WITHIN A UNION.

FEDERALISTSFEDERALISTS

13. THOSE WHO FAVORED RATIFICATION OF THE CONSTITUTION AND STRONG CENTRAL GOVERNMENT.

MAGNA CARTAMAGNA CARTA

17. SIGNED BY KING JOHN OF ENGLAND, CORNERSTONE OF ENGLISH LAW. KING AND GOV ARE BOUND BY THE SAME LAW AS CITIZENS. DUE PROCESS, FAIR AND SPEEDY TRIAL, ETC.

TREATY OF VERSAILLESTREATY OF VERSAILLES

• TREATY ENDING WWI

• REDREW THE MAP OF EUROPE AND BLAMED GERMANY FOR THE WAR, REQUIRING THEN TO PAY REPARATIONS

ANTI-FEDERALISTSANTI-FEDERALISTS

15. OPPOSED TO THE CONSTITUTION BECAUSE THEY FEARED THE POWER OF A STRONG CENTRAL GOVERTNMENT. WANTED A BILL OF RIGHTS.

NULLIFICATION CRISISNULLIFICATION CRISIS

10. SOUTH CAROLINA USED THE DOCTRINE OF STATES RIGHTS TO TRY AND IGNORE THE TARIFF LAWS IF THE us TRIED TO COLLECT DUTIES (TAXES ON IMPORTS). PRES A. JACKSON GOT CONGRESS TO PASS THE FORCE BILL. SOUTH CAROLINA BACKED DOWN AND A COMPROMISE TARIFF BILL WAS PASSED.

1717THTH AMENDMENT AMENDMENT

20. DIRECT ELECTION OF SENATORS. THIS AMMENDMENT WAS SUPPORTED BY THE PROGRESSIVES.

2424THTH AMENDMENT AMENDMENT

21. ELIMINATES THE POLL TAX AS A REQUIREMENT TO VOTE IN PROMARY ELECTIONS FOR FEDERAL AND STATE OFFICIALS. PART OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS LEGISLATION OF 1964

18981898

22. DATE OF SPANISH – AMERICAN WAR, WHICH BEGAN WITH THE SINKING OF THE BATTLESHIP MAINE IN HVANA, CUBA. US WON AND GOT PUERTO RICO, AND GUAM AS POSESSIONS, BOUGHT THE PHILIPPINES FOR $20 MILLION. THE US BECAME A WORLD POWER.

2626THTH AMENDMENT AMENDMENT

23. GAVE 18 YEAR OLDS THE RIGHT TO VOTE.

COLD WAR BEGINSCOLD WAR BEGINS

• US CAME OUT OF WWII IN 1945 AS A WORLD POWER WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

• ERA CHARACTERIZED BY THE GROWING RIVALRY BETWEEN THE US AND THE USSR A LEADERS OF THE FREE WORLD AND THE COMMUNIST WORLD.

• RIVALRY LED TO THE KOREAN WAR, SPUTNIK AND THE SPACE RACE, CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS.

1914 - 19181914 - 1918

24. WWI FOUGHT BETWEEN THE CENTRAL POWERS (GERMANY, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, OTTOMAN EMPIRE) AND THE ALLIED POWERS (BRITAIN, RUSSIA, FRANCE, US). ENDED WITH THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES. PRES WILSON PREPARED HIS 14 POINTS AND CALLED FOR A LEAGUE OF NATIONS. CONGRESS REJECTED THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND THE US BECAME MORE ISOLATIONIST.

19291929

• STOCK MARKET CRASHED IN OCTOBER OF THIS YEAR WHICH LED THE US INTO THE GREAT DEPRESSION OF THE 30’S

1414THTH AMENDMENT AMENDMENT

• AMMENDMENT WHICH DECLARES ALL PERSONS BORN OR NATURALIZED AS CITIZENS OF THE US ARE ENTITLED TO EQUAL RIGHTS REGARDLESS OF RACE AND THAT THEIR RIGHTS ARE PROTECTED AT THE LOCAL, STATE, AND NATIONAL LEVELS.

1515THTH AMENDMENT AMENDMENT

• GRANTED BLACK MEN THE RIGHT TO VOTE

ENGLISH BILL OF RIGHTSENGLISH BILL OF RIGHTS

12. THIS DOCUMENT GUARANTEED CERTAIN RIGHTS TO ENGLISH CITIZENS, DECLARED THAT ELECTIONS FOR PARLIAMENT WOULD HAPPEN FREQUENTLY. ACCEPTING THIS DOCUMENT MEANT SUPPORTING A LIMITED MONARCHY.

PROGRESSIVE AND REFORM PROGRESSIVE AND REFORM ERAERA

• DURING THIS ERA….SOME WANTED TO REFORM AMERICAN LIFE AND TO IMPROVE POLITICAL, SOCIAL, AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS FOR WORKERS, FARMERS, URBAN MIDDLE CLASS, WOMEN, CHILDREN, AND MINORITIES.

GREAT DEPRESSIONGREAT DEPRESSION

• ERA BEGAN WITH THE STOCK MARKET CRASH

• GREAT ECONOMIC DECLINE• FDR LED GOVERNMENT REFORMS OF

THE ECONOMY CALLED THE “NEW DEAL” TO TRY TO BRING THE US OUT OF DEPRESSION AND PUT AMERICANS BACK TO WORK.

