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Colonial Era "Revolutionary" Era
(1607-1776)
 Dutch set up outposts in PA, English
in Atlantic coast, French in LA and
Canada
 Colonization became dependent on
American religion
Diversity  Indians were a major group as well
 Before revolution, the identity of
the Americas was of a get-a-way.
 People could have a fresh start
American where they wouldn’t have to worry
about their debt in Europe.
Identity  The identity changed as different
nationalities came to the US.
 Several different cultures arose as
the colonies were established.
 Different nationalities had different
cultures along with the Islanders
Culture and Africans bringing in a
completely different culture.
 In the beg., the colonies were
settled by the immigrants but as the
time went by less and less
immigrants traveled to start new
colonies.
Demographi  The populations grew year by year
due to birth and immigration.
c Changes
Early Antebellum Era
(1776-1800)
 First federal census in 1790, one fifth was
African American, three fifths were English,
and one fifth was Scottish or Irish,
remainder being Dutch, French, German, or
Swedish.
 Differences in ethnicity didn’t really change
from the Colonial Era.
 The American Identity during the revolution
was mainly based upon the way people saw
people in America.
 America was thought of more like an
independent nation then a proprietorship.
 Republican Motherhood: children should
be raised in a republicanism manor where
they obey and know the republican way
 Loyalists and Patriots
 Valley Forge
 Mortality rate decreased while the birth
rate increased
 Migration wasn’t as dominant in the
Revolutionary Era but the idea of one
nation became more prevalent and
separate nationalities wasn’t thought of as
much
Late Antebellum Era
(1800-1830)
 Jefferson repealed the Alien
and Sedition Acts
 Bladensburg Races
 Gibbons vs. Ogden
 The idea of a greedy nation
became apparent through the wanting
of land and money
 Francis Scott Key: Composer of
the Star-Spangled Banner
 Old Hickory
 Oneidas
 The Shakers
 The Mormons
 The Transcendentalists
 Charles G. Finney and the
Second Great Awakening
 Universal White Manhood
Suffrage: right to vote, rights of minors
and non-citizens
(1830-1860)
 Freedman’s Bureau is established to
help former slaves
 Ku Klux Klan forms in TN
 First Women’s Rights meeting in
1848
 Black Codes: limit rights and
liberties of African Americans
  13th, 14th, 15th Amendments for civil
rights
 Ford’s Theater: place of Lincoln’s
assassination
 “crackers”
 “black belt”
 Underground Railroad
  Ku Klux Klan forms in TN
 First Women’s Rights meeting in
1848
 Manifest Destiny
 Black Codes: limit rights and
liberties of African Americans
 “An imaginary Negro in an
impossible place.”: Mark Stagmeiler
 Pottawatomie Massacre: in reaction
to sacking of Lawrence, killed 5 pro-
slaves
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 The Indians hunted and gathered as
means of an economic system
 Charter companies and the lifestyles
of the Europeans transformed the
Economic economic system of the Americas to
Transformations what it was going into the
Revolutionary era.
 The environment of the new
America’s was very diverse. In the
north (Canada) there were times
when you would go months with
just snow, but the islands had more
heat and saw the sun every day.
Environment
 Unified, common market
 No internal tariffs or taxes upon
internal commerce
 Mild central government with states
having majority of control
 Federalist No. 10
 Land Ordinance of 1785: provided
political organization of colonies north
of the Ohio River and west of the
Mississippi River
 Northwest Ordinance of 1787:
creation of the Northwest Territory as
the first organized territory of the
United States out of the region south
of the Great Lakes, north and west of
the Ohio River, and east of the
Mississippi River.
 The New Democracy
 Second Bank of the United States
 Henry Clay and the American System
 Judiciary Act of 1801
 Midnight Judges
 Tariff of Abominations 1828: South
 The South Carolina Exposition and
Protest: against Tariff of Abominations
 Spoils System
 Missouri Compromise
 Cumberland Highway
 Maysville Road
 Battle of the Thames
 Copperheads: group of Democrats
who opposed CW
 Clement Vallandigham: unionist in
Copperheads
 Appomattox Court House: first
county seat, Clover Hill, VA
  More Politics:
 Jefferson Davis: President of Confeds
 James Buchanan: “Old Buck”
 Manifest Destiny

 The Great Puritan Migration was a
migration of Protestants not
wanting to be persecuted in Europe
to the colonies where they could
live more freely.
Globalization  Hessians
 Treaty of Utrecht 1713
 Paris Peace 1763
 Scotch-Irish
 Treaty of Alliance 1778: promised
military support in case of attack by
British forces indefinitely into the
future.
