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Jamestown
Jamestown was created by young single men in search for gold. They werent focused on farming since their main goal was to become rich. That led them to a preiod called The Starving Time, in which they had to eat each other to stay alive and almost all of the origional population died. Then the Headright System was put into place which made it so whoever moved to Jamestown would get 50 Acres of land to farm off of. John Rolfe borught tobacco from the west indies that helped Jamestown thrive, -
Pilgrims/Puritans
The Pilgrims landed in modern day Provincetown on the tip of Cape Cod. Massachusetts Bay , otherwise known as "City on a Hill", was where most of the Puritans lived. They had very little religeous tolerance so they were very religious and did not accept anyone of other religions including the indians.The Mayflower Compact was a social contract that mad the Puritans follow the laws.The Halfway Covenant was made to increase the churches influence in society -
Bacon's Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion was an armed Rebellion led by Nathanial Bacon against Governor Berkeley. Bacon and 500 other farmers went to Jamestown to complain that the farmers out West were not getting help from the Governor to protect them from the indians. After months of conflict Bacon and his followers bourned now Jamestown. -
The Great Awakening
The Great Awakening began in the early 18th century and ended in the late 19th century. It was composed of multiple periods of revivals where Evangelical Protestant Ministers would generate large crowds of religious people and perform "revivals." The revivals led to the rapid expansion of southern baptists and lutherans. -
Deism
Deism is the belief that God created the Universe buy reamains from it and uses nature to send out messages. This means that deistic people do not believe in the revelation in the Bible and other supernatural parts of religion. -
French and Indian War Effects
After the war, Britain thought that trying to expand west would create more problems with the Indians that would be costly as the French and Indian war was, so they created the Proclamation Line of 1763. The Proclamation Line said that colonists could not move west of the Appalachian Mountains. The colonists were enraged becasue they has just won a war with the indians a couple years before so may did not listen and moved west anyways.The Stamp Act was also put in place and it taxed all paper. -
The Revolutionary War
The Revolutionary War was the war that determined if America would be free of British rule or if they would still be controlled my Britain. This war went on for 8 years from 1775 until 1783. The Americans had many advantages such as home feild advantage and guerilla tactics, but the British had the worlds largest Navy and outnumbered the Americans . The Americans won with the vital help of France with the French Navy blocking waterways so british supply ships couldnt supply British Soldiers. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was the Colonies Golden Ticket to escape British rule. It was ratified on July,4th,1776 and it declared the colonies independence from Britain. -
Articles of Confederation
This served as the United States first constitution. The articles set up a small form of federal government but it was not very useful for the time it was being used. Its main problem was that it did not allow the U.S. Government to tax the people so in order to create an army the government had to ask the states for money which they rarely got. -
British Violations of The Treaty of Paris
The British violated the Treaty of Paris by not giving up their control by the Great Lakes and maintaing a force near Detroit. The British refused to leave western forts and caused American Indian tribes that were allied with the U.S. to attack the forts. -
Land Ordinance of 1785
Created a mechanism for selling and settling the land. The Land Ordinance laid the foundation of land policy until the Homestead Act came into play in 1862. -
Constitution
The Constitution Strengthened the Federal Government because it allowed them to tax the citizens of the U.S., its allowed the government to bring up an army, and it allowed them the distribute power between the 3 branches of government.The first amendment was the most important becasue it allowed people to have freedom of religion and it gave them the power to free speech. -
Founding Fathers to Political Parties
The Founding Fathers thought that political parties would split the nation apart and it would be a danger to the public interest. Before Washington left office he wrote his Farewell Address where he warned the U.S. to stay away from political parties and foreign affairs. -
Hamilton Economic Policies
In december of 1790 Hamilton came up with the plan to open The Bank of THe United States.This would be a bank that held all of the Governments financial jobs and wealth. Hamilton believed that a little bit of debt would tie states together. States that were in debt loved the idea but others that werent in debt opposed it. -
Bill of Rights Purpose and Timing
The Bill of Rights is just the name for the first 10 Amendments of the Constitution. It added security to Democracy as the anti-federalists were fighting against the government for more state power. -
Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney made the cotton gin that seperated the cotton from the seeds. This meant that slaves didnt have to do it by hand which increased the production. He also invented interchangable parts that meant that the textile machines in the north were easily fixed and didnt have to be replaced all together. -
Washingtons neutrality proclamation
The Neutrality Proclamation was an announcment from washing ton that said that the U.S. would stay neutral in the war between France and Britain.It also threatened legal actions against any american that would provide assistance to either side in the war. -
Washington's Farewell Addess
Washington's Farewell Address was a letter written to the people of America. In the letter Washington warned the American people about political parties, warned the public about getting into foreign affairs, explained the reasons to why an over powerful military was bad, and much more. Washington wrote this letter towards the end of his second term as President before leaving office. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
These acts were 4 bills passed by The U.S. Congress in 1798. The US Congress in 1798 was filled with Federalists so thats how they were able to get away with passing the Bills. Kentucky and Virginia said that the Alien and Sedition acts were unconstitutional.They argued for more state rights and very big changes the the U.S. Constitution. -
Election of 1800
The Election of 1800 was between Tomas Jefferson and John Adams. Almost the whole campaign was them bashing each other and trying to make each other look bad. Jefferson won becasue the decision went to the house. This was the first switch in political power from federalists to democrats. -
Louisiana Purchase
Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana Territry from France in 1830 for $15 Million. The US gained 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River. Thomas Jefferson bought it to get more control over the mississippi river and as more land for people to move West and farm off of. -
Marbury vs Madison
Marbury wanted Madison to pay him his commision so he sued. Madison was was found guilt and was forced to pay Marbury his commision becasue the court found that Madison was wrong to prevent Marbury from taking office. The court case established the Judicial Review. -
