Apush Chapter 1 Summary

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

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

Yellow Journalism follows this because that is what William Randolph Hurst and Pulitzer were using to persuade the audience, the idea of overdoing a story so it will make the public feel a certain way and in this case it made the public want to help Cuba.

This act excludes the whole American people from competition in the purchase of this monopoly and dispose of it for many millions less than it is worth. The fourth section provision secures to the State banks a legal privilege in the Bank of the United States which is withheld from all private citizens. There was a lack of equality when paying with notes. A State bank that had notes by a particular branch could pay the dept to the Bank of the United States with those notes, but a citizen couldn’t pay with those notes but must have sold them at a discount or sent them to the branch to be cashed. This does not measure out equal justice to the high and the low, the rich and the poor. The president of the bank said that most of the State banks existed by its forbearance, the abstention of enforcing the payment of the debt. The influence of the self elected directory which is identified with those of the foreign stockholders may become concentered in a particular interest that could affect the purity of elections and the independence of the country when it goes to war. Their influence could have been so great as to influence elections and control the affairs of the nation.

Many things emerged in cities because that was where most people worked and was the greatest population place. Hull House allowed for better working conditions

What impaired their independence was ultimately up to America and this gave the power to control Cuban affairs.

In 1897, Petitions led by Queen Liliuokalani who was jailed for trying to stop annexation of Hawaii wanted to get rid of the annexation. The petitions were signed by 21,269 Native Hawaiians more than half of the 39,000 Hawaiians living in Hawaii. The petition was just a buildup of what the Hawaiians had been through with a sugar trade inviting a movement of Japanese to want to work in the trade, leading the U.S. to use Hawaii as a naval base to gain more power around the world, so they would not expect a Japanese’s invasion. The annexation of Hawaii with the sugar trade, Japanese, and the U.S. involvement is a real result of bringing the Spanish-American war in to effect.

The Social Gospel started in the early twentieth century as an intellectual movement. The purpose was to live out The Lord's Prayer during our day to day lives. Social Gospel applied Christian ethics to social problems like the issues of social justice. A group of liberal Protestant progressives started the movement because they weren't satisfied with social problems around them and they did not feel enough was being done to solve the problems. Social problems associated with rapid industrialization, urbanization, and increasing immigration of the Gilded Age were the primary concern.

A. This was a religious revival movement aimed at solving all of the social ills of society through the application of Christian principles.

Darwin was the British naturalist who became famous for his theories of evolution and natural selection. Like several scientists before him, Darwin believed all the life on earth evolved over millions of years from a few common ancestors. From 1831 to 1836 Darwin served as naturalist aboard the H.M.S. Beagle on a British science expedition around the world. In South America Darwin found fossils of extinct animals that were similar to modern species. On the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean he noticed many variations among plants and animals of the same general type as those in South America. The expedition visited places around the world, and Darwin studied plants and animals everywhere he went, collecting specimens for further study.

William Jennings Bryan supported many large political movements over the course of his career. Though it never achieved the success he had desired, Bryan’s bimetallic or ‘silver’ movement instigated a great deal of political change. Functioning as Bryan’s entrance into politics, the silver debate gave him a large and powerful political voice against the Gold Standard movement. This power resulted in the combinations of several different political parties into Bryan’s camp; in addition, it helped to splinter his opposition party, the Republicans. Bryan’s most famous speech, the ‘Cross of Gold’, named the bimetallic standard movement as a moral debate instead of merely an economic one, and, in the speech, he made numerous Biblical references comparing the standard and its followers to Christ on the Cross. In addition to the bimetallic standard, some of Bryan’s strongest political opinions surrounded prohibition and the dangers of legalized alcohol. Bryan’s opinions on alcohol were so strong that they resulted

Later the Hawaiian Kingdom had perished. The Annexation club had made a new government and Hawaii was now Annexed to the United States.

William Jennings Bryan gave one of the most famous speeches in American history called the Cross of Gold. He gave his speech at the Democratic convention on July 9, 1896, in Chicago. Bryan was very passionate expressed his belief in the different forms of currency. The free silver movement was a big debate during the election of 1896. Acute periods on economic lows in this decade caused panic from farmers who could not pay their debts. Bryan suggested the United States try and use silver behind the dollar not just gold, at a value that would cause an inflation. Farmers would make a profit for their crops, easing their debt to lenders. This position was known as the Free Silver Movement. Both the democratic party, and the furture democratic