Hooks for the AP

Hooks by Unit

Unit	Possible Hooks
Unit 3: 1754–1800	“I must confess that in this country, we must comply and learn the art of war from enemy Indians or anything else who have seen the country and war carried on in it.” -George Washington about the French and Indian War It took more than one hundred colonist nearly three hours to dump all the tea into the Boston Tea Party, the chests held more than forty-five tons of tea which is worth nearly one million in today’s money. "Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war let it begin here." -Captain John Paarker to his minute men on Lexington Green April 19th, 1775 “The Stile of this Confederacy shall be "The United States of America."  -The Constitutional Congress The opening of the Articles of Confederation “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish…” - The US Constitution
Unit 4: 1800–1848	Martin Van Buren, more like Van Ruin- secretary of state during Andrew Jackson’s presidency Thomas Jefferson believed the election of 1800 would decide the American government’s principles- “I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of Man” he wrote “Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments” -Andrew Jackson Transcendentalists took progressive stands on women’s rights, reform, abolition, and education.
Unit 5: 1844–1877	In 1893, Katharine Lee Bates wrote ‘America the Beautiful’ and coined the famous phrase “from sea to shining sea” in reference to Manifest Destiny. “Remember the Alamo” -Sam Houston at the Battle of San Jacinto The Wilmot Proviso was a proclamation to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican-American War. Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune, a paper run by anti-slavery publicists coined “Bleeding Kansas” to fix on the strife-ridden territory. The 15th Amendment to the US Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the “right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” Black Codes were written to restrict African Americans from voting, testifying whites, start a job without the approval of previous employers, and to serve on state militias or juries.
Unit 6: 1865–1898	“It shall be unlawful for a negro and white person to play together or in company with each other in any game of cards or dice, dominoes or checkers.”  - Jim Crow Laws The Plessy vs. Ferguson court case decided the “Separate but equal” lifestyle that effected many African Americans because even though they were separate, they were definitely not equal. Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner coined the phrase “The Gilded Age” Henry Ford had a famous catch phrase, “money is like an arm or leg — use it or lose it.” “Concentration is my motto – first honesty, then industry, then concentration.” -Andrew Carnegie
Unit 7: 1890–1945	“Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks. They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization” -Ida Tarbell “The rich people not only had all the money, they had all the chance to get more; they had all the know-ledge and the power, and so the poor man was down, and he had to stay down.” - Upton Sinclair in ‘The Jungle’ The Zimmerman telegraph said if Mexico went to war with the United States, Germany would help Mexico recover the territory it lost in the 1840s, this note caused President Woodrow Wilson to declare war against Germany. President Warren G. Harding pursued a hands-off administration during the 1920s by cutting federal government spending and lowering tax rates.