“Native” Americans
• Beringia
   – Eskimo
   – Northwest
   – Anasazi
      • Pueblos
      • Water conservation
   – Similarities
      • Diet
          – Hunt, farm, fish
      • Bows & arrows
      • No writing
• Vs. Europeans
    – Less dense
    – No wheels or ships
    – Small animals only
•   Ericsson
•   Prince Henry
•   Bartolomeu Dias
•   Vasco da Gama breaks
    Mediterranean
    monopoly 1498
• Portugal inches along
  African coast
   – Slaves
   – Religion
      • Cape Verde 1st plantations
• Ottoman Turks
   – Genoa & Venice
   – Atlantic nations look
     west
• Spain
  – Moors
• Columbus
  – Bad with the ruler
  – San Salvador
     • Bahamas
  – Hispaniola
     • La Navidad
  – Returns with natives
  – 4 trips
  – Columbian Exchange
     • Goods, ppl & ideas
• Treaty of Tordesillas
   – Portugal
   – Brazil only
   – de Gama 1498
• Cabot
   – Northwest Passage/ cod
• Cabral
   – Vespucci
• Balboa
• Magellan
   – West voyage not feasible
• Conquistadores
  – Cortez
     • Aztec
           – Empire, tribute, sacrific
             e
     • Spain most powerful after
  – Pizarro
     • Inca
• French
  – Verrazano
  – Cartier
• Up to now
  – No settlements in
    America
  – Spanish Empire
  – Portugal to China
  – International fishing
• Huguenots
   – Challenge to Spain
   – St. Augustine 1st
• England
   – John Hawkins Africa to
     Haiti
• Factors encouraging
  exploration
   – Technological advances
   – Monarchs looking to
     enlarge, enrich
   – Gold, glory & the Gospel
• England supplants Spain
  – Henry VIII
  – Elizabeth
     • Reform
  – Drake
  – Roanoke Island
  – Armada
     • Spain defends Cath.
     • English pond
England Colonizes in a Big Way
• Hakluyt
  – New trade partners
  – Ease unemployment
     • Pressure valve
     • 1530-1680 Pop doubled
       causing many to leave
• Joint-stock company
  – VA London
  – VA Plymouth
  – Takes time for profit
• Jamestown
  – License to poach
  – Terrible location
     • Swamp, drought
  – Gentlemen/servants
  – Search for gold
     • 38/144
         – Malnutrition, disease, Eur
           opean traditions of labor
         – Could have done better if
           they learned to farm
  – John Smith
     • Harsh
     • “The Starving Time”
• Powhatan Confederacy
   – Aid led to survival
   – Weapons for reinforcing
• Lord de la Warr
   – Irish tactics
       • Raid, burn, steal
       • Natives inferior
       • Almost exterminated due
         to VA success
• John Rolfe
   – Made VA a stable colony
   – Seals peace by marriage
• Spread of the vile weed          • Society of servants and
                                     ex-servants
   – Scattered settlements         • Sometimes sold
   – Constant encroaching          • Extended– legally
• Labor force                          – Stole, ran
                                         away, pregnant
   – Indentured                        – Women no marriage
      • Lack of labor                  – Freedom dues
      • Poor, willing           – Headright
      • Cheap, abundant            • Wealthy gentry class
      • 2x or 3x pay                   – More land, more
      • Most migrants to                 workers
        Chesapeake              – New arrivals in 1619
      • Many premature deaths      • Africans & wives?
• House of Burgesses
  – Series of harsh rulers
  – Representative self-
    government
     • Local laws only but, it set
       a precedent of self-
       government at local level
       in colonies
     • James hates tobacco and
       distrusted H of B.
     • Charter revoked
       1624, reinstated 1629
• Maryland
  – Proprietary
     • Lord B’more
     • Sanctuary
         – But… conflict
             » Majority
                Protestants as
                yeoman
             » Catholics as gentry
         – Act of Toleration 1649
     • Depended on tobacco &
       indentured servants
• Polarized society post
  1649
   – Land, money in east
   – Untamed in the west
   – Gov. Berkeley
      • No elections for 15 years
      • Only male landowners &
        heads of households
      • Monopolized fur trade w/
        Indians
      • Bacon’s Rebellion
          – Big guys & little
            guys, Berkeley removed
          – New workforce
• New England
• Pilgrims
  –   Separatists
  –   Too corrupt
  –   Holland
  –   Mayflower Compact
       • Political body & legal auth
       • Will of majority
  – Squanto
       • Pilgrims as allies
       • Thanksgiving
• Mass. Bay Colony
  – Covenant
     • Contract for a mission
  – “City Upon a Hill”
     • Reform the Church of Eng.
         – King’s puppet
  – Families, educated, colle
    ge
  – Voting rights
     • Property owning males
     • Popular got big tracts
The sewer where the “Lord’s debris”
        collected and rotted
• Connecticut
   – Thomas Hooker
   – All males
   – Fundamental Orders of CT.
• Rhode Island
   – Roger Williams
      • Land belonged to…
      • Freedom of religion
          – Newport 1658
   – Anne Hutchinson
      • Comm. Directly with God
Relations with Indians
• Pequot War of 1637
  – White settlement
    disrupted trade
  – Narragansett allies
  – Heavily criticized
     • Tried to Christianize
     • Indians knew only unity
       stops encroachment
• King Philip’s War
   – Encroachment
      • Surrounded Indian towns
      • Sassamon
      • Mohawk
      • Great Swamp
      • Sold into slavery
      • Debt, ruined
        frontier, hatred
      • Eunice Williams stayed
      • Mary Rowlandson–
        Redemption Rock
Trouble in New England
• Salem
  – Tituba
     • Witchcraft
     • Specters
  – Causes
     • Continual disorder
       explained by blame
          – Indian attacks
          – Decline of Puritan s.
          – Ergot
The Other Colonies
• New York
  –   1609 Hudson
  –   Albany
  –   New Netherlands
  –   New Amsterdam
       • Manhattan
       • Patroonships
       • Headright
           – Diverse
           – Huguenots
       • Peter Stuyvesant
       • Duke of York– James
• Pennsylvania
  –   Wm. Penn
  –   Quaker
  –   Proprietary
  –   Indians
       • Purchase land, deal
         fairly, respect claims
       • Those having probs
         elsewhere
  – Religious toleration
       • “in the souls there is no
         sex”
• Carolina
  – Restoration as others
  – Barbados
     • Charles Town
     • Slaves
     • Staple crop
         – Eliza Lucas
  – VA influence
• Georgia
  – Oglethorpe
  – Buffer/Reform
     • Between two empires
  – Savannah
Governing the Colonies
• Navigation Acts
   – Only English/colonial
     ships
   – Enumerated list
   – Make money/
     competition
   – Salutary Neglect
      • Robert Walpole
      • Admiralty Courts
• Crown attacks colony’s
  charters
   – Mass Bay
   – Dominion of New
     England
      • Under direct crown
        control
      • Land titles invalidated
      • Edmund Andros
      • Glorious Revolution
          – Mass Bay restored
– Leisler’s Rebellion
  – John Coode
• More Indian Wars
  – New York
     • Beaver Wars
     • Iroquois
         – European diseases
  – North Carolina
     • Tuscarora
         – Many enslaved
         – 6th Nation
• South Carolina
   – Yamassee
      • Abuse (slavery)
      • Lands
      • Spanish intrigue
• Slavery
   – Portuguese
      • Africans practiced
        violence
            – European didn’t have
              too
            – Xtianized them instead
– Triangular Trade
      • Products & trade basis of
        economy
      • Middle Passage
   – Rebellion
      • Stono
      • No overturn, no winning
        fight for freedom
• Colonial Experiences
   – The Great Awakening
      • First Shared
– Religious Indifference
     • Convert non-believer
     • Revive piety
  – Revivals
     • Jonathan Edwards
         – “Sinners…
     • Religious Diversity
• Enlightenment
  – Life, liberty, property
     • John Locke
         – Right of rebellion
     • Peter Zenger
– Religion
     • Deism
     • God the Clockmaker
  – Ben Franklin
     • Poor Richard’s
• The French in America
  – Champlain
     • Coureurs de bois
     • Black Robes
  – Robert de la Salle
     • Mississippi
– No suppression Indians
         – Like European goods
     • Kept Spanish away
• Wars with France
  – King William/Queen
    Anne
     • Mostly European
     • Frontier towns attacked
         – Still need English prot.
