US history final

3 important dates

Declare independence - 1776

Found Jamestown - 1607

Columbus - 1492

Chesapeake colonies:

Virginia, Delaware, Maryland

• Jamestown

Powhatan

Helped the English colonists expecting them to pay him back later

Proprietary colonies

Carolinas and Georgia

• big into monoculture: rice, indigo

Republicanism

The best form of government is representative, people choose representatives

• requires virtuous citizens

• cyclical view of history

• ALL agree on anti-slavery

Join or die

• Albany Plan of Union

  Thomas Jefferson’s loose military alliance- 0 signed

French and Indian War

1754-1763

• disputes about land

• British come help, French kicked off the continent

Pontiac’s war

1763

• confederation of tribes attack British forts

Proclamation of 1763

• Colonists must not expand past the Appalachian mountains

• Standing army placed on barrier line

Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts)

• made to punish Massachusetts for the Boston tea party

• ***Influenced the creation of the Continental congress

Battles of Lexington and Concord

1775

• Militia works better than expected, gives Americans hope

Thomas Paine

Wrote “Common Sense,” 1776

• argues that independence from Britain is crucial

American Revolution

1775 - 1783

First Barbary War

1801 - 1804

• US attacks any ship that pays tribute to Barbary states (Tripoli)

• Thomas Jefferson is president at the time

• USA wins

Republican Motherhood

• increase in women’s education

• women as voices of virtue and reason

• rise of free public education

Benevolent Societies

Hand out bibles, good deeds, anti-slavery

Transportation Revolution

1712 - invention of steam engine

• development of transportation infrastructure

Missouri Crisis

1819 - 1821

• disrupts the balance of slave states and free states

• Missouri admitted as slave state, all above the line free and below slave

Age of Reform

1830s

• way to critique society

Seneca Falls Convention

1848

• first women’s rights convention

• Declaration of Sentiments

Start of slavery in USA

1619

Mexican-American war

1846 - 1848

• James K Polk president

• Leads to annexation of texas - 1845

• USA wins

• caused by westward expansion

Louisiana purchase

1803

Compromise of 1850

California becomes free state, slavery in new states is voted upon

Steven Douglas

democrat, advocated for kansas-nebraska act

Kansas-Nebraska Act

created kansas and nebraska, put slavery up to popular sovereignty

When was the civil war

1861-1865

federalists vs anti-federalists

in support of/not in support of a centralized government and the constitution

anti: thomas jefferson

federalists: alexander hamilton, james madison, john j

jefferson davis

president of the confederacy

abraham lincoln

president of the union

how are slavery and native issues unresolved from the revolution

**william lloyd garrison

abolitionist, wrote the liberator

*erie canal

transport of goods from northeast to midwest

george fitzhugh

pro-slavery, slavery beneficial for society and enslaved peoples.

james henry hammond

creator of mudsill theory

mudsill theory

society needs a lower class to provide labor

tecumseh

military leader, unified natives against westward expansion