AP U.S. History Prep Episode #9 | The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)

hey there students we are live okay with one last review with the Bill of Rights Institute and you know it’s been great for the Bill of Rights Institute to have me I’m Tom Ritchie if you don’t you hadn’t seen me already and it is then I’ve been great we’ve been really doing this for a couple months now and especially since schools have moved online it’s been really great so you barely know how to turn that down a little bit okay so with that you know the Bill of Rights Institute has provided these reviews and it’s been I’ve been graded them and great to work with them so please subscribe to their channel if you have not already and also we want to be aware of the Bill of Rights Institute’s constitutional Academy which this is a unique opportunity this summer because typically this is something that has got to know Kim jong-eun will not be there you will you will meet some some people who are in politics not the Supreme Leader but you will meet meet some great people you will also get to network with some some people who share some interests that you have some interest in politics and so go check that out the Bill of Rights Institute it’s gonna have a link in the video description and I’m sure they’ll share a link in the chat but that is the Bill of Rights Institute’s constitutional Academy and it is online and free this year okay so the thing is we are we are seeing that we are going to let’s see I’ve got some notes on the Great Depression in the New Deal so we’ll want to talk about that tonight now we want to make sure that we’re prepared for whatever DBQ topic is out there okay so whatever they throw at us we want to make sure we’re prepared for that but at the same time we do want to think about while you’re studying on your own tonight that it looks like AP euro has you know when AP euro did their exam that they kind of stayed away from the later part on you know focusing on those parts that you know the people generally would have gotten to before things went for the break you know went with corona now another thing that I noticed now we don’t know if a push will do the same thing but we do know when we do POV analysis that the you know the college board is very sensitive right now about their image and so from everything that I’ve been been familiarize with when it comes to the AP government exam and the AP euro exam the topics were by and large very accessible okay so so we haven’t if a push throws curveballs tomorrow they are going to be the first AP subject that I know of to throw curve balls you know I think that we are gonna get a pretty straightforward DBQ I’ve been spending a lot of time on the nineteenth century if you go to my DBQ page on my website you’ll see that I’ve got a DBQ on the effects of democracy and also another one on reconstruction all right so as far as that goes let me go ahead and yes I’ve got some notes here for the Great Depression and the New Deal so

let’s go ahead and go over that okay so I’m gonna go ahead and share this with y’all so that y’all can access these notes and these will be great notes to have you know in terms of you know studying tonight and some of you might want to have some things on hand on for you know your exam but let’s go ahead and great depression notes I’m actually gonna throw a few things at y’all okay so we’ve got the Great Depression notes let’s see now on AP euro I did not hear about as many issues with people submitting their exams like you heard about with gov on the first day now one thing that I want to note is that everybody that have every time there’s an issue with somebody submitting their exam and this is coming from me so I think you know it’s a verifiable point of view I’m going to tell you that the College Board it is not always the College Board’s fault and people who know Tom Ritchie know that I’m not you know the biggest admirer of the College Board so since Tom Ritchie is not the biggest admirer of the College Board and he’s saying that like look some of these problems are actually originating on the side of the student so that’s something that we want to be careful about as well and one of those things is making sure you’re managing your time well and when that forty-five minutes goes off and that red light starts blinking for you make sure that you have moved everything make sure that you have moved everything to the college board an area where you were going to submit your essay paste your stuff in there finish your sentence if you need to okay but take the 45 minutes seriously one of the worst things you can do is think oh I’ve got five more minutes no big deal I’m because there are some people who are having to take retake their exam because they did not it was on their end they’ll tell you that they waited too long to submit their essay and if you don’t get that thing submitted then you’re gonna be taking it again in June now another thing that I would recommend I would recommend using a word processor that is native to your computer I would not recommend typing your DBQ or are setting it up on Google Docs okay because this is actually I’m talking about real-life situations here not just stuff I’ve heard on the internet but things people have actually told me have happened to them so you know one of my one of my clients actually was taking the on taking the exam and what happened to my client was that you basically his internet went out and so his internet went out and there you go I mean his internet went out his Google Doc like basically just disappeared on him and you know he’s gonna have to take it again in June but that is because of an internet outage now if there’s a temporary internet outage while you’re taking your exam I would rather be in Microsoft Word or notes or something like that just some type of interface

