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Town meetings were held to discuss local problems and issues. Free men in the towns elected leaders and chose deputies to go to the general court of their colony. This developed into the local government.
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New England farmers tried to grow wheat but the soil was too poor in most places, because of fungus called black rust which prevented any real success. Corn was the main crop at the time.
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Puritans believed that groups of christians should come together to form church covenants.
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American politics was through the colonial assemblies such as the Stamp Act Congress, which included representatives from across the colonies. In 1765, the Sons of Liberty were formed and used violence and threats of violence to show that British tax laws were unenforceable.
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In 1767, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which placed a tax on essential goods such as, paper, glass, and tea. colonists organized a boycott of British goods because they were angry about the tax increase.
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Oversea markets for colonial exports expanded as the colonists increased their production levels and supplied timber, tobacco, rice, and grains to countries across the Atlantic Ocean.
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Here's a list of names of people that helped formed our government and our very important to our country's creation:
George Washington, Sam Adams, John Adams, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Richard Henry Lee, John Hancock...the list goes on and on. -
The supreme law of the United States, the Constitution provided the framework for the creation of the United States government, also because of the articles of confederation.
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Many buildings were constructed, people were elected by the people, and economics were a huge role in the formation of our government.
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Samuel Crompton perfects the spinning mule.
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Eli Whitney develops the cotton gin. a device to clean and pick out the seeds in cotton.
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On Aug. 17, 1807, Robert Fultons steamboat started on its first successful trip 150 miles up the Hudson River from New York City to Albany, it took 30 hours.
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An important event in the reform movement was the Seneca Falls Convention. Also, there was a potato famine..
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An important term is Nativism, which ment that people believed all foreigners should be expelled from the country.
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New religions were created such as mormonism, led by Joeseph Smith.
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3 key themes of manifest destiny
-the virtue of the American people and their institutions
-the mission to spread these institutions, thereby redeeming and remaking the world in the image of the U.S.
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John O'Sullivan belived "that the expansion of the United States would happen without the direction of the U.S. government or the involvement of the military."
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The overall belief that the United States was destined to migrate across the continent and create a great nation.
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The north had more ammo and resources than the south, so that was one advantage for the union. Also, more money and better soldiers and generals. Had a lot of men and won numerous battles.
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In the end, the north won but unfortunately lincoln was assassinated by John Wilcks Booth. Also, the victory in Vicksburg was the turning point of the war because of the 47 day siege. Grant starved the city.
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Lincoln, the tall content man became president and had a bone to pick with the south. He was devoted to stop slavery.
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After the Civil War, the country a little bit more at peace. The 13th 14th and 15th amendment abolishes slavery, gives people citizenship, and gives all men the right to vote.
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Certain groups were formed like the Ku Klux Klan who were against blacks and other races. They did not want them to vote, so they rebelled in violent and murderous ways. They wanted a white-only America.
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At the end of reconstruction, old slave owners rented out plantations to former slaves but the prices were too high so they were forced to work by default which made them slaves secretly. This term was called Sharecropping.
