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• European rulers wanted new source of wealth & power

• Mercantilism – goods, resources & markets for “mother” countries

• Religious Reasons – spread religion or to avoid persecution

• Better Life – escape European hardships: famine, economic depression, forced military service

• House of Burgesses –elected assembly in Virginia

• Mayflower Compact – Pilgrims agreed to self-government

• Town Meetings – In Massachusetts, “selectmen” elected to manage town affairs

• Fundamental Order of Connecticut – establish that Connecticut would rule itself; elect official to attend assembly

• Magna Carta (1215) guaranteed trial by jury & no taxes without consent

• Parliament – Included lords & elected representatives

• English Civil War – Parliament won supremacy over the monarch

• English Bill of Rights (1689) – guaranteed that Englishmen had certain rights

• Small farms & merchants

• fishing

• Colder climate and rocky soil

• Fertile soils

• Forests

• People of many ethnic and religious backgrounds

• Warmer climate

• Grew cash crops – cotton, tobacco

• Some large plantations with slaves

• Leadership – Washington; foreign military

• Fighting for Homeland

• Methods of Warfare – “guerilla” tactics

• French Alliance – troops, money & naval support critical to win

• Local Support – fighting in friendly territory

• Proclamation Line of 1763

• Stamp Act (1765)

• Townshend Acts (1767)

• Tea Act (1773)

• Intolerable Acts (1774)

• No national executive

• No power to enforce laws

• No national courts to settle disagreements between states

• No power to tax

• No power to regular trade

• Form a more perfect union…

• Establish justice…

• Insure domestic tranquility (peace)…

• Provide for the common defense..

• Promote the general welfare…

• Secure the blessings of liberty…

• Dealt with the issue of Congressional representation

• Large states wanted representation based on population

• Small states wanted representation to be equal

• Compromise established two houses; States equal in Senate; Congress based on population

• Age of “Common Man”

• States ended property qualifications for voting

• Nominating conventions held

• Campaigning with dinners, rallies & public meetings

• “Spoils System”

• Second Great Awakening – religious revival

• Abolitionist Movement

• Prison Reform

• Treatment of Mentally Ill

• Temperance Movement

• Women’s Rights Movement

• Second Great Awakening – religious revival

• Abolitionist Movement

• Prison Reform

• Treatment of Mentally Ill

• Temperance Movement

• Women’s Rights Movement

• Sectionalism – North, South & West have unique ways of life and unique concerns

• States’ Rights

• Slavery

• Breakdown of compromise

• Election of Lincoln

• Lincoln Douglas Debates,1858• First Inaugural Address,1861 – reassured

South; but committed to saving Union• Emancipation Proclamation,1862 – freed slaves

in rebelling states• Gettysburg Address,1863 – elevated war to

continued survival of democracy• Second Inaugural Address, 1865 – emphasized

end of slavery, and healing the nation

• Freedmen’s Bureau – helped former slaves

• Carpetbaggers & Scalawags• Hiram Rhodes Revel – 1st African

American elected to Congress• Sharecropping System – Freedmen

occupied former plantations in exchange for landowner getting a share – kept freedman in virtual “slavery”

• Homestead Act – cheap land available to settlers

• Morrill Act –established colleges• Transcontinental Railroad – made travel

easier• Dawes Act – removed to Indians to

government reservations in the West

• European rulers wanted new source of wealth & power

• Mercantilism – goods, resources & markets for “mother” countries

• Religious Reasons – spread religion or to avoid persecution

• Better Life – escape European hardships: famine, economic depression, forced military service

• House of Burgesses –elected assembly in Virginia

• Mayflower Compact – Pilgrims agreed to self-government

• Town Meetings – In Massachusetts, “selectmen” elected to manage town affairs

• Fundamental Order of Connecticut – establish that Connecticut would rule itself; elect official to attend assembly

• Magna Carta (1215) guaranteed trial by jury & no taxes without consent

• Parliament – Included lords & elected representatives

• English Civil War – Parliament won supremacy over the monarch

• English Bill of Rights (1689) – guaranteed that Englishmen had certain rights

• Small farms & merchants

• Fishing

• Colder climate and rocky soil

• Fertile soils

• Forests

• People of many ethnic and religious backgrounds

• Warmer climate

• Grew cash crops – cotton, tobacco

• Some large plantations with slaves

• Leadership – Washington; foreign military

• Fighting for Homeland

• Methods of Warfare – “guerilla” tactics

• French Alliance – troops, money & naval support critical to win

• Local Support – fighting in friendly territory

• Proclamation Line of 1763

• Stamp Act (1765)

• Townshend Acts (1767)

• Tea Act (1773)

• Intolerable Acts (1774)

• No national executive

• No power to enforce laws

• No national courts to settle disagreements between states

• No power to tax

• No power to regular trade

• Form a more perfect union…

• Establish justice…

• Insure domestic tranquility (peace)…

• Provide for the common defense..

• Promote the general welfare…

• Secure the blessings of liberty…

• Dealt with the issue of Congressional representation

• Large states wanted representation based on population

• Small states wanted representation to be equal

• Compromise established two houses; States equal in Senate; Congress based on population

• Age of “Common Man”

• States ended property qualifications for voting

• Nominating conventions held

• Campaigning with dinners, rallies & public meetings

• “Spoils System”

• Second Great Awakening – religious revival

• Abolitionist Movement

• Prison Reform

• Treatment of Mentally Ill

• Temperance Movement

• Women’s Rights Movement

• Sectionalism – North, South & West have unique ways of life and unique concerns

• States’ Rights

• Slavery

• Breakdown of compromise

• Election of Lincoln

• Lincoln Douglas Debates,1858• First Inaugural Address,1861 – reassured

South; but committed to saving Union• Emancipation Proclamation,1862 – freed slaves

in rebelling states• Gettysburg Address,1863 – elevated war to

continued survival of democracy• Second Inaugural Address, 1865 – emphasized

end of slavery, and healing the nation

• Freedmen’s Bureau – helped former slaves

• Carpetbaggers & Scalawags• Hiram Rhodes Revel – 1st African

American elected to Congress• Sharecropping System – Freedmen

occupied former plantations in exchange for landowner getting a share – kept freedman in virtual “slavery”

• Homestead Act – cheap land available to settlers

• Morrill Act –established colleges• Transcontinental Railroad – made travel

easier• Dawes Act – removed to Indians to

government reservations in the West