that is native to your computer also don’t do funny stuff like using multiple thoughts like you know there was somebody told me I don’t know why he did that why did he use multiple fonts I don’t know but do everything in one font a basic font and then paste it all in there just do it as simply as possible but again I would not use you know I would not use Google Docs to actually type my essay and also I would turn off way you know grammar early and any of those plugins if you use any plugins I would urge you to to turn that you know to turn that away okay so we would say that that would be you know that that would be a smart thing to do okay so those are a few things that I would note about taking your exam now the other thing is you know just make sure that you know you’re on you know take you know eating a good breakfast that’s one of those things that eat a good breakfast make sure you don’t even like a lot of sugary foods and stuff like that drink plenty of water so we’ll be going over that tomorrow we will be going over on some of that on our you know on our breakfast review tomorrow on my channel so with that I have shared a shared a google doc on the Great Depression okay so I’m gonna go ahead yeah and so what you can do yes you can untyped something and then copy and paste it into the test but I would just say that the word processor it needs to be something that is on your computer so let’s go ahead and take a look at the Great Depression okay so we’re going to we’re going to go ahead and take a look at the Great Depression and then the New Deal okay so let’s go ahead and take a look let’s say China okay there we go so I just need to shoot a screen all right here we go okay so with that ladies and gentlemen let’s go ahead and take a look these are some notes on the Great Depression I put together you are welcome to copy and pay your welcome to keep this link you’re welcome to copy and paste the link all of that’s fine okay so you know this is about three pages of notes now I would recommend we want to kind of condense things so oh gosh this is back when we were thinking like possible leq praha haha right okay so going from there we want to think about like the 1920s in context so we think about this the 1920s great time for business and manufacturing not the best time for labor or agriculture okay so the Gilded Age what we want to understand is that the Gilded Age was a time of government support for you know government support for big business and you know then you see low taxes and low regulations then moving on to the Progressive Era okay so then moving on to the Progressive Era where you’ve got

government regulation a big business and then more taxes and regulations and so these things tend to go in cycles okay so what we see with the 1920s is that you know we see that we’re going back to government support for big business but I would say it’s a little bit more of a hands-off support that there’s not it’s not the same kind of support that you saw during the Gilded Age with the super high tariffs but you know it’s you know government is tending to support through low taxes and low regulations so you know you’ve got here that the 1920s you had massive economic growth but the 20s ended with a crash and what we want to know here we’ve got some things here where we go into the explanation the why now keep in mind that all of this is subjective okay so as far as that as far as that goes that it is subjective it’s not something that is true or false of what this when you think about making a thesis statement and are you met it is not the standard is not whether your argument is true the standard is whether your argument can be supported with evidence so there are things that are unsupportable okay so you know if you said something like you know the American Revolution was you know American Revolutionary War was thought because of debates between the colonists and the British over slavery okay or because of you know over slavery and states rights or something and this is not necessary you know it’s like okay the person’s trying to talk about the Civil War and so that you know you would say that okay that’s not defensible but any of these explanations would be defensible okay but some of them clash historians clash all the time so the 1920s were a period of transition okay that’s one thing that when we think about economic upheavals they happen in periods of change and so we note here that you know just to kind of think about you know it was partly maybe a natural process on the 1920 census was the first census that showed more Americans living in urban areas than rural areas so like the 20s are really like the first urban decade that we see in the history of the United States before that the majority of Americans lived in rural areas we go back to 1790 and 95% of Americans lived on farms you know lived in rural areas now the next thing you’ve got here is excessive borrowing due to consumerism and cheap credit policies from the Federal Reserve now the Federal Reserve was founded remember during the Progressive Era and the Federal Reserve was supposed to keep everything like a we’re gonna manage everything remember progressives like to manage things progressives like to listen to experts progressives don’t like to just kind of let it be which we’ve seen definitely I think you know we see some some echoes of

turn-of-the-century progressivism in our government’s response to the coronavirus that you know experts have come in and they told us what we need to do and they’ve restricted our movements here and there you know in the name of the general goo because the rest of us are not as smart as they are allegedly and so going from going from there you know where we see here that the Federal Reserve around most of the 1920s the Federal Reserve had interest rates around you know around 4% and so low interest rates encourage borrowing and people took advantage of them okay and so basically in 1928 what happened here is the Federal Reserve just basically jacked up the interest rates and all the sudden these people had borrowed this money it’s like you know I mean it’s just too you know so then we go to excessive stock market speculation now speculation is what happens when you go in like you know and this Korona thing just started I was like you know what I want to buy some Delta Airlines stock you know that surely like the airline stock is plunging surely it’s not always going to be there and so I’m like I want to buy some Delta Airlines stock and I did now thing is if we end up going into like a 10-year you know five-year depression or something like that you know who knows but I was I was speculating I was like you know what I bet that things are going to get better on and not yet but let’s we’ll see right I mean certainly I mean I hope so but speculation is when people buy and it’s just like well I you know I think that I’ve got a good feeling about this or something like that and a lot of people bought on the margin like they weren’t just using their own money they were borrowing money to invest in the stock market so when the stock market crashed it’s just like you know not only is the stock market crashing but you’ve also lost up money that you borrowed so you haven’t just lost the money you put in you’ve lost money that you borrowed as well and so going from going from there on what we’re seeing here is you know that you go to overproduction okay so basically you know where there was just so much production with all the consumerism that people are just like you know factors like look we’re gonna make new products and we’re gonna keep producing them same rates and after people have bought all these new products and they’re you know they’ve got too much debt sudden they’re not buying anymore and so a lot of things are just basically sitting there you know kind of the opposite of the toilet paper aisle at the grocery store nowadays right now another one here is when you look at government action okay which you know you look right now at the situation and you know now some people think that it’s why some people think that it’s worth it but we are seeing you know no matter how we slice it we are seeing a economic downturn that is at least partly the result of government action