  – King George’s War
     • Louisbourg
         – Colonists furious
             » Boston widows
• French/Indian War
  – Contested land
     • Ohio Valley
     • French forts
     • Gov. Dinwiddie
         – Washington
            » Surrenders
            » British retaliate
                 • Nova Scotia
  – Albany Congress
     • Albany Plan for Union
         – Ben Franklin
» Win Indians
           » Colonists meet
             annually
           » Refused by colony
             & crown
               • Independence
                  – not
                  enough, too
                  much
– General Braddock
   • Duquesne
   • Colonists refused
   • British feel colony bear
     responsibility
   • Indians side with French–
     less land hungry
– William Pitt
   • Better commanders
       – Local recruitment
   • Finance thoroughly, but…
       – Boon to colonial
         economy
   • Focus on NA not WI
       – Attack Quebec
       – Cripple colonies
       – Plains of Abraham
            » Wolfe/Montcalm
            » Iroquois ally GB
– Treaty of Paris
   • Indians lose land
   • England east, Spain west
– Colonial hangover
   • Colonists
       – Military confidence
       – Colonists treated poorly
           » No promotions
           » Discipline brutal
           » Amateurs
   • British concerns
       – Am. Trade w/ enemy
       – Am. Headed west
• Pontiac’s Rebellion
   – Refused to surrender
     lands
   – British raised prices
   – Several Br. Forts attacked
   – Many lives
   – Germ warfare
• Proclamation of 1763
   – Keep peace
   – Soldiers stationed here
• British problems
   – War debt
   – Colonists should help
     pay for empire
   – Pitt’s role
   – Standing Army
     (where?!?)
   – Quartering Act
• Sugar Act
   – Molasses Act
   – Rewards for capture
• Stamp Act
  – Internal tax
  – James Otis
     • No rep in Parle
     • Direct rep here
     • Grenville virtual
  – Sons & Daughters
     • Boycott
  – VA Resolves
     • Patrick Henry
     • Caesar, Chas I and George
– Stamp Act Congress
   • First successful union
   • 9 of 13
   • Rights & Grievances
       – Tax and represent redux
       – Jury w/o trial
       – Restrict on trade
   • Prevent distribution
       – Andrew Oliver
           » Effigy
       – Thomas Hutchinson
           » All resigned
• Boycott worked
     • Declaratory Act
• Townsend Acts
  – Revenue Act of 1765
  – Customs collectors paid
    by crown
  – Tax on
    lead, glass, paint, tea
  – Writs of assistance
  – New York Assembly
– Circular Letter
     • Sam Adams
     • Tax w/o consent?
     • VA Assembly agrees
       dissolved
• Currently
  – Taxes
  – Houses searched
  – Troops stationed at the
    center of hotbeds
• Boston Massacre
  – March 5, 1770
  – Soldiers withdrawn
  – Townsend repealed
• Gaspée
  – Crown’s commission to
    find perpetrators
  – Committees of
    Correspondence
     • Cooperation to oppose
• Boston Tea Party
   – British East India Tea Co.
      •   Smuggled tea
      •   Tax lowered
      •   Favoritism
      •   Hurt current suppliers
      •   Hurt smugglers
• “Intolerable” Acts
   – 1. Boston Harbor
   – 2. Mass. Charter
   – 3. Trials in England
– 4. New Quartering Act
   – 5. Quebec Act
      • New borders
          – Land granted to
            Catholics!
          – No precedent
   – General Gage
• First Continental
  Congress
   – Rights & Grievances
      • Hope for cooler heads in
        Parlement– no response
• Continental Association
          – Manage boycott
          – Ben Franklin
              » “we must hang
                 together…”
          – Colonists forced to
            choose sides
   – Meet again in one year
• Lexington & Concord 4/75
   – Stockpiles
   – Paul Revere/Wm. Dawes
   – Sam Adams/John Hancock
– Boston under siege
• Second Continental
  Congress
   – G. Washington C-in-C
   – Mass Militia named Cont.
     Army
• Bunker Hill
   –   3 attempts
   –   Pyrrhic victory
   –   Hessians
   –   Ports closed
   –   Halifax
• Ethan Allen
• Canadian Invasion
   – Benedict Arnold
• Common Sense
   – Thomas Paine
• Hessian’s (unpopularity)
• Fawkes Day
   – Need European support
• Independence needed
  – Richard Henry Lee
  – “These colonies…”
     • Adams, Franklin, Jeff
     • SC & GA edit
         – All men…
         – Life, liberty &
         – Government purpose to
           allow
         – Government derives
           power
         – If government fails to
           allow
• All signers… treason
      • All states write their own
• Battle of New York
   – No pursuit
   – Desertion
   – The Crisis
• British ad/disad
   – Army
   – 3000 miles
   – Re-conquer judiciously
• New Jersey
  – Delaware
  – Trenton
  – Princeton
• Americans
  – Good officers as well as
    bad
  – Home game
  – Women
     •   Nurses
     •   Domestic
     •   Shurtleff
     •   Pitcher
• Britain cuts off New Eng
   – Howe
   – Philadelphia
      • Brandywine
      • No accomplishment
   – Burgoyne
   – Saratoga
      • One of the biggest
      • French
          – Repossess
          – Fear reconcile
      • Home-rule
• Valley Forge
         – Baron von Steuben

• War in the West
  – Joseph Brandt
     • Iroquois Alliance
  – George Rogers Clark
  – Indians mostly neutral to
    leaning British
• War on the Sea
  – John Paul Jones
• Bonhomme Richard
  – Privateers
• War in the South
  – Charleston/ Savannah
     • Put Tories in charge
     • African- Americans
     • Nathaniel Greene
         – We fight…
         – Guerrilla
             » Marion
             » Sumter
             » Further inland
• Yorktown
   – De Grasse
   – Cut their losses
• Treaty of Paris
• State Constitutions
   – Governors
   – Bi-cameral
   – Limit voting rights
      • South “at least you…”
   – VA had bill of rights
• Republican government
   – Elect reps
   – Weak central gov’t
• Articles of Confederation
      •   Foreign affairs
      •   Maintain army
      •   Borrow
      •   Issue currency
   – Could not
      •   Regulate trade
      •   Draft
      •   Tax
      •   Laws 9/13, amend 13/13
      •   No exec, no judiciary
• One vote per
      • Ratification problems
          – Western lands
          – 3/1781
   – Accomplishments
      • Won war
      • Foreign affairs
      • New states
• Land policy
   – Ordinance of 1785
      • 1st independent source of
        revenue
•   6x6
     •   Education
     •   Auction
     •   Speculators
     •   640 for $1 each
• Ordinance of 1787
  – Northwest Territory
  – 3 to 5 (equal) states
     • 60,000
  – Bill of Rights
  – No slavery but…
• Problems with Money
  –   Soldiers wages
  –   March on PHL
  –   Paper worthless
  –   Dept of Finance
       • Robert Morris
       • 5% imports
           – Denied (gov’t too
             powerful?)
• Post war depression
   –   Rice crop
   –   Farms confiscated
   –   WI closed
   –   Britain flooded states
• Shays’ Rebellion
   – Mass broke
   – Tax farmers
   – Confiscate land
   – Shays marches to courts/
     arsenal
   – A of C not strong enough
• Slavery
   – Immediate to gradual
     freedom
   – VA manumission
   – “All men…”
      • Quok Walker
      • South… not human
      • NJ
• Const. Convention
   – Annapolis Conf.
– Madison/Hamilton
   • Change A of C– too weak
   • 55 delegates– lawyers
– VA Plan
   • Bi-cameral
   • Pop. proportioned
   • Exec chosen by legis.
– NJ Plan
   • Uni-cameral
   • Plural execs
• Great Compromise
   – Roger Sherman
   – Bi-cameral
      •   House, Senate
      •   3/5 clause
      •   Slavery till 1808
      •   9 of 13 ratify
• Ratification
   – Federalists/anti-
     Federalist
      • Fear distance power
      • Bill of Rights
– Delaware
   – New Hampshire
   – VA
      • Bill to be added
   – NY
      • Federalist Papers
          – Failure of A of C

• First Election
   – Washington
      • Adams
• Dept of Treasury
   – Hamilton
• State
   – Jefferson
• War
• “Cabinet”
   – Advisers
• Judiciary Act of 1789
   – Supreme Ct.
   – John Jay
• Bill of Rights
   – Madison
   – 12-10
   – No mention of who can
     vote
• Financial problems
   – Hamilton
      • Tariff
      • South no
   – Report on Public Credit
– Fed debt at par
     • Speculators (wealthy)
  – Assumption
     • States have stake
     • South not happy
     • Washington D.C.
• National Bank
  – Vault, loans, currency
  – Strict
  – Loose
     • Necessary and…
     • Political parties
• Whiskey Rebellion
  – Hamilton’s programs
     •   25%
     •   Bartering
     •   Serious threat
     •   Nationalize PA militia
• Frontier problems
  – Indians look to Eng./Sp.
  – Anthony Wayne
     • Fallen Timbers
     • Greenville
           – Ohio
• European problems
  – Revolution
     •   Neutrality
     •   Citizen Genet
     •   Jefferson resigns
     •   British impress
  – Jay’s Treaty
     •   Hamilton’s role
     •   Northwest
     •   Pay for ships
     •   Allow trade w/ Brit. W.I.
• Freed slaves?