Cult of Domesticity
Also Known as the "Cult of true Womanhood." They believed that woman should stay to the regular woman roles at the time which was staying at home and taking care of things inside the house. They also believed that woman were more religious than men,pure in heart, and pure in body. -
War of 1812 Causes
The War of 1812 was mainly caused by the French and British Armies impressing American ships and making the Americans on the ships fight for them in both sides of the war. Economic Sanctions taken by the British and the French against the US was also a big casue of the War of 1812. -
The Hartford Convention
Hartford, Connecticut
The New England Federalist Party met to discuss their grievances concerning the War of 1812. The New Englanders also discussed seceeding from the US and creating a seperate peace with Great Britain.They also discussed the removal of the 3/5 compromise. -
Lowell System
The Lowell System was a labor and production model that was used in the US during the industrial period in New England. This was apart of the huge advancment of industry in the northern starts especially in Lowell Massachutsetts -
The American System
Clay wanted funds for national defence, a stronger Navy, an army with federal control, federal aid for building roads and canals to increase the trade, to re-establish the National Bank, and wanted some states to take on some of the federal debt. -
Irish Immigration
Irish immigrants were at the lowest part of the totem pole in society with the only people under them being African Americans. They immigrated to northern states to take on industrial jobs and to farm for very little money. The Americans hated them becasue they stole their jobs with their lower salaries. -
The Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise allowed Missouri to become a slave state but it also made Maine which admitted into the US as a free state to balance the slave and free states. This increased the souths power because even though the number of slave and free states were equal the 3/5 compromise gave the south more power over the north in congress. it created the 36-30 line that said any states south of missouri had to be free and any states north of missouri were free. -
Andrew Jackson
President Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act into law which took land out West and put the indians there instead of having them on land inside the US borders.This was also known as the "Trail of Tears" becasue of the 4000 Cherokees that died on their way to their new land. President Jackson also destroyed the US National Bank casuing it to fall apart -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was made by President James Monroe . It said that the European Powers were to respect the western hemisphere and not try and colonize land in north america.The Doctrine was kind of a threat to the European powers but it worked. -
Tariff of Abominations
This was a protective tariff passed by Congress to protect industry in the Northern States. It was named the Tariff of Abominations by the South becasue of the harsh impacts it had on southern economy. It reduced the cottom exports from the southern states to Britain which killed the southern economy. -
Transcendentalism
A Philosphical movement in the late 1820s and 1830s in the Eastern region of the US that was more of a religious movement. They thought that society and its institutes with the organized religion and political parties corrupted the purity of individuals. -
William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison was the owner of a newpaper company called "The Liberator." The Liberator newpaper helped the anti-slaver movement. Garrison was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society. -
Election of 1844 and Mexico
The election of 1844 brought in James K Polk, a man who was crazy for western expansion and the expansion of slavery, into a time where the conflicts between Americans and Mexicans were going on in Texas. This meant that the US annexed Texas very fast when Polk was President and Polk had no problem fighting Mexico over Texas. -
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Also known as the Mexican Cession. it was a peace treaty between the US and Mexico that gave the US more land than they wanted at a lower price. If mexico would of taken the deal at first they would of been way richer and not have war debt to pay and wouldnt of have been forced to give up so much land. -
Seneca Falls Convention
The Seneca Falls Convention was a convention in Seneca Falls, New York that was about the rights of woman. Many people attended the convention including 2 very important woman rights supporters Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton. -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny is the belief that it is your god given right to expand your land. This to Americans meant to expand as far west as they could, settling on as much land as they could. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 made it so thatcalifornia would be admitted into the US as a free state but it gave the slave states the Fugitive Slave Act which meant that southerners could go to the north and take african americans "back" to the south even though they were free. Judges were paid $5 to say they were free and $10 to say they were slaves. -
Popular Sovereignty
The Principle that the authority of a states government is created and sustained by the people of the state. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This allowed the people of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether they wanted to be a free state or a slave state. THis was called popular sovereignty.This act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise -
Lincolns Policy on Slavery
Lincoln was opposed to slavery and did not agree to any expansion of it. When he was elected President of the United States his main plan was to do anything to keep the nation together even if that meant keeping slavery in the south. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott vs Sandford is one of the biggest court cases in all of American History. Dred Scott was a runaway slave that made it to the north and when his master caught him he thought that he was a free man and they couldnt bring him back. The court decided that Scott was not a man, he was property and therefore couldnt file a court case. This case also made the Missouri compromise unconstitutional. -
John Brown
John Brown was a white, radical abolitionist that was one of the main causes in conflicts such as "Bleeding Kansas." He led an unsuccessful raid at harpers ferry in 1859 in which he was caught and thrown in jail. It was unsuccessful becasue none of the slaves that were supposed to escape showed up so Brown was heavily outnumbered. -
Civil War
The Cival War began after South Carolina seceded from the Union and created the Confederacy becasue they felt that Lincoln would abolish slavery.The North Had a Huge advantage in numbers, supplies, and economy in general, while the south had homefield advantage but they were significantly smaller in numbers, had little supplies, and had a very young economy that wasnt up and running that much. Britain did not join on the souths sides becasue of the Emancipation Proclamation. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamtion was put into place after The Battle of Antietam. Lincoln thought that in order to put the Emancipation into place he needed a military victory. The Emancipation freed the slaves and led to many slaves escaping their masters in the south and fighting for the Union in the Civil War.
