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Pilgrims

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  1. Protestant immigrants (teachings of John Calvin) who abandoned local parishes and formed small congregations of their own. The Church of England was not holy enough.
  2. Also called Separatists.
  3. Sartorial choices (kleding style) black hats with broad brims, buckle shoes.
  4. Lived in Cape Cod, leader William Bradford; self-sustaining, friendly, withdrawn & leery of others
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Puritans

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Larger group protestant immigrants, nonseparating Episcopalians, determined to cleanse the English Church of its remnants of Roman Catholicism. Remained at home during the 1620s & through participation in Parliament tried to prod the Stuart kings toward toleration (=failed)

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Mayflower

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Ship that brought 102 immigrants to the Americanas in 1620 (66 day journey).

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Desertion pilgrims

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Ecclesiastical insult to the king = punishable by jail or death => appr 100 Separatists left England (1607-08) = religious freedom in Netherlands => Mayflower to America

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Thanksgiving

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last Thursday in November a foundational gift from the Separatists of welcoming, accomodating, communal feasting. First feast in 1621 90 members local tribe; venison, corn, squash & Turkey.
( a solemn religious observance combining prayer and feasting. Ceremonies to give thanks for successful harvests, for the hope of a good growing season in the early spring, and for other good fortune such as the birth of a child.)

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John Winthrop

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Man who led in 1630 some 1,000 English Puritans (Great Migration to Massachusetts Bay Colony (north of Plymouth). Fleeing the Royal Wrath (Charles I)= prersecution of dissidents.

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New England colonies (1640)

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‘Bay colonies’ appr 20,000 Puritans (over Pilgrims)

  • more numerous
  • more literate
  • more controlling
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Massachusetts Puritans

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  • established towns around Boston
  • forged a theocracy of magistrates & Congregational clergymen to control the growing population
  • hanged dissenters
  • aggressive
  • arroagant
  • no intention of sharing (food & land) with native Americans (thanksgiving)
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Differences between Pilgrim Saints & Bay Colony Puritans

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Pilgrim Saints: forgiving toward others

Bay Colony Puritains: God-given superiority & could do with New England as they pleased.

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Squanto

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local Indian, English-speaking, of Wampanoags tribe. Tought Pilgrims to fish & live off the land.

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algonquian languages

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native American languages

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Massasoit

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Indian leader, at Thanksgiving feast 1621, is agent of destruction of Indian authority in New England.

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Metacomet

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= Philip = son of Massasoit of Wampanoags. cobbled coalition of tribes + attacked Massachusetts & Rhode Island => regaining ancestral land

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King Philip’s War

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1675-1676; North America, a dozen New England towns torched; 4,000 indians + 650 immigrants died => indian life distroyed

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Thanksgiving holiday

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1789; President George Washington= commemoration of republic’s victory War of Independence = successful ratification of new United States Constitution.
1863; President Abraham Lincoln = attempt to heal wounds after Union victory at Gettysburg in American Civil War (October 3rd). National holiday = North & South, regardless of race, politics, religious views.

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modern American values

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Work habits:
- success as sign of salvation
- prudishness (revealing clothes etc)
- fraternizing = unproductive & unprofessional
- personal items in the office = unprofessional
Values:
- Puritan values = guiding moral judgements
- prejudice against racial minorities & poor
- hostility toward social welfare efforts
- self-denigration (among obese women)

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Anasazi

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group in present day New-Mexico. Known for:

  • crafted jewelry
  • decorated pottery
  • settlements called ‘pueblos’
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pueblos

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settlement of the Anasazi

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Cahokia

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Major settlement where the Mississippi & Missouri Rivers converge (East St. Louis)

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settlements Atlantic Coast

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tribes/groups engaged in hunting, farming and fishing

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Iroquois Federation

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Alliance formed in 1450 in upstate New York between 5 large tribes.

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Great lakes groups

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(today’s upper Midwest) pursued agriculture, fishing & Buffalo hunting. Depending on their region’s ecology.

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population 1500s (2)

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  • 7-10 million people in North America.

- Millions more in Mesoamerica & South America (Mayan, Aztec, Incan). Flourished over a millennium.

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Leif Erikson

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Norse voyager that reached the northeastern tip of North America in 1000AD. Short-lived settlement Newfoundland.

