- 
  
  - exchange of people + goods in N+W Africa + Europe
- European exploitation of Africa + Africans*
 
- 
  
  - exchange of disease, people, and goods between Old + New Worlds
- disease killed most Natives
- brought economic prosperity to Europe*
 
- 
  
  - arrived in N America + claimed Caribbean
- made profit for Spain
- first European to come to Americas*
 
- 
  
  - Spain = W (all of Americas)
- Portugal = E
- decided by Pope
 
- 
  
  - moved Line of Demarcation a little to the left
- Portugal got E Brazil
 
- 
  
  - reaches Middle East
- profit off of international trade
- use of trading posts + trade of enslaved people*
 
- 
  
  - plantation system
- use of African enslaved people’s labor to replace Native’s*
 
- 
  
  - European disease had killed most Natives
- united 5 tribes… strength in #s
- exploited by French*
 
- 
  
  - Spanish royalty granted conquistadores land w/ its inhabitants
- exploitation of Natives for European profit*
 
- 
  
  - division of Christianity … Schism (1054)
- separation from Roman Catholic Church
- creation of Protestant Church + Counter-Reformation*
 
- 
  
  - Spanish invasion of evolved Aztec empire
- took advantage of developed trade routes + food
- Spanish colonization of American territory*
 
- 
  
  - god, gold, glory
- first European settlement in Americas*
 
- 
  
  - Spanish colonization
- expansion of colonization in Americas
 
- 
  
  - purify Anglican Church
- stay apart of Catholicism
- Plymouth = Puritan*
 
- 
  
  - “Lost Colony”
- failed
- first attempt at English settlement in N America*
 
- 
  
  - gold + tobacco
- House of Burgesses
- first English royal colony in Americas*
- John Smith: "no work, no food"
- cash crops
 
- 
  
  - French Canada
- fur trade
- Jesuit conversion
 
- 
  
  - elected officials to govern colonies
- first colonial gov*
- VA
 
- 
  
  - Chesapeake
- tobacco
 
- 
  
  - Chesapeake
- enslaved Africans are brought to VA + MD*
- rise of cash crops*
 
- 
  
  - Puritan Pilgrims settlement
- first NE colony
 
- 
  
  - Plymouth = self-governing
- Puritans seeking freedom
 
- 
  
  - Puritans fleeing religious persecution in England
- founding of Plymouth, MA Bay, CT*
 
- 
  
  - European colonists refused to compromise w/ Natives
- colonists enslaved and sold Natives
- VA became a royal colony*
 
- 
  
  - Puritan exodus
- joint church + state
- John Winthrop: "city up on a hill"
- only white, church men could vote + hold office*
- not tolerant
 
- 
  
  - Roger Williams + Anne Hutchinson
- separation of church + state
- religious freedom
 
- 
  
  - colonists fought for Native land
- imposed Christianity on Natives, but didn’t allow for full inclusion
 
- 
  
  - fight for dominance in trade
- Natives lost: disease + weapons
- survivors = converted to Christianity
 
- 
  
  - banished from MA Bay
- challenged only male authority
- redefined gender in religion
 
- 
  
  - ban on foreign trade
- keep colonies economy under England’s control*
 
- 
  
  - Natives tried coexisting
- colonists won
- Native survivors sided with French
 
- 
  
  - rich British owned settled lands
- corrupt gov
- landless colonists demanded Native land from corrupt gov
 
- 
  
  - Quakers escaping religious persecution
- most liberal colony at the time
- property-owning men could vote + hold office
 
- 
  
  - England wanted stricter control of colonies
- abolishment of assemblies + town meetings
- Glorious Revolution*
 
- 
  
  - Protestant replaces Catholic monarchy
- sparks Protestant rebellions in colonies
 
- 
  
  - Puritan accusal of women’s black magic
- effects of sexism in religion*
- Enlightenment era explained natural causes*
 
- 
  
  - England = constitutional monarchy
- US can self govern + trade*
 
- 
  
  - SC
- enslaved people = majority
- definition between upper + lower class + racial
- Southern dependency on cash crops*
 
- 
  
  - GB control of colony's economy
- circumvented via smuggling
- strengthened with Sugar Act
 
- 
  
  - George Whitfield
- devotion
- religious revival
 
- 
  
  - rebellion of enslaved people in SC
- largest uprising so far
- lead to more strict plantations
 
- 
  
  - following Great Awakening
- Old = orthodox Christians
- New = modernization of Christianity, pro Great Awake.
 
