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Period: 1300 to
Beginnings to exploration
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1346
The Black Death
A Truly horrifying pandemic resulting in the death of over 75 to 200 million people in Eurasia. -
1402
Columbian exchange
The Columbian exchange was the act of trade and exchange of goods from the old world to the new world. -
1492
Christopher Columbus Voyage of 1492
Christopher Columbus had been ordered by Ferdinand and Isabella to maintain friendly relations with the natives. -
Jun 7, 1494
Treaty of Tordesillas
This Treaty was an agreement between Spain and Portugal to settle conflicts over land that was newly discovered by Christopher Columbus -
1519
Conquest of the Aztecs
A man named Hernan Cortez a significant event that established settlement in the Caribbean -
1521
New Spain
Was a colonial territory of the Spanish empire, It was established following the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire in 1521 and additional conquest. -
1534
New France
New France was an area colonized by France during a period beginning with the exploration of the gulf of saint Lawrence by a man named Jacques Cartier, and ending the cession of new France to great Britain and Spain -
Chesapeake Colonies
Jamestown was a private charter with 105 settlers, one 32 survive the first winter, they were isolated from natives, and only had a one crop economy that was based on tobacco. -
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English Colonial Societies
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Charter Colonies
one of the three classes of colonial government established in the 17th century, by 1763 most colonies surrendered their charters to the crown and became royal colonies, and involved private property and business. -
The Navigation Acts
Acts passed in the English parliament, they were designed to limit Dutch trade, and enabled England to collect taxes in the colonies -
The Glorious Revolution
The Glorious Revolution was the overthrow of King James II, which changed the government implemented taxes, and helped have domination of New England -
Salem Witch Trials
The Salem Witch Trials was a series of events where people were accused of witchcraft. -
Caribbean Colonies
The Caribbean colonies relied on sugar it was the lifeblood of the region, because the Europeans love sugar it was used for almost everything, Spain, France, England, Holland it was the stakes of the region the Island possessions and the population of the colonies was 44,000. -
Act of Union
Acts passed by English and Scottish parliaments which was leading to the creation of the United Kingdom . -
Colonial Economics
during this time many immigrants started coming from England and Wales, northern Europe was the source of most of these immigrants, many of these people could not afford the trans- Atlantic voyage here but they found there way to make it by sneaking in or by how most of the people got in my becoming indentured servants, its like a slave but you work until you pay off your depth and then you are free to live your life because you are now in a better environment. -
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Colonial America
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The Enlightenment
Georgia was originally a penal colony, they had transplant prisoners which served as a rehabilitation pure environment, named for King George II, a buffer colony, based on enlightened ideals, administrative problems, and they started importing slaves. -
Triangular Trade
This was in the 18th Century it was a trade of luxury goods, it was a multilateral system, which a country pays for its imports from one country and exports to another country. -
The Great awakening
many of the people were scared to become religious, elite american universities were founded, changed the colonial american society, this was also when the first inter colonial event, it fractured religious order, used Jesus as symbol, -
Slavery
Carolina was the lower south, began as colony to colony, it evolved from a frontier settlement, rice was the staple crop that was farmed most of the time, the slaves had no prior knowledge, 2/3 of the regions population was slaves, the lived under a task system, and Georgia had the same system. -
Seven Year War
England, France, and Spain fought for territory, and Britain desired more land in the west, Britain sends an army of militia to control Ohio, then Britian roles out a policy to defeat the french/ Montreal, with a 10,000 man army and large navy this was a world wide conflict. -
Treaty of Paris 1763
The Treaty of Paris 1763 was a signing on February 10 163 by the kingdom of Britan France and Spain with Portugal it was an agreement after Britians victory as they beat France and Spain during the seven year war this is when British was gaining dominance over Europe. -
Boston Massacre
This was an event where a crowd of Bostonian's were harassing British soldiers with snow ball they were in a group just making fun of the Brits and disrespecting them with harsh language and snow balls but when suddenly the British soldiers fire into the of Bostonian's, but a man named Paul Revere used this to create to a fictitious story, this was the first example of american propaganda when people saw this many colonies were mad. -
Patriots Population vs Loyalist population
