1. The Power of
the Printed Word
Jessica Clemente, Alexis Montilla, Emely
Navarro, Monica Zhang
APUSH/P.2

2. Adam Smith,
A Wealth of Nations. 1776
Who were the 13
colonies governed
by?
What's mercantilism?
What were the
Navigation Acts?

3. Main Ideas & Significance:
• Main Idea: About what kind
of economy was needed
for a nation to thrive
financially, which included
a totally free market and
laissez faire. Also states
that taxes should be fairly
levied!
• CAPITALISM?
• Laissez-faire?
• Unfair taxes?

4. Thomas Paine
"Common Sense," 1776
What the main
idea and
significance of it?

5. Answer:
• Main idea: it urged the colonists to
break away from the Great Britain.
• Significance: It was the first work that
openly ask for independence from
Great Britain, and it persuaded the
general population of American
colonies to fight for Independence.

6. Thomas
Jefferson,
Declaration of
Independence,
1776
What is this about?
Why is important?

7. Answer:
• Main idea is to declare the separation of the
American colonies from Great Britain, all
men are equal and deserve to live a life of
freedom.
• Significance: It announced the thirteen
American colonies regarded themselves as
independent states, and a new nation
formed.

8. Alexander Hamilton, James
Madison, John Jay, The Federalist
Papers 1787
Main Purpose:
Significance:

9. Answers:
Background: Hamilton didn’t like the Articles of
Confederation and the weak central government it
created. A lot of people felt this way so the
Constitution was created, but people feared that it
wouldn’t be ratified under the articles of
confederation. When they tried to start ratifying
the constitution there were people for and against it.

10. Alexander Hamilton,
"The Report of
Manufactures 1791
What is the main point?
Why it is so important?

11. Answer:
• Main idea: the government should
give tariff protection to U.S. industries.
• Significance: It stimulated economic
policies to ensure independence, and
have advantage to the nation of a
healthy manufacturing base.

12. William Lloyd Garrison,
The Liberator, 1831
Main Purpose:
Significance:

13. Answer:
Background: The second great awakening played an
important role on bringing awareness on slavery
because the 2nd. Unfortunately antislavery movement
was collapsing because there wasn’t enough money to
back up the plans that organizations/ societies wanted
to do like the ACS (America Colonization Society). Sent
Africans to Liberia.
Significance: The antislavery movement was becoming
more strong than it had been previously.

14. Henry David Thoreau
"On Civil Disobedience"
1849
Main Purpose:
Significane:

15. Answers:
Main Purpose: In his essay “Resistance to Civil
Government” he explained that he refused to pay this
because the government had no morality since they allow
slavery.
Significance of this: people didn’t have to obey laws that
were unjust and people started to resist the government
because of the belief of transcendentalism and it helped
spark a utopia.

16. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin,
1852
Why she wrote this
book, what is the
main idea of it
AND what was the
significance of it?

17. Answer:
• Response to the Fugitive Slave Act
of 1850.
• Main idea: the evil and immorality of
slavery and appeals the blacks to
fight for their freedom.
• It contributed to the rise of
abolitionists in the 1850s and the
start of the Civil War.

18. Henry George, Progress
and Poverty. 1879
What was the main
focus for the
Progressive Era?
How were living
conditions during this
time?

19. Main Ideas:
• Henry George examines various proposed
strategies to prevent depressions,
unemployment and poverty, but finds them
unsatisfactory.
• He proposes his
own solution: a
single tax on
land.
• He promoted
Anti-Poverty.

20. Helen Hunt Jackson, A
Century of Dishonor 1881
Main Purpose:
Significance:

21. Answer:
Main purpose: Jackson wrote this to say “hey were
hurting the Indians by doing this”-- to change
government ideas/ policies toward Native Americans at
the time. The book was sent to congress in hopes of
changing their minds about what they’re doing to the
Indians.
Significance: brought public awareness of the federal
governments long record of betraying and cheating Native
Americans. Shook America’s morals and it inspired the
Dawes Act 1887- misguided attempt to reform the
governments Native American Policy- make Natives like
mainstream Americans (change them)

22. Edward Bellamy,
Looking Backward. 1888
What was this book
about?
What's a utopia?
Who were the
Populists?
What's nationalization
(industry)?

23. Answers:
• It told of a young Bostonian who fell asleep
and woke up in the year 2000 to find a
perfect social order.
• Utopia: ideal & perfect state where everyone
lives in harmony
• Nationalization of industry: to have the
national govt control or regulate industry
• People's Party: discontented farmers who
wanted to improve their economic conditions

24. Andrew Carnegie, "The Gospel of
Wealth" 1889
Main Purpose:
Significance:

25. Answer:
Main purpose: the upper class has a responsibility to
philanthropy. Since the rich were the guardians of society
the rich needed to serve society by giving money to
organizations and societies. The rich need to make sure
that their money reaches communities in a way that could
improve living conditions.
Significance: Carnegie Libraries-- provide knowledge and
education for the poor

26. Jacob Riis, How the Other Half
Lives 1890
Who is Jacob Riis?
What is the book about?
Why did he write about this?
what was the result of this?

27. Answers:
1. Journalist/social documentary photographer
2. The living conditions in the New York Slums
3. He believed that if we were more aware, we
would be motivated to help eradicate it.
4. The tearing down of some of the worst
tenements.

28. Alfred Thayer Mahan, The Influence
of Sea Power upon History: 1660-
1783, 1890
Main Idea?
Significance?

29. Answer:
• Main idea: support and achieve sea power
with emphasis on having the largest and
most powerful fleet.
• Significance: its policies were quickly
adopted by most navies, and led to the WWI
naval arms race.