     • Executive privilege
  – Pinckney’s Treaty
     • Spain
     • Right of Deposit
     • Mississippi
• Washington’s Farewell
  – Precedent
  – Party system
  – Alliances
• Election of 1796
   –   Adams
   –   Jefferson
   –   71-68
   –   12th Amendment
• Adam’s presidency
   – Problems w/ France
   – XYZ Affair
        • Shipping
        • Talleyrand
– Undeclared war
   • Dept of Navy
– Alien & Sedition Acts
   • Aimed at Republicans
       – 14 year
   • Sedition Act
– KY & VA resolutions
   • Compact
   • Nullification
• Election of 1800
   – Adams
      •   A/S
      •   Taxes for Navy
      •   Whiskey
      •   Jay’s Treaty
   – Jefferson
      •   Atheist
      •   Jacobin
      •   Sally Hemings
      •   Burr as help
      •   Tie
      •   “Revolution”
• Jefferson Presidency
   – States center
      • Compact
   – Capital
   – Debt paid down
      •   Gallatin
      •   Army/navy
      •   Excise tax
      •   Sedition Act
      •   Naturalization repealed
      •   Kept par, et al
• Midnight Appointments
  –   Federalists
  –   John Marshall
  –   Marbury v. Madison
  –   Writ of Mandamus
  –   Judicial Review
  –   Samuel Chase
• Foreign Policy
      • Tripoli
      • Stephen Decatur
   – Louisiana Purchase
      •   French control/empire?
      •   Right of Deposit
      •   Eli Whitney
      •   Livingston/Madison
      •   Haiti
            – Toussaint L’Ouverture
      • Napoleon needs $$$
        more
•   Feds oppose
•   Strict v. Loose
•   Doubled size
•   Lewis & Clark
      –   Good relations
      –   Flora/fauna
      –   Water route
      –   Oregon
      –   Sacajawea
      –   Louisiana 1812
• Domestic Issues
  – Essex Junto
     • New England, NY, NJ
         –   Feds losing influence
         –   Burr as governor
         –   Hamilton
         –   Southwest Empire?
• 2nd Term
  – Problems w/ Britain &
    France
     • Continental System
     • Orders in Council
• Impressment
          – 6,000 1808-1811
      • Chesapeake v. Leopard
      • Embargo Act
          – Disaster
          – Smuggling
      • Non- Intercourse Act
• Election of 1808
   – Madison
   – Feds gain seats
   – Macon’s Bill #2
– War Hawks
   •   Henry Clay
   •   John C. Calhoun
   •   Andrew Jackson
   •   All anti-British
– Tippecanoe
   •   Wm. Henry Harrison
   •   Tecumseh
   •   Federation
   •   Tecumseh flees
• Causes for War
  –   War Hawks want Canada
  –   Florida
  –   Impressment
  –   Federalists oppose
  –   Sectional vote
  –   Orders in Council
      suspended but news
      travels slow
• War of 1812
  – Ads:
     • Britain tied up w/Nap
     • Home game
     • Canada target w/ little
       pop.
  – Dis-ad:
     • Small army &
       old/untrained
     • “Mr. Madison’s War”
• Invasion of Canada
   – William Hull
   – NY Militia
• Lake Erie
   – Oliver Hazard Perry
   – Thames
      • Retreating British
      • Tecumseh
      • York
• At Sea
  – USS Constitution
     • 2 big victories
  – Inland lakes
  – Privateers
  – British blockade
     • Economy crippled
     • Treasury broke
           – Bank expired
• 1814 Napoleon defeated
  – Chesapeake
     • Washington
     • Baltimore
         – Francis Scott Key
  – Hudson
     • Plattsburgh
     • Macdonough
     • War too costly
  – Southwest Campaign
     • Jackson
– Horseshoe Bend
– Treaty of Ghent
   • Status Quo Ante Bellum
   • New Orleans
– Hartford Convention
   •   Feds last hurrah
   •   Openly traded w/ Britain
   •   State militias
   •   3/5 clause
   •   60 day embargo
   •   1 term President
• No successive President
        from same state
      • 2/3 vote for new states
      • Poor timing
• Era of Good Feelings
   – 1816 Elections
      • James Monroe
      • Little opposition
   – Nationalism High
   – BUS re-chartered 1816
      • Local banks
• War effort hurt
– Tariff of 1816
   • Protective
– Florida
   • Adams-Onis
– Rush-Bagot/Convention
  of 1818
   • Demilitarized
   • 49th Parallel
• Panic of 1819
   –   Westward migration
   –   Steamships
   –   Wildcat
   –   Distrust of BUS
        • McCulloch v. MD
• MO Compromise
   – Whitney & LA Purchase
        • Slavery forefront
        • Profitable & expanding
– Balanced Senate
   • Tallmadge Amendment
      – Gradual Abolition
      – Precedent?
          » LA Purchase
          » South too?
– Compromise by Clay
   • MO/ME
   • 36’36”
• Foreign Policy (Monroe)
   – Monroe Doctrine
      •   Great Britain
      •   West closed
      •   US stays out of Europe
      •   GB motives
• Election of 1824
   – Caucus
   – One party
   – Crawford—Clay– Adams
     – Jackson
– Jackson wins popular
  – Jackson wins electoral
     •   Plurality
     •   House
     •   Clay’s role
     •   Corrupt Bargain?
• Adam’s Presidency
  – Internal improvements
  – National Road
  – Canals
     • Erie
– National University?
   – Naval College?
• Election of 1828
   – Jackson
      • Democratic Republicans
      • Property qual. Dropped
          – RI 1842
      • Mudslinging
      • Rachel
   – Adams
      • National Republicans
• Jackson’s Presidency
   – King Mob– inauguration
   – Spoils System
      • Loyalists
      • Beginnings of patronage
• Jackson & Tariff of 1828
   – Inherited
   – Abominations
      • South manuf. little
      • South sold worldwide
      • Slavery?
• MO fires rekindled
        • Denmark Vesey 1822
   – SC Exposition
        • Calhoun
        • KY & VA Resolutions
• “Nullies”
   –   Tariff of 1832
   –   Too little
   –   Nullified
   –   Secession?
– Jackson… “Hang the
  first”
– Clay Compromise
   • 1833 Tariff
– Force Bill
– SC repealed nullification
   • Nullified Force Bill
• Indian Removal– Trail of
  Tears
   – Five Civilized Tribes
      •   Cherokee
      •   Alphabet
      •   Sequoyah
      •   Slave owners
   – Worcester v. GA
      • Sovereign
      • “John Marshall has made
        his decision…”
– West to “save” them
  – Sauk/Fox
       • Blackhawk
  – Seminole/Osceola
• Eaton Malaria
  –   Peggy wife of John
  –   Sec’y of War
  –   Floride Calhoun
  –   Rachel
  –   Cabinet resigned
– Martin Van Buren
  – VP frontrunner
• Bank War & Election of
  1832
  –   BUS controlled economy
  –   Answers to no one
  –   Controlled gold/silver
  –   Nicholas Biddle
  –   Clay asks for re-charter 4
      years early (1832)
– Vetoed (as many others)
• Clay & National
  Republicans
   – Nomination conventions
     with platforms (1st )
   – First third party
      •   Anti-Mason
      •   William Wirt
      •   Anti-Jackson
      •   Morphed in with Whigs
• Killing the Bank
   – Mandate
   – Taney
   – Biddle tries to create
     crisis
   – “Pet” banks
   – More wildcats
   – Specie Circular
      • “Hard” currency only
      • Led to another panic
• Whigs & Election of
  1836
   – King Andrew the First
   – Only issue– Jackson
      • South hates tariff
      • North hates slavery
      • Clay hates Jackson
      • West lovers American
        System
      • Anti-Masons
   – Favorite Sons– Wm.
     Henry Harrison
• Van Buren’s Presidency
  – First born in “America”
  – “Machine-made”
     • Other Dems resented
  – Trouble in Maine
     • Aroostook
     • Webster-Ashburton 1842
  – Abolitionism in full swing
– Panic of 1837
   •   Land spec.
   •   Wildcats
   •   Specie Circular
   •   Wheat crop fail
   •   Pet banks failed
         – Government $$$
   • Buren– laissez faire
   • Independent Treasury Bill
– Trail of Tears 1838
– Texas
• Election of 1840
   – Tippecanoe & Tyler too!
   – “Log Cabin Campaign”
   – Martin van Buren
• John Tyler
   – “His Accidency”
   – Anti-tariff, bank, internal
     improvements
• Whig Congress
   – Ended Independent
     Treasury
– Passed BUS
     • Vetoed
     • Mass resignations
     • Expelled by Whig caucus
• Texas
  – Mexico 1821
     • Needed population
     • Stephen Austin
     • Mexico wants
          – 300 Roman Cath.
          – Mexicanized
• Many just ahead of US
        law
      • Many bring slaves
      • Mexico emancipated
        1830
      • Austin to Mex. City
      • All local rights suspended
        by Santa Anna
          – Raises army

• Lone Star Republic
   – 1836 independence
   – Sam Houston Pres.
– Alamo
   • Davy Crockett/ Jim Bowie
        – Martyrs
– San Jacinto
   •   Forced terms
   •   Independence
   •   Rio Grande
   •   Repudiated
   •   TX Annexation?
