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1440 BCE
Aztec Human Sacrifice
Started in were the victim is stretched over a special stone on top of a large pyramids, cutting open their chest and removing the heart. The heart is placed in a stone vessel and burnt as an offering to the Gods being sacrificed to. There are other ways victims could been sacrificed. Victims also where forced to fight a gladiatorial contest against a warrior. The catch was the victim had no possibility to survive another was they were dismembered on top of one of the temples pyramids. -
Period: 1440 BCE to
Beginning Of Exploration
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1347
The Black Death
When 12 trading ships docked at the Sicilian port of Messina after a journey through the Black Sea. Most of the sailors aboard the ships were dead or ill covered in mysterious black boils seeing this they named the illness “Black Death." Over the next 5 years the Black Death would kill more than 20 million people almost 1/3 of the continent’s population. The symptoms of this was blood/pus oozing out of these strange swellings followed by fever, vomiting, terrible aches and then death. -
Apr 15, 1452
Leonardo DaVinci
Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452, in a farmhouse of Tuscany outside the village of Anchiano that's known as Italy. Leonardo was a painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, military engineer and draftsman with a curious mind. At 14 Leonardo began learning arts with Andrea del Verrocchio. later he got a membership as a master artist and established his own workshop His ideas and body of work have influenced countless artists and made him a leading light of the Italian Renaissance. -
Mar 6, 1475
Michelangelo di Lodovico
Being a painter, sculptor, and poet Michelangelo is considered one of the most famous artists of the Italian Renaissance. Born in a family of banking business which Michelangelo had no interest, so his father agreed to apprentice him at the fashionable Florentine painter's workshop. There he was exposed to the technique of fresco. Later sculpted the gardens of the powerful Medici family. Having a remarkable career as an artist, recognized in his own time for his artistic virtuosity. -
1492
Columbian Exchange
A period of cultural and biological exchanges between the New and Old Worlds. Exchanges of plants, animals, and diseases that transform European and Native American ways of life. following after Columbus discovery in 1492 the exchange lasted 4 voyages for greater expansion. The Columbian Exchange impacted the social and cultural makeup of both sides. The advancements in agricultural production, evolution of warfare, increased mortality rates and education. -
Jun 7, 1494
Treaty Of Tordesillas
the Treaty of Tordesillas was an agreement between Portugal and Spain to divide ownership rights of New World territory between the countries.The treaty also clear up confusion on newly claimed land in the New World. This established an imaginary line running north and south through the mid-Atlantic. The treaty was originally agreed to by both countries on June 7, 1494, and went into effect in September of 1494. -
Oct 31, 1517
95 theses
Martin Luther made a document committed to the idea that salvation could be reached through faith and by divine grace only and objected selling indulgences. Acting on his belief, he wrote the “The 95 Theses” a list of questions/propositions for debate. Luther nailed a copy of his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle church.The Church was divided and the Protestantism soon emerged by Luther’s ideas His writings changed the course of religious and cultural history in the West. -
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English Colonial Societies
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Roger William
Roger William is best known for being the founder of Rhode Island. Roger was a puritan who was banished from the Massachusetts colony for his different view of freedom and religion they colony couldn't tolerant so he got separation of church and state.He and his followers moved and purchased the island from Narragansett Indians. Roger also made the first Baptist church and dictionary for native American language. -
Tobacco
Tobacco was introduced by John Rolfe a colonist from Jamestown. He arrived to Virginia with tobacco seeds produced by an earlier voyage he made, he harvested it and put the harvest crop for sale on the European market. Rolfe’s tobacco operation was an big win for American exports. Tobacco was a huge importance since it made the early colony grow. -
Headright System
The headright system is a grant of 50 acres given to settlers in the 13 colonies. The system was used mainly in Virginia.The system was created in 1618 in Jamestown, Virginia. It was used as a way to attract new settlers to address the labor shortage.With the emergence of tobacco farming, a large number of workers were needed. This system led to the development of indentured servitude. In this system, poor individuals would work for 5-7 years to repay those who sponsored their trip. -
William Penn
