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Period: 1492 to
US History
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African Americans in the British New World
Even before the Mayflower touched ground off Cape Cod, African Americans had been living in British North America. Although slavery itself was not foreign to Africans, the cruel nature of the TRANS-ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE and the nature of COLONIAL SLAVERY were without similarity in African history. https://www.ushistory.org/us/6.asp -
Give me Liberty or Give me Death
Give me liberty or give me death was a speech given by Patrick Henry directed toward the Second Virginia Convention in Richmond Virginia. https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/on-this-day-patrick-henrys-most-famous-quote#:~:text=On%20March%2023%2C%201775%2C%20Patrick,%2C%20or%20give%20me%20death!%E2%80%9D -
George Washington
George Washington was one of the many founding fathers. George Washington was the most critical person if the success of the U.S. https://www.ushistory.org/us/17.asp -
Ratifying the Constitution
The Articles required that any transitions in constitutional law be presented to the state legislatures and that any thriving alterations required unanimous approval. Since the new proposal increased the power of the national government at the expense of state sovereignty, it was a certainty that one that would oppose the changes https://www.ushistory.org/us/16.asp -
George Washington
George Washington became president on April 30th, 1789. He grew up in Colonial Virginia. During the French and Indian war, he was a militia officer. -
Constitution
the constitution was written on september 17th, 1789 by James Madison. -
Thomas Jefferson
He became president on February 2nd, 1801. He was the third president. He held 2 terms as president. https://www.ushistory.org/us/20.asp -
Mill girls
In 1813 the Boston manufacturing company was formed. They hired young unmarried women which were called the mill girls https://www.ushistory.org/us/25d.asp -
Battle of new orleans
Jackson defeated the British in the battle https://www.ushistory.org/us/24b.asp -
The Missouri Compromise
It admitted two new states to the union, Missouri and Maine. Missouri would be a slave state and Maine would be a free state. Slavery was to be excluded from all new states in the Louisiana Purchase north of the southern boundary of Missouri. https://www.ushistory.org/us/23c.asp -
Andrew Jackson becomes President
Andrew Jackson became president on March 4th, 1829; some of the things he did were the Indian removal act, winning the battle of New Orleans, and founding the democratic party. https://www.ushistory.org/us/24.asp -
Cult of Domesticity
Women were used to improve social status of their husband
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Indian removal act
President Andrew Jackson believed that any good man would rather cast off native savage habits, rather than share land with them. President Jackson said that it would separate the settlement of whites from immediate contact with natives, and help more states' population, wealth, and power increase. https://guides.loc.gov/indian-removal-act#:~:text=May%2014%2C%202019-,Introduction,many%20resisted%20the%20relocation%20policy. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska act may have been the single most influential event leading to the Civil War. It created 2 new terriforys. Kansas supported slavery and Nebraska did not. https://www.ushistory.org/us/31a.asp -
Reconstruction
Reconstruction refers to the years following the Civil War of reconstructing the United States. It was a long and painful period. https://www.ushistory.org/us/35.asp -
Meiji restoration
The Meiji Restoration started in 1868 and ended in 1869. The Meiji Restoration referred to at the time as the Honorable Restoration was a political event that restored functional imperial rule to Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji. http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/special/japan_1750_meiji.htm#:~:text=Educators%20%7C%20Columbia%20University-,The%20Meiji%20Restoration%20and%20Modernization,known%20as%20the%20Meiji%20Restoration. -
Transcontinental railroad
The central pacific railroad started in San Francisco and the union pacific railroad started in Omaha Nebraska. The 2 railroads met at promontory Utah and completed the railway. https://www.ushistory.org/us/25b.asp