American History

By erickamunoz23

  • Christopher Columbus

    Columbus wanted native americans and europeans to change into christianity by love then force. He wanted to find the gold and treasures that were hidden in the south west, he wanted to find a new world and he did.

  • Revolution and Rebellion

    1764 sugar act and stamp act required colonists to place stamps on certain items,colonists were furious and boycotted meaning refused to buy,brtiish goods in protest.

  • Lauching the new Nation

    George Whashington worked to establish a new goverment and the treasury wanted a new and strong central goverment,hamilton wanted to create a central bank and repay the money that they borrowed for the revoultionary war,the difference betwen Hamilton and Jefferson led to reformation of the nations forst political party.

  • Growth of the Nation - Jeffersonian Era

    Jefferson wanted to make federal goverment smaller, Jefferson expanded the american territory, and bought a purchase that doubled the size of the united states.

  • Reforming the American Society

    The second great awakening movement emphasized emotional awakening indivual convesion, to enslaved people the message of christianity offered the african americans hope of freedom.

  • The market Revoulution

    1800's people increasinly bought goods rather than make what they needed,inventions helped fueled economic growth, many new inventions helped out the farmwes in the midwest too.

  • Workers seek beter conditions

    As indusrty grew strikes began to break out when workers protested poor working condtions and low wages, most of the strikes returned to there job, unskilled workers with people recently arrived from europe who desperately neede jobs,

  • National trade union

    Amid the growing labor unrest in the 1830's the trade unions in differnt towns began to join together and expand their power, the court supported the workers right to strick in the case of commonwealth v. hunt.

  • Womens civial Rights

    All men and women were equal,and that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of hapiness,but women werent alllowed to get their education,have their kids,and have there religon.

  • The Lincoln Douglas Debate

    Linclon had said that '' All these distinctions between this man and that man, this race and the other race, must be discared and we must all stand by the declaration of independence,decalring that all men were created equal.meaning that every human being is created equal

  • The Civil War Begins

    The civil war began in 1861 when the conferdate forces fired on fort sumter, a union fort in charleston, South Carolina as the war contuined casualties mounted, both sides began to drag civilians into the army, they fought bravely but suffered discrimination.

  • Restruction and Its Effects

    During the war lincoln devised a plan for reconstruction,a period of rebuilding the nation and readmitting Sotuhern states to the nation, as a result many republicans worked together to shift contol of reconstruction from the excutive branch to legislature . it passed the civil rights act of 1866 which guaranted the civil rights of african americans

  • Changes in the western frontier

    Native Americans followed a certain way of life on the great plains but after the civil war the plains were attacked and tens of thousand sof white settelers wanted to own the land for there use of life, the buffalo were killed which the native american s livesd off of ass many new settlers had come in the goverment restricted native americans to a certain amount of land.

  • The Dawes Act

    The dawes act of 1887 tried to force the assimilaton of native americans into white culture,reservations were broke up and some of the land of given to each adult fmily head for farming,the plicy failed because the native americans were cheated out of there own land.

  • The expansion of Industry

    As settling contuined in the west the nation wa sbeing transformed by vast changes in technology, invetion like the typewriter, telephone, fuel stel and many more all of these inventions had changed many peoples way of their daily life.

  • The age of Railroads

    Buling and running railroads were very difficult and dangerous work for the thousand of workers who had hepled built the railroads,more than 20,000 people had dies from building them,the workers earned very little but these railroads that they had built linked the nations together,this led to big corruption and buisneses

  • Race and Economics

    Millions of immigrants enetered th eunited states but many were europeans,chinese,japanese,mexican,and native americans,there were many acts made like th echinese act which banned chinese from getting jobs and educcation.For the economics there were families who worked so they didnt have enough money to buy houses so they shared with many other families.200,000 thousand african americans moved to north and west tried to find jobs but stil couldnt because of there race

  • The age of Jackson

    New England and the Middle Atlantic states began to develop new industries, Leaders debated whether new states should allow slavery or not,Andrew jackson became president in 1830 the goverment passed the indian removal act which forced native americans out of the southeast.Jackson defeated the court which could not enforce it without ruling.

  • The emancipation Proclamation

    First day of January, A.D 1863, all persons held as slaves within any state or designed part of the state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall then be forever freee and executive goverment of the united sattes including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons adn willl do no acts to repress such person s in any efforts they may make for their actucal freedom.