you know governments can take actions that inhibit the economy and put the economy in a strange position and so Herbert Hoover basically I mean there was definitely an economic panic and economic crash but at the same time would it have turned into a depression if you know if different policies had been adopted and so what you’ve got here you’ve got first of all a tax increase okay so you see you’ve got a tax increase basically Pete you know that Hoover believed that the budget should be balanced now that’s something that separates Hoover from FDR okay so with that separates Hoover from FDR and you know but Hoover says we need to have balanced budget so we’ll increase taxes increasing taxes during a time of economic crisis is not a very good idea and then you’ve got a tariff increase okay the hawley-smoot tariff this is the second highest tariff in the history of the United States on this is the highest tariff remember is the tariff of 1828 the tariff of abominations which resulted in the nullification crisis and then you’ve got a voluntary wage freeze okay basically like Hoover didn’t legislate a wage freeze but he got businesses together and he’s like could we possibly you know do something where we’re not going to you know just we’ll keep wages the same and here’s the thing like maybe this isn’t pleasant by wages in a time of crisis they want to go down okay it’s like wages want to go down and if you want to full employment or close to full employment you’ll have to let wages go down people don’t like to be told their wages are going down but we can already see that happening right now in a lot of places you know some of you watching right now may have parents that have been furloughed ah you know and told that you know you’re gonna be you’re not gonna be paid for a little while you know and you can collect unemployment or something like that of course that unemployment didn’t really exists at that time and so then now Hoover also started a few programs now I wouldn’t get too you know you don’t have to get like too deep into some of this stuff here but you know there are a few things the farm board and the reconstruction Finance Corporation now you need to pick like you don’t necessarily have to be familiar with every one of the explanations of why the Great Depression happened but you do want to be familiar with some of them and learn at least like two of them pretty well and so Hoover drew the line basically it direct relief when we’re thinking about this that both Hoover and FDR they created new federal programs okay so they created new federal programs that were designed to deal with the problems of the Great Depression so both of them created new federal programs now none of these federal agencies were particularly helpful in bringing about economic recovery okay and that’s basically when you look at both of them they created all these new federal agencies and

there’s no sign that any of them actually helped to bring the economy back that’s why we call it the Great Depression I mean this thing lasted a long time and Hoover an FDR both tinkered with it on but FDR just tinkered more and until Europeans started killing each other in the late 1930s you know Ralph you know this this is something that you know stayed in the United States I mean it’s just you know what are you gonna do now that Europeans haven’t killed each other in some time you know and so I mean they used to you know kill each other almost like clockwork there’d be another European war and so Hoovervilles so that’s something that these were shanty towns on that people would build and they call it a Hooverville because one thing that you want to know is when the economy is bad typically voters blame the Pres and that’s of course something that is you know for for the current president I’ve you know he’s always had strong numbers on the economy and that’s one of those things that you know not so much right now and so with that you know as we’re as we’re going forward on you know want to think about the Bonus Army okay so the Bonus Army is basically like the nail and Hoover’s political coffin the Bonus Army is basically there were these word World War one veterans that were supposed to get a bonus paid to them in like the 1940s it’s like the gut the federal government said like in a certain year be leave nineteen forty something the government is going to pay on them a bonus and so you know it’s popularizing this idea now what happened here on is that Douglas MacArthur I’m who was you know who was a general in the army at that time very famous for his contributions in World War two that Douglas MacArthur ended up basically exceeding his orders like Hoover asked MacArthur to clear out you know the the Bonus Army from like federal buildings within Washington DC but what happens is not only does he do that he exceeds his orders and he then goes to the shantytown the Hoover bill that these veterans had built and he put it to the torch and so the media is having a field day with this basically looking and seeing like oh these veterans you know that they’re their little houses that they built are being set on fire and so Hoover ended up you know Hoover ended up not being reelected now he might not have been probably wouldn’t been reelected anyway but the Bonus Army was really just kind of the end of the end of the rope if they’ve he ever had a chance of getting reelected not after that because that ended up being a PR nightmare and so as far as that goes if we think about about possible DBQ prompt evaluate the relative importance of the causes for the collapse of the United States economy in the period 1929 to 1933 and that’s something that you could

