1. Columbian Exchange

2. Diseases
Disease kills a large segment of the indigenous population of America

3. JamestownVirgina 1st permanent English settlement
Jamestown Colony 1607
Tobacco

4. Mayflower Compact Compact allows for the concept of majority rule
Part of today’s political decision making policy

6. Triangle
Trade

7. 13 Colonies

8. Colonial Settlement Massachusetts & Puritans Rhode Island – dissenters
Pennsylvania – Quakers
Maryland – religious toleration for Catholics

9. Plantation System
Agricultural system in the South. Cash crops like tobacco & cotton fuel slavery

10. Proclamation of 1763 & the Appalachian Mountains
After French & Indian War, bares western settlement beyond Appalachian Mountains By the English

11. Very Important Virginians
Virginia Declaration of Rights (George Mason)
Reiterated the notion that basic human rights should not be violated by governments
Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (Thomas Jefferson)
Outlawed the established church—that is, the practice of government support for one favored church
Bill of Rights
James Madison, a Virginian, consulted the Virginia Declaration of Rights and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom when drafting the amendments that eventually became the United States Bill of Rights

12. Thomas Paine Wrote critical works Common Sense and The Crisis
Inspires the cause for the American Revolution

13. Shots heard around the World Lexington & Concord

14. Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776 - Philadelphia

15. Declaration of Independence
Written by Jefferson
Ideas of John Locke (Natural Rights)
Life, liberty and pursuit of happiness

16. Taking Sides

17. Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, scientist, and statesman
Helped to gain funds and support for the American cause

18. Yorktown, Virginia 1781 Last battle of the American Rev
French fleet make the difference

19. Articles of Confederation
Powers to declare war, make peace, sign treaties, borrow money, coin money, and establish a postal service
weak: no power to tax, control interstate or foreign trade, approval of states (no executive power to enforce the law)

20. Constitutional Convention meets
a meeting, planned to revise the Articles of Confederation, turns into a opportunity to write a new constitution
Virginia Plan (large states)
N. J. Plan (small states)

21. Federalist
The Federalists favored a strong national government that shared some power with the states. They argued that the checks & balances in the Constitution prevented any one of the three branches from acquiring preponderant power. They believed that a strong national government was necessary to facilitate interstate commerce & to manage foreign trade, national defense, and foreign relations.

22. Constitutional Convention
Great Compromise, a House based on representation determined by pop. and a Senate with two rep. from each state
three-fifths compromise

23. Checks and Balances Constitution provides for separation of powers:
Executive - veto
Legislature - impeachment
Judiciary - judicial review

24. George Washington
Cabinet
Two-Terms
Warns against alliances

25. Marbury vs. Madison McCulloch v. Maryland
Federal Courts have the power of judicial review over the Congress
McCulloch v. Maryland

26. Jefferson
Buys
From
France In
1803
Lewis & Clark

28. The Eli Whitney & the Cotton Gin

29. Monroe Doctrine
President Monroe warns all European powers not to interfere with affairs in the Western Hemisphere.
directed at the French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russians and the English, claims in the America’s.

30. Missouri Compromise of 1820
Allows slavery south of the 36’ 30’ & admits MO as a slave state
Sets the guidelines for the future admission of slave states
Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854 & “Bleeding Kansas”

31. Seneca Fall Convention
Women’s rights convention held in Seneca Falls, NY
The beginning of the women’s suffrage movement
Notable women: Eliz. Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony

32. Frederick Douglas Black Abolitionist
Urged Lincoln to recruit former slaves to fight in the Union Army

33. William Lloyd Garrison
Publisher of the abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator
Believes that slavery is a violation of Christian principles and must be ended

34. Texas Independence and the Alamo
Struggle for independence in 1836

35. Clay’s Compromise of 1850
Argument for Popular Sovereignty in territories
Let the people decide
Territorial disputes and California admission

36. Party of Lincoln

37. Ruled to be propriety and cannot sue in court
1857 Supreme Court Case
Ruled to be propriety and cannot sue in court
Overturns the Missouri Compromise of 1820
Dred Scott Decision

38. Uncle Toms Cabin
Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852
Sparks that ignite the Civil War

39. The Election of Lincoln causes Southern States to withdraw from the Union

40. Lincoln’s important speeches
Emancipation Proclamation frees the slaves in 1862
Ends slavery in the United States
1863

41. Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
“with malice towards none, with charity for all…to bind up the nations wounds”

42. Civil War SOL Objectives
Industrial development of the North
After the war, passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments. Established freedoms for former slaves
Homestead Act, 1862

43. Open Door Policy of free trade in China with out conflict
Carving up China
U.S. in China
Open Door Policy of free trade in China with out conflict

44. Inventions/Innovations
Bessemer/steel process
Edison/electric light & phonograph…1000 patents
Bell/telephone
Wright Brothers/airplane
Ford/assembly line

45. Henry Ford’s
Assembly Line

46. Captains of Industry
John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil
Andrew Carnegie & Steel
JP Morgan…. Finance
Vanderbilt…railroads

47. Progressives
The Progressive Era the period from 1893 – 1920
Solve the problems of industrialization through government

48. Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Prevents any business structure that “restrains trade” (monopolies)
Clayton Anti-Trust Act expands Sherman Anti-Trust Act; outlaws price fixing, exempts unions from Sherman Act

49. Unions fight for change
Knights of Labor
American Federation of Labor founded by Samuel Gompers
Important Strikes: Haymarket Square, Homestead Strike, & Pullman Strike

50. Threats of Immigration
Immigration of 1880’s provides a cheap supply of labor for America’s Industrial Revolution
Eastern Europeans
Chinese Exclusion Act
Immigration restriction act of 1921