        – No, recognize
        – Northern protest
        – Mexico– province in
          revolt
• Texas attracts plenty of
        attention
          – Cotton, no tariffs
• Election of 1844
   – Texas biggest issue
   – Clay– waffled
   – Polk– Dem—dark-horse
      • Pro-annexation
          – Texas, Oregon, Californi
            a
          – “54’40 or fight”
   – Liberty Party– NY!
– Tyler sees election as
    mandate
       • Joint resolution
• Oregon
  –   Britain losing pop. Race
  –   Robert Gray
  –   Lewis & Clark
  –   Manifest Destiny
  –   Polk cooled post-TX
       • War
       • South not excited for
         Oregon
• Oregon not excited for
       South or Polk
• Problems with Mexico
  – Polk wants Calif.
  – Mex. Recalls ambassador
    post annex
  – Neuces  Rio Grande
    “no man’s land”
  – Slidell to buy
  – Zack Taylor to Rio
    Grande
– “American blood shed…”
     • US declared war
     • “Spot resolutions”
     • Northerners not happy
         – Henry David Thoreau
  – But, Britain ready to
    seize
• War with Mexico
  – Polk hopes for quick
    victories
  – Santa Anna offers help
– Taylor heads south
     • Buena Vista
  – Winfield Scott
     • Veracruz
     • Together, must capture
       Mex. City
• Treaty of Guadalupe
  Hidalgo
  – NM & CA
• Effects of war
   – 1st invasion
   – 13,000 dead
      • Mostly disease
   – Experience for next war
      • Who did fighting?
• Slavery issue rekindled
   – Wilmot Proviso
   – Southern “Slavocracy”
• Election of 1848
   – Democrats– Lewis Cass
      • Popular sovereignty
      • No stand on slavery in
        territories
   – Whigs– Zack Taylor
      • Hero
      • Slaveholder
      • No stand in territories
   – Free Soil Party– Van
     Buren
– Amalgamation of those…
        •   Against slavery
        •   Pro-Wilmot
        •   Racists not into sharing
        •   Abolitionists
        •   NY again!
• California Dreaming
   –   John Sutter
   –   Growing fast
   –   Need government bad
   –   Taylor encourages
       statehood
– Bypass territory status
  – Still tied in Senate
     • Nothing on horizon for
       South
     • As precedent for rest of
       Mexican Cession
• Compromise of 1850
  – Clay
  – Taylor dead
  – Fugitive Slave Law
     • Underground RR
     • Harriet Tubman
– CA free– permanently
     tilted
   – NM & Utah– pop. Sov.
   – Slave trade in DC
• North opposition to FSL
   – $5 free, $10 returned
   – Aid in escape? Fines and
     jail
   – Personal Liberty Laws
      • Denied use of jails
      • MA nullify
   – South losing face
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin
   – Harriet Beecher Stowe
     1852
• Election of 1852
   – Democrats– Franklin
     Pierce
      • Dark-horse
      • Pro-slavery northerner
      • “the hero of many a
        bottle”
– Whigs– need another
     war hero
        • No to Fillmore
        • Winfield Scott
        • Whigs not in agreement
            – End of Party
• Pierce Presidency
   –   Pro-expansion
   –   Wm. Walker– Nicaragua
   –   Cuba– Ostend Manifesto
   –   Gadsden Purchase
        • Terminus?
– Kansas-Nebraska Act
      • Northern Terminus too?
      • Stephen Douglas
      • Two territories
          – Pop. Sov.
          – Voided MO Comp.
          – North gave up on any
            enforcement of FSL
          – New Party
• Republicans
   – Prevent spread
   – Dem becomes Southern
   – Rep. in South?
• Bleeding Kansas
  – NE Emigrant Aid
  – Beecher’s Bibles
  – South there was an
    understanding
  – Territorial government
     •   Border Ruffians
     •   Lecompton
     •   Topeka
     •   Pierce chooses
– Violence
   • Lawrence
   • Pottawatomie Creek
       – John Brown
– Senate Problems
   • Charles Sumner
   • “The Crime Against
     Kansas”
   • Andrew Butler– Preston
     Brooks
• Election of 1856
   – Democrats tainted by
     Kansas
   – James Buchanan
      • Doughface
      • Pro-popular sovereignty
   – Republicans
      • Fremont
      • No slavery in territories
   – Know-Nothing
      • Anti-
      • Milliard Fillmore
• Dred Scott
  – Roger Taney
     •   No citizen
     •   Property
     •   5th Amendment
     •   MO Comp Unconst.
     •   Rep. called opinion
           – Defiance of SC
           – Buch. & Taney part of
             “Slave Conspiracy”
           – Southerners incensed
• Illinois Senate Election
  1858
   – Lincoln –Douglas
     Debates
      • Freeport Doctrine
      • Douglas wins/loses South
          – Split Dems
      • Lincoln gets attn
• Harper’s Ferry
   – John Brown– part II
   – “Secret Six”
• Election of 1860
   – Democrats split
   – North wing
      • Douglas
   – South wing
      • John C. Breckinridge (KY)
          – Federal protection of
            slavery
• Republicans
   – Lincoln
      • RRs, Homesteads, Tariff
      • NO EXTENSION OF
        SLAVERY
– Const. Union Party
     • John Bell (KY)
• Secession
  – South Car. + 6
  – Montgomery– CSA
     • Republican Party forced
       them either now or later
     • North won’t fight
     • North needs cotton
  – Jeff Davis
  – Buchanan “Lame Duck”
– Compromise?
     • Crittenden
  – Inaugural
     • Respect where existed
     • War in hands of South
• Fort Sumter
  – Anderson/ Beauregard
  – South aggressor helps
     • Border states stay but
         – MD, MO, KY
         – Habeas corpus
– 75,000 for 90
– Upper South secedes
   • Richmond
   • South blockaded
– Ad South
   • Defensive– military
     superior– cotton
– Dis-Ad
   • No factories– lousy
     transportation– 9 million
     minus 3.5– state’s rights
– Ad North
   • Factories– RR—Navy– 22
     million + immigration
– Dis-Ad
   • military top to bottom
– Southern Aims
   • European intervention
       –   Cotton
       –   Warehouses full
       –   Egypt—India
       –   North traded
           grain, corn
– Diplomacy
   • Trent
   • CSS Alabama
       – 15.5 million fine
– Staffing
   • North– 1863– subs– NYC
   • South– 1862– subs
       – “Rich man’s war but a
         poor man’s fight”
– Finances
   • North– Nat’l Banking
     System–
     greenbacks, bonds, tariffs
   • 1st millionaires
• South
        – Bonds, graybacks, farm
          tax
        – Blockade & invasion
          crushed economy
        – Transportation suffered
– Women
  •   Jobs– farms, industry
  •   Sewing machine
  •   Spies
  •   Professional nurses
        – Clara Barton, Dorothea
          Dix
• And the War Came
  –   Bull Run
  –   “picnic”
  –   Skedaddled
  –   South– overconfident
  –   North– fight harder
• McClellan & Peninsula
  – Jackson tricks
  – Stuart encircles
  – Lee defeats
• War at Sea
  – Blockade becomes more
    effective
  – Merrimac (VA)
  – Monitor
• On to Antietam
  – 2nd Bull Run
  – Lee invades MD
  – McClellan restored
     • Plans found, bloodiest
       day, draw, Burnside
– Results
   • GB & France no recog.
   • Emancipation Proc.
       – “he did where he
         couldn’t and didn’t…”
   • Moral cause stronger
   • Off-year elections lost
   • South thought he was
     starting an insurrection
   • Now destroy the “Old”
     South
• African Americans
  – 180,000; 38,000 dead
  – 54th Mass
     • Wagner, Rob’t Shaw
     • Fort Pillow
• On to Gettysburg
  – Burnside
     • Fredericksburg
  – Hooker
     • Chancellorsville
     • Stonewall Jackson
– Meade
– Lee invades North again
   •   Take attn off VA
   •   Rile peace protestors
   •   Pickett’s Charge
   •   “High water mark”
   •   Gettysburg Address
– War in the West
   • Lincoln finds his general
   • Henry & Donelson
         – Keep KY & open TN
– Shiloh
– New Orleans
– Vicksburg
   • Loss of western supply
   • Day after Gettysburg
– Chattanooga &
  Chickamauga
   • Cleared TN of Rebels
   • Grant promoted
   • Sherman takes West
     command
– Atlanta– Savannah
      •   Total war
      •   Live land
      •   Sherman “neckties”
      •   Destroyed
          supplies/morale
            – Desertions up
      • Worst for South Car.
