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1500 BCE
The Caste System
The Caste System was a system that the Aztecs used in order to ranked their people. The caste system began from lower class people and moved up to the highest class: Merchants and Artisans,Nobles, Council, and King or High Priest. The king or High Priest are the highest in this order of ranking. The lowest class were mainly farmer, slaves and poor people. -
Period: 1500 BCE to
BEGINNINGS TO EXPLORATION
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600 BCE
Olmecs
These people would also do anything to please their God,also they believed in multiple Gods.The Olmec's were also the first civilization in the Americas, which means they were the one who laid out the basis of civilization at the time. They also invented the a type of calendar, the concept of zero, and the structure of the pyramid. -
476
Fall of the empire
the fall of the empire was when Rome fell apart. The reasons why it fell was because the leaders of Rome were doing bad jobs also they switch their government from republic to an empire but at the same time the current Caesar who was Augustus Caesar wanted to keep some republic methods. There was also the fact that there was many conflicts within the walls of more which gave other lands the opportunities to take over. -
1000
Maya
The Mayans were the longest living ancient civilization. they would have many lands with their own rules but still all Mayans would honor just one culture. these people even had their own writing system. These people were still like the other different civilization when it came down to sacrifices thinking that this will please their God, even though they all had different methods of sacrifices. -
1095
Indulgences(The Crusades)
Indulgences during The Crusades was believed to be a punishment from god because of your sins and wrong doing during your life. Indulgences were set to be another way to another way to be a remission of the temporal punishment due to your sins.Martin Luther was the one to speak out on this fake issue. -
1300
Aztecs
Aztec was a culture also known as Mexica culture, it was a Meso american culture that grew in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521, during the time in which a triple alliance of the Mexica, Texcoca and Tepaneca tribes established the Aztec empire. They also had ritual where they had to do sacrifice humans to please their Gods. -
1348
The Black Death
The Black Death was a disease which spread all over Europe and Asia which almost killed half the population. the disease was cause by traders and rats from other lands.Traders who traveled by silk road was a way they spread the disease.But the main carrier was the Black rats because they would hop ships and spread their disease.this disease also brought panic which made some question God, thinking why would he do this to them. -
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ENGLISH COLONIAL SOCIETIES
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John Smith
John Smith was a Adventurer/Soldier, he was also the leader of Jamestown.he tried his best to not upset the natives ,which lad to natives to help them to survive. This made a big difference, with the natives help they were able to make it through the winter. John made the first colony in the new world. -
Plymouth Colony
The Plymouth Colony was a puritan based colony. Puritans were reformed English protestants, they ran away to escape prosecution in England. going to the new world means they are able to freely do their religion. Another reason for running away was that England was corrupt within their walls. -
Proprietary Colony
Proprietary Colony were colonies and land granted by the British as a form of license to rule for groups and independent people. They used these colonies to settle down in areas rapidly during times when prices were high. -
Maryland
Named after English Kin's wife, Maryland was a religiously free colony under the Lord of Baltimore, George Calvert at the time until the new lord Cecil Calvert inherited Ownership.Cecil Calvert, 2nd Lord of Baltimore, founded Maryland in 1632. Settlers that sought to live there had to have provisions. The colony didn't make any profit before crop cultivation and became profitable in by 1640. -
Nathaniel Bacon
Nathaniel Bacon was born on January 2, 1647 in Suffolk, United Kingdom. Bacon is most known for being the leader of Bacon's Rebellion in 1676 and for being a colonial leader in Virginia. Because of many disagreements Bacon had the rebellion started due to economic hardship, unsettled politics and frightening incidents. -
Quakers
Quakers were a religious group who sought religious freedom in the new colonies and were created by George Fox and led by William Penn in the new colonies. Many settled in Rhode Island and Pennsylvania which served has a haven for persecuted Quakers. King Charles II granted William Penn, a charter for the area that was to become Pennsylvania. Penn guaranteed the settlers of his colony freedom of religion. -
The Salem Witch trials