Now wars were about to start and both loyalist and patriots wanted to get there armies ready and what do you need in an army soldiers see the Patriots had the upper advantage here the Patriots had 40% of the colonial population that's a lot and the loyalist barely starting to fight back only had 20% of the colonial population now that is a huge disadvantage the other 40% were neutral in this battle so by looking at this we would think that the Patriots would win but who knows? -
Boston Tea Party
This is an event where the Bostonian's wanted to get revenge to show the taxation without representation, this was revenge for what happen in the Boston Massacre this was the revenge that was needed, so the Bostonian's got really drunk and decided we should dress up as Indians and all the tea on the British ships lets throw that over board. That day over 340 chest of tea were thrown over board and the British were furious. -
Dunmores Proclamation
This was a document signed by John Murray and Earl of Dunmore the royal governor of Virginia it was a martial law that would grant freedom to slave if and only if they would join the royal forces to fight against the colonist. This was a really good deal for slaves of this time sure you went to war and have a 50-50 chance of surviving but if you were to make it at least you would have the right to be free that seems like a good deal. -
Declaration of Independence
This was the most important document that was written to the people independence was not an option it was only a chance meaning they had to go all in and if they lost they lost, written by Thomas Jefferson who was charged for writing the draft after along days work of writing they finished on July 2 and it was signed on July 4. It talked about the grievances with Britain and how the colonist wanted to split apart and they wanted to claim as United and Independent states. -
Common Sense
This was a book written by a man named Thomas Paine and it was written to argue over the independence of the U.S. it talked about us being free from the British government it attacked the monarchy and it changed the american colonial views of the monarchy. It was a widely popular novel that caught the attention of many and the other thing that made it so well rounded was it was cheap for what it was truly about. -
Election of 1778
Finally most of the problems had been settled and it was now time to choose a leader time for the Election of 1778 this was the first election ever, Washington was a candidate but around this time everybody saw George Washington as a god so he was every bodies choice and John Adams was VP. Not like elections held now a days but it was the first election ever held in history and George Washington was the first president. -
Massachusetts Constitution
The Massachusetts Constitution was a federal governing document of the commonwealth of Massachusetts this is one of the 50 individual state governments that make up the U.S. It discussed that all men were born free and equal nobody was different from each other we are all made the same. The committee asked a man named John Adams to help them right the constitution and it was finally done on the date of October 25, 1780. -
Issues
There were many issues during the constitution they just got done with many wars and had to deal with many problems, first the Brits were using slaves to their advantage so after the war they did not know how to count the slaves, they really did not see them as people the south was pro slavery while the north anti-slavery but they finally came with a compromise known as the 3/5 compromise meaning that 3 out of every 5 slaves counted as a vote. -
Articles of Confederation
The continental congress adopted the Articles of Confederation the first constitution of the United States, they wanted to not force taxation they did not want to be like the Brits so they wanted to change it up a bit, but the problem was they had a constant shortage of funds and the other states would not comply to the rules they had in action. It took awhile but the states finally ratified the Articles of Confederation until March 1, 1781. -
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The Constitution
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Treaty of Paris 1783
This Treaty was really needed what this treaty did was ended the war that the British and the representatives of the United States of america were in, this showed the U.S. as an independent sovereign nation, this established a northern border with the British, and allowed the U.S. to receive frontier land to the Mississippi river. Really this treaty gave the U.S. the power it rightfully deserved. -
American Virtue
This was a happy event that happen the citizens started to celebrate the ideals of republicanism, it involved tons of everyday citizens, it was about the states constitutions, it was to educate the citizens on the american virtue that they deserved after all of these problems that have come in to affect, it even gave the children an education it was like life was a classroom and everybody was learning of the american virtue it was to teach the citizens. -
Shays Rebellion
This was a horrible event it was a protest from farmers against state and local enforcement of tax collections, and judgement for debts. It took place in Massachusetts where a revolutionary war veteran named Daniel Shay, led over 4,000 rebels in a uprising against economic and civil rights injustices, it was bad for everyone the farmers and the rebels as well many farms were seized in the rebellion and ended with the Rebellion losing. -
North West Ordinance
