REGENTS REVIEW
CHECKLIST
Mrs. Brown
Thematic Strategies
*Outline Your Essay (take notes on Background,
discuss the issue/event and impact)
Action
Historical
Circumstances
Influence of
Geographic Factor
Impact on U.S.
Louisiana Purchase
France wanted to
sell area much
cheaper than the
U.S. expected to
buy; President
Jefferson decided
the gov. could
purchase the land
U.S. could expand to
the west and French
presence on U.S.
western border.
Gave U.S. chance to
double size of
territory to allow for
future growth and
exploration for new
resources. U.S. set
precedent that it
could add additional
territory
Colonial Era
European Enlightenment (Locke)
Mayflower Compact
New England Town Meetings & House of
Burgesses
Peter Zenger’s Trial
Slave Trade
Taxation without Representation
Declaration of Independence
Early Government
Articles of Confederation (weak central
government)
Constitutional Convention
– Great Compromise
– 3/5 Compromise
Ratification of Constitution
– Federalist vs. Anti-Federalists
– Bill of Rights
U.S. Constitution
Popular Sovereignty Separation of Powers
* Legislative Branch (Congress & Senate)
* Executive Branch (President)
* Judicial Branch (Supreme Court)
Checks & Balances
– Presidential Veto
– Judicial Review
Flexibility
U.S. Constitution
– Elastic Clause
– Amendment Process
– Judicial Interpretation
Federalism (belief in a strong and powerful
central government)
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Delegated Powers
Implied Powers
Concurrent Powers
Reserved Powers
Unwritten Constitution
– Cabinet; Two-Party System
Federalist Era
Proclamation of Neutrality
Washington’s Farewell Address
Hamilton’s Financial Plan
National Bank
Whiskey Rebellion
Alien & Sedition Acts
Marshall Court (expanded Court's jurisdiction;
increased federal government vs. state
government power)
Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin
Antebellum Era
Presidential Treaty: LA Purchase
War of 1812
Monroe Doctrine
American System
Spoils System
Tariff of Abominations
Worcester v. Georgia
Indian Removal (Trail of Tears)
Abolition (John Brown’s Raid & Uncle Tom’s
Cabin)
Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention
(Declaration of Sentiments)
Westward Expansion
Territory
– Northwest Ordinance
– Louisiana Purchase
– Adams-Onis Treaty (Florida)
– Mexican Session (Southwest)
– Gadsden Purchase
Expansion of Slavery
– Missouri Compromise
– Compromise of 1850
– Kansas-Nebraska Act (Bloody Kansas)
Civil War
Causes (States’ Rights, Westward Expansion
and slavery)
Secession
Suspension of Habeas Corpus (Civil liberty
that was suspended by Lincoln in defiance of
the Constitution and Supreme Court's chief
justice. This was done so that anti-Unionists
could be easily arrested)
Emancipation Proclamation
Reconstruction
Lincoln’s Plan v. Radical Republicans
Scalawags & Carpetbaggers
13th, 14th & 15th Amendments
Election of 1876 (Hayes)
Black Codes
KKK
Disenfranchisement (Literacy Test; Poll Tax;
Grandfather Clause)
Jim Crow Laws
W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington
Plessy v. Ferguson
Gilded Age
 Laissez-Faire Capitalism
 Business Organizations (Monopoly, Pool, Trust, Holding
Company)
 Captains of Industry/Robber Barons (Andrew Carnegie,
John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford)
 Social Darwinism
 Munn v. Illinois
 Wabash v. Illinois
 Interstate Commerce
 Sherman Antitrust Act (banned the formation of trusts
and monopolies in the United States – had little
impact)
Gilded Age
Populist Party
Referendum, Initiative, Recall, Secret Ballots,
Direct Election of U.S. Senators
Homestead Act
Pacific Railway Act
Dawes Act
Collective Bargaining
Knights of Labor, American Federation of
Labor
Gilded Age
Great Railway Strike, Haymarket Riot, Homestead
Strike, Pullman Strike
Urbanization (positive & negative effects)
Assimilation
Nativism (movement based on hostility to
immigrants)
Know-Nothing Party
Chinese Exclusion Act
Civil Service Reform
Pendleton Act
Progressive Era
Muckrakers (Jacob Riis, Upton Sinclair, Ida
Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens)
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall
Jane Adams and Hull House
Temperance Movement
NAACP
Progressive Era
 TR and Square Deal (originally promising fairness in all
dealings with labor and management and later extended
to include other groups)
 Hepburn Act
 Elkins Act
 16th, 17th, 18th & 19th Amendment
 Standard Oil v. United States (Standard Oil is guilty of
monopolizing the petroleum industry in violation of the
Sherman Anti-Trust Act)
 Federal Reserve Act
 Clayton Antitrust Act
American Imperialism
 Commodore Perry in Japan
 Open Door Policy (Boxer Rebellion)
 Hawaii
 Spanish-American War (yellow journalism, Maine sunk)
 Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico
 Roosevelt Corollary
 Panama Canal (shortened the sea voyage between the
east and west coasts of North America)
 Dollar Diplomacy
 Good Neighbor Policy
America and World Wars
U.S. joins WWI (Lusitana, Zimmerman Note)