- 
  
  - first attempt to unify as colonial body*
- didn't work out
 
- 
  
  - Seven Years’ War
- GB US beats New France
- Treaty of Paris 1763*
- Albany Congress (first attempt to unify colonies)
 
- 
  
  - Natives in Great Lakes vs colonists
- colonists diseased Natives to weaken army
 
- 
  
  - GB order to stop colonists from moving W
- proclamation line
- END of salutary neglect*
 
- 
  
  - colonists couldn’t use paper $
- Sugar replaced Molasses Act
- end of salutary neglect*
 
- 
  
  - tax on all printed goods to pay for GB soldiers
- GB claimed colonies had virtual representation*
 
- 
  
  - kicked off revolution
- violent attacks on gov property
- Samuel Adams
 
- 
  
  - repeals Sugar + Currency Acts
- GB parliament had full power to tax colonies
 
- 
  
  - tax on colonial imports
- enforcement of parliamentary laws
- nonimportation movement*
 
- 
  
  - GB troops killed colonists
- leading to uniting colonies for Revolution*
 
- 
  
  - town meetings to discuss colonist’s rights
- communication for Patriot leadership*
 
- 
  
  - started committees of correspondence*
- colonists threw tea in the harbor
 
- 
  
  - reason: punish MA for Boston Tea Party
- close harbor, no town meetings, quartering act, justice act
- setting ex for what would happen to rebelling colonies*
 
- 
  
  - 12 colonial body
- boycott, political union, military defense
- demands: repeal Intolerable Acts, GB association only for trade
 
- 
  
  - minutemen: colonial militias
- fighting against GB
 
- 
  
  - freedom from GB
- 13 colonies
 
- 
  
  - colonial independence from GB
- 13 colonies
- approved by Continental Congress
 
- 
  
  - sovereign states w/ equal votes
- creates central American gov w/ limited power*
 
- 
  
  - turning point in the war
- colonial alliance with France
 
- 
  
  - end of Revolutionary War
- American Independence*
 
- 
  
  - weak economy from war debt
- resistance to pay taxes imposed from the new $
 
- 
  
  - ban of slavery N of OH River
- method for admitting new states to Union*
- one congressperson / 20,000
- territory = state when the population = that of the smallest state
 
- 
  
  - VA + NJ Plan: bicameral legislation, 3/5 compromise
- separation of church + state
- makes Constitution
 
- 
  
  W: George Washington (independent)
 L: John Adams (federalist)
- 
  
  - explain suggested Constitution
- encourage ratification
 
- 
  
  - creation of Supreme Court*
- 3 circuit court system
 
- 
  
  - national bank
- assume state's war debt
- raise taxes
 
- 
  
  - basic American liberties*
- freedom of religion, speech, press, etc.
 
- 
  
  W: George Washington (independent)
 L: John Adams (federalist)
- 
  
  - "taxation without representation"
- Washington arrests protestors arguing that they voted for their reps.
- success of Constitution!
 
- 
  
  - GB has to pay US for war damage + leave territory
- weak*
 
- 
  
  - US gets MS River from Spain
- right of deposit: transfer goods with no fee
 
- 
  
  W: Adams (federalist)
 L: Jefferson (dem-repub)
- 
  
  - bribe situation with France
- makes Adams look weak
 
- 
  
  - no attacking President or gov*
- caused by XYZ Affair
- deportation of foreigners
 
- 
  
  - state's right to nullify
- 10th amend.
- leads to SC Ord. of Null.
 
- 
  
  W: Jefferson (dem-repub)
 L: Adams (federalist)
- 
  
  - Adams appointed Feds. to rule court
- Judiciary Act of 1801
 
- 
  
  - constitutional review
 
- 
  
  - US gets LA from French
- technically illegal: reconsider strict interpretation of the Constitution
 
- 
  
  W: Jefferson (dem-repub)
 L: Pinckney (federalist)
- 
  
  W: Madison (dem-repub)
 L: Pinckney (federalist)
- 
  
  - nationalistic
- 1) strengthen second national bank
- 2) internal improvements
- 3) protective tariffs
 
- 
  
  W: Madison (dem-repub)
 L: Clinton (fed / dem-repub)
- 
  
  - US v GB
- not much really changed
- Natives lost land
- Treaty of Ghent: GB couldn't reclaim any land lost during the Revolutionary War; ended war
 
