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Period: 1492 to
US History: VHS Summer by Alessandro Pappalardo
The following Timeline will be a Timeline with dating from 1492 to 1877. We are going to study the American's History between those years. -
Period: 1500 to
Colonial America
From the late sixteenth century, the British, French, Spanish and Dutch began to colonize the Atlantic coast of North America. The first British attempts, for example on the island of Roanoke, failed, but later, more fortunate and stable colonies were founded.
Colonizers who settled in the New World were very different from each other, both socially and ethnically and religiously. -
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American Revolution (propaganda)
The idea of a revolution to claim their rights was growing stronger among the citizens. The propaganda to the revolution turned the thought of change among citizens, for example the two images twe have studied, are two images that propagate the American Revolution.
A long process had its culmination in the American Revolution. [http://www.businessinsider.com/pro-independence-propaganda-from-the-american-revolution-2015-7?IR=T] -
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American Revolution
The American Revolution, also known as the American War of Independence, was the conflict that led to the clash between the thirteen North American colonies and the British kingdom in the period between 1775 and 1783.
In my opinion the American Revolution was a very important and radical event because it brought changes not only in the interior but in the rest of the world. [http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/american-revolution-history] -
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What was the declaration of independence?
Although there have been some clashes between the rebel colonists and the British army, it marked the very beginning of the American Revolution, which seven years later would end with the victory of George Washington's continental army on King George III's forces .
The Philadelphia Congress was a time of transformation of the struggle of settlers with Britain to defend their rights, in a real revolution to overthrow existing politics.[http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/] -
The Declaration of Independence and Its Legacy
The Declaration of Independence of the USA was a document marking the birth and independence of this federation, signed on July 2, 1776 and making the evening of Thursday, July 4, 1776, effective today, the national holiday at the Philadelphia Congress in the State of Pennsylvania.The Declaration was a formal LEGAL DOCUMENT that announced to the world the reasons that led the thirteen colonies to separate from the British Empire.
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Federalism
In the United States the federal model created by the Philadelphia Convention that ended up elaborating the Constitution in September 1787 is the main feature of the American political system. It as a whole makes up a mosaic made up of thousands of small units that realize the Union's constitutional organization.
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Constitution
The Constitution of the United States of America is the supreme law of the United States of America.
After the Independence War, the thirteen states initially formed a very weak central government on. This government did not have the power to impose taxes as it did not have the necessary organization to enforce payments.
A meeting was held in Philadelphia with the aim of strengthening the general government.
[http://www.history.com/topics/constitution] -
The Crowning of King Cotton
Throughout the 1700s, cotton production was expensive because of the huge amount of labor necessary to remove the seeds.
n 1792, the widow of the Revolutionary War general, Whitney created the device that changed the world. Whitney built a machine that moved stiff, brushlike teeth though the raw cotton. This phenomenal and sudden explosion of success of the cotton industry gave slavery a new lease on life.
[http://www.ushistory.org/us/27a.asp] -
Slavery in America
Slavery in the United States of America was an institution that continued mostly in the southern states until the passage of the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution Of the United States in 1865 following the civil war.
The "slave codes," outlined the rights of slaves and the acceptable treatment and rules regarding slaves.
[http://www.ushistory.org/us/27b.asp] -
Thomas Jefferson: Jeffersonian America
He was the 3rd president of the United States of America and is also considered one of the founding fathers of the nation.
He was the main author of the July 4, 1776 Independence Declaration and one of the founders of the United States Democratic-Republican Party.
Strongly marked by the Enlightenment, he was the advocate of a secular and liberal state, and he supported the formal and legal egalitarianism of all human beings.
[http://www.ushistory.org/us/20b.asp] -
The Trail of Tears — The Indian Removals
Andrew Jackson had formulated his position on how to deal with the Native Americans. He felt that native natives should submit themselves to "American domination" and assimilate to their way of life. The Indian Removal Act called for Native American tribes to volunteer to relocate to land west of the Mississippi River. Those tribes who did not volunteer to relocate were subject to the actions and harassments of the state governments.
[http://www.ushistory.org/us/24f.asp] -
William Lloyd Garrison and The Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison was the voice of Abolitionism. He was a supporter of colonization, but then he changed his position and became the leader of the emerging anti-slavery movement.
His release, the Liberator, gained a certain national reputation for his uncompromising support for the "immediate and complete emancipation of all slaves" in the United States.
Garrison saw the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, banning slavery forever.
[http://www.ushistory.org/us/28a.asp] -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest destiny is a phrase that expresses the conviction that the United States of America has the mission of expanding, spreading their form of freedom and democracy. The supporters of manifest destiny believed that expansion was not only good, but also obvious ("manifest") and inevitable ("destiny"). The manifested destiny has touched matters of religion, money, race, patriotism, and morality.
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he Expansion of the Vote: A White Man's Democracy
Immediately after the Revolution most states retained some Property Requirements that prevented poor people from voting. By 1840 more than 90 percent of adult white men possessed the right to vote.
[http://www.ushistory.org/us/23b.asp] -
The Mexican-American War
The Mexican-American war was fought between the United States and Mexico between 1846 and 1848.
The Mexican-American war emerged from unresolved conflicts between Mexico and the republic of Texas, founded by US colonists on Mexican territory. After the Texas Revolution of 1836, Mexico refused to recognize the Republic of Texas and expressed its intention to bring it back under its sovereignty.[http://www.ushistory.org/us/29d.asp] -
The Civil War
The American Civil War, was fought between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America, a political entity emerging from the Confederal Assembly of secessionist States 'Union. Tensions between the northern and southern United States over issues including states’ rights versus federal authority, westward expansion and slavery exploded into the American Civil War (1861-65).
[http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/american-civil-war-history] -
Presidential Reconstruction
In 1864, Republican Abraham Lincoln chose Andrew Johnson, a Democratic senator from Tennessee, as his Vice Presidential candidate. Johnson believed the Southern states should decide the course that was best for them. He also felt that African-Americans were unable to manage their own lives. [http://www.ushistory.org/us/35a.asp] -
slavery: Abolition of Slavery
Following its ratification by the requisite three-quarters of the states earlier in the month, the 13th Amendment is formally adopted into the U.S. Constitution, ensuring that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude… shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
[http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/slavery-abolished-in-america] -
Reconstruction
RECONSTRUCTION refers to the period following the Civil War of rebuilding the United States. The Union victory in the Civil War in 1865 may have given some 4 million slaves their freedom, but the process of rebuilding the South during the Reconstruction period (1865-1877) introduced a new set of significant challenges.
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The Rise of American Industry
The Industrial Revolution was a process of economic evolution or industrialization of society that became a modern industrial system characterized by the use of machines powered by mechanical energy. The start of the American Industrial Revolution is often attributed to Samuel Slater who opened the first industrial mill in the United States in 1790 with a design that borrowed heavily from a British model.
[http://www.ushistory.org/us/25d.asp]
