The last group from Friday is finishing up. I'll take less notes today, yesterday I went bazookas and took a tonnnn of notes.
The War of 1812 ended in 1815, they signed a treaty.
Monroe Doctrine; created so europeans couldn't expand their colonies into ours. This would have ended trade between us and Great Britain. USA wantted to make certain that no europeans would colonize in the western hemisphere.
Trail of Tears; Millions of natives settles on millions of acres. by the 1840s a few natives were still living in the southerastern US. They were all working in the cotton fields for white settlers. Many people froze alive and some died, some were eaten by other people.
California Gold Rush; We have notes on this in our own presentation, Austin did it. James Marshall discovered gold. The Gold Rush caused a lot of crime for people, because they were stealing peoples gold. And then whenever people got rich, it caused inflation which made the prices of things go up but that hurt the people who didn't get rich because then they couldn't afford anything anymore.
Railroad; In 1862 congress passed and president Lincoln signed the pacific railroad bill. For awhile Congress was torn but then they decided to go through with it and they passed the bill and the route they chose was in the north but it was more central. When they made the railroad they started on each side of the country and them came into the middle. It was brought together in 1861. It was managed by the Big Four. Set a record of laying 10 miles of track in a day, then silver was found and men were going towards there and had less people to work so then they hired Chinese people to work and a lot of people weren't okay with it, but they couldn't help it because they needed people to be able to work. Things got slow but they kept building due to competition. The grand breaking was on December 2nd, 1863. As they pushed across the prairie the ran into Native American raiding parties. The two tracks ended up meeting in the middle. Paved the way for Western Expansion in America and it helped to make trade easier on both coasts. It made us all one country.
Civil war; Economic differences between the north and south. American expansion. State rights vs. federal rights. Growth of the Abolition Movement. <-- 4 main reasons why the war started. Lincoln said that he didn't want to go to war because people felt a war. South Carolina felt it was a threat so they left and 6 states also did after them. There was an attack on Fort Sumter in April 1861. He sent supplies and such and told them he did not mean any harm but they thought that it was a trick so then on April 12th there were shots fired and that started the war. There were a lot of individual major battles during the time of the Civil War. First battle of bull run, battle of Antietam, Battle of Gettysburg, Battle of Shiloh.
Reconstruction; Andrew Johnson announced his plans in May 1865. Southern states had never given up their right to govern themselves and had free reign to rebuild. Congress passed the reconstruction act of 1867. KKK was ended at this time.
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