The Top Forty Multiple Chioce Topics for the Exam (Aaaahhhh!!!)
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study session today) I just wanted to post the two topics that I had
from the forty most common multiple choice question topics list.
And Ben, I think you said this to everyone, but if all of the people
who had a topic (or two) could please just post it up, this would be so
helpful for anyone who was stuck on one of them or something.
Anyways, my two topics were...#1-The Great Awakening and #34-World War
II: The Home Front
Okay, so first, The Great Awakening...
· The Great Awakening was an extremely powerful movement of strong
religious expression that affected people of all social classes in all
of the colonies
· It took place in the early 18th century and was strongest from the
1730's to the 1740's
· Jonathan Edwards basically started it with a series of new sermons
where he preached that God was mad angry (hehehe, that sounds funny)
with human sinfulness
o Before the Great Awakening, God was shown in a much more positive
light, and that had led to the young people not being really
"religiously serious" like their parents were.
o This religious unseriousness led to the Halfway Covenant in which
people could be members of the church, but it was more laidback because
they didn't have to go to all of the ceremony's and sermons and
stuff
o During the Great Awakening, when God and religion were portrayed in a
more serious and threatening manner
· George Whitefield came from England and traveled through the
colonies and spread Edwards' ideas about how God was mad and people
who didn't publicly express their sins and devotion to Him would be
eternally damned and sent to hell.
· There was also competition that arose between churches to attract
the most followers.
· Since the Great Awakening was so great (haha), it began to
democratically affect politics and the way the colonists viewed
authority. People began to think that they could make their own
decisions, without any notions from authority, and this new democratic
way of sort of thinking brewed in the people. Thirty years later, they
would challenge the King's authority.
o This sort of democratic idea came from the individualist influence of
the Great Awakening, because you were the one who would be "saving"
yourself by confessing your sins and such, ministers also lost some of
their former authority because people began to independently study the
Bible.
Next, World War II: The Home Front...
· This chunk of history was mainly during the 1940's
· Hitler broke the nonaggression pact that he'd made with Stalin,
and invaded the Soviet Union.
· The Allies that fought Germany during 1942-1945 were Britain, the
US, and the Soviet Union.
· Industrial Production- The US government organized special agencies
to mobilize the economic and military resources for the wartime
situation.
o The War Production Board (WPB) was established to manage war
industries
o Later on the Office of War Mobilization (OWM) set production
priorities and controlled raw materials
o
· To be continued...tonight (I hope)
World Peace,
Suzie Q
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Reconstruction.... I dont get it at all... thanks!
Ricky Wat
Reconstruction
Lincoln declared the Emancipation Proclamation (1863) to free slaves in
parts of states in rebellion against the Union only. The nation needed
an amendment to the constitution so that it could be applied to both
Union occupied territories and Union states. So...
o The Thirdteenth Amendment abolished slavery.
o The Fourteenth Amendement defined all persons borned in the US are
citizens of the United States (applicable to blacks)
President Johnson was opposed to this Fourteenth Amendment and advised
teh ex-Confederate states not to ratify it. (This is because Johnson
was a diehard democrat and sympathetic to South, although he was
nominated VP for Republican platform and roose to Presidency after
Republican Lincoln assasinated) So President Johnson did not support
republican plans for Resonctruction. Johnson allowed the ex-Confederate
states to leniently seceded back into the union like "10% of population
support reunion, then they can". Also, Johnson pardoned many
Confederate officiers and many former pro-Confederate plantation owners
to get their land back.President Johnson was vetoing Republican
sponsored bills and pissing alot of Republicans off. The Radicial
Republicans were angry that Johnson had turned back on his War democrat
roots and implemented a series of Reconstruction Acts such as the Act
of 1867. This marked the end of the presidiential resconstructionplan
and the beginning of congressional radical reconstruction effort.
The Radical reconstruction acts strengethed the degree in which states
could unite back into the Union. Johnson's ten percent plan was too
lenient and not secure enough to guaranteed absolute loyalty of the
Union on behalf of ex-confederates and southerns. So their replaced the
Ten Percent Plan with another plan that required a majority of all
white citizens to vote and pledge allegiances to the Unnion. Again,
Johson is messing things up and intervening and said that this was
unconstitutional.
So then the ten states were divided upinto five military districts,
with a general in charge of each districte;. Maritail law was
implementd, so basically, it was like a military occupation of the
south. After the war, the southern states tried to restroe their former
way of life,Southern legislatures passed laws called black codes to
regulate the lvies of freed slaves. Similar they permitted black
southersn with like few basics rights, including the right to own
property, marry memvbers and sue to be sued etc...However, theiy were
not allowed to vote, or in a sense, strict measures were imposed that
indirectly limited Black pariticpation in political process such as
voting tax, literacy test, among other thigns. Also, the black codes
restablished white control over black , and showed taht white southerns
intended to keep the newly free slaves in a subordinate status.
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Could someone post a summary of the Vietnam war stuff??? thanks
World Peace,
Suzie Q
Ricky Wat
the internet?
Vietnam (Alan's land) war
After world war 2, France tried to keep control of IndoChina after the
Japanese left. America gave heavy aid to the French to keep their
colonies in Indochina, but they failed. The French were defeated by the
anticolonial Vietminh, led by a Communist Ho Chi Mihn. Vietnam was part
of former French Indochina, and after WW2, the Vietmihns governed North
Vietnam, and an anti-Communist government in South Vietnam.
By 1950's, The United Statew as sending substantial aid including
military advisers to South Vietnam. So basiaclly, American involvement
was very small, sending only "advisers", some money, and military
equipment to South Vietnam.
You know, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution enabled President Johnson to
rapidly escalate American committement to the war in Vietnam in the
1965. Congress authorized the President Lydon Johnson to take all steps
neccesary to protect American troops and "prevent further agression in
the Southeast Asia" So technically, Johnson did not need Congress's
approval for a declaration of war. It was not labeled as a war,
instead, as a conflict, which gave the President power to send troops
without Congress approval.
American supplied impressive air and naval power to help ground forces.
There was a massive buildup of US troops, and America was initial
confident. About 500,000 troops were in Vietnam by 1967, and continuing
the war became one of the msot idvisive issues in American politics
because high U.S. losses raised the level of antiwar sentiment in the
United States. The television coverage of the destruction of vietnamese
villages by American forces increased anger in the eyes of the public.
The war was unpopular at home. Everyone did not like Johnson, so he
did not get elected. Richard Nixon came into power and promised to
withdraw from Vietnam.
Johnson wanted to continue to complete Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal
programs. He never recievced the funding levels necessary for its
success because of the escalating cost of Vietnam war. There simply was
not enoguh revenue to do both social programs and war at the same time.
"guns and butterS"
President Nixon worked to replace American forces fwith those from
South Vietnam. Most of them left, and South Vietnam fell in 1975.
Vietnam was one of those "proxy wars" taht America lost.
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AAAAAHHHHH!!!!
Thank you mucho.
World Pizzzle
-Suzie Q