Since Christianity was a major believe during these times all Christians believed that the devil gave people power.The Salem Witch trials began with young girls in Salem Village Massachusetts, who said to be possessed by evil spirits such as the devil. After more reports over the local woman a court was set to happen and the first convicted witch was hung that June.series of prosecutions and hearings of witchcraft that led to deaths all over the colonial Massachusetts area. -
Benjamin Franklin
A founding father and man of many talents. He was a politician, author, poet, scientist, and many other things. He is re known in the field of physics for discoveries and theories on electricity. Throughout the development of America, Benjamin Franklin served as minister to foreign relations on multiple occasions. -
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COLONIAL AMERICA TO 1763
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Triangular Trade
The trade between the colonies, Spain and West African countries that sold off slaves and traded them for rum. The ships from America returned back to Europe with raw materials such as sugar, tobacco, rice and cotton. The purpose of the trade route was that the different regions would trade goods that they had in abundance in exchange for those goods which were needed but lacking in their own land. -
The Great Awakening
The great awakening was an era of renewal between political groups and religion that involved the Glorious Revolution in 1688.The great awakening was a way to prepare for the war that was going to come.This movement was all about religion and focused on a great emotion of prayer. Believers and followers of the new religion realized that power was made by self governance. -
Adam Smith
Adam smith was born June 5,1723 in Scotland. Adams early years consisted of studying and attending college at the age of 14. He was focused on publishing and giving public lectures in universities as his professional life. Later on in 1776 he published An Inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations and it was all about the study over political economy. -
The Atlantic Slave Trade
The Atlantic slave trade was trade path to trade slaves. The slave trade included Europe to Africa, Africa to the Americas and from the Americas back to Europe. It consisted of free black people living in their birth country and were then just randomly kidnapped to provide work and labor for the Europeans. All major European were involved with the Atlantic Slave Trade because they thought it would satisfy and improve their country. -
The seven year war
Britain and the colonies all desired land to the west. The war is initially started at Fort Duquesne by George Washington. Throughout the war, Britain will sends its army and militias throughout the Ohio territory and also seize parts of Canada. The Treaty of Paris in 1763 ends the war and ends French role in North America.This was the first world wide conflict. England, France and Spain all fought over territory. -
Moses Austin
Moses Austin, founder of the American lead industry and the first man to obtain permission to bring Anglo-American settlers into Spanish Texas, son of Elias and Eunice Austin, was born in Durham, Connecticut, on October 4, 1761 -
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The Revolutionary War
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Treaty of Paris
The treaty of Paris was made as signed to end the highly expensive and eliminated conflict,The treaty of Paris set the colonist to a path of independence.Since the British government was so interested on ending the 7 years war because of the great debt and how expensive it had been to maintain the war. -
Revenue/Sugar Act
The 1733 Sugar and Molasses Act was also expiring so they needed to renew it. This tax was enforced by the British on the colonies. It was enforced because of the French and Indian War, which greatly indebted Great Britain. They became aware of the smuggling of sugar/molasses from the Dutch and French and wanted the profit they were getting to come back to them. Even though the British reduced the tax, the colonists still weren't happy with being taxed on something they used almost every day. -
Stamp Act Congress
The stamp act was passed by British Parliament to make citizens pay more taxes on papers they printed such as ships papers,legal documents,licenses and newspaper.The stamp Act Congress was the first action against the British to protest against the Stamp act issued in 1765.The cost was not much but was made without approval of the legislatures. -
Boston Tea Party
This event was an act of defiance from the American colonies who were angry about all the taxes being put on them. They threw over 300 chests of tea overboard. Many of the colonies had rejected the tea imports from Great Britain, but Boston still accepted them. However, Samuel Adams and other Sons of Liberty decided they wanted to get rid of this. They didn't want to get caught so they dressed up as Indians so nobody would recognize them. T -
Guerrilla warfare
Guerrilla warfare was a type of method of fighting in war by in which a small group of combatants use military tactics such as, ambushes, sabotage, raids, petty warfare, hit-and-run tactics, and mobility to fight a larger and less-mobile traditional military. Instead of standing in front of each other and firing till there is small number of the crowd. Used guerrilla warfare in the Battle of Concord against the British, which resulted a significant victory for colonists. -
