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Jan 1, 1492
Discovered Indies
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Jamestown
First Successful town to survive
Project of the Virginia company
Gold -
TheHead-Rights System
offered 50 acres of land to each settler to have them come over ENDENTURED SERVANTS -
First African Slaves Shipped In
To Jamestown because they were lazy and didn't want to work, -
Tobacco in Virginia
Making more than 20,000 lbs per year -
Massachusetts Bay
Merchants wanted money, but more so social unity and freedom to believe in what they wanted to believe...Puritans, -
City on a Hill Speech
John Winthrop. A model on Christian Charity. -
Tobacco Continued
Making more than 30,000,000 lbs per year -
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Population Statistics
3/4 population were slaves
maority (5:1) male
females were indentured servants, delayed marriage, less children, less women.
More men dying which meant more women to own property and such -
The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada
Mohawks
Oneydoes
Onondagas
Cayugas
Sennekas -
Stamp Act
All printed material had to have a stamp from Britain or else it was bad, but the stamp wasn't free, entire tax debate and suches -
New Taxes of Charles Townshed
Sons Of Liiberty, violent boycotters -
Boston Tea Party
Rebel against silly taxes without representation. -
The Shot Heard Around the World
Midnight Ride by Thomas Jefferson I think it was. The Colonists vs. Britain -
"Common Sense" by Thomas Paine
Written to those who were dumb about what was going on and for those who were blindly following it. -
The Declaration of Independence
By Thomas Jefferson
Mucho stuff to declare themselves separate from the British colonies -
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Economy: Eventually reducing the number of slaves to zip
In the British American colonies. -
The Consitution
Consitutionalized what it means to have a centralized government in America. -
The Bill of Rights
Amendments one through ten, added after the constitution was made. -
The Year of Our Lord
Ex- President Thomas Jefferson adn Charles Thompson "rewrote" the Bible -
Andrew Jackson's 7th Annual Message to Congress
"[the removal of the Indians]...should be accomplished with the most vigor, and as fast as their obidience can be obtained. All preceeding experiments for the improvement of the Indians have failed." -
John Burnette
Four Thousand Silent Graves - he helped the Indians move from one place to another, cared for them, lived like and with them. Hated the treatment of the Indiands. -
British Abolish Slavery
In the American Colonies, abolish slavery sso that the slaves would fight for them [the Brits]. -
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Largest Immigration of Italians
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Mobs Lynch Italians
More than 20 -
John Burnette's Story of the Removal of the Cherokees
He really wanted his story to be heard, so he told it to his grandchildren of when he was a boy and wanted his grandchildren to see that change needed to come. -
Massacre by US troops at Wounded Knee
An elderly, deafened man didn't hear that he was supposed to hand over his gun to US calvary. -
Mass Lynching
New Orleans - Mass lynching of Italians because they were equally hated as Native Americans because they were outsiders, taking all of the jobs, and apparently, not even worth the breath of air. -
First Proclaimed Columbus Day
Benjamin Harrison had the idea to have a holiday celebrating Native Americans and many immigrants. NOT about the "finding" of our Land. -
Kill the Indian; Save the Man
Captain Richard H. Pratt on the fact that while we have done terrible things, as a teacher in the new school for culturizing Indians, he believes that they were for a good reason and that we can learn from them. -
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Ending of Italian Shaming
Severe restrictions on immigrating placed, saw their children grow up as Americans rather than Italians in school, language, patriotic smbols, culture, and even name. -
Womens Right To Vote - Amendment #19
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The Case of Roy Torcaso
Maryland, told to swear he believed in God when atheist, refused, lawsuit. "the point at issue is not whether I believe in a Supreme Being, but whether the state has a right to question my beliefs." -
The Last Resort
A song by the Eagles which represented the U.S's domestic policies of the 1800's. "When we find something good, we destroy it by our presense - by the very fact that man is the only animal on Earth that is capable of destroying his own environment." -
Walden Woods Project
Purchase to preserve areas that are being threatened by the destruction of man. -
Thoreau Institute
Preserves the land, literature, and legacy of Henry David Thoreau -author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax-resister, develop-critic, surveyor, historian. For the good of the world that we took from the Indians, trying to get it back to that state. -
The Corporation
Movie: explains how the coroporation is seen as a person in the eyes of the government but is really a psychopath. -
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Religious "Un-Affiliation" Numbers
'07...15.3%
'08...16%
'09...16.8%
'10...17.4%
'11...18.6%
'12...19.6% -
European Flesh and the American Prude
By Rick Steves, about the differences in our cultures about the sexixness of nudity and how Puritan influences are still in Amercica today and that's why we're so "AAAAH SEX!! GET AWAY!" -
The Faiths and Doubts of Our Fathers
Explains the religious vs, non-religious character of the consitution and why it is impossible to have a calm debate about it thanks t them. -
"What Columbus Day Really Means"
This article was the very first to redefine our ways of thinking about Columbus day - it's just a holiday. -
"When is Thanksgiving?: Colonozing America"
John Green Video -
Taxes and Smuggling: Prelude to Revolution: Crash Course US History #6
John Green -
Who Won the American Revolution?: Crash Course US History #7
A video about what really happened during the American Revolition, (not the war but also about that) and what was then caused because of it. -
The Racist History of Peter Pan's Indian Tribe
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In God We Believe?
The Times Newspaper/Magazine goes on to explain the story of Roy Torcaso.