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Period: Jan 1, 1200 to Jan 1, 1492
Chapter 1 part 1
Migration was big around 1200 BC, the Mayas in Guatemala and the Aztecs in Tenochtitlan were the first to move. Also the Iriquois Legague had emerged consiting of five Native American troops, Onondaga, Mohawk, Oneida, Cayuga and later Seneca. Farming was discovered about 4,000 years ago by the Hohokam and Ansazi. Then there was Prince Henry the Navigator who had an intrest in the Renaissance and sent ships to explore the West Coast of Africa. -
Period: Jan 1, 1492 to
Chapter 1 part 2
Most famous, Christopher Coloumbus was sent out on this journey, as well as Vasco De Gamma, Ferdinand Magellan, Hernan Cortes, Bartolomeu Davis and Pedro Alvarez Cabral. Columbus didnt end up finding east Asia, instead he found the Americas. Amerigo Vespuci realized it wasnt part of Europe and it wasnt part of Asia, but it was something new. They explored and set up the Columbian Exchange. Hernan Cortes was confronted by Moctezuma II, who was an indian ruler on the land. -
Period: Jan 1, 1492 to
Chapter 1 part 3
Since Moctezuma didnt like the Europeans being on his land this was the first confrontation between the Europeans and Mesoamericans. -
Period: Jan 1, 1492 to
American Colonies part 2
The puritans emerged with John Winthrop as their leader. The pilgrims or serperatists and Roger Williams came to the Americas to be free from the persecution. Anne Hutchinson didnt belive in the Purtian beliefs so she taught her students not from the bookand was banished for it. The Pequot nation was almost destroyed by the Pequot War which was the first major battle of the colonies. William Penn founded the Quaker religion which believed in the fact that god was inside of everyone. -
Period: Jan 1, 1492 to
American Colonies part 4
Powhatan Indians provide the colonists with foods and survival needs. In September 1676, the Bacons Rebellion was led by Nathaniel Bacon into Jamestown. Bacon and Smith were both trying to acheive different things. Bacon was trying to push the indians away and Smith was trying to get them to stay. -
Period: Dec 15, 1492 to
American Colonies
The colonists esatblish the first towns, including, Jamestown, Roanoke and Plymouth. John Smith helped Jamestown by a joint-stock company which gave investors a permit for the colony and they would give it money. This brings out the new Protestant religion and the Native Americans and Spanish started mestizo, which was the marraige between the two and families started. Virginia was the first colony to have control and be controlled under a dictatorship. -
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American Colonies part 3
Wampanoag cheif Metacom, King Phillip started the war against the puritains. -
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Colonies
Indentured servants were lower class immagrants who led their lifes as "slaves". Farmers were growing cash crops for profit and the idea for mercantilism popped up. The middle passage was a trio to take African Americans to the West Indies. The Great Awakening was a religious revival lasting fom 1730-1740 and the Enlightenment Movement was based on nature and new ideas. -
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Colonies part 2
Magna Carta was the first documemt to limit the kings powers and Habeas Corpus passed a law that detainees cn seek unlawful imprisonment. -
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New Nations part 3
The court case Marbury Vs. Madison enforced judicial review on James Madison. The Alien and Sedition acts passed in 1798 and they allowed immagrants to stay for 14 years instead of only 5. In 1806 the British started the act of seizing Americans at sea and making them join the British Navy, called impressment -
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New nations
Northwest Ordinance of 1787, wanted to divide into territories. The farmers in MAssachusetts wanted no newfound taxes and Shays Rebellion erupted. Congress esatblished checks and balances so that the government wasnt too powerful in one area. They splt the congress into two, a bicameral legislature. -
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New nations part 2
Popular Soverneighty was emerging because it gave the states and equal and right chance to vote by popular vote. The Seperation of Powers made three branches which were the Judcial, legislative, and executive. The Great Compromise started the splitting on congress and the federalist was 85 essays that defended the Constitution. -
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Abolitionists and Transcendetalists
Abolitionists wanted slavery gone and everyone to be equal and Nat Turner was a big leader in this. Transcendentalists were more on the nature side and believed in Maifest Destiny where they thougt it was gods given right to move westward to expand. -
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Reconstruction
Reconstruction was after the Civil War and it was the rebuilding of America led by Lincoln. Senator Thaddeus Stevens led the Radical Republicans, a group of Republicans who didnt agree with the 13th amendment. The black codes and Freedmans Bureau was to establish rights for blacks and former slaves. The KKK was a white formed group that terrorized blacks excersising their rights. The 14th amendment was everyone born on US soil was a citizen The 15th amendment allowed blacks to vote. -
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Chapters 7-9 part 2
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo made peace between US and Mexico. The California Gold Rush brought in a lot of people from all over to collect the gold. This caused much diversity in states. -
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New Nations part 4
Treaty of Ghent was signed on Christmas Eve and it made a armistice with Britain and the Hartford Convention met to talk about issues in the US and men called War Hawks would always love and support the idea of war. -
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Industrial Revolution begins
Cotton Gins and factories were being built everywhere and interchangable parts were a necassary factor to help these productions. Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin an it made the cotton production increase a lot. The erie canal was made and it produced running water to keep factories running. -
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Industrialism Begins part 2
Henry Clay led the Tarif on three parts of the imdustrialization. The Missouri Compromise was established in 1818 and made Missouri a slave state but it let Maine be a free state. There was now a balanced amount of slave and free states. The Monroe doctrine was now put into place and it let all the European know to stay out of the Western Hemisphere. -
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Chapters 7-9
The Tariff of Abominations was placed on cotton. The second Great Awakening was being put into place and Dorothea Dix was emerging and created mental hospitals for the mentally ill. William Lloyd Garrison led the abolistionist movement in the 1820's. -
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Indian Removal Act
Forced Native Americans out of their territories.