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was one of the people who wrote the Declaration of Independence, his task was to write the draft of the very important document. He wrote a statements of the colonists' right to rebel against the British government and establish their own based on the premise that all men are created equal and have the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson . Thomas Jefferson wrote it on July 2. But the Founding Fathers signed it on July 4 .was to explain to foreign nations why the colonies had chosen to separate themselves from Great Britain. The Revolutionary War had already begun, and several major battles had already taken place. When the colonists were going against the British. -
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THE CONSTITUTION
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Boston Massacre
The colonists started harassing the soldiers which caused the soldiers to fire into the crowd.They killed 5 people and injured 3 more. However, Paul Revere publicized it as a massacre and exaggerated the details so he could get more people to support the cause for Independence.The colonists decided they had enough of all the taxes being imposed on them. -
Massachusetts Constitution
This constitution was used for the Future model for U.S. Constitution. People had ability to vote for what they wanted. Basically what we have today but our is more advanced which is Checks and Balances, Separation of power, executive veto power, and the governor elected by the people/masses. -
Articles of Confederation
This document's role was supposed to establish the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain. When the colonists split from England they required a plan for government. This constitution gave little power to the federal government and a large amount to the individual states. -
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New Republic
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Shays Rebellion
Protesters began a 6 month rebellion by taking over the Court of Common Pleas, the goal was to prevent the trial and imprisonment people of debt .Named after Daniel Shay, who led the Revolutionary War veterans as it began to spread but the rebellion will be put down. Event occurred from post-war recession, which farms were seized and was unfavorable for everyone. -
Northwest Ordinance
The Northwest Ordinance helped organize the new territories and set up the steps each territory needed to take in order to become a state. Also, Congress voted to send the Constitution to the legislature of each state, where they would approve or reject it. They selected a governor and other officers under this document, it protected civil liberties and rejected slavery in the new territories. -
Constitutional convention
The Constitutional Convention took place from May 14 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. The point of the event was decide how America was going to be governed.Although the Convention had been officially called to revise the existing Articles of Confederation, many delegates had much bigger plans. -
The Great Debate
The debate was between the federalist and the anti-federalist. The federalist tried to ratify the constitution. While the anti-federalist claimed that it gave the central government too much power and without the bill of rights the people would be at risk of oppression. Federalist felt like this was not necessary, because the constitution was just to limit the government not for the people. -
Virginia Plan
The Virginia plan was drafted by James Madison, while he waited for others to assemble at the constitutional convention of 1787. Similar plans like this also went around, for example the New Jersey Plan. It was a response to the Virginia Act, but it was a proposal for the structure of the US, but they agreed of giving the state more votes according to their population. -
Election of 1788
This was the first presidential election. This event was on Monday December 15, 1788 to January 10, 1789. George Washington was unanimously elected for the first of his 2 terms and John Adams became the first Vice President. George Washington had 69 electoral votes, 10 carried states and had over 40,000 popular votes. As a president he was very popular and was the first and last president to lead the army, in a win over the British. -
Prisons (1st Ever Made)
The most serious crimes were punishable by death. The first prison in the United States was built in Philadelphia in 1790, when the walnut street jail added a new cell house to its existing jail and devoted the new cells to the confinement of convicted criminals. -
Whiskey Rebellion
The Whiskey Rebellion started because takes on whiskey it was meant to pay for the war that had just happened. they used violence to stop this tax on a whiskey. more than 500 armed men attacked the home of general john Neville, the tax inspector, but 20 men were arrested. This was also a great way to show the new constitution. -
Bill Of Rights