possibly see on the US history DBQ and so as far as that goes let’s go ahead now and I will pull up on my stuff on the New Deal okay so as far as that Amaury thanks for your for your question about my reviews I will be reviewing on my channel at 8 p.m. Eastern and then I’m going to you know so as so as far as that a 8:00 p.m. Eastern and I and then we will be I’ll be broadcasting at 10:00 a.m. Eastern on Friday okay so going from there let me see where I’ve got this I’ve got something on the new deal as well okay all right give me just a second here and I will I will get this posted for you this is when I was initially doing the my corona class back in March I made these notes on the Great Depression New Deal and y’all seem to like these google documents this is a nice little little two-page kind of thing a little two-pager on the new deal so let’s go ahead and get into I get into that and so new deal your deal Google’s off all right glad y’all like these Google Docs so much so these you know especially when I’ve got some of them I mean this one’s just just ready to go and so with that let’s go ahead and get into the new deal remember to ask any questions that you have okay so any questions that you have on feel free to to get back in touch with us yeah okay great Rosa Gomez saying why did I just come across this channel so much helpful info that I wish I had accessed weeks ago on so great make sure Rosa that you that you subscribe on the Bill of Rights Institute also provides AP prep for AP government ok so all right so as far as that goes on you know thank you for you know glad you like this channel and we’ve got plenty of these those of you who are watching one of these for the first time there are several of these when you look back through the Bill of Rights Institutes videos there are several AP prep videos so make sure to take a look at those I mean it’s a great source of review okay so with that going on now to the Great Depression alright so going on ok so i kim jong-in yeah so with that ladies and gentlemen you all have to check out the eight o’clock broadcast the supreme leader broadcast and we will we should have fun over there it should be a fun time alright so going from going from there let’s let’s now go to let’s see all right the New Deal all right so we look at the New Deal now again that I’m noting here on Hoover vs. FDR that remember that Hoover said the direct relief is not my

thing okay Hoover said direct relief is not my thing you know that both Hoover and FDR were like look we can both create ineffective government programs and FDR can create even more of them but but at the same time FDR believed in direct relief now also Herbert Hoover tried to put try to balance the budget while FDR embraced what are what’s known as Keynesian economics okay Keynesian economics this comes from John Maynard Keynes who was a British economist on in the 1920 in the 19-teens 1920s and his Keynesian economics were in fact come becoming in fashion at that time so with that I just had to put a little something behind my back I tell you I’m just who all of this straining like non-stop I tell you what it can be something on the back I see how students people like students have to sit in a chair for like so many hours in a day at school and now I’m like mmm so with that basically part of what Keynesian economics said is if there’s an economic downturn or a crisis then you know deficit spending is okay it’s okay for the government for a while to embrace deficit spending basically you know spending more money than you’re taking in and so going from a going from there you know we’re you know basically you know Keynes said that when the economy’s bad then what you’ll do is you’ll prime the pump with infrastructure projects and make work projects basically what he called shovel-ready projects so take some of these unemployed people and put them to work on public works and that’s something that you know the Keynes was for and so FDR is putting that idea into practice by creating these shovel-ready make-work projects and so going from there you know when we look at the goals okay when we look at the goals here of the New Deal the goals are the 3 R’s relief recovery and reform ok and so what you’re seeing here you see relief for and reform now when it came to relief this would be the most successful okay so when we think about the goals of the New Deal very successful when it comes to relief because relief is something that basically people are suffering we need to do something to help them okay so we need to do something to help them on because you know they’re they’re hurting they’re suffering and so basically make Work Projects okay so what happens here these make work projects now you don’t need to know every one of you know you don’t need to know every one of the New Deal agencies or even half of them I would pick two or three okay I would pick two or three and so as far as that goes you know you’ve got the Works Progress Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps now the Works Progress Administration build

