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In December of 1606, the Virginia Company, under charter from King James I, sent an expedition to establish an English settlement in North America. When their ships, the Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery, arrived near the banks of the James River on May 14, 1607, 104 men and boys set foot on what would soon become
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-Tobacco became Virginia’s first profitable export
-Jamestown was a place for people to come and make their fortune. Another reason, much less pressing than the financial aspect, was to minister to and convert the natives to Christianity. -
John Smith was an English adventurer, soldier, and writer who is most remembered for helping to found Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English colony in the New World. Smith's legacy has developed over the years, because to the popular myth of his relationship with Pocahontas, a Native American princess. -
Between 1689 and 1748, the British and the French fought a series of conflicts. Both sides lavished gifts on the Indians to entice them. The Indians recognized the need of maintaining the French-British power balance. The balance began to shift as the British colonial population grew and the French became more constrained, with most Native Americans being treated with respect and compassion. The outnumbered French allied with their Indian allies to thwart British colonial expansion. -
-The French and Indian war altered the economic relationship between Britain and its American colonies because it created a war debt and caused Britain to levy taxes on the colonies. -
The French and Indian War altered the social relations between Britain and its colonies because all the regulations and taxes caused the colonies to have feelings of resentment toward Britain. -
The French and Indian War affected the political relationship between Britain and its American Colonies because Britain abandoned its policy of Salutary Neglect and increased their authority over colonial politics.
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In 1754 Washington's surprise attack upon a small French force at Jumonville Glen and his subsequent surrender to French forces at the Battle of Fort Necessity helped to spark the French and Indian War, which was part of the imperial conflict between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War. -
The Declaration of Independence was the first formal statement by a nation’s people asserting their right to choose their own government. -
The Declaration of Independence includes a reference to the Social Contract. This is the concept of a group of people coming together and agreeing to give up some of their freedoms in exchange for the government protecting their most vital freedoms.
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The Declaration of Independence, unlike the other founding texts, is not legally binding, but it is powerful. "A rebuke and a stumbling block to tyranny and persecution," said Abraham Lincoln. It continues to motivate people all throughout the world to strive for equality and freedom.
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The Constitution of the United States established America’s national government and fundamental laws, and guaranteed certain basic rights for its citizens. -
The constitution spoke directly to economic issues. article 1, section 8 stated that "congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises"; and further gave congress the power "[t]o regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states.
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The Constitution of the United States established America's national government and fundamental laws, and guaranteed certain basic rights for its citizens.
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First it creates a national government consisting of a legislative, an executive, and a judicial branch, with a system of checks and balances among the three branches. Second, it divides power between the federal government and the states. And third, it protects various individual liberties of American citizens.
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The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 brought into the United States about 828,000 square miles of territory from France, there by doubling the size of the young republic. What was known at the time as the Louisiana Territory stretched from the Mississippi River in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the west and from the Gulf of Mexico in the south to the Canadian border in the north. -
The Louisiana Purchase widely influenced the economic development of the United States. The purchase caused the economy to boost substantially because of many factors. It essentially doubled the size of the United States and allowed plenty of Americans to migrate west. -
A positive effect of the Louisiana purchase was that people were allowed to go out into the wilderness and fend for themselves, while gathering plenty of resources. This made society more democratic, which greatly helped Jackson during his presidential campaign.
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The Louisiana Purchase eventually doubled the size of the United States, greatly strengthened the country materially and strategically, provided a powerful impetus to westward expansion, and confirmed the doctrine of implied powers of the federal Constitution.
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The Mexican-American War (1846-1848) was the United States' first major armed battle fought mostly on foreign land. It put a politically fractured and militarily unprepared Mexico against President James K. Polk's expansionist government, which felt the US had a "manifest destiny" to advance across the continent to the Pacific Ocean. The war began with a border skirmish in the Rio Grande, which was followed by a string of American successes. -
It improved commercial opportunities, the construction of towns along both lines, a quicker route to markets for farm products, and other economic and industrial changes. During the war, Congress also passed several major financial bills that forever altered the American monetary system
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Ulysses S. Grant, as commanding general, led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War in 1865. Grant went on to become the 18th President of the United States (1869–1877), trying to complete Congressional Reconstruction and eliminate the last vestiges of slavery. -
After decades of simmering tensions between northern and southern states over slavery, states' rights, and westward expansion, the United States Civil War broke out in 1861. Seven southern states seceded and formed the Confederate States of America after Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860; four more states quickly joined them. The Civil War, often known as the War Between the States, ended in 1865 with Confederate capitulation. T -
Fortunes were lost in a short amount of time as a result of the emancipation proclamation, bringing the local economy to a full halt. The South's ability to recover economically was severely hampered by a lack of sufficient wealth.
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It proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten Confederate states still in rebellion. It also decreed that freed slaves could be enlisted in the Union Army, thereby increasing the Union's available manpow
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In addition to the reunification of the country, the Proclamation enlarged the purposes of the Union war effort by making the abolition of slavery an explicit Union goal. In addition, the Proclamation barred European forces from intervening in the war on the Confederacy's side.
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President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862, declaring that all enslaved individuals in states currently engaged in rebellion against the Union "will be then, thenceforward, and forever free" as of January 1, 1863. -
On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, as the country entered its third year of deadly civil war. "All persons kept as slaves" within the insurgent states "are, and henceforth shall be free," the declaration said. -
The rights of states was a major issue. The Southern states intended to assert their influence over the federal government so that they could repeal federal laws they didn't agree with, particularly legislation restricting the South's ability to own and transport slaves. Territorial expansion was another influence.
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The Spanish American War, which was closely linked to the United States becoming a world naval power, culminated in the United States becoming a global economic power, allowing it to expand its commercial reach while being protected by the navy. This was inextricably linked to the first point. Prior to the conflict, the United States lacked a commercial fleet. -
The Spanish-American War, fought between the United States and Spain in 1898, ended Spanish colonial power in the Americas and resulted in the United States gaining territories in the western Pacific and Latin America. -
The reasons for the conflict were numerous, but two in particular stood out: America's backing for Cubans and Filipinos in their long struggle against Spanish control, and the inexplicable explosion of the battleship USS Maine in Havana Harbor.
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In the Philippines, Emilio Aguinaldo led a revolutionary movement against the Spanish colonial administration. During the Spanish-American War, he cooperated with the US, but during the Philippine-American War, he broke with the US and conducted a guerilla campaign against US authorities. -
This political cartoon shows how the us had a lot of power over the spanish colonies which caused spanish colonies to look up to them -
A century after solidifying the right to vote, women contribute $7.6 trillion in economic activity annually. But the drive for economic empowerment was only part of the push for suffrage. Those who fought for the 19th Amendment believed “everything else comes from the vote," Wolbrecht says.
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The 19th Amendment provides women in the United States the right to vote. This achievement came after a long and arduous struggle—victory came after decades of agitation and resistance.
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The face of the American electorate changed dramatically after the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. Having worked collectively to win the vote, more women than ever were now empowered to pursue a broad range of political interests as voters.
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Despite bigotry within the suffrage movement, she battled diligently for the right of all women to vote. The 19th amendment to the United States Constitution, granting women the right to vote, was ratified by Congress on August 18, 1920. -
This political cartoon explains how before the 19th amendment was passed women where not allowed to vote and in modern day society women are allowed to vote despite there sex -
The 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, also known as women's suffrage, was ratified on August 18, 1920, putting an end to nearly a century of opposition. The Seneca Falls Convention, convened by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, initiated the national movement for women's rights in 1848.