- 
  
  - expansion in W
- protestantism
- racial superiority
 
- 
  
  W: Monroe (dem-repub)
 L: King (federalist)
- 
  
  W: Monroe (dem-repub)
 L: JQA (dem-repub)
- 
  
  - set precedent for future states
- one free, one slave
- line drawn across LA territory
 
- 
  
  - conservative social reforms
- concept of salvation*
- Charles Finney: temperance (1830s)
 
- 
  
  - expansion of voting rights
- all that paid taxes or served in a militia
- expanding democracy to more common citizens
 
- 
  
  - women working outside of the home
- women contributing to family income
 
- 
  
  - Europe = off-limits
- diplomacy in W
 
- 
  
  - Europe = off-limits
- W diplomacy
 
- 
  
  - reinforces Congress’s power
- SC has power to regulate interstate commerce*
 
- 
  
  W: JQA (dem-repub)
 L: Jackson (dem-repub) corrupt bargain: JQA wanted to elect people for the court
- 
  
  - national canal boom
- interstate commerce
 
- 
  
  - protective tariff of cotton
- attacks Southern identity
 
- 
  
  W: Jackson (dem)
 L: JQA (repub)
- 
  
  - military force moved Natives from GA to OK + KS
- Trail of Tears
 
- 
  
  - forced migration on foot
- because of Indian Removal Act
- GA to OK + KS
- Cherokee Nation v GA and Worcester v GA
 
- 
  
  - states have right to void congressional laws
- caused by tariffs that hurt S economy in 1828 + 1832
- Jackson forced laws with Military Force Bill*
 
- 
  
  W: Jackson (dem)
 L: Clay (repub)
- 
  
  - anti Jackson
- rich white guys
- elitism based on talent, not birth
 
- 
  
  - US paid (very little) for Cherokee land
- forced relocation
 
- 
  
  - lessen inflation
- US only accepted silver + gold for land payments
 
- 
  
  W: Van Buren (dem)
 L: W. Henry Harrison (Whig)
- 
  
  - Bank of GB stopped sending $ to US
- falling cotton prices
- financial crisis
- states invested in canals + railroads to make $
 
- 
  
  W: W. Henry Harrison (whig)
 L: Van Buren (dem)
- 
  
  - legitimize trade unions
- right to strike*
 
- 
  
  W: Polk (dem)
 L: Clay (whig)
- 
  
  - declared independence from Mex (1836)
- slave state
 
- 
  
  - ban of slavery in territories gained from US/Mex War
- didn’t pass because Whigs were in control of Congress
 
- 
  
  - Polk = expansionist
- wanted revolution to annex TX
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
 
- 
  
  - Polk expansion
- 54 40 or fight
- US split OR w/ GB*
 
- 
  
  W: Taylor (whig)
 L: Cass (dem)
- 
  
  - called out churches role in sexism
- equality of the sexes
- MA
- first women’s rights convention*
 
- 
  
  - slavery = threat to republicanism + Jeffersonians
- supported by white farmers
- condemned by William Lloyd Garrison (not enough civil rights)
 
- 
  
  - overpopulation in OR brought people to CA*
- forty-niners
 
- 
  
  - mining towns
- anti-immigrant sentiment
- disease + poverty
 
- 
  
  - included Fugitive Slave Act
- CA = free
- no trade of enslaved people in DC
- UT + NM = squatter sovereignty
- settled land boundaries between NM + TX
 
- 
  
  W: Pierce (dem)
 L: Scott (whig)
- 
  
  - Pierce threatened war w/ Spain to get Cuba
- wanted Cuba to be a slave state
- didn’t work out
 
- 
  
  - no slavery
- gov $ for transcontinental railroad
 
- 
  
  - popular sovereignty
- ended Whig party
- repeal of MO Compromise
 
- 
  
  - anti-immigrant
- anti-Catholic
- nativism*
 
- 
  
  W: Buchanan (dem)
 L: Fremont (repub)
- 
  
  - US allows slavery
- no African-American could get citizenship
- repeals NW Ordinance
 
- 
  
  W: Lincoln (repub)
 L: Breckinridge (dem)
- 
  
  - free vs slave states
- Union won
 
- 
  
  - gave fed land to property improvers
- moving W
 
- 
  
  - Lincoln
- slavery could continue where there were Union armies + MD + MO
- no immediate effects
- ex-enslaved people had the rights of "native Cherokee"
 
