Monday - No School
Tuesday -
Why did people move West? “West” was the Mississippi River
Manifest Destiny-God given right to expand east to west
We annexed Texas
We got the Mexican Cession by the Mexican American War
Made a treaty with Britain in 1876 to get the Oregon Territory
1853 we bought the Gadsden Purchase from Mexico
Bought alaska from Russia 1867
Annexed Hawaii-forced our way in
Lewis and Clark
Started in St. Louis, then all the way through the Louisiana purchase and oregon territory
Documented landscape, plants, animals, great adventure
Texas War for Independence 1835-1836
Mexico realized that there were so many Americans in Mexico
Americans hated they had to be catholic and no slave owners so they rebelled.
Texas won and was their own separate and independent country for 10 years.
Wednesday -
Mexican-American War-1846-1848
James Polk-Imperialist
President Polk sent troops to Rio Grande
Mexico crossed our border, and attacked us, so we went to war.
Mexican Cession -Bought more land from Mexico
Civil War 1861-
United States Vs Confederacy
Main causes: Sectionalism, Slavery, States rights, Tariffs, Election of 1860 & Secession
North was more based on industrialization
South was farming-tobacco, indigo, cotton
Developed huge economic difference between them (Sectionalism)
Two sides grewe completely apart from one another
North didn’t need slaves to get their work done
The rich owned a ton of slaves in the south
North didn’t have much care about slavery-some saw it as evil or immoral
State’s rights-Articles of Confederation, state government had most power
Grew with the idea that they are an independent country, united
State Rights-Should be up to the state
Tariffs-North is where the money is, and south is more agricultural.
Tax on imported goods
Point of having tariffs so there is no unfair trade, gets people to buy American products and goods.
United States had tariffs on all manufactured on imported goods.
Natural resources didn’t have any tariffs.
South had to buy goods from the north dependent on northern goods.
North benefits from high tariff but south didn’t at all.
Big cause of North and south growing apart
Election of 1860 & Secession
South decided to succeed and formed the confederate states.
Fueled the civil war
Missouri came in as a slave state 1820
Maine-became a free state
Any state north of the line would be a free state
Any state south would be a slave state
Compromise of 1850
-California wanted to come in as a free state (huge concern for the south)
South got a promise of pocket of sovereignty and strict fugitive slave law.
If there is a slave in the north, the south can come up and take the slave back.d
Dred Scott Decision-`857- was a 7-2 decisions by the US supreme court
Supreme court said that blacks were not US citizens and could not sue in court
Government couldn’t abolish slavery
This was a huge victory for the south
Suddenly, slavery could be open anywhere
Greatly upset abolitionists
Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia Maryland, stayed loyal
The north was going to win:
-Had abundant resources
-Larger population
-Emergence of new military leaders
-Leadership of Lincoln
-Determination of African Americans to end slavery.
-THE NORTH HAD MORE RESOURCES
Thursday - Bruns finished the Power Point with going over Reconstruction.
Reconstruction-1865-1877
Rebuilding the south after the civil war
-The period of time after the Civil War in which the South had to be rebuilt and reorganize and brought back into the Union.
President Lincoln and Johnson wanted to be easy on the South.
-Reconstruction left very deep divisions between the northern states and southern states
-Once the northern governments and military left the south, traditional rich, white, racist males back over
-Jim Crow laws and segregation was established 1865 until 1964
-African Americans would not see the rights they should have had in 18
Republican Radical Reconstruction:
-Rebuilt south economically, socially, politically, and physically.
-The south was split into 5 military districts
-These governments set up schools, raised taxes, built railroads, helped ex slaves, industrialized the South
-Freedmen's Bureau set up to help former slaves
-Governments were accused of widespread corruption by southerners.
Civil War Amendments:
13th Amendment-It made slavery unconstitutional and illegal
14th Amendment-It stated that states could not take away the rights of citizens without due process of the law.
15th Amendment-It allowed all men to vote, no matter their skin color.
Freedmen’s Bureau
-Provided food, clothing, education, and job training to freed slaves
Carpetbaggers and Scalawags-Northern born, white republicans who moved south after the war and takes over the government. The south hated these people.
-Scalawags-Southern born white Republicans who believed these people were betraying the South.
Election of 1876
-Rutherford B. Hayes vs. Samuel J. Tilden
-Tilden won the Popular vote and was leading electoral vote
-Four states with 20 electoral votes had disputed results
The End of Reconstruction-1877
-The Compromise of 1877
-Unwritten deal between Northern and Southern politicians that settled the disputed 1876 US presidential election
-Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded the White House over Demorat Samuel J. Tilden
-Hayes would then remove the federal troops from the south ending Reconstruction
Friday - Part 1 of the Test
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