This was originally going to be an Ordinance for the government over the territory of the U.S. All the governors,legislatures had admission to the U.S. it was going to reject slavery they had finally decided that they had enough of it, and it gave future admission for the new states, it relied on a strong central government which was going to be assured under the new constitution. -
The Great Debate
This was a series of protest and debates, the Anti-Federalist were opposing the constitution, they were complaining that the new system would threaten liberties and would fail to protect individuals rights. And one of the factions would be opposing the constitution because they thought a more stronger government would threaten the supreme government and the states. -
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The New Republic
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Bill of Rights
The bill of rights are very important to today's citizens they are rights that every man and women have that cannot be taken away and remain yours for life, this was supported by the anti- feds while the federalist believed that we did not need a bill of rights, it was written by a man named James Madison, and when it was finally finished it guaranteed individual rights and liberties to every citizen. -
Whiskey Rebellion
This was a very important event that really showed others that the constitution is very serious about what they do, but what happend is the constitution but a tax on whiskey and Moonshine and whiskey was very economically important and the farmers were pissed and had a revolt Washington heard of the revolt and lead an army to stop the revolt, Washington won and showed everybody that they were powerful and if you were going to do wrong you are going to get stopped. -
1st Bank of the United States
The first bank of the United States was made in 1791 and was used as a depository for government funds, and the idea came from Alexander Hamilton, and it gave people the ability to make loans, and was helpful as it was used to stabilize currency and economy. But as most things do it set off constitutional issues trying to decide if it was constitutional, Washington was on the same boat as Hamilton but Andrew Jackson was all against it. So what they did is they decided to charter the bank. -
Election of 1796
Around this time Washington was about to serve his third term which we have not live to seen in our life but he could not take it anymore and denied taking the third term the new candidates were John Adams vs Thomas Jefferson and this would be an introduction to the first party system, John Adams wins the election making Jefferson the VP this would be a republican government, but before Washington left he gave a farewell address stating things that he wanted from the Gov avoid conflict etc. -
Kentucky Resolution
The Kentucky Resolution was an idea that was created by Jefferson in which the states could nullify unconstitutional laws that they did not find right, this immediately led to a constitutional compact among the states, and which would lead to the foundation of states rights. This is what Slavery and the Civil War would be fought on this would determine what would be of slavery and of the civil war. -
Election of 1800
This would bring an end to the Naval war, in which they negotiated a treaty, Napoleon was with us and was against the Brits and Spain. during this Adam was seen as weak not strong as he used to be and again it was Jefferson vs Adams. Jefferson wins kind of he ties with Aron Burr and it then went to the house of representatives, but Hamilton hated Jefferson and Burr but he hated Burr more he persuaded the house to vote for Jefferson. Jefferson won and was supposed to undo fed papers but did not. -
Hamilton vs Buerr
Hamilton and Buerr hated each other and were from the start born to be enemies and they decided to duel over there rivalry knowing that duels were illegal they decided to duel anyway. Buerr was the VP and Hamilton the Secretary of Treasury. So the duel was commenced the both drawled their weapons Hamilton fired up in the air knowing that what he was doing was wrong, Buerr fires and fatally wounds Hamilton, Hamilton is now dead and the federalist that he was the people would lose ideas. -
The War of 1812
The war of 1812 was a battle between the United States, and the United Kingdom, the Brits have a very powerful navy army that is 10x stronger then the american naval army so we decide to take a land based strategy so that we don't have to come into contact with British naval, we fought in Canada but the Brits beat us, and the Brits start to blockade the american ports, by 1814 the Brits take control of Washington D.C. and burn the white house. And the we moved to Fort Mchenry. -
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American Industrial Revolution
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Changes in Agriculture
New Era equals new beginnings and that's exactly what happend new ideas for inventions were being created to make the lives of many farmers and civilians a lot easier. The Iron plow invented by (John Deere) was made to pull the crops faster attach to a horse or cow and watch as the crops come to you, next was the Crank Churn this helped with the butter for families for the women to more easily stir, and finally the cotton gin which helped with plucking the seeds that were stuck in the cotton. -
Changes in Transportation