- 
  
  - Redemption*
- enforcement laws*
 
- 
  
  W: Lincoln (repub)
 L: McClellan (dem)
- 
  
  - aid for black people + refugees
- anti-semitism
- failed because of lack of funding
 
- 
  
  - local laws that restricted property, voting, etc. rights
- goal = convict leasing (legal slavery)
 
- 
  
  - slavery = illegal
- Lincoln
 
- 
  
  - enforce 13th amend
- divided S into military districts
- grant vote to freed people
- new state constitutions for black vote
 
- 
  
  - US missionary rights in China
- trying to become friendly w/ China
 
- 
  
  W: Grant (repub)
 L: Seymour (dem)
- 
  
  - race doesn't contribute to citizenship
 
- 
  
  - anti-immigrant
- pro ordinary people
- cooperative commonwealth (shops owned by employees)
 
- 
  
  - rights can't depend on race or previous enslavement
 
- 
  
  - US economy depended on railroad
- tension in railroad industry
 
- 
  
  - women’s right to suffrage isn’t protected under 14th amend
 
- 
  
  - last time Natives won
- white Americans officially took over W
 
- 
  
  - reinforced 14th amend
 
- 
  
  - protesting wage cuts from depression
- core of economy
- rise of workers rights
 
- 
  
  - states could regulate big business
- “due process”
- less regulation for corps
 
- 
  
  - black people migrating W from KS
- major drought
 
- 
  
  - intensified over time
- repealed in 1943
- had to use courts to protect Chinese rights
 
- 
  
  - Rockefeller
- horizontal integration (buying out competitors in the industry)
- predatory pricing (cut prices below production costs)
 
- 
  
  - worker unions alliance
- train a particular skill
 
- 
  
  - forced Natives into separate land
- encourage assimilation
 
- 
  
  - no trade conspiracies
 
- 
  
  - hoped to blend Natives + white Christians peacefully
- white violence towards Natives @ Wounded Knee
 
- 
  
  - biggest tariff of ever
- leads to annexation of HI
 
- 
  
  - rise of populism
- direction election of senators
- set economic prices = stability
 
- 
  
  - women’s org. for suffrage
- worked towards 19th amendment
 
- 
  
  - natural selection in society
- justification of white, American, male superiority*
 
- 
  
  - Protestant salvation
- social reform for working class
 
- 
  
  - led to McKinley’s election
- affected all of the economy
 
- 
  
  - Booker T. Washington = compromising
- vocational education for Black citizens
 
- 
  
  - segregation = legal
- Jim Crow laws okay
- reversed in Brown v Board of Education
 
- 
  
  - How the other half lives
- exposing life in tenements
- fundamental to modern journalism
 
- 
  
  - William Jennings Bryan
- free silver movement
 
- 
  
  - Cuba couldn't make treaties with anyone except the US
- US could intervene in Cuban affairs
- Cuba couldn't go into debt
- US has perpetual lease of Guantanamo Bay
 
- 
  
  - US won't annex Cuba
- Cuba has to accept Platt amend.
 
- 
  
  - end of War of 1898 (Spanish American War)
- US won
 
- 
  
  - US vs Spain
- humanitarian crisis in Cuba
- explosion of USS Maine
- US intervened in Cuban Independence
 
- 
  
  - US occupation of Philippines
- end of Spanish international hype
- insular cases
 
- 
  
  - US self-granted power over Filipino rights + politics
- Philippines + PR + Guam = colonies
 
- 
  
  - opposite of Monroe Doctrine
- US = self-proclaimed control in Caribbean
- police force
- repealed by FDR's Good Neighbor Policy
 
- 
  
  - US trade +++power
- acting on Roosevelt Corollary
 
- 
  
  
- 
  
  - violent enforcement of prohibition
- anti-semitism
 
- 
  
  - rise of KKK
- lynchings
- Great Migration
 
- 
  
  - fear of Bolshevism + anarchy
- blaming innocent immigrants of hate crimes
- anti Communism
 
- 
  
  - women's right to vote
- Alice Paul + Susan B. Anthony
 
- 
  
  - 1st fed. funded health-care
- less infant mortality
 
- 
  
  - immigration quotas
- unrestricted in W
 
- 
  
  - major corruption of Coolidge admin
- tax cuts for big business
 
- 
  
  - low production, construction, unemployment
- contributes to Great Depression
 
- 
  
  - high unemployment
- biggest stock market crash
- ended with defense mobilization in WWII
 
