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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
• 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
• 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
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