Penn was the founder of Pennsylvania. Later King Charles II of England had a large loan with Penn's father. When Penn's father died the King settled by granting Penn a large area west and south of New Jersey. Penn called the area Sylvania, which Charles changed to Pennsylvania in honor of the Penn's father. Penn being a Quaker he guaranteed free fair trial by jury, freedom of religion and unjust imprisonment to other Quakers far away from England. -
Rebellion Of Indentured Servants
Rebellion Of Indentured Servants also known as Bacon's Rebellion was held in Virginia and North America. This rebellion was led by Nathaniel Bacon.A thousand Virginians rose because they felt bitter of Virginia Governor William Berkeley's policies towards attacking Native Americans which people objected. It was also the first rebellion in American Colonies in which the frontiersmen took part. The rebellion took the racial statues aside and involved both black and white indentured servants. -
Salem Witch Trials
In 1692, the daughter/niece of Reverend Samuel Parris of Salem Village became ill. When she failed to improve the village doctor William Griggs was called in. His diagnosis of bewitchment put into motion that would ultimately result in the death of men and women. The jury had different methods to expose the accused men/women. they will torture the person until they admit they were a witch and if they didn't say it they torture became more cruel and the lives of many were changed. -
Caribbean Sugar
Sugar was the main crop on plantations and major economic source throughout the Caribbean through the 18-20th centuries. The islands were covered with sugar cane.the sugar production required a greater labor. After 1700, Using sugar mills known as trapich. Sugarcane was pressed with heavy rollers to squeeze out all of the juice, then boiled and clarified and placed into forms. While in these forms, the liquid crystallized into sugar. The best sugar land was located on the coast. -
The Middle Passage
This passage began in Europe where slaves from west Africa to West Indies. the trips took to 3 weeks or 3-4 months. Ships were loaded with goods and sent to Africa where they were traded for African slaves. Some Africans died before reaching the ports as a result of the conditions, torture, and illness. This made the trip much longer. Countries that took part in the Middle Passage included Portugal, England, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Brazil, the Caribbean, and America. -
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American Colonies
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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin was one of the Founding Father and a inventor, scientist, printer, politician, and freemason. Franklin helped to draft the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, he also negotiated the 1783 Treaty of Paris ending the Revolutionary War. Being a scientist his pursuit lead to investigate electricity. Mapmaking was also somethings he did during his life. Because of his wit and wisdom he became a writer. -
Carolinas Slaves
The founding of slaves was Columbus that though North African would make ideal slaves. Africans were cheaper and better at labor so using indians and whites weren't as good. They transported 500 to Spain in 1495. Almost about 200 slaves died during the overseas voyag that Columbus initiated called the African slave trade which originally moved from the New World to the Old World. -
The Great Awakening
The Great Awakening set among people in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Jonathan Edwards didn't convert to the Church of England because they were concerned that the people of England were becoming concerned with the world instead of God. Edward even spoke out loud that people stopped to listen. This sparked The Great Awakening in the American. It's described as a spiritual renewal that went through American colonies. One big significance of this was it prepared America for its War of Independence. -
Triangular Trade
Triangular Trade was made by the establishment of the 13 Colonies in Colonial America and their supplies of raw materials. The natural resources and raw materials, together with goods that were manufactured in the colonies, that were used for trading purposes with England. These goods included: sugar, rice, guns, fur, cotton, flour, iron, tobacco, indigo-dye, fish and more all through the Colonial Times. -
Slave Rebellion
slaves were started to rebel as they stated to notice their were more of them the white mans. They got into small groups to try and sicken their slave owner or even kill them -
French and Indian War
French and Indian War also the Seven-year war. The war was about France, England, and Spain fought for territory. France expansion into the Ohio River valley repeatedly brought conflict with British colonies even Virginia. The Indians fought side with France and later Spain joined France against England. Britain focus on seizing French and Spanish territories in other parts of the world causing British to win against French. British still faced problems that the Treaty of Paris only aggravated. -
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The Revolutionary War
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Treaty Of Paris 1763
