Early 1700s
Democracy: Name one of the colonist’s democratic values/ ideals?
- religious freedom
- economic opportunity
- self governance
- right to life, liberty, and happiness (for some)
Democracy: Define “popular sovereignty.”
- The ability to vote
- The people’s ability to put who they want in their governmentEconomics: What method did southern farmers use to produce goods?
- Slavery and Indentured Servitude
Social: What’s one way enslaved people kept our families and culture alive?
- preserving language
- music and spirituals
- secretly continuing their spiritual practices
Economics: What’s one way the North/ New England colonies made money?
- shipbuilding
- early manufacturing (iron)
- trade
- fishing and whaling
Economics: Define rural versus urban life?
- rural life is marked by farming and agricultural, like the South
- urban life is marked by city development and growing infrastructure (buildings, cities, etc.)
Democracy: What was the mindset many colonist had during Westward Expansion?
- Manifest Destiny
- believed it was a divine right for white colonist to take over indigenous land
Democracy: Pres. Abraham Lincoln passed what document/ amendment that ended slavery?
- The Emancipation Proclamation!
- 13th Amendment
Political: Who were the colonist writing the 1776 Declaration of Independence to?
- King George III
- Great Britain/ England
Political: What is one reason why Pres. Andrew Jackson supported the Indian Removal Act?
- to get valuable land for white settlers (driven by Manifest Destiny)
- to "protect" Native Americans from conflict and allow them to live separately
- to strengthen the U.S. frontier by removing tribes from states like Georgia and Alabama.
Political: What is one overt or covert abolitionist strategy?
- Overt: public speaking, publishing newspapers, suing for freedom/ legal action, public demonstrations, lobbying, etc.
- Covert: breaking tools, sabotaging enslaver plans, the underground railroad, revolts & rebellions, secret communication, spiritual cultural resistance
Economics: What was one justification for the Civil War?
- Economics: slave-based economy against federal policies like protective tariffs that favored Northern manufacturing
- State's Rights: Wanting to continue slavery in the South
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Social: Who, at this time, was excluded from the rights protected by the Constitution?
- black people
- Native Americans
- non-white migrants
- Women
Social: Name two group that were being othered at this time?
- Black people
- Native Americans
- Non white migrants
- women
Economics: After the Mexican American war 1846, the US took over several new regions (Cali, Arizona, New Mexico, etc.). And due to the Compromise of 1850, was slavery legal in these new territories?
- Yes becuase the Compromise made it so that states could decide for themselves whether or not to have slavery (popular ...?)