Apush Chapter 19 Summary

Chapter 7 refers to the many different types of Federal and State surveys that are nonsectionalized.

People in the hollows of Appalachia who manufactured “moonshine” are doing the same as their ancestors did in the borderlands of northern Britain

Chapter 15 is about the reconstruction after the fight of blacks gaining their freedom. The chapter focus on the reconstruction which will be known as the freedom that black Americans were fighting to gain. The Reconstruction of 1865 meant “to literally rebuild the shattered nation.”, (quoted from chapter 15 paragraph 3). Although the reconstructing era was happening many former slave and their slave owner from the north and south tried relocating to redefine the meaning and boundaries of the American freedom. In other word trying to find a way to continue living the way suited the white and not trying to give the proper freedom to blacks. However, after the Civil War black men were granted the right to vote, ushering that a period of interracial democracy throughout the south. Blacks were also

Erics perspective of the Progressive era From Chapter 18 "Give Me liberty" was that it was a predicated, immensely colossal-scale for all sorts of people: men and women, laborers, middle-class reformers, and intellectuals aiming to fix political and economical issues. The people wanted to bring the puissance of the giant corporations under more preponderant control. Albeit they couldn't vote in most states at this point, the early twentieth century, women played a major role in Progressivism. Women peregrinate to press local and verbalize regimes for laws regulating housing and laboring conditions.The Progresive allowed women to feel equal in rights for their cause.

In June 1744, the Iroquois and representatives from Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania met in Lancaster, Pennsylvania to resolve conflicts and negotiate on agreements. These meetings were called the Covenant Chain.

German settlements dominated certain districts and moved down to western parts of Maryland, Virginia, and Carolinas.

Mayflower Compact-signed before leaving the ship, the Mayflower Compact wad the first form of self government within the colonies. It was not a constitution but an agreement to form a crude government and to submit to the will of the majority under the regulations agreed upon. The compact would set a precedent for future constitutions

5.5. Spain watched Portugal’s success with exploration and slaving with envy and wanted a piece of the pie.

What are the main points of this reading (focus on concepts, ideas, and then, not on individual facts)? Chapter 27 deals with the politics and cultural abundances during the Cold War. Because of the Cold War the U.S. gained many new technologies and ideas such as the interstate. Space Shuttles and tornado sirens were also created because of the Cold War era and the new threats it brought. Suburb development was the major effect of the new economic era. We developed new housing areas such as Levittown, along with the new area came new shopping malls and urbanization. There was still the threat of nuclear destruction in this time of development. Many leaders were afraid of the Domino Theory that would allow communism to spread at an alarming rate. One major battle that came from this idea was the Cuban revolution led by Fidel Castro. Along with the new economic and political changes came social and cultural changes. Texas and Florida were being flooded with Mexican Americans who came to work in the U.S. and then were supposed to go back to Mexico. African and Mexican Americans were fighting for their civil rights and equality. One example of Mexican Americans struggling for civil rights was Hernandez vs. Texas. African-Americans had a huge movement forward during this time. There was the Little Rock Nine, Martian Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the Montgomery bus boycott. Throughout this hard time many minorities gained rights and equality. The Cold War era had a huge

Both North and South were ill prepared for war in 1861. Initially dependent on volunteers, the Confederacy established a draft in 1862, and the Union did so the following year.

Chapter eight starts After Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory, the size of the United States doubled. The U.S. now bordered Mexico, which had won its independence from Spain in the 1820s. In 1836, Texas broke off from Mexico and formed its own republic; in 1845, under the presidency of James Polk, and the U.S. brought Texas into the union, though the Mexican government continued to regard Texas as a part of Mexico. Polk was an expansionist president some would say although I think he just wanted as much as he could get so he ordered General Zachary Taylor(the future president of the United States) to provoke Mexican troops near the Rio Grande. Around the same time In 1846,

Immigrants did not have a lot of trouble assimilating to America, but there was resentment towards them in and after the years of the American Revolution. They did not have issues marrying into American families or getting jobs. English merchants were relocated during the war of 1812, and Americans forced new immigrants to register with the local government.

1. Supreme Court’s Rule of Reason- The United States Supreme Court created the Rule of Reason as the basic principle in regards to anti-trust cases. It was created as a result of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v the United States. The government tried Standard Oil due to violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. They claimed it had used its powers to prevent other oil companies from being created. After this, it became a principle of the time period, on a case by case basis to determine if a company was being just.

Hull House was established to give people food, a place to live and

The influx of immigrants created the idea of Nativism, the belief that native born Americans are superior to immigrants. To this day there are nativists that still dislike immigrants especially when our economy is doing bad because they feel that immigrants take jobs away from American citizens. A time when African Americans moved from the north to south was known as the Great Migration. During this time period, African Americans would move into big cities like Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles and many more. To this day we still have a great majority of African Americans living in these big cities. As more time went on the amount of immigrants to America kept growing to the point where the government created immigration reforms. The immigration reforms were attempts to fix whats wrong with immigration policies. As of right now we are still working on immigration reforms including the rules we have to follow and the limitations to the different foreigners that we can let into the U.S. As of this day immigration reforms are a big debate within the