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US History: VHS Summer: your name
As the week progressed, we've learned a lot about the initial interactions between natives and europeans. It ended being more beneficial to the Europeans who need up forcefully taking the landing built their fortunes from it. -
Period: 1492 to
"US History: VHS Summer: Souleymane Fall
We also got to see the use of force, and manipulation to get more people on their side. Like they did for the Indian War and the French war -
US History: VHS summer: Souleymane Fall
As the week progressed, we've learned a lot about the initial interactions between natives and europeans. It ended being more beneficial to the Europeans who need up forcefully taking the landing built their fortunes from it. -
Slave Revolts
Slaves never liked the idea of their way of life, and as early as 1663 slave started trying to fight their ways to freedom. Two of the most famous REVOLTS were in the early nineteenth century. One was led by Denmark Vesey and the other was led by Nat Turner. https://libcom.org/article/1619-1741-slavery-and-slave-rebellion-us-howard-zinn -
US History: VHS Summer: Souleymane Fall
We also got to see the use of force, and manipulation to get more people on their side. Like they did for the Indian War and the French war -
American's Identity
"What then is the American, this new man?" He could not be sure, but he knew it to be different from anything that could be found on the European side of the Atlantic. At the time of the American Revolution, English citizens made up less than two thirds of the colonial population, excluding Native Americans. -
Boston Massacre
As people began to be more hungry for a voice and say into almost everything, riots would also start being common. Most famous one being of the Boston Massacre that took place March 5th 1770. the brawl between British force and American settlers later influenced the American revolution. And with the American colonists already not really liking the way the British empire controlled the colonies with things like unfair taxes and many other things, this Boston Massacre only added fuel to the fire -
The Age of Atlantic Revolutions
Revolutions across the Americas and Europe changed the maps and governments of the Atlantic world. Within 50 years, the European empires in the Americas would shrink and new nations would spread across the whole of the Americas. https://humanities.unc.edu/event/the-age-of-atlantic-revolutions-1775-1825/ -
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Shortly after the Boston Massacre, American colonists forced their way out of the Great Britain's ruling. Boston tea party and heavy taxes also lead to the revolutionary war -
Ratification Process
The ratification process started when the Congress
turned the Constitution over to the state legislatures for
consideration through specially elected state conventions of
the people. The first few states to be ratified were
- New Jersey
-Connecticut
-Georgia
-Delaware
-Pennsylvania
Massachusetts later joining the group
https://csac.history.wisc.edu/document-collections/religion-and-the-ratification/divine-intervention/ -
George Washington Presidency
Standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States. “As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent,” He went on to serve two terms before steeping down in 1797. https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/george-washington/#:~:text=On%20April%2030%2C%201789%2C%20George,President%20of%20the%20United%20States. -
Indian Removal Act
The Indian Removal Act was a law in the United States that was passed in 1830. It was introduced by Hugh White and became a law when President Andrew Jackson signed it. It gave the President the power to force Native American tribes to move to land west of the Mississippi River. Not all American citizens liked the law. -
Manifest Destiny
The idea that the United States is destined by God, its advocates believed to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent. The philosophy drove 19th-century U.S. territorial expansion and was used to justify the forced removal of Native Americans and other groups from their homes. -
Mexican American War
combat between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848, helped to fulfill America's "manifest destiny" to expand its territory across the entire North American continent. -
Taiping Rebellion
The Taiping Rebellion was a revolt against the Qing dynasty in China, fought with religious conviction over regional economic conditions, and lasting from 1850 to 1864. 17 provinces, took an estimated 20 million lives, and irrevocably altered the Qing dynasty. https://www.britannica.com/event/Taiping-Rebellion -
Fugitive Slave Law
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/fugitive-slave-acts A pair of federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway enslaved people within the territory of the United States. -
Civil War
The Civil War in the United States began in 1861, after decades of simmering tensions between northern and southern states over slavery, states’ rights and westward expansion. The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 caused seven southern states to secede and form the Confederate States of America; four more states soon joined them. The War Between the States, as the Civil War was also known, ended in Confederate surrender in 1865. -
Reconstruction
the period that followed the American Civil War and during which attempts were made to redress the inequities of slavery and its political, social, and economic legacy and to solve the problems arising from the readmission to the Union of the 11 states that had seceded at or before the outbreak of war. -
Canadian Confederation
Process of federal union in which the British North American colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and the Province of Canada joined together to form the Dominion of Canada.
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Election of 1876
The 20 disputed electoral votes were ultimately awarded to Hayes after a bitter legal and political battle, giving him the victory. Many historians believe that an informal deal was struck to resolve the dispute: the Compromise of 1877.
The presidential election of 1876 led to the end of Reconstruction.
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Compromise of 1877
The Compromise of 1877 was an informal, unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election; through it Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded the White House on the understanding that he would remove the federal troops from South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana. https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/compromise-of-1877 -
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"US History: VHS Summer: Souleymane Fall
As people began to be more hungry for a voice and say into almost everything, riots would also start being common. Most famous one being of the Boston Massacre that took place March 5th 1770. the brawl between British force and American settlers later influenced the American revolution. And with the American colonists already not really liking the way the British empire controlled the colonies with things like unfair taxes and many other things, this Boston Massacre only added fuel to the fire