Not only was agriculture the only thing evolving so was transportation see before you either walked, rode on horseback or took a carriage to get to your destination. Now was the time to make more ways to travel they had created modern roads to get from point A to point B. Then they started to upgrade river transportation with the creation of the steam boat a more superior way of travel faster as well. So with steam boats came the man made canal the Erie canal was used. And finally Railroads -
Communication
And as well as Transportation there was also a change to communication before you had to right down everything that you wanted to get across to people and guess what if you wanted a copy of it you had to right it all over again, well that's where the printer comes into place it was really cheap to print things back then and it also provided modern mass advertising. And a new form of communication was the telegraph this device sent electric pulses to send a message in Morse code. Samuel Morse. -
Florida
Florida was an important state that needed to be part of the U.S. and well the U.S. wanted to claim it from Spain, and well they did not want to be part so Andrew Jackson was furious and attack the Florida Seminoles. We win and pass the Adams Onis Treaty - in which Spain would secede Florida to the U.S. and others would recognize this U.S. claim to Louisiana. And this was all because Andrew Jackson took control of Florida and promised the freedom of fugitive slaves. -
Panic of 1819
This was a economic boom that happend after the war of the 1812, the problem was over the second bank of the United States, the agriculture prices were collapsing in 1819 and the banks were going downhill they were failing. The economy had gone into a tailspin or going out of control, this was known as one of the worst depressions in U.S. history. it was a time of disorganization it was forcing many problems putting many factories out of business -
Missouri Crisis
The Missouri Crisis was an effort from the congress to calm the sectional and political rivalries triggered by Missouri, see Missouri applied to be a slave state and that really triggered people because the the United States at the time only had 22 states evenly divided between slave and non slave. And with Missouri in the mix things would not be even, the North was against the admission while the south was all in for Missouri becoming a slave state. And they settled on the 36 30 to split slaves -
McCullough vs Maryland
This was a major landmark supreme court case, it would give the federal gov implied powers, and did not allow the states to take place of the federal government, a quote that was used was "power to tax is power to destroy" and this case would be lead to the south to make a more radical view of the states rights.It was an attempt to impede a operation of the second bank of the United States by imposing tax on all notes of the banks not charted by Maryland. -
Free Black Communities
Since the industrial Revolution had just begun this would lead to the freedom of slaves from all around and all these free slaves will become a community, the largest group of free black communities would be in the north and the Midwest. But this would lead to segregation in the north, this would start to affect the free slave communities and they would start to face a lot of discrimination and prejudiced but they would still compete for jobs against immigrants and hostilities start to rise. -
Temperance Movement
around this time alcohol consumption was at its all time high and people wanted put an end to it, they were going to abstain people from drinking alcohol. The problem was that people would drink alcohol all day nothing else alcohol was the main source of beverage another problem was that women believed that when men would drink alcohol they would beat there wife's and so they needed to put a stop.It worked they dramatically decreased alcohol consumption and some states even banned alcohol . -
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Cultural Changes
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Monroe Doctrine
This was a U.S. policy opposing European colonialism, the reason was the Spanish empire was crumbling. So what they decided was to influence the colonization somewhere else in the U.S. and stating that warned the European powers not to interfere with the affairs of the Western Hemisphere. The man James Monroe declared that Europe not to intervene with Latin America. To shorten it up the United States would handle the affairs of the Western Hemisphere. -
Election of 1824
It was time for a new president and a election was held the Candidates John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. The election went really well i guess for John Quincy Adams he won the electoral college while Andrew Jackson won the popular vote. After the election was over Jackson was very angry and bitter he believed that Adams had cheated with a bargain and that's the reason that Adams won he cheated but Jackson promised that he would come back and win the next election and would be president. -
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Age of Jackson
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Adam's Presidency
So after Adams had won the election of 1824 he would change the american system he would include Industry and tariffs or taxes and nobody really likes tariffs he would create a new national a predecessor to Hamilton bank so this Presidency would be filled with International improvements, this would include a national University and observatory. He would implement above politics. And cheated the appointment of men only choosing men based on merit campaign, Jackson would attack Adams with Fakenews -