• Elections of 1864
• National Union Party
   – Andrew Johnson
– Democrats
      • McClellan
   – Sheridan/Sherman seal
   – Soldiers furloughed
   – South more despondent
• Grant in the East
   – Lee
   – Wilderness—
     Spotsylvania—Cold
     Harbor
      • The “Butcher”
– Petersburg
– Richmond
– Lee corned at
  Appomattox
– Davis caught in GA
– Lincoln
   • Ford’s Theatre
   • John Wilkes Booth
• Reconstruction
  – Economy
     •   Banks
     •   Transportation
     •   Farms
     •   Cotton– overreliance
  – Freedmen’s Bureau
     • O. O. Howard
           – Clothing, food, medical
             care, education
           – 1st large federal welfare
           – Help AA adjust to
             freedom
– President Andrew John
   • TN
   • Used for Border States
   • Presidential Recon
       – Lincoln
       – 10%
       – Wade-Davis 50%
            » Congress– who has
              the right?
            » Suicide–
              conquered
            » Pocket-veto
– Two Camps
   • Moderates
   • Radicals
– Johnson Tries
   • Used Lincoln’s
   • Congress not in session
   • Personal petitions
       – Granted pardons
         undermining
   • Ratify 13th
   • Declare secession illegal
       – Many ignored him
– Black Codes
   •   Servility
   •   Contracts
   •   Sharecroppers
   •   No land, no vote, no jury
– South Congressmen
   •   Alex Stephens
   •   Republicans alarmed
   •   12 new votes
   •   Johnson declares
       Reconstruction a success
– Republican
  accomplishments
   • Tariff, Homestead
     Act, Pacific RR Act
– South gains 12 seats
– Congress takes over
   • Freedmen vetoed
   • Civil Rights Bill– vetoed &
     overruled
   • 14th Amendment
   • 10 states refuse
   • Off-year elections
– Radicals
   • Sumner (Senate) &
     Stevens (House)
   • Reconstruction Act
       –   5 districts
       –   Tenure of Office Act
       –   Edwin Stanton
       –   Impeached
   • 15th Amendment
– Election of 1868
– Grant
   • 500,000 new voters
– Ku Klux Klan
   • Intimidate, Redeem
   • Enforcement Act
– Redemption
   • Grand-father
     clause, literacy test, poll
     tax
– Grant’s Admin
   • Corrupt
   • Hurts Recon
   • Democrats win House
     1874
• Election of 1876
   –   Democrats– Tilden
   –   Republicans– Hayes
   –   South Car, LA, FLA
   –   Compromise
        •   Hayes
        •   Troops pulled
        •   South RR & aid
        •   Cabinet member
        •   Most gains erased
•   1890s Jim Crow
•   1896 Plessy v. Ferguson
•   1954 Brown v. Board
•   Solid South
      – Reagan 1980
Ccri ppt 2012 a

Ccri ppt 2012 a

  • 1.
    “Native” Americans • Beringia – Eskimo – Northwest – Anasazi • Pueblos • Water conservation – Similarities • Diet – Hunt, farm, fish • Bows & arrows • No writing
  • 2.
    • Vs. Europeans – Less dense – No wheels or ships – Small animals only • Ericsson • Prince Henry • Bartolomeu Dias • Vasco da Gama breaks Mediterranean monopoly 1498
  • 3.
    • Portugal inchesalong African coast – Slaves – Religion • Cape Verde 1st plantations • Ottoman Turks – Genoa & Venice – Atlantic nations look west
  • 4.
    • Spain – Moors • Columbus – Bad with the ruler – San Salvador • Bahamas – Hispaniola • La Navidad – Returns with natives – 4 trips – Columbian Exchange • Goods, ppl & ideas
  • 5.
    • Treaty ofTordesillas – Portugal – Brazil only – de Gama 1498 • Cabot – Northwest Passage/ cod • Cabral – Vespucci • Balboa • Magellan – West voyage not feasible
  • 6.
    • Conquistadores – Cortez • Aztec – Empire, tribute, sacrific e • Spain most powerful after – Pizarro • Inca • French – Verrazano – Cartier
  • 8.
    • Up tonow – No settlements in America – Spanish Empire – Portugal to China – International fishing
  • 9.
    • Huguenots – Challenge to Spain – St. Augustine 1st • England – John Hawkins Africa to Haiti • Factors encouraging exploration – Technological advances – Monarchs looking to enlarge, enrich – Gold, glory & the Gospel
  • 10.
    • England supplantsSpain – Henry VIII – Elizabeth • Reform – Drake – Roanoke Island – Armada • Spain defends Cath. • English pond
  • 12.
    England Colonizes ina Big Way • Hakluyt – New trade partners – Ease unemployment • Pressure valve • 1530-1680 Pop doubled causing many to leave • Joint-stock company – VA London – VA Plymouth – Takes time for profit
  • 13.
    • Jamestown – License to poach – Terrible location • Swamp, drought – Gentlemen/servants – Search for gold • 38/144 – Malnutrition, disease, Eur opean traditions of labor – Could have done better if they learned to farm – John Smith • Harsh • “The Starving Time”
  • 14.
    • Powhatan Confederacy – Aid led to survival – Weapons for reinforcing • Lord de la Warr – Irish tactics • Raid, burn, steal • Natives inferior • Almost exterminated due to VA success • John Rolfe – Made VA a stable colony – Seals peace by marriage
  • 15.
    • Spread ofthe vile weed • Society of servants and ex-servants – Scattered settlements • Sometimes sold – Constant encroaching • Extended– legally • Labor force – Stole, ran away, pregnant – Indentured – Women no marriage • Lack of labor – Freedom dues • Poor, willing – Headright • Cheap, abundant • Wealthy gentry class • 2x or 3x pay – More land, more • Most migrants to workers Chesapeake – New arrivals in 1619 • Many premature deaths • Africans & wives?
  • 16.
    • House ofBurgesses – Series of harsh rulers – Representative self- government • Local laws only but, it set a precedent of self- government at local level in colonies • James hates tobacco and distrusted H of B. • Charter revoked 1624, reinstated 1629
  • 17.
    • Maryland – Proprietary • Lord B’more • Sanctuary – But… conflict » Majority Protestants as yeoman » Catholics as gentry – Act of Toleration 1649 • Depended on tobacco & indentured servants
  • 18.
    • Polarized societypost 1649 – Land, money in east – Untamed in the west – Gov. Berkeley • No elections for 15 years • Only male landowners & heads of households • Monopolized fur trade w/ Indians • Bacon’s Rebellion – Big guys & little guys, Berkeley removed – New workforce
  • 19.
    • New England •Pilgrims – Separatists – Too corrupt – Holland – Mayflower Compact • Political body & legal auth • Will of majority – Squanto • Pilgrims as allies • Thanksgiving
  • 20.
    • Mass. BayColony – Covenant • Contract for a mission – “City Upon a Hill” • Reform the Church of Eng. – King’s puppet – Families, educated, colle ge – Voting rights • Property owning males • Popular got big tracts
  • 21.
    The sewer wherethe “Lord’s debris” collected and rotted • Connecticut – Thomas Hooker – All males – Fundamental Orders of CT. • Rhode Island – Roger Williams • Land belonged to… • Freedom of religion – Newport 1658 – Anne Hutchinson • Comm. Directly with God
  • 22.
    Relations with Indians •Pequot War of 1637 – White settlement disrupted trade – Narragansett allies – Heavily criticized • Tried to Christianize • Indians knew only unity stops encroachment
  • 23.
    • King Philip’sWar – Encroachment • Surrounded Indian towns • Sassamon • Mohawk • Great Swamp • Sold into slavery • Debt, ruined frontier, hatred • Eunice Williams stayed • Mary Rowlandson– Redemption Rock
  • 24.
    Trouble in NewEngland • Salem – Tituba • Witchcraft • Specters – Causes • Continual disorder explained by blame – Indian attacks – Decline of Puritan s. – Ergot
  • 25.
    The Other Colonies •New York – 1609 Hudson – Albany – New Netherlands – New Amsterdam • Manhattan • Patroonships • Headright – Diverse – Huguenots • Peter Stuyvesant • Duke of York– James
  • 26.
    • Pennsylvania – Wm. Penn – Quaker – Proprietary – Indians • Purchase land, deal fairly, respect claims • Those having probs elsewhere – Religious toleration • “in the souls there is no sex”
  • 27.
    • Carolina – Restoration as others – Barbados • Charles Town • Slaves • Staple crop – Eliza Lucas – VA influence
  • 28.
    • Georgia – Oglethorpe – Buffer/Reform • Between two empires – Savannah
  • 29.
    Governing the Colonies •Navigation Acts – Only English/colonial ships – Enumerated list – Make money/ competition – Salutary Neglect • Robert Walpole • Admiralty Courts
  • 30.
    • Crown attackscolony’s charters – Mass Bay – Dominion of New England • Under direct crown control • Land titles invalidated • Edmund Andros • Glorious Revolution – Mass Bay restored
  • 31.
    – Leisler’s Rebellion – John Coode • More Indian Wars – New York • Beaver Wars • Iroquois – European diseases – North Carolina • Tuscarora – Many enslaved – 6th Nation
  • 32.
    • South Carolina – Yamassee • Abuse (slavery) • Lands • Spanish intrigue • Slavery – Portuguese • Africans practiced violence – European didn’t have too – Xtianized them instead
  • 33.