This document made of ten amendments guaranteed individual rights and liberties. James Madison was the author and proposed of this document and he initially argued that the Constitution itself sufficiently restricted the federal government. Also, Anti-Federalists supported this document because individual rights were very vital, instead of just supporting the Constitution is strong enough like the Federalists. -
Jays Treaty
This was a treaty that John Jay negotiated for the united states in 1794 with Britain to prevent the war. It solved many issues left from the American revolution but also it created peaceful years of trade. One of the terms were to withdraw of British troops from America's western posts. Another was the establishment of a commission to settle border issues between the United States -
Election of 1796
The United States presidential election of 1796 was the third quadrennial presidential election. It was held from Friday, November 4 to Wednesday, December 7, 1796. It was the first contested American presidential election and the only one in which a president and vice president were elected from opposing ticket. -
Kentucky Resolutions
The Kentucky Resolutions were political statements drafted in 1798 and 1799, in which the Kentucky legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional. Madison hoped that other states would register their opposition to the Alien and Sedition Acts as beyond the powers given to Congress. The Kentucky Resolutions, authored by Jefferson -
Election of 1800
This election ended with Jefferson winning the presidential election with 73 votes to Adams's 65, but the Republican vice presidential candidate Aaron Burr also received 73 votes, making the vote for the presidency a tie. In case of a tie, the Constitution directed that the election be decided by the House of Representatives -
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THE AGE OF JEFFERSON
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Hamilton Vs. Burr
The Burr and Hamilton duel was fought between prominent American politicians Aaron Burr, the sitting Vice President of the United States, and Alexander Hamilton, the former Secretary of the Treasury, at Weehawken, New Jersey on July 11, 1804. The duel was the culmination of a long and bitter rivalry between the two men. where one took the shot and Burr became a fugitive. -
Embargo Act of 1807
The Embargo Act of 1807 was a law passed by the United State Congress and signed by President Thomas Jefferson on December 22, 1807. It prohibited American ships from trading in all foreign ports. In 1806, France passed a law that prohibited trade between neutral parties, like the U.S., and Britain. -
Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney invented a simple machine that influenced the history of the United States. He invented a cotton gin that was popular in the South. The South became the cotton producing part of the country because Whitney's cotton gin was able to successfully pull out the seeds from the cotton bolls. -
Steamboat
Robert Fulton returned to New York in 1806 and began building a steamboat on the East River. One year later on 17 August 1807, Fulton's steamboat, the Clermont made its first voyage on the Hudson River traveling 40 miles from New York to Albany in a record eight hours. -
War of 1812
During the war, both sides suffered many losses and even the White House was burned down in 1814. The British were quite defensive in the beginning, since they concentrated their military efforts on Napoleonic Wars but after their victory over France in 1814, they started to fight Americans more aggressively. American national pride was boosted by the victories in the Battle of Baltimore in 1814 and the Battle of New Orleans in 1815. -
Winfield Scott
American army officer who held the rank of general in three wars and was the unsuccessful Whig candidate for president in 1852. He was the foremost American military figure between the Revolution and the Civil War. He was one of the most important American military figures of the early 19th century. After fighting on the Niagara frontier during the War of 1812, Scott pushed for a permanent army that adhered to standards of professionalism. -
Battle of New Orleans
The Battle of New Orleans was the last major battle of the War of 1812. The Americans led by Andrew Jackson prevent the seizure of New Orleans and territory acquired from the Louisiana Purchase. The Treaty of Ghent was already signed on December 24, 1814 but the skirmishes did not end and the British troops did not retreat until January 18th. -
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The American Industrial Revolution
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Free Black Communities
Free Southern blacks continued to live under slavery, unable to travel or assemble as freely as those in the North. It was also more difficult for them to organize and sustain churches, schools, or fraternal orders such as the Masons. -
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams served as secretary of state in President James Monroe's administration from 1817 to 1825. During this time, he negotiated the Adams-Onis Treaty, acquiring Florida for the United States. He also became member of the House of Representatives, and the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829. -
John C Calhoun