- 
  
  - high tariff on imports
- encourage American production
 
- 
  
  - banking fails
- agricultural overproduction
- high unemployment
 
- 
  
  - Native self-gov
- reverse of Dawes Severalty Act (1887)
 
- 
  
  - trying to prevent overseas war
- no selling weapons to countries at war
- US = isolationist
 
- 
  
  - trying to prevent overseas war
- no selling weapons to countries at war
- US = isolationist
 
- 
  
  - atomic bomb
- racism, anti-semitism
- Anglo-saxon man = ideal
 
- 
  
  - atomic bomb
- racism, anti-semitism
- Anglo-saxon man = ideal
 
- 
  
  - stopped trade w/ Japan
- US declares war
 
- 
  
  - Japanese bombed US ships
- US declares war
 
- 
  
  - Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill planning Nazi defeat
- leads to Cold War
 
- 
  
  - contain Communism globally
- US = involved
- Long Telegram
- Truman Doctrine*
- Marshall Plan*
 
- 
  
  - $ aid for Greece and Turkey to fight incoming communism
- Domino Theory: if one country succumbs to communism the whole world could
 
- 
  
  - $ aid for Greece and Turkey to fight incoming communism
- Domino Theory: if one country succumbs to communism, the whole world could
 
- 
  
  - weakened workers right to collective bargaining
- purge communists
 
- 
  
  - weakened workers right to collective bargaining
- purge communists
 
- 
  
  W: Truman (dem) - Fair Deal
 L: Dewey (repub)
- 
  
  - $ for Europe to rebuild economy
- containment
- Domino Theory
 
- 
  
  - $ for Europe to rebuild economy
- containment
- Domino Theory
 
- 
  
  - collective security force
- peacetime military alliance
- attack on 1 = attack on all
 
- 
  
  - proxy war (USSR vs US)
- US sided with S (nationalists)
 
- 
  
  - post WWII
- disciplined, resourceful generation
 
- 
  
  - proxy war (USSR vs US)
- US sided with S (nationalists)
- Gen. MacArthur: does whatever he wants, fired
 
- 
  
  - post WWII
- disciplined, resourceful generation
 
- 
  
  W: Eisenhower (repub)
 L: Stevenson (dem)
- 
  
  - resolves Korean War
- separates Vietnam in 2
 
- 
  
  - segregation = unconstitutional
- overturn “separate but =” clause
 
- 
  
  - segregation = unconstitutional
- overturn “separate but =” clause
 
- 
  
  - resolves Korean War
- separates Vietnam in 2
 
- 
  
  - Emmett Till was murdered
- over a year of bus boycotts
- leads to Civil Rights Act
 
- 
  
  - Emmett Till's murder
- over a year of bus boycotts
- leads to Civil Rights Act
 
- 
  
  - US mediates
- defend allies
 
- 
  
  - US mediates
- defend allies
 
- 
  
  W: Eisenhower (repub)
 L: Stevenson (dem)
- 
  
  W: JFK (dem) - New Frontier
 L: Nixon (repub)
- 
  
  - Ella Baker
- nonviolent student movement
- racial justice
- sit ins*
 
- 
  
  - Ella Baker
- nonviolent student movement
- racial justice
- sit ins
 
- 
  
  - desegregation of public transportation
- SC outlaws bus segregation
 
- 
  
  - desegregation of public transportation
- SC outlaws bus segregation*
 
- 
  
  - = compensation for = work
- no wage disparity based on sex*
 
- 
  
  - suburban domesticity
- encourage women to get independence (both $ and socially)
- women’s liberation*
 
- 
  
  - anti Southern Manifesto (1956)
- uniting: MLK Jr., SCLC, SNCC, black, white
- I have a Dream
- struggle with balance between Black power vs appeasing to whites
 
- 
  
  - = compensation for = work
- no wage disparity based on sex
 
- 
  
  - suburban domesticity
- encourage women to get independence*
- women’s liberation*
 
- 
  
  - unity: MLK Jr., SCLC, SNCC, black, white
- "I have a Dream"
- struggle with balance between Black power vs appeasing to whites
 
- 
  
  - help impoverished citizens
- Head Start + Upward Bound
- job training + employment
 
- 
  
  - title VII
- desegregation of public facilities
- no employment discrimination
- = access to public accommodations + schools
- big one!
 
