Making Of America Flashcards
23 April 1789
George Washington arrives in New York City
1775
Colonists fought the British for the right to rule themselves
4 July 1776
Washington and other signed the Declaration of Independence.
1783
British surrendered - forced by the American army
1783 - 1789
Founding Fathers worked carefully to decide how the USA should be ruled.
1788
The Founding Fathers had agreed on the system of government for the USA.
1789
The vast majority of the 649,000 African Americans lived as slaves in the southern states.
1783
Britain lost the war - had to hand over 230 million acres of Indian lands to the newly created USA.
From 1791
Washington put 80 percent of his government budget into a huge campaign against the Indians.
1794
The Indians were defeated at the Battle of Fallen Timbers
1795
The Treaty of Greenville is passed - allowed the USA to take vast areas of the Northwest Territory under its control.
1803 - 1837
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan are all formed out of the northwestern lands.
By 1819
The new states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama were added to the USA in the Southwest Territory.
1789
The USA relied almost entirely on being able to trade across the Atlantic
1789
Louisiana Purchase
- French sold the territory of Louisiana for $15 million
- added 530 million acres of land to the USA.
May 1804
Merriweather Lewis and William Clark set out to explore new lands.
- followed the Missouri River into the Rocky Mountains and made their way overland through unclaimed territory to the Pacific Coast.
1793 - 1838
Enormous expansion of slavery across the United States
By 1789
Slavery was being phased out in the seven northernmost states of the USA. - continued to thrive in the southern states of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina and Georgia.
Around 1790
Religious revival that increased the number and influence of the Quakers and Methodists in the North - opposed slavery
1787
The constitution was drawn up
1788
Compromise over slavery
- slavery would be banned in the Northwest Territory but permitted in the Southwest Territory
1793
The cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney
- sped up the cleaning of cotton by around 50 times.