In 1817 President James Monroe appointed John C. Calhoun secretary of war. An ardent Jeffersonian Republican who called for war with Britain as early as 1807, he was elected to South Carolina's state legislature in 1808 and to the United States House of Representatives in 1811. -
Panic of 1819
There is an Economic downfall after the War of 1812.It caused one of the worst depressions in American history The Second Bank of the United States is made but when prices fell, The banks failed and the economy went down. Inflation was the main issue and not being able to provide currency was the major problem. It led to a nationwide depression where nearly everyone was affected. -
McCullough V. Maryland
McCullough v. Maryland was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. The state of Maryland had attempted to impede operation of a branch of the Second Bank of the United States. This is one of the first and most important Supreme Court cases on federal power. In this case, the Supreme Court held that Congress has implied powers which gave Congress the power to establish a national bank. -
Adams Onis Treaty
The Adams–Onís Treaty of 1819, also known as the Transcontinental Treaty, the Florida Purchase Treaty, or the Florida Treaty, was a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the U.S. and defined the boundary between the U.S. and New Spain -
The Second Great Awakening
The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival. The movement began around 1790, gained momentum by 1800 and, after 1820, membership rose rapidly among Baptist and Methodist congregations whose preachers led the movement. This led to the establishment of reform movements to address injustices and alleviate suffering such as the Temperance Movement -
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman is that she is seen as a symbol of how black people resisted slavery during the time before the Civil War. Tubman is famous for being the "Moses" of her people because she did so much work to help slaves to escape from the South. Tubman was born a slave in 1840. -
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CULTURAL CHANGES
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Railroads
Englishman Julius Griffiths was the first person to patent a passenger road locomotive. In September, 1825, the Stockton & Darlington Railroad Company began as the first railroad to carry both goods and passengers on regular schedules using locomotives designed by English inventor George Stephenson. -
The Election of 1824
As no presidential candidate had received a majority of the total electoral votes in the election of 1824, Congress decides to turn over the presidential election to the House of Representatives, as dictated by the 12th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. John Quincy Adams was elected President on February 9, 1825. The election was the only one in history to be decided by the House of Representatives -
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AGE OF JACKSON
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Stephen F. Austin
Stephen Fuller Austin (November 3, 1793 – December 27, 1836) was an American empresario. Known as the "Father of Texas", and the founder of Texas, he led the second, and ultimately, the successful colonization of the region by bringing 300 families from the United States to the region in 1825. -
The election 1828
Jackson and the Democratic Party accused John Quincy Adams of engaging in disgraceful politics in order to ensure his victory in the election of 1824. President Adams responded with a campaign that focused on Andrew Jackson's military career and personal life. this election was considered one of most personally contentious election in the history of the United States. -
Joseph Smith
Joseph Smith was an American religious leader and founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement. In 1830, Smith published what he said was an English translation of these plates, the Book of Mormon. After he was murdered, his work was continued by Brigham Young. -
Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad had many notable participants, including John Fairfield in Ohio, the son of a slave holding family, who made many daring rescues, Levi Coffin, a Quaker who assisted more than 3,000 slaves, and Harriet Tubman, who made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom. Late 1700s-1865 -
Election of 1832
For the first time, the major political parties held national conventions to nominate their candidates. Democrat Andrew Jackson was again nominated and was opposed by National Republican Henry Clay. Another first was the presence of a third party candidate for president. -
Anti Slavery Movement
Was started by an abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison, and Arthur Tappan. Also Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave, was a key leader of this society who often spoke at their meetings.Increasingly frustrated with the slow pace of abolition, Garrison would radicalize the movement forming the American Anti-Slavery Society. Through its publication The Liberator, he called for immediate and universal emancipation. -
Sam Houston
In 1835, he was chosen commander in chief of the Texas army. The Alamo was an 18th century Franciscan Mission in San Antonio, Texas, which was the location of an important battle for Texans fighting for independence from Mexico. In 1836, a small group of Texans was defeated by Mexican General Santa Anna. -
