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Period: Jan 1, 1200 to Jan 1, 1500
Three Worlds Meet
In 1200 BC, Asian people began to migrate, or move into, the Americas. A few prominent groups in the migration were the Mayas, who built dynamic culture in Guatemala and the Yucatan Peninsula, and the Aztecs, who swept into the Mexico valley in the 1200's. The groups of Hohokam and Anasazi were the first to introduce farming nearly 3,000 years ago. The Iriquois League was a way for five tribes of Native Americans, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca, to find peace between them. -
Period: Jan 1, 1200 to Jan 1, 1500
Three Worlds Meet Part 2
Around 1492, Prince Henry the Navigator sent Portuguese ships to explore the west coast of Africa. He had a very strong interest in the Renaissance, or a time when Europeans began invetigating all aspects of the world. He sent explorers such as Bartolomeu Dias, Vasco de Gama, Pedro Alvarez Cabral, Ferdinand Magellan, and Hernan Cortes. Christopher Columbus was sent to sail westward under the rule of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, to find the most easter portion of Asia. -
Period: Jan 1, 1200 to Jan 1, 1500
Three Worlds Meet Part 3
Rather than find East Asia, Columbus found the Americas. It wasn't until Amerigo Vespuci realized it wasn't part of Europe at all did the Americas get formed. A Indian ruler, Moctezuma II, was confrotned by one of Prince Henry the Navigators explorers, Hernan Cortes, and this was the first real confrontation between Europeans and Mesoamericans during this time. Resulting in exploration by Christopher Columbus, the Columbian Exchange took place. It was a biological exchange from America to Europe -
Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
The American Colonies Emerge
During this time, Protestants, or very strict Christians, emerge, Cortes conquers the Aztecs, Colonists establish Roanoke, Jamestown and Plymouth. Due to a Spanish conquest, Spanish and Native American marriges emerged, creating a mestizo, or mixed Spanish and Native American population. In 1600, English explorer John Smith helped the colony of Jamestown survive through a joint-stock company, or investors that, once given an official charter, or permit, for the colony, they would fund it. -
Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
The American Colonies Emerge Part 2
The first royal colony, or colony under direct control of the king, was Virginia. John Winthrop was the first governor of the Puritan, or religion based on purifying the human race, community. The Seperatists, or modernly known as pilgrims, fled from England to escape persecution from not being Puritan. Roger Williams was a Seperatist preist who despised the crown. Anne Hutchinson was banished from the Puritan community for teaching the opposite of their religion in her bible studies. -
Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
The American Colonies Emerge Part 3
The Pequot war was the first major conflict in the colonies, and almost resulted in total destruction of the Pequot Nation. Wampanoag cheif Metacom, aka King Philip, started King Philip's War against the Puritans is 1675. William Penn was the founder of the Quaker religion, or a religion that believed God's "inner light" burned inside of everyone. -
Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
The American Colonies Emerge Part 4
Smith also managed to convince the Powhatan Indians to provide them with food as a measure of the Jamestown survival as well. In September 1676, Nathaniel Bacon led BAcon's Rebellion into Jamestown to fight Native Americans on the Virigina frontier. Bacon tried to use push factors to drive Indians into migration and Smith used pull factors to covince them to stay. -
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The Colonies Come of Age
Indentured servants were a prominent in the 1700's they were usually lower class English immigrants signing into servitude for a certain amount of time. It had alot to do with mercantilsim, or the idea of a self sufficient country. Farmers during this time were growing cash crops, or crops grown strictly for profit. In 1756, a voyage was sailed to bring Africans to the West Indies, called the middle passage. The Enlightenment Movement in the 1700's was a movement based on new ideas of nature. -
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The Colonies Come of Age Part 2
Another prominent movement was the Great Awakening. It was a Puritan "religious revival" lasting from 1730-1740.The peoples of America established the Magna Carta as the first official document opposed on the King to limit his powers. Habeas Corpus was a law passed that detainees can seek relief of unlawful imprisonment. This was a result of salutary neglect, or the attempts of the British Crown to keep America loyal to the Parliament. -
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Shaping a New Nation
In the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, Congress provided procedure for dividing land into territories. In that same year, Shays Rebellion broke out. Led by debt-ridden farmers in Massachusetts, it was a protest on newfound taxes.Soon after, they established bicameral legislature, or splitting congress into two houses, but used Articles of Confederation to share equal powers. Congress then established a system of checks and balances to prevent each branch of government from over powering the other. -
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Shaping a New Nation Part 2
The Great Compromise was the initial idea of splitting the Congress into two houses to satisfy both small and big states. The Federalist was a series of 85 essays defending the Constitution written in 1787. Popular soverignty was the idea that each state could decide on its own laws, without federal powers, which also plays onto limited government, or the idea that a state goverment be bound by a state constitution. Separation of Powers established the three branches, judicial, legislative, exec -
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Launching a New Nation Part 2