public buildings and roads the Civilian Conservation Corps state and national parks okay so so with that state and national parks there and then the she-she-she camps this is actually something that say that three times fast she she she she she she she she she I’m that basically the Civilian Conservation Corps state national parks you know young men okay so young men lived in camps and sent money home to their families okay and so the she-she-she camps this is on basically like this is like the CCC but it is women okay it’s women so I didn’t know about this until I did you know a recent recent webinar and somebody mention it now so other programs such as the Agricultural Adjustment Act so those were made you know those were designed in order to help other groups so the Agricultural Adjustment Act which is basically the AAA okay um these were designed to hit people who had been hit very hard so for example farmers okay the Agricultural Adjustment Act was made to try to stabilize things for them okay and so with that the National or the National it means to lead at the now Industrial Recovery Act which sometimes was called the NRA but or called the Nira depending on what you’re looking at now one thing here that you’ve got a Supreme Court case that comes out of here Schechter poultry corporation versus the United States ok Schechter poultry corporation versus the United States is a landmark Supreme Court case I’ve given that you’re the Schechter brothers basically what happened here is you’ve got these checked er brothers who are a local like kosher Jewish butchery alright so people would go like people who are keeping kosher would go to the schecter butchery and they would go in and pick out their chicken they have that a way that they did things like to do something kosher it has to be done a particular way and of course this has to do with somebody keeping their religion as well and so what happened with the National Recovery administration is they said that basically we’re creating local boards to create codes of fair competition and what is a code of fair competition I don’t know but but that’s you know somebody explain that to me sometime you know we’ll talk about fair competition and basically they set all these rules for businesses on in order like you couldn’t do like you know Ross leaders for example like a loss leader is when a grocery store knowingly says you know like when you go into the grocery store and you can get something that like you can get something really cheap but it says limit to per person and so they say that because what’s happening is they’re putting those things out there to get you into the door like they actually know that when

you buy those things like basically if somebody comes comes in and buys like you know two to twelve packs of coca-cola and they were lost leaders if they come in they buy the 212 back in twelve packs of coca-cola the store actually will lose money and so this is something that you know they said no that’s not fair we’re just not we’re not gonna allow that but then again that’s a competitive practice that makes you know that makes people ultimately successful because somebody will come in for the two you know for the two 12-packs of coca-cola and they will buy some other things while they’re there and so basically this is the federal government going and telling like local businesses how to run their business and so the sectors were shut down by you know the the NR 10 at the NRA and they ended up being put in jail and they you know they brought a case all the way to the Supreme Court the Supreme Court said this is the you know this this is not you know this is not accordance with the Commerce Clause okay the Commerce Clause remember which gives the you know which gives the Commerce Clause gives the against the federal government I tell you what been doing this all week on I almost like jettison some stuff thinking that’s AP government like no that’s a bush as well so we see here that you know this is something when we look at the and the federal government controls interstate commerce the state’s control intrastate Commerce the state’s control commerce within states okay so the state’s control commerce within states whereas the federal government controls commerce between states and commerce with foreign nations and so the Supreme Court said look the federal government doesn’t have any any business regulating a little you know locally owned kosher butchery in New York City that’s doing all of its business right there in the state of New York okay so as far as that as far as that goes that’s the schecter decision and so then reform okay now now FDR famously said in his and the first inaugural address the only thing we have to fear is fear itself and the thing is what he’s saying here is that you know that basically a lot of times when the economy fails it’s because of panic okay and that’s the thing I’m very curious you know how the history of this current crisis that we’re going through is going to be written you know are people gonna look back and say hey they did the right thing or are they gonna look back and say those people were just they caught they way over reacted to that so who knows and so as far as that goes the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation the FDIC now this insurers paint bank

deposits and prevents bank runs okay so as far as that that you know a bank run is you know when people would basically you know they’d hear that this bank is going under and it’s like oh this banks going under well I better get over there and I’d better get my money out of it and you’re only going there and getting your money out of it because you heard that that Bank is going under if you’ve never heard that that Bank was going under then you would never you know you would have never thought that okay I need to you know I need to go get my money out of the bank okay so that’s something that you know that you want to note with that that you know getting your money out of the bank you know because you’re panicked not because the bank is actually failing okay so as far as that as far as that goes the FDIC now today what the FDIC does is if a bank is a member of the FDIC then the federal government ensures deposits up to a certain limit so right now I think it’s like $250,000 per institution okay so basically the first $250,000 that you’ve got deposited in an account is going to be something that you know is going to be insured now per institution so some of y’all who are planning on getting really wealthy what you got to think about is after I’m you know is after you get to the point where you’ve got when you call it where you got two hundred fifty thousand you got to put it in another institution but usually you’re not going to have like more than two hundred fifty thousand cash just sitting there you know normally you’re going to invest it in something if you’ve got that so with that going into this the Securities and Exchange Commission so basically if you don’t see FDIC when you walk into a bank just walk out on the F the SEC the Securities and Exchange Commission regulates the stock market okay so that’s basically you know insider trading all of that kind of stuff you know there was the thing recently where you had some US senators from you know from both parties that you know they had some really weird behavior selling off stocks after they attend a briefing on the coronavirus and when you look at that it’s like hmm and so that’s the sort of thing that the SEC will investigate okay the SEC will investigate that and see if something needs to uh needs to happen now the Federal Housing Administration on the FHA would be basically they reformed the terms of mortgages and set standards for the quality of construction so you don’t need to know all of these but these are some things you want to just kind of latch on to and have a things that you know that you can you know that you can use okay and so going from there that’s uh you know basically what we’re doing with the New Deal okay and remember that the New Deal was you know we look at the New Deal at something that was not you know it was

