1. Beginnings

2. The Enlightenment Use science to find truth, not religion
Value reason over faith
Religious leaders hurt
Use this logic to protest the King

3. The Enlightenment
-Use Science to find the truth instead of relying on religious leaders
-Value reason and scientific methods
-Very upsetting to a lot of religious people
-Colonists use this line of thought to protest England
-Jefferson and Franklin

6. The Great Awakening Response to the enlightenment Traveling preachers
Jonathon Edwards and George Whitfield
Two movements cause people to challenge old ways of thinking

7. The Great Awakening
-In response to the Great Awakening and dwindling Puritan influence
-Preachers traveled around holding revivals
-Most prominent: George Whitfield and Jonathon Edwards
-Enlightenment and Great Awakening effects: emphasized the individual and human reasoning, downplays the church, prompted a whole new way of thinking.
-People begin inventing and are much more open to new ideas

10. Slavery Originally could do without it
Becomes a necessity in the south with the Cotton Gin (1794) p 121

11. Slavery
-Slavery becomes a virtual necessity in the south with Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin in 1794 (p.121)

12. French & Indian War 1756-1763 Colonists defeat the French from Canada
Colonists very confident with themselves
British want help paying for war

13. -War begins in 1755, treaty signed in 1763 (Treaty of Paris)
-Boogey man to the North is gone, colonists get cocky.
-British irritate G.W.

14. “The Revolution” Boston Massacre (3/5/1770)
5 colonists killed
Boston Tea Party (12/16/1773)
Lexington & Concord (4/19/1775)
Shots heard round the World
The Revolution begins

15. -Boston massacre: March 5, 1770 5 colonists killed

16. -Boston Tea Party Dec 16, 1773

17. Samuel Adams

18. Thomas Paine
-Common Sense sells hundreds of thousands of copies in 1776
-Goes to France and tries again

19. -April 19, 1775 15 minute skirmish starts the war
-Paul Revere’s ride

20. Patrick Henry -one of the largest slave holders crying for freedom
-Aristocrat from Virginia

21. -p. 54 in book written 7/2/76, adopted 7/4/76

23. The End of the War Battle of Saratoga gives hope
Battle of Yorktown ends war
October 19, 1781
French finally help
Treaty of Paris signed in 1783

24. -October 19, 1781 Cornwallis surrenders
-Treaty of Paris (9/83)

27. -Federalist Party founder
-Set up the U.S. treasury, and national bank
-Wanted strong central government, did not trust uneducated people
-Jefferson wanted strong state governments, trusted the masses
-Jefferson’s vice-president, Aaron Burr kills Hamilton in a duel in 1804.

28. Major Events to 1861 Louisiana Purchase 1803 War of 1812
$15 million
War of 1812
Washington D.C. is burned
Missouri Compromise 1820
Seperates free from slave states

29. -Bought from Napoleon in 1803 for $15 million
-Lewis and Clark p.115

30. -1812-1814 Washington gets burned, White House in all
Washington gets burned, White House in all. Dolly ran in and saved numerous important papers.
-Made heroes out of William Henry Harrison, and Andrew Jackson
-U.S. fails to take over Canada

31. -Hero of the Battle for New Orleans.
-Occurs after the treaty is signed and the war is officially over. Treaty of Ghent signed 12/24/14 battle occurs 1/8/15
-U.S. claims victory with this battle

33. Calhoun Clay Webster

34. The Mexican-American War 1848
The Battle for Texas 1836
The Battle of the Alamo
New territory
The Mexican-American War 1848
Get CA and ½ of Mexico
The CA gold Rush
Compromise of 1850
CA becomes free state, Utah and New Mexico can decide

38. -Heroes out of Zachary Taylor, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S
-Heroes out of Zachary Taylor, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S.Grant, Jefferson Davis, Winfield Scott, and Franklin Pierce.
-U.S. takes over ½ of Mexico’s land

42. Abolitionist Movement:
Ch 3 Section 5
Abolitionist Movement:
William Lloyd Garrison: The Liberator (1828)
Nat Turner’s Slave Rebellion-1831
Frederick Douglass (The North Star)
Seneca Falls Convention (1848): Women’s Rights

47. John Brown’s Raid @ Harper’s Ferry 1859
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” 1853
Abolitionist movement grows
Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854
Bleeding Kansas
Dred Scott Case 1857
Slaves are property
John Brown’s Harper’s Ferry 1859
South fears a war is coming

51. Dred Scott Case 1857

52. John Brown’s Raid 1859