"The Treaty of Paris of 1763" ended the French and Indian War also known as the "Seven Years War" that was between Great Britain and France, as well as their respective allies.The treaty was signed on February 1763 by Great Britain, France, Spain with Portugal in agreement, after Britain's victory over France and Spain the terms of the treaty was that France had to give up all its territories in mainland North America, effectively ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies there -
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The Constitution
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Townshend Act
The English Parliament imposed on taxing tea, glass, lead, paper, paint that are imported to their colonies. -
No Taxation Without Representation
when Shay rebellion was going on farmers will get politics and throw tar at them and fathers yelling "No Taxatin Without Represantation" -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.For example: legal documents, licenses, and newspapers were taxed. The money collected by the act was used to help pay the costs of defending and protecting the American frontier near the Appalachian Mountains. However the cost of the act was small. What made the law so offensive to the colonists the standard it seemed to set on them. -
Boston Tea Party
British Parliament pass the Tea Act in 1773. While consignees in Charleston and other states rejected tea shipments, merchants in Boston refused to compromise to Patriot pressure. One night Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty meet up and discussed what would they do about the act. later they boarded three ships in the Boston harbor disguised as Mohawk indians and threw 342 chests of tea overboard over 500,000 pounds. Adams goal was to protest British parliaments tax on tea. -
Thomas Jefferson
In 1775 Jefferson was selected as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress. He was a gifted writer and was asked to draft the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Independence explained why the 13 colonies wanted to be free of British and made clear the importance of individual rights and freedom the document was adopted on July 4, 1776. In the same year Jefferson resigned from the Continental Congress and was re-elected to the Virginia House of Delegates. -
Shot Heard Around The World
The British soldiers were the best trained military force. They also had superior weapons. Colonists in Boston had formed a group of soldiers known as Minutemen. These troops were made up of farmers, shop owners and peasants.Minutemen were called to stand against the British. As both troops faced each other in Lexington and Concord someone fired a shot. No one knows who fired it or which side they were on. This shot became known as the "shot heard around the world". -
Founding Fathers
Those who made significant to the contributions of the Constitution are called the "Founding Fathers." There are 7 Founding Fathers of The Declaration of Independence are: Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Gorge Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, John Adam, and James Madison. They all help draft the Declaration of Independence and The Constitution. -
Articles with Confederation
The Articles of Confederation was the first constitution of the United States written bu John Dickinson.The Articles were designed to create a weak federal government to help the people of the state. However this caused many problems.There were financial problems. Because the federal government did not have the power to tax, it had trouble raising money. As a result, we had difficulty repaying our debts. When too much paper money was printed, inflation occurred. -
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Shay's Rebellion
Shays’ Rebellion name for its leader Daniel Shays, is the name given to a series of protests in 1786 and 1787 by American farmers against state enforcement of tax collections and judgments for debt. almost about 4,000 farmers stood up in states from New Hampshire to South Carolina the rebellion was most serious in Massachusetts where there was bad harvests, economic depression, and high taxes threatened farmers with the loss of their farms. They rebellion was to close up military and courts. -
U.S Constitution Model
The Constitution is an important document and it must be well written and have have everything that would make the people and the government approve it. The Constitution was modeled after several major documents for example: the English Bill of Rights, the Mayflower Compact, the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation. It came to show that the Constitution was one of the strongest document. -
Three Branches
The Constitutional Convention wanted to divide power within the federal government. They did not want these powers to be controlled by just one man/group. They were afraid that if a small group received too much power the United States would wind up under a dictator.To avoid that they divided the new government into three branches:The Legislative Branch that make the laws, The Executive Branch to enforce the laws, and lastly The Judicial Branch to interpret the laws. -
Anti-Federalist
Anti-Federalists are those who opposed the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government. The Anti-Federalists says that the Constitution gave too much power to the federal government, while taking too much power away from the local governments also the people. Many felt that the federal government would be too far removed to represent the average citizen. -