Education
Education was not really important back then no one really cared for it you would really only go if you wanted to learn something new because attendance did not matter but once the the cultural change came into affect they decided to focus on schools. They would finally implement grades something that they had never done and figure out if the kids were learning. They would finally receive textbooks to help along with the learning. And they would finally require attendance or otherwise. -
Election of 1828
So four years had passed and Adams term was over time for another election and this time Jackson was not going to lose he had a new strategy he would tell the truth about his humble origin his military career and democratic values and this worked for him he used his common man personality to win the election. And he would use Personal attacks and they would claim that the other was a womanizer and they attacked Jackson's wife and he would say these words " let the people rule" Jackass or Jackson -
Age of the common man
The New era had begun and the people were starting to change to known men were Davy Crockett and Andrew Jackson the Republic had been filled with common men Andrew Jackson was a American solider and statesmen and was very common that people could relate with and he wanted to become president and would eventually change this era, Davy Crockett was a american folk hero frontiersman solider and politician and was known as the king of the Frontier. And would be known for his heroism for ever. -
Prisons
So with new era's comes more problems and with all the new technology crime will rise and use these items to its advantage, so that's where prisons come into the mix the first come up with a penitentiary where they would isolate them from other prisoners. They also created a eastern state penitentiary that held many criminals that were to far for help and they took it even farther by building a asylum for the mentally ill general population they would receive there own prison for them. -
Revivalism
Around this time some religions were starting to fade away and they wanted to revive it the problem was that the market revolution was very bad and this really affect the revival. See Revivalism believes in free will, and occurs through direct preaching and what benefited them more was that hey would have a new print of the bible or the holy book.But they would push on to revive there religion and keep it going for years to come even if problems were to interfere they would keep pushing. -
Slavery
Around this time with all the new inventions slavery was starting to die out because of the cotton gin it made it easier to pluck the seeds so why would slaves be needed,more cotton was processed more slaves = more crops that was life in the north while life in the south was mixed north life was compartmentalized meaning things were separated into groups to make it easier the master was the mentor and protector to the slaves and new domestic chores were included into the slavery process. -
Nat Turners Rebellion
Slaves had enough and they were getting smarter especially a slave named Nat Turner he was as smart to start a slave rebellion. This event that he started was one of the largest slave rebellions in the United States. leading a total of 70 slaves and 60 whites this was a lot for the time they were going around killing whites and slave owners, they were eventually stopped in which Nat Turner Ran and tried to hide But what makes it important role of making a antebellum slave society south feared. -
Election of 1832
Now Jackson's term was over and it was time for another election Democratic leader Andrew Jackson and Republican Henry Clay he was for a 2nd bank of the United States but Andrew Jackson hates this idea, but Clay thinks he can win the election. Nicholas Biddle was President of the bank he was petitioned by congress. One event that could have affected Jackson they thought that early renewal of charter and they thought that would veto Jackson and Jackson vetoes and caused a central issue. -
Election of 1836
Now that Jackson could no longer run as president he needed his spot to be filled in by someone that he could trust and the man for the Job was Martin Van Buren he was running against the Whig Party and he barely won the election against the Whigs. But things quickly went south he would eventually cause the panic of 1837 a financial crisis where wages went down and unemployment went up. they would eventually call him Martin Van Ruin for all of the problems that he would cause. no loans to help -
Election of 1840
Martin Van Buren's term is up and he wants another one he runs for re-elect against William Henry Harrison a Whig. The Whigs do not want Van Buren to win so they proceed to spread rumors about Van Buren calling him a rapist, the Whigs will even get women to influence there husbands to vote for Henry Harrison. Harrison won the election by a landslide and would eventually bring the economy back. But he only makes one moth as president the shortest living president, in which John Tyler will carry. -
Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant was an important General of the american army during the civil war and the commanding general at the conclusion of the war. He was given the rank of general by the President Abraham Lincoln, he won the battle of Vicksburg he would later become president, he began his military career as a cadet at the West Point military Academy. After he was done with the military Academy he would later serve as a lieutenant in the Mexican American war. And win the Civil war for the north. -
