Thomas Jefferson- became the victim of one of America’s first "whispering campaigns." The Federalists accused him of having an affair with one of his slaves. Beat John Adams to win the election of 1800 by a majority of 73 to 65 electoral votes. Jefferson preferred to make the military smaller. Jefferson was forced to bend his thoughts of not using military force when the leader of Tripoli informally declared war on the United States. Jefferson sent the new navy to Tripoli and after 4 years of fighting
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What Is Freedom? Reconstruction 1865-1877 Four days after the meeting Sherman issued Special Field Order 15: It set aside Sea Island and a large area on the South Carolina and Georgia coasts for the settlement of the black families on 40 acre plots of land. He offered them broken mule too. With Slavery dead‚ which black institution strengthened after the war? a. The free blacks’ church b. The secret slave church c. The back family d. The free blacks’ schools e. ALL OF THE ABOVE- Correct
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Chapter 11 • Enlightenment – age of reason‚ logic‚ and science • Emotion and feeling towards ppl less fortunate • Americans wanted an American culture – American sculptures‚ American art‚ American writers‚ American literature‚ etc. • Americans think that they are inferior over Europe • In America you can succeed • During this time we started moving away from the E. Period and started believing in the idea of going with your gut feeling and start making an American culture • Some things
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The US’s victory in the Mexican War resulted in renewed controversy over the issue of extending slavery into the territories‚ a possible split in the Whig and Democrat parties over slavery‚ the cession by Mexico of an enormous amount of land to the US‚ and a rush of settlers to new American territory in California 3. The Wilmot Proviso‚ if adopted‚ would have prohibited slavery in any territory acquired in the Mexican War 4. The debate over slavery in the Mexican Cession threatened to split
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DBQ – Reconstruction In the time period from 1860 to 1877 many major changes occurred in the United States that made it more similar to how we know it today. During this time the 13th‚ 14th‚ and 15th amendments were acquired. In addition‚ many welfare and federal government programs began‚ however some of the social developments were less effective. Between 1860 and 1877 constitutional developments‚ to an extreme extent‚ and social developments‚ to a lesser extent‚ amounted to a revolution. During
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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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