Election of 1788
The winner of the election of from 1788-1789 was George Washington. He was the first president in America. George was the only president to been unanimously elected by the Electoral College. During his election he won 10 states out of 13 but, those 3 states were ineligible. George also won all 132 electoral votes. In George inauguration was so full he couldn't even go through because all the crowed. Everyone felt George Washington was the best choice to be president. -
Bill Of Right
The first 10 Amendments of the Constitution written by James Madison are what make up the Bill Of Right. The Bill Of Rights limit the power of the government on the citizens but either way some people argued about this topic. This were the Federalist and Anti-Federalist. Federalists argued that they didn't need a bill of rights, because the people is the state. While the Anti-Federalists argued that a bill of rights was necessary to safeguard individual liberty. -
Whiskey Rebellion
In Pennsylvania people drank a lot of whiskey. So the federal government passed a tax on whiskey in 1791. Farmers in western Pennsylvania refused to pay the tax by saying it was like the Stamp Act again. The new tax brought trouble until 1794, when farmers assaulted federal tax collectors. President Washington called out the national militia to put down what we know as the Whiskey Rebellion. The Rebellion tested the new U.S Government authority to enforce federal laws. -
George Washington's Farewell Address
In September 19, 1796, President George Washington after being elected president for the 2nd time he decided not to be reelection for a third term and began drafting this farewell address to the American citizens. The address went through drafts in large part due to suggestions made by Alexander Hamilton. Washington urged Americans to avoid excessive political party spirit and geographical distinctions. He also warned against long-term alliances with other nations. -
Problems with the British
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Republicanism
The word Republicanism is not the same as Republican as the political party. Republicanism, meaning the right to vote for representatives in other words is that believes in representative government in which citizens can vote for people to represent their opinions and views. Republicanism therefore supports the principles of a government in which the supreme power rests with citizens who are willing to vote and exercised by representatives they have elected. -
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Louisiana Purchase
Louisiana territory was located in the Mississippi River in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the west and from the Gulf of Mexico in the south to the Canadian border in the north. purchased from France by the United States.Napoleon sold the territory to Jefferson at 3 cents per acre for 828,000 square miles it was the greatest land bargain in U.S. history. The purchase doubled the size of the United States greatly strengthened the country materially and provided a powerful. -
Lewis And Clack Expedition
M. Lewis was a great explorer and W. Clark a great mapmaker. Led the Lewis and Clark Expedition through the unknown American to the Pacific Northwest. The Expedition lasted 3-4 years taking paths down the Ohio River, the Missouri River, and across the Continental Divide, and the Pacific Ocean. Lewis and Clark faced obstacle/hardship on their trip. Lewis kept a detailed journal from his encountered. They received assistance from native peoples. There meeting Sacagawea that help them in many ways. -
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson a politician by 1812, when war broke out between the United States and Britain he served as a major general in the War of 1812, commanded U.S. forces in a 5 month campaign against the Creek Indians, allies of the British. After that campaign ended in a decisive American victory in the Battle of Tohopeka. Jackson also led American forces to victory over the British in the Battle of New Orleans in 1815. Andrew Jackson was a strong man that no one dare to cross or challenge. -
War Of 1812
conflict fought between the United States and Great Britain over British violations of U.S. marine rights. It ended with the exchange of ratification of the Treaty of Ghent. The tensions that caused the War. During this nearly constant conflict between France and Britain, American interests were injured by each of the countries they blocked the United States from trading with the others. -
Star Spangled Banner
Francis Scott Key a great poet wrote a poem “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Originally titled “The Defence of Fort McHenry,” was written after Key witnessed the Maryland fort being bombarded by the British during the War of 1812 when he was took as a prisoner. After that Key was inspired by the sight of a lone U.S. flag still flying over Fort McHenry at daybreak. -
Panic Of 1819