Southern Society
The society was split in three there were Planters which were the rich most of them did not own slaves but some would occasionally salves 1-9 slaves at max, very few had more slaves and if so they were really rich, they were the ruling class that did not like the other classes. Next were Yeoman farmers the middle 75% did not own slaves they were on and off with the planters some liking them and others hating. Last were the Tenant farmers these are the poor of the poor 30-50% friend to slaves. -
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Westward Expansion
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Election of 1844
Before the election of 1844 the U.S. was discussing politics over Texas eventually Texas came back from the Debate and and the election had begun, the candidates were Henry Clay for the Whig side, and James K. Polk for the democrats. Polk won the election and immediately after winning he already had three goals. His first goal was to Annex Texas, he was also going to Settle the Oregon Border, and also settle the Mexican border Polk won the election by a total of 65 votes, he won by a land slide -
Millennialism
This is the cultural change so whats going on with culture well Millennialsm has joined the group and Jesus is coming a man named William Miller the prophet that told people that Jesus was coming would go on and on about this, the people would prepare for Jesus to come and nothing happend and he did not live for to long they gave him another chance and nothing happend so they killed him, that's when the Church of Jesus Christ Latter day saints came into action Joseph Smith the leader of Church -
Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee was a very important man he was an american confederate soldier he is best known as the commander of the confederate states army. He would lead and command the army of Northern Virginia in the american civil war, from 1862. He would lead a victory over the battle of Gettysburg. He would also lead a smashing victory of the battle of Chancellorsville, he was a top graduate of United States Military Academy, until he surrendered on 1865 at Appomattox courthouse. -
Great Migration
This is when people believed that they got a message from an angel to go explore and claim new land, the U.S. would finally become a nation and they would finally claimed American Domination by 1820, they would make huge profits from fur trading, they would also find new things like beavers and they would hunt them almost to extinction to make the fur, this would be the fashion change and around this time the Americans believed that the Native Americans might have gone extinct by this time. -
Wilmot Proviso
This was an american law to ban slavery in this territory acquired from mexico in the Mexican war. It was a political firestorm that would eventually be defeated in congress. The Democrats and Whigs were pro slavery/ free soil factions. Chosen by popular sovereignty, they would be able to choose the path of slave or free. It was first introduced by David Wilmot, both political parties had labored long to keep diverse slavery issues out of national politics. Introduced on August 8 1846 -
Election of 1848
November 7,1848 Democrats have Lewis Cass running as their representative, while the Whigs had Zack Taylor has their representative he was a no party man and he contained an unknown view. The election mainly focused on slavery the Campaign in the south was pro slavery while the Campaign in the north was for the Wilmot proviso which means against slavery. The Winner of this election was the Whig party and their leader Zack Taylor, and he won his push on no slavery with the Wilmot Proviso -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This treaty was the Treaty that ended the Mexican american war, this treaty would bring a victory to the U.S. this Treaty would also settle a border dispute between the U.S. and Mexico, this would also allow the U.S. to seize half of mexico's territory, but this would also lead to problems over slavery and what to decide with it, because many people foresaw slavery in this territory, and this would lead to a discusses and they would eventually solve this slavery problem with Wilmot Proviso -
Seneca falls convention
This convention was a convention for women the future is here and they still do not have the privilege that women desire a women named Elizabeth Caty Stanton and Lucretia Mott would host this Convention 300 men and women would be involved and discuss the rights that women really need, it discussed the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions it would also involve secure economics and voting. The media mostly saw this event as a negative but many others took this very well the Declaration won. -
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Sectionalism
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California Gold Rush
The Americans had found gold and this would catch the attention of many people and would cause a huge migration, I'm talking 14K in 1849 and by 1852 200K would have migrated, this would make many people rich at first gold was easy to find in rivers but they would start mining in 1852, not only whites would migrate Chinese would also migrate to get money and get rich but they were kind of used as slaves and faced a lot of racism but the worst place to work was in the mines during this time. -