30. Frederick Jackson Turner,
"The Significance of the
Frontier in American
History," 1893
Main idea?
Significance?

31. Answer:
• Main idea: moving western frontier shaped
American democracy and the American
character, and given rise to individualism,
independence and self-confidence.
• Significance: advanced the Frontier Thesis
of American history.

32. Booker T. Washington,
"The Atlanta Compromise" 1895
Who was Booker T.
Washington?
What was the Atlanta
Compromise?

33. Main Ideas:
• speech about how Blacks should be
willing to cooperate and submit to
segregation as long as they were given
the opportunity to grow economically
• called on African Americans to seek
economic opportunities rather than
political rights
• Gradualism
• Vocational education

34. W.E.B DuBois, The Souls of Black
Folk 1903
who is W.E.B. DuBois?
what was this book about?

35. Answers:
1. W.E.B. DuBois = American Activist
2. Contained several essays about equal
treatment.

36. Lincoln Steffens, The Shames of
the Cities 1904
Main Purpose:
Significance:

37. Answer:
Main Purpose: reports on the workings of corrupt political
machines in several major U.S cities. – Considered one of the
early major pieces of muckraking.
Significance: Steffens work helped usher the muckraking era.
It also helped rise him to political prominence in
Missouri—helped change political climate

38. Upton Sinclair,
The Jungle,
1906
Main Idea?
Significance?

39. Answer:
• Main idea: the evil of capitalism, and
abuses in the meatpacking industry.
• Significance: The book helped
convince Congress to pass the Meat
Inspection Act of 1906 and the Pure
Food and Drug Act.

40. Herbert Croly, The Promise of
American Life. 1909
What was Teddy
Roosevelt's political
party in 1912?
What was his "New
Nationalism"
speech about?

41. Main Ideas:
• PROGRESSIVE ERA
BIBLE!
• opposed aggressive
unionization and
supported economic
planning to raise general
quality of life
• about how to change the
fact that the govt favored
wealthy & big businesses
• Nationalization of political

42. Jane Addams,
Twenty Years at Hull House, 1910
Who was Jane Addams?
What was Hull House?

43. Answers & Main Ideas:
• Addams was one of the
most prominent
progressive reformers.
• Settlement movement:
recreational centers that
helped poor families in the
cities
• Provided daycare to help
working mothers
• Provided education and
socialization for immigrants
• Women serving community

44. Fredrick Taylor, Principles of
Scientific Management 1911
who is Fredrick Taylor?
what is scientific management?

45. Answers:
1. Fredrick Taylor: american mechanical
engineer who sought to improve industrial
efficiency.
2. theory of management of workflow.

46. Alain LeRoy Locke,
The New Negro. 1925
What was the Harlem
Renaissance?
What was
Garveyism?

47. Main Ideas:
• anthropology of African-
American art and literature
edited by Alain Locke
• encouraging blacks to adopt
the arts
• contrasted the "Old Negro"
with the "New Negro"
• stressed African American
assertiveness and self-
confidence during the years
following World War I and the
Great Migration

48. John Steinbeck, the Grapes of
Wrath 1939
Main Significance:
Purpose:

49. Answers:
Main Purpose: novel about the journey of a migrant farm
worker of the dust bowl and also to criticize the policies
that had caused for them to move.
Significance:

50. Michael Harrington, The Other
America, 1961
Main Purpose:
Significance:

51. Answers:
Main purpose: study of poverty in the U.S. The economic
expansion Post war reduced poverty dramatically but
didn’t eliminate it. Most of the poor were people who have
been poor and can’t get out of it.
Significance: brought attention to JFK that 25% of the nation
was in poverty.

52. Answers:
• Main Purpose: Study of poverty
in the U.S. The economic
expansion Post war reduced
poverty dramatically but it didn't
eliminate it.
• Most of the people who were
poor stayed poor
• Significance: Brought attention
to JFK that 25% of the nation
was in poverty

53. Rachel Carson, Silent Spring. 1961
Who is Rachel Carson?
What is the Book about?
What was the result of it?

54. Answers:
1. Rachel: Marine biologist and conservationist
2. About the harmful effects pesticide has on
the environment.
3. Influence president Kennedy to test all
chemicals mentioned in her book.

55. Betty Friedan, The Feminine
Mystique, 1963
Main Idea?
Significance?

56. Answer:
• Main idea: the widespread
unhappiness of women in the 1950s
and early 1960s.
• Significance: the book is seens as
the beginning of the second-wave
women's liberation movement.

57. Martin Luther King Jr. "Letter from
Birmingham Jail" 1963
Who is Martin Luther King Jr. ?
What was the letter about?

58. Answers:
1. MLK Jr.: an American clergyman, activist,
and leader in the African-American Civil
Rights Movement.
2. The letter defended the strategy of
nonviolent resistance to racism.

59. Daniel Ellsberg, The Pentagon
Papers, 1971
Who is Daniel Ellsberg?
What did the Pentagon Papers reveal?

60. Answers:
1. Daniel Ellsberg: a former United States
military analyst
2. Revealed the real reason the US stayed in
the Vietnam War

61. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein,
All the President's Men 1974
1. Who are Woodward and Bernstein?
2. What are they investigating on in this book?
3. It also talks about the revelation of what
tapes in 1973?

62. Answers:
1. They are two journalist working for the
Washington Post
2. They investigate on the first Watergate
break-in
3. The revelation of the Nixon Tapes

63. Eighteenth Century:

64. Nineteenth Century:

65. Twentieth Century: