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Henry Ford
Assembly Line
Seneca Falls
a suffragette convention (women’s rights)
Charters of freedom, National Archives Museum
Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, the Constitution
Woodrow Wilson’s plan of peace
14 points
Scopes trial
1925, teaching human evolution
Erie canal
reduction of transport costs
What formed the American identity
passion for freedom?
Second awakening
majority female
Something with presidents
Andrew Jackson, Herbert Hoover, Roosevelt 1, Roosevelt 2, Lincoln
Jim Crow laws
segregation by race
Sharecropping
paying a fixed ration of crops to landowners
Crash crops
cotton, tobacco, sugar
Madbury v Madison
the state can uphold laws or invalidate them
Antebellum Period
huge polarization between abolitionists and pro-slavery, focus on individualism, industrial revolution period north, south doubled down on plantations
Booker T. Washington’s beliefs
African Americans must focus on educating themselves, trades, own businesses, basically prove themselves to the whites
Jane Addams, and like three other people (Marian Cripps, Emily Balch and Margaret E. Dungan)
founded the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (1919), worked to help the poor and stop child labor, education reform
Francis Cabot Lowell recruitment plan
textile mills recruitment, women and young girls mostly
The New Deal something
loans (idk)
1840-1850s transport development
horseback, rivers -> crude roads -> railroads across whole country
The Homestead Act
people can get land from the government
The American frontier
associates history, folklore, culture, geography of the forward wave of American expansion in the North
Most important transport before the Civil War
railroads
Great migration of blacks after WWI
migrated to the North to pursue living
Main message of Gettysburg Address
ideals are worth dying for and it is up to the living to carry on the work of those who have died to protect the ideals
Roosevelt and Muir
national parks
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
anti-slavery mindset increase
Movement similar to transcendentalism
probably romanticism
Thing found on planes
sod - for building houses
Cause of the Great Depression
Black Friday, stock crash
The headlines 1
government hates unions, trying to get rid of unions
Brook farm
utopian experiment in communal living, failure (like me) - George Ripley
Oneida community
perfectionist religious communal society, John Humphrey Noyes, free love - fuck anyone who consents
Joseph Smith (Mormonism cult)
Salt Lake City, polygamy, Book of Mormon
The Shakers
religious community, practised celibacy, believed in gender equality, ecstatic worship, Ann Lee
Plessy v Fergusson
separation, segregation, focused on 14th amendment
Loving v Virginia
interracial marriage
Cumming vs Country Board of Edu
possibility to establish white school even if there are no comparable african-american schools around
The picture of a family chilling at home
Cult of Domesticity
The weird flying lady in white holding a book
Manifest Destiny
Metacomet
King Philip
Prohibition
moderation, and abstinence - temperance movement; organized crime as result -> great depression effect
political parties thingies
Federalists, republicans, transcendentalists, whigs
Mucrackers
investigative journalists exposing corruption
Eli Whitney
cotton gin
The Bonus March
war veterans requiring immediate payment instead of certificates redeemable in 1945
The Hudson River School painters
Frederic Church
Thomas Cole
Thomas Doughty
Asher Durand
some farmer pic?
Yeoman farmer
Emmerson, Thoreau
Transcendentialists
Nature.. knowledge
environmentalism Nature.. knowledge – environmentalism
Travel to Indian territory
trail of tears
Fireside Chats
Franklin Delano Roosvelt
Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln
Common Sense
Thomas Paine
Nullification
Andrew Jackson
Jane Adams
Education
Harpers Ferry Attack
John Brown, slave revolt
Abigail Adams
My Dearest Friend (book or whatever),
Jane Addams
education system reform
Robert Morris
founding father dude
Main products of agriculuture in south carolina
rice, tobacco, indigo
Teapot Dome Scandal
Harding
“Women like children have but one right and that it is the right to protection. The right to protection involves the obligation to obey.”
George Fitzhugh
I John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away, but with Blood.
John Brown
There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.
Andrew Carnegie
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you–ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
Kennedy
“four score and seven years ago” “government of the people, by the people, for the people” The Emancipation Proclamation, The Gettysburg Address
Frederick Douglas
“The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.”
Beveridge
“what then is the American, this new man?”
Crevecoeur
“everything is extraordinary in America”
Tocqueville
dlouhé veršované cosi
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Take up the White Man’s burden–
Send forth the best ye breed–
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives’ need;”
Rudyard Kipling:
“these are the times that try men’s souls”
Thomas Paine
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“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.”
Thomas Jefferson
Model of Christian Clarity, City upon a Hill, “the Lord will be our God and delight to dwell among us, as His own people and will command a blessing upon us in all our ways, so that we shall see much more of His wisdom, power, goodness, and truth then formerly we have been acquainted with”, “Wee must be knitt together, in this worke, as one man. Wee must entertaine each other in brotherly affection. Wee must be willing to abridge ourselves of our superfluities, for the supply of other’s necessities.”
John Winthrop
“I would rather be a rebel than a slave”
Emmeline Pankhurst
“As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.”
Catherine Beecher
abolitionist, social activist, “Slavery is the next thing to hell.”, “For no man should take me alive; I should fight for my liberty as long as my strength lasted, and when the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.” Ain’t I a Woman speech
Harriet Tubman
“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”, “Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.” - abolitionist, transcendentalist, speech The American Scholar, essay Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest practicable education of the people in all his plans of administration. He may have eloquence, he may have a knowledge of all history, diplomacy, jurisprudence; and by these he might claim, in other countries, the elevated rank of a statesman: but unless he speaks, plans, labors, at all times and in all places, for the culture and edification of the whole people, he is not, he cannot be, an American statesman.” - educational reform, abolitionist, Whig politician
Horace Mann
9th secretary of state, Treaty of Ghent (what the fuck was that?), “I hope that it will yet be said, America is America’s best customer.”
Henry Clay
Marbury v Madison
Madison refused to hand over commission, supreme court gave itself power to uphold or invalidate federal laws
Scott v Sandford (The Dred Scott decision)
black people were not and cannot be citizens
Civil rights Act (1964)
no discrimination and segregation
Voting rights Act (1965)
no citizen should be denied the right to vote based on race (similar to 15th amendment)
Seven Years’ War
an attempt by the Austrian Habsburgs to win back the province of Silesia
1763 - Peace of Paris
- harsh to losing France
- French territory on the mainland of North America was lost
- The British received Quebec and the Ohio Valley
- The port of New Orleans and the Louisiana Territory west of the Mississippi were ceded to Spain
1763 - Proclamation
boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide - prohibited the anglo-americans from settling on french colonized land
1764 - Sugar Act
placed tax on sugar and molasses, disrupting the economy, rum was a huge part of export
1765 - Stamp Act (1766 re-appealed)
direct tax on british colonies, prints on stamped paper, paid in british currency
1770 - Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a “patriot” mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers
1773
Tea Act and Boston Tea Party
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Lewis and Clark’s team mapped uncharted land, rivers, and mountains
1810 - Macon’s Bill n. 2
prohibited British or French warships from entering American harbors or territorial waters.
1814 - Hartford Convention, treaty of Ghent
a declaration calling on the Federal Government to protect New England and to supply financial aid to New England’s badly battered trade economy.
1848 - First wave feminism, Seneca Falls NY:
Catherine Beecher
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Lucrecia Mott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
Dorothea Dix
Oregon trail
westward migration, ppl grabbed families and neigbhbours, many didn’t make it
paying fixed ration in crops to the landowners
Sharecropping