not something that you know we look at it that created like you know that had measurable success in addressing the larger economic problems but it did provide relief okay did provide relief and here’s the thing to that we need to understand about the New Deal the New Deal was based on the core assumption that the Depression was caused by lack of government oversight and regulation of business in the 1920s and so that core assumption is like okay there was a lack of regulation of business and then you see that okay we regulate and it really doesn’t have any kind of positive impact there so with that going on into okay so did the CCC get drafted in World War two now by the time World War two started I don’t think that you’re going to see on CCC camps that these are going you know I think Pete things are going to be going more toward war production and stuff like that so you’re not going to be seeing like you know the the objective is not the same there so I don’t know James I’m not I’m not exactly sure where we would note that and so what are some significant speeches okay so nomadic gamer that you know what we’ve got here when we think about speeches we want to think in terms of the on FDR’s first inaugural address that’s what I quoted a little while ago the only thing we have to fear is fear itself okay so that is FDR all right so with that you know we’re you know we’re seeing we’re seeing that now so the CCC yeah I don’t know about that but that would be I would say one of the most famous things there would be FDR’s first inaugural address of course we go into World War two is Pearl Harbor speech you know this day will forever live in infamy you know that’s another one there that said that’s always a fun one to go back to you right and so with that let’s see here that what do I have here if I’ve got something doing something about global ok let’s say ok so with this actually let me get a let me get a PowerPoint presentation now tread yeah so so as far as that goes yeah so I’ve been saying this for quite a while and even though we are dedicating this broadcast unto the Great Depression in World War two I don’t see them you know like you know I know that the College Board is aware that there were you know I think there are a substantial number of classes that did not get past the Progressive Era so you know the College Board is aware of that so when we think about that the College Board is aware that a lot of classes

were at the Progressive Era World War one some classes you know God as far as the Cold War but other classes like you know I was basically at the turn of the 20th century and so as far as that goes you know no I mean I wasn’t anywhere you know near that so yeah I don’t really think you know and the thing is now it could happen y’all are asking me for my prediction and y’all do with that what you will I’m giving you reasons for what I’m thinking here in those terms that I’m thinking in terms of I don’t think that it’s very likely that we’re going to see a prompt from the 20th century and then we also see I noted how on AP euro on their course cut off at 1914 and you didn’t really see any props there were three props that circulated on Wednesday okay so what we’re gonna see more than likely tomorrow is a few different props and another thing so first of all they had like I believe three different props that were circulating yesterday and then some of the props had different document sets okay so you’ll have prompt and the document set is is different from one to another they can have the same prompt but they’re working with different documents so that’s another thing that they’re doing to kind of you know to kind of you know mix this up a little bit so those are a few things there so anybody that was planning on you know helping you know getting someone to help them or something like that you know don’t don’t collaborate with somebody you know that’s that’s the main thing they’re honest you shouldn’t be doing that anyway but yeah so so going with that okay yeah so I heard for Yero it sounded like it was like you know one was on the Protestant Reformation one was on the Enlightenment and one was on the French Revolution and Napoleon and so so as far as that goes he had James James’s doing a double feature on this time here and so so with that let’s go ahead though I mean because we want to make sure that we’re prepared one thing I like about doing this session where we’re looking at the Great Depression in World War two um is that you know we can look at this and make sure that we had a primer on that that and then we can kind of forget about okay we can kind of move on on and then so tonight you know when I when I broadcast on my channel at 8:00 tonight and at you know 10:00 a.m. tomorrow then what what I’m gonna be focusing on is mostly like pre-twentieth century stuff okay I’m not going to spend a whole lot of time you know on the 20th century just because I think that it’s less likely to be assessed so let me go ahead and find what I’ve got here on as far as American neutrality because this is actually something that we can relate to earlier periods of US history okay now one thing that I will that I’ll go ahead

