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Period: Jan 1, 1492 to
US History: VHS Summer: Harry Shao
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Britain in the New World
Most modern American citizens consider Great Britain to be their European "parent" country. However, by the time British arrived in the New World and established their first permanent settlement at Jamestown in 1607, much of the continent had already been claimed by other European nations.http://www.ushistory.org/us/2.asp -
The Royal Proclamation of 1763
After Britain won the Seven Years' War and gained land in North America, it issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which prohibited American colonists from settling west of Appalachia.http://www.ushistory.org/us/9a.asp -
MICHEL-GUILLAUME DE CRÈVECOEUR
MICHEL-GUILLAUME DE CRÈVECOEUR was a French settler in the American colonies in the 1770s. Coming from France he could not believe the incredible diversity in the American colonies. http://www.ushistory.org/us/7f.asp -
Boston Massacre
On the evening of 5 March 1770, a confrontation between British soldiers and a boisterous crowd in front of the Custom House on King Street in Boston, Massachusetts had deadly results and the event quickly became known as the "Boston Massacre."http://www.masshist.org/features/massacre -
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
Why do Americans continue to celebrate its public announcement as the birthday of the United States, July 4, 1776? While that date might just mean a barbecue and fireworks to some today, what did the Declaration mean when it was written in the summer of 1776?http://www.ushistory.org/us/13a.asp -
Abolitionism (c. 1783–1888)
Abolitionism, also called abolition movement, in western Europe and the Americas, the movement chiefly responsible for creating the emotional climate necessary for ending the transatlantic slave trade and chattel slavery.https://www.britannica.com/topic/abolitionism-European-and-American-social-movement -
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Agricultural development of Westward expansion
During this period, the land issue was the core and the development of agriculture was the mainstay. https://courses.govhs.org/d2l/common/popup/popup.d2l?ou=297069&queryString=ou%3D297069%26postId%3D8937911%26topicId%3D611194%26isPopup%3D1%26actId%3D0%26viewIsPoppedOut%3DTrue&footerMsg=&popBodySrc=/d2l/lms/discussions/messageLists/message_preview.d2l&width=900&height=855&hasStatusBar=false&hasAutoScroll=true&p=d2l_cntl_3bd76e0835954b2e8808de241e55285f_3 -
The draft of constitution was approved
September 17, 1787, the draft of constitution was approved on the behalf of the constitutional convention in ......https://courses.govhs.org/d2l/common/popup/popup.d2l?ou=297069&queryString=ou%3D297069%26postId%3D8938662%26topicId%3D611194%26isPopup%3D1%26actId%3D0%26viewIsPoppedOut%3DTrue&footerMsg=&popBodySrc=/d2l/lms/discussions/messageLists/message_preview.d2l&width=900&height=855&hasStatusBar=false&hasAutoScroll=true&p=d2l_cntl_de837ed3087041c09aa00588658c1d94_9t -
liberalism
The American political tradition is essentially based on a liberal consensus. Even those Americans who privately reject the liberal tradition -- like the Communists of the '30's and '40's or the McCarthyites of the '50's -- can succeed only as they profess a relationship to liberalism.http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/schleslib.html -
federalism
Division of political authority between a central government and state or provincial governments. Federalism is in contrast to unitary political systems where there are no quasi-sovereign governmental units that co-exist with the national government.http://www2.fiu.edu/~ganapati/3003/federalism.html -
The First Factory In US
The first factory in the United States was begun after George Washington became President. In 1790, SAMUEL SLATER, a cotton spinner's apprentice who left England the year before with the secrets of textile machinery, built a factory from memory to produce spindles of yarn
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The Farewell Speech
When he retired from the second term presidency, he prepared this farewell speech....https://courses.govhs.org/d2l/common/popup/popup.d2l?ou=297069&queryString=ou%3D297069%26postId%3D8938660%26topicId%3D611194%26isPopup%3D1%26actId%3D0%26viewIsPoppedOut%3DTrue&footerMsg=&popBodySrc=/d2l/lms/discussions/messageLists/message_preview.d2l&width=900&height=855&hasStatusBar=false&hasAutoScroll=true&p=d2l_cntl_de837ed3087041c09aa00588658c1d94_8 -
Missouri Compromise
At 1820, when they debates the issue when Missouri joined the union......https://courses.govhs.org/d2l/common/popup/popup.d2l?ou=297069&queryString=ou%3D297069%26postId%3D8938663%26topicId%3D611194%26isPopup%3D1%26actId%3D0%26viewIsPoppedOut%3DTrue&footerMsg=&popBodySrc=/d2l/lms/discussions/messageLists/message_preview.d2l&width=900&height=855&hasStatusBar=false&hasAutoScroll=true&p=d2l_cntl_de837ed3087041c09aa00588658c1d94_10 -
William Lloyd Garrison "Liberator"
The "Liberator" was a weekly anti-slavery newspaper. Garrison published the Liberator" for thirty five years, from January 1, 1831 to January 1, 1866. Garrison stopped publishing the "Liberator" after the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery throughout the United States.https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~arihuang/academic/abg/slavery/history.html -
Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. He declared: if the southern rebels do not lay down their arms before January 1, 1863, the slaves of rebel states will become free. After the news spread to the south, thousands of slaves fled to the north. British working class also launched a movement to support the north, which forced the British government to abandon the original plans for intervention. http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/ep/ -
Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln's "Emancipation Proclamation," January 1, 1863， strongly impetus the slave liberation.... https://courses.govhs.org/d2l/common/popup/popup.d2l?ou=297069&queryString=ou%3D297069%26postId%3D8938657%26topicId%3D611194%26isPopup%3D1%26actId%3D0%26viewIsPoppedOut%3DTrue&footerMsg=&popBodySrc=/d2l/lms/discussions/messageLists/message_preview.d2l&width=900&height=855&hasStatusBar=false&hasAutoScroll=true&p=d2l_cntl_de837ed3087041c09aa00588658c1d94_5 -
Battle of Gettysburg
bloodiest battle in American Civil War, and is often cited that a turning point in the American Civil War. The EEF major general George Meade leading Potomac Legion to resist the army of Northern Virginia, and got a decisive victory; ended the second and last time Lee invading northern states of US. http://www.historyplace.com/civilwar/battle.htm -
republicanism
In political theory and philosophy, the term ‘republicanism’ is generally used in two different, but closely related, senses. In the first sense, republicanism refers to a loose tradition or family of writers in the history of western political thought, including especially: Machiavelli and his fifteenth-century Italian predecessors; the English republicans Milton, Harrington, Sidney, and others... http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/republicanism/ -
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Industrial development of the westward movement
From the end of civil war to the end of the WW II is the second stage of the westward movement... https://courses.govhs.org/d2l/common/popup/popup.d2l?ou=297069&queryString=ou%3D297069%26postId%3D8937937%26topicId%3D611194%26isPopup%3D1%26actId%3D0%26viewIsPoppedOut%3DTrue&footerMsg=&popBodySrc=/d2l/lms/discussions/messageLists/message_preview.d2l&width=900&height=855&hasStatusBar=false&hasAutoScroll=true&p=d2l_cntl_3bd76e0835954b2e8808de241e55285f_4 -
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slave code（black code）
As African Americans in the colonies grew greater and greater in number, there was a justifiable paranoia on the part of the white settlers that a violent rebellion could occur in one's own neighborhood. It was this fear of rebellion that led each colony to pass a series of laws restricting slaves' behaviors. The laws were known as SLAVE CODEShttp://www.ushistory.org/us/6f.asp -