The battle of Gonzales
The men of Gonzales fired the little cannon at the Mexican troops. And they raised a flag sewn from a woman's wedding dress that showed a lone star, an image of the cannon, and the words "Come and Take It." The Battle of Gonzales was the first military engagement of the Texas Revolution. It was fought near Gonzales, Texas, on October 2, 1835, between rebellious Texian settlers and a detachment of Mexican army soldiers . -
Davy Crockett
Was a American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier, and politician. He represented Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives and served in the Texas Revolution. He took part in the Texas Revolution and was killed at the Battle of the Alamo in March. Crockett became famous during his lifetime for larger-than-life exploits popularized by stage plays and almanacs. After his death, he continued to be credited with acts of mythical proportion. -
Battle of Goliad
The Goliad massacre was an event that occurred on March 27, 1836, during the Texas Revolution, in which nearly 500 prisoners of war from the Texian Army of the Republic of Texas were killed by the Mexican Army in the town of Goliad, Texas. Among those killed was commander James Fannin. -
Thomas R. Dew
Thomas R. Dew spent a decade as president of the College of William and Mary, but is also known for his works supporting slavery and opposing protective tariffs. His influential Pro Slavery Argument offers theological, historical and political evidence in a point-by-point refutation of the anti-slavery arguments of his day. Saying that slavery wasn't immoral, for he Dew saw masters treat their slaves with such benevolence and fairness that the slaves responded with joyful obedience. -
Iron Plow
Jethro Wood was the inventor of a cast-iron moldboard plow with replaceable parts, the first commercially successful iron moldboard plow. His invention accelerated the development of American agriculture in the antebellum period. -
Telegraph
Developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse and other inventors, the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. -
Andrew Jackson
In the Waxhaws region between North Carolina and South Carolina. A lawyer and a landowner, he became a national war hero after defeating the British in New Orleans during the War of 1812. Jackson was elected the seventh president of the United States in 1828. -
William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison become the 9th President of the United States.Elected at age 67, he was then the oldest man to take the office, and became the first U.S. president to die in office. His one month tenure was the shortest. Harrison was the first member of the Whig Party to become president. In 1840, the American political landscape saw a fundamental change. -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.Among Emerson's most well known works are Essays, First and Second Series. The First Series includes Emerson's famous essay, “Self-Reliance," in which the writer instructs his listener to examine his relationship with Nature and God, and to trust his own judgment above all others. -
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WESTWARD EXPANSION
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Manifest Destiny
The main impact was that the United States got much larger and much wealthier. Manifest Destiny was the idea that God had destined the US to spread out across the continent of North America. For others, Manifest Destiny had more negative effects. For the Native Americans and for Mexico, it meant losing their land. -
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12, 1817, in Concord, Massachusetts. He began writing nature poetry in the 1840s, with poet Ralph Waldo Emerson as a mentor and friend. In 1845 he began his famous two-year stay on Walden Pond, which he wrote about in his master work, Walden. He was also was an American philosopher, naturalist, and political activist of the early Modern period. -
Mexican American War
Texas gained its independence from Mexico in 1836. Initially, the United States declined to incorporate it into the union, largely because northern political interests were against the addition of a new slave state.War between the United States and Mexico (April 1846–February 1848) stemming from the United States' annexation of Texas in 1845. -
California Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush was the largest mass migration in American history since it brought about 300,000 people to California. It all started on January 24, 1848, when James W. Marshall found gold on his piece of land at Sutter's Mill in Coloma. The news of gold quickly spread around. -
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SECTIONALISM
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Crank Churns
Featured two adjacent metallic chambers. You put your cream in one chamber, and in the second you added hot or cold water to raise or lower the cream’s temperature. A thermometer mounted on the front let you know which to add. Suddenly, thanks to a brilliant design change, the cream witch was dead. -
Compromise of 1850
Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. -
Fugitive Slave Act
Following increased pressure from Southern politicians, Congress passed a revised Fugitive Slave Act in 1850. Part of Henry Clay's famed Compromise of 1850 a group of bills that helped quiet early calls for Southern secession, this new law forcibly compelled citizens to assist in the capture of runaway slaves. -
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THE CIVIL WAR
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Battle of Shiloh
Also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, the Battle of Shiloh took place from April 6 to April 7, 1862, and was one of the major early engagements of the American Civil War. Confederate forces launched a surprise attack against Union troops, but Union forces ultimately hung on and won. There were well over 23,000 casualties in the two days of fighting. -
Battle of Antietam
On September 16, Major General, George B. McClellan confronted Lee's Army of Northern Virginia at Sharpsburg, Maryland. At dawn September 17, Hooker's corps mounted a powerful assault on Lee's left flank that began the single bloodiest day in American military history. After pursuing the Confederate general Robert E. Lee into Maryland, Major George B. McClellan of the Union Army launched attacks against Lee's army, in defensive positions behind Antietam Creek. -
Battle of Chattanooga
The Battle Of Chattanooga, Tennessee, was an important Union victory in the The Civil War. The city was a vital rail hub that, once taken, became the gateway for later campaigns in the Deep South, including the capture of Atlanta and Sherman's March to the Sea. The Union Army of the Cumberland was soundly defeated by Confederate General Braxton Bragg at the Battle of Chickamauga. The Army of the Cumberland fled to the nearby Chattanooga. -
Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (July 1–July 3, 1863), was the largest battle of the American Civil War as well as the largest battle ever fought in North America, involving around 85,000 men in the Union's Army of the Potomac. This was a Union victory that stopped Confederate General Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the North -
Battle of Vicksburg
The day after the battle of Gettysburg, Union forces defeated Confederate forces at Vicksburg, Mississippi. This victory gave them control of the Mississippi River. And it split the states of the Confederacy -
Conscription Act
During the Civil War, the U.S. Congress passes a conscription act that produces the first wartime draft of U.S. citizens in American history. The act called for registration of all males between the ages of 20 and 45, including aliens with the intention of becoming citizens, by April 1. -
Lincoln's 10% Plan
The ten percent plan, was a United States presidential proclamation issued on December 8, 1863, by President Abraham Lincoln, during the American Civil War.This was Lincoln's blueprint for Reconstruction included the Ten-Percent Plan, which specified that a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters, swore an oath of allegiance to the Union. -
Wade Davis Bill
A more stringent plan was proposed by Senator Benjamin F. Wade and Representative Henry Winter Davis in February 1864. The Wade-Davis Bill required that 50 percent of a state's white males take a loyalty oath to be readmitted to the Union. In addition, states were required to give blacks the right to vote. -
Assassination Abram Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. -
The KKK
Is a secret society in the southern U.S. that focuses on white supremacy and terrorizes other groups. An example of the Ku Klux Klan is a group of men who are anti-black, anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic. Also was founded around 1865 -
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RECONSTRUCTION
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Enforcement's Acts
The Enforcement Acts were three bills passed by the United States Congress between 1870 and 1871. They were criminal codes which protected African-Americans' right to vote, to hold office, to serve on juries, and receive equal protection of laws. -
Samuel Tilden
A political reformer, Tilden was a Bourbon Democrat who worked closely with the New York City business community and led the fight against the corruption of Tammany Hall. Born and raised in New Lebanon, New York, Tilden came from a family that was well off and well known as a maker of patent medicines. He was apart of the American presidential election held on November 7, 1876, in which Republican Rutherford B. Hayes defeated Democrat Samuel J. Tilden. -
Rutherford B. Haynes
was an American politician who served as the 19th President of the United States from 1877 to 1881. He assumed the presidency at the end of the Reconstruction Era through the Compromise of 1877.As the 19th President of the United States, Rutherford B. Hayes oversaw the end of Reconstruction, began the efforts that led to civil service reform, and attempted to reconcile the divisions left over from the Civil War. -
Compromise of 1877
The Compromise of 1877 was a purported informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election. It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and formally ended the Reconstruction Era.