and circulate as well is I have a period I have a period three like American Revolution Constitution early national America I’ve got a I made a period three on cheatsheet now of course I’ll put cheatsheet in quotes because according to the College Board phoenicians it’s not cheating okay so what the college board has going on over here you know the College Board has said this sort of things not cheating okay so a period three cheat sheet okay I’m which I’ll go ahead and and show off okay I’ll go ahead and show that off so that y’all can y’all can take a look there and you can see this this cheat sheet for the exam so let me go ahead and share my screen again and just kind of show that off I’m so that y’all can see here now what I’ve done here this is a three pager but it’s an organized three pager so what you see here is page one is the American Revolution okay so basically possible outside evidence you’ve got these you know the taxes all of that stuff then you’ve got the sun celebrity daughters of liberty and then we go to lexington concord then Saratoga and Yorktown you notice I’m keeping things brief not a lot of narrative basically this is one of these things that when you get the prompt you’re looking at okay what are my options for contextualization what are my options for my thesis statement okay so these are some things that y’all want to y’all want to keep in mind there now second you’ve got the second page is focusing on if it’s something about the Articles of Confederation or the Constitution and so we’ve got we’ve got these things here the articles and the constitution and then you can see finally the first two-party system now do I have this for every unit no I just started working on this today I may get another unit or two done by exam time I may not we’re all just kind of doing what we can right but I’m thinking that this could be helpful if the prompt is something from on the so called like Period three but I’m working on one for period four that I think I should be able to unveil tomorrow morning during tomorrow morning’s broadcast okay so we should have you know at least get to get apart partly into the way of that okay so I’m gonna work on some more of these but that’s there right now now you can also go to Marco learning-dot-com and they’ve got a full set of study guides okay so if you’re if you’re trying to get together for thing ah you know free study guides okay so you can go here and they’ve got like a whole like stack like one for each unit and they’re they’re really pretty too all right so going on going with this let’s see where are we on the US history let’s say download exam changes God let’s say okay so you go to a push and you just and that is something that you

can download this and this is basically going to give you well okay it’s taken a little bit sometimes I mean that websites kind of packed right now I think okay so now now go in there and click on it and we will yeah so let’s say so US history there we go alright success I can now download my free trip will come on now okay so I promise it’ll be it’ll be worth the on the website woes here okay so now what we see here is there is a one pager for each period okay so you know I see I had a little bit of a time but what you’re looking at here is there’s a nice little one pager for each period you may pursue you may prefer something like this that you know it’s really pretty it’s got a little timeline there key events and that’s something that could be useful for you so basically this goes from what you know from three to seven and so this is something that could be a nice little addition to your arsenal if you want to go that route okay so that’s something that you know whatever it is just make sure that you have some kind of system and that you’ve got some time set aside that basically you say like look I’m not spending more than three minutes looking at notes okay so what I did when I created those cheat that cheat sheet is what I’m thinking about is in terms of I want to you know with the with the cheat sheet what I want to do here is to you know basically just give you some cues because I believe those of you who are serious students and even some of you that are y’all have got some obvious stuff here I mean it’s like if you don’t have the stand back in here then you probably don’t need to be taking the exam in the first place right you know if you don’t have the big stick in here you know so basically you know don’t rely too much on notes because you know you are that is going to be something of a time suck it’s going to take your time so with that let me go ahead and just open up I’ve got a presentation here um that I’ll get into a few things where we’re thinking about neutrality and that’s you know the reason that I you know suggested this this thing here where I’ve got let’s see where is mine oops let’s say you to find out where I put that okay so let’s see where are we okay God okay so I’ve got this here let me see all right so when you’re looking at this for example I’ve got like Washington’s foreign policy okay George Washington’s foreign policy his farewell address okay his farewell address is basically where you see that the United States should avoid permanent alliances the United States when you see the neutrality proclamation the United States should avoid European wars and

this is something like hindsight looking back at World War two you know it’s hard to say like oh we’re sorry we did that you know we’re so proud of our involvement in World War two and we see that is heroic and like we can’t imagine our history without our involvement in World War two but at the same time before our involvement in World War two the United States had been you know in a situation where you know we were in a you know we’re thinking like look we got involved in World War one and look what happened to Europe you know Europe’s falling apart again so we went and lost a hundred thousand American lives in World War one and now they are you know or what they was called the Great War and you know it’s like for what and so a lot of Americans are thinking like do I really want to go and fight in yet another war okay do I want to go and fight and you do we want to go and fight and throw lives away and yet another war and so you know for a lot of Americans at that time it’s like okay we kind of like the British they speak the same language as us you know it’s been over a century and a half since we’ve fought against them well actually almost a century it has since the war of 1812 but it’s been a while since we fought against them we share a language we seem to have made nice but at the same time it’s one of those things Europeans are gonna kill each other stay out of here and so basically the world is falling apart so and basically the idea is that World War one was a mistake and this gives rise to a feeling of what people sometimes refer to as isolationism now note that isolationism is typically something that is used as a pejorative term it’s something that somebody wouldn’t say I’m Tom Ritchie and I’m an isolationist on George what you know this is basically what critics of George Washington’s foreign policy call George Washington’s foreign policy and so as far as that goes when we’re looking at neutrality acts that Congress decides like they do an investigation that produces something called the naira port and so the naira port is something that said that like look why don’t we get involved in World War one and the conclusion is that the arms industry the armaments industry God is involved in World War one and so what happens is the neutrality acts banned the sale of arms to belligerents so then you know basically anybody’s a war can’t buy from the United States well FDR finding some ways around it cash-and-carry destroyers for basis and lend-lease when he calls collectively the arsenal of democracy and so what you see here is cash and carry pay cash and carry it home yourself on destroyers for bases which the British were the only weapons that could do it they said oh well you know if people come over here pay cash then carrying home then there you go but then on destroyers for bases 1940 basically the British get hot basically