Selective Service Act
Espionage and Sedition Acts
Schenck v. United States (ruled that government
can limit free speech if the speech provokes a
"clear and present danger" of substantive evils)
Red Scare
Sacco and Vanzetti
Wilson’s Fourteen Points
Senate Refusal to Ratify the Treaty of Versailles
America and World Wars
Arms Control (Kellogg-Briand Pact)
“Return to Normalcy”
Neutrality Acts
Lend-Lease Act
U.S. joins WWII (Pearl Harbor)
Big 3; European Theater; D-Day; Pacific
Theater; Island Hopping
Manhattan Project (A-Bomb)
America and World Wars
Nuremberg and Tokyo War Trials
Victory Gardens, Gas Rations
Rosie the Riveter
Korematsu v. United States
Demobilization (G.I. Bill; Price Controls End;
Taft-Hartley Act; National Security Act)
United Nations
Prosperity and Depression
 Roaring 1920s
 Harlem Renaissance (Jazz Age)
 Scopes “Monkey” Trial (Scopes violated a Tennessee
state law by teaching evolution in high school)
 Mass Consumption
 Installment Buying
 Bonus Army (the name for the 20,000 impoverished
veterans and unemployed who converged on
Washington in 1932 to lobby and intimidate Congress
in to passing favorable legislation)
 Hoover Dam
Prosperity and Depression
FDR and New Deal
Relief (Bank Holiday; FERA; PWA; CCC; WPA; TVA)
Recovery (NIRA; HOLC; FHA; AAA)
Reform (FDIC; SEC; SSA)
Schehter Poultry Corp. v. U.S. and U.S. v. Butler
(court ruled some New Deal laws
unconstitutional in Congress attempts at
regulating industries)
FDR’s Court Packing
WWII Economy
Cold War
Policies (Containment; Collective Security;
Massive Retaliation; Brinkmanship; Détente)
Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift
Iron Curtain
Truman Doctrine
Space Race
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Cuban Missile Crisis
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Cold War
NY Times v. United States (The ruling made it
possible for the New York Times and
Washington Post newspapers to publish the
then-classified Pentagon Papers without risk
of government censorship or punishment – 1st
Amendment rights)
War Powers Act
Ping-Pong Diplomacy
Arms Control (Nuclear Test Ban Treaty; ABM
Treaty; SALT I & II)
Reaction to Communism
Smith Act (It made it a crime to teach or
advocate the violent overthrow of the
government-used against Communists and
Socialists)
Loyalty Review Board
Spying (A. Hiss and Rosenbergs)
McCarthyism
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Civil Rights
Brown v. Board of Education
Integration Opposed (Little Rock and
University of Alabama)
Rosa Parks and Montgomery Bus Boycott
Black Civil Rights Organizations (NAACP; CORE;
SCLC; Nation of Islam)
Martin Luther King, Jr. & Malcolm X
Civil Rights
 Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Outlawed racial discrimination and segregation
against blacks, ended voting restrictions and segregation in work, schools,
and public places)
 24th Amendment (poll tax abolished)
 Voting Rights Act of 1965 (invalidated the use of any test or device to deny
the vote and authorized federal examiners to register voters in states that
had disenfranchised blacks)
 Cesar Chavez (He helped to improve conditions for migrant farm workers
and unionize them)
 American Indian Movement
 Betty Friedan (feminist author of "The Feminie Mystique" in 1960 and
helped launch the second-wave feminist movement)
 Equal Rights Amendment (attempt at outlawing discrimination based on
gender)
 National Organization of Women (organization formed to work for
economic and legal rights of women; demanded equality in educational
and job opportunities, wages, and political representation; creation of
childcare facilities)
Civil Rights
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Equal Employment Opportunity Act
Title IX of Educational Amendments Act
Education for All Handicapped Children Act
Americans with Disabilities Act
Warren Court (The court became a vehicle for social change and
advocate for individual rights)
Mapp v. Ohio
Baker v. Carr
Engel v. Vitale
Gideon v. Wainwright
Escobeda v. Illinois
Tinker v. Des Moines
Miranda v. Arizona
Roe v. Wade
New Jersey v. T.L.O.
Modern America
Truman’s Fair Deal
22nd Amendment (limits president to 2 terms)
Baby Boom
Levittowm
Highway Act of 1956
NASA
Peace Corps
LBJ’s Great Society (social reform programs
including Medicare, civil rights legislation, and
federal aid to education)
Modern America
Affirmative Action
Medicare, Medicaid
Food Stamp Program
Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
VISTA
Watergate
OPEC Oil Embargo (1973 Cut off supply of oil as
protest of U.S. support of Israel-long lines at gas
stations)
Camp David Peace Accords (The first signed
agreement between Israel and an Arab country)
Modern America
Iran-Contra Affair (Reagan’s supplying of weapons
to Iran and the backing of the Contras in
Nicaragua without Congress’s approval)
Persian Gulf War
Brady Bill (Violence Prevention Act; gun control –
5 day waiting period + background check)
N.A.F.T.A.
September 11th
Patriot Act
Iraq War