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Industrialization (industrial revolution)
o Britain was the birthplace of the industrial revolution
o Before the advent of the Industrial Revolution, most people resided in small, rural communities where their daily existences revolved around farming.
o Most manufacturing was done in homes or small, rural shops, using hand tools or simple machines. -
Federalism
o DELEGATED (sometimes called enumerated or expressed) powers are specifically granted to the federal government in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution.
o IMPLIED POWERS are not specifically stated in the Constitution, but may be inferred from the elastic (or "necessary and proper") clause (Article I, Section 8). This provision gives Congress the right "to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and other powers vested in the gov -
Missouri Compromise
o To keep the peace, Congress orchestrated a two-part compromise, granting Missouri’s request but also admitting Maine as a free state.
o It also passed an amendment that drew an imaginary line across the former Louisiana Territory establishing a boundary between free and slave regions
o The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. -
General Grant
o Ulysses S. Grant served as U.S. general and commander of the Union armies during the late years of the American Civil War, later becoming the 18th U.S. president.
o Ulysses S. Grant was born on April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio. He was entrusted with command of all U.S. armies in 1864, and relentlessly pursued the enemy during the Civil War.
o In 1869, at age 46, Grant became the youngest president theretofore. -
Manifest Destiny ( Westward expansion)
o In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson purchased the territory of Louisiana from the French government for $15 million.
o The Louisiana Purchase stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from Canada to New Orleans, and it doubled the size of the United States.
o Most of these people had left their homes in the East in search of economic opportunity. -
abolitionists ( Abraham Lincoln)
o He became president in 1860
o He distributed $2 million from the Treasury for war material without an appropriation from Congress; he called for 75,000 volunteers into military service without a declaration of war; and he suspended the writ of habeas corpus, arresting and imprisoning suspected Confederate sympathizers without a warrant.
o He issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, which stated that all individuals who were held as slaves in rebellious states "henceforward shal -
Union/ Confederacy (cival war)
o The Union included the states of Maine, New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, California, Nevada, and Oregon. Abraham Lincoln was their President.
o The Confederacy included the states of Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia. Jefferson Davis was their President.
o The populati -
Anaconda Plan
o At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, Winfield Scott was one of the most accomplished and recognized generals in American history.
o By 1841, Scott became the highest-ranking general in the United States army.
o By May 1861, Scott had formulated a strategy for subduing the Confederacy, which was based off of plans the U.S. military had formulated for putting down a domestic rebellion. -
Diseases from the Cival war
o Typhoid killed around 30,000 Confederate and 35,000 Union troops during the war. 1 out of every 3 people who contracted this disease died of it.
o Pneumonia was responsible for the deaths of 20,000 Union and 17,000 Confederate troops.
o Tuberculosis killed about 14,000 soldiers during the war -
Robert E. Lee
o Robert E. Lee (1807-70) served as a military officer in the U.S. Army, a West Point commandant and the legendary general of the Confederate Army during the American Civil War (1861-65). In June 1861, Lee assumed command of the Army of Northern Virginia, which he would lead for the rest of the war
o In the spring of 1863, Lee invaded the North, only to be defeated at the Battle of Gettysburg.
o With Confederate defeat a near certainty, Lee continued on, battling Union General Ulysses S. Grant i