 Treaty of Paris 1783: Florida was
ceded to Spain & Caribbean islands
were given back to the British
 Treaty of 1812  Morrill Tariff: protective tariff law
 Treaty of 1819  Mason-Dixon Line: dispute between
 Lewis & Clark Brits and Am.Col. for border of PA,
 Napoleon and selling Louisiana VA, MD, DE
 Barbary Pirates  Clayton-Bulwer Treaty: canal access
 Toussaint L’Ouverture in Nicaragua
 Missouri Compromise
 Cumberland Highway
 Tariff of 1816

 Indentured servitude was a means
of coming to the colonies to receive
citizenship.
 Politics in the beginning were
supposed to be different from that
Politics and of England’s but really there were
Citizenship only a few tweaks from the
European way of politics.
 Society of Cincinnati
 Civic virtue
 Annapolis Convention
 Virginia & New Jersey Plans
 Federalist No. 10
 Electoral College
 Second Continental Congress
 Common Sense by Thomas Paine
 Loyalists and Patriots; Tories
  John Quincy Adams  10% Plan: a state could be
 Francis Scott Key reintegrated into the Union when 10
 National Republicans percent of voters (as counted in the
 Revolution of 1828: Jackson’s election presidential election of 1860) had
 Old Hickory taken an oath of allegiance to the
 Macon’s Bill #2 U.S. and pledged to abide by
emancipation
 Swing Around the Circle: Andrew
Johnson disastrous speaking
campaign under taken tried to gain
support for his mild Reconstruction
policies
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 Reasons for the colonies beginning   Presbyterianism started along with the  Revolution of 1828: Jackson’s election  Wade-Davis Bill: program proposed
was the Protestant Reformation in Quakers who were there to save the slaves.  Webster-Hayne Debate for the Reconstruction of the
Europe during the 17th & 18th  Common Sense by Thomas Paine  Revolution of 1800 Southern-admittance to the Union
century  Treaty of Alliance of 1778  Social Reform: for former Confederate states
Reform  Temperance contingent on a majority in each
 Health & Sexuality Southern state to take the Ironclad
 Humanizing the asylum clan to the effect they had never in
the past supported the Confederacy.
 Religion was the basis of everything  Presbyterianism started along with the  The Prophet  More War & Diplomacy::
before and right after the colonial Quakers who were there to save the slaves.  Politics weren’t based upon religion as  William Tecumseh Sherman: general
era.  Anglican Church much as they were in colonial in CW
 Everything was based upon the  Congregationalism  The Man Without a Country:
Catholics and Protestants. describes life of an American soldier
 Northern colonies (MA, MD, PA) who renounces his country during a
Religion based everything upon religion (law). trial for treason
 Congregational Church  Fort Sumter: bombardment and
 The Church of England surrender of FS started CW
 Stonewall Jackson
 Rebel Yell: battle cry by Confeds
 Trent Affair
 Slavery was of the Barbadians and the  Shay’s Rebellion  Denmark Vesey: African slave from the   Freedman’s Bureau is established to
Atlantic Slave Trade Route didn’t take  Three-fifths compromise Caribbean that planned one of the help former slaves
Slavery and place until closer to the end of the  Slavery was beginning to be a massive would have been greatest slave  Ku Klux Klan forms in TN
Colonial Era. problem in the US uprising but was convicted and  Nat Turner leads slave revolt in VA
Its Legacies  The southern colonies were most executed before it could be carried out  Black Codes: limit rights and liberties
commonly the slave states. of African Americans
in North  Civil Rights Act: gave further rights
America  Emancipation Proclamation
 Confiscation Acts: free slaves held by
Confeds
 Seven Years’ War  Great Compromise  Battle of New Orleans  Bull Run (Manassas): first major
 Sugar Act 1764  Virginia & New Jersey Plan  Mr. Madison’s War battle over land in Civil War
 Quartering Act 1765  Battles at Lexington and Concord  Old Ironsides  George McClellan: general in CW;
 Stamp Act 1765  Breed’s Hill: the Battle of Bunker Hill  Hartford Convention organized Army of Potomac
 Declaratory Act  Evacuation Day of the British Troops  Rush-Bagot  Jeb Stuart: army officer for Confed.
 Townshend Acts  General William Howe  Washington Irving thought of highly by And. Jack.
 Crispus Attucks  “Gentleman Johnny” Burgoyne (British  James Fenimore Cooper  Merrimack and Monitor: Ironclads
 Boston Massacre General who surrendered troops to for North and South
War and American troops)  Battle of Antietam: first major battle
Diplomacy  Valley Forge to take place on Northern soil
 Battle of Saratoga  “Remember Fort Pillow”: battle
 Treaty of Alliance (1778) where AAs were massacred.
 Benedict Arnold  Battle of Gettysburg
 Siege of Yorktown where Washington  Ulysses S. Grant
defeated General Cornwallis  David G. Farragut: Battle of Mobile
 Treaty of Paris 1783 Bay
 Siege of Vicksburg: final siege
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