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Christopher Columbus
Italian who persuaded the Spanish monarchs Ferdinand & Isabella to finance a voyage to the west. On August 3rd, 1492 he set foot from Palos (Spain) to discover on October 12th the Island San Salvador (convinced he found the Indies). Called the local Indians. Gripped by ambition, wealth, honors & zeal to convert the Indians to Christianity.
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Ferdinand & Isabella of Spain
Need to extend their domains, outshine their rivals & acquire fabulous riches of this 'brave new world' (from The Tempest/Shakespeare)
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Spread of European settlements
Spanish= - 1565: St. Augustine = Florida - 1609: Santa Fe = New Mexico - Caribbean - Mexico - Central America - South America Dutch= - 1609:Henry Hudson (New York) Dutch East India Company - 1625: Nieuw Amsterdam (=Manhattan Island) from local Lenape Indians English= - England's American colonies - 1632: Maryland = Cecilius Calvert = Catholic (shelters fleeing English Catholics)
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Jamestown
Settlement of the English 1607 after Elizabeth's successor James I in Virginia (after Elizabeth). Settlers were struck by disease, starvation and Indian attacks.
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adventurers
Investors of a group of 6 hundred settlers in Jamestown.
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1611 + Jamestown
Turningpoint when the Tobacco becomes profitable export for pipe-smoking Europe.
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17.C export products
- Tobacco - rice - indigo
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religions 17C America (7)
- Protestant Church of England - Scottish Presbyterians - Spanish Catholics - Quackers - Methodists - Baptists - Pilgrims (as of 1620 Plymouth)
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Puritans
1630 Boston; desired to purify the Church of England of surviving popish practices. = joyless prudes => worship austere + bible based. congregation autonomous + self -governing. lifelyhood= farming, fisheries, urban occupations, oceangoing trade (timber, grain, naval stores, dried codfish, Sugar, molasses (for rum), tea, furniture, dishware, manufactured goods.
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England's colonies
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine | Middle Atlantic region; Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware and New Jersey
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William Penn
1681 grant by Charles II => Pennsylvania = Quacker convert = welcomed English Quackers, European religious dessenters (incl. Swiss + German Mennonites)
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New Amsterdam
1664 surrendered to English => renamed New York (after Duke of York= future King James II)
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1702 + New Jersey
Royal province by James II
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smallpox
disease that devastated Indian communities. String that was brought to America by the Europeans.
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1680
Pueblo + Apache uprising
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1637
Colonists + Mohegans + Narragansetts against Pequots
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1622
Uprising local Powhatan Indians in Jamestown
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1763
Scots Irish settlers along Susquehanna Rivers laughtered Conestoga Indians
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1675-1676
Wampanoag sachem Metacom declared war againt the newcomers.
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1619
First slave ship arrives in Jamestown
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1705 law
Viginia law defined slavery as a perpetual condition (via mother)
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1790
700,000 slaves in North America
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1712
slave uprising New York
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1739
Slave uprising South Carolina
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mercantilism
England + colonies as single economic unit controlled from London.
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Navigation Acts 1651-1733
colonies supply raw materials while importing manufactured products + consumer goods from England (encouraging shipbuilding, fisheries, Tobacco cultivation, production of naval stores)
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Great Awakening
revivalism (religious) 1740s by George Whitefield
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John Winthrop
Massachusetts' first governor
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'a city on a hill'
god's ultimate plan for humanity
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1692
witch craft trials (= sign of God's displeasure)
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Colony + elites
``` Virginia = great planters New York = landed proprietors Philidelphia = Quackers New England = shipmasters 9 colleges (Harvard= 1636 to Dartmouth= 1769) ```
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America Europe
- less rigid stratified - higher literacy rates - greater opportunities for social mobility - more open - less hierarchical society - patriarchal patterns
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Jacques Cartier
French explorer established French fishing camps + trading posts along St. Lawrence River in 1530s
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Samuel de Champlain
Founded Québec in 1608
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voyageurs
French fur traders
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coureurs de bois
wood runners
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French trading in America (3)
- Michigan - Wisconsin - Minnesota
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1654
Massachusetts militiamen drove the French from Cape Breton Island
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Seven Years ' War (1756-1763)
Between France and Great Britain | Colonists called the war 'French and Indian War'
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Proclamation 1763
- restricted colonists' to expand westwards - Lands between Appalachian Mountains - Mississippi = Indian inhabitants - religious freedom for French Catholics - Parliament pay off heavy war debt by increasing colonial taxes.
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Bank of the United States
1791; founded by Treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton (immigrant British West Indies, served on Washington's staff during the war).
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Federalists
US first political party. Supporters of Hamilton, creditors, Merchants, entrepreneurs & wealthy landowners
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Democratic-Republican Party
Followed Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson. suspicious of big government & big cities, idealized virtuous tillers of the soil, embraced natural-rights philosophy John Locke & more radical theorists. Attrackted small farmers, urban workers, states-rights advocates suspicious of Hamilton's activist program.
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Alien en Sedition Acts
1798; Federalist judges and juries targeted suspect aliens but also Jeffersonian newspaper editors.
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Thomas Jefferson
1801-1809; 3rd President US - Democratic Republican
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Ghent treaty
December 1814 ending Mr. Madison's War
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James Madison
1809-1817; 4th President US - Democratic Republican
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George Washington
1789-1797: 1st President US - unaffiliated
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John Adams
1797-1801: 2nd President US - Federalist