Natrure
With everything changing and everything moving in such a fast pace the people would decide to make parks to slow down the life that the people had to live. It was a new idea that would be a getaway from the fast paced life, ad what followed was the creation of cemeteries it sounds dark but it was a slow down from life, it would give people the opportunity to take a look at life from the past in a quiet peaceful environment and reunite with lost family and give there respects to their loved ones -
Compromise of 1850
This compromise would be the discuss 5 separate bills it would talk about California as a free state, it would also be a discuss slavery see New Mexico and Utah decided on slavery, this would also allow Texas to Relinquish between the Western Land, but the federal Government came in and would take over the Texas debt, this would also bring an end to slave trade in Washington D.C. banning the slave trade. After all of these problems were discussed they would make the Compromise of 1850. -
Personal Liberty Laws
These laws would discuss nine states the would prohibit returning slaves, polarize or divide the country even more on this important topic, this would be forced on the Northerners to pick a side allowed returning slaves or prohibit them. This would tremendously affect many free slaves, but many Southern politics would have made there way to the North, but this would all be just to counter the affect of the fugitive slave act. Many people would try to get there word in and speak for the slaves. -
The Underground Railroad
This event is when slaves decided that they had had enough they would start to run away and become free, but this could not have happend if it were not for the help of a African American women named Harriett Tubman. She was an African american Abolitionist and would help the slaves flee and escape to the south. They would use safe houses and many other environments to stay hidden, but by the end of this great event 100,000 slaves would have been freed between 1830 and 1860. A great Event. -
Election of 1852
This election was an election about slavery and what would become of it the candidates Franklin Pierce, and Winfield Scott, Franklin Pierce won this election by a landslide , and he was also a member of the Young Republic, he won this election by a total of 212 votes. But the opponent Scott was allied with the anti slavery Whigs, but the thing is that the Whig party was falling apart and gave Pierce the win, the problem was North and South were opposing expansion due to slavery, later solved. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
This was an act that would decide for Kansas and Nebraska whether they were a free state or slave state. The south was very scared because 2 new states would be free states, and the South wanted to abolish the Missouri Compromise, but they would also want a transcontinental railroad that would run through the South but not the north, this bill would be introduced by a man named Stephen Douglas, it would repeal the 36 30 and would decide that Kansas was a slave state, and Nebraska a free state. -
John Browns Raid
There was a man named John Brown a abolitionist and he believed that he was called by god to help free and destroy slavery, he would invade the south and start a slave revolt, he would lead slaves and abolitionist to harpers ferry, to control the town and arsenal, his plan was to spread the revolt across the south, but Robert E. Lee would bring an end to this, brown would eventually lose and him and his raiders would be tried and hanged do to their crime against slavery,this helped abolitionist -
Women During the war
So during the war many men had left their families and left the women and kids at home this would bring an opportunity to women to do something in their life other then be a stay at home house wife, they would take place in male dominate positions, women would begin teaching, nursing, and would also have civil service jobs, and one women would start the red cross a women named Clara Barton this would help the wounded soldiers on both sides to nurse them back to working order, and save lives. -
North
The north was about to go into war and they were very prepared for it they were ready in the sense that they had materials and items to help them during the war but there military skills were really not that good, they had a population of 22 million, there industrialization was 110,00 factories, with over 97% weapons and 94% clothing with 90% shoes and boots. Railroad ways with 22,000 miles of tracks and they believed that they were trying to uphold the constitution from the union. -
South
Not only was North going into war but they were going into war with the South the population of the South was not as high as the North a total of 5.5 million there industrialization was 3% of weapon manufacturing, $155 million industries, with 18,000 factories. The railroads had 9,000 miles of tracks not as much as the north, but the one thing they had over the north was Military leadership, they would compare themselves to the colonist, and they hoped for Britian to help them in the war. -
Trent Affair