In 1819 because of the War of 1812 economic expansion ended. people were taking their money out the bank making the banks throughout the country failed, mortgages were foreclosed, forcing people out of their homes or off their farms. Price for agriculture and manufacturing were big but there were unemployment. All regions of the country were impacted. the reaction of people was a big panic getting the name the " Panic Of 1819." -
Textiles
The textile industry is the design and production of yarn, cloth, clothing, and distribution. In 1800's Francis C. Lowell set up the first American textile factory. It combined tasks that were needed to transform raw cotton to finished cotton. The textile industry grew during the Industrial Revolution. The demand for cloth grew, so merchants had to compete with others for the supplies to make it. The solution was to use cheap machinery allowing the cloth to be cheaper to the consumer. -
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Cultural Change
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Missouri Compromise
To preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave/free states they made and passed the Missouri Compromise in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. The law prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of the 36' 30' latitude line. Three years later the Missouri Compromise was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott decision, which ruled that Congress did not have the authority to prohibit slavery in the territories. -
The Second Great Awakening
The Second Great Awakening was really important as it led to the establishment of the reform movements that are injustices such as the Temperance, the Women's suffrage, and the Abolitionist Movements in which people went to get support on religious grounds. The Awakening enrolled millions of new members to various religious denominations. Also the Second Awakening supported different religious like Baptism. -
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Greek Revival
the Greek Revival haven a few years after the war of 1812. they style was inspired by a new way of living the hero's from Greece the lessons they had and even more. America was so into the Greek style that they even wanted to learn to speak Greece. -
Temperance Movement
The Temperance movement is a movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages.The country's first serious anti-alcohol movement. the goal is to stop manufacture and sale alcohol. Women supported this movement. -
Iron Plow
John Deere established a process for perfecting the plow, which led to some of America's mass-produced. John Deere was one of a few plow makers who were experimenting this. Soil will get stuck in steel plows and it would take time to clean it up so he got iron and formed it t place it in the plow. Plows were well sold so he had good business grows into new markets. -
Growing Cities
Most growing cities were from the North. The North had a lot of industrial advancements. One of this advancements were manufacturing factories making more employment in the north. Also had railroads to transport weapons. with this mostly everyone wants to go to the north creating city after city and having a big population. -
Telegraph
Developed in the 1830 by Samuel Morse the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. The Telegraph would transmit electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. To helping understand the telegraph, Samuel Morse developed a code which it's known as "Morse Code" it assigned a set of dots and dashes to each letter of the alphabet and allowed for the translate complex messages across telegraph lines. -
Mormons
Joseph Smith established the Church of Christ soon to be known by today the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The church expanded quickly, and by the first year boasted some 1,000 adherents. -
Nat Turner Rebellion
Nat Turner, born into slavery on October 2, 1800 on a Southampton County plantation in Virginia. Nat believed God told him to revolt with signs. Nat led the bloodiest slave revolts in America history. Turner and his followers began their revolt against slave owners. Nat kept gathered more man up to 30-50 slaves. Their violence spree through the county. Estimated that 60 white men, women and children died during Nat Turner's rebellion. Later Nat Turner was caught and killed. -
Railroads
1827 Baltimore being the third largest city in the nation it was 200 miles to the frontier than New York. They later recognized that the development of a railway could make the city more competitive with New York and the Erie Canal in transporting people and goods to the West. The result was the Baltimore and Ohio railroad the 1st railroad chartered in the United States. After this new and improve Railroad began in 1830 and 1833 -
American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS)
This organization was founded and led by William Lloyd Garrison. The American Anti-Slavery Society hoped to convince both Southerners and Northerners of slavery's inhumanity. The promoters sent lecturers across the North to convince people that slavery was immoral and ungodly and thus should be outlawed. The American Anti-Slavery Society also bombarded the United States Congress with petitions calling for the end of slavery in both south and north. -
New York Female Reform Society
