claimed Florida, Texas, California & built missions

claimed land in New World to profit from fur trading

New England Economy

Religious Toleration- He started religious tolerant Rhode Island

Southern Colonies Economy

1st anti-slavery group, lived in Pennsylvania

a place for Catholics to live peacefully

Reasons for Growth of Representative/Self Government

Economic System in which British controlled colonial trade, angered colonists

law forbid colonists from moving west

of Appalachian Mountains, angered colonists

Belief British should have permission of colonists to pass taxes, main reason for American Revolution

The British punishment response to the Boston Tea Party, increased tension between colonists and British

Rights all people have from birth; life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

turning point of the American Revolutionary war, France joined with Patriots officially

last major battle of the American Revolution resulting in British defeat, Britain

then signed Treat of Paris and recognized U.S. independence

First written form of government after the Revolution, Congress can

negotiate treaties and declare war, no executive branch, weak

law establishing a way for admitting

new states to the United States, territories govern themselves

agreement that decided how many

representatives large and small states would send to Congress

agreement over how slaves would count

for representation and taxation purposes

They supported the Constitution, believed it created a

more stable Union, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison

against Constitution until they added a Bill

of Rights, Patrick Henry and George Mason

each branch of government has some

power over the other two branches, helps to prevent any one

branch from becoming too powerful

Citizen Responsibilities

Freedom of religion (church or mosque),

freedom of speech (criticize), freedom of press (media),

Freedom of assembly (peaceful protest), freedom to petition

no unreasonable search or seizure--need a warrant

right to trial by jury

Freedom from cruel or unusual punishment

rights not given to the federal government

are rights of the states, this is the principal of federalism

1) establish National Bank 2) pay off war debt 3) pass whiskey tax 4) protective tariff

protest over federal whiskey tax, Washington used domestic force to stop rebellion

Washington warned against having permanent foreign alliances and the creation of political parties

led by Alexander Hamilton, wanted 1) more Federal govt. power 2) industrial economy 3) Federal Bank

led by Thomas Jefferson, wanted 1) less Federal govt. 2) Agricultural economy 3) no National Bank (formerly Anti-federalists)

John Adams (2nd President), angered many Americans, violated freedom of speech--said you couldn't speak out against the government

established judicial review which gave Supreme Court power to declare laws unconstitutional

British impressment of US sailors

issued by James Monroe, prevented European colonization of land in the Western Hemisphere

Birth of the Democratic Party, voting increases due to land restrictions being lifted...the common man

problem over if the state of South

Carolina had the right to nullify (overturn) a Federal law,

argument over states’ rights vs. federal rights (foreshadowing to Civil War)

Cherokee sue to keep land, Court

favors Native Americans, Jackson and state ignore Supreme

Court and force Natives to move to Indian Territory anyway

artists paint landscapes and nature

Effects of the War of 1812

resulted in people planting more cotton, resulted

in more slaves in America

more efficient way to make things,

led to mass production, resulted in prices decreasing

economy driven by profit and competition

girls first got job outside their homes in textile mills

man made rivers, transportation of goods became

faster, prices of goods drop, and cities grew

resulted in faster and more

efficient transportation of goods, the prices of goods decreased for the first time

invention used to communicate rapidly over long distance

people move from rural farm areas to cities to

work in factories, city populations explode

Irish came to U.S. because of potato famine, worked

in factories/ Transcontinental Railroad, blamed for taking away jobs

U.S. desire to own land from coast to coast, James K. Polk, CAUSES: 1) land = wealth 2) population boom

got from Britain in a treaty, U.S. achieved goal of Manifest Destiny (owning land coast to coast)

caused by U.S. annexing Texas, blood shed

land U.S. acquired after U.S.- Mexican

War as stated in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

population ; Chinese immigrants

came to U.S. during gold rush, worked on Transcontinental RR

movement to encourage people to be more religious, caused social reform leading to Reform Era

movement to get Americans to drink less or no alcohol, women involved in this

people who worked to end slavery, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglas

founded by Ralph Waldo Emerson, ideal societies focused on nature and self...Henry David Thoreau

Seneca Falls Convention called

for women’s suffrage; Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton

geography caused country to develop

differences; Northerners build factories, Southerners farmed,

Westerners mined; It contributed to Civil War

textile mills, trade, factories, immigrants

plantation system, slave labor, cotton

produced and sent to the Northern factories

mining (gold) and agriculture (farming)

North and South agree, California

becomes a Free State but a strict Fugitive Slave Law is passed

a part of the Compromise of 1850,

runaway slaves were to be captured and returned to the South

agreement that attempted to solve

slavery issue, violence erupted as a result of law

ruled slaves were property and not

citizens, later 14th Amendment gave citizenship to all African Americans

more factories = more weapons

Lincoln frees slaves in Confederacy

Union captured Mississippi River dividing the Confederacy in half

Confederacy surrenders to Union, ending the Civil War, located in Virginia

after the Civil War the process of

Southern states being brought back into the Union, South

was in financial ruin

took control after Lincoln’s death,

punished Confederate leaders and southerners for Civil War

laws that limited the new freedom of Freemen

worked to help Freedmen. Provided

1) education 2) clothing/food 3) jobs

abolished slavery, African Americans were

free to move wherever they wanted

granted citizenship to African Americans,

African American males were allowed

to vote

1st African American U.S. Senator

encouraged settlement of the

West, opened new markets to sell goods to, price of products decreased, Irish and Chinese immigrants built it