get it on the British end up giving us some naval bases in the Caribbean which we may or may not have really needed and for them letting us use those naval bases we’re going to let them use our destroyers our destroyers which happen to be submarine killers the whole point of a destroyer is a submarine killer and so then the lend-lease act okay now the lend-lease act this is basically where we’re letting the British borrow our military equipment we’re not selling it nobody’s making you know any money off of this directly but the lend-lease act we’re letting them borrow our equipment and FDR says look you know the British are like our neighbors you know if your neighbor comes over and asked you if you know if they can use your garden hose you’re not gonna charge your neighbor for it and say like yeah you know what you can buy it from me you just say hey you can you know you can borrow it and just bring it back when you’re done and so that’s this whole idea that FDR finds ways around it signs the Selective Service Act the first peacetime draft in United States history the America first committee okay this is something that was you know an anti-war organization one of the larger anti-war movements and there is Charles Lindbergh who was a celebrity at that time because of his flying on the spirit of st. Louis I’ve actually been reading before ap really ramped up I was reading a biography of Charles Lindbergh but I think I’ve got about 60 pages to finish and so Charles Lindbergh now you note here it’s not the best quality photo but when you zoom in you see where Charles Lindbergh is speaking and George Washington is there behind him okay so a picture of George Washington defend America first that we need to be concerned about our you know about our defense and not worry about defending Britain let Europeans kill each other that’s what they do now the America first committee disbanded a few days after Pearl Harbor and so as far as that goes ladies and gentlemen we see that you know we see the United States of course gets involved in World War two Pearl Harbor brings us in there and you know that’s I really don’t think like one thing that I think that we’re I don’t think we’re going to see okay so that’s one thing people keep asking me about those things you’ve done a lot of you’ve done World War two more recently you did it middle school you’re familiar with World War two but as far as that goes I don’t I don’t think I don’t really foresee that we’re going to be in a situation where you know we see that you know people can’t you know we’re not gonna be in a situation I don’t think we’re it’s about world war two okay because it really puts a lot of people in an uncomfortable position because they didn’t get there before we left for the break okay so that’s something that ends up five it ends up happening there

so you know be familiar with it and I think we generally are familiar with it but I’m really expecting the DBQ prompts to come from the 19th century because that is a period that has not gotten any love for gosh I don’t know what the 2014 one was let’s see let me look because mm oh yeah it’s basically been 20th century and American Revolution like for all I can remember 2014 a push free response let me let me take a look there so 2004 I mean I was teaching English time seems like I know right and so as far as that goes foreign policy first world war to the Korean War so American force so another 20th century prompt a push on 2004 13 free response okay so this is growing opposition to slavery in the United States from 1776 to 1852 okay so we see there you know I don’t know if I remember that I mean this one was a okay maybe but yes of slavery so the last time the 19th century was on a DBQ was 2013 okay so it’s really kind of it’s been a little while for the 19th century which is why that’s generally what I’m thinking here and as we close up ladies and gentlemen I want to thank the Bill of Rights Institute make sure you’re following Bri students they’re gonna keep you posted on things they’re they don’t only provide support for a push they also you provides for for AP US government and politics so that’s something that we want to that we want to note as well so AP US government politics if you’re taking that a lot of you are next year um be sure to us stay in touch with my friends with Bill of Rights Institute and with that ladies and gentlemen I will be broadcasting on my youtube channel at 8 p.m. and then from there I’m going to be you know also broadcasting at 10 a.m. on the morning of the exam so definitely you know get you know stay in touch and follow me over to my channel if you’d like but also you’ve got the option to look at some of the things we’ve strained here at the Bill of Rights Institute we’ve done several of these on you know during the during spring so with that ladies and gentlemen thank you very much Bill of Rights Institute for for having me on it’s been a pleasure and good luck to everybody on their exams tomorrow