    – Triangular Trade • Products & trade basis of economy • Middle Passage – Rebellion • Stono • No overturn, no winning fight for freedom • Colonial Experiences – The Great Awakening • First Shared
  • 34.
    – Religious Indifference • Convert non-believer • Revive piety – Revivals • Jonathan Edwards – “Sinners… • Religious Diversity • Enlightenment – Life, liberty, property • John Locke – Right of rebellion • Peter Zenger
  • 35.
    – Religion • Deism • God the Clockmaker – Ben Franklin • Poor Richard’s • The French in America – Champlain • Coureurs de bois • Black Robes – Robert de la Salle • Mississippi
  • 36.
    – No suppressionIndians – Like European goods • Kept Spanish away • Wars with France – King William/Queen Anne • Mostly European • Frontier towns attacked – Still need English prot. – King George’s War • Louisbourg – Colonists furious » Boston widows
  • 37.
    • French/Indian War – Contested land • Ohio Valley • French forts • Gov. Dinwiddie – Washington » Surrenders » British retaliate • Nova Scotia – Albany Congress • Albany Plan for Union – Ben Franklin
  • 38.
    » Win Indians » Colonists meet annually » Refused by colony & crown • Independence – not enough, too much – General Braddock • Duquesne • Colonists refused • British feel colony bear responsibility • Indians side with French– less land hungry
  • 39.
    – William Pitt • Better commanders – Local recruitment • Finance thoroughly, but… – Boon to colonial economy • Focus on NA not WI – Attack Quebec – Cripple colonies – Plains of Abraham » Wolfe/Montcalm » Iroquois ally GB
  • 40.
    – Treaty ofParis • Indians lose land • England east, Spain west – Colonial hangover • Colonists – Military confidence – Colonists treated poorly » No promotions » Discipline brutal » Amateurs • British concerns – Am. Trade w/ enemy – Am. Headed west
  • 41.
    • Pontiac’s Rebellion – Refused to surrender lands – British raised prices – Several Br. Forts attacked – Many lives – Germ warfare • Proclamation of 1763 – Keep peace – Soldiers stationed here
  • 42.
    • British problems – War debt – Colonists should help pay for empire – Pitt’s role – Standing Army (where?!?) – Quartering Act • Sugar Act – Molasses Act – Rewards for capture
  • 43.
    • Stamp Act – Internal tax – James Otis • No rep in Parle • Direct rep here • Grenville virtual – Sons & Daughters • Boycott – VA Resolves • Patrick Henry • Caesar, Chas I and George
  • 44.
    – Stamp ActCongress • First successful union • 9 of 13 • Rights & Grievances – Tax and represent redux – Jury w/o trial – Restrict on trade • Prevent distribution – Andrew Oliver » Effigy – Thomas Hutchinson » All resigned
  • 45.
    • Boycott worked • Declaratory Act • Townsend Acts – Revenue Act of 1765 – Customs collectors paid by crown – Tax on lead, glass, paint, tea – Writs of assistance – New York Assembly
  • 46.
    – Circular Letter • Sam Adams • Tax w/o consent? • VA Assembly agrees dissolved • Currently – Taxes – Houses searched – Troops stationed at the center of hotbeds
  • 47.
    • Boston Massacre – March 5, 1770 – Soldiers withdrawn – Townsend repealed • Gaspée – Crown’s commission to find perpetrators – Committees of Correspondence • Cooperation to oppose
  • 49.
    • Boston TeaParty – British East India Tea Co. • Smuggled tea • Tax lowered • Favoritism • Hurt current suppliers • Hurt smugglers • “Intolerable” Acts – 1. Boston Harbor – 2. Mass. Charter – 3. Trials in England
  • 50.
    – 4. NewQuartering Act – 5. Quebec Act • New borders – Land granted to Catholics! – No precedent – General Gage • First Continental Congress – Rights & Grievances • Hope for cooler heads in Parlement– no response
  • 51.
    • Continental Association – Manage boycott – Ben Franklin » “we must hang together…” – Colonists forced to choose sides – Meet again in one year • Lexington & Concord 4/75 – Stockpiles – Paul Revere/Wm. Dawes – Sam Adams/John Hancock
  • 52.
    – Boston undersiege • Second Continental Congress – G. Washington C-in-C – Mass Militia named Cont. Army • Bunker Hill – 3 attempts – Pyrrhic victory – Hessians – Ports closed – Halifax
  • 53.
    • Ethan Allen •Canadian Invasion – Benedict Arnold • Common Sense – Thomas Paine • Hessian’s (unpopularity) • Fawkes Day – Need European support
  • 54.
    • Independence needed – Richard Henry Lee – “These colonies…” • Adams, Franklin, Jeff • SC & GA edit – All men… – Life, liberty & – Government purpose to allow – Government derives power – If government fails to allow
  • 55.
    • All signers…treason • All states write their own • Battle of New York – No pursuit – Desertion – The Crisis • British ad/disad – Army – 3000 miles – Re-conquer judiciously
  • 56.
    • New Jersey – Delaware – Trenton – Princeton
  • 57.
    • Americans – Good officers as well as bad – Home game – Women • Nurses • Domestic • Shurtleff • Pitcher
  • 58.
    • Britain cutsoff New Eng – Howe – Philadelphia • Brandywine • No accomplishment – Burgoyne – Saratoga • One of the biggest • French – Repossess – Fear reconcile • Home-rule
  • 59.
    • Valley Forge – Baron von Steuben • War in the West – Joseph Brandt • Iroquois Alliance – George Rogers Clark – Indians mostly neutral to leaning British • War on the Sea – John Paul Jones
  • 60.
    • Bonhomme Richard – Privateers • War in the South – Charleston/ Savannah • Put Tories in charge • African- Americans • Nathaniel Greene – We fight… – Guerrilla » Marion » Sumter » Further inland
  • 61.
    • Yorktown – De Grasse – Cut their losses • Treaty of Paris
  • 62.
    • State Constitutions – Governors – Bi-cameral – Limit voting rights • South “at least you…” – VA had bill of rights • Republican government – Elect reps – Weak central gov’t
  • 63.
    • Articles ofConfederation • Foreign affairs • Maintain army • Borrow • Issue currency – Could not • Regulate trade • Draft • Tax • Laws 9/13, amend 13/13 • No exec, no judiciary
  • 64.
    • One voteper • Ratification problems – Western lands – 3/1781 – Accomplishments • Won war • Foreign affairs • New states • Land policy – Ordinance of 1785 • 1st independent source of revenue
  • 65.
    6x6 • Education • Auction • Speculators • 640 for $1 each • Ordinance of 1787 – Northwest Territory – 3 to 5 (equal) states • 60,000 – Bill of Rights – No slavery but…
  • 66.
    • Problems withMoney – Soldiers wages – March on PHL – Paper worthless – Dept of Finance • Robert Morris • 5% imports – Denied (gov’t too powerful?)
  • 67.
    • Post wardepression – Rice crop – Farms confiscated – WI closed – Britain flooded states • Shays’ Rebellion – Mass broke – Tax farmers – Confiscate land – Shays marches to courts/ arsenal – A of C not strong enough
  • 68.
    • Slavery – Immediate to gradual freedom – VA manumission – “All men…” • Quok Walker • South… not human • NJ • Const. Convention – Annapolis Conf.
  • 69.
    – Madison/Hamilton • Change A of C– too weak • 55 delegates– lawyers – VA Plan • Bi-cameral • Pop. proportioned • Exec chosen by legis. – NJ Plan • Uni-cameral • Plural execs
  • 70.
    • Great Compromise – Roger Sherman – Bi-cameral • House, Senate • 3/5 clause • Slavery till 1808 • 9 of 13 ratify • Ratification – Federalists/anti- Federalist • Fear distance power • Bill of Rights
  • 71.
    – Delaware – New Hampshire – VA • Bill to be added – NY • Federalist Papers – Failure of A of C • First Election – Washington • Adams
  • 72.
    • Dept ofTreasury – Hamilton • State – Jefferson • War • “Cabinet” – Advisers • Judiciary Act of 1789 – Supreme Ct. – John Jay
  • 73.
    • Bill ofRights – Madison – 12-10 – No mention of who can vote • Financial problems – Hamilton • Tariff • South no – Report on Public Credit
  • 74.
    – Fed debtat par • Speculators (wealthy) – Assumption • States have stake • South not happy • Washington D.C. • National Bank – Vault, loans, currency – Strict – Loose • Necessary and… • Political parties
  • 75.
    • Whiskey Rebellion – Hamilton’s programs • 25% • Bartering • Serious threat • Nationalize PA militia • Frontier problems – Indians look to Eng./Sp. – Anthony Wayne • Fallen Timbers • Greenville – Ohio
  • 76.
    • European problems – Revolution • Neutrality • Citizen Genet • Jefferson resigns • British impress – Jay’s Treaty • Hamilton’s role • Northwest • Pay for ships • Allow trade w/ Brit. W.I.