The Alien and Sedition acts were passed in 1798, and they stated that the residnece requirment for citizenship was raised to 14 years rather than 5, and the president could deport or jail any alien considered undesirable. In the court case of Marbury vs. Madison, William Marbury enforced judicial review on James Madison, or he made Madison review his papers on a constitutional basis. In 1762, President James Monroe purchased all the land along the Mississippi and called it the Louisiana Purchase -
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Launching a New Nation Part 3
In 1806, the British began using impressment, or the act of seizing Americans at sea and "impressing" them into British navy. The Treaty of Ghent, signed on Christmas Eve of 1814 declared an armistice with Britain. The Hartford Convention met in 1814 as Federalists discussing several issues in the U.S., during these meetings, men called War Hawks would violently enforce the idea of going to war. Always. Their idea of peace was a constant war. -
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Launching the New Nation
The Cabinet is a group of the Presidents cheif advisors, first formed by Alexander Hamilton, the secretary of treasury, Henry Knox, and Thomas Jefferson, secretary of state. A tariff is a tax on imported goods, and was first used during the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794, a rebellion against the government by whiskey farmers who didn't agree with the tax. John Jay, a cheif justice of the supreme court went to London to negotiate land issues and won. -
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Chapters 7-9
The Industrial Revolution was just beginning during this time, and things such as the cotton gin and factories were being built all over the place. Interchangable parts were crucial to this so if something broke, they had back up pieces rather than needing a whole new unit. The cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney, and was one of the most important inventions of its time. It made the process of removing the seeds from cotton so much faster and easoer, cotton was being produced out the wazoo. -
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Chapters 7-9 Part 2
The cotton gin made a huge profit margin for southerners, while industrialization in the north was booming. The Erie Canal was made to produce energy through running water for the factories to continue running. It was a very expenisve endeavor, but the impact was beyond worth the price. The American System was a tariff of three parts on the Industrialization in 1815 led by Henry Clay, a house representative. The Missouri Compromise of 1818 created Missouri as a slave state, but made Maine free. -
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Chapters 7-9 Part 4
In 1828, the tariff on cotton was named the Tariff of Abominations due to the increase of price over the years on such a basic product. The 2nd Great Amakening happened in the 1830s was another prominent religious movement. Dorothea Dix created several hospitals for the mentally ill upon finding how many people were going untreated for mental issues. The Abolotionist movement was for the abolition of slavery in the states. It began in the early 1820s led by abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. -
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Ch. 7-9 Part 5
The abolitionists and transcendentalists had the idea of a utopian commuinty, or a perfect community in their minds when these movements were in full throttle. Abolitionists wanted everyone to be equal, and when Nat Turner, a slave, led a rebellion on slavery, they joined in immediately.The Seneca Falls Convention was a womens rights convention held by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucrieta Mott in 1848. Manifest Destiny was the idea that it was Americas God given right to move westward and expand. -
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Ch 7-9 Part 6
The idea of manifest destiny played a huge part in the western migration of the Mormons, a religious group that settled in the west. The Traety of Guadalupe Hidalgo created peace between the warring U.S. and Mexico over territory. Shortly after this, the Gadsden Purchase created the borders of the lower 48 states. The CA gold rush brought Asians, Mexicans and Europeans to find gold in the CA territory, and was the cause of cultural diversity in the states. -
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Chapters 7-9 Part 3
By admitting Maine as a free state, it maintained the balance of slave and free states in the U.S. In 1823, President Monroe delivered the Monroe Doctrine, which warned all European powers to stay out of the Western hemisphere and prohibited any European immigration into the states. During Andrew Jacksons Presidential term, the democracy enlarged by creating a larger voting population. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was passed by congress to force any Native Americans out of their territories. -
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Reconstruction
Reconstruction was the period of time after the civil war that America used to rebuild their nation. The Radical Republicans played a huge role in this, they wanted to abolish all slavery and give former slaves citizenship, led by Senator Thaddeus Stevens. The Freedmens Bureau was established to assist freed slaves and poor whites with finances and survival in 1865. Black Codes began to be enforced to remove political strength from the former slaves and restrict their newfound rights. -
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Reconstruction Part 2
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 revoked most black codes from southern states. The 14th amendment was passed in mid 1866 that naturalized all peoples born on U.S. soil and gave everyone born in the U.S. citizenship. The 15th amendment, passed in 1868 that allowed black men to vote. The idea of sharecropping was that a land owner gave farmers a portion of land in return for a portion of their crops. In 1866 the KKK was formed and set out to stop black people from exercising their rights in the U.S,