The New York Female Reform Society was established in 1834 by Lydia A. Finney, wife of revivalist Charles Grandison Finney. Lydia also was the leader of this group This society was created for the
purpose of preventing prostitution and women abuse by anyone.It was one of major up-rise women did to help one other, for them to have a voice. -
Battle Of Gonzales
The Battle of Gonzales was the first military conflict in the Texas Revolution. A cannon sparked the problem. The Mexican authorities had given the American settlers of the town of Gonzales a small cannon to help protect them from Indians. An increased with rebellions in different states the Mexicans demanded the return of the small cannon. The Texan colonists refused and the Battle of Gonzales began in result of the death of Mexican soldier and the start of the Texas Revolution. -
Sam Houston
Sam Houston born in March 2, 1793 he became a congressman and senator in Tennessee. He moved to Texas in 1832 getting involved in the conflict between U.S. settlers and Mexico and became commander of the local army. On April 21, 1836, Houston and his men defeated Mexican General Santa Anna at San Jacinto to secure Texan independence. Voted president then served as a senator after Texas became a state in 1845. -
Southern Society
The Southern Society and their economy mostly depend on slave labor. The South was filled with plantation from crops to cotton, making cotton one of the major crop to get. They also focused little on inventions like the cotton gin, iron plow, and more. Mostly anything that helped their plantation. The South didn't had a lot of industrial advancements as the North. -
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Western Expansion
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Election of 1844
The election was Whigs and Democrats. Clay a Whig and James K. Polk a Democrat.One issue of the campaign was that Americans settling in western part of the country increasingly struggled for influence with people from Mexico who lived on land that used to be Spanish territory. The idea of "Manifest Destiny" was on hold as well. Polk's support for the annexation of Texas gave him an advantage for him in having majority of the states and 170 electoral votes while Clay had 105 electoral votes. -
Frederick Douglas
Frederick Douglass was an abolitionist leader born into slavery in 1818. He became one of the most famous intellectuals of his time. Douglass wrote and published his first autobiography "The Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave" in 1845. The book was a best-seller in the United States and was translated into several European languages. The book showed they way slaves lived and open people eyes. -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny is the belief of the U.S stretch from coast to coast in America. This determination helped rise western settlement. The phrase was first employed by John L. O’Sullivan in an article on the annexation of Texas published in August 1845 -
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln served as the 16th presidents of the United States. As much of people liked him same amount of people disliked him mostly in the south they didn't like him for his abolishment of slaves in the north and south. during his president days he was a great president. Later Abraham got a shot in the head when he was watching a play. The next day Lincoln was declare dead. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This Act allowed citizens in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide if they allow slavery or not within their borders. The Act served to repeal and abolish the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which has the slavery north of latitude 36' 30´. -
Annexation Of Texas
The Texas Annexation President John Tyler prevented James Polk on the Texas Annexation by making a proposal on February 1844 and showing the bill to annex Texas on March. James Polk continued to support the policy. Texans approved of the popular bill which was signed by President James Polk on December 29, 1845, admitting Texas as the 28th state of the Union by joint resolution. -
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Sectionalism
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Treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed on February 2, 1848, ended the Mexican-American War in favor of the United States. The treaty added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory, including Arizona New mexico..etc. Mexico also gave up all claims to Texas and recognized the Rio Grande as America’s southern boundary. -
Election Of 1848
The election of 1848 was a difficult election with both parties hoping to avoid the slavery issue's divisiveness in 1848. The election was between Zachary Taylor a Whigs and Lewis Cass
a Democrats. Zachary Taylor won the election of 1848 with a electoral vote of 163 while Lewis Cass had 127 electoral votes. -
California Gold Rush
The discovery of gold nuggets in the Sacramento Valley in 1848 sparked the gold rush one of the most significant events to shape America. As news spread of the discovery thousands of gold miners traveled by sea or over land to San Francisco and the surrounding area of California by the end of 1849. -
Seventh Of March Address