  • 77.
    • Freed slaves? • Executive privilege – Pinckney’s Treaty • Spain • Right of Deposit • Mississippi • Washington’s Farewell – Precedent – Party system – Alliances
  • 78.
    • Election of1796 – Adams – Jefferson – 71-68 – 12th Amendment • Adam’s presidency – Problems w/ France – XYZ Affair • Shipping • Talleyrand
  • 79.
    – Undeclared war • Dept of Navy – Alien & Sedition Acts • Aimed at Republicans – 14 year • Sedition Act – KY & VA resolutions • Compact • Nullification
  • 80.
    • Election of1800 – Adams • A/S • Taxes for Navy • Whiskey • Jay’s Treaty – Jefferson • Atheist • Jacobin • Sally Hemings • Burr as help • Tie • “Revolution”
  • 81.
    • Jefferson Presidency – States center • Compact – Capital – Debt paid down • Gallatin • Army/navy • Excise tax • Sedition Act • Naturalization repealed • Kept par, et al
  • 82.
    • Midnight Appointments – Federalists – John Marshall – Marbury v. Madison – Writ of Mandamus – Judicial Review – Samuel Chase
  • 83.
    • Foreign Policy • Tripoli • Stephen Decatur – Louisiana Purchase • French control/empire? • Right of Deposit • Eli Whitney • Livingston/Madison • Haiti – Toussaint L’Ouverture • Napoleon needs $$$ more
  • 84.
    Feds oppose • Strict v. Loose • Doubled size • Lewis & Clark – Good relations – Flora/fauna – Water route – Oregon – Sacajawea – Louisiana 1812
  • 85.
    • Domestic Issues – Essex Junto • New England, NY, NJ – Feds losing influence – Burr as governor – Hamilton – Southwest Empire? • 2nd Term – Problems w/ Britain & France • Continental System • Orders in Council
  • 86.
    • Impressment – 6,000 1808-1811 • Chesapeake v. Leopard • Embargo Act – Disaster – Smuggling • Non- Intercourse Act • Election of 1808 – Madison – Feds gain seats – Macon’s Bill #2
  • 87.
    – War Hawks • Henry Clay • John C. Calhoun • Andrew Jackson • All anti-British – Tippecanoe • Wm. Henry Harrison • Tecumseh • Federation • Tecumseh flees
  • 88.
    • Causes forWar – War Hawks want Canada – Florida – Impressment – Federalists oppose – Sectional vote – Orders in Council suspended but news travels slow
  • 89.
    • War of1812 – Ads: • Britain tied up w/Nap • Home game • Canada target w/ little pop. – Dis-ad: • Small army & old/untrained • “Mr. Madison’s War”
  • 90.
    • Invasion ofCanada – William Hull – NY Militia • Lake Erie – Oliver Hazard Perry – Thames • Retreating British • Tecumseh • York
  • 91.
    • At Sea – USS Constitution • 2 big victories – Inland lakes – Privateers – British blockade • Economy crippled • Treasury broke – Bank expired
  • 92.
    • 1814 Napoleondefeated – Chesapeake • Washington • Baltimore – Francis Scott Key – Hudson • Plattsburgh • Macdonough • War too costly – Southwest Campaign • Jackson
  • 93.
    – Horseshoe Bend –Treaty of Ghent • Status Quo Ante Bellum • New Orleans – Hartford Convention • Feds last hurrah • Openly traded w/ Britain • State militias • 3/5 clause • 60 day embargo • 1 term President
  • 94.
    • No successivePresident from same state • 2/3 vote for new states • Poor timing • Era of Good Feelings – 1816 Elections • James Monroe • Little opposition – Nationalism High – BUS re-chartered 1816 • Local banks
  • 95.
    • War efforthurt – Tariff of 1816 • Protective – Florida • Adams-Onis – Rush-Bagot/Convention of 1818 • Demilitarized • 49th Parallel
  • 96.
    • Panic of1819 – Westward migration – Steamships – Wildcat – Distrust of BUS • McCulloch v. MD • MO Compromise – Whitney & LA Purchase • Slavery forefront • Profitable & expanding
  • 97.
    – Balanced Senate • Tallmadge Amendment – Gradual Abolition – Precedent? » LA Purchase » South too? – Compromise by Clay • MO/ME • 36’36”
  • 98.
    • Foreign Policy(Monroe) – Monroe Doctrine • Great Britain • West closed • US stays out of Europe • GB motives • Election of 1824 – Caucus – One party – Crawford—Clay– Adams – Jackson
  • 99.
    – Jackson winspopular – Jackson wins electoral • Plurality • House • Clay’s role • Corrupt Bargain? • Adam’s Presidency – Internal improvements – National Road – Canals • Erie
  • 100.
    – National University? – Naval College? • Election of 1828 – Jackson • Democratic Republicans • Property qual. Dropped – RI 1842 • Mudslinging • Rachel – Adams • National Republicans
  • 101.
    • Jackson’s Presidency – King Mob– inauguration – Spoils System • Loyalists • Beginnings of patronage • Jackson & Tariff of 1828 – Inherited – Abominations • South manuf. little • South sold worldwide • Slavery?
  • 102.
    • MO firesrekindled • Denmark Vesey 1822 – SC Exposition • Calhoun • KY & VA Resolutions • “Nullies” – Tariff of 1832 – Too little – Nullified – Secession?
  • 103.
    – Jackson… “Hangthe first” – Clay Compromise • 1833 Tariff – Force Bill – SC repealed nullification • Nullified Force Bill
  • 104.
    • Indian Removal–Trail of Tears – Five Civilized Tribes • Cherokee • Alphabet • Sequoyah • Slave owners – Worcester v. GA • Sovereign • “John Marshall has made his decision…”
  • 105.
    – West to“save” them – Sauk/Fox • Blackhawk – Seminole/Osceola • Eaton Malaria – Peggy wife of John – Sec’y of War – Floride Calhoun – Rachel – Cabinet resigned
  • 106.
    – Martin VanBuren – VP frontrunner • Bank War & Election of 1832 – BUS controlled economy – Answers to no one – Controlled gold/silver – Nicholas Biddle – Clay asks for re-charter 4 years early (1832)
  • 107.
    – Vetoed (asmany others) • Clay & National Republicans – Nomination conventions with platforms (1st ) – First third party • Anti-Mason • William Wirt • Anti-Jackson • Morphed in with Whigs
  • 108.
    • Killing theBank – Mandate – Taney – Biddle tries to create crisis – “Pet” banks – More wildcats – Specie Circular • “Hard” currency only • Led to another panic
  • 109.
    • Whigs &Election of 1836 – King Andrew the First – Only issue– Jackson • South hates tariff • North hates slavery • Clay hates Jackson • West lovers American System • Anti-Masons – Favorite Sons– Wm. Henry Harrison
  • 110.
    • Van Buren’sPresidency – First born in “America” – “Machine-made” • Other Dems resented – Trouble in Maine • Aroostook • Webster-Ashburton 1842 – Abolitionism in full swing
  • 111.
    – Panic of1837 • Land spec. • Wildcats • Specie Circular • Wheat crop fail • Pet banks failed – Government $$$ • Buren– laissez faire • Independent Treasury Bill – Trail of Tears 1838 – Texas
  • 112.
    • Election of1840 – Tippecanoe & Tyler too! – “Log Cabin Campaign” – Martin van Buren • John Tyler – “His Accidency” – Anti-tariff, bank, internal improvements • Whig Congress – Ended Independent Treasury
  • 113.
    – Passed BUS • Vetoed • Mass resignations • Expelled by Whig caucus • Texas – Mexico 1821 • Needed population • Stephen Austin • Mexico wants – 300 Roman Cath. – Mexicanized
  • 114.
    • Many justahead of US law • Many bring slaves • Mexico emancipated 1830 • Austin to Mex. City • All local rights suspended by Santa Anna – Raises army • Lone Star Republic – 1836 independence – Sam Houston Pres.
  • 115.
    – Alamo • Davy Crockett/ Jim Bowie – Martyrs – San Jacinto • Forced terms • Independence • Rio Grande • Repudiated • TX Annexation? – No, recognize – Northern protest – Mexico– province in revolt
  • 116.
    • Texas attractsplenty of attention – Cotton, no tariffs • Election of 1844 – Texas biggest issue – Clay– waffled – Polk– Dem—dark-horse • Pro-annexation – Texas, Oregon, Californi a – “54’40 or fight” – Liberty Party– NY!
  • 117.
    – Tyler seeselection as mandate • Joint resolution • Oregon – Britain losing pop. Race – Robert Gray – Lewis & Clark – Manifest Destiny – Polk cooled post-TX • War • South not excited for Oregon
  • 118.
    • Oregon notexcited for South or Polk • Problems with Mexico – Polk wants Calif. – Mex. Recalls ambassador post annex – Neuces  Rio Grande “no man’s land” – Slidell to buy – Zack Taylor to Rio Grande
  • 119.