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James Monroe
1817-1825; 5th President US - Democratic Republican
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John Quincy Adams
1825-1829; 6th President US - Democratic Republican
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Andrew Jackson
1829-1837; 7th President US - democratic Before becoming US President was self-made politition, planter, militia officer. Embodied individualistic, egalitarian spirit of the West. => broader demographic & political changes. (end of property requirements for voting = cotton planters, farmers, entrepreneurs, laborers, factory workers) = high tariffs protecting domestic manufacturers (suspicious of (European) elites + interests)
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Martin van Buren
1837-1841; 8th President US - democratic
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William Henry Harrison
1841-1841; 9th President US - whig | Open-air inauguration in April, contracts pneumonia => dies a month later.
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John Tyler
1841-1845; 10th President US - whig -> unaffiliated
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Monroe doctrine
drafted by Adams; warning European powers against colonial ventures in Western Hemisphere => America's growing confidence in world affairs.
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Adam's 'corrupt bargain'
2nd President Adams won elections by gaining contender Henry Clay's support. Clay became secreatary of state and Adams proposed visionary program of national planning, including federal support for agriculture, commerce & transportation as well as national observatory and national university.
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Chief Justice John Marshall (1801-1835)
Supreme Court= federal over state law & judiciary's power to determine the constitutionality of laws passed by Congress
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Battle of New Orleans
An engagement fought between January 8 and January 18, 1815, constituting the final major battle of the War of 1812 (US-England). American combatants, prevented an overwhelming British force from seizing New Orleans and the vast territory the United States had acquired with the Louisiana Purchase. The Treaty of Ghent had been signed on December 24, 1814 (but was not ratified by the US Government until February 1815), and hostilities continued without the involved parties knowing about the Treaty.
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Democratic party
1832; founded by Andrew Jackson; "Kitchen Cabinet"
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BUS
(Second) Bank of Unites States; federally chartered, Philadelphia-based institution with branches in 8 states. (= money power).
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Bank War
Jackson vetoed congress + withdrew government money=> fatally weakened BUS.
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Lewis & Clark expedition
1804-1806; President Jefferson approved. explore new territory. Florida (from Spain, 1819), Washington (Great Britain, 1846)
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Battle of Alamo
1845; Texans voted for statehood after defeating Mexican forces at San Antonio's Alamo mission
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United States (1850)
Continental power (ocean to ocean)
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transport
- railroad - canal/waterways - coach
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US agriculture
South - cotton - Tobacco North: - grain - livestock
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North economics
agriculture | manufacturing; textiles, shoes, clocks, guns, machinery, railroad cars, lots of other products
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anti-immigrant American Party
Founded in 1843, great support.
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social conflict
- high factory wages - urban poverty - class divisions widened - immigrants faced hostility + violence
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battle in Indiana
1811; native peoples <=> US troops => Indians in reservations
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Tecumseh
shawnee leader of Indian confederacy
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Chief Black Hawk
Indian chief leading Sauk & other Indian tribes in 1832 to reclaim ancestral lands east of the Mississippi.
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Indian Removal Act
1830; expulsion of the Cherokee & other tribes from their ancestral lands.
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Trail of Tears
Route Indian families forcibly by U.S. troops took to present-day Oklahoma.
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Book of Mormon
Written by Joseph Smith, published 1830. Smith claimed to have discovered & translated with supernatural assistance. (New England Puritans' sense of destiny). Work portrayed North America as site for special divine purposes.
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Shakers
1840s English sect which believed in Christ's Second Appearing. It's followers came to America in 1774. - unique worship practices - skilled craftsmanship - marketing of seeds & other useful products
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Woman's Rights Convention
1848- Seneca Falls NY; Quaker Lucretia Mott; echo of Declaration of Independence "all men and women are reated equal" demanded full gender equality.
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Transcendentalists
Group of New England people influenced by German philosopher Kant + British poets & writers, sought to transcend mundane experience to the realm of pure perception.
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Civil Disobedience
1849; book by Henry Thoreau; defending passive resistance to unjust laws. Has inspired generationsof reformers and activists.
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Civil War
1861-1865; The American Civil War was an internal conflict fought in the United States (34 States). The Union faced secessionists in eleven Southern states grouped together as the Confederate States of America. The Union won the war, which remains the bloodiest in U.S. history. The war had its origin in the factious issue of slavery, especially the extension of slavery into the western territories.
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The Union
Nothern States in Civil War
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The Confederate States of America
11 Southern States in Civil War. (Confederacy)
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Indian Wars
The American Indian Wars, or Indian Wars, were the multiple armed conflicts between European governments and colonists, and later American settlers or the United States government, and the native peoples of North America. These conflicts occurred across the North American continent from the time of earliest colonial settlements until 1924. In many cases, wars resulted from competition for resources and land ownership as Europeans and later Americans encroached onto territory which had been inhabited by Native Americans for the previous centuries. There was population pressure as settlers expanded their territory, generally pushing indigenous people northward and westward. Warfare and raiding also took place as a result of wars between European powers; in North America, these enlisted their Native American allies to help them conduct warfare against each other's settlements.
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Long Walk
1864; Navajos forced walk of 300 miles from Arizona to a reservation in New Mexico
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Abraham Lincoln
1861-1865; 16th President; preserved Union during Civil War.
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Ulysses S. Grant
1869-1877; 18th President, 'peace policy'. Feeding Natives => beginning of civilizing & acculturating Native nations into the U.S.

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