"The Seventh of March Address" written and share by Senator Daniel Webster, was meant to unite moderates of all sections in support of Kentucky Senator Henry Clay's proposed Compromise of 1850. The speech lasting five hours. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a series of 5 laws passed in1850 that dealt with slavery and keep the North and South balance. these laws were Fugitive Slave Act was improved, slave trade in Washington, D.C was abolished, California entered the Union as a free state, a boundary between Texas and New Mexico, and a territorial government was created in Utah. Additionally an act was passed that also established a territorial government in New Mexico as well. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin also known as The Life Among The Lowly is a novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The book describe the life of Uncle tom a slave and how he lives his days as a slave. This book really shows the way slaves are treated in there "homes" as slaves. The novel open up the eyes of whites that read the book and showed then the life of slaves from day to night. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas is a bloody time were a small war in the United States fought between pro-slavery and anti-slavery citizens to control the new territory of Kansas under the doctrine of popular sovereignty up held by the Kansas–Nebraska Act. -
The North
The North had a lot of advancements over the years like railroads, factories, weapons, and communication. This made a lot of people want to move to the North. This made the North have a lot of cities to the point of having an over populated state. The over population even led to have low food supplies. -
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Civil War
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1st Bull Run (1st Manassas)
1st Bull Run is a battle between Union and Confederate armies that clashed near Manassas Junction, Virginia, in the first major land battle of the American Civil War. It began when 35,000 Union troops marched from the federal capital of Washington, D.C. to strike a Confederate troop of 20,000 along a small river called Bull Run. -
Twenty Negro Law
The Twenty Negro Law is to exempts the draft of 1 white man for every 20 slaves held on a plantation. The goal of this law is to ensure that enough white man remain behind to prevent violent slave revolts, particularly after President Lincoln announces his Emancipation Proclamation. -
Carpetbaggers
Carpetbaggers are people who are from the northern states and move to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction. -
Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg is one of the most important battles of the Civil War. After the Unions great victory at Chancellorsville, General Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania. On July 1 the Confederates clashed with the Union’s Army of the Potomac, commanded by General George G. Meade at the town of Gettysburg. -
Lincolns 10% Plan
The 10% plan offered an answer to what should be done with the Southern states people and the freemen. Opinions were greatly divided on these. Lincoln believed the solution was to restore and reconstruct as quickly and as quietly as possible to the seceded states and this was the 10% plan. -
Election Of 1864
American presidential election of 1864 is in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Democrat George B. McClellan. As the election occurred during the American Civil War. -
Union Blockade
the Union Blockade is a navy/marine strategy in which the Union ships block the confederacy shipments in the Civil War. -
Women At Work
During the Civil War women did a lot of work for example: they started taking care of the work their husband's left behind, women volunteer to nurse the wounded soldiers, they even disguise themselves as man to go fight in the civil war. This started the working of women. -
Black Codes
Black Codes was a laws passes for black people it was known as slaves without chains in which African Americans will me minor and go work in plantation with little payment. -
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KKK
KKK also known as the Kult Kux Klan is an organization of white men only in which they express their racist thought and will punish black and even whites that help the African Americans. -
Freedom Amendments
The 3 Freedom Amendments are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments. This amendments help slaves/African Americans. The 13th amendment abolished slavery. 14th amendments says any men born in the U.S is a citizen. Last is the 15th amendment in which their will be no discrimination in peoples race and will get equal rights as others. -
Black Friday Scandal
The Black Friday Scandal, also known as the Gold Panic was an attempt by 2 aggressive Wall Street speculators, Jay Gould and his partner James Fisk, to corner the gold market. Due to the manipulations of Fisk and Gould price of gold plummeted on the Gold Exchange on September 24, 1869. Many people were financially ruined and the infamous day was referred to as Black Friday. -
reconstruction
The reconstruction happen when the Civil War ended. The reconstruction happen in the south rebuilding homes, factories, and plantations but they faced different challenges from economic, laws, and Politics.