The affair was the confederates wanted to send diplomats to Europe, but the USS San Jacinto intercepted to RMS Trent, Britain saw this and immediately demanded fro an apology. Lincoln saw this and released the diplomats, but Lincoln would send the diplomats and were to secure Brits an make a neutrality between the french, this was a proving ground for the civil war for industrial war. And both sides believed that the Civil war would end the rapid military strikes that they were receiving. -
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Emancipation Proclamation
This proclamation was given by Lincoln, he was looking for a to get slaves to join there side and at the same time not try to piss them off. It stated that Lincoln would declare slaves free only and only if the rebellion were to end. 1-1-1863, and it worked slaves were starting to join Lincolns side and the Proclamation would stop Britain from entering the war on the Souths side, the only group allowed to keep there slaves were the border states they could keep there slaves. -
Election of 1864
This is a election during the Civil war and Lincoln was very scared of this election he really believed that he would lose this election, his opponent was George McClellan Lincolns enemy or nemesis. See the Northerners were weary of the war and the northern democrats were attacking Lincolns setback, Lincoln really think that he will lose but the northern army captures Atlanta and this really gives Lincoln a boost big enough for him to win the election and run as president one more time. -
Wade Davis Bill
This is one of the two plans that the South had for the reconstruction this bill would punish the confederate leaders, for doing the bad that they have been doing, not only did they do this they would also destroy the slave society, they had an oath to never aid the Confederacy, the officers that were in the war were stripped of there citizenship. But after awhile the states readmitted after the long punishment and were to pledge there allegiance to the Union, after all the bad they had done. -
Lincoln's 10% plan
This was the first plan of the two plans that the south had came up for the Reconstruction. The 10% plan was a Reconstruction plan that would pardon all the southerners except for the officers and officials that had participated in the Civil war. They would take an oath that they would apply for federal recognition to form a new state government. The plan was the southern state could be readmitted into the union once 10% of the voters swore an oath to the union. These were the two plans of south -
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Lincolns Assassination
This is when the Civil war was over we had won the war and people were in a state of happiness so people are celebrating even Lincoln, he decided to take his wife and himself to Ford's Theater 5 days after the Appomattox courthouse, but a horrible event happend a man named John Wilks Booth would assassinate Lincoln. He would later die the next day,they would soon find Booth in a farm and light it on fire and kill him in the farm. Lincolns death would attract millions to the railroad in Illinois -
Election of 1866
This was not a presidential election but a Election for the House of representatives, this was a referendum for the election for president Andrew Johnson. but by 1866 Johnson had lost support within the Republican Party for his terrible Reconstruction policies. The new winners of this house of representatives election was a man named Schuyler Colfax he would take the place of Andrew Johnson and run the Republican party for the house of representatives. And he would be in this position. -
Election of 1868
This election would be about the whites and how they were still racist after all this time that has passed, for the Republican party - Ulysses S. Grant and for the Democrats - Horatio Seymour u\Grant was part of the Civil war and wanted political moderation and peace for the U.S. but the main problem was whites were still raciest and they were so raciest that they would intimidate the blacks not to vote after they were just given there right to vote. Grant would win the election changing rules -
Panic of 1873
This panic was set because the economy was falling and people were not making sustaining income, this will set a booming economy until 1877 when the panic is happening people start to care less about African Americans people were putting themselves before anything or anybody, only focusing on family and loved ones. Democrats came in and were voted into office in 1874, then grant came in and reduced the efforts in policing the south this would be the third worst depression in history for now. -
Election of 1876
This was a presidential election the candidates Samuel Tilden for the Democrats, and Rutherford Hays for the Republican, the problems were corruption the society was changing meaning the people are changing, the reconstruction was also bringing new problems with new ideas, and also the Economy was failing and people were not making enough money to support themselves to live. But the issue was Tilden won the popular vote but the electoral vote was unclear so they just gave it to Hays so he won. -
Compromise of 1877
This compromise was over the election so Tilden won the popular vote but that is not how you win an election you need to have the most electoral votes. So the compromise was that they would give the electoral votes to Hayes but in return Hayes would have to end the reconstruction and he will also have to remove federal troops in South this would lead to total suppression for the southern black people. And he would do all of this and would become the president of the U.S and apply to the rules.