    – “American bloodshed…” • US declared war • “Spot resolutions” • Northerners not happy – Henry David Thoreau – But, Britain ready to seize • War with Mexico – Polk hopes for quick victories – Santa Anna offers help
  • 120.
    – Taylor headssouth • Buena Vista – Winfield Scott • Veracruz • Together, must capture Mex. City • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo – NM & CA
  • 121.
    • Effects ofwar – 1st invasion – 13,000 dead • Mostly disease – Experience for next war • Who did fighting? • Slavery issue rekindled – Wilmot Proviso – Southern “Slavocracy”
  • 122.
    • Election of1848 – Democrats– Lewis Cass • Popular sovereignty • No stand on slavery in territories – Whigs– Zack Taylor • Hero • Slaveholder • No stand in territories – Free Soil Party– Van Buren
  • 123.
    – Amalgamation ofthose… • Against slavery • Pro-Wilmot • Racists not into sharing • Abolitionists • NY again! • California Dreaming – John Sutter – Growing fast – Need government bad – Taylor encourages statehood
  • 124.
    – Bypass territorystatus – Still tied in Senate • Nothing on horizon for South • As precedent for rest of Mexican Cession • Compromise of 1850 – Clay – Taylor dead – Fugitive Slave Law • Underground RR • Harriet Tubman
  • 125.
    – CA free–permanently tilted – NM & Utah– pop. Sov. – Slave trade in DC • North opposition to FSL – $5 free, $10 returned – Aid in escape? Fines and jail – Personal Liberty Laws • Denied use of jails • MA nullify – South losing face
  • 126.
    • Uncle Tom’sCabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852 • Election of 1852 – Democrats– Franklin Pierce • Dark-horse • Pro-slavery northerner • “the hero of many a bottle”
  • 127.
    – Whigs– needanother war hero • No to Fillmore • Winfield Scott • Whigs not in agreement – End of Party • Pierce Presidency – Pro-expansion – Wm. Walker– Nicaragua – Cuba– Ostend Manifesto – Gadsden Purchase • Terminus?
  • 128.
    – Kansas-Nebraska Act • Northern Terminus too? • Stephen Douglas • Two territories – Pop. Sov. – Voided MO Comp. – North gave up on any enforcement of FSL – New Party • Republicans – Prevent spread – Dem becomes Southern – Rep. in South?
  • 129.
    • Bleeding Kansas – NE Emigrant Aid – Beecher’s Bibles – South there was an understanding – Territorial government • Border Ruffians • Lecompton • Topeka • Pierce chooses
  • 130.
    – Violence • Lawrence • Pottawatomie Creek – John Brown – Senate Problems • Charles Sumner • “The Crime Against Kansas” • Andrew Butler– Preston Brooks
  • 131.
    • Election of1856 – Democrats tainted by Kansas – James Buchanan • Doughface • Pro-popular sovereignty – Republicans • Fremont • No slavery in territories – Know-Nothing • Anti- • Milliard Fillmore
  • 132.
    • Dred Scott – Roger Taney • No citizen • Property • 5th Amendment • MO Comp Unconst. • Rep. called opinion – Defiance of SC – Buch. & Taney part of “Slave Conspiracy” – Southerners incensed
  • 133.
    • Illinois SenateElection 1858 – Lincoln –Douglas Debates • Freeport Doctrine • Douglas wins/loses South – Split Dems • Lincoln gets attn • Harper’s Ferry – John Brown– part II – “Secret Six”
  • 134.
    • Election of1860 – Democrats split – North wing • Douglas – South wing • John C. Breckinridge (KY) – Federal protection of slavery • Republicans – Lincoln • RRs, Homesteads, Tariff • NO EXTENSION OF SLAVERY
  • 135.
    – Const. UnionParty • John Bell (KY) • Secession – South Car. + 6 – Montgomery– CSA • Republican Party forced them either now or later • North won’t fight • North needs cotton – Jeff Davis – Buchanan “Lame Duck”
  • 136.
    – Compromise? • Crittenden – Inaugural • Respect where existed • War in hands of South • Fort Sumter – Anderson/ Beauregard – South aggressor helps • Border states stay but – MD, MO, KY – Habeas corpus
  • 137.
    – 75,000 for90 – Upper South secedes • Richmond • South blockaded – Ad South • Defensive– military superior– cotton – Dis-Ad • No factories– lousy transportation– 9 million minus 3.5– state’s rights
  • 138.
    – Ad North • Factories– RR—Navy– 22 million + immigration – Dis-Ad • military top to bottom – Southern Aims • European intervention – Cotton – Warehouses full – Egypt—India – North traded grain, corn
  • 139.
    – Diplomacy • Trent • CSS Alabama – 15.5 million fine – Staffing • North– 1863– subs– NYC • South– 1862– subs – “Rich man’s war but a poor man’s fight” – Finances • North– Nat’l Banking System– greenbacks, bonds, tariffs • 1st millionaires
  • 140.
    • South – Bonds, graybacks, farm tax – Blockade & invasion crushed economy – Transportation suffered – Women • Jobs– farms, industry • Sewing machine • Spies • Professional nurses – Clara Barton, Dorothea Dix
  • 141.
    • And theWar Came – Bull Run – “picnic” – Skedaddled – South– overconfident – North– fight harder • McClellan & Peninsula – Jackson tricks – Stuart encircles – Lee defeats
  • 142.
    • War atSea – Blockade becomes more effective – Merrimac (VA) – Monitor • On to Antietam – 2nd Bull Run – Lee invades MD – McClellan restored • Plans found, bloodiest day, draw, Burnside
  • 143.
    – Results • GB & France no recog. • Emancipation Proc. – “he did where he couldn’t and didn’t…” • Moral cause stronger • Off-year elections lost • South thought he was starting an insurrection • Now destroy the “Old” South
  • 144.
    • African Americans – 180,000; 38,000 dead – 54th Mass • Wagner, Rob’t Shaw • Fort Pillow • On to Gettysburg – Burnside • Fredericksburg – Hooker • Chancellorsville • Stonewall Jackson
  • 145.
    – Meade – Leeinvades North again • Take attn off VA • Rile peace protestors • Pickett’s Charge • “High water mark” • Gettysburg Address – War in the West • Lincoln finds his general • Henry & Donelson – Keep KY & open TN
  • 146.
    – Shiloh – NewOrleans – Vicksburg • Loss of western supply • Day after Gettysburg – Chattanooga & Chickamauga • Cleared TN of Rebels • Grant promoted • Sherman takes West command
  • 147.
    – Atlanta– Savannah • Total war • Live land • Sherman “neckties” • Destroyed supplies/morale – Desertions up • Worst for South Car. • Elections of 1864 • National Union Party – Andrew Johnson
  • 148.
    – Democrats • McClellan – Sheridan/Sherman seal – Soldiers furloughed – South more despondent • Grant in the East – Lee – Wilderness— Spotsylvania—Cold Harbor • The “Butcher”
  • 149.
    – Petersburg – Richmond –Lee corned at Appomattox – Davis caught in GA – Lincoln • Ford’s Theatre • John Wilkes Booth
  • 150.
    • Reconstruction – Economy • Banks • Transportation • Farms • Cotton– overreliance – Freedmen’s Bureau • O. O. Howard – Clothing, food, medical care, education – 1st large federal welfare – Help AA adjust to freedom
  • 151.
    – President AndrewJohn • TN • Used for Border States • Presidential Recon – Lincoln – 10% – Wade-Davis 50% » Congress– who has the right? » Suicide– conquered » Pocket-veto
  • 152.
    – Two Camps • Moderates • Radicals – Johnson Tries • Used Lincoln’s • Congress not in session • Personal petitions – Granted pardons undermining • Ratify 13th • Declare secession illegal – Many ignored him
  • 153.
    – Black Codes • Servility • Contracts • Sharecroppers • No land, no vote, no jury – South Congressmen • Alex Stephens • Republicans alarmed • 12 new votes • Johnson declares Reconstruction a success
  • 154.
    – Republican accomplishments • Tariff, Homestead Act, Pacific RR Act – South gains 12 seats – Congress takes over • Freedmen vetoed • Civil Rights Bill– vetoed & overruled • 14th Amendment • 10 states refuse • Off-year elections
  • 155.
    – Radicals • Sumner (Senate) & Stevens (House) • Reconstruction Act – 5 districts – Tenure of Office Act – Edwin Stanton – Impeached • 15th Amendment – Election of 1868 – Grant • 500,000 new voters
  • 156.
    – Ku KluxKlan • Intimidate, Redeem • Enforcement Act – Redemption • Grand-father clause, literacy test, poll tax – Grant’s Admin • Corrupt • Hurts Recon • Democrats win House 1874
  • 157.
    • Election of1876 – Democrats– Tilden – Republicans– Hayes – South Car, LA, FLA – Compromise • Hayes • Troops pulled • South RR & aid • Cabinet member • Most gains erased
  • 158.
    1890s Jim Crow • 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson • 1954 Brown v. Board • Solid South – Reagan 1980