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Native Americans had large and variegated societies before European influence. For example, Tenochtitlan, the largest city in Mexico, was nearly as large as the largest city in Europe at the time.
Um, Actually it was larger any city in Europe at the time.
The Seven Years’ war was an attempt to expand British holdings in the US and after gaining victory over the french, colonies were able to spread out west.
Um, Actually Pontiac’s rebellion inspired Britain to pass the Proclamation of 1763, preventing any of the promised westward expansion.
The Revolution of 1800, named so because of how bloody and difficult the transition of power was, represented a shift in power from the federalists to the Democratic-Republicans as Thomas Jefferson took power from John Adams
Um, Actually the Revolution of 1800 was named such because of how peaceful the transition of power was. It’s revolutionary that no one got shot!
Manifest destiny was the idea that Americans were divinely ordained to colonize the west. Due to it’s religious core, this idea supported peaceful cooperation with the Indians already there.
Um, Actually it inspired measures to remove/destroy Natve populations because of course it did.
Different European Countries had different methods and goals for colonization. French and Dutch efforts relied on trade alliances and intermarriage with American Indians to build economic and diplomatic relationships and acquire furs and other products for export to Europe. The Spanish focused on spreading religion over profits. England sought social mobility, prosperity, religious freedom, and improved living conditions. They seized land from the natives and focused on agriculture.
Um, Actually the Spanish were very profits oriented. Religion was a part of it, but you can‘t forget the horrors of the sugar industry. Make sure to remember the encomienda system and the casta system.
Boston was a hotbed for resistance against the British. Events such as the Boston Tea Party and the Boston Massacre were so violent they are considered the official start of the revolutionary even though they weren’t battles.
That’s nonsense, the civil war officially started at Lexington and Concord.
in 1803, James Monroe was sent to go negotiate with Napoleon in hopes to purchase the louisiana territory, effectively doubling the size of the US. Napoleon was more than happy to part with the land for pennies on the land, considering it a burden with everything in Haiti.
Um, Actually Monroe was just ordered to get New Orleans, but after being offered sich a good deal for the entire louisiana territory, Monroe went ahead with the purchase without Jefferson’s say so. Consider how this clashes with Jefferson’s strict constructionist views.
The compromise of 1850 addressed the question of slavery in the newly acquired territory after the Mexican-American war. California would be a free state. It outlawed the slave trade in Washington D.C. Utah and Mexico allowed white residents to decide whether they wanted slavery or not. This solved very little, and instead further polarized tensions
Um, Actually this list is mising one MASSIVE thing in the compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act. The act required citizens of free states to assist in capturing escaped slaves.
The British colonies can be divided into 3 regions: New England colonies, the Middle Colonies, and the Southern Colonies.
Um, Actually there’s four, Chesapeake colonies, New England colonies, the middle colonies, and the southern colonies
Despite holding a majority over the Loyalists, the Revolutionaries were woefully outnumbered and needed an ally in France in order to win the war.
Um, Actually the Loyalists were the majority, the revolutionaries were just louder.
The Missouri compromise was a simple compromise for a massively complicated problem. All it did was admit missouri as a slave state and established the 36 30 North line of latitude, where new statees above the line would be free states and below that line new states would be slave states.
Um, Actually the Missouri compromise also let Maine in as a free state at the same time, because maining the balance of slave and free states in the senate and house was of upmost importance.
The republican party was founded out of Anti-slavery moral sentiments, and wanted to abolish slavery completely. It scared the southern slave owners how popular the party was. The Republicans scared the slave owners so much that when a republican president was elected, they decided to secede from the union.
Um, Actually the republican party was primarily worried about the economic impacts of slavery and wanted to stop the spread, not abolish it completely.
In the Pueblo revolt of 1680, the pueblo people ousted the spanish after aggressive attempts to convert the Pueblos to Catholicism. After the Spanish left, the Pueblos maintained their independence, but elements of Spanish influence remained through Syncretism.
Um, Actually their independence was short lived. The Spanish later reconquered the area.
The Articles of Confederation were the first attempt at a constitution, and honestly it kinda sucked. The government couldn’t levy taxes, only request them, so there was no funds. The three branches of government were massively limited in power, with the legislative branch only being able to pass laws with a supermajority
Um, Actually there was only one branch of government, the legislative branch. No executive or Judicial
The Indian Removal act, signed in 1830 by Jefferson, forced around 60 thousand Indians off of their land. This horrible march, known as the Trail of Tears, resulted in thousands of deaths from exposure, disease, and starvation.
Um, Actually the Indian Removal act was signed by Jackson, Jackson had been out of office for decades at this point.
One important moment of the civil war was the Emancipation proclamation. The proclamation changed the legal status of enslaved people, both in the union and confederacy, but still required the enslaved people to free themselves.
Um, Actually the proclamation only affected the confederacy, and did nothing for the enslaved in the unioin.
Enslaved people found many ways to resist slavery, like through maintaining their family, gender systems, culture, and religion, but violent resistance was unheard of.
Um, Actually violent resistance definitely happened, like the New York Slave Revolt of 1712 or the Stono Rebellion.
In order to maintain the balance in power between big states and small states the framers of the constitution swiftly found a mutually beneficial plan without conflict. This pan was Bicameral, having a two house congress. One house was the Senate, which had representation regardless of population, and the other was the House of representatives, which had representation proportional to population
Um, Actually it was a whole debate and the mutually beneficial plan was a compromise. The Virginia plan had a bicameral congress and representation based on population, favoring large states. The New Jersey plan had a unicameral congress where each state would get the same amount of representatives regardless of population, favoring small states.
The Second Great Awakening, also known as Transcendentalism, was a massive religious revival characterized by camp meetings, and a more down to earth style of preaching for the masses.
Um, Actually Transcendentalism is something entirely different. It was a philosophy that yearned for spiritual experiences and to transcend the physical world.
The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments are dubbed the reconstruction amendments for their general focus. The 13th amendment banned slavery in all of its forms, the 14th amendment granted Black Americans citizenship and equal protection and the 15th amendment granted black male suffrage
Um, Actually the 13th amendment allowed slavery for criminals which is STILL A THING SOMEHOW.