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Colonization/Revolution

100

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• End of French and Indian War

• Do not pass the Appalachian Mountains

• Protect Native American lands

Proclamation of 1763

200

• Thomas Jefferson drafts a document to explain why British colonies desire to rule themselves

• Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness

• All men are created equal

Declaration of Independence

Unalienable Rights

300

• shipbuilding

• fishing

• rocky soil

• Massachusetts

New England Region

400

• Turning point of American Revolution

• First major victory for Continental Army

• convinced France to ally with Americans

Battle of Saratoga

500

• Virginia Company

• general assembly
• set pattern for self-government in America
• first legislature in colonies

Virginia House of Burgesses

Early Republic

100

• Strong national government

• In favor of Constitution
• Bill of Rights not necessary

Federalists

200

• Created process for admitting new states

• First five states to be added tot he US

• Made slavery illegal in the new territory

• One strength of Articles of Confederation

Northwest Ordinance

300

• America's first form of government

• no power to tax

• no executive branch (president)

• no judicial branch (national court system)

• no common currency

Articles of Confederation

400

• US will protect newly independent Latin American countries

• European countries stay out of western hemisphere

Monroe Doctrine

500

• Congress regulates interstate commerce

Gibbons v. Ogden

Industrialization

100

• Made communication easier and quicker

• Morse Code
• Long-distance communication

telegram

200

• More factories

• Job opportunities in cities increased

• Inventions made things quicker and easier

• Prices of consumer goods decreased

Industrialization/urbanization

300

• Investment capital

• News means of transport

• Large labor force

• increase of factories

Industrialization

400

• man-made rivers

• made New York become a center of business and trade

• made transportation easier and quicker

Erie Canal

Canals

500

• made transportation from East to West easier and quicker

• expanded markets in the US

• Transcontinental
• Chinese and Irish immigrants worked to build it.

Railroads

Westward Expansion

100

• Northwest Ordinance

• Louisiana Purchase

• Florida

• Texas Annexation

• Oregon

• Mexican Cession

• Gadsden Purchase

Lands acquired by the US during Westward Expansion

NO!LFTOMG

200

• Southern transcontinental railroad

• Bought from Mexico

• Transport cotton from West to East

Gadsden Purchase

300

• Invention of cotton gin

• Spread of cotton to Texas

• Opening of lands along the Mississippi River

• Growing demand for inexpensive labor

Expansion of slavery in West

400

• Worked in California goldfields

• Helped build the western section of the Transcontinental Railroad

• Established distinct communities in California cities

• Faced intense nativism

Chinese immigrants

500

• California

• Texas

• Florida

• Mexico

Land colonized by Spain

Sectionalism

100

• Invention of Cotton Gin

• Increased demand for cheap labor

• More cotton = more money

increase of slavery

200

• Painted about nature

• Nature brought out divinity of man

Hudson RIVER School

300

• Northern states were required by law to return runaway slaves to the South

• Increased tensions between North and South

Fugitive Slave Act

400

• New England

• Get woke to God - expressions of religious feeling
• led to Reform movements

Great Awakening

500

• former slave

• wrote about his time in slavery

• spoke out against slavery

• most photographed person of his time

Frederick Douglass