- 
  
  W: LBJ (dem) - Great Society
 L: Goldwater (repub)
- 
  
  - protect US from Vietnamese Communism
- increases Johnson’s approval
 
- 
  
  - help impoverished citizens
- Head Start +
- job training + employment*
 
- 
  
  - title VII
- no employment discrimination
- = access to public accommodations + schools
- desegregation of public facilities
 
- 
  
  - protect US from Vietnamese Communism
- increases Johnson’s approval*
 
- 
  
  - Johnson's Great Society
- paid with Social Security taxes
- give poor health coverage
 
- 
  
  - Johnson Great Society
- paid with Social Security taxes*
- give poor health coverage*
 
- 
  
  - epitome of war*
- bombing for peace
- didn’t make anything better
 
- 
  
  - outlaw voting requirements
- makes it easier for marginalized communities to vote
- caused by Bloody Sunday
- no literacy tests at polls
 
- 
  
  - state ban of contraceptives = illegal
- marital right to privacy
- decriminalized birth control
 
- 
  
  - epitome of war*
- bombing for peace
- didn’t make anything better
 
- 
  
  - outlaw voting requirements
- makes it easier for marginalized communities to vote
- caused by Bloody Sunday
- no literacy tests at polls*
 
- 
  
  - state ban of contraceptives = illegal
- marital right to privacy
- decriminalized birth control
 
- 
  
  - Newton + Seale
- Black rights: housing, pay, police violence*
- advocated for self defense
 
- 
  
  - Newton + Seale
- Black rights: housing, pay, police violence*
- advocated for self defense
 
- 
  
  W: Nixon (repub)
 L: Humphrey (dem)
- 
  
  - discredited Johnson
- turning point to end war
 
- 
  
  - companies have to file industrial impact on ecosystems
 
- 
  
  - companies have to file industrial impact on ecosystems
 
- 
  
  
- 
  
  - Nixon abuse of power
- War Powers Act*
- Freedom of Info Act*
- Ethics in Gov Act
 
- 
  
  W: Nixon (repub)
 L: McGovern (dem)
- 
  
  W: Carter (dem)
 L: Ford (repub)
- 
  
  - American diplomats + citizens held hostage in Iran
- rise of Islamic revolutionaries
- deterioration of US-Iran relations
 
- 
  
  W: Reagan (repub)
 L: Carter (dem)
- 
  
  - tax cut for wealthy
- national debt
 
- 
  
  W: Reagan (repub)
 L: Mondale (dem)
- 
  
  - support of anti-Communists in Nicaragua
- secret + illegal deal to exchange hostages in Iran for weapons
 
- 
  
  - stigma of the gay community*
- gov didn’t take action until thousands had died
 
- 
  
  W: Bush (repub)
 L: Dukakis (dem)
- 
  
  - state govs can limit funding to
 abortion
 
- state govs can limit funding to
- 
  
  - start of access to internet
- new economic market
 
- 
  
  - armistice between Iran + Iraq
- UN sanctions against Iraq
 
- 
  
  - Berlin Wall fell
- end of Communism in Europe
- US = only military superpower
- end of Cold War
 
- 
  
  W: Clinton (dem)
 L: Gore (Bush)
- 
  
  - forced 24 hour waiting period before an abortion
 
- 
  
  - eventual free trade in NA
- eliminates tariffs
 
- 
  
  W: Clinton (dem)
 L: Dole (repub)
- 
  
  - states could deny gay marriage
- repealed with Windsor v US (2013)
 
- 
  
  W: GW Bush (repub)
 L: Gore (dem)
- 
  
  - caused by 9/11
- US can monitor suspected citizens for terrorism
 
- 
  
  - Abu Ghraib prison*
- torture of suspected insurgents
- US took capital
 
- 
  
  W: GW Bush (repub)
 L: Kerry (dem)
- 
  
  - car industry almost went bankrupt
- unemployment
- housing market crisis
 
- 
  
  W: Obama (dem)
 L: McCain (repub)
- 
  
  - easier access to health care
- expansion of Medicaid
- lower costs
 
- 
  
  W: Obama (dem)
 L: Romney (repub)
- 
  
  W: Trump (repub)
 L: Clinton (dem)