HIST 208 Study Guide, Part I

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: Parent Category: Courses; Category: History 208: History of the USA, Part II

1. Introduction

What's the Point of Studying U.S. History?
Review of History 207
Syllabus

2. Foundational Documents

Declaration of Independence (1776)
U.S. Constitution (1787)
Bill of Rights (1791)
Gettysburg Address (1863)
Reconstruction Amendments(1865-1870)

3. The West

In Search of the West
- Where? When? What?
- Turner’s Thesis
Claiming the Land
- Native American Way
- Anglo American Way
- Extra-legal Way
European-Indian Relations
- Seven Myths
- Sources of Conflict

4. Cowboys and Indians

Chief Joseph & the Nez Percé
- Lewis and Clark
- U.S.-Nez Percé Conflict
Indian Reservations
- Reservation Act (1867)
- Dawes Act (1887)
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West
- “Wild West Show”
- Revisionist History
The Indian Wars
- Little Bighorn (1876)
- Wounded Knee (1890)

5. Corporations & Unions

Gilded Age Economy
- Railroads
- Managerial Revolution
- Market Expansion
- Vertical Combination (or Integration)
- Robber Barons
Laissez Faire Liberalism
- Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776)
- Gilded Age: Carnegie and Rockefeller
Labor Unions
- Powderly, Knights of Labor
- Gompers, American Federation of Labor (AFL)
- Big Business Fights Back
Foundation of Society?

6. Gilded Age Politics

Overview
- Passive Presidency
- Key Issues
- Supreme Court
  - Legal Realism
  - Fourteenth Amendment
Presidential Politics
- Machines
- Mugwumps
- Cleveland’s Presidencies
- Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)

7. Populism

Local Politics
- Ethnoreligious Cultural Politics
- Bennett Law
Populism
- Key Issues:
  - Tariffs
  - Inflation
  - Currency Expansion
  - Subtreasury Plan
- Study Questions
- Populism’s Legacy for America

8. An American Empire

William McKinley
- Protective Tariff
- Annexation of Hawaii
Spanish-American War
- Motives
- Battles
- Legacies
Foreign Policy, ca. 1900 vs. ca. 2000

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