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FINAL Tomorrow!
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American Character and Belief System
Creation of democratic principles in America diversity of religions, even though some were not tolerant examples of written documents setting up governments elected legislative bodies
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Challenging authority
rebellions against an "unjust" government speaking out against religious authority
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Expansion westward was a right
Northwest Ordinance Louisiana Purchase Manifest Destiny
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Compromise was necessary to deal with conflict
Northwest ordinance Missouri Compromise Compromise of 1850 Compromise of 1877
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Business, Labor, and Reform
From mercantilism to capitalism; from a collection of colonies controlled by the policies of the mother country to a nation that grew from the innovations and inventions of individuals and the wealth of select industries A give and take between the industrial North with its money, banks, industry, and immigrant labor and the agricultural South with its tobacco, cotton, and slave labor
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Immigration From a nation overwhelmingly settled by those from the British Isles (with lots of slaves) to a nation diversified by millions of "new immigrants" British Irish and German in the mid-1800s Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 New immigrants from SE Europe from the 1880s through early 1900s: Ellis Island and the backlash against the new immigrants
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The Minority Experience
Native Americans Spanish exploitation and the Pueblo Revolt French trade English settlement and constant removal westward: Trail of Tears; the impact of the Transcontinental RR, Homestead Act, and killing of the buffalo
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African Americans The institution of slavery: reality
Abolition movement: women and moral sin Reconstruction policies, successes and failures post-Reconstruction South; segregation (Jim Crow and Plessy) and the debate between Booker T. and WEB
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