STATES RIGHTSSTATES RIGHTS

16. THE RIGHT TO CONTROL ALL ISSUES/LAWS IN INDIVIDUAL STATES WITHOUT FEDERAL GOV INTERFERENCE. BECAME A LEADING CAUSE OF THE CIVIL WAR AS SOUTHERN STATES SECEDED FROM THE US AND FORMED THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA IN 1861.

13 COLONIES13 COLONIES

• 2. ORIGINAL EAST COAST AREAS SETTLED BY GREAT BRITAIN BEGINNING IN 1607.

SUSAN B. ANTHONYSUSAN B. ANTHONY

• REFORM LEADER WHICH FOUGHT FOR EQUAL RIGHTS FOR WOMEN

• FOUGHT ESPECIALLY FOR SUFFRAGE AND PROHIBITION

17871787

1. YEAR WHEN DELEGATES DRAFTED, DEBATED, COMPROMISED, AND FIALLY APPROVED FOR THE RATIFICATION OF THE US CONSTITUTION.

ISSUES ADRESSED DURING ISSUES ADRESSED DURING GILDED AGEGILDED AGE

• US EXPANSION AND IMPERIALISM

• LABOR UNIONS

• FARM ISSUES

• RISE OF ROBBER BARONS

• TREATMENT OF MINORITIES INCLUDING WOMEN

• CHILD LABOR

GILDED AGEGILDED AGE• ERA OF:• WESTWARD EXPANSION• INDUSTRIALIZATION• RICH INDUSTRIALISTS (ROBBER BARONS)

CREATED A GAP BETWEEN THE RICH, THE WORKDERS, AND FARMERS WHO TRIED TO INCREAS THEIR SHARE OF THE NATIONAL WEALTH THROUGH THE POPULIST MOVEMENT.

• WORKERS BEGAN TO ORGANIZE LABOR UNIONS FOR BETTER WATES AND WORKING CONDITIONS.

US INVOLVEMENT: 1941-1945US INVOLVEMENT: 1941-1945

• WWII ACTUALLY BEGAN IN 1939 WHEN HITLER INVADED POLAND.

• THE DATES FOR WWII FOR US INVOLVEMENT

• JAPAN BOMBS PEARL HARBOR BEGAN US INVOLVEMENT

• US INVOLVEMENT ENDED WITH THE DROPPING OF THE ATOMIC BOMBS

GROWTH OF REPRESENTATIVE GROWTH OF REPRESENTATIVE INSTITUTIONSINSTITUTIONS

• VIRGINIA HOUSE OF BUGESSES WAS THE FIRST REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT ASSEMBLY IN THE COLONIES.

• MAYFLOWER COPACT WAS A DOCUMENT OUTLINING PRINCIPALS OF SELF GOVERNMENT FOR COLONISTS

• FUNDAMENTAL ORDERS OF CONNECTICUT ARE ONE OF THE FIRST WRITTEN COLONIAL CONSTITUTIONS.

CIVIL RIGHTS AND TURBULENT CIVIL RIGHTS AND TURBULENT 60’S60’S

• ERA OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CHANGE.• VIETNAM CONFLICT• ASSASSINATIO OF PRES. KENNEDY• CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, LBJ’S GREAT

SOCIETY. • MLK JR LED THE WAY FOR EQUALITY FOR

AFRICAN AMERICANS, BUT WAS ASSASSINATED IN 1968.

WOODROW WILSONWOODROW WILSON

• PRESIDENT DURING WW I

• 14 POINTS OF THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES

• LED IDEAS WHICH LED TO THE CREATION OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS

ROARING ’20’SROARING ’20’S

• PROSPERITY, TECHNOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE.

• AMERICA BECAME ISOLATIONIST AND BEGAN TO LIMIT IMMIGRATION.

• PROHIBITION, JAZZ, HARLEM RENIASSANCE’

• LITTLE INTEREST IN SOCIAL REFORM

MODERN AMERICA: 1970’S-MODERN AMERICA: 1970’S-PRESENTPRESENT

• VIETNAM WAR ENDS.

• US RETURNS TO NORMALCY

• COLD WAR DECLINING

• AMERICA MOVING TOWARD AN INFORMATION AND TECHNOLICAL AGE.

• US ENTERS 21ST CENTURY AS A MAJOR WORLD LEADR.

THEORORE ROOSEVELTTHEORORE ROOSEVELT

• POPULAR PRESIDENT IN THE EARLY 1900’S

• LED US INTO A POSITION AS A WORLD POWER AND WAS CALLED THE “TRUST BUSTER” FOR HIS ATTACKS ON BIG BUSINESS.

FOUNDING FATHERSFOUNDING FATHERS

14. PLAYED A MAJOR ROLE IN DECLARING US INDEPENDENCE, FIGHTING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, WRITING AND ADOPTING THE CONSTITUTION. JEFFERSON, WASHINGTON, MADISON, ETC.

REASONS FOR US REASONS FOR US INVOLVEMENT IN WWIINVOLVEMENT IN WWI

• US JOINED THE ALLIES IN WWI IN NOVEMBER OF 1917 BECAUSE OF:

• UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARARE BY THE GERMANS

• SUPPORT FOR THE ALLIES.