9/4- Tuesday
Amendments:
1.Free speech, religion, press, petition (right to gather as group and petition the government)
2.Bear arms
3.No quartering soldiers
4.No unreasonable search and seizures without warrent
5. No double jepordy, no self incrimination (due process- innocent until proven guilty)
8. Excessive bails/fines or cruel/unusual punishment
Austin texas is named after- Stephen F. Austin & Houston is named after Sam Houston during the Texas War for Independence- 1835-1836
- Alamo
- Texas becomes its own country for 10 years before it became it's state - Lone Star Republic
- Annexed it in 1846
Mexican-American war
- Rio Grande is the border for Mexico and America (that's what we wanted)
- Mexico wanted it to be a different river up farther (Nueces River)
- A war of imperialism-gaining land
- Was not necessarily a positive thing
- California, Nevad, Arizona, some Colorado
Civil War 1861-1865
Causes
- Sectionalism
North and South were just different (culture, slavery, lots of things )
- Slavery
South thought Abe Lincoln was going to abolish slavery (he said we was going to abolish slavery in the newwww territories, never said anything about the existing ones) that was the last straw - when Abe Lincoln was elected.
They started to secced
- States' Rights
- Tariffs
Taxes on finished goods from other countries. Taxes on everything except natural resources. North could buy from anywhere bc natural resources didnt have taxes.
- Election of 1860 & Secession
Missouri Comprimise, MO came in as a slave state (this made North concerned bc their congress would have more power)
9/5 Wednesday
30 years after MO compromise California wanted to come ito the USA as a free state. This upset the south though.
So Utah territory and New Mexico territory became popular sovereighnty. So they didn't fight CA coming into the USA free really. Because these territories could very well be slave states.
Popular Sovereighnty- Where they could vote if they're a slave state or not
Tough Fugitive Slave Law- can take back runaway slaves (sometimes even random blacks)
Most people in the North weren't going to go to court to stop one
Slave trade banned in DC.
Dred Scott Decision
- Former slave - free now
- Scott goes to court because he's free and doesn't want to back to his owners
- Supreme Court ruled that blacks aren't citizens so then they literally couldn't stop slavery
3 catagories of states: free states, states with slaved;but didn't secceed (MO, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland), and states that left.
Reconstructions 1865-1877
- When civil war was done and south had to rebuild and reorganize
- President Lincoln and Johnson wanted to be easy on the south
- Rebuilt south economically (slaves didn't have training, socially (slaves families), politcally, physically
- South split into 5 military districts
- 13th, 14th, 15th amendments (civil war amendments
- 13th - slavery is illegal and unconstitutional
- 14th- made black US citizens, and could not take away the rights of citzens without due process of law (helped gay marrige and transgender nowadays)
- 15th- allowed all men to vote; no matter their skin color
9/6 Thursday-
Freedmen's Bureau-
Provided: food, colthing, education and job training to freed slaves
Carbetbaggers and Scalawags
Carpetbaggers; people from north (republicans, from north who moved south after war). Many won political office and became rich businessmen. As they came south they had bags that looked like carpet; so southerners nicknamed them
Scalawags; southern born republicans. Southerners believed these people were betraying the South.
Both parties stole money by overtaxing
Reconstruction
Jim Crowe laws- segregation was established, could paint himself black; acted like a bumbling idiot, he did mintrel shows
African americans would not see the rights they should have had in 1865 until 1964- only because US governent literally forced businesses etc.
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