Colonization, Pre-Revolutionary Tensions, Revolutionary War
Starvation due to lack of food, Sickness from Bad Water, Attacks from Native Americans
What were the first to political parties?
Federalists and Democratic Republicans
What caused the growth of northern cities during the antebellum period?
Transportation Boom
Population Boom
Economic Boom
In third period, what 90s tune did the class break out into singing, after Ms. Minnear said "please remember to tell me why your answer is correct."?
Tell Me Why - Backstreet Boys
What were the main parts of the different economies of the northern, southern, and middle colonies?
Southern: Cash Crops like Tobacco and Indigo
Middle: Wheat and Small Farms
Northern: Furs, Manufacturing, and Ship Building
What differences in opinion did Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson have while they served on Washington's cabinet? Why did they fight so much?
Hamilton: Pro strong federal government and national bank, pro England
Jefferson: Against strong federal government and DID NOT want a national bank, pro France
What was the cause of the civil war?
Slavery
In Jamestown, William Reese Leftwhich caused tension between other colonists and Native Americans by doing what? This was similar to what happened to Charles Sumner...
Threatening everyone with shovels.
What were the causes of the American Revolution?
The Quartering Act
Taxation without Representation
What was the Era of Good Feelings? What were the Pros and Cons?
The era after the War of 1812. It saw a rise in nationalism. It also saw a rise in westward expansion and an improved economy due to the chartering of the second national bank.
However, America became more sectional and divided. Slavery also increased and spread west. The Panic of 1819 also destabilized the economy.
How did the cotton gin make slavery even worse?
The cotton gin made it easier to prepare cotton for factories by picking out the seeds quickly
Greatly increased demand for slaves since cotton became an even more profitable crop
Slaves (and domestic slave trade) became much more tightly regulated under cotton system
In sixth period, who was the greatest farmer in all of Jamestown, who remembered it was most important to bring seeds so the colonists would not starve?
Louise!
Who did we fight against in the American Revolution?
The British, led by King George III
What is Manifest Destiny? What are the pros and cons?
Term by John O’Sullivan: Belief that it is God’s will that U.S. was destined to expand across N. America
pros: More land, economic opportunities, gold, leaving crowded cities
cons: Native Americans suffered, dysentery, more fighting over slavery, snakes, horse injuries, bad water, died of hot, died of cold, grass fires, etc.
What did Lincoln and the Republican Party think of slavery?
They wanted to stop its expansion into the western territories.
Does Jacob like John Smith? Why or why not?
No
What is this document? What is its purpose? What does it say and mean?
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
The Declaration of Independence
It talks about the colonist having a god given right to have natural rights. It also talks about how they are breaking away from England.
What was the trail of tears? Why was it a trail of tears?
The trail of tears was the enforced removal of Native Americans. The federal government forced them to leave their homelands and walk hundreds of miles to a specially designated “Indian Territory” across the Mississippi River. This difficult and oftentimes deadly journey is known as the Trail of Tears. Many died of starvation and freezing to death.
What does the word secession mean?
Secession is the formal act of a group breaking away from a political entity to form a new government.
How did Caden Marshall Davis injure himself on the Oregon Trail? How did Brody almost die and what happened to Travis?
Caden fell off his horse while trying to get medicine for his family.
Brody fell in a river.
Travis had a fever.