1865 The US Civil War ends with General Robert E. Lee and his officers surrendering their swords. 1865 President Lincoln is assassinated. 1865 Thirteenth Amendment 1865 Freedman’s Bureau 1866 Civil Right’s Act 1866 Ku Klux Klan created 1866 National Labor Union 1867 Military Reconstruction Act 1867 Grandfather Clause 1867 Indian Peace Commission 1868 Fourteenth Amendment 1869 President Ulysses S. Grant 1870 Fifteenth Amendment
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Coronado discovered the Grand Canyon‚ the Pueblo peoples of the Southwest‚ and the Kansas grasslands. 1560s- Spain gives up gold search to defend empire; establish a fort at St. Augustine (1565) which became the first permanent European settlement in the US Franciscan Missions and Indian Revolts Comprehensive Orders for New Discoveries (1573)- pacification was left to missionaries; Franciscan friars attacked natives’ culture by punishing those who still practiced polygamy and worshipped the traditional
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2004 DBQ The French and Indian War altered the political‚ ideological‚ and economic relations between Britain and its American colonies in many ways. It changed things such as cultural groups inhabiting the American colonies and the way the colonies were taxed. Document one clearly shows the difference in the changes of cultural groups‚ before the war mostly French and English with Spanish in the far south inhabited the east of North America which was affected. After the war there were no longer
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Marbury v. Madison (1803‚ Marshall). The court established its role as the arbiter of the constitutionality of federal laws‚ the principle is known as judicial review Fletcher v. Peck (1810‚ Marshall). The decision stems from the Yazoo land cases‚ 1803‚ and upholds the sanctity of contracts. McCulloch v. Maryland (1819‚ Marshall). The Court ruled that states cannot tax the federal government‚ i.e. the Bank of the United States; the phrase "the power to tax is the power to destroy"; confirmed the
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During the 17th century there were many colonies settled in the New World. One thing most of these colonies had in common is the fact that almost all of them were settled by the English. If one were to focus mostly on the New England and Chesapeake colonies‚ one would find that although they were settled by similar people‚ they ended up splitting for very different reasons. The New England colonies were searching for religious freedom from the Church of England‚ whereas the Chesapeake colonies were
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Q: Analyze the ways in which technology‚ government policy‚ and economic conditions changed American agriculture in the period 1865-1900. In your answer be sure to evaluate the farmers’ responses to these changes. The latter half of the nineteenth century was a dramatic time of change for the United States. Coming out of the Civil War‚ the country needed to learn to move forward and develop a new identity. With this new identity came a new agricultural system. The United States spent a significant
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02.01 Regions Chart and Written Response Part 1 Regions Chart Category North South West Midwest Political Labor Unions were formed to have representitives of workers because rich people wanted to make more money but the workers wanted to be paid more with better places to work at. most of the south was destroyed during the war so they had to restart from the bottom‚ both politically and ecomonically They had a very little population‚ consisting mostly of chinese immigrants
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People Elias Howe and Isaac Singer • Singer’s life was not going well in the beginning • He was penniless • Unsuccessful actor‚ ticket seller‚ carpenter‚ and inventor • By 1860‚ singer grew fabulously wealthy • In 1850‚ he had come upon and quickly improved a sewing machine similar to one patented in 1856 by Elias Howe. • Elias Howe sued Isaac Singer for patent infringement and won in 1854 • Since Singer lost‚ he had to pay Howe patent royalties John Deere • Was
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What is the public sphere? An area in social life‚ independent of government where informed citizens can come together and discuss and influence political action‚ a domain that used to be solely for political figures and upper society. What were the major components of the public sphere in colonial North America? The public sphere expanded with the raising of literacy rates and the view that participating in politics and reading was fashionable. Some of the influences were numerous coffee shops
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1. The American Revolution didn’t begin just because of one reason‚ but one major reason that really angered the Americans was when the British dumped tons of tea into Boston Harbor in December 1773 as a protest against the tax laws. The brutal British comeback to this act resulted in sending British troops to Boston and closing Boston Harbor‚ causing pressure and rancor to intensify. The British tried to disband the insurgents in Massachusetts by confiscating their weapons and ammunition and arresting
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