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This timeline will showcase important events in US history in between 1492 and 1877. This is made for the assignment
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The Mayflower set sail on 16th September 1620 from Plymouth, UK, to voyage to America. Of the 102 people and the 30 crew members, 30 million people right now can trace their ancestry back. The colony began to struggle and the war was only damaging, and new governor was absorbed into mass. Mayflower Compact -
In the autumn, the Pilgrims had much for which to be thankful. After the harvest, so they joined the great English tradition of HARVEST FESTIVAL. This tradition was repeated at harvest time in the following years. It was President Lincoln who declared Thanksgiving a national celebration in 1863. This is important as it heavily celebrated each year -
The Stamp Act was the first direct tax used by the British government to collect revenues from the colonies.The new tax required all legal documents in the American colonies to carry a tax stamp.Many people were unhappy with this
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The Boston Tea Party took place in the Boston Harbor in 1773. American colonists dumped shiploads of tea into the water to protest a British tax on tea. This event was important because started the tension that had already begun between Britain and America. Later Leading to the American Revolution
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This idea
Liberty is the state of being free of without limitation and being free to make your own choice. The right to pursue Happiness is the right to love as you choose. With liberty and the pursuit of happiness is how you make your life. -
a system of government where there is one strong, central government https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/federalism -
George Washington's first term as president was from 1789-1792. Washington's enormous personal popularity and stature enhanced the legitimacy of the modest new national government. https://www.ushistory.org/us/17c.asp -
Republicanism in the United States is a set of ideas that guides the government and politics. . A republic is a type of government (one where the people can choose their leaders). https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2785&context=cklawreview -
The Louisiana Purchase (1803) was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. https://www.monticello.org/thomas-jefferson/louisiana-lewis-clark/the-louisiana-purchase/ -
The republic's expansion to the west and renewed military conflict with Indian nations and Great Britain this was one of the reasons for War of 1812. -
Nationalism is an ideology about loyalty, devotion to a nation or nation-state. After the War of 1812, there was a lot of nationalism. https://www.heritage.org/conservatism/commentary/the-problem-nationalism -
On March 3, 1820, the decisive votes in the House admitted Maine as a free state, Missouri as a slave state, and made free soil all western territories north of Missouri's southern border. https://www.britannica.com/event/Missouri-Compromise -
Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837. He is also on the dollar bill, and did a lot of things in his presidenncy -
The California Gold Rush was sparked by the discovery of gold nuggets in the Sacramento Valley in early 1848 and was arguably one of the most significant events to shape American history during the first half of the 19th century https://www.history.com/topics/westward-expansion/gold-rush-of-1849 -
This law required the United States government to actively assist slave holders in recapturing freedom seekers. Under the United States Constitution, slave holders had the right to reclaim slaves who ran away to free states. With the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, the federal government had to assist the slave holders. No such requirement had existed previously. https://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Fugitive_Slave_Law_of_1850 -
Bleeding Kansas is about of the repeated outbreaks of warfare between pro- slavery and anti-slavery and the creation of Kansas in 1854. And this served as a key precursor to the Civil War. -
The Civil War was America's bloodiest against the Confederate States of America. The war resulted in the deaths of more than 620,000 people, with millions more injured and the South left in ruins.
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In May 1865, immediately following the assassination of President Lincoln, President Andrew Johnson and his administration created a plan for Reconstruction to restore the south and repair the damage done by the civil war https://www.ushistory.org/us/35a.asp -
John Wilkes Booth became the first person to assassinate an American president when he shot and killed Abraham Lincoln in his box at Ford's Theater in Washington. A supporter of slavery, Booth believed that Lincoln was determined to overthrow the Constitution and to destroy his beloved South .https://teachinghistory.org/history-content/ask-a-historian/24242 -
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KU KLUX KLAN, the KNIGHTS OF THE WHITE CAMELIA, and the WHITE BROTHERHOOD were born. They are all supremacy groups who aimed at controlling African-Americans through violence and intimidation. Massacres, lynching, rape, pillaging and terror were common. In essence, these groups were paramilitary forces serving all those who wanted white supremacy. Their idea or intent is basically to wipe out the african american community, and they are inhumane https://